Thomas was born in 1743 in North Hampton, Massachusetts. [1] (birthdate may be 7 Jan 1743)[2]
He was the first minister of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He died 11 February 1810 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. [3] and was buried in the Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. [4]
"Moses, the fifth son, came to Sheffield in this county, was educated at Princeton in the same class with James Madison, and became a clergyman, settled at Medway, Ga. He was driven from that place by the British troops under Gen. Prevost from St. Augustine in the latter part of 1778, who scattered his society and burned his meeting house. He became chaplain to a Georgia brigade and was made prisoner at the surrender of Savannah to the British. Other prisoners were admitted on their parole, but he was not. In attempting to escape the hardships of the prison ship Nancy, he was drowned Feb. 8, 1779, and his body was found on the beach near Tybee. A Mr. Sheftol, a Jew, who was his friend, offered the captain of the ship a guinea for boards to make a coffin, but he could not obtain them for the rebel minister, and so he was buried without a coffin by the crew of the ship Toucy, Feb. 10, 1779, who were on shore cutting wood. He was admired for his popular talents, his courageous devotion to American liberty and his many virtues. His brother, the Rev. Thomas Allen, braving all the dangers of the journey at such a time, leaving Pittsfield early in Nov. 1779, travelled on horseback all the way to Georgia, reaching there about the middle of December to bring home the widow and infant son. He returned to Boston by sea and reached that city after a voyage of twenty days. I find the following entry in his pocket almanac for 1780:
Twenty-one years thereafter, viz.: Oct. 1801, the nephew thus rescued, bearing the name of his father, being on his return to Georgia, was seized with the yellow fever in New York, and died at the age of twenty-five, and his reverend uncle, Thomas, Oct. 24, 1801, delivered a funeral sermon on his death in the family of Elisha Lee, Esq., a lawyer of Sheffield, which was published. The widowed mother of this young man having married Mr. Lee, revisited Georgia, accompanied by Samuel L. Allen, a son of Rev. Thomas Allen, in 1806."[5]
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