Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23432, Abel Allen, Continental Mass.
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Continental Mass
Allen, Abel Mary 
W23432
B.L.W.T. 706-160-55
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Notified serch Dec 7th 1820 to G. Stow
Elizabeth Co. House & land
N.YK
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Deed Jer letta  to P. Butler
April 27. 1843
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7,500 H
New York
Abel Allen
of 
Crown Point in the state of N. York
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts [illegible], for the term of one year, 1776.
Inscribed on the roll of New York 
at the rate of eight dollars per month, to on 
the 19th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of March 1814 and sent to Elijah Rhoades, Esq.
Eliz Town Epex Co, New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 9 - 17/31 76.30
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 -        48.00
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                                                                 124.30

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March,1818
File Sept by
Elsex County 
Continued
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Abel Allen private
Putnams mass regt.
1778 - 1779 - 19 may 1818
Covveet
Admitted

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Abel Allen
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State of New York
County of Essex, Abel Allen of the town of Crown
Point in this County of Essex and state of New York being duly sworn deposed his oath that he served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution for [illegible] twenty months on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy. That on this 19th day of April 1775 he entered the Army in Capt. Andrew Hearhale Company of minute men Col Alfa Whitcombs Regiment and on the first of May [illegible] listed for the term of eight months in the company regiment and in Nov. [illegible] transferred into
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further that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support
Abel Allen

I certify that on the thirteenth day of April 1818 personally appeared before me Abel Allen an inhabitant of Crown Point township in the county of Oynx in State of New York. A person well known to me, and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true and it thereby appearing to my satisfaction that the said Abel Allen served in the Revolutionary War for more than nine months on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy and being fully satisfied of the facts stated in the said affidavit, I do hereby certify and transmit the same being the testimony in the case and the proceedings had the room to the honorable the Secretary of the Department of War
Elisha Rhoades
one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex
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State of New York
County of Essex
I Thomas Stower Clerk of the Court of Common Pleading & for the county of Essex in the State of New York certify that Elisha Rhoades Esqr. [illegible] the time foregoing certificate bares date a judge of the court aforesaid and that his name subscribed to the same as his own proper signature Witnessed my hand of the date of said court this 19th day of May 1818.
Thos. Stower Clerk
By Ashley Pond Dpt.
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Abel Allen
Moriah      7580
Essex Co    [illegible]
Ny

[initials]]   CM
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Said court is a court of record having the power of fine imprisonment. In writing where of I hereto  let my hand & affix the seal of the said court on this twenty sixth day of September 1820
Thos. Stower Clerk
By Ashley Pond Dep.
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State of New York
County of Essex. On this twenty sixth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court in the court of Common Pleas held in before the County of Essex in the State of New York being a court of Record for the said County, Abel Allen aged sixty four years resident in Moriah in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit - one hear commencing on the first of January 1776 in the company commanded by Lieut. or Ensign Benjamin Gould commanding the fife guard of General Charles Lee - He was in August 1776 transferred from the guard into Capt. Edward Burbanks company of artillery in the regiment commanded by Col. Henry Knox - where he served the remainder of his term on one year -  That he served for nine months in in Captain Joseph Morse's company, Col. Rufus Putnam's regiment Massachusetts line of troops in the year 1778
That his original declaration was dated & made on the nineteenth day of May 1818 that his pension certificate is numbered (7580)
And I do further swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby do to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel service  of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or services contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that what is contained in the schedule hereto and annexed & by me subscribed - And the said Abel further declares on oath as afforded that his family consists of himself his wife Mary aged fifty nine years who has not been able to labor for twelve years prior - his son Amasa Allen aged nineteen years, who has always been weakly since 10 years of age & able to do scarcely any thing - a girl given to us when a child& now aged thirteen years healthy & nearly able to support herself. - that as to himself he has not been able to labor except in a garden & about some light work, for four years past - and that he cannot therefore support himself - that his
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- that his disorder is supposed to be ulceration on the lungs - that his occupation is that of a blacksmith - but he has not been able to work at the trade for four years past - I further that he owes to different individuals the sum of two hundred & forty dollars
Abel Allen
Sworn to & declared on the 26th day of September 1820.
Before
Thos. Stower Clerk

Schedule

Real Estate - I have none - Personal Property - 1 table - 4 chairs - 1 chest with 5 draws - 1 love chest - 1 foot wheel - 1 great wheel - 1 [illegible] pail iron kettle - 1 old pot cracked & hooped - 1 dish kettle - 1 iron skittle - 1 spidar -1 pail - 1 case knives & forks (6) - 4 iron spoons - 1 trammel - 1 salt mortar - 1 meal bag - 1 fire shovel and tongs - 1 water tub - 4 tea spoons iron - 1 tea pot - 6 tea cups & 6 saucers- 1 cream cup - 1 tin coffee pot - 1 iron tea kettle - 1 mug - 6 earthen plates - 1 salt - 4 earthen bowls - 4 milk pans - 4 earthen pots - 1 tin dipper - 1 tin dipper - 1 tin funnel - 2 earthen jugs - 3 glass bottles - 1 beer barrel - 1 bread trough - 1 meal chest - 2 bed irons - 1 pair shears - 1 ax - 1 hoe - 1 sickle - 1 small cooking glass - 1 flux ketchel 
And I have two hundred & fifteen dollars due to me. I have no other contracts, debts or securities whatever nor any income - but I am indebted to different individuals to the amount of two hundred and forty dollars and more that is due to me. Dated Sept. 26, 1820
Abel Allen

I Thomas Stower Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Essex in the State of New York do hereby certify that the forgoing oath & the schedule that's annexed are truly copied from the record of the afoursaid Court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is Twenty five dollars & no more - & further that the
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10,034
Mary Allen
New York
Act July 7th 1834

Admd
2 gm pri
80$

7.837
Albny
J.P. Butler
Moriah
Essex Co
NY
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State of New York County of Essex ss: 

I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the County of Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby Certify that Nathaniel S. Stons Esquire the individual before whom and by whom the annexed affidavit was taken and who made the annexed certificate and who signed the same was on the day of the date of the same a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly appointed and qualified residing within the said County and duly authorized to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and verily believe the official signatures "N. S. Stons" to be genuine.

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said County at the office of Clerk of said County at Elizabeth Town this 19th day of May A. D. 1843.
E F Williams Clerk
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FAMILY RECORD
Births     --    Deaths

Mary Allen Daughter of Abel & Mary Allen his wife.  Born on Sunday 5 o'clock PM June 11th, 1796

Amasa Allen son of Abel & Mary Allen his wife. Born on Saturday 8 o'clock AM January 10th, 1801

Daphne Allen Daughter of Abel & Mary Allen his wife born on Tuesday 5 o'clock PM December 30th ,1788

Nabby Allen Daughter of Abel & Mary his wife. Born on Thursday 10 o'clock AM July 7th, 1791

Lucinda Allen Daughter of Abel and Mary Allen his wife.  Born on Friday 5 o'clock AM January 2nd, 1795

Abel Allen Son of Abel & Mary his wife. Born on Wednesday 5 o'clock PM November 14th, 1798
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FAMILY RECORD
Marriages

Abel Allen Married to Mary Simmonds to Thursday August 11th, 1785
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State of New York Town of Morris Essex Co ss:

Amasa Allen being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was forty two years old in January last past and that he was the son of Abel Allen and of Mary Allen that said Abel Allen the husband of said Mary was the identical person named in an original certificate of which the following is a true copy
War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 Abel Allen late a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension list, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars 00 cents per month to commence on the nineteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Given at the War Office of the United States this twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J C Calhoun

And this deponent further saith that Mary Allen is the widow of the identical Abel Allen mentioned in the fore going certificate of the war department and that she has not been married afterwards.

And this deponent saith that he has resided mostly in the family or with said Abel Allen & the said Mary Allen up to this time. That said Abel Allen deceased at March Essex
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County State of New York on the second day of April in the year 1843.

And this deponent further saith that the record hereunto annexed marked A was the family record of the said Abel Allen and that he has known said record for more than thirty years last past And he further saith that it has been kept from the time that he was first become acquainted with it in the custody of the said Abel Allen untill his decease and that since that time the said record has been in the possession of this deponent.

And this deponent further saith that said record is in the handwriting of Samuel Seward and has not been altered in any manner but remains Presenly & Exactly as it was when this deponent first Recd it. 
Amasa Allen

And further this deponent saith not Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of May 1843

N (illegible) Judge of Essex Co Court
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State of New York Essex County ss

Sarah Chapman of the town of Morris in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy seven years old and that she has known Abel Allen for sixty one years last past and that sixty one sixty two & sixty three years ago she resided with the father of the said Abel Allen. And that during the said three years that she resided with said Allen aforesaid the said Abel Allen was absent from his fathers family and that it was well understood that he had enlisted in the revolutionary army and was absent in the service of the Congress in the number that during said period said Abel Allen was at home once or twice on furlough (as she was told)
And this deponent further saith that at the time said Allen was reported to (illegible) she resided in the immediate neighbourhood of said Allen and that it was a matter of common (illegible) and well understood that said Allen was married to Mary Simons the present widow of said Allen and this deponent is confident that said marriage took place previous to the year seventeen hundred and ninety

And this deponent further saith that the said Abel Allen and the said Mary Allen the present widow of said Allen have lived together as man and wf in a state of cohabitation since the time of said marriage untill the decease of the said Abel Allen who died as she has been informed this present year
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Moriah, Oct 9th 1848
Dear Sir I send you the declaration of Mary Allen for a pension
Mrs Allen was pensioner under
The act of 30 ste and the Prooffs of service  _ were transmitted to you about 4th Sept 1843
the Certificate was Received some month or more after for $80 per Annum 
I thought perhaps this Refhan might be useful if those Proofs are to be examined
as two per Receiving a pension under the act of 43  Et Improve in Course in the office the proofs are to be found
If any thing More is to be done on part of the applicant please inform me
and oblige your Et To J L Edward _ Philan_ Butler Moriah Essex. Co. NY