Display Patriot - P-102702

Moses ALLEN

SAR Patriot #: P-102702

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State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service

DAR #: A001744

Birth: 24 Dec 1748 Northampton / Hampshire / MA
Death: 08 Feb 1779 Savannah / / GA

Qualifying Service Description:

Commissioned Captain and Chaplain Georgia Continental Line 1778
Fought at Alligator Creek on Third Florida Expedition 1778, Bulltown Swamp 1778 and Spencer’s Hill (Midway) 1778
Captured at Savannah in 1778 but not paroled to Sunbury with other Continental officers due to his “influential preaching and patriotic example”
Placed on the prison ship, Nancy in the Savannah Harbor and drowned while attempting to escape 1779

Additional References:

Lippincott's Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary, University of Nevada, Reno Library. Philadelphia, PA, USA: J.B. Lippincott, Joseph Thomas M. D. LL. D, 1890

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Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.806091 / -81.431283

Find A Grave Memorial #:

n/a

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

10 Jul 2022

Comments:

NSDAR Cites DROWNED ESCAPING FROM A PRISON SHIP
No entry was found in Find a Grave in May 2022
No Tombstone - SAR marker is located on the West side of Stewart-Screven Monument
Marked by the Athens Chapter, Blue Ridge Mountains Chapter and Marshes of Glynn Chapter Georgia Society SAR
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Midway Cemetery is on US Highway 17 in Midway, Georgia directly across the street from the Historic Midway Church
Take I-95 to exit 76 - at end of ramp turn west on U.S. 84 and travel 3.7 miles to U.S. 17 - Turn right and travel less than 1 mile to the Historic Midway Church on right and cemetery on left

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: William Foye Ramsaur

Moses Allen was born on 24 December 1748 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. He was educated at Princeton in the same class as James Madison.

He was a Minister who kept a musket at his pulpit for protection from Tories and Native American warriors. During the 1770s, Moses served as Minister of the Midway Church. When most of his parishioners volunteered to serve in the war, he accompanied them as a Chaplain in the Georgia Continental Line. He served with them during several battles in 1778, including Alligator Creek Bridge, Bulltown Swamp, and Midway, where the invading British burned his church and many houses, including his own. At the Battle of Savannah in December of 1778, he "strove heroically to impart courage to others," but the British captured him with the defeated Patriots.

Owing to his reputation of influential preaching, they refused to parole him to Sunbury with other Continental Line officers. Imprisoned on the British ship Nancy in Savannah Harbor, he drowned while attempting to escape in 1779. One Tory described Allen as the "head rebel of the entire region, whose bold free tongue cut deeper than the sword." Moses Allen's five brothers in Massachusetts also had distinguished Revolutionary War Service.

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