Jones replied, ’Wait till prayer is over.’ Mr. Absalom Jones, pulling him off of his knees, and saying, ’You must get up-you must not kneel here.’ Mr. I raised my head up and saw one of the trustees, H- M-, having hold of the Rev. Meeting had begun, and they were nearly done singing, and just as we got to the seats, the elder said, ’Let us pray.’ We had not been long upon our knees before I heard considerable scuffling and low talking. We expected to take the seats over the ones we formerly occupied below, not knowing any better. "The (the Sexton) told us to go, and we would see where to sit. I cried, enough for me-the Saviour died.” Allen and his brother’s new religion led them to work even harder in their assignments on the plantation, as they knew that the prevailing myth of the day was that Christianity made slaves useless. Allen’s conversion was such a powerful experience that later wrote about saying that “all of a sudden my dungeon shook, my chains flew off, and glory to God, I cried. In 1777, at the age of seventeen, Allen was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Freeborn Garretson and joined the Methodist Society. As he and his brother grew older, they were permitted to attend religious meetings of the Methodist Society. However, even with a “kind” owner, Allen still held that slavery “was a bitter pill”. There is no record of the fate of Allen’s father after this time.Īllen later contended that Sturgis was a tender and humane man who was more like a father to his slaves. Later, Allen’s mother was again sold along with three of her six children, leaving Allen, his older brother, and a sister on the Sturgis plantation. Stokley Sturgis, when Allen was seven years old. What is known for certain is that the family was purchased by a Delaware planter, Mr. Allen, whose father was African and whose mother was bi-racial, literally could have been born at any of these Chew properties.
Chew, who at one point served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and personal attorney to the Penn Family, was a wealthy landowner who owned property near the Philadelphia water front, at Cliveden (which is now the Germantown section of the city), and farms in Delaware. According to Allen, he was born on Februin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the condition of slavery to a Quaker lawyer, Mr.
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