Born c.1696-7, Jonathan Allen "...departed this Life...in the 61st Year of his Age". Church records indicate that he was predeceased by a wife, Mary, who died 26 years earlier
in 1732.
Mr. Allen's elaborately carved gravestone, with its floral cut-out contour, is the only one of its kind in the churchyard, and of a type rarely seen in the NJ-NY area. The distinctive floral cut-outs are characteristic of the work of Zerubbabel Collins (1733-1797), a Connecticut carver who eventually moved to southern Vermont. But the soul effigy in the stone's tympanum is decidely different from the almost humorous, fanciful ones carved by Collins. It's rendered in the somber, more representational style of Elizabethtown's Ebenezer Price, and the enclosure of the epitaph within a heart motif is another trademark of the great New Jersey carver. This suggests that the prolific and versatile Price was aware of Collins' style, and could adapt and incorporate it for his own use.
in 1732.
Mr. Allen's elaborately carved gravestone, with its floral cut-out contour, is the only one of its kind in the churchyard, and of a type rarely seen in the NJ-NY area. The distinctive floral cut-outs are characteristic of the work of Zerubbabel Collins (1733-1797), a Connecticut carver who eventually moved to southern Vermont. But the soul effigy in the stone's tympanum is decidely different from the almost humorous, fanciful ones carved by Collins. It's rendered in the somber, more representational style of Elizabethtown's Ebenezer Price, and the enclosure of the epitaph within a heart motif is another trademark of the great New Jersey carver. This suggests that the prolific and versatile Price was aware of Collins' style, and could adapt and incorporate it for his own use.
Born c.1696-7, Jonathan Allen "...departed this Life...in the 61st Year of his Age". Church records indicate that he was predeceased by a wife, Mary, who died 26 years earlier
in 1732.
Mr. Allen's elaborately carved gravestone, with its floral cut-out contour, is the only one of its kind in the churchyard, and of a type rarely seen in the NJ-NY area. The distinctive floral cut-outs are characteristic of the work of Zerubbabel Collins (1733-1797), a Connecticut carver who eventually moved to southern Vermont. But the soul effigy in the stone's tympanum is decidely different from the almost humorous, fanciful ones carved by Collins. It's rendered in the somber, more representational style of Elizabethtown's Ebenezer Price, and the enclosure of the epitaph within a heart motif is another trademark of the great New Jersey carver. This suggests that the prolific and versatile Price was aware of Collins' style, and could adapt and incorporate it for his own use.
in 1732.
Mr. Allen's elaborately carved gravestone, with its floral cut-out contour, is the only one of its kind in the churchyard, and of a type rarely seen in the NJ-NY area. The distinctive floral cut-outs are characteristic of the work of Zerubbabel Collins (1733-1797), a Connecticut carver who eventually moved to southern Vermont. But the soul effigy in the stone's tympanum is decidely different from the almost humorous, fanciful ones carved by Collins. It's rendered in the somber, more representational style of Elizabethtown's Ebenezer Price, and the enclosure of the epitaph within a heart motif is another trademark of the great New Jersey carver. This suggests that the prolific and versatile Price was aware of Collins' style, and could adapt and incorporate it for his own use.
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