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ALLEN, REVEREND RICHARD.
Eulogy on the Death of George
Washington
on the first page of the Independent Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser.
Large folio sheet, folded to form four pages. Eulogy appearing on the first page.
Boston, 16 January 1800
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Richard Allen (1760 -1831), minister, bishop, educator, writer, and one of America’s most active and
influential black leaders, founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first indepen-
dent black denomination in the United States in 1794. He opened his first church in 1794 in
Philadelphia, the “Mother Bethel Church.” Allen was elected the first bishop of the AME Church in
1816. In his eulogy, Allen begins: “At this time it may not be improper to speak a little on the late
mournful event—an event in which we participate in common with the feelings of a grateful people—
an event which causes ‘the land to mourn’ in a season of festivity. Our father and friend is taken from
us—he whom the nations honoured is ‘seen of men no more.’”