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An excerpt transcribed from the Revolutionary War Pension of Richard Allen, R138:
State of Kentucky
Rockcastle County SS:
On this 29th of March Eighteen hundred and fifty personally appeared before me Calvin Snodgrass a Justice of the peace of Rockcastle County and State aforesaid Drucilla Parker a resident of said County aged Sixty eight years in November last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th Eighteen hundred and thirty two granting pensions to certain officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war and any other acts which make provision for her that she is the daughter of Richard Allen Deceased who was an officer in the Army of the Revolution and of Elizabeth Allen deceased whose maiden name was Donoho and that her father as she has always been informed enterd [sic] the service in Cumberland County State of Virginia about the commencement of the Revolutionary war and served as Capt she thinks under Col Meakins Mjor Gains and Day about four or five years and that the remainder of his time he was Col of the Militia Regiment and served in that capacity till the close of the said Revolutionary war that a portion of his time she thinks he was a recruiting officer during his first tower as she often heard her said father speaking of coming home on recruiting expeditions and that she has often heard her said father Richard Allen speak of being in the Battles of Eutaw Springs and Camden and the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis and various other battles now not recollected and that her said mother Elizabeth Allen died in Cumberland County State of Virginia som time in the year 1790 seventeen hundred and ninety and her said father Richard Allen died the last of June Eighteen hundred and forty four in Cumberland County Virginia and that her said father Richard Allen was marred to her said mother Elizabeth Allen before they come to the United States as she has always been informed by them and the reason her father never applied for a pension he was a strange kind of a man and always said he had a good living without making any pore mouth and if his children should ever need it they could apply as well as him and that some years since she employed an agent a Mr. Traber of Frankford Kentucky to obtain what was due my said father at his death for his Revolutionary services and he since Informed me I couldn’t obtain anything but being informed by others I could obtain what was due my said father I have filed these statement, and she further declares her said father Richard has none other children now living that she is the only surviving heir of her said father Richard Allen deceased and for the proof of her statement, she refers to the proof annexed and accompanying this declaration and she respectfully refers to the rolls of the War Department at Washington and at Richmond Virginia.
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