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Person Details
 
Last NameALLEN
First NameEDWARD
Maiden 
RelationS/O EDWARD & ELIZABETH
Cemetery NumberPV001
Cemetery NameNORTH BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1759c
Death Day10
Death MonthAPR
Death Year1781
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
SectionAD
Lot 
Map01673
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapefancy top
Carvingwinged cherub/other
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2012
CarverSTEPHEN HARTSHORN
Notes/Misc Details
Notes"by misfortune he was shot by a negroe soldier" "This gash or wound and all so sad / it with a shot was shone; / The flesh appears as though it had / Most Babariously been torn." [SAR: 1777-1778 in Capt. Thomas Carlile's Co.; Col. Elliott's Art'y Reg't] Robert Emlen tells the story of this killing in his article "A Grievance Immortalized: A Story of Race and Class, Crime and Punishment in Providence ,1781" in Markers XXXIII, 2017. The negro soldier was Prince Greene. He was tried and found not guilty of willful murder, but guilty of manslaughter. He pled Benefit of the Clergy and was sentenced to be branded on the hand with an "M" for manslaughter. For manslaughter
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