Joseph Allen, Jr. was the son of Joseph Allen, Sr. and unknown (they married in Ireland). Joseph, Jr. had a brother Thomas. Their father Joseph Allen, Sr., died in Philadelphia, shortly after he arrived there. His father was the brother of William Allen, Jr. also buried here. In 1730, he came to this country from Northern Ireland at about age 2. He married Jane Riddle and they had 2 known children, James and Joseph Allen.
Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA, Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39: "*Allen, Joseph," died 1817. It notes (*) his death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. He does not have an existing gravestone. Many large stones, etc. have been removed overtime. A Joseph Allen was a church contributor and member from 1787 - 1818 and Joseph Allen, Jr was also from 1795 - 1838, page 30. A Joseph Allen contributed 1£, 13 shillings to the church cemetery wall installation in 1797. The amount was equal to the annual county tax he paid, page 35.
In 1766, a Joseph Allen was an overseer of the roads in Dauphin County. History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Henry Egle, Philadelphia, 1883, p 426.
I suspect this is the Joseph Allen, Soldier and Patriot listed on the SAR Veterans of the Revolutionary War plaque at the cemetery gate entrance. There is a Revolutionary War metal beside his son Joseph Jr.'s gravestone, who was too young to serve (aged 14 at the end of the war).
"Joseph Allen, d 1817, Pvt., in the 1st Co., 6th Bn, LCM." Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Dauphin County Pennsylvania by Oscar H. Stroh, President Harris Ferry Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Harrisburg, PA, 1988, p 4.
Joseph Allen, Jr. "married Jane Riddle, daughter of James and Janett Riddle, of Hanover, b. 1729, d. January 6, 1804. They had Allen children:
James (Elizabeth Painter)
Jane, d in infancy
Joseph, 25 Jan 1769 (Eleanor McEwen), below
Margaret, 1763 (mar 25 Mar 1790 in PA, Charles Brown), below
John, 1772 (Hannah Sawyer), below
Robert (Nancy McNamara)
Pretty much the same details as below paragraph and photo, are listed in this earlier book, plus kids above: Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Harrisburg Publishing Co. 1896, 2nd edition, p 7-9. This source has other data on "Allen of Hanover." (see photo).
William Allen, Sr., left Scotland for N. Ireland, had sons Wm, Jr. and Joseph, both born in Co. Antrim. Both sons came to PA in 1730 with their father, and resided in Hanover Twp., in now Dauphin Co., PA. This Joseph, married in Ireland, had son Joseph Jr. (subject of this memorial) and Thomas. Joseph, Sr. died in Philadelphia. Joseph Allen and Jane Riddle had a son James born 1760 in Hanover Twp. He married Elizabeth Painter and had sons: Thomas and James. The rest of article is about kin to son Thomas, son of James, born 1789, died in Warren Co., PA in 1855. "Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, by John Woolf Jordan," Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913, is the source of the photo on the right. Vol. 3, p 957-959.
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Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA, Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39: "*Allen, Joseph," died 1817. It notes (*) his death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. He does not have an existing gravestone. Many large stones, etc. have been removed overtime. A Joseph Allen was a church contributor and member from 1787 - 1818 and Joseph Allen, Jr was also from 1795 - 1838, page 30. A Joseph Allen contributed 1£, 13 shillings to the church cemetery wall installation in 1797. The amount was equal to the annual county tax he paid, page 35.
In 1766, a Joseph Allen was an overseer of the roads in Dauphin County. History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Henry Egle, Philadelphia, 1883, p 426.
I suspect this is the Joseph Allen, Soldier and Patriot listed on the SAR Veterans of the Revolutionary War plaque at the cemetery gate entrance. There is a Revolutionary War metal beside his son Joseph Jr.'s gravestone, who was too young to serve (aged 14 at the end of the war).
"Joseph Allen, d 1817, Pvt., in the 1st Co., 6th Bn, LCM." Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Dauphin County Pennsylvania by Oscar H. Stroh, President Harris Ferry Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Harrisburg, PA, 1988, p 4.
Joseph Allen, Jr. "married Jane Riddle, daughter of James and Janett Riddle, of Hanover, b. 1729, d. January 6, 1804. They had Allen children:
James (Elizabeth Painter)
Jane, d in infancy
Joseph, 25 Jan 1769 (Eleanor McEwen), below
Margaret, 1763 (mar 25 Mar 1790 in PA, Charles Brown), below
John, 1772 (Hannah Sawyer), below
Robert (Nancy McNamara)
Pretty much the same details as below paragraph and photo, are listed in this earlier book, plus kids above: Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Harrisburg Publishing Co. 1896, 2nd edition, p 7-9. This source has other data on "Allen of Hanover." (see photo).
William Allen, Sr., left Scotland for N. Ireland, had sons Wm, Jr. and Joseph, both born in Co. Antrim. Both sons came to PA in 1730 with their father, and resided in Hanover Twp., in now Dauphin Co., PA. This Joseph, married in Ireland, had son Joseph Jr. (subject of this memorial) and Thomas. Joseph, Sr. died in Philadelphia. Joseph Allen and Jane Riddle had a son James born 1760 in Hanover Twp. He married Elizabeth Painter and had sons: Thomas and James. The rest of article is about kin to son Thomas, son of James, born 1789, died in Warren Co., PA in 1855. "Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, by John Woolf Jordan," Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913, is the source of the photo on the right. Vol. 3, p 957-959.
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Joseph Allen, Jr. was the son of Joseph Allen, Sr. and unknown (they married in Ireland). Joseph, Jr. had a brother Thomas. Their father Joseph Allen, Sr., died in Philadelphia, shortly after he arrived there. His father was the brother of William Allen, Jr. also buried here. In 1730, he came to this country from Northern Ireland at about age 2. He married Jane Riddle and they had 2 known children, James and Joseph Allen.
Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA, Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39: "*Allen, Joseph," died 1817. It notes (*) his death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. He does not have an existing gravestone. Many large stones, etc. have been removed overtime. A Joseph Allen was a church contributor and member from 1787 - 1818 and Joseph Allen, Jr was also from 1795 - 1838, page 30. A Joseph Allen contributed 1£, 13 shillings to the church cemetery wall installation in 1797. The amount was equal to the annual county tax he paid, page 35.
In 1766, a Joseph Allen was an overseer of the roads in Dauphin County. History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Henry Egle, Philadelphia, 1883, p 426.
I suspect this is the Joseph Allen, Soldier and Patriot listed on the SAR Veterans of the Revolutionary War plaque at the cemetery gate entrance. There is a Revolutionary War metal beside his son Joseph Jr.'s gravestone, who was too young to serve (aged 14 at the end of the war).
"Joseph Allen, d 1817, Pvt., in the 1st Co., 6th Bn, LCM." Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Dauphin County Pennsylvania by Oscar H. Stroh, President Harris Ferry Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Harrisburg, PA, 1988, p 4.
Joseph Allen, Jr. "married Jane Riddle, daughter of James and Janett Riddle, of Hanover, b. 1729, d. January 6, 1804. They had Allen children:
James (Elizabeth Painter)
Jane, d in infancy
Joseph, 25 Jan 1769 (Eleanor McEwen), below
Margaret, 1763 (mar 25 Mar 1790 in PA, Charles Brown), below
John, 1772 (Hannah Sawyer), below
Robert (Nancy McNamara)
Pretty much the same details as below paragraph and photo, are listed in this earlier book, plus kids above: Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Harrisburg Publishing Co. 1896, 2nd edition, p 7-9. This source has other data on "Allen of Hanover." (see photo).
William Allen, Sr., left Scotland for N. Ireland, had sons Wm, Jr. and Joseph, both born in Co. Antrim. Both sons came to PA in 1730 with their father, and resided in Hanover Twp., in now Dauphin Co., PA. This Joseph, married in Ireland, had son Joseph Jr. (subject of this memorial) and Thomas. Joseph, Sr. died in Philadelphia. Joseph Allen and Jane Riddle had a son James born 1760 in Hanover Twp. He married Elizabeth Painter and had sons: Thomas and James. The rest of article is about kin to son Thomas, son of James, born 1789, died in Warren Co., PA in 1855. "Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, by John Woolf Jordan," Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913, is the source of the photo on the right. Vol. 3, p 957-959.
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Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D. (1828-1906) With a Notice of the Church at Conewago, by A. Boyd Hamilton, Harrisburg, PA, Dauphin County Historical Society, 1878, page 39: "*Allen, Joseph," died 1817. It notes (*) his death was "collated from other sources" and not from a tombstone reading, page 39. He does not have an existing gravestone. Many large stones, etc. have been removed overtime. A Joseph Allen was a church contributor and member from 1787 - 1818 and Joseph Allen, Jr was also from 1795 - 1838, page 30. A Joseph Allen contributed 1£, 13 shillings to the church cemetery wall installation in 1797. The amount was equal to the annual county tax he paid, page 35.
In 1766, a Joseph Allen was an overseer of the roads in Dauphin County. History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by William Henry Egle, Philadelphia, 1883, p 426.
I suspect this is the Joseph Allen, Soldier and Patriot listed on the SAR Veterans of the Revolutionary War plaque at the cemetery gate entrance. There is a Revolutionary War metal beside his son Joseph Jr.'s gravestone, who was too young to serve (aged 14 at the end of the war).
"Joseph Allen, d 1817, Pvt., in the 1st Co., 6th Bn, LCM." Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Dauphin County Pennsylvania by Oscar H. Stroh, President Harris Ferry Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Harrisburg, PA, 1988, p 4.
Joseph Allen, Jr. "married Jane Riddle, daughter of James and Janett Riddle, of Hanover, b. 1729, d. January 6, 1804. They had Allen children:
James (Elizabeth Painter)
Jane, d in infancy
Joseph, 25 Jan 1769 (Eleanor McEwen), below
Margaret, 1763 (mar 25 Mar 1790 in PA, Charles Brown), below
John, 1772 (Hannah Sawyer), below
Robert (Nancy McNamara)
Pretty much the same details as below paragraph and photo, are listed in this earlier book, plus kids above: Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Harrisburg Publishing Co. 1896, 2nd edition, p 7-9. This source has other data on "Allen of Hanover." (see photo).
William Allen, Sr., left Scotland for N. Ireland, had sons Wm, Jr. and Joseph, both born in Co. Antrim. Both sons came to PA in 1730 with their father, and resided in Hanover Twp., in now Dauphin Co., PA. This Joseph, married in Ireland, had son Joseph Jr. (subject of this memorial) and Thomas. Joseph, Sr. died in Philadelphia. Joseph Allen and Jane Riddle had a son James born 1760 in Hanover Twp. He married Elizabeth Painter and had sons: Thomas and James. The rest of article is about kin to son Thomas, son of James, born 1789, died in Warren Co., PA in 1855. "Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, by John Woolf Jordan," Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913, is the source of the photo on the right. Vol. 3, p 957-959.
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