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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. ita 1 2 3 lure. 1 2 3 : 2X 4 5 6 ^i^^^—iF E! liiiiP.L"*'" MEMOIR or COLONEL JOHN ALLAN, 5 %& ©fflm 0f the ^jvolutiott, BoKN IN EDiNBUHGn Castle, SCOTLAND, Jan. 3, 1740. Died ra Lubec, Maine, Feb. 7, 1805. WITH A GENEALOGY. BT GEORGE H. ALLAN, OF NBW TORK. ALBANY: JOEL MUNSELL. 1867. NOTE. The writer (lemrea to acMotcledge the kind assistance '->' Frederic Kidder, Esq., of Boston, wJwse valuable suggestions have matenallji \ aided Mm in the preparation t/w Memoir. / of I '"?" if 1"? "i- A M E M O I R OF COLONEL JOHN ALLAN. < « MEMOIR ;^^^^^/^^^ OF I COLONEL JOHN ALLAN, BoKN m EDiHBURon Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1746. Died in Lobec, Maine, Feb. 7, 1805. WITH A GENEALOGY. BY GEORGE 11. ALLAN, OP NEW YORK. ALBANY: JOEL MUNSELL. 1867. i. * :\'s V / I <J OF COL. JODN ALLAN. 11^ MEMOIR war To the American people the incidents of the revolutionary time having are of peculiar and enduring interest. So much well believe elapsed since the termination of that conflict, we may eventful times have that most of the attainable details of those the military already been communicated to the public. Though insignificant operations of the revolution may seem comparatively past, we when compared with the gigantic war for the Union just were laid must remember that in the events of the former period, enduring perpet.uity the foundations of that mighty republic, whose free institutions and equal rights. is now insured in the interest of present a few In the present sketch, the object of the writer is to who, in " the times incidents in the life of one of those worthy men in the defense of which tried men's souls," stood nobly forward family connections and liberty, and for this, sacrificed wealth, prominently inscribed public honors. While his name is not found .\') times, or identified with upon the roll of the famous men of those can be said of him, any of the memorable battles of that period, it position, he acted well that in his difiicult and often daagerous I / performed his duty. his part, and faithfully and energetically of the John Allan was the eldest son of William Allan, one Nova Scotia, and was born in Edinburgh ij earliest settlers of Halifax, father, William Allan, Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3d, 1746, 0. S. His of means, and born about the year 1720, was a Scottish gentleman rank was that of in the British army. Tradition says his I an officer history except what is a major. But little is known of his early handwriting, a copy of learned from a family record in his own 9th, 1744, Isabella Maxwell, which is appended. He married July and at the daughter of Sir Eustace Maxwell, a gentleman of Scotland, 6 Memoir of Col. John Allan. time of tho birth of his son. in January, 174G, ho was temporarily residing in Edinburgh Cast'e, to which fortress his family, with others, had repaired for refuge during the troubles of tho rebellion. I Peace with France being fully restored by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, in 1748, tho Uritish government began to devise ways and means of providing for the largo number of soldiers and sailors r' discharged from the service ; and of all the plans propobed, none seemed more promising than a systematic colonization of the pro- vince of Nov£t Scotia, till then, though nominally a British province, inhabited only by neutral French and Indians. The government made liberal provision for all who would decide to settle in tho new colony, and in 1749 under the inducements thus offered, Willia ' Allan with his wife and little son John, then but four years of age, bade adieu to his native land, and in company with more than 2,000 other settlers, sailed for America. A brief glance at the history of Nova Scotia may be found inte- resting. Although the claim of England to a large part of North America depends upon the discovery of the country, in 1497, still the colonial history rests entirely on the great charter of James the 1st, April 10, 1606, by which sundry of his subjects were authorized to establish colonies between the thirty-fourth aud forty-fifth degrees of north latitude.
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