| Person Details | |
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| Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers | |
| Last Name | ALLEN |
| First Name | EDWARD |
| Maiden | |
| Relation | S/O EDWARD & ELIZABETH |
| Cemetery Number | PV001 |
| Cemetery Name | NORTH BURIAL GROUND |
| Birth Day | 0 |
| Birth Month | |
| Birth Year | 1759c |
| Death Day | 10 |
| Death Month | APR |
| Death Year | 1781 |
| AGE nth Year | 23 |
| AGE Years | - |
| AGE Months | - |
| AGE Days | - |
| Military Service | REVOLUTION |
| Gravestone Details | |
| Section | AD |
| Lot | |
| Map | 01673 |
| Stone Material | slate |
| Condition | good |
| Shape | fancy top |
| Carving | winged cherub/other |
| Legibility | good |
| Number of Graves on Stone | 1 |
| Stone Height (inches) | |
| Stone Width (inches) | |
| Exists? | Yes |
| Last Seen Date | 2012 |
| Carver | STEPHEN HARTSHORN |
| Notes/Misc Details | |
| Notes | "by misfortune he was shot by a negroe soldier" "This gash or wound and all so sad / it with a shot was shone; / The flesh appears as though it had / Most Babariously been torn." [SAR: 1777-1778 in Capt. Thomas Carlile's Co.; Col. Elliott's Art'y Reg't] Robert Emlen tells the story of this killing in his article "A Grievance Immortalized: A Story of Race and Class, Crime and Punishment in Providence ,1781" in Markers XXXIII, 2017. The negro soldier was Prince Greene. He was tried and found not guilty of willful murder, but guilty of manslaughter. He pled Benefit of the Clergy and was sentenced to be branded on the hand with an "M" for manslaughter. For manslaughter |
| Transcribed By | FTC,JES;JWN |