Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5601, Timothy Allen, Vt.
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(8--1776)

Service          Number
Vt.     Allen, Timothy        W. 5601
Julana           R L Wt 52613-160-55

Contents
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 New York 121919

Timothy Allen
of Washington in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the Camp commanded
by Captain Starkey of the Reg. commanded
by Col. Herrick in the Vermont
line for 6 ms. Corpl,
& 3 " 14 ds as Pri  }

Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 33 Dollars 34 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July
1833 and South S. P. Brown
Hartford

Arrears to the 4th of May '83 ['33] $66.68
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33  16.67
$83.35

{Revolutionary Claim}
Aol June 7, 1832

Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol 3. Page 41.
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State of New York
County of Washington J C

On this 28th Day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington now sitting; Timothy Allen be resident of Hartford in the County of Washington and State of New York Aged Seventy Three Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress Passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. that in the month of October 1776 he volunteered to go as a Militiaman under the command of Captain John Starks of Pawlett Vermont at the time Sir Guy Carlton came up Lake Champlain and defeated Arnold, and served about (and as he believed 1 month fully) Thirty Days at that time, That he resided at the time in Pawlett Vermont and went out on said service about the first of October (as he believes & was discharged some days after Sir Guy Carlton had retreated down the Lake. That he was mustered & joined his company under said Starks at Rutland & Marched from there to Castleton & there his company
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[appears to be the top line of a page behind this one]
as a soldier [illegible] 

[start of relevant text]

was attached to the regiment commanded as he believes by Colonel Samuel Robinson of Bennington Vermont and marched from Castleton to Mount Independence opposite Ticonderoga & was stationed there until discharged that he has not & never had any documentary evidence of said service of facts & that he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to said service.
     That in the Month of June 1777 he resided in Pawlett Vermont and at the time Gen. Burgoyne came up Lake Champlain & took Ticonderoga he went out as a volunteer under command of said Captain John Starks that he Joined his company at Castleton & went under the Command of Colonel Warner or Colonel Robinson to Mount Independence & then crossed over into Fort Ticonderoga and was there under the Command of Gen St. Clair whom he saw often there & who retreated out of the Fort & crossed to Mount Independence without fighting. That he then marched to Castleton & from thence to Manchester. That at this time he served about (& as he believes fully) 1 month one month. That he has not & never had any documentary evidence of said service & that he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. 
     That while [illegible] Manchester in Vermont
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and without returning home to Pawlett in Vermont (where he then resided) after the last mentioned service he enlisted into a company (of State Troops as he supposed & believes) Commanded by Captain Parmilee After Lieutenant Ebenezer Hyde and a Mr Adjutant as Ensign and he was attached to a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Herrick and Major Wait. That he 6 months enlisted for & served the Term of Six Months as a Corporal, and was discharged at the end of said Term in the Month of January 1778. That he was stationed at Manchester until just before the Battle of Bennington & was often employed as a scout while there & marched from thence to Bennington & got there about Two hours before the fighting commenced and that he was at said Battle. That soon after the Battle he marched to Arlington & in about a Week went to Pawlett and in a Week or Ten Days after marched to Lake George & assisted in capturing a Brass Cannon & about Twelve men on Mount - Defiance & also in retaking about Eighty Americans who had been prisoners at the outlet of said Lake & his party also took several several British Prisoners. That he then went to Diamond - Island near the head of Lake George & attacked a portion of Burgoynes forces & was defeated by them & then marched to Fort - Ann & from there to
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Pawlett & then to Fort Edward and Saratoga where he arrived after the Battle with, but before the surrender of, Burgoyne. & soon after the surrender of Burgoyne he returned  to Pawlett where he remained & was often employed as a Scout until finally Discharged in January 1778. That he never had a written discharge and has no documentary evidence of said service or facts but thinks he can prove some part or all of said service by one Ebenezer Farnsworth.
     That in the month of October 1778 he resided in Pawlett Vermont and went out as a Volunteer under command of Captain Willard of the same place to meet a party of British who it was said were coming up Lake Champlain. That he joined this Company at Rutland & Marched to Castleton & then to East - Bay on Lake Champlain & then to Whitehall from whence he went to Crown - Point & then returned to Whitehall & from there home having been gone about & as he believes fully Fifteen Days & 15 Days that he has no documentary evidence of said service or facts & that he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
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That in the Month of March 1779 he resided in Pawlett aforesaid and went out as a Volunteer under the Command of Captain Parmilee Allen on an alarm it being reported (falsely as appeared afterwards) that a Party of British had gone up Lake George. That he joined his Company at Castleton & Marched to Ticonderoga & then returned home & was discharged after being out about and as he believes at10 Days least Ten Days & that he has no documentary evidence of the said service or facts & that he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to said service.
     That  in the fall of the Year 1780. and as he believes in the Month of November he went out again as a Volunteer under Command of Captain Willard from Pawlett where he & said Willard resided. That he went to Castleton where his Company were stationed to guard some public stores & he & a Boy were detached & went up to Ticonderoga to see & report whether the Lake was frozen over & also whether there was any
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appearance of the British having been there or passed up the Lakes. That he returned from said service & was discharged after having served as 9 Days he believes Just Nine Days. & that he has no documentary evidence of said service or facts & that he does not know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to said service.

And the said Timothy Allen in answer to the interrogatories directed by the War - Department to be propounded to all Applicants for Pensions in certain cases further days.

First
That he was born in the Town of Woodbury in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut in the year 1758 in the Month of October & on the 10th Day as he believes.
Second
That he has no Record of his Age but has been informed by his Parents that a Record of the Ages of all children born in the said Town of Woodbury was kept by the Minister of a Parish in said Town but that is all he knows about the matter.
Thirdly
That he lived & resided in Pawlett in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont at each & every time he entered
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The service as above stated but at the Time of his enlistment for the Months he was in service as a Volunteer at Manchester County of Bennington & State of Vermont and that since the revolution and until 1790 he resided in Pawlett aforesaid & from 1790 to 1814 he lived in Bristol County of Addison & State of Vermont and since 1814 he has resided in Hartford County of Washington & State of New York.
Fourthly
That he went into the service as a Volunteer in every instance as he believes except for the Term of Six Months which he served in 1777 for which term he entered the service by enlistment voluntarily.
Fifthly
That he knew at the times of the services above -  State General Starks General St. Clair & Colonel Warner and such other persons & officers as are named in the above declaration. and he does not now remember any others except a Colonel Safford
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Sixthly
That he never received a discharge from service , as a soldier, in writing as he recollects.
Seventhly
That he is known in his present neighborhood to David Austin Alonson Allen Benjamin Hyde Robert Morrison Slade D Brown Henry F. Baldwin Ezekiel Smith and Jabez Norton. any of whom can testify as to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution

And he 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 the agency of any State or Territory whatever.

Sworn in Open Court this 28 day of Augt 1832
J. S. Leigh Clk.

Timothy Allen
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I Henry F. Baldwin a clergyman residing in the Town of Hartford County of Washington & State of New York do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Timothy Allen who is named and described in the above declaration; that I believe him to be Seventy Three Years of Age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

Sworn and Subscribed this 27th Day of August 1832 Before me}
Henry F. Balwin.
Slade D. Brown Justice of the Peace

I Slade D Brown residing in the Town of Hartford in the County of Washington & State of New York do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Timothy Allen who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that I believe him to be Seventy Three Years of Age; that he is respected and Believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

Sworn in Open Court this 28th Day of August 1832 J. S. Leigh Clk

Slade D. Brown
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And the said Court to 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 he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry F. Baldwin who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Hartford in the County of Washington and State of New York and that Slade D Brown who has signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Allen for a Pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 29th Day of August 1832.
J. S. Leigh Clk
State of New York
Washington County
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that Slade D. Brown Esquire before whom the foresaid Affidavit of Henry F. Baldwin purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same as Justice of the Peace of said County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit to be genuine & his proper handwriting & signature. In Testimony Whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said Court this 30th Day of August 1832.
J. S. Leigh CLK
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State of New York
Washington County } ss.

Ebenezer Farnsworth of Fort Ann in the County of Washington & State of New York Aged Seventy Six Years being duly sworn said he has been acquainted with Timothy Allen named in the declaration hereto annexed. since the year 1775 that he served with said Allen in the Year 1777 under the Command of Captain Parmilee Allen & Lieutenant Ebenezer Hyde and a man by the name of Adjutant as Ensign & in campaign was attached to a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Herrick and Major Wait and that he was with said Allen at the Battle of Bennington and also at Saratoga at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne but the said Allen and this deponent were not  present at the Battle with Burgoyne. And this deponent further says that the facts stated in the preceding Declaration of said Allen in relation to said service of Six Months in the year 1777 have been read to him and that the same are mostly true within his knowledge and that those facts not within his personal knowledge he believes to be true. and that he believes said Allen to be a man of truth and veracity. and this deponent further says that during the Revolution he often heard of said Allen being out on Scouts in various places
[note in the left margin]
W. B. The  word & "has been read to him" were inter hired after the signed 1777 before being signed or sworn to . _______
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as a Soldier Sworn in open Court this 28th day of August 1832
J. S. Leigh CLK

Ebenezer Farnsworth

State of New York
Washington County } ss.
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of said County do certify that that on this 8th day of May 1833. I fastened or annexed then six half sheets of paper at the top with red tape and placed my official seal thereon and that the same contain the original proceedings in matter of the application of Timothy Allen for a pension. In testimony whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 8th day of May 1833.
J. S. Leigh CLK

In the Matter of Timothy Allen a Pensioner.
12.151
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A o. 12.151
Timothy Allen

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3.  1400 Pri

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May 1st 1833

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S. D. Brown
Hartford   NY
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BRIEF in the case of Timothy Allen
County of Washington on the State of N. Y.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?  73
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.   Duration of Service.   Rank.  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days.    As a    Gen.
In 1776 Oct.    --  1  --   Volunt.    Capt. Starks
" 77 June        --  1  --   "               Same Col. Warner or Robinson
"                     -- 6 --     enlisted Corporal    Col. Herrick, Capt Allen
" 78 Oct.        -- -- 15   Volunt.      Capt. Willard
" 79               -- -- 10    "                Capt. Allen
" 80               -- -- 9      "                Capt. Willard
                         _______
                          9   .14
5. In what battles was he engaged? Bennington
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pawlett, N.Y
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell
Examining Clerk.
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3454
New York, Albany
Julana Allen
widow of [illegible] Timothy Allen
who served in the Revolutionary was, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 34 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Penson issued the 14th day of Jany / 54 and sent to 
Hon C. Hughes
House of Reps

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 68 Vol. A

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255662
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Jan. 3, 1854.
No 4,072
14919
Julana Allen
wid
Timothy
Acp 3 Feb 1853 Rev
[Scooer or Geo. oer]

Hon C. Hughes
H of R
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State of New York
Washington County} ss.
David Doane of Hartford in said county being duly sworn deposes & says that he is a Resident of said Town of Hartford & has been since the month of November in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirteen & is of the age of Sixty Five years. That he was well acquainted with Timothy Allen of the town of Hartford in said County in his life time and is well acquainted with Julana Allen of said Town his widow; that he was present at the marriage of said Timothy Allen with said Julana Allen then Julana Higby - that said marriage was duly solemnized according to the laws of this State but this deponent has not a distinct recollection of the name of the officiating clergyman - that the precise day of the marriage between said Timothy Allen & said Julana Allen then Julana Higby - this deponent is unable to give From recollection but recollects distinctly that it was in the yon part of the winter next succeeding the time this deponent took up his residence in said town of Hartford which was in November one thousand eight hundred & thirteen & this deponent believes said marriage to have taken place in the Month of January one thousand eight hundred & fourteen -- that said Timothy Allen & Julana his wife lived together as such husband & wife From the date of said marriage until the decease of said Timothy Allen which took place on the seventeenth day of July A. D.  one thousand Eight hundred thirty four - that said Julana Allen still resides in said town of Hartford & still remains the widow of said Timothy Allen & is the identical person whom this deponent saw married as aforesaid to said Timothy Allen -- and this deponent Further says that said Timothy Allen was a Pensioner of the United States, at his Decease, For Services in the was of the American Revolution and that this deponent was a Justice of the Peace at the time he was such Pensioner & rendered services & assistances as such
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Justice in authenticating papers & drawing said pensions from time to time.

David Doane

Subscribed & sworn to before me on the 16th day of November 1853 by David Doane who personally appeared before me on that day & subscribed & swore to the foregoing Affidavit

Warren H. Brown, Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Washington

I certify that I am well acquainted with David Doane Esq. of the town of Hartford in the County of Washington & State of New York who made & subscribed the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of unexceptionable moral character & that his statements are entitled to implicit confidence & reliance Nov. 16, 1853

Warren H. Brown Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Washington County} ss. Robert Morrison of the Town of Hartford in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that he is a resident of said Town of Hartford & has been for more than Fifty Years last past & is of the age of Fifty nine Years - that he was well acquainted with Timothy Allen in his life time who resided in said Town of Hartford and is well acquainted with Julana Allen widow of said Timothy Allen who resides in said Town & has resided as her nearest neighbor for more than Forty Years - that he was present at the marriage of said Timothy Allen with said Julana Allen then Julana Higby -- that said marriage was solemnized by Rev. Amasa Brown a Clergyman & Pastor of the Baptist Church of said Town at that time - that said marriage was solemnized about the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fourteen but this deponent is unable from recollection to give the precise date & that said Timothy Allen & said Julana Allen lived together as husband & wife from the time of this said marriage until the death of said Timothy Allen which took place in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty four on the seventeenth day of July in said year - That Rev. Amasa Brown the Officiating Clergyman at their marriage died in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty - that said Julana Allen still resides in said town of Hartford & still remains the widow of said Timothy Allen & is the identical person whom this deponent saw married to said Timothy Allen & that said Timothy Allen was a Pensioner of the United States at his decease as this deponent was informed & believes

Robert Morrison

Subscribed & sworn to before me on the 14th day of November 1853 by Robert Morrison who personally appeared before me at that time & subscribed & swore to the foregoing affidavit

Warren H. Brown Justice of the Peace of said County of Washington
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State of New York
Washington County}
ss. I Warren H. Brown of Hartford in said County the Justice of the Peace before whom the within Affidavit of Robert Morrison was subscribed & sworn to do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Robert Morrison that he is a man of good moral character & that his statements are entitled to implicit confidence & reliance

Warren H. Brown Justice of the Peace in & for said County
Nov. 14, 1853
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State of New York
Washington County}
ss. On this seventeenth day of December A. D. 1853 appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Court of Sessions of said County which Court of Sessions is a Court of Record in & for said County of Washington Julana Allen a Resident of the Town of Hartford in said County aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 "Entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" as amended & extended by the Act of Congress passed February third 1853 that she is the widow of Timothy Allen who was a private in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary Army in the war of the American Revolution. who resided at the time of his decease in said Town of Hartford and who was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his Decease for services in the War of the American Revolution and for the particulars of the Service of the said Timothy Allen & the capacity in which he served & the amount of the pension drawn by the said Timothy Allen this declarant begs leave to refer as a part of the papers on this application to the papers & proof on file & now remaining in the Pension Office of the United States which served as the basis of proof on which said Timothy Allen obtained his said pension
     She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Allen on the sixth day of January A. D. one thousand eight hundred & fourteen that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Allen died
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on the seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the third day of February one thousand eight hundred & fifty three [oiz.] at the time above stated

            her
Julana X Allen
            mark

sworn & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me the undersigned a Justice of the Sessions as aforesaid & I certify that the said Julana Allen the applicant & Declarant in the foregoing Declaration cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court.

William Hotchkiss Justice of the Court of Sessions in & for the County of Washington
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State of New York
Washington County ss.
     I Philander C. Hitchcock Dep CLK of said County and of all the Courts of record therein do certify that Warren H. Brown Esq. was at the Several dates above a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized to administer oaths &c that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the Signature of the said Justice to the Several Jurats & Certificates to be genuine. And further that William Hotchkiss Esq was at the above date a Justice of Sessions of said County duly Sworn &c and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and very [verily] believe the Signature above to be in his properhand.
Witness my name & official Seal this 22d day of December AD 1853 -
P. C. Hitchcock Dep Clerk
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255.662 
Act Mar G. 51
Aug. 29. '56

Julana Allen, wid.
Timothy Allen, pri

[illegible]

Reviy. war.

Perm? Act Feb. 3. '53
July '53 - 8454
Ad. 160 ac's Decr 16 56

Dodge

[illegible initials]

Warren H. Brown.
Hartford.
Washington Co. N. Y.

[written on diagonal] W52613 ipo Decr 18/56

End P

Vol A. page 63.
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State of New York
County of Washington} ss.
     On this nineteenth day of August A. D. 1856 personally appeared before me Warren H. Brown a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths within & for the County & State aforesaid Julana Allen aged Eighty two Years a Resident of Hartford in the State of New York who being duly sworn according to law declares tat she is the widow of Timothy Allen Deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary War. and a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease at the rate of thirty three dollars and thirty four cents per annum for services as a private in said war. and for the term of service of said Timothy Allen & all the particulars thereof this Declaration refer to the Records at Washington and to the proofs furnished by the said Timothy Allen to obtain his said Pension now on file with the Departments at Washington to make said Records & Proofs a part of this her Declaration
     She further Declares that she is now a pensioner of the United States for the services of her said husband in the said Revolutionary war under the act of Feby 3, 1853 and that a Pension Certificate was duly issued to her of which the following is a copy
" Department of the Interior
" Widow's Pension
" I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the 
" act of February 3, 1853 Julana Allen widow of Timothy 
" Allen who was a private in the revolutionary war, is 
" inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Thirty = three
" dollars and thirty = four cents per annum, commencing on
" the 3d of February 1853. and continuing for life. unless
" she should again marry; in which case the Pension is
" not payable after the time of such marriage
" (L. S.) Given at the Department of the Interior, this fourteenth day of 
" January one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
" R McClelland
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" Secretary of the Interior
" Examined and Countersigned
" S. P. Waldo
" Commissioner of Pensions"
that she is the identical person mentioned in said pension Certificate & that said Certificate is still in force and she is Entitled still to all the benefits thereof which is numbered 3454
     She further states that she was married to the said Timothy Allen at the said Town of Hartford in said County on the 6th day of January A. D. 1814 by one Amasa Brown a Baptist Clergyman then Pastor of the Baptist Church in said Town and that her name before her said marriage was Julana Higby that her said husband died at Hartford aforesaid on the 17th day of July A. D. 1834 and that she is now a widow and that her said husband as she is informed & believes never received any warrant for Bounty Land from the United States and under the law as it stood in his life time was not Entitled to any - but whether he  did Receive Bounty Land or not She refers to the Records of the United States in the Departments at Washington - and that no public or private Record exists or can be procured of her said marriage
     She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855

          her
Julana X Allen
          mark

Attest
Daniel M. Brown
Olive S. Brown

     We Daniel M. Brown and Olive S. Brown Residents of Hartford in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed & acknowledged by Julana Allen in our presence and that
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we believe. from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and the said Daniel M. Brown upon my oath aforesaid do depose & say that I am of the age of fifty six years and was well acquainted with Timothy Allen mentioned in the foregoing Declaration Deceased in his life time and am well acquainted with the said Julana Allen widow of said Timothy Allen Deceased - that I have been acquainted with said Timothy Allen & Julana Allen Thirty Years before the Decease of said Timothy Allen and I, the said Olive S. Brown upon my oath aforesaid do depose & say that I am of the age of Fifty three years and was well acquainted with Timothy Allen mentioned in the foregoing Declaration Deceased in his life time and am well acquainted with the said Julana widow of said Timothy Allen Deceased that I have been acquainted with said Timothy Allen & Julana Allen Thirty Years before the Decease of said Timothy Allen - and we the said Daniel M. Brown & Olive S. Brown upon our oaths aforesaid do depose & say that the said  Julana Allen now resides in the same family with us and that we know she is a pensioner of the United States & has a pension Certificate under the Act of Feb 3, 1853 Number 3454 and that a true copy thereof is set forth in the foregoing Declaration and that she is the identical person mentioned in said pension Certificate and that she is still a widow and still remains the widow of the said Timothy Allen dies at Hartford aforesaid on the 17th day of July 1834 or thereabouts and that we attended his funeral

Daniel M. Brown
Olive S. Brown
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State of New York
County of Washington } ss.

On this 20th day of August A. D. 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths within & for the County & State aforesaid David Doane who being by me duly sworn did depose & say that he is of the age of sixty seven years. That he is well acquainted with Julana Allen the Declarant in the foregoing Declaration mentioned widow of Timothy Allen Deceased and was well acquainted with the said Timothy Allen in said Declaration mentioned in his life time - that he was present at the marriage between the said Timothy Allen and the said Julana Allen - that said marriage took place at the Town of Hartford in said County where this deponent then resided & still resides about the 6th day of January A. D. 1814 and was solemnized by the Rev Amasa Brown a Baptist Clergyman then pastor of the Baptist Church in said Town that the name of the said Julana Allen before her said marriage was Julana Higby - that the said Timothy Allen in his life time was a pensioner of the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary war - that this deponent during the life time of said Timothy Allen was a Justice of the Peace of said County and as such Magistrate assisted in the Execution & Authentication of papers to Enable the said Timothy to draw his said Pension from the Pension Agent of the United States - that said Timothy Allen died at Hartford aforesaid about the 17th day of July A. D. 1834 and the said Julana Allen is still a widow

David Doane
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State of New York
County of Washington } ss.
On this 20th day of August A. D. 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths within & for the County & State aforesaid Robert Morrison who being by me duly sworn did depose & say that he is of the age of sixty two years & a Resident of Hartford in said County that he is well acquainted with Julana Allen that Declarant in the foregoing Declaration widow of Timothy Allen Deceased - that he was well acquainted with said Timothy Allen in said Declaration mentioned in his life time - that he was present at the Marriage between said Timothy Allen & said Julana Allen then Julana Higby which said Marriage took place at said Town of Hartford about the 6th day of January A. D. 1814. and was solemnized by Rev. Amasa Brown a Baptist Clergyman - that said Timothy Allen died at Hartford aforesaid on the 17th day of July A. D. 1834 and this deponent attended his funeral and that said Julana Allen is still a widow

Robert Morrison

The foregoing Declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day & year above written that is to say. the Declaration of Julana Allen and the affidavit of Daniel M. Brown & Olive S. Brown on the 19th day of August 1856 and the affidavits of David Doane & Robert Morrison on the 20th day of August 1856 And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim and the word "mortgage" in the foregoing Declaration of Julana Allen & the word
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
WASHINGTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss.

I. N. B. MILLIMAN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Warren H. Brown whose name is subscribed to the affidavits & declaration ---------- in writing hereto annexed, was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace ----------------- in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and qualified by law to act as such ---------------- and that his signature subscribed thereto is genuine.
     WITNESS, my hand and official Seal, this 23d day of August ------ 1856

N. B. Milliman CLERK.

[embossed seal to left and illegible edges of words from page below on right]

255.662

Presented by
Warren H. Brown
Hartford
Washington Co.
N. Y.
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"where" in the affidavit of David Doane Erased before the same were subscribed or sworn to

Warren H. Brown Justice of the Peace

[edge of folded paper]

day of August ---------------

N. B. Milliman CLERK.

255.662

Presented by
Warren H. Brown
Hartford
Washington Co. N. Y.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 5601
Julana Allen
Widow
Timothy Allen
Privt Rev war
Act: Feb 3d 1855
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 35

V.
52.613

[illegible, possibly Nev Ansd]
Page 36

17 July 56

The 3d [Auditor] - plan states time of death of Pensioner, & to when paid

F. Burt Esq.
3d [Audr.]
Jan. 5. 54}

Rioss
S Cole
For [illegible, possibly courier]

Timothy Allen, Act 1832
$33.34 per Annum.
Died 17 July 1834. paid

F. Burt
Auditor

see brief
Page 37

Allen
Page 38

Brief in the case of Julana Allen, wid. of Timothy - Washington County and State of New York
act Feb. 3. 53.

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Marriage & identity, by, two accredited witnesses.

(If for increase.)

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Allowed $33.34 per annum, per Feb. 3. 1853

Name and residence of Agent
Hon. C. Hughes,
Ho. of Reps.}

J. F. Adams Examining Clerk.