Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,975, Andrew Allen, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Allen, Andrew
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W. 15,975

CONTENTS
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Reptd 20 Octr 4(last number illegible - faded)

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4089
New Hampshire
Elizabeth Allen, deceased, 
widow of Andrew Allen who died on or about the year 1817 of Merrimack (in the State of N.H. who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Dodge Mass. of the Regt. commanded by Col: Johnson in the line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll f Concord at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 and end 13 April 1839 - when she died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of October 1844 and sent to Israel W. Kelly, Concord, N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi=annual allowance ending
$644.32

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the (blank)

Recorded by Mell Stewart Clerk,
Book C  Vol. 1  Page 21
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State of New Hampshire Merrimack SS
On this twenty seventh day of October in th year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Horace Chase Judge of the Court of Probate for and within the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire Elizabeth Allen, a resident of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged ninety three 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 Andrew Allen, late of said Hopkinton deceased, who was a private soldier and served as such in the Revolutionary War, as she has some recollection, always understood and fully believed, during the most part of the Revolution and from her best recollection she believes he served in the first part of the Revolution full term of four years or more. That by reason of her advanced age and loss of memory she is unable to state particularly the time when he entered the service or when he left the same. That she has the impression and verily believes he served at Rhode Island, at Ticonderoga and at Winter Hill, but when, or how long at each pace she has no distinct recollection. That during some period of his said services she believes he was attached to Capt Dodges Company in Colonel Johnsons Regiment. That she has no documentary evidence of his said services, and would refer, for further particulars, to the papers and documents which may be on file in the office of the department of War at Washington, and she humbly hopes and trusts that if said files and documents furnish evidence of any further service than she has been able to prove, she shall be allowed all the benefit that might have resulted to her had she proved the same. 

She further declares that she was married to the said Andrew Allen at Winham in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord
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one thousand seven hundred sixty seven, he the said Andrew Allen then residing in said Winham. That her name before her intermarriage with the said Andrew was Elizabeth Killam. That by her said husband she had fifteen children, four only of whom are now living, viz, Ezekiel, now of Hamilton in Massachusetts, Molly and Hepsibah of Hopkinton N.H. and John of Boscawin N.H. That the four old leaves accompaning this declaration No 1, 2 ,3, & 4, commencing on No 2, Page 3 with the name of Andrew and ending on No. 4, Page 6 with the name of Nubby, contains the family record of the births of all, and the deaths of several, of the children which she had by the said Andrew and is all in the handwriting of the said Andrew and is the only family record ever listed by him. That the death of Ezra and Hepsibah, two of her children, as recorded on paper No 3, Page 4 happened while her said husband was in the Revolutionary service, which circumstance enables her to state with more certainty that he was in the service in November 1776, as she distinctly recollects that when the said children died he was from home in the service.

She further declares that her said husband the said Andrew Allen died in Hopkinton, according to her best recollection twenty one years ago last August, the day of the month she cannot state, that she has has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed
Elizabeth Allen

Witness Horace Chase 
Harriet P Tewell

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Horace Chase Judge of Probate

I certify that by reason of old age and infirmity of body the said Elizabeth Allen was not able to attend Court and her said declaration was taken subscribed and sworn to at her residence in Hopkinton 
Horace Chase Judge of Probate
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I Molly Allen of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged sixty years on the twenty eighth day of December next depose and say that I am the daughter of Andrew Allen late of said Hopkinton deceased - that I have always understood from my father and my mother Elizabeth Allen now living, that my father after his marriage purchased the shares of the heirs to the estate of my Grandfather Killam in Winham in Massachusetts and that he went into the United States service as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War to be able to pay for said shares in the early part of the Revolution and continued in the service during most of the Revolution - that he served at Bunker Hill, Rhode Island, Ticonderoga - Crown Point - Stillwater - Albany and Winter Hill - that I have heard him repeatedly relate several battles he was in but what particular one or at what dates I cannot now recollect - that after the close of the war he sold his place in Winham and was calculating to move into the country but on account of the depreciation of paper money he moved his family to Manchester Massachusetts, and followed the sea for several years, till he relieved himself in part from his embarrassment occasioned by the depreciation of paper money when he bought a small place in Hopkinton New Hampshire where he moved his family and lived till the time of
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his death. That he moved to Hopkinton fifty years ago in the month of June last when I was in the tenth year of my age, the circumstance of his moving I well remember and the time of which I am able to state from the fact that my sister Nabby was born the December following and she if living would be fifty years of age next December. I further depose and say that the four old leaves No !-2-3&4 accompaning the declaration of my mother Elizabeth Allen this day subscribed and sworn to before Horace Chase Judge of the Court of Probate contain the record of the birth of all his children and of the death of a number of them and that it is the original and only family record that I ever had any knowledge of and that it is in the handwriting of my said Father. That on Leaves No 1 & 2 Pages 1 & 2 is the record of the births and one death of the children of my Grandfather Benjamin Allen, some part of which at least I think cannot be the handwriting of my Father. Following this record from Page 3 to Page 6 inclusive in the order of remembering, is the record of my Fathers children which I have no doubt is in my Fathers handwriting. Following that record is the record of the birth of three of his Grandchildren which was also made by him. I further depose and say that I have often heard my Father and Mother say that two of their small children Ezra and Hepsibah died while he was in the Army and
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 4th: July, 1836, Elizabeth Allen, deceased, who was the widow of Andrew Allen, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to a pension of Eighty dollars per ann: commencing on the 4th: March 1831, and on the 13th: of April 1839, the day of her death, the amount due will be paid upon the
production of the proper voucher to Ezekial Allen, John Allen, Hepsibah Allen & Mary Allen the only surviving children of the said Elizabeth Allen.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 1st: day of 
October one thousand eight
hundred and forty four

Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions.