John Allen (minister)

Baptist minister John Allen (ca. 1741/2 – sometime in the 1780s), although not well-connected with colonial patriots in British North America, has an enormous impact on re-igniting the tensions within the Empire in 1772 when he mentions the Gaspée Affair and the Royal Commission of Inquiry seven times  in his Thanksgiving Day sermon at Second Baptist Church in Boston.

This sermon, An Oration, Upon the Beauties of Liberty, Or the Essential Rights of the Americans, is reprinted seven times in four different cities, making it the sixth most-popular pre-independence pamphlet in British America.

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