Allene B. Duty (1912- ) collected genealogical material on the descendants of Moses Warren of Warrensville, Ohio. Warren (1760-1851), a descendant of John Warren of Watertown, Massachusetts, was a surveyor with the Moses Cleaveland expedition to Ohio's Western Reserve in 1796 and an early settler in Warrensville Township, Ohio. Born in Westboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1776, remaining until nearly the close of the war. Returning to Westboro, he married Priscilla Nurse in 1781, and then moved to Acworth, New Hampshire to farm one year later. In 1815, he and his family moved to Warrensville Township, Ohio, where his son Daniel had settled. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1837 and served as a trustee, treasurer, and overseer of the poor for the township. He died in Warrensville in 1851, survived by three of his ten children, including Daniel Warren, Anna Wilcox Prentiss, and Moses Warren, Jr.
The Allene B. Duty Papers, 1819-1985 and undated, consist of typed and handwritten copies of Allene Beaumont Duty's genealogy "The Warren Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Moses Warren of Warrensville, Ohio, from John Warren of Watertown, Massachusetts, with Allied Families." Also included are primary and secondary source materials as well as subject files for the compilation of the Warren genealogy.
The collection pertains primarily to the genealogy of the Warren family from 1630 through the 1980s.
The collection is arranged by document and subject type, and then chronologically.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1988.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4218 Allene Beaumont Duty Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Allene B. Duty, 1985.
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