Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,011, Nathan Allen, Md. And Sea Service
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Service
MD
and sea service

Allen, Nathan

Numbers
S.8011

carded
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Maryland
27660
Nathan Allen
of Queen Anne's Co. in the state of MD
who was a Pri in the company commanded
by Captain Spidden of the regiment commanded
by Col. blank in the Maryland line for Militia
6 Mo for $20.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the ray of 20 dollars and blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of October 1834 and sent to Hon R W Carmichael Centreville, MD

Arrears to the 4th of Sept '34 $70.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March '35 $10.00
$80.00

{Revolutionary Clai Act June 7 1832}

Recorded by J T Sprague - Clerk
Book 6 Vol 5 Page 96
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34240
Nathan Allen
Maryland

Hon. R W Carmichael
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I Thomas C Earle Register of Wills do hereby certify that the aforegoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathan Allen for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this third day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

Tho C Earle - Reg of Wills
for Queen Annes County
State of Maryland

SEAL
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State of Maryland Queen Annes County to wit

On this second day of June 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Orphans Court of said county now sitting Nathan Allen a resident of said county aged seventy-seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration that in the spring of the year 1781 he entered into a militia company of volunteers under the command of Captain Lloyd Spidden of Talbot County in the state aforesaid and that he was employed in said company for about eight months in said year in defending the adjacent coast of the Chesapeake Bay; and that in the spring of 1782 he entered into the marine service of the state of Maryland under the command of Commodore Grason and that he continued under his command for six or eight months in active service occurring between the city of Annapolis and the cape of the Chesapeake Bay against British vessels and American refugees that in this service he was in several engagements, in one of which he assisted in capturing a British barge called the Langold commanded by Captain McMullin and that formally he quit the service without returning any vouchers relating to his service the muster rolls and other papers having been captured by the British but the time commodore Grason was killed. And the said Nathan Allen hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of the United States but that he was placed on the pension list of Maryland by an act of the legislature passed the present year under which he receives or is to receive from the [illegible] and in answer to interrogatories put by the court he declares that he was born in Talbot County Maryland; that there is a record of his age in said county which is now beyond his
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him that he lived in said county when called into service, that since the revolution he has lived in Queen Annes County and that I entered into the militia as well as the marine service of his state as mentioned. Sworn to and subscribe the day and year aforesaid.

Nathan Allen

I William Grason and Edward H Coursey residing in the Queen Anne's county are well acquainted with Nathan Allen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-seven years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have served in the Maryland barges in time of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Wm Grason
Edw'd H Coursey

And the said court hereby declares 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 soldier in the militia of Maryland and a sailor in the barges of said state in the revolution and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Grason and Edward H Coursey are residents of Queen Annes County Maryland and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and they further certify that there is no resident clergyman in the neighborhood of said applicant.

John C Ruth 
Jas Roe
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8011
Revy INVALID

File NO 8077
Nathan Allen
Pri Rev War

Act June 7th, 1832

Index Vol [illegible] Page 6

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Land Office, Annapolis, Sept 23rd, 1834

I have carefully examined the muster and pay rolls of the officers and men on board the barges for the defense of the Chesapeake Bay (during the revolution) and do not find the name of Nathan Allen upon any of said rolls - the rolls and papers however relating to the services rendered by persons on board the barges are very imperfect and the name of Nathan Allen not appearing upon the rolls in this office I do not consider as any evidence of his not having served as he states - there are no muster or payrolls of the men that served under [illegible] in the barge commanded by Commodore Grayson.

George G Brewer
Reg Land Off W.S. MD
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31260
Nathan Allen
Maryland

from 1781 for 6 Mo. $20

Hon. R.W. Carmichael
Centreville, MD
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Centreville
3rd Oct 1834

Sir

I had the honor some time since to present to you the testimonials of Nathan Allen a petitioner for a pension upon refence to the register of the Land Office at Annapolis, you were informed that his name did not appear upon the muster rolls of Maryland. He has however received a pension from this state upon the evidence furnished in a petition by him presented to the Legislature. In that petition, a copy of which is herewith enclosed, is embraced the affidavit of Greenbury Griffin to the fact of Allen's service. This affidavit would have appeared with the rest of the evidence but for the death of the deponent shortly previous to Allen's application to your department. The absence of his name from the muster rolls of Maryland is accounted for the capture of the barge commanded by Commodore Grayson. And the letter of the Register of the Land Office recognizes indirectly that fact by the statement that "there are no muster or payrolls of the men that served in the barge commanded by Commodore Grayson." It is notorious that there
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and such an officer as Commodore Grayson and that he had command of a barge in the Chesapeake.

A number of persons amongst them Nathan Allen have been placed on the pension roll of this state upon evidence that they were actually in service notwithstanding the loss of the muster and pay rolls. It seems that the best evidence has been furnished of which the nature of the case will admit and a substantial compliance with the requisitions of the department.

I am
very respectfully
your obt svr

Rich'd B Carmichael
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Copy Petition
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To the Honorable Legislators of the State of Maryland

The petition of Nathan Allen a citizen of Queen Anne's County in the state aforesaid aged seventy-five years wishes to present to your honorable body the services he has rendered to his country in the old revolutionary war, that he the said Nathan Allen did enlist in a company in Talbot County called the Select Militia for the term of six or eight months and that he the said Nathan Allen did faithfully serve that time out and did received the sum of eight dollars per month that after that time he the said Nathan Allen did enlist in the United States Barges for six or eight months more and that he the said Nathan Allen did faithfully serve the said term out and did receive the same pay of eight dollars per month. that during the last-mentioned term he the said Nathan Allen did help to take many prizes but never received one cent of prize money for the same and that he the said Nathan Allen have been a public officer in Queen Annes County for thirty-five years and now being too infirm to ride to procure that pittance to make life comfortable. Beg help form your honors which my country has bestowed on others for less services you being satisfied to the truth of the facts set forth in the above petition. Your petitioner is satisfied that you will not withhold that small pittance that will make life comfortable the few days or years that he has to remain here and that from the nature of things he don't expect to want it long and your petitioner will humbly pray.

Nathan Allen

State of Maryland Queen Annes to wit;

On this 17th day of February 1833 then came Nathan Allen who have subscribed his name to the within petition before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county and makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the facts set forth in the within petition are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.

Sworn before Edw'd H Coursey

State of Maryland Queen Annes County to wit:

On the 25th day of February 1833 then came Greenbury Griffin before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county and makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he has a perfect knowledge of the within Nathan Allen belonging to the United States Barges in the old revolutionary war to the best of his knowledge or belief.

Sworn before Edw'd H Coursey

To the Honorable the General Assembly of Maryland
The petitioner named in the within petition begs leave
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to represent to your Honorable Body; that he petitioned three years ago for the amount due him for services set forth in his petition and that he has since understood the reason why no compensation was allowed him was because his name could not be found on any enrollment. He begs leave to suggest to your Honorable body the probable reason for his name not appearing upon record Com. Grayson's barge in which he served was taken and the enrollment with all the other papers relating to his crew most likely fell into the hands of the enemy and were ultimately destroyed - your petitioner therefore hopes you will take these facts into consideration and award to him the sum which he is justly entitled to and which has been so long withheld from him.

I hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true copy from the original petition presented to the Legislature at December session 1833 and that said petition now remains on file in the House of Delegates of the state of Maryland.

Given under my hand at the City of Annapolis this 23rd day of September 1834.

Louis Gassaway _ Clerk of 
the House of Delegates of Maryland