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Thomas Allen (abt. 1743 - 1810)

Rev. Thomas Allen
Born about in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Baymap
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Husband of — married 18 Feb 1768 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticutmap
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Died at about age 67 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

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:

  • Saturday, Feb. 12, 1780, reached Boston in safety.
  • Saturday, Feb. 19, reached Northampton
  • Tuesday, Feb. 22, 1780, reached Pittsfield after an absence of 3 months and 14 days, and found my family in good health, blessed by God. Having experienced many great and special mercies myself. Though my honored father and beloved brother, Jonathan, have died since my absnece, yet I have abundant occasions to bless God for His goodness.

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]

Sources

  1. [1]: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch. Thomas Allen, 17 Jan 1743; citing North Hampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 14,766.
  2. Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (1894), pg. 60
  3. [2]: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch. Thomas Allen, 11 Feb 1810; citing Death, , 154, town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 234,543.
  4. Find A Grave: Memorial #82157477 Rev. Thomas Allen (1743-1810)
  5. Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (1894), pg. 58
  • View on JSTOR Birdsall, Richard D. "The Reverend Thomas Allen: Jeffersonian Calvinist." The New England Quarterly 30, no. 2 (1957): 147-65. doi:10.2307/362310.
  • [3] Mrs. H. M. Plunckett Fighting Parson Allen The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBS, New York, 1897) Vol. 28, Page 188 (See footnote)
  • http://massbible.blogspot.com/2009/06/rev-thomas-allen_18.html
  • [4] Willard S Allen A genealogy of Samuel Allen of Windsor, Connecticut : and some of his descendants 1876 pg. 6
  • [5] Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (1894), pg. 55
  • https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/a/l/l/Michael-Kerby-Allen/GENE4-0013.html#CHILD195
  • [6] Case 2743: Will Berkshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1761-1917.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
  • Ancestry.com: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing
  • Ancestry.com: Family Data Collection - Individual Records author Edmund West.
  • Ancestry.com: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.




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