Allen was born about 1774. He is the son of Nanny Abel.
In November 1777 the "mulatto" child of Nanny Abel, aged three years old at Christmas 1777, was bound to Ezekiel Wimberly to be a cordwainer. He was bound to Lewis Wimberly to be a shoemaker on 7 Nov 1791
Sources
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to about 1820. 5th Edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company, 2005. Volume 1, page 31.
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