Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 4114, John Allen, Md.
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Service Md.

Allen, John
          Mary

Number W4114
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5776
Mary Allen
of John
Maryland

Admitted
per Year $80
Cap - Col Williams
Md Line

Died 2nd March 1792
Act 7 July '38
Wm W. Curran
Globe Office
Washt
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State of Maryland)
City of Baltimore)
On this tenth Day of July one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine Personally appeared Mary Allen before the subscribers  Judges of the Orpans Court for the County and City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland age Seventy three years who being First Duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress Passed the 7th July 1838. entitled an act Granting half Pay and Pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of John Allen who enlisted in the 2nd Maryland Regiment on the 6th Day of May 1776 and was discharged in July 1779 and that he the said John Allen was attached to the Maryland Continental Line and She the Said Mary Allen Further declares that She was married to the Said John Allen on the twelfth Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and ninety one by the Reverend Wm Davis of Baltimore County and my said Husband John Allen Departed this life the Second day of March 1972 and she the said Mary Allen has remained a widow ever since the period as will more fully appear by referrence to the proof here unto annesced Sworn to and subscribed on the day above written before us
Wm Baker)
James B. Price)
John H. Briscoe)
Mary Allen
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The State of Maryland 
Baltimore County
I hereby certify that William Baker, James B. Price and John H. Briscoe whose names are above subscribed were at the time of so doing Judges of the Orphans Court for Baltimore being a Court of Record and that their said signature are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this 10th day of July 1839.

Test
D. M. Perine Regr
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State of Maryland Baltimore County

I hereby certify that on the twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one a license issued from the office of the clerk of Baltimore County Court directed to the Reverend Mr. Davis or any other person qualified by law to celebrate the rites of marriage between a certain John Allen and Mary Grover of Baltimore County according to law there appearing to the said Davis no lawful cause of just impediment by reason of any consanguinity or affinity to render the same.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this twenty-first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine

Thos Kell Clerk
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore

Be it remembered that on this 18th April 1840 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of said state in and for the City aforesaid personally appeared Mary Allen widow of John Allen deceased and made oath that she empowered George Dunn of the City of Annapolis State of Maryland to transact all business relative to her pension claim due by the General Government to my deceased husband John Allen and which claim was recovered by said Dunn, in which the said Dunn did act honorable and just in the cases towards me and further she says that she did receive the full amount of said certificate that was due her amounting to the sum of Two hundred and eighty dollars - that payment being made in the presence of her son Elial Allen and her daughter Ann Allen, in which they concur in by their certificate annexed.

Mary Allen
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year first written

Wm A Schaffer

We the undersigned do hereby concur in the above certificate of our mother as set forth above. Witness our hand this 18th April 1840 
Signed in presence of Wm A Schaffer
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State of Maryland Baltimore County

I hereby certify that William A Schaeffer Gentleman before whom the within affidavit was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of said State in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County court this 18th day of April 1840.

Thos Kell - Clerk Balt County Court
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City of Baltimore

Be it remembered that on this twenty second day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared Elizabeth Hatton of the City of Baltimore, wife of Caleb Hatton also of the City of Baltimore aged sixty years on the second day of August last past before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore a foresaid and make oath that she is a daughter of John Allen late of Baltimore County deceased by his first wife Sarah whose maiden name was Mercher and this deponent further saith that she was not present at the marriage of her father and Mary Grover his second wife who is now before me and identified by the said Elizabeth Hatton but that she will recollect the fact that in the month of October seventeen hundred and ninety one her said father left here to be married and that next day he brought home the said Mary Glover now Mary Allen as his wife lived together as man and wife from that time until his death was on the second day of March seventeen hundred and ninety two - and that the said Mary Allen {illegible] hath been a widow ever since.
And now at the same time also appears Alexander
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Alexander Yearly and makes oath that upon information obtained from Elizabeth Hatton in the office of John Scott of the City of Baltimore attorney at law, and by his direction he obtained from the Clerk office the marriage certificate marked A B

Sam Purviance
Justice of the Peace for the state of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore

State of Maryland Baltimore County

I hereby certify that Samuel Purviance Gentleman before whom the aforegoing affidavits were made who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 22nd day of September 1840.

Thos Kell, Clerk
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

I hereby certify that on the twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, a license issued from the office of the Clerk of Baltimore County Court, directed to the Reverend Mr. Davis or any other person qualified by law to celebrate the rites of marriage between a certain John Allen and Mary Grover of Baltimore County according to law there appearing to the said Davis no lawful cause of just impediment by reason of any consanguinity or affinity to hinder the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore County Court his 22nd day of September 1840.

Thos Kell - Clerk

Maryland

I Stevenson Archer Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Maryland and Chief Judge of Baltimore County Court do certify that the foregoing attestation of Thomas Kell Clerk of the said Court is in due form.

Given under my hand at the City of Baltimore twenty second day of September 1840.

Stevenson Archer
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Rejected
3 Mar Apr 5 17
J Mason Campbell Apr 12/15

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Maryland 2482
Mary Allen
widow of John Allen
who was a Private
in the Maryland Line
for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of eighty dollars blank cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the twenty seventh day of October 1843 and sent to 
Alexander Yearley
Baltimore, Maryland

[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 140
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REv WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4114
Mary Allen
Wid.
John Allen
Prv Md Line

Act: March 3rd/43
Index: Vol A Page 8

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Land Office
Annapolis, June 23rd 1839

I certify that it appears by the Muster Rolls remaining in the Office that John Allen enlisted as a private in the Second Maryland Regiment on the 6th day of May 1776 and was discharged on the blank day of July 1779

George G Brown
Register Land Office, W.S.Md.
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Mary Allen
Maryland
Suspended
let 31 Aug 1839
W.W. Curran

Act 7 July 1838
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Mary Allen - Md
Act '38

See letter to Mr. Dunn, June 26, 1840 due to P. Agt & J Scott Sept 23, 1840
(Susp removed) Let to W A Schaffer Oct 14, 1841
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4176
Maryland
Mary Allen
widow of John Allend dec'd
who was a pensioner under the act of blank and who died on the 2 March 1792 of Baltimore Co in the State of Maryland who was a private in the corp commanded by Captain blank of the Regt commanded by blank in the Maryland line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 80 dollars and blank center per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of September 1839 and sent to Wm W Curran Globe Office, Washington

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $280
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '40 $40.00
$320.00

{Act July 7 1838}

Recorded by D McCurdy Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 174

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Susp See letter to P. Agt April 3, 1840
due to Michael Dunn April 29, 1840 do same 25 June 1840 - do to John Scott Sept 18, 1840
do to Same 23 Sept 1840 and to P. Agt Jan
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To the Honourable (Honorable)
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

5776 July 13
Mary
7 July 1838
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Baltimore July 11 1839

Honored Sir

I have enclosed the papers of my mother Mary Allen to whom is making application for a pension from the United States for the services of her deceased husband to which I hope may be found satisfactory.
I remain your
Most Obdt Servant
Eliel Allen

To the Honourable (Honorable)
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Maryland
Baltimore City to wit

On tis tenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-nine before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said city personally appeared Elizabeth Hatton aged about fifty nine years and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that she well knew Mary Allen formerly Mary Grover and knew her to be the identical widow of John Allen who rendered services in the Revolutionary War in the Second Regiment of the Maryland line, and knew her to be the identical person widow and of the above John Allen as above stated to whom the marriage license was issued from the Baltimore County Court on the twelfth day of October seventeen hundred and ninety one and by which license the said parties were lawfully married by the Rev Mr. Davis.

Sworn to before P Gorsuch
Justice of the Peace

Elizabeth Hatton

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Hatton and know her to be a Lady of veracity and credibility and her oath would be taken in any court of Justice.

P Gorsuch - Justice of the Peace
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

I hereby certify that Peregrine Gorsuch Gentleman before whom the within affidavit was made and certificate given was at the time of so doing one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe y name and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court on this 10 day of September 1839.

Thos Kell 
Clerk of
Baltimore Co Court
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore to wit

On tis tenth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-nine before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said city personally appeared Thomas Inloes aged seventy nine years and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he well knew John Allen as they were raised boys together and knew when he was in the service of the United States as a revolutionary soldier and well knows that he is the identical John Allen that rendered the services in the Second Maryland Regiment under the command of Colonel Smallwood in the continental army.

John Inloes
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year as above written

John Wright - J.P.

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Inloes who hath signed and sworn to the above and believe him to be a man of veracity and credit and that his oath would be taken in any court of Justice.

John Wright - J.P.

State of Maryland Baltimore County - I hereby certify that John Wright Gentleman, before whom the above deposition was made and who has signed his name thereto was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of said state in and for the city of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 11th day of July 1839.

Thos Kell
Clerk of Balt Co Court
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Oct 13 1839
Mary Allen

petition of 
Mr. P P Potee
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Balt October 10, 1841

Dear Sir

You will please send me a copy of the deposition of Mary Allen widow of John Allen Revolutionary Soldier in the case of George Dunn of Annapolis - I wish it to be used as evidence in a case now pending in Balt County Court 

Your favor will greatly oblige

Your obedient servant

Wm A Scheffer
Justice of the Peace
City of Balt

To J L Edwards, Esq
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Balt Apr 1st 1865

To the
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir

Mrs. Mary Allen whose husband was a revolutionary soldier from Maryland, received a pension from the U.S. till her death in 1847. Her daughter Ann Allen an aged maiden lady wishes to know if she is entitled by any law to a continuance of the pension. I will be obliged to you if you will let me know if she has any claim on the facts above stated.

Very resply

J. Mason Campbell
per Daniel M. Thomas
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Free

J.L. Edwards, Eqsr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

3275 July 21, 1843
Mary Allen
[illegible]
Md
$80 per year
2482
Alex Yearley 140
Baltimore
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On this 20th day of July eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore aforesaid, Mary Allen a resident of this city aged 78 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of congress passed on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.

That she is the widow of John Allen who was a private in the Maryland line under General Smallwood in the war of the revolution and that she received a pension of eighty dollars per annum under the act of July 7th 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Winess - Jas P Heath

Mary Allen
Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me and I do hereby certify that the above named declarant Mary Allen is personally known to me.

Jas P Heath
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State of Maryland Baltimore County for
I hereby certify that James P. Heath Esquire before whom the within deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commission and sworn in testimony where of I hereto set my hand and office the seal of Baltimore County Court on this 20th day of July 1843.
Thos Kell
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Baltimore July 20th, 1843
JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Herewith I send you my application and declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have obtained Pensions under the act of July 1838.

Be pleased to direct to me to the care of Alex Yearly, Baltimore [page is distorted]

Very Respectfully
I am your obedient servant
Mary Allen

Witness
Henry Working
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Sept 12
[illegible]
Mr. Allen
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Mr. Edwards

I send you enclosed the further testimony in the case of Mr. Allen which I think is all sufficient. Please have it examined without delay and oblige.

Yours

Wm W Curran
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office

April 7, 1865

Sir

In reply to your letter of 5th inst: I have to inform you that the pension of Mrs. Mary Allen (Maryland Act of July '38) has been paid in full to the date of her death 12 July 1847 her only child Ann Allen receiving the amount.

Very respectfully
John Wilson
Auditor

Joseph H Barrett

Commissioner of Pensions
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BALTIMORE STAMP: Sep 17

Sept 18, 1846
Mary Allen
[illegible]

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Baltimore, 17th Sept 1840

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Mary Allen of Maryland widow of John Allen deceased holds a pension certificate for eighty dollars per annum recorded in the pension office in Book A Vol 2 Page 174 upon which payment has been made up the 4th March last part but the agent now declines making any more payments without further instructions from the department.

I can very well understand that a [illegible] and fraud has been practiced upon this poor old woman by  Dunn who obtained her pension certificate for her and who has as I have been informed pocketed the far greater portion of the money which has been paid upon it - but from all I can learn the panel has intended no further that I have stated and am therefore at a loss to know why
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why the payment due to her on 4th March has been withheld from her and I shall be pleased to hear from you in reply.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Serv
John Scott
Atty at Law
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Aug 31

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Wash City D.C.

Mr. W.W. Curran
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Washington, Aug 31, 1839

Sir

I have received a letter from Mrs. Mary Allen of Baltimore informing me that she forwarded to your department a few weeks since her application for a pension. It is her wish that I attend to the prosecution of the same. Should there be any informality in the papers upon which she makes the application will Mr. Edwards be pleased to inform me of it, she having given me full power to attend to it and to put the papers in form if found necessary and to receive for her the certificate should one be issued. I shall be pleased to receive any communication from your Department touching the matter. The case of Mrs. Rosanna Miller of Baltimore I would also beg leave to call your attention to.

With great respect
Your Obd Serv.

Wm W. Curran

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pen.
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Jus L Edwards, Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Baltimore, 22nd Sept 1840

Sir

I have received your letter of 18th inst. on the subject of the suspension of the pension of Mary Allen and have endeavored to obviate the existing difficulty by the enclosed affidavit.

Of all the parties it is proper to say that I know nothing except Mr. Alexr Yearly who has been acting as their friend but Mr. Yearly is a man of as high character as any in this city.

I remain
very respectfully
your obt serv
John Scott
Atty at Law

Jas L. Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions