242:(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915), 352. He left for Philadelphia in August 1772 in failing health and died the following February at age 36. It appears that Allen was preaching at Second Baptist before Davis died in Philadelphia. Reta A. Gilbert cited Bumsted and Clark as her only source for the fact that Davis died at his post in Boston. Bumsted and Clark, "New England’s Tom Paine," p. 564. Davis was among a group of Baptist leaders who were planning to appeal to the British Crown for relief from unjust taxation, not from Parliament, but from the Massachusetts authorities. Isaac Backus,
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health, so the congregation was searching for a new teaching elder. Davis knew of Allen and made it clear before he died that he wanted Allen to preach at Second
Baptist. The church committee knew something of Allen's reputation in England and so was reluctant to invite him to speak. After some debate, they asked him to give the annual Thanksgiving Day Address. Elder Allen remained as a "visiting pastor" for just nine months, November 1772 until July 1773, Second Baptist never extended a permanent call to him.
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failed, Allen's debt grew, and he spent some time incarcerated at the King's Bench Prison. When the
Petticoat Lane congregation dismissed him he briefly found a new pastorate at Broadstairs, near Newcastle. But in 1767 he was dismissed by the Broadstairs congregation, and in 1768 he returned to London as a schoolteacher. By January 1769 he was again in financial trouble, and he was tried at the Old Bailey for forging a ÂŁ50 note.
246:(New York: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1969), 176. Boston’s patriots did not want Baptists bringing their grievances about Massachusetts’s ecclesiastical taxation before the Crown in 1773. The intervention of George III on behalf of Ashfield, Massachusetts’s Baptists is in Frederick G. Howes,
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In 1764, at age 23, John Allen was ordained and installed as the pastor of the
Particular Baptist Church in Petticoat Lane, near Spitalfields, London. Like most Baptist ministers, Allen had to earn his livelihood through secular work. He opened a linen-drapers shop in Shoreditch. When his business
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Parliament and defended the rights of the individual. Most chroniclers believe that he left London for New York in 1771 though Allen did not re-appear in the historical record until 1772. At that time John Davis, the pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston had left his post due to failing
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Allen was a high
Calvinist with supralapsarian leanings. He was considered to be slightly unorthodox in some of his views; the Canons of Dordt (1618-19) adopted the infralapsarian order. While praising John Wesley as a gentleman, scholar, and historian, Allen questioned his Christian faith in
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Church historian Albert Henry Newman stated that Davis was driven out of Boston by harsh treatment in the press for his active role in the
Baptist Association’s resistance to ecclesiastical taxes and certificates. Albert Henry Newman,
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As stated above, Allen was not well-connected with other colonial patriots and we do not hear from him again. Some argue that he continued to publish pamphlets into the 1780s; most sources placed his death at age 33 in 1774. The
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Allen found the note in the street. A simple handwriting sample cleared him of the charge of forgery. But the fact that he tried to cash it in did not reflect well on his character.
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in Boston, tried to help salvage the reputation of their very successful pamphleteer by publishing the entire 20 page transcript of his trial in 1773. See
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250:(Ashfield, MA: 191-?), 63-86. They could not be taxed "for the maintenance of another society which they do not belong unto." P. 86.
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A Baptist
Bibliography: Being a register of printed material by and about Baptists; including works written against the Baptists
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118:(Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1965), 69-70. This table was taken from G. Jack Gravlee and James R. Irvine, eds.
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Soul Liberty: The Baptists’ Struggle in New England, 1630-1833
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