Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15524, Alexander Allen, Md.
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Md.     Allen, Alexander     W.15524
 Winifred
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404 Dist. of Columbia

Winifred Allen, widow of Alexander Allen of Washington in the District of Col.
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lucas of the Regt. commanded by Col. Smallwood, in the Maryland line for 2 years.
Md.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Columbia the rate of 80 Dollars - per annum, commence on the 4th day of March , 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of July, 1837 and sent to Hon. G.C.
Washington, H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 36 
Semi- ani. allowance ending Mar 37
440.00
40.00 equals $480.00
Act July 4, 1836 3 Section Revolutionary Claim,
Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk
Book    Vol.1  page 194
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District of Columbia Washington County . S.S
On this 4th day of November 1836,
before me , the subscriber , chief judge of the District of Columbia personally appeared Winifred Allen a resident of the County and 
District) Informed aged about eighty three years who  being first newly 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 (?)
July 4th 1836.  That she is the widow of Alexander Allen, of William, who enlist under Capt. Barton Lucas in the 1st Maryland Regiment
in the Revolutionary War and (?) as she has been
advised in the State of Pennsylvania and New York and was at the Battle of Long Island where he was wounded and taken prisoner and he came home on furlough. She further declares that she was married to said Alexander Allen while he was on furlough, in
month of October but cannot speak as to the year and that her husband  (?) served after 
the 15th day of that with (?) Marlborough and Frederick
in change of prisoners and died on or about
March 1815 and she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear
by reference to the proof hereto  (?)
Sworn before me W. Cranch
I further that the said Winifred Allen is very infirm and extremely unable to attend The Court.
W. Cranch

 Nov 4, 1836
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(8-1776)
Service MD. Allen, Alexander Number W.15524
Winifred
Contents
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District of Columbia
to wit
Washington County ⎬
On this fifth day of September 1836 before me
the Subscriber a Justice of peace in and for
said County personally appeared Robert Hurdle
a respectable and disinterested witness whose Oath
is entitled to full credit and after being duly
Sworn according to law deposed and said that he
Know Alexander Allen of Montgomery County
Maryland previous to the revolutionary war and
that said Alexander Allen enlisted in the
first Maryland regiment commanded by Con
William Smallwood in the Company commanded by
Captain Barton Lucas in the said war
the deponant is not certain as to the year, and
the deponant further swears that his Brother and
the said Alexander Allen enlisted in the said
Company of Captain Barton Lucas during or
in the time of the revolutionary war as
aforesaid, and as this deponant was informed at
the time aforesaid by the said Alexander
Allen, and verily believes that he the said
Alexander Allen come home on furlough
and during said furlough said Alexander Allen
was married to Winefred Twell, and that
he the deponent was invited to the wedding
of the said Alexander Allen and Winefred Twell and that he the deponant was invited to the wedding of the said Alexander Allen and Winefred Twell 
but did not go, but has known the said Alexander
Allen and said Winefred as man and wife
until the death of said Alexander Allen which
happened in the year of 1815 and the deponent
further swears that he has known the said
Winfred Twell now Winfred Allen from his
infancy and that she is older than he is and
that she is now Eighty one years old.  Robert R. Hurdle
Subscribed and acknowledged
before
John Clock Isanmark
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District of Columbia
County of Washington
On this 28th day of November 1836 Personally appeared
Thomas Scott the same person who made affidavit before
me on the 18th day of October last, and under oath according to
law authorised me the subscriber to enter now, in the
Sixteenth line of his aforesaid affidavit this words & figures
(to wit, "in 1776 or" and also to strike out in the aforesaid
Sixteenth line the word "about" Given under my
hand & seal
James Gettys 
Justice of the Peace
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Thomas Sangster Esq
Washington City
District of Columbia
mail
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Land Office, Annapolis, Octr 24th 1836 
Dear Sir 
Yours of the 18th and postmarked the 20th Inst I have just received. Enclosed I send you a certificate from the Master roll of the service of Alexander Allen, the roll does not sh[ow] the company [crossed out, illegible] or officers under whom he served, it appears that he served in the 1st Regiment, which Regiment, I believe was at one time commanded by Col Smallwood, who was afterwards promoted to the rank of General, I think you must be mistaken about my saying, that there were three Alexand Allens upon the rolls, I find but one upon the rolls of the Regular troops, some of that name, may have served in the [obscured: militia] You request information as to the services of the broth[er] of Alexander Allen, but you do not give his Christian name. the only persons of the name of Allen that appear upon the Bounty Land record in this office ^ [illegible] are James, Emanuel and Willie Allen.
 (In haste) I am respectfully yrs, 
G. G. Brewer 
Thomas Sangster Esqr
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Land Office, Annapolis May 10th 1830
Madam;
The Clerk of the Executive Council has handed me your letter of the 24th [illegible] in which you request to be informed, whether your father Alexander Allen is entitled to bounty land from Father Alexander this State for Revolutionary services, or not; I have to inform you, that I have carefully examined the Records in this office, and it does not appear on said Records, that he is entitled to any bounty land from this State; By reference to the Old Muster Rolls it appears, that Mr Alexander Allen enlisted for only three years and was discharged at the expiration of this time, as he did not therefore serve until the close of the Revolutionary war, he of course, I presume was not entitled to any bounty land from this State for Revolutionary services.
(In haste;) I am most respectfully, 
Yr Obt Svt
George G. Brewer
[illegible]

Mrs. Sarah Kirkwood
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Winifred Teasel
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Res WIDOW, &c.
File No.
15524
Winifred Allen
Widow of
Alexander Allen
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4 1836
Index:  Vol. A Page 9
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Winifred Allen 
D. Col. 
Have a cert. and 
send to Hon. G 
C. Washington 
House of Reps.
 $80 per an
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Scott and Wm Scott of Montgomery County Md who have testified in the case of Mrs Winifred Allen an applicant for a pension & that they are men of the highest respectability and character & further that I have known Robert Hindle of said County for twenty years who has also testified in said case and believe his statement to be entitled to full Credit 
J W Washington 
Jany 20th 1837

I have known William & Thomas Scott for many years past and fully concur ^[crossed out: with him] in the statement made by Mr. Washington as above in regard to their respectability. I would place entire confidence in any statement that they would make on oath.
Robert P. Dunlop
Jany 20 1837 

JW. Washington is a member of the House of Reps. & [illegible] Dunlop is a respectable lawyer in Geo. Town
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Land Office Annapolis, Dec 12th 1836,
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 6th I have
to state, that the name of Barton Lucas, appears upon a Muster roll of Col Smallwoods Battalion of Regular troops in this Office, to have been commissioned a Captain of the 3rd company, on the 3rd day of January 1776, how long he
was in service, I am unable to state, as the rolls do not show when he left the service, - I send you a copy of his account from the Army Ledger, by which you will perceive that his account is settled up to the 8th of May 1778, the rolls afford no further evidence of his service,
I am respectfully,
Yr obt St

G. G. Brewer
J.L. Edwards Esq
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Land Office, Annapolis, October 24th 1836.
I hereby certify that it appears by the Muster Rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office, that Alexander Allen enlisted as a private, in the 1st Maryland Regiment, on the 10th day of December 1776, and on the 27th day of December 1779, was discharged,
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George G. Brewer
Reg Land off W.T. M.
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Contra

June 12, 1776 
By (buy) sundries
Currency = 821.7.1

May 8, 1778 
By (buy) [illegible] of Batalion (battalion) for tiping (tipping) 34 bayonets
Currency = 1.19.8

Total = 823.6.9 (pounds)

Copy from Ledger A. folio 24, 

Sent 
George G. Brewer
Reg. Land Office W.L.M.
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Capt. Barton Lucas

Date - Description - Qty - Currency (Pounds)

Jan 18, 1776 - To Thomas Harwood - paid him on account of his company - 1 - $120.0.0

March 13, 1776 - To ditto - 35 - $150.0.0

April 11, 1776 - To ditto - 35- $69.15.0

May 4, 1776 - To ditto - 35 - $66.0.7

June 17, 1776 - To ditto - 56 - $27.18.9

July 9, 1776 - To ditto - 56 - $37.12.9

July 15, 1776 - To ditto - 56 - $1.19.8

May 8, 1778 - To expense of Batalion (battalion) for money rec'd of C. Wallace - illegible - $350.0.0

Total $823.6.9
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[Illegible] of Alex Allen
4 July '36

Capt. T. Sangster
Present
Nov 30th
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District of Columbia County of Washington Sctt
29th November 1836 This day personally appeared Robert Hurdle of Montgomery County and State of Maryland aged Eighty one years in September last past before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, and who being sworn according to law, made oath that in addition to his Deposition given before Jno. D. Clark also a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid on the 5th of September 1836 that in reference to the service of Alexander Allen in the Revolutionary War, that at the time he made the aforesaid Deposition he did not feel willing to swear positively as to the year in which the said Alexander Allen entered the service of the United States army as he had not reflected upon it at the moment, but that upon mature consideration he now unhesitatingly deposes that the said Alexander Allen with the Brother of this affiant enlisted in the year 1776 and that the next year to wit 1777 the said Alexander Allen returned on furlough and was married to Winifred Tool leaving his Brother Lawrence Hurdle in the service, and that the facts are intimately known to him this affiant having resided on the Land of the said Alexander Allen for nine years, and from their intimacy he was known to the Engagement between the said Alex. Allen and Winifred Tool to be married before he the said Alexander Allen enlisted as aforesaid. 
Robert Hurdle his [handwritten] R mark
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me
James Getty
Justice of the Peace }
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District of Columbia County of Washington
Rebecca McCan of Georgetown in the
District aforesaid personally appeared this 25
day of November 1836 before me the Subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
aforesaid who being first duly sworn
according to Law made oath that she
was sixty three years old on the 13th July
last past, that she was well acquainted with
Alexander Allen, when he worked
at the Tailoring business in Georgetown
aforesaid in the year 1784, and that he was
married to Winfred Tool his widow now
living in the City of Washington, that
several years after she first knew Alexander
Allen, and his wife Winifred, they moved to
Montgomery County and State of Maryland
that after residing there some years, they returned to Georgetown, and occupied a part of
a house in which she, this affiant lived
and owned, that during their residence, she
has frequently heard said Alexander Allen
relate his services in the Revolutionary War,
in the Army of the U. States, and the many sufferings he endured, and that she
does most verily believe that said Alexander
Allen did service as a soldier in the War
of the Revolution as related, and that
such has been the belief of the neighbours
with whom she was acquainted, that she
knows not positively the exact time he was
married, but has always understood that
he returned from the Army on furlough and
married Winifred Tool and returned soon
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after to the Army again
Sworn to before me
James Gettys 
Justice of the Peace
at the same time, personally appeared Ann
Moran before me, who being also sworn, as in
manner stated in the foregoing deposition
of Rebecca McCan, made oath that she is
aged Fifty-eight years, that she knew
Alexander Allen and Winifred his widow
well since the year 1807, that she lived with
them three years, and frequently heard him
recount his services and sufferings as a soldier
in the Revolutionary War, and frequently heard
him state, that he obtained a furlough, and
came to Maryland and married Winifred
Tool, now his widow, residing in the City of
Washington, and soon after being married
that he returned again to the Army, and
this deponent further deposes that the said
Alexander Allen was ever considered a man
of veracity, and that she verily believes that
he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War
, in the Army of the United States.
Sworn before me,
James Gettys
Justice of the Peace
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No 499
3. Sec.
Sarah Kirkwood
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United States of America.
DEPARTMENT
OF STATE.
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
I certify, That William Cranch whose name
is subscribed to the paper hereunto annexed, is
now, and at the time of subscribing the same
was a judge of the District Court of the United States
for the District of Columbia, duly commissioned; and that James Gettys and
John D. Clark whose names are subscribed the
annexed paper, now, and at the time of
subscribing the same, were Justices of the
Peace for the County of Washington, in the
District of Columbia, duly commissioned,
and that full faith and confidence are due
to their acts, respectively, as such.
In Testimony whereof, I, Asbury Dickins
SECRETARY OF STATE of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this fifth day of November A. D. 1836 and of the Independence of the United States of America the
Sixty first
Asbury Dickins