Allen McLane
BIRTH
Aug 8, 1746
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DEATH
May 22, 1829
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
FAMILY
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McLane, Allen
(1746-1829)
Allen McLane was a Delaware Continental Army officer, cavalry commander, scout, and intelligence operative. He fought in the Philadelphia campaign, gathered vital information for Washington, served with “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, and remained active in federal service after independence.
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Louis McLane
(1786-1857)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Home of Allen McLane Marker | 40 W Mt Vernon St, Smyrna, DE 19977 | MARKER |
DIED:
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
May 22, 1829
Allen McLane was born on Aug 8, 1746 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Allen McLane with work or public activity as a soldier, spy. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Allen McLane died on May 22, 1829. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.