Display Patriot - P-100606 - Charles ALLEN Sr

Charles ALLEN Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-100606

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State of Service: NC      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A001396

Birth: abt 1730 / Hanover / VA
Death: 08 Dec 1807 / Warren / NC

Qualifying Service Description:

Also Ensign and Lieutenant, Colonel Alexander Martin, Fifth Regiment


Additional References:
  1. Hennings: Virginia Statutes, Volume 7
  2. Clark: North Carolina State Records, Vol 16
  3. Rev War Pension Of Charles Allen Jr, *S2900
  4. NSDAR: Roster Of Soldiers From North Carolina In The American Revolution, pg 27, 58, 191, 233
  5. Heitman: Historical Register Of Officers Of The Continental Army During The War Of The Revolution, 1775-1783, pg 67

Spouse: Nancy Ann Vincent
Children: Vincent; George; Rebecca; Charles Jr;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1973-06-13 AZ Unassigned Walter F Condon (104349) Vincent   
1980-03-31 SC Unassigned Ollie M Smithwick Jr (116877) Vincent   
1980-04-16 TN Unassigned William Joseph Wallace IV (116955) George   
1988-04-26 TX 223067 William Wallace Allen (131103) Vincent   
2000-12-21 TX 7583 Lynn Edward Fussell (132351) John   
2002-08-23 FL 13831 Reed Scott Jants (158897) Vincent   
2003-05-28 AZ 16219 John Clayton Condon (160401) Vincent   
2003-05-28 AZ 16220 John Charles Condon (160400) Vincent   
2003-09-05 FL 17002 Walter Curtis Jants (160963) Vincent   
2011-04-22 CA 41606 James Robert Allen (177835) Charles/Charlie   
2016-05-10 GA 69202 Philip Oneil Rodwell (198559) Vincent   
Burial:
Charles Allen Cemetery (C-0306828)
Location:
Warrenton / Warren / NC / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2559741
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
138655958
Marker Type:
Upright Veterans Administration, Newer, Legible
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Image provided with permission from Bill Harris, Find-a-grave member # 48074930



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From Raleigh-Durham International Airport, 2400 John Brantley Boulevard, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560: Get on I-85 N/US-15 N at Durham from Airport Boulevard/John Brantley Boulevard, Aviation Parkway, Page Road and US-70 W 21 minutes (13.5 mi). Follow I-85 N to US-1 N/US-158 E at Middleburg. Take exit 220 from I-85 N 36 minutes (41.6 mi). Take State Road 1501 and Bill Bragg Morton Road to Watson Road at Sandy Creek 7 minutes (4.6 mi) to Sandy Creek, North Carolina. Take the old logging path before Larry Short's mailbox on the right. The cemetery is 0.25 mile into the woods



Author: Mark Andrew Davis

Charles Allen, Sr., was born about 1730 in Hanover County, Virginia, a son of Joseph Allen of Spotsylvania, Virginia.

During the American Revolution, Allen was a Lieutenant, Ensign, and Captain in the Second North Carolina Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Martin. In 1777, he was transferred to the Fifth North Carolina Fifth Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Eaton. In 1776, Charles Allen was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Company of Captain Kear of the Second Regiment. In the same correspondence regarding his appointment, it is documented that Allen had been an acting ensign in Captain Armstrong’s Company and was owed additional wages. Allen’s son, Charles, also served in his father’s company.

Charles Allen married Nancy Ann Vincent about 1752. In his Last Will and Testament, dated 28 December 1807, he named the following children:  Vincent, George, James, Elizabeth, Sarah, William, Mary, Rebecca, Charles, Ann, and John. He also names several enslaved people: Sal, Peter, Matthew, Niluy, Pink, Stephen, Merridy, Solomon, and Lewis.

Charles Allen died after February 1808 at Warren, North Carolina. There is a Veterans Administration headstone for Captain Charles Allen at Charles Allen Cemetery at Warrentown, appearing to be from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is uncertain if this is Allen’s final resting place. 

 

References:

  1. Revolutionary War Pension S2900 (son, Charles Allen Jr.)
  2. Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, page 67.
  3. North Carolina County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (Warren County); Probate Place:  Warren, North Carolina, Wills, Vol. 1-3, Aco-Mil.
  4. North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011.
  5. Minutes of the North Carolina Council of Safety North Carolina. Council of Safety, June 5, 1776 - July 16, 1776, Vol. 10, pages 618, 647.

 

 


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