Jeremiah Allen, Esq.

Jeremiah Allen married (2), published June 12, 1729, at Boston,2 Elizabeth, daughter of John and Deborah (Brown) Oulton of Marblehead, Mass., born June 1, 1712, at Marblehead,1 by whom he had:—

5. Jeremiah, posthumous, born and bap. Sept. 1, 1750. (2)

(2) Boston Records: Records of First Church

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From The First Seasons of the Federal Street Theatre: 1794–1798

Members of the Tontine Association, an insurance and real estate development company, opened a 500-seat theater in Board Alley in August 1792. In a transparent effort to get around the 1750 ban on theatrical performances in the Commonwealth, they called it the New Exhibition Hall but then proceeded to present plays, songs, and acrobatic acts. Outraged and determined to enforce the ban, Governor John Hancock ordered High Sheriff Jeremiah Allen (1750–1809) to close down the theater. When Allen and his men interrupted a performance of Sheridan’s School for Scandal on December 5, 1792, and arrested members of the company, the audience protested by shouting “Go on, go on,” charging the stage, and trampling Governor Hancock’s portrait.

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From THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON, INCLUDING SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1880. JUSTIN WINSOR 1886 Page 45 "The Hinckley Mansion"

15. William Kirkby, h. and g.; sold to James Hawkins. This, or the upper part of No. 1, was the lot upon which, later, the Rev. James Allen, of the First Church, built his famous stone house, which, when taken down after the war of 1812 to give place to the dwellings erected by David Hinckley, and now constituting the Congregational House, was thought to be the oldest stone house in the town. Allen had married the widow of the younger John Endicott, Elizabeth, the daughter of the tanner Jeremy Houchin. Allen devised, in 1710, his mansion-house to his son Jeremiah, who dying in 1741 it came to his son Jeremiah, dying in 1755, when the title finally passed to his son James, who sold it to his brother Jeremiah, the high sheriff, who died in 1809. Gleaner Articles, No. 33.

After being in the possession of members of the Allen family for nearly one hundred and forty years, the demesne was sold by James Allen, January 8, 1810, to David Hinckley, a Boston merchant, who took down the old stone house. And during or about the year 1814 he built a large double granite mansion on the premises, and occupied the westerly, corner portion, which fronted on Somerset Street. This mansion was at that time considered to be the finest dwelling-house in the town. ....

"Letter relating to the Estate of the late Jeremiah Allen, Esq" link From his nephew, James Allen.

High Sheriff, Suffolk Co. Tomb - 12.

Information on Jeremiah can be also found in the following book.

Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks By Charles Chauncey Wells and Suzanne Austin Wells. (page 110)

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