Richard Allen
BIRTH
Feb 14, 1760
Delaware
DEATH
March 26, 1831
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
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Allen, Richard
(1760-1831)
Richard Allen was born enslaved in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom during the Revolutionary era. He became a Methodist preacher, founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and emerged as a leading advocate for Black religious independence and mutual aid.
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Peter Allen
(c. 1806-1836)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Bishop Richard Allen Marker | Loockerman Plaza, Dover, Delaware, 19901, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mar 26, 1831
Richard Allen was born on Feb 14, 1760 in Delaware. 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 Richard Allen with work or public activity as a clergyperson. 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. Richard Allen died on Mar 26, 1831 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.