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Jun 14, 1748 Died on 28 Jan 1784 (aged 35)
American minister, evangelist, and writer
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About Henry Alline
- Henry Alline (pronounced Allen) (June 14, 1748 – February 2, 1784) minister, evangelist, and writer, who became known as "The Apostle of Nova Scotia".
- Born at Newport, Rhode Island.
- He became a New England Planter and served as an itinerant preacher throughout Maritime Canada and Northeastern New England from 1776 to 1784.
- His ministry coincided with the second Great Awakening period and he became the leader of the New Light movement in the Maritimes.
- Later in life he caught the attention of renowned theologian John Wesley.
- Alline is Canada's most prolific Eighteenth-century writer.
- His Journal is considered a classic of North American spiritualism and he is Canada's first great Protestant and one of its most important theological writers.
- He died at age 35 and is buried at North Hampton, New Hampshire.
