Rev. Moses Allen and Catherine McMillan
Husband Rev. Moses Allen 1 2 3
Born: 5 Sep 1780 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 16 Jan 1847 - Ohio 2 Buried:Marriage: 1805 2
Wife Catherine McMillan 1 2 3
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Rev. Dr. John McMillan, D.D. (1752-1833) 2 4 5 Mother: Catharine Brown ( -1819) 5
Children
1 M John Watson Allen 2 6 7
Born: 16 Dec 1806 2 Christened: Died: Bef 1882 Buried:Spouse: Jane Patterson (1815-1845) 6 7 8 Marr: 29 Sep 1835 2 7
2 F Eliza Williams Allen 9 10
Born: 21 Aug 1806 or 1808 - Greene Co, PA 9 Christened: Died: 1884 10 11 Buried:Spouse: John Simington (1802-1871) 10 Marr: 14 Mar 1836 2
3 M John McMillan Allen 2
Born: 11 Jul 1810 - Greene Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: 15 Jul 1860 - Burgettstown, Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA 12 Buried: - Raccoon Cemetery, Washington Co, PASpouse: Margaret Ann Riddell ( -1856) 12Spouse: Margaret Ann Savage ( -Bef 1893) 13
4 F Jane M. Allen 2
Born: 2 Oct 1812 2 Christened: Died: 8 Sep 1819 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M Dr. Samuel Harper Allen 3
AKA: Harper Allen,1 Dr. Samuel Harpaer Allen M.D. 2 14 15 Born: 6 Feb 1815 - Greene Co, PA 2 3 14 Christened: Died: Summer, 1893 3 Buried:Spouse: Mary Wallace (1818- ) 2 15 Marr: 26 Apr 1838 2 3 14
6 F Catherine Blair Allen 2 14
Born: 2 Apr 1817 2 Christened: Died: Bet 1889 and 1893 - Belmont Co, OH Buried:Spouse: Thomas Morgan ( -Bef 1889) 2 Marr: 19 Apr 1836 2
7 M Moses Coe Allen 2 14
Born: 20 Dec 1820 2 Christened: Died: Aft 1889 Buried:Spouse: Ann Campbell ( - ) 2 Marr: 2 Nov 1848 2
8 M Aaron Allen 2
Born: 9 Feb 1823 - Washington Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Abt 1877 Buried:Spouse: Ann Lyle ( -Abt 1877) 2 Marr: Belmont Co, OH
9 M William McMillan Allen 12
Born: 11 Apr 1825 12 Christened: Died: 23 May 12 Buried:
10 F Sarah J. Allen 12
Born: 5 Mar 1829 12 Christened: Died: 23 Jun 1833 12 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Moses Allen
In his youth learned the trade of millwright, which he pursued diligently and successfully for some years. His classical education he secured at Jefferson College, and he studied theology with Dr. John McMillan. On June 23, 1807, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio, and in November of same year was ordained and installed pastor of the united churches of Providence and Jefferson, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. In 1816 he received a call from the congregation of Raccoon, Washington County, and was installed June, 1817, and continued to exercise the pastoral office for twenty-two years.
The Rev. S. C. Jennings, who had been associated with the Rev. Moses Allen for many years, in an address delivered at the "Centennial Meeting" of the Raccoon Church, spoke of the Rev. Moses Allen, second pastor of the church, as follows: "Tall in person, grave and sedate in manners. A preacher of ability, a great reasoner, logical and instructive, irreproachable in character, and diligent in catechising the youth. His pastorate extended over a period of twenty-two years. During this pastorate a new house of worship was built, which was of brick and capable of seating 600 persons. This building continued in use forty-two years."
In 1838 he left Raccoon, and was afterward pastor for nine years at Crab Apple Church in Ohio, and he died there, aged sixty-six years. It appears from memoranda in his own handwriting that his labors were abundant. "I was pastor of Raccoons," he writes, "twenty-two years, during which I preached 2,685 times; administered the Lord's Supper seventy-five times; admitted to the communion of the church 324 per-sons; baptized fifteen adults and 558 children, and solemnized 190 marriages." He was a man of decided and positive character, of strong mental ability. He was a sound theologian, and was always spoken of as a very logical, instructive and forcible preacher.
From New Jersey, he settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1815. [HAC 1889 II, 417]
1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 872.
2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 155.
3 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 26.
4 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 647.
5 Samuel P. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., 1888), Pg 628.
6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 915.
7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 374.
8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 155, 460.
9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 155, 471.
10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1329.
11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 472.
12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 156.
13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 156, 1121, 1409.
14 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 417.
15
John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 14.
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