Hector Allen

- 1686

• Name	Hector Allen
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1664	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland   [1]
  Residence	Jun 1670	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland   [2]
  Occupation	1678	Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
  	Ship captain. Master of the Adventure of Leith, trading between the Forth and London during 1680s
  	See, eg, ‘Anthony Daffy His Dept Book January the i: 1676/7’, Medical History, 49.S25 (2005), p165
  Religion	1678
  	Quaker
  Imprisonment	4 Apr 1678	Bass Rock, East Lothian, Scotland   [3, 4]
  	Ordered by the Privy Council to be imprisoned on the Bass Rock "for abusing and railing upon one of the ministers of North Leith", Mr Thomas Wilkie. Transferred to Edinburgh Tolbooth, 31 May 1678
  	"Again, on the eve of April 1678, Hector Allan, seaman, a Quaker, was ordered by the Court to be transported to the Bass “for abusing Mr. Thomas Wilkie, one of the ministers of North Leith.” Meetings of the Quakers were held in Allan’s house at Leith, and Mr. Wilkie, being informed of this, in one of his sermons condemned Quaker principles, which roused the ire of Allan, who thus addressed Mr. Wilkie: “ Friend, 1 know not by what authority thou doest these things,' and proceeded to make a disturbance. He was removed by constables, and afterwards sent to the Bass. Finally he was imprisoned in the Tolbooth of Leith."
  Legal	13 Sep 1678	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [5]
  	Applied successfully to the Privy Council to be liberated in order to ship goods to London. Granted on caution of 4,000 merks to return to the Tolbooth before 1 December, to remain until payment of 2000 merk fine
  Name	Hector Allan  [6]
  Occupation	4 Aug 1680	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [6]
  	Burgess and Guild-Brother of Edinburgh - date admitted "at desyre of Sir John Dick of Priestfield, present Lord Provost, who has right of admission in this year of his office"
  Property	2 Jul 1681	Gloucester, New Jersey, USA   [7]
  	Purchased land with Maurice Trent from Edward Byllynge, Gawen Lawrie and Nicholas Lucas
  Death	1 Apr 1686	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [8]
  Burial	3 Apr 1686	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [8]
  	Quaker cemetery in The Pleasance
  Person ID	I44844	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 1	Christian Lindores   d. 8 Aug 1680, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Marriage	4 Jun 1670	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	At James Brown's house, West Port
  Family ID	F31220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Agnes Simpson   d. 19 Mar 1692/93, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Marriage	4 Mar 1681/82	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	At Agnes's house, Portsburgh
  Children	1. Mary Allen,   b. 29 Nov 1682, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1691, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 8 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Hector Allen   d. 8 Dec 1684, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 3	Marian Nicolsone
  Children	1. Margaret Allen,   b. 1664, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. George Allen,   b. 1665, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Jean Allen,   b. 1667, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1664 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Residence - Jun 1670 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Marriage - 4 Jun 1670 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Occupation - Ship captain. Master of the Adventure of Leith, trading between the Forth and London during 1680s - 1678 - Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Ordered by the Privy Council to be imprisoned on the Bass Rock "for abusing and railing upon one of the ministers of North Leith", Mr Thomas Wilkie. Transferred to Edinburgh Tolbooth, 31 May 1678 - 4 Apr 1678 - Bass Rock, East Lothian, Scotland Legal - Applied successfully to the Privy Council to be liberated in order to ship goods to London. Granted on caution of 4,000 merks to return to the Tolbooth before 1 December, to remain until payment of 2000 merk fine - 13 Sep 1678 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Occupation - Burgess and Guild-Brother of Edinburgh - date admitted "at desyre of Sir John Dick of Priestfield, present Lord Provost, who has right of admission in this year of his office" - 4 Aug 1680 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Property - Purchased land with Maurice Trent from Edward Byllynge, Gawen Lawrie and Nicholas Lucas - 2 Jul 1681 - Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Marriage - 4 Mar 1681/82 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Death - 1 Apr 1686 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Burial - 3 Apr 1686 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3614] Births (OPR) Scotland, Prestonpans 718/100 34. [S3615] Strath-Maxwell, Archibald, Digest of Quaker births, marriages and burials in Scotland, 1647-1878, (Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1960;), p97. [S3624] Irons, James Campbell, Leith and Its Antiquities from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, p135. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, V, p436. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VI, p16. [S3594] Boog Watson, Charles B., Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses and Guild-Brethren, 1406-1700, p29. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, Glo Deeds, Book 3 : Folio 77 and 79 (SSTSE023). [S3615] Strath-Maxwell, Archibald, Digest of Quaker births, marriages and burials in Scotland, 1647-1878, (Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1960;), p159.