Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20596, Edward Allen, Conn.
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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden [illegible] [wavy line beside these two lines]

On this twenty second day of May, A.D. 1847, [underlined] personally appeared before the Hon. the probate court held at Burlington within and for the District of Chittenden, Abigail Allen, a resident of Huntingdon [crossed out] Richmond [written above] in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, aged [underlined] sixty nine [underlined] 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - and the act of Congress passed March 3 [mark illegible] 1843, granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers, and the act of Congress passed June 17, 1844, "Entitled." An act to continue the pensions of certain widows." - That she is the widow of Edward Allen, late of said Richmond, deceased, who was a corporal in the Connecticut Continental line of the army of the revolution, as she believes, and enlisted for the period of during the war, and served out his time, and she believes that his period of service was over two years and as much as three years; that he was a pensioner of the United States first inscribed upon the Vermont roll under the act of March 18, 1818, and dropped from the roll under the act of May 1, 1820, and
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afterwards inscribed upon the roll of pensioners under the act of May 15, 1828, at the rate of Eighty Eight dollars per [illegible], and was a pensioner under the last mentioned act at the time of his death, that she is unable to state the names of the officers under whom her said husband served, but she refers to his declarations now supposed to be on file in the pension office, and to the proof also in the pension office, to support her claim.

She further declares that she was married [underlined] to the said Edward Allen, [underlined] on the twenty fifth day [underlined] of December,[underlined] in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety three.  [underlined] at Charlotte [underlined] in said County of Chittenden, by the Rev. Daniel O. Gillett, the first settled minister of said Charlotte, and that her maiden name, was Abigail Palmer; [underlined] that her husband, the aforesaid Edward Allen, died on the Sixth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine; [underlined] that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previously to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.

[signed] Abigail Allen

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me; and I certify that the said Abigail Allen is a person of truth and veracity. And I also certify that the word "Huntington" was erased in the above declaration, and the word "Richmond" was
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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden [illegible mark] [wavy line down both lines]

I, Abel Allen, of Huntington, in the county of Chittenden and the State of Vermont, testify and say, that I am thirty four years of age; that I am a son of Edward Allen, deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner, at the rate of Eighty Eight dollars per annum, and of Abigail Allen, who was made the above declaration to obtain a pension, that my father, the said Edward Allen, died at Richmond, in said County of Chittenden, on the sixth day of September, in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine. I saw him after his death and attended the funeral. I further testify that my mother, the said Abigail Allen, has never married again, and is still a widow.

[signed] Abel Allen

Sworn to and subscribed this twenty second day of May, 1847, before me, and I certify that the said Abel Allen is a man of truth and veracity.

[signed] Charles Russell Judge of Probate Court