Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 111, Jacob Allen, Md.
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3-1776
SERVICE
MD
Allen, Jacob
Elizabeth
NUMBER 
R. 111
CONTENTS
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March 1820
14451
Delaware

Jacob Allen
Pencader in the state of Delaware
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel_____of the Maryland
Line, for the term of three years
scribed on the roll of Delaware
at rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Sept 1819 and sent to James Booth Esq
New Castle Delaware
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1829 $134, 66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820
#134.66
    48
$182.66
16 mo 25/30
{Revolutionary claim,   }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
(not clear) Jos Roberts
Apl 11 1821. Wilmington
Delaware

Letter to  Hon G.B. Rodney 18 Feb 1846
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Deposition of
Samuel Huggins
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State of Delaware, to wit; 
Be it known, that on the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me, James Booth, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware, personally appeared Jacob Allen, a resident citizen of Pencader Hundred, in the County of New Castle in the said State of Delaware, aged sixty seven years and upwards, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, doth declare and say, that about the latter part of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, he enlisted at Frederick Town, in the State of Maryland, in Captain Chaplain's Company of the sixth regiment of the Maryland line in the Continental service; that this deponent at first enlisted for and during the term of three years; and after the expiration of the said three years, he enlisted for and during the war; that this deponent continued in the said service until the close of the war; that he was in the Battle of Brandywine & in the Battle of Germantown; that he was in the Battle at Cambden in South Carolina, and also in the Battle of Guilford Court House; that this deponent was wounded in the hand and in the face at the Battle of Brandywine; and was wounded in the left leg at the Battle of Cambden and taken prisoner by the British; that
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he was afterwards retaken by a detachment from the South Carolina Militia; that this deponent having remained in the service until the close of the war, never received any written discharge, but received from Jeremiah John Jacobs, an officer in the sixth Maryland Regiment, a certificate of his having been in the service as aforesaid, which said certificate was left by this deponent at Annapolis in the State of Maryland, when he applied for a compensation from the last said State, for and on account of the depreciation of the Continental money, which said Continental Money he received for his pay; And further this deponent says, that from the effects of his wounds received in the service of his country and from his shoulders having been dislocated by the fall of the branches of a tree at the Battle of Brandywine; and from the infirmities of old age, and from his reduced circumstances, he is under the necessity of making application to his country for support. 
Jacob Allen 
Taken, sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, 
Before me, 
Ja. Booth C.J.
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State of Delaware} 
New Castle County }Js. 

Before me, James Booth Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware, personally appeared Nathan Bouldin Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of New Castle, and James Thompson the present Coroner of the same County, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, did severally say, that they have long been, and are at present well acquainted with Jacob Allen of Pencader Hundred in the County aforesaid that the said Jacob Allen formerly a soldier in the Revolutionary War, having applied to the Government of the United States for a Pension, is at present in very reduced circumstances, and in much need of assistance from his Country, and will entitled to a reward for his services rendered in establishing her Independence. Sworn and subscribed the twenty third day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 
Nathan Bouldin 
James Thompson
Before me, Ja. Booth C.J.
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Auditors Office Annapolis 7th Apl 1819 
I hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls remaining in the Auditors office that Jacob Allen enlisted as a private in the Sixth Maryland Regt on 3rd April 1777 and on the 16th Aug 1780 prisoner 
Thos Karney Aud
 State Md
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State of Delaware}
New Castle County}

Before me George Peirce Esq one of the Justice of the peace in and for said County Personally came and appeared Samuel Huggins who on his solemn Oath on the holy evangelist of Almighty God deposith and sayeth that he is personally aquainted with Jacob Allen who was with him and belonged to the sixth regiment of the Maryland line commanded by Colonel Othy Williams and that he seen him in the Battle of Germantown in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the Revolution war , and further that he seen the said Jacob Allen frequently before that Battle, and was attached to Captain Chaplin of Hager Town but that he did not come out with them and that Captain John Smith of Maryland was his commander at the Battle  Germantown Sworn to & subscribed June the 16th AD 1818 
Samuel Huggins 
Before Geo. Peirce
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Jacob Allen 
14.451 
March 1821
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State of Delaware
New Castle County, to wit;
        On this Third day of November in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty, Personally appeared before the Supreme Court of the said State, in Open Court being a Court of Record for the said State expressly made so by the Laws and constitution of the said State which created it, Jacob Allen aged upwards of Seventy two years , resident in Pencader Hundred in the County and State aforesaid; being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Solemn Oath declare That he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit; in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Otho Williams, being the Sixth Maryland Regiment
on the Continental establishment, in the Company commanded; that he made application for a Pension from the United States under the Act of the eighteenth of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that he made his Original Declaration in conformity to the said Act, on the Tenth day of April in the year last mentioned; that he has received a pension, and the number of his pension Certificate is Fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty one. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a
resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the Provisions of An Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to "Provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, passed on the Eighteenth
day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or
Securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And I do further swear that I am by Trade and occupation a Shoemaker, that I am unable to pursue it, by reason
of the infirmities of old age; that I have a wife and two daughters residing with me;-- that my wife is aged about sixty years, and from bodily infirmity and old age cannot contribute to her or my support; that my eldest Daughter is aged Twenty two years any my Youngest Nineteen years; neither of whom contribute to my support
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or that of my wife, that they knit and spin, and can scarcely make out for themselves; And I do further swear that I am now in such indigent circumstance as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my Country, except by private or public Charity. Sworn to and Declared on the 3d day of November 1820 in open Court
(Signed) Jacob Allen
Attest:
Jno  Wiley Clk Sup Court

Schedule of the Property of Jacob Allen, referred to in the preceding Deposition.
One small Cow..............$9,00
One small heifer...........$6,00
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One Corner Cupboard.........1.25
Two old tables........1.50
Nine old Chair.........1.00.
One Mealtub and two old chests.....
Three pots.....1.12 1/2
One Dutch Oven and tea kettle...1.75
1. 122
A few old articles in his closet...1.50
One looking Glass..........0.75
One Wheel barrow..........0.75
Spade hoe and Shovel......0.10 1/2
sweeping brush and pair tongs...0.37 1/2
$24, 43 1/2
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 3d day of November A.D. 1820.
(Signed) Jacob Allen
Attest:
Mr Jno Wiley Clk Sup Court

The opinion of the Court is that the property contained in the above Schedule is of the
Value of Twenty four Dollars and forty three cents and one half Cent.
State of Delaware
New Castle County Ss 
I John Wiley Clerk of the Supreme Court of the said
State of Delaware, in and for the County of New Castle in the said State, Do certify
that the foregoing Oaths, Schedule and the opinion of the Court thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, at New Castle, the Twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.-
Jno Wiley Clk Supreme Court
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12.496
Elizabeth Allen
Rd Jan 26. 1846
Del
Act 7 July 38
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Elizabeth Allen widow of Jacob Allen makes the following Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Pension Laws of the United States This Declarant States that she was born the twelfth day of June 1762 was Married to Robert Wilson when she was
between the age of Sixteen & seventeen that she lived with her said husband three years when he died that she remained twelve years a Widow when she married Jacob Allen who
had been a soldier of the revolution and she this Declarant is in her eighty fourth year that she lived with her said husband Jacob Allen until his death in 1825 and has ever since remained a widow that she has no record of
her Marrage nor is there one witness now living that can prove positive to the year in which her Marrage took place but that she knows that it took place the twenty fourth Day of July 1783 that her said husband received a pension as a soldier of the revolution up to the time of his Death and in virtue of the same of her husband at his death she now claims the benefit of the pension Laws of the United States which she is informed that she is entitled to
Elizabeth Allen  her mark
Sworn & Subscribed
before the Subscribed
Justice of the Peace in and for New Castle County in the State of Delaware
this twentyth Day of January 1846
P. H. Jones Just P
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No 12787

Elizabeth Allen
widow of Jacob
     Del
Act 7 July 1838
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State of Delaware
On this fifth day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six. personally appeared before the subscriber Chief Justice of the State of Delaware, Elizabeth Allen a resident of the hundred and County of New Castle in the State aforesaid (the said Elizabeth from bodily infirmity not being able to appear in Court,) aged Eighty three years and upwards 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 of made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled, "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"" That she is the widow of Jacob Allen who was a private soldier during the war of the American Revolution, in the Delaware
regiment as she believes. That on account of such service he became entitled to and received a pension from the United States until the time of his death, and upon the evidence under which he obtained the said pension the rules and refers for the particulars of the service which her said husband performed
she further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Allen on the Twenty fourth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three and that her said husband the aforesaid Jacob Allen died on the twelfth day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty five, that she was
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nor married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz as the time above stated/ That during her marriage with the said Jacob Allen they always resided in the county of New Castle aforesaid. That she has remained and now is a widow.

Elizabeth Allen
Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.

James Booth
Chief Justice of the state of Delaware

I certify that I proceeded to the residence of the above named Elizabeth Allen for the purpose of taking the foregoing deposition, that she resides upwards of six miles from the Town of New Castle and that from my interview with her and personal observation she is unable to appear in Court by reason of old age and bodily infirmities.

James Boon - CJ

New Castle Delaware
March 5, 1846
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State of Delaware
New Castle County

I James C Mansfield Prothonotary of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware within New Castle County do certify that James Booth before whom the foregoing deposition of Elizabeth Allen purports to have been made was at the time thereof the Chief Judge of the state of Delaware and as such the presiding Judge of the Superior Court of that said state, and that the handwriting is the proper signature of the said James Booth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand as the prothonotary of the Superior Court of the state of Delaware for the county aforesaid and affixed the seal of the said court at New Castle the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

James C Mansfield - Proth.
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Pension Office
May 22, 1846

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that the papers in the case of Elizabeth Allen, widow of Jacob Allen, have been examined and filed under the act of 7th July 1838.

The service of claimant's husband is satisfactory, but the alleged date of her marriage appears so near the 1st of January 1794 that record or documentary evidence or the testimony of individuals based upon written work only will be sufficient to establish it with the requisite certainty.

The county or church registers of New Castle or a family record may possibly afford the proof necessary to sustain this claim.

The evidence now produced on this point is not satisfactory.

I have the honor to be
Sir, very respectfully
Your obt. Servant

J L Edwards

Hon Geo. B Rodney
New Castle
Delaware
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REJECTED
III
Del
Elizabeth Allen
wid of Jacob
Private - Capt. Chaplain MD
Certif 14,451 See
Adm + Soldier File
No 46675 within
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No 12787
Elizabeth Allen

Hon G B Rodney 22 Mary 1846
to Hon H Johnson - see [illegible] Jan 23, 1847
Feb 7, 1838
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Deposition of
Jesse Bouldin
in the case of
Elizabeth Allen, widow
of Jacob Allen
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In the case of the application of Elizabeth Allen widow of Jacob Allen, a revolutionary soldier for a pension.

Eli Nowland, a citizen of Pencader Hundred, New Castle County and State of Delaware having resided in said Hundred County and state for upwards of fifty-five years, being solemnly sworn doth depose and say that he personally knew Jacob Allen the husband of the aforesaid Elizabeth Allen and that the said Jacob Allen resided in the Hundred County and State aforesaid and that the said Jacob Allen and Elizabeth Allen lived together as man and wife they being lawfully married by the Rev'd Mr. Shelly previous to the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four - that they the said Jacob Allen and Elizabeth Allen lived together as man & wife until the said Jacob Allens's death which took place about the year 1825 and that the said Elizabeth Allen has ever since the death of her said husband Jacob Allen lived and is still now a living a widow and resides in the county and state aforesaid and the said Eli Nowland doth depose and say that to the best of his belief and knowledge the said Jacob Allen and Elizabeth his wife aforesaid were lawfully married as aforesaid before the month of January 1794 and that the said Jacob Allen was a reputed soldier of the revolutionary war and as such received a pension and that the said Elizabeth from her advanced age makes application for assistance under the act of congress in such case made and provide and that deponent is personally acquainted with the said Elizabeth Allen widow of the said Jacob Allen aforesaid.

Eli Nowland

Sworn and subscribed before Rt M Black - Justice of the Peace for New Castle County Del.
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I Rt M Black do certify that Eli Nowland within named by whom the within affidavit was made before me is a person of credibility and of good standing in society and his character for veracity is unimpeachable.

Witness my hand this twenty-fourth day of February AD 1846.

Rt M Black - JP
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State of Delaware
New Castle County

I James C Mansfield Prothonotary of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle County hereby certify that Robert M Black Esire before whom the foregoing proceedings were had and who hath duly attested and certified the same with his proper signature was at the date thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace of the State of Delaware in and for said county of New Castle duly commissioned and qualified and that the signatures thereto are severally his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Superior Court of New Castle this the seventh day of March AD 1846.

James C Mansfield
Proth.

SEAL
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2
Deposition of
El Nowland in the
case of Elizabeth Allen
widow of Jacob Allen
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In the case of the application of Elizabeth Allen widow of Jacob Allen, a revolutionary soldier for a pension.

Jesse Boulden a citizen of Pencader Hundred New Castle County State of Delaware now aged seventy-two years next February, having resided in said Hundred county & state the whole of his life - being solemnly sworn doth depose and say - that he personally knew Jacob Allen aforesaid, the husband of the said Elizabeth Allen and that the said Jacob Allen resided in the hundred County and state aforesaid and that he the said Jacob Allen and Elizabeth Allen his wife aforesaid lived together as man and wife they being married as the deponent believes to the best of his knowledge before January AD 1794 and that they the said Jacob Allen and Eliabeth Allen lived together as man and wife until the said Jacob Allen died - which death took place about the year 1825 and that the said Elizabeth Allen widow of said Jacob Allen is still living and resides in the county and state aforesaid and is in very reduced circumstances and the deponent further saith that the said Jacob Allen was a reputed soldier of the Revolutionary war and as such received a pension from the U.S. Government.

Jesse Boulden

Sworn & subscribed the 14th day of January 1846 before Rt M Black - Justice of the Peace for New Castle County Del.

I Rt. M Black do certify that Jesse Boulden above named by whom the above affidavit was made before me is a person of credibility and of good standing in society and his character for veracity is unimpeachable. Witness my hand this twenty fourth day of February AD 1846.

Rt M Black - JP
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State of Delaware
New Castle County
SEAL

I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of the said state of Delaware in and for the said county of New Castle do hereby certify that the Honorable James Booth before whom the foregoing deposition of Jacob Allen was taken and who hath subscribed the same was at the time thereof and is now Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said state of Delaware duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all such his acts and attestations and I do further certify that George Peirce Esquire before whom the annexed deposition of Samuel Huggins was taken and who hath subscribed the same was at the time thereof and is now a Justice of the Peace in and for New Castle County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all such his acts and attestations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this said court at New Castle the twenty-fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Jos Roberts - Prothy

Delaware

I James Booth Chief Justice aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Jacob Allen did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the
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the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress in such case provided. I am also satisfied that he is in reduced circumstances and that he needs the assistance of his county for support. In Testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court to be hereunto affixed at New Castle the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

Jas Booth

SEAL

Jacob Allen 
Private
Maryland Regiment
1777 - 3 years

ADM
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J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington
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New Castle, Del
January 24, 1846

J.L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

I send herewith certain papers to wit the declaration of Elizabeth Allen a widow of Jacob Allen dec'd wo was a revolutionary soldier & a pensioner. The affidavits of Jesse Boulden & Eli Nowland accompany the declaration which is for the purpose of proving that Mrs. Allen was married prior to Jany 1794. The evidence of Jacob Allen's service is of course in your office as he received a pension up to his death and the rate of pension she would be entitled to can be ascertained from your own records. The depositions of the two persons sent who are both known to me I should consider sufficient to establish the fact of Marriage within the time the law requires. I should regret to be obliged to send her case to congress for relief as my own experience on the committee of Rev. Pensions assures me of the great uncertainty of it being disposed of in a reasonable time. This is not like any of the cases sent to congress for relief. Here the service is matter of record & the fact of marriage I say complete to establish her claim. If you require the depositions to be formally certified, I can have it done although I can answer for them being genuine. I hope you will write me favorable of her case.

I remain very respectfully
your friend.

Geo B Rodney
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The Honorable
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Hon. H. Johnson
Senate US
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Senate Chambers Jan 14th 1847

Sir

The committee on Pensions of the Senate request that you will be pleased to furnish such information as your office may afford in regard to the petitions herewith transmitted and if there be any documents on file in support of either of the petitions you will be so good as to transmit them or copies thereof to the committee.

With great respect
I am Sir, your obedient servant

H Johnson

The Hon:
J L Edwards
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New Castle
Jany 2, 1847

Hon. T Clayton

Dear Sir

I send you the petition of old Mr. Allen who is a very ancient woman residing in this hundred and who is entitled to the benefit of the pension acts. I sent on last summer to Mr. Edwards all the papers necessary with the evidence of respectable persons (whom you know) as to the fact of marriage before the 1 Jan 1794. I send herewith to you Mr. Edwards letter to me, by which you will see that adhering to the rule of the Department of righting records evidence or the proof of one present at the marriage he does not recognize our proof as sufficient. That is the only question in her case & I do not hesitate to say that you will be satisfied that she is legally entitled to the benefit of the acts of congress after the proof doesn't come up to the rule laid down for the action of the pension office. As all the papers & proof are with the Pension office, I have drawn & signed for the old woman (who has now become childish) her petition & will request you to order from the office the papers & proof on file then. I include with the petition and informal declaration
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made by the old woman on oath and also the letter of Mr. Edwards to me. Please to give the case the requisite attention & if you are satisfied of the justice of her claim, have a bill reported & passed at the earliest day & advise me of its progress.

I remain very respectfully

Yours

G B Rodney
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May 21, '46
New Castle De Time Stamp

111

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Please act on this case
Eliz Allen '38
Jacob

Addl papers
filed March 13th '46
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New Castle
May 19, 1846

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions

Sir

It has been two months since I forwarded to you the completed evidence in the case of Elizabeth Allen widow of J. Allen for a pension having proved the facts necessary in the regular way prescribed. Will you good enough to inform me if there is anything yet wanting and if not, what step is next to be taken in her behalf.

Your speedy answer
will oblige
your friend 

Geo B Rodney
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29 Cong
2 Sept

Petition of Elizabeth
Allen widow of Jacob
Allen
for a pension

1847, Jany 4 referred to 
the comm on pensions

Eliz Allen
Dec '38

Mr.  T Clayton
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To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. The petition of Elizabeth Allen widow of Jacob Allen respectfully herewith. That your petitioners is the widow of Jacob Allen late of New Castle County in the state of Delaware who was a soldier during the revolutionary war and on account of his said services became entitled to and did receive a full pension under the act of Congress up to the time of his death which happened in the year 1825. That your petitioner was married to the said Jacob Allen prior to the first day of January 1794 to wit on the 24 day of July 1793 but there is no record of her marriage to be found nor is anyone now living who was present at her marriage but the fat of her marriage with the said Jacob Allen and of her being married to him within the time limited by law for the allowance of a pension to her she submits has been sufficiently & satisfactorily proved by the testimony of living witnesses on file at the pension office and which she prays may be examined in connections with her own declaration and that she may be allowed to have the benefit of the acts passed by congress for the relief of the widows of revolutionary soldiers.

Your petition will we pray

Signed

Elizabeth Allen
by her Attorney G B Rodney
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James L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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New Castle, Del
March 10, 1846

J.L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

I have had Mrs. Allen's declaration prepared in conformity with your directions and the proper certificates both as to this paper & the depositions of the witnesses annexed. I hope now you will find it all right & satisfactory and that I may have the pleasure of communicating to the poor old woman the outcome intelligence of her relief from the promise of a pension.

I am glad to see that you have been renominated.

I remain with much respect

Yours
Geo B Rodney