Author: Michael Snedeker / Alex Snedeker
Submitted by Michael Snedeker State #8541 National # 188780 and Alex Snedeker State #8566 National # 189494

Birth 27 August 1750 Rockaway, New Jersey; Died 16 March 1798 Rockaway, New Jersey

Job Allen II was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. Eastern and Western Battalions. He was on a Safety Committee in Morristown, N.J. He was also placed at Headquarters in Morristown with George Washington. This Job II, according to Crayon, "at the age of 17, when his father dies, ran the farm, kept store, and a forge and mill under the Jacks and: was Captain of the Militia in the Revolutionary War, carpenter by trade; rebuilt the Presbyterian church in 1794. "He also ran and owned the copperas mine near Green Pond, Green County, where red paint was made and sold during the war. He was a member of the first board of trustees of Rockaway Presbyterian Church and an elder there until his death. This Captain Job Allen II is the second of the name. His father, Job Allen was the leader of the founding of Rockaway Presbyterian Church. His name headed the subscription lists and he was the first elder of the church ordained in 1758. He was a farmer, carpenter, a forge man, a builder of roads and bridges. The Job Allen Iron Works are mentioned as early as 1748. His grave is unknown. Captain Job Allen II, was ordained as elder in the church in 1793. His father died when he was only 17 years old, but he took charge of the rich farm in Denville, which is now occupied by St. Francis Sanatorium. During the Revolutionary War he raised and commanded a Company of soldiers. He also at this time was operating a copper as mine at Green Pond where he had a trading post serving all that part of the country. The name Job Allen is especially honored in the Rockaway Presbyterian Church because of the long association of the family with the church which they helped to found and to build and maintain. Source: [Broderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1,Tree #3508

I have included a poem or prose that was written which you may include with my Sons of The American Revolution tribute to my Patriot. Captain Job Allen's grandmother Anna (White) Allen was first generation American born as her father "Resolved White" was a five year old boy that arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.

Information taken from Ancestry regarding "Records of April 21, 1798, that the faithful and good man to whom the church owes so much Capt. Job Allen had recently died."

John Kitchel and Esther Peck

The County Laments Him

The County has great cause to Mourn
He being took away
Who was to it a strong Support
A blessing and a Stay

Is the Man Dead who was Beloved
By all that Did him know,
Let this affect the County all
With Sorrow grief and woe,

But O my soul - Why do I mourn:
For such a man as this
For God has took him to himself
Into the Realms of Bliss,

Now thou art gone to paradice
With god forever Dwell
Tho Thou are Dead thy Name Shall Live
And Now Dear friend farewell.

The Township Laments
Have we provoked the most high
Thus upon us to frown
In taking from us a Support
Of our young infant town.
Let us Repent with mourniful tears
And to our God now pray
That he would make up this great Loss
To mourning Rockaway.

The Church Laments Him

Dear friend we mourn at Loss of thee
And to the Lord we cry
To Sanctify the Death to us
Who was a brother Nigh.

The Allen Family

A pillar in the Church of Christ
That gathered in this place
A man Beloved by Christians all
A man endowed with grace

The Church Doth Mourn under her Loss
Which She Doth Now Sustain
To her indeed it is a Loss
But unto him a gain.

A Ruling elder he was Chose
And gave the Church Content
And as a deacon he did serve
In times of Sacrament.

As he Did Strive with all his might
To gain the better part
God has been pleased to grant to him
The wishes of his heart.

We hear the melancholy News
Of Captain Allen's Death
Whose Nature failed Death has prevailed
And took him from the Earth.

From Sin and Sorrow pain and Death
The might god of Love
Did send to fetch him from the Earth
Unto the Realms above.

Now his is gone unto the Lord
And entered into rest
Which Christ has purchased for them
Who are forever blest

Let his remove out of the church
A warning be to all
To be prepared to follow
Who thus by Death Did fall

Now he is gone from Church on earth
To join the church above
In Singing of the praise of god
For his redeeming Love.

Let everyone of us prepare
And hearken to gods voice
That when we're called from hence
With him we may rejoice

The Widow Laments Him
Look on thy mourning handmaid Lord
I cry unto my god
For to Support and Comfort me.
Under his Chastening Rod

The Lord who gave his took away
And blessed be his name
May this Affecting providence
Bring me to humble frame.

The Lord is just who did command
Death for to take away
A husband Dear who was to me
A guide Support and Stay.

O let thy word be verified
O let thy grace Demand
O Raise my heart unto my god
Who has removed my friend.

May I a widow put my trust
In him that Dwells above
That when all earthly friends do fail
I may enjoy his Love.

Now I prepare to follow him
Which I do well remember
Who left this world and went to god
The fifth of Last November.

The Allen Family
One thousand and seven hundred
And to it Sixty- Seven
The Pilgrim bid this world adieu
And took his flight to heaven.

The Children Laments Him
Our Dear Father Dead and gone
Who was so kind a friend
And left us orphans for to Mourn
And to Lament his end

We do Lament our Father Death
We do Lament our loss
And beg of God to give us grace
To bear so great a cross

Lord be our father and our guide
Instruct us now in youth
For to submit to every Cross
And Cleave unto the truth.