Allee House
Off DE 9 on Dutch Neck Rd., Dutch Neck Crossroads, DEThe Allee House is an unusually authentic example of the home of a prosperous rural family of the second half of the eighteenth century, fortunately situated where the prospect of preserving its total environment is hopeful. It stands on lands purchased in 1?06 and 1711 by John Allee, a French-born Huguenot who moved to Kent County from New Jersey between those years, bringing adult sons and daughters with him. A son, Abraham Allee, Jr. , is the presumed builder of this house. It was inherited in turn by the latter's son Jonathan and grandson Abraham, remaining in the family well into the nineteenth century.
The Allees of this line did not hold high civil or military offices within the period when this was their home. Their sons, however, were prosperous owners of large farms and their daughters married among, the more substantial
families of upper Kent and lower New Castle Counties. They were allied by kinship or friendship with numerous persons active in the public life they themselves avoided, among others Thomas Collins, a Governor of Delaware, and James Tilton, first Surgeon-General of the United States.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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