Shared marker with Sally Chapman Allen, his Consort.
Roland Allen, a native of New York, born in the village of Saratoga in the year 1780. He was of Scotch-Irish origin and reared an orphan. At about the age of twenty-five he married Sarah Chapman, also a native of Saratoga, New York, and a daughter of Benjamin Chapman, a Captain in the Revolutionary war. About 1805 Roland Allen, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Indian village of Canasoragua, in what is now Madison County, New York, and was successively a resident of that place, Orrville, Chattanango, Mexico and Baldwinsville in the same State, in each of which places he was engaged at his trade as a blacksmith and manufacturer of fine edged tools. A man of industrious habits, enterprising spirit, clear-sighted and intelligent, he was instrumental in establishing a number of manufacturing concerns in his native State, in one or two of which he acquired considerable interest and made some money. He resided in New York until about the year 1838, when he came to Texas and settled on Galveston Bay, where he died some four years later.
His wife's death occurred about a year before his, and the remains of both were buried at the old burying-ground in Houston. They were plain, substantial people, trained after the manner of training the young a century ago, being thrifty, hard-working, economical, home-loving and God-fearing. Both were lifelong members of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom, six sons and one daughter, became grown. All of the sons, Augustus C., Samuel L., John K., George, Henry R., and Harvey became early residents of this city. The only daughter of Roland and Sarah Allen, Mrs. Mary Jane Birdsell, left a son, since deceased, and a daughter, who is now Mrs. Hull, of Brooklyn, New York. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895).
Roland Allen, a native of New York, born in the village of Saratoga in the year 1780. He was of Scotch-Irish origin and reared an orphan. At about the age of twenty-five he married Sarah Chapman, also a native of Saratoga, New York, and a daughter of Benjamin Chapman, a Captain in the Revolutionary war. About 1805 Roland Allen, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Indian village of Canasoragua, in what is now Madison County, New York, and was successively a resident of that place, Orrville, Chattanango, Mexico and Baldwinsville in the same State, in each of which places he was engaged at his trade as a blacksmith and manufacturer of fine edged tools. A man of industrious habits, enterprising spirit, clear-sighted and intelligent, he was instrumental in establishing a number of manufacturing concerns in his native State, in one or two of which he acquired considerable interest and made some money. He resided in New York until about the year 1838, when he came to Texas and settled on Galveston Bay, where he died some four years later.
His wife's death occurred about a year before his, and the remains of both were buried at the old burying-ground in Houston. They were plain, substantial people, trained after the manner of training the young a century ago, being thrifty, hard-working, economical, home-loving and God-fearing. Both were lifelong members of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom, six sons and one daughter, became grown. All of the sons, Augustus C., Samuel L., John K., George, Henry R., and Harvey became early residents of this city. The only daughter of Roland and Sarah Allen, Mrs. Mary Jane Birdsell, left a son, since deceased, and a daughter, who is now Mrs. Hull, of Brooklyn, New York. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895).
Shared marker with Sally Chapman Allen, his Consort.
Roland Allen, a native of New York, born in the village of Saratoga in the year 1780. He was of Scotch-Irish origin and reared an orphan. At about the age of twenty-five he married Sarah Chapman, also a native of Saratoga, New York, and a daughter of Benjamin Chapman, a Captain in the Revolutionary war. About 1805 Roland Allen, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Indian village of Canasoragua, in what is now Madison County, New York, and was successively a resident of that place, Orrville, Chattanango, Mexico and Baldwinsville in the same State, in each of which places he was engaged at his trade as a blacksmith and manufacturer of fine edged tools. A man of industrious habits, enterprising spirit, clear-sighted and intelligent, he was instrumental in establishing a number of manufacturing concerns in his native State, in one or two of which he acquired considerable interest and made some money. He resided in New York until about the year 1838, when he came to Texas and settled on Galveston Bay, where he died some four years later.
His wife's death occurred about a year before his, and the remains of both were buried at the old burying-ground in Houston. They were plain, substantial people, trained after the manner of training the young a century ago, being thrifty, hard-working, economical, home-loving and God-fearing. Both were lifelong members of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom, six sons and one daughter, became grown. All of the sons, Augustus C., Samuel L., John K., George, Henry R., and Harvey became early residents of this city. The only daughter of Roland and Sarah Allen, Mrs. Mary Jane Birdsell, left a son, since deceased, and a daughter, who is now Mrs. Hull, of Brooklyn, New York. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895).
Roland Allen, a native of New York, born in the village of Saratoga in the year 1780. He was of Scotch-Irish origin and reared an orphan. At about the age of twenty-five he married Sarah Chapman, also a native of Saratoga, New York, and a daughter of Benjamin Chapman, a Captain in the Revolutionary war. About 1805 Roland Allen, accompanied by his wife, moved to the Indian village of Canasoragua, in what is now Madison County, New York, and was successively a resident of that place, Orrville, Chattanango, Mexico and Baldwinsville in the same State, in each of which places he was engaged at his trade as a blacksmith and manufacturer of fine edged tools. A man of industrious habits, enterprising spirit, clear-sighted and intelligent, he was instrumental in establishing a number of manufacturing concerns in his native State, in one or two of which he acquired considerable interest and made some money. He resided in New York until about the year 1838, when he came to Texas and settled on Galveston Bay, where he died some four years later.
His wife's death occurred about a year before his, and the remains of both were buried at the old burying-ground in Houston. They were plain, substantial people, trained after the manner of training the young a century ago, being thrifty, hard-working, economical, home-loving and God-fearing. Both were lifelong members of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom, six sons and one daughter, became grown. All of the sons, Augustus C., Samuel L., John K., George, Henry R., and Harvey became early residents of this city. The only daughter of Roland and Sarah Allen, Mrs. Mary Jane Birdsell, left a son, since deceased, and a daughter, who is now Mrs. Hull, of Brooklyn, New York. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895).
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