Allen, Joseph

  • From: Voyage of a Different Kind by Larry Turner:
    • Joseph Allen was a miller, farmer and a supplier to the British Army from Lawrence Neck, Dover Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Joseph Allen purchased 490 acres of land in 1770 and as the war approached he was frequently arrested. He was plundered by a Major Reuben Randolf and then taken prisoner by a Captain Bigelow and twenty-nine men in 1780. Allen escaped his captors, joined a Marine Regiment and eventually Major Thomas Ward’s Regiment of New York. He also raised a company of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York. He may have also served time in the Loyalists and commanded at Bergen Neck after 1781 to evacuation. Although there is no record of the Allen family at Sorel, he came to Canada with Van Alstine and may have replaced Lt. John Claw as a Lieutenant of Associated Loyalists heading to Adolphustown. Joseph Allen brought his wife Gertrude (1739-1824), a servant and five children over ten years of age into Adolphustown where his sons Jonathon and John became prominent in the community. Joseph had Quaker backgrounds and was connected with mill development in Kingston and Prince Edward County. Allen made a sizable claim to the Loyalist Commission after the war which included a sloop of 30 tons. His daughter Ursala first married Peter Van Alstine’s eldest son Alexander in 1798.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=87
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