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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Find-a-Grave gives an alternate birth year as 1730, references SAR application, and gives the same wife as listed by SAR and DAR
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Author: S. Alexander Wilson
When VALENTINE ALLEN was born on April 29, 1730, in Goochland County, Virginia, his father, WILLIAM, was 38 and his mother, MARY, was 34. He has nine children with NANCY ANN ARNOLD: Elizabeth, William Hunt, Ann (Nancy) Mary, Valentine Sublett, Patricia, Obediance (Biddy), George, and Samuel Alexander.
Service: He was a private in the North Carolina militia; he may have also paid for service. Service Source: NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #188, 989, 1023, 3194, 992 ROLL #S.115.64
He received land for his service on 30 Jul 1782; he was paid 20 May 1784.
His name is one of 16 inscribed on the reverse side of the Robert Means monument in Madison Township, northwestern Rockingham County. Six-foot-tall granite monument stands by Glenn's Chapel Road near Glenn's Chapel Cemetery. List appears below inscription: "Pioneers, Patriots, and Soldiers whose graves are unknown." On the monument face: "They helped to light freedom's eternal flame and bring civilization to a wilderness land."
He died on September 17, 1797, in Rockingham County, North Carolina, at the age of 67.
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