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Diaries and Journals, Loyalists, People February 18, 2019 February 18, 2019

Loyalist James Allen’s Reflection on the State of the Colonies

by George Kotlik

A councilman by profession, James Allen, esquire, lived in Philadelphia during the early years of the American Revolution. A man of considerable social prominence…

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