Dinah Allen is mentioned in the 1719 will of her father Erasmus Allen. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 3, page 196.]

Dinah Coleman was mentioned in the 29 July 1753 will of her husband George Coleman. She was to receive all his estate during her life and was to be executrix with Major Wm Roane as executor. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 9, pages 260–261.]

On 20 November 1753, William Roane, Dinah Coleman, Richard Upshaw and Thomas Dix were bound £200 sterling for William Roane’s and Dinah Coleman’s execution of the last will and testament of George Coleman. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 9, pages 262–263.]

Information on Dinah Allen from letter from Myrle Cook Theimer to Thomas Moore, 11 November 1993. She provides birth date of 1706 in Southfarnham Parish, Essex County, and death date of 1761 in Essex County, Virginia.