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Inscription: “Major Revolutionary Forces and first Judge of District court in Bourbon County”
photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR
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Author: Michael D. C. Merryman
An excerpt transcribed from the Revolutionary War Pension of John Allen, *W8316:
State of Kentucky
Bourbon County Sct
On this the 5th day of October 1840 Personally appeared before the County Court of Bourbon County and state aforesaid Jane Allen a resident of Bourbon County and State of Kentucky aged Seventy five years who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 That she is the widow of John Allen deceased who volunteered his service in the early part of the Revolutionary War in the County of James City in the state of Virginia and served in a troop of horse the name of the Captain commanding the Company not now recollected but he served in said company until [sic] the prisoners taken under Genl Burgoyne were sent up to the Barracks in Albemarle County Va and on the arrival of said troops at the said Barracks the said John Allen received the appointment of Issuing commissary and immediately entered on his duty of issuing commissary and continued to hold said office during the whole time the troops were stationed at said Barracks, which the declarant thinks was for considerably more than two years. The declarant recollects perfectly well that a week or two previous to her marriage to the said John Allen that he was taken prisoner by the British and at the same time a very fine horse taken from him which he was then riding and he was kept under guard until he wrote back to Charlottesville Va and got letters from several gentlemen Citizens of that place and on the receipt of their letters the British turned the said John loose on parole and he returned to Charlottsville and in a short time while then on parole the said John Allen & the Declarant was married. Shortly after their marriage the said John Allen returned to the Barracks on duty where there still remained the artificers and some of the guards. And the said John Allen continued in his duty as commissary at said Barracks, until the Spring or Summer of the year seventeen hundred and eighty two. On his return to the Barracks after marriage whether he had received his exchange or violated the obligations of his parole the Declarant does not now recollect but is of the opinion the latter was the case. The Barracks was about six miles from the Declarants Father, William Tandy where the declarant staid for some months after marriage in consequence of the said Allen being engaged with the army the said Allen returning to see the declarant when circumstances would permit. The declarant with her husband moved to the State of Kentucky in the year 1785 previous to that time she had lived near Charlottsville Va which gave her an opportunity to know of a great part of John Allens services at least while he was issuing Commissary, she recollects that he had nearly all the time while acting as Commissary several young men was under him as assistants and Clerks, the business of issuing Commissary being too laborious for any one man to attend to. After the removal of the said John Allen to the State of Kentucky about the year Eighteen hundred and two or three the papers of the said John Allen containing his services in the army was given to Walter Carr (who is now dead) for the purpose of taking to Richmond Va to make a settlement Allen there claiming a balance from the state for his services but whether the said Carr made the settlement or not the declarant does not know, nor can she find out what has become of the papers unless they were left in the office at Richmond Va and they were consumed when the said office at Richmond was burned as the declarant is informed it has been twice on fire with in less than forty years past. The Declarant further saith that her husband the aforesaid John Allen died in the month of August eighteen hundred and sixteen 1816, And that she was married to the said John Allen in the County of Albemarle in the State of Virginia in the month of August seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781) And that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the aforesaid John Allen and she knows of no record of her marriage but has a record of the age of her children which she will have filed if necessary.
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