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Last NameALLEN
First NameGEORGE
Maiden 
Relation 
Cemetery NumberEP003
Cemetery NameNEWMAN CEMETERY
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1696c
Death Day20
Death MonthJAN
Death Year1774
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years 78
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map 
Stone Materialslate
Conditionpoor
Shapefancy top
Carvingwinged cherub/other
Legibilitypoor
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2008
CarverGABRIEL ALLEN
Notes/Misc Details
Notes"Here rests the Body of Mr. George Allen, a native of Sherbury in Great Britain, he died Jany 20th, 1774 Aged 78 years. -His ingenuity & application to Study were Such, that early in Life he made unusual advances in the principal branches of Literature, & at the age of 17 years employd as a writing-master in his Native Town, at the age o 21 he arrived at Boston where he opened a School for the instruction of Youth in which occupation (in that & other towns) he Spent the Prime of hi Life. Etc." - George Allen was a prolific gravestone carver whose shop was just down the road from this cemetery.
Transcribed ByTRIM;JES;JWN