Social life in the early republic . ied in1800, was a granddaughter of Chief Justice Allen,of Philadelphia, and a niece of another beautifulAnn Allen, whom Mr. John Swanwick describedin his verses as youthful Allen of majestic Ann Allen became the wife of Governor JohnPenn, and the niece was evidently named for Allens father, James Allen, died during theRevolution, leaving a beautiful widow of twenty-seven and three daughters. When Mrs. JamesAllens days of mourning were over she removedto Philadelphia, where her house is described as oneof the most popular in the city. The y
Social life in the early republic . ied in1800, was a granddaughter of Chief Justice Allen,of Philadelphia, and a niece of another beautifulAnn Allen, whom Mr. John Swanwick describedin his verses as youthful Allen of majestic Ann Allen became the wife of Governor JohnPenn, and the niece was evidently named for Allens father, James Allen, died during theRevolution, leaving a beautiful widow of twenty-seven and three daughters. When Mrs. JamesAllens days of mourning were over she removedto Philadelphia, where her house is described as oneof the most popular in the city. The youngestdaughter of the family, Mary Allen, writing ofsocial life in Philadelphia after the Revolution, said, Crowds of foreigners of the highest rank pouredinto Philadelphia, and Ministers with their suitesfrom all parts of the world, came to bow to Wash-ington and the Republic;—at this time I was notgrown up, but my Mother and her two elderdaughters were equally Belles; at length myMother married a Senator in Congress from New30. James GreenleafBy Gilbert Stuart A SOCIAL EVOLUTION York, Mr. Lawrence. She removed there withhim, but returned to pass her winters in Philadel-phia during the Sessions of Congress. ... In theSpring we went to Fairy Hill, a beautiful spot onthe Schuylkill, which belonged to us, and after-wards to AUentown, where we remained tillAutumn. Mary Allen, in her ingenuous girlish narrative,says that by this time her second sister, MargaretElizabeth, had become the wife of William Tilgh-man, afterwards chief justice of Pennsylvania, andthat her grandmother and her sister Anne and her-self accepted her mothers urgent invitation tospend the winter in New York. It was duringthis visit that the young chronicler met HenryWalter Livingston, whom she afterwards married,and here Anne Allen probably met Mr. GreenleafHis name appears in the directory of 1795 as re-siding at No. 112 Liberty Street, while under thesign Watson, Greenleaf & Cotton, No. 7 CraneWharf, an ex
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