Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12915, Gabriel Allen, Conn. Conn. Sea Service
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
Conn  Allen, Gabriel  S. 12915 -
Conn. Sea Service
carded

CONTENTS
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6028
Connecticut
Gabriel Allen
of Fairfield in the State of Connt
who was a Private in the Comp commanded
by Captain Beardsley of the Regt commanded
by Col. Waterbry in the Connt.
State Troops - for 12 mo.
Seaman 12 mo. 
Conn. * and Conn. Sea Service Febr. 26/06 Records Completed JS

Inscribed on the Roll of Connt
at the rate of
88 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Jany
1833 and sent to Hon
G Tomlinson Senate W.S.

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $132.02
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 44,00
-----
$176.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk
Book D Vol. 3 Page 29
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield   ⎬
On this 25th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open
Court before the County Court for the County of Tanfield now
sitting, William Allen 2d of Fairfield in said County of Fairfield
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain for his
father Gabriel Allen a resident of said Fairfield the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he has been
duly appointed conservator of his said father Gabriel Allen
who is a lunatic and distracted person incapable of managing 
his affairs agreeably to a statute law of the State of Connecticut 
Entitled "An Act providing for the care and
government of Idiots Lunatics & spendthrifts" That his
said father Gabriel Allen during the war of the Revolution
performed the following service as he believes from
statements made by him previous to his becoming
insane and from testimony which he shall offer to
said County Court, viz. That he entered the service
of the United States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated to wit. - In the spring of
the year 1775 he enlisted as a private soldier in the troops raised
by the State of Connecticut into a company commanded
by a Capt. Beardsley
which said Company was attached to a Regiment 
commanded by Col. David Waterbury that he pro
ceded with his regiment to Canada and was at
the Capture of St Johns & Montreal, that the term
for which he enlisted expired while his regiment was
at Montreal, and he returned to his home in said
Fairfield. That in the spring of 1776 he enlisted on
board an armed brig called the "Defence" a vessel in
the service of the State of Connecticut commanded by
Capt Seth Hardin then laying in the port of New London
from which port he sailed in said brig on a cruise, while
out said Brig Captured two British ships & one brig
within a few days of each other in Nantucket roads, having
on board Highland troops arms & ammunition, and brought
them all into Boston, that he continued to serve on board
said brig faithfully discharging his duty as a seaman for
the full period of one year the time for which he enlisted.
In the year 1779 he enlisted into a company of State troops
employed as a shore guard on the shore of said Fairfield
said Company had a field piece and
said Company was commanded by a
Captain Lewis - that he continued in said Company
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nine months to the expiration of the time for which he
enlisted. In 1780 he again enlisted for the term of nine
months into a company of shore guards commanded
by Captain Jarvis that he served faithfully in said company 
for the term of his enlistment, he afterwards enlisted
and performed a service of nine months in a company 
of shore guards commanded by Capt. Joseph
Bennett and a further term of service of nine months
under Capt Thos Nash in said guard, that during said
services in the shore guards he was frequently engaged 
in skirmishes with parties of British troops and refugees 
who crossed from Long Island to the shores of said
Fairfield for purpose of plunder, that in the year 1777-
he was engaged with the militia in opposing the incursion
into the state to Danbury of the British troops under Gen
Tryon, and that during the whole of the time of the war
of the revolution he performed his duties faithfully to
his country as a good soldier & citizens. The said
William Allen and further declares that his said
father Gabriel Allen was 79 years old in January
last as he believes from his own statements before he
become insane & from the best information he can
obtain, and that the said Allen has ever since lived in the Town &
the said William Allen as Conservator of the said
Gabriel Allen hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and declares
that the name of said Gabriel Allen is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
in open Court.    William Allen 2nd
[illegible] Thomas B Osbone Clerk

We Moses Taylor and Jesus Taylor Residing in the town and
County of Fairfield hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with
William Allen 2nd who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration, as Conservator of Gabriel Allen
and that we believe the said Gabriel Allen to be Seventy Nine
years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and the
concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed to the day and year
in open Court [illegible]Thomas B Osborne Clerk
Moses Taylor
Jesus Taylor
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the Investigation of the matter and after putting the
Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the
Above Named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
and served as stated by said Conservator and the Court
Further Certifies that it appears to them that Moses Taylor
and Jessup Taylor are Residents in the Town & County
of Fairfield State of Connecticut and are credible persons
and that their statement is Entitled to Credit
John Wilson 
Chief Judge-

I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Gabriel
Allen, how a lunatic or distracted person, and that he hath always
during my knowledge of him, a period of nearly thirty years, been expected to have
served in the land and naval service during the war of
the revolution
County of Fairfield 
John D. Wilson

I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court in & for
Fairfield County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the Original proceedings of the said Court in the
other of the Application of William Allen 2nd Conservator
for Gabriel Allen for a Pension in Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office

I further certify that Joshua Couch Stephen Godfrey & William Allen
personally appeared in open Court before sd County Court of severally made
solemn oath to the truth of the annexed Deposition by them respectively
subscribed. I further certify that James C. Loomis Esq before whom
the annexed Deposition of George Mosier was sworn, is & was
on the 20th day of Instant July a Justice of the Peace for County
& that his signature to the Certificate on Deposition is genuine that
it was found by County Court that sd George Mosier has bodily
infirmity was unable to attend Court. I further certify that
William Allen 2d is the Conservator of Gabriel Allen duly
appointed by said County Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the
seal of County Court in Fairfield this 23d day of July D 1836
Thomas b Osborne Clerk of County Court for
Fairfield County
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I George Mosier of the town & county of 
Fairfield & State of Connecticut
aged 70 years depose & say- That in the
Spring of 1776 I enlisted & served for one year on board the
Brig "Defence" a vessel in the State 
service, under Capt Seth Hardin and
sailed from New London soon after
in a northern cruise. While out we
took two ship & one brig within a few
days of each other in the Nantucket 
road having on board Highland troops
& brought them all in to Boston
Gabriel Allen for whom William Allen 2nd who has subscribed & sworn to the preceding declaration
of said Fairfield was
one of our number, he enlisted at the
as agent for the term of one year and said Gabriel Allen
also served on board with he for one year the time for which he enlisted
7 was discharged honorably - I have always been acquainted
with the said Allen,  I was there with him at [illegible] we enlisted together
in the Northern campaign of 1775 and
was much in the services during the war 
and served as one of the shore guard - and
further the deponent sayeth not
George Mosier
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Fairfield County Ss Fairfield July 20th 1832-
Personally appeared before me George Moser
subscriber to the foregoing deposition & made
solemn oath to the truth of the same. I
am acquainted with the Deponent and
Believe him to be a man of good character for truth
Albert James C. Loomis Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield

On this 0th day of December 1832
personally appeared before me the [illegible] Justice of the
the County aforesaid, George Mayer the within 
named deponent to whom I read the within deposition
including the additions & alterations made by me, by
his directions, and after I had so read the same, he
admitted & recognized in my presence, his signature
to the within deposition to be genuine, & his own proper
hand writing, & before me made solemn oath
that the facts statements therein contained are true
I do hereby certify that said Mayer has been
well known to me & he retains the general [illegible]
of a man of credibility & in whose word the public
confides
Eliph Swift Jus of Peace
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I Joshua Couch of the town & County of Fairfield
depose and say that in the year 1775 in April I
enlisted in the State troops so called under Capt
Matthew Mear of Wilton for Seven months that
Gabriel Allen of Fairfield about the same time
enlisted for the term of seven months as a private into the service in said State troops, the
company to which said Allen belonged was command
by a Capt Beardsley whose Christian name I have
forgot- The company to which I belonged & the
company to which said Allen belonged were both
in one regiment which regiment was commanded
by Col. David Waterbury. The regiment was ordered
to Canada. I accompanied the regiment and was
at the [illegible] of Quebeck I know that said Allen
went with the troops to Ticonderoga I think, saw him at St. Johns 
and believe I saw him at Montreal, on my
return from Canada in 1776, I was informed that
said Allen had entered on board the armed
Brig called the Defence which Brig was owned
by the State of Connecticut. In the year 1779
I was in the service in the State troops and said
Allen was in the same company we both belonged
to a company with a field piece I know that
said Allen was in the service at that time
nine months in 1780 said Allen to my knowledge
served in a company of the shore Guards commanded
by Capt Isaac Jarvis nine months - After which
time said Allen was in the service under
Capt Thos Nash nine months I was in the same
Company and further the deponent
says not- Joshua Couch
Sworn & subscribed this 23d day
of July AD 1832 before the County Court
in open Court
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
on the 20th day of December 1832
personally appeared before me the Subscriber Justice
of the Peace in the County aforesaid, Joshua Couch
the within named deponent, to whom I read the within
affidavit including the additions and alterations made
in me, by his directions, and after I had done the same
he admitted & recognized his signsture to the within
affidavit to be genuine & made solemn oath that the
Facts therein contained are true before me-
& I hereby certify the same & the said John Couch
is a person of credibility & he long been known to
me as such  Eliph Swift Justice of the Peace
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I Stephen Godfrey of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield
depose and say that I am Eighty six years of age I was a
Sergeant in the guards stationed at C[illegible] in said
Fairfield in the year 1781 and that Gabriel Allen now
living in said Fairfield was also a Sergeant in the same
company of guards to which I belonged the company
was commanded by Capt Thomas Nash, I think
said Allen was in service with me in said
company nine months, I believe that said
Allen was in the service of the United States
during most of the time of the war of the revolution-
- remember that a part of the time he was
reported to be in the naval service on board
an armed Brig called the Defence, and further 
the deponent sayeth not 
Stephen Godfrey
sworn to in open Court
Test Tho. B Osborne Clerk

Fairfield County Fairfield July 18th 1832
Personally appeared before me Stephen Godfrey of
said Fairfield who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition
and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, which
deposition is taken at the request of William Allen 2d of said
Fairfield who is conservator of Gabriel Allen of said
Fairfield, to be used at a special session of the County
Court for said County of Fairfield to be holden at Fairfield
on the 23d day of inst July for the purpose of receiving &
completing the declaration of applicants for Pensions,
The reason of taking said Deposition is that the deponent
is old & infirm and cannot without great inconvenience
attend said Court, said Deposition drawn
up and certified by me
Alva Gray Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
On this 20th day of December 1832
personally came before me the within named Stephen
Godpy to whom I read the within Deposition & in my presence
admitted & recognized his signature thereto to
be genuine & before me made solemn oath the the
facts & statements therein contained are true & I do certify
that I have for many years past been well acquainted with
the within named deponent (Stephen Godfrey)
that he is a man of credibility & I have never heard 
his word for truth & veracity questioned
Eliph Swift Justice of Peace
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I William Allen of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield 
depose and say that I am brother to Gabriel
Allen of said Fairfield that I was sixty seven years old the
14th of January last past, that my brother Gabriel is
older than myself by about eleven years. That my said
brother was in the continental service during most
of the time of the war of the revolution I remember
that my brother was in Capt Thomas Nash's Company 
of shore guards nine months, and that he 
was at one time in a company of State troops commanded
by Capt. Joseph Bennett, I think he was in
Capt Bennett's Company in the year 1780, I also
remember that he was in what was then called the Team
service and drove a team owned by himself a
number of months, think from nine to twelve
months, I drove a team with him a part of the time
I also remember that my said brother was in the
Naval service on board a Brig called the Defence
in the service of the State of Connecticut, but
do not remember how long he was on board
said Brig - My said Brother is now deranged
of unsound mind and his son William Allen 2 is
his conservator-- and further Deponant saith
not.  William Allen
sworn to in open Court
[illegible] Tho. Osborne Clerk

Fairfield County ss. Fairfield July 18th 1832
Personally appeared before me William Allen of said Fairfield who hath
subscribed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the
truth of the same, which deposition is taken at the request of William 
Allen 2nd. of said Fairfield Conservator of Gabriel Allen, to be
used at a special session of the County Court to be holden at
Fairfield on the 23d day instant July for the purpose of receiving
and completing the declaration of Applicants for pensions
the said Deposition drawn up & certified by
Alva Gray Just of Peace
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State of Conneticut
County of Fairfield
On this 20th day of December 1832
personally came before me the [illegible] Justice of the 
Peace for said county of Fairfield the within named
deponent, William Allen of Fairfield [illegible] & County
and in my person admitted and recognized the within 
signature of William Allen who in [illegible] signature
in his own proper hand writing & before me made
solemn oath that the facts & statements in the within
deposition signed by him are true And I do
certify that I have long been acquainted with said
fore mentioned deponent & that he is a
of credibility.
Eliph Swift Justice of Peace
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[illegible] we have been acquainted with
him that he was a soldier of the revolution- we further 
say that the Rev [illegible] Shipley who was the
Clergyman of the Church & society to which said
Gabriel belonged, leaving the war of the revolution
and until the year 1821, died in the year
1831 and very advanced age, at the Clergyman 
now sitting in said County has lived in
it only three or four years & is a man in
Middle life & cannot be prepared to know
any thing about the reputed service of said
Gabriel, & does not will in the duty of said
Gabriel, Dr Shipley would probably have known
all about it. & had he been living his testimony 
would probably have been most important 
and available not only to said Gabriel 
but to many other, but those deponents
know of no clergyman now living whose
evidence can be of any use to said Gabriel. We
further say that it has always been reputed
of said and that he was always faithful
& true to his country-
Charles Jessup
Samuel Jackson

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield

Dec. 20th 1832 sworn to & subscribed
before me & I also certify that the above deponents, Charles
Jessup & Samuel Jackson are Gentleman of high respectability
& their character for truth & veracity are unquestioned 
& Stand as high as that of any other men whatever.
Eliph Swift Jus of Peace
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service of his Father, he would further add that all the
Clergyman in the town of Fairfield & in the adjoining town 
of Norwalk living & [illegible] during the revolutionary war
or for many years after are dead-- there is much
more difficulty in obtaining proof in consequence
of the infirmity of his Father as will be readily 
received, he can now obtain no information from
him where or from whom to obtain [illegible]. 
he cannot say from his own knowledge that his Father
served out the full term of each enlistment, but he
never had any reason to doubt it nor to believe to the contary
 & he does not doubt but what he was always honorably
discharged
William Allen 2nd 
Sworn to and subscribed on
the day and year aforesaid
before David Hill Judge of
Probate for the district aforesaid

We Charles Jessup & Samuel Jackson both of the town &
County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut being duly
sworn according to law depose & say that we are well
acquainted with Gabriel Allen of said Fairfield, the
person named in the foregoing declaration of William
Allen & for whom the said William who has subscribed
& sworn to the foregoing declaration is applying for
a pension, that we believe him to be of the age
stated in said declaration, that he is reputed & believed 
in the neighbourhood where he the said Gabriel resides 
to have been a soldier of the revolution & we concur
in that opinion, we have been acquainted with
said Gabriel for more then twenty five years
last past, & it has always been reputed in his neigh
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he enlisted & served as therein for three full
terms of nine months each in the shore guards.
making the whole time, three years & ten months
service, for nine month he served as a sergeant, and
three years & one month as a private for which service
this declarant claims a pension for him. This declarant 
and has never seen any written Sergeant warrant given
to his father 
The said William Allen further states that
there is no clergyman to his knowledge now living
who can testify as to the general reputation & belief , in
the neighbourhood, of the revolutionary services of his
Father aforesaid; that the Rev Hezekiah Ripley D.O.
was the Clergyman of the County of G[illegible] in 
said Fairfield, during the war of the revolution &
until 1821, that he died in 1831 at a very advanced
age that his Father belongs to said Society & Church
as the named clergyman as a young man & 
in middle life, and has been f[illegible] only
three or four years in the place & can know nothing 
about his Fathers services and this is the
reason that the certificate of a clergyman is
not [illegible]ed-- That Moses Taylor & Jessup Taylor
whose certificate is annexed are both respectable
citizens, highly  so - he has been as definite
in his Declaration of the 23d of July but as [illegible]
connected with this addition and amendment
as his knowledge, divided as heretofore noted , will
admit, and has furnished all the proof of
which he has any knowledge relating to the active
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Supplementary Declaration of
Wm Allen 2d
On the 21st day of December 1832
personally appeared before the Court of Probate now in 
Session at Fairfield in for the District of Fairfield in said
County in open Court, & being a Court of record
William Allen 20 of Fairfield in said County who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath make the following declaration in addition to
the one made by him on the 23d day of July 1832 & hereto
refined: in order to obtain for his Father Gabriel Allen
a resident of said Fairfield the benefit of the act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832, hereby rectifying the
deficiencies of his former declaration as far as in his 
service. That his Father is still a lunatic & disturbed
person & incapable of managing his own affairs as 
noted in his declaration of the said 23d of July
& that this declarant still continues conservator
of his Father as therein stated; & as therein stated
his Father enlisted in the Spring of 1775 as a private
soldier in the troops raised by the state of Connecticut
into a company commanded by Capt Wemberly in
Col David Waterbury's regiment. that he so enlisted
for the term of seven months and actively served
in said company during the whole time for which
he enlisted according to the best knowledge and
belief of this declarant - That according to the
best knowledge & belief of this declarant he enlisted 
& served on board the and Brigg Defence for
the full term of one year, as noted in said
Declaration of the 23rd of July last - and also that
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I Abraham Balkley of the and County of Fairfield
& State of Connecticut aged 77 years being duly
sworn according to law depose & say, that in April
1775 I enlisted for the term of five months in the
Connecticut State troops, in a company commanded
by Capt Ichabod Doolittle the company was attached 
& belonged to David Waterbury's Regiment, that
Gabriel Allen of said Fairfield who has always 
been personally known to me enlisted in company 
belonging to the same regiment, as a private
for the sum of seven months, I believe he belonged
to Capt Beardsleys company, said Gabriel Allen
is the [illegible], for whom, William Allen 2d
who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration 
in application for a pension -- said Gabriel went
to the North in the same regiment with me
I saw him before & when we stated in the Northern 
Campaign, I also saw him at Albany & [illegible]
Ticonderoga  & St. Johns in the Lake, & he was there
in the service in said regiment & as a private, I
have no certain knowledge that he served the full term
of seven months for which in enlisted, but I have
no reason to doubt & do not doubt but that he
did, I saw him at home late in the fall the
first of winter 1775 after he got home, there was now
on the ground the then said he had not been home
but a few days-- After I returned from Canada to
wit in March 1776 I enlisted for the term of
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twelve months on board the armed Brig Defence
which brig was owned by the State of Connecticut
said Gabriel Allen enlisted on board said brig, which
was then commanded by Capt Seth Hardin or for the f[illegible]
in a few days before or after I did for the term of
twelve months as a private, we both went on board
together & I served at least ten months
with said Gabriel on board said brig under said
enlistment, I was then taken sick & left at New London
and at said Gabriel on board, I have no doubt he
served the full term of his said enlistment on
board said brig, we were together at the capture
of the transport at Nantucket road, with the regiment
of Highlands & an ammunition of war or board
said Gabriel was a most active brave man, as
any in the service
Abram Bulkley

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
On this 20th day of December 1832
at Fairfield in said County personally came before
me, the [illegible] Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, Abraham Bulkley the above named deponent
& in my presence subscribed the foregoing deposition & before 
me made solemn Oath that the same is true
& further I do certify that said deponent is personally 
known to me, & has been for many year past, that
he is a man of respectability and credibility & his character 
for truth and veracity is good
Eliph Swift Just Peace
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State of Connecticut & District Faupel December the 21 1832
The Court of Probate for the district aforesaid is of
opinion after a due investigation of the matter, that the
statements made in the [illegible] declaration of William
Allen 2d of Fairfield explanatory by the first
Subscribed and sworn to before this Court in a 
preceding [illegible] of these papers are true and
entitled to credit  David Hill Judge of Probate

I David Hill Clerk of the County Probate
for the district of Fairfield aforesaid, do hereby
certify that the forgoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in
the matter of the said declaration
William Allen 2d for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
Seal Office at Fairfield aforesaid
this 21 day of December 1832
David Hill Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss
I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the
County Court within and for
the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut
do hereby certify, that Eliphalet Swift Esquire, is
now and for more than one year last past has
been a Justice of the Peace for sd County duly commissioned
& duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions
I further certify that the official signatures to the certificate
on the foregoing Depositions of George Moyer, Joshua Couch
Stephen Godfrey, William Allen, Charles Semp & Samuel Jackson
and Abraham Bulkley are all genuine and in the proper
hand writing of the said Eliphalet Swift. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the
Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 21st day
of December AD 1832

Thomas B Osborne Clerk
of said County Court

Private 12 months
Seaman 12Months
$88.00-

Hon G. Tomlinson
Senate
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12.915
INVALID.
File No. 12.915

Gabriel Allen
& Seaman Defence
Priv. Rev. War

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