EV. JOHN ALLEN entered the ministry in 1788. This was four years after the organization of the Methodist church in Baltimore. He withdrew from the Methodist Conference with Revs. James O'Kelly, Rice Haggard, and John Robertson.¹

      At the Conference of 1798, their names were entered as formally withdrawn from the connection. It was said that Rev. Mr. Allen "settled, and soon after entering upon the practice of medicine, gave up preaching altogether;" but this statement in regard to his giving up preaching altogether" is contradicted by the fact that he was in attendance upon the General Meeting at Union meeting house in Orange (now Alamance) county, North Carolina, in 1828, and was assigned to the Staunton River circuit. He must have been at this time not less than sixty years of age.

[LCM 38]