Daniel Allen

The following taken from: Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society - A Catalogue - Coompiled by Virginius Cornick Hall, Jr. - Published for the Virginia Historical Society - University Press of Virginia - Charlottesville

Daniel Allen, 1728 - 1807

Daniel Allen, son of James and Anne (Anderson) Allen of Hanover County, was born on October 12, 1827. A devout Presbyterian, he was a member of Samuel Davie's Congregation in Hanover County; soon after Davies left Virginia, Allen with his four brothers removed to Cumberland County where he was instrumental in the establishment of Guinea Church. He married, first, Anna Harrison, and by her had ten children; he married, secod, on February 21, 1775, Joanna (Read) Hill, widow of Jsoeph Hill. At Mountain View, his residence in Cumberland County, he raised his large family, one of whom Cary, wen to Kentucky in 1791 as a missionary, dying four years later at the early age of twenty-eight. Daniel Allen remained in Cumberland for the rest of his life. In a letter dated March 7, 1794, he stated, "I am now sixty-five years old, a planter, and never was but a little over one hundred miles from home in my live....I feel now like I never could give up to the foolish fashions and customs of the world. I remain a stranger." He died in 1807.

Credits: William Henry Foote, Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical, 2d ser. (Philadelphia, 1855, pp. 223-35; Alfred James Morrison, College of Hampden-Sidney Dictionary of Biography, 1776-1825 (Hampden-Sidney, VA., 1921), pp. 67 - 68; Marie Oliver Watkins, Tearin' through the Wilderness (Charleston, W. VA.,1957. p. 127.