William Allen (Quaker minister)

[1] In his later years, he was a Meeting's Minister of Newmarket Friends Church until his retirement.

[3] The son of an Irish plantation owner and a female slave, Allen was also born into slavery.

[3] On the passing of William's master and father, his slaves were granted their freedom, a civil liberty that was concealed from them for four years to the profit of the white members of the family.

[4] Allen later relocated from Tennessee to Indiana,[5] a state that would later support the Union during the American Civil War and the emancipation of slaves in America.

The journal is located at the Quaker archives in Newmarket.