Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8,094, Cyrus Allen, Conn.
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(3 - 1776 )
    SERVICE                                                        NUMBER       
Conn.               Allen Cyrus                          W. 8094
                              Eleanor
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CONTENTS
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29.685 Vermont
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Cyrus Allen
Troy in the State of Vermont
he was a private in the Camp commanded
Captain Allen of the Reg commanded
Col. Canfield in the Connecticut
troops
              1 year
Orleans County
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on the Roll of Vermont
the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of June
1835. and sent Hon S.
Prentiss, Senate Us
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1834                        140
emi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 35                  20
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                                                                          160
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⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
     Act June 7, 1832. ⎬
ecorded by    R Elee   Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 3 Page 53
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Cyrus Allen's
Declaration


1834
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1772




Cyrus Allen's 
Declaration
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Cyrus Allen No 31.485
    Vermont
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State of Vermont ⎬      At a Probate Court holden
Orleans District  ss.      at Benton within and for the
district of Orleans aforesaid on this 15th day
of January A.D. 1834, Personally appeared
in Open Court Cyrus Allen a resident of
Troy in said district aged sixty two years
(on the 14th day of October 1833) 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 7th 1832 That he entered
the service of the United States and served in
the war of the Revolution as herein stated-
That in the year 1782 in the month of
March or April he entered the service as
Waiter to his Father Capt. Daniel Allen and
served one year as he always supposed and
believed but according to the wages which his
Father received for his services he must have
served a few days over a year as will appear
by a document which accompanies this
declaration marked (A) wherein Capt Daniel
Allen is credited £24..9..4 for his sons wages -
and for further evidence the applicant refers
to a letter written the 20th July 1782 the fore
part of said letter by his Father to his mother
which letter accompanies this declaration
marked (B) was stationed at Stamford
in the State of Connecticut during the
whole of his service he belonged to Col
Canfield Regiment and the other companies
which were stationed at that place during his
services were commanded by Cap Miles, Capt
Stodard, and Capt. Granger    Dana
was Maj   Bissel was Lieut and
Elias Robinson was Ensign in his Father
Daniel Allen Company to which he belonged
he states that they had no battles during the
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the time of his service and their buisness was os-
tensibley to prevent the depredations of the Cow boys
who were making depredations upon the Inhabitants
and on one of their excurtions they killed a man
belonging to his Fathers Company by the name of
Rice-
He was born in Ashford in the State of Connecticut
where he supposes is a record of his age in the
Town Clerks Office where he resided until
about two years after the close of Revolutionary 
War when he removed with his Fathers family
into the Town of Landgrove, Bennington County
Vermont where he lived about five
years then removed to Hanover in the State of
Newhampshire where he lived and in Lebanon
a town adjoining about nine years then removed
to Haverhill where he resided until March last
when he removed to Troy in the State 
of Vermont his present place of residence-
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
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
                                                        Cyrus Allen

I John Adams of Barton in the County of Orleans
and State of Vermont aged 71 years and a Revolutionary
Pensioner do testify and say that in the month of April
1782 I enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War in Col
Samuel Canfields Regiment, in Capt. Charles Miles Company
Elias Robinson who was my Ensign in Capt Daniel Allen's Company
applyed to Capt Miles to let me leave his (Milles) Company and
serve him (Robinson) as waiter as I was his waiter the year previous
which Miles consented to and I served as waiter to said Robinson
during that year and I know that Cyrus Allen who now
lives in Troy in said Orleans County was waiter that year
to his Father Capt Daniel Allen, and although he
was but a youth of about twelve years of age be per-
formed all the duties required of him and would often
stand as a sentinal although that duty was not required
of those who did duty as waiters and I know that he was 
an uncommon Stout resolute boy for one of that age
Sworn and subscribed to as aforesaid 
                                      John Adams
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the war Department that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and
served as he states, and the court further certifies
that John Adams who has signed the preceding
certificate is a resident in Barton said District
and is a credible person and that his statement
is entitled to credit
I John H. Kimball Register of said Court do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
Original proceeding of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Cyrus Allen
for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 15th
day of January A.D. 1834-
                         John H. Kimball Register
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I Azubah Carpenter of Kane County
of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire
depose and say that I was sixty eight years
of age last March - that I was the daughter
of Captain Daniel Allen deceased, formerly
of Ashford in the County of Windham and
State of Connecticut, and his oldest daughter
That Cyrus Allen now of Troy, Vermont
is my brother and was my fathers oldist
Son - That I well recollect my fathers
being absent in the service in the Revolutionary
war - in the last part of the war - recollect
distinctly his going from home and his
return - That I also well recollect that
my brother Cyrus Allen before named went
with him from home, as his waiter.- That
they left home in the spring & were about
the following winter-- that it was as I think
in the years service or State service so called.
That I never had any other Brother in
the service. That I had frequent con-
versations with my said Brother after his
return about what he had ken & where
he had been or - He was younger than
me and I should think must have been
between ten & twelve when he went from
name as before stated
                                      Azubah Carpenter
Cheshire County
September 9. 1834
             Subscribed & sworn to
                  Before me
                            Thomas M Edwards
                                        Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above deponent is known
to me as a credible person of unquestionable
veracity.-
                                 Thomas M Edwards
                                         Justice of the Peace
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    I David Carpenter of Kane County of
Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, aged
seventy five years, depose and say that I formerly
lived in Ashford in the State of Connecticut
that I there married into the family of
Captain Daniel Allen to Arubah Allen who
was the oldest daughter of said Daniel Allen
    That I well knew said Daniel Allen & his
family and among them Cyrus Allen his
oldest son, during the Revolutionary War
    That said Cyrus went into the service
in the latter part of the War as the waiter
to his father. - That I recollect a conversation
with him just before he left home where
there was a general training-- I had been
then several times in the service, and
talked to him about his going into the
service so young-- no other son of said
Daniel Allen was in the service during the
war -  said Ctrus Allen now lives in Troy
Vermont. -
                                           David Carpenter
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss.    Sept 9. 1834
    Subscribed sworn to
          Before me Thomas M Edwards Jus Peace

I certify that the above deponent is a person
of undoubted veracity.-
                            Thomas M Edwards Jus Peace
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            Depositions
                  for Cyrus Allen

State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire County ss.       }
         I Honig Coolidge Clerk of the
Superior Court of Judicature for
said County, do hereby certify that
Thomas M. Edwards is a Justice of
the Peace duly qualified, in and for said
County and that I believe his signature
annexed to the within to be genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court this ninth day of September A.D. 1834
                                   H. Coolidge Clerk
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Eleanor Allen

Marriage
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State of New Hampshire County of
Grafton & Town of Lebanon
      " Cyrus Allen & Eleanor Fitch both of
Lebanon were Married            tenth, Eighteen
Hundred & one"
         By me Elisha Payne, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above is a true copy of the
record with the exception of the date which
is expressed on the record in fair legible figures
as follows. viz.-         10th 1801
                            Timothy Kenrick Town Clerk
I Timothy Kenrick above named depose and
say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town
County and State aforesaid and that the
above is a true extract from the records of
said town, with the exception above named
as certified by me
               Timothy Kenrick Town Clerk of Lebanon

State of New Hampshire Grafton September 2, 1853
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify
that I have no interest in the claim of
Eleanor Allen to a pension & am not
concerned in its prosecution
                      Elijah Blasdell Justice of the Peace
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                                           State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County ss.

                        I T. M Gilmore Clerk of the Supreme
Court of Judication within and for the County and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that Elijah Blasdell before
whom the within instrument was subscribed and sworn to
was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Grafton and State aforesaid duly
commissioned and qualified and authorized to admin-
ister Oaths &c and that the signature of said Justice within
is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court the 10th day of September
A D 1853
                         T M Gilmore Clerk
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State of Vermont                 }
Orleans County & District ss} Be it remembered
that at a Probate Court holden at the
Probate office in Irasburgh in said Dist,
and County aforesaid before the Hon Geo,
Bye, Judge of said Court, on the 30th day
of December AD. 1853, Personally came
Robert Kay, administrator of the Estate of
Eleanor Allen, Widow of Cyrus Allen, both de-
ceased, who first being duly sworn acc-
ording to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the provisions made by the
act of Congress passed on the 3d Feby
1853, granting pensions to Widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary War
that she was the Widow of Cyrus Allen
who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolu-
tion, and for said service drew a pension
at the rate of $40, pr annum for proof the
Hon Comr of Pension is respectfully referred
to his papers now on file in the Pension
Office & to his Pension Certificate which
is to be herewith Surrendered. He further
declares that she the said Eleanor Allen
was married to the said Cyrus Allen, in
Lebanon N.H. on the    day of          A.D
18.   That her said husband, the said Cyrus
Allen, died on the     day of            A. D. 184?.
and that the said Widow Elanor Allen,
died on the              day of              A.D. 1852,
That she was not married to the said
Allen prior to the 2d day of Jany 1800
                                                       ( over )
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but at the time above stated. He further
declares that she ever remains the Widow of
said Allen from his death until her death

                            Robert Kay Administrator
                                                as aforesaid
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day
and year above written
                 before me
               Geo Nye
                                      Judge of said Court,

State of Vermont      }
District of Orleans ss.}   I  S. D. Kimball
Register of Probate, for the District of
Orleans, certify that at a Probate
Court holden at the Probate Office in
Irasburgh in said Dist, of Orleans on this
30 day of December, 1853, the foregoing
proceedings were had. - That George Nye
is Judge of said Court, and that his
Signature to the foregoing certificate is
genuine
Given under my hand and seal
of Office at the Probate office
in Irasburgh the day & year last
above written,
                     S. D. Kimball,
                                      Register
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S. Allen's affidavit
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State of Vermont
Orleans County ⎬    S. S. G. Kimball, Clerk
                              of Orleans County Court
in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify
that John H. Woodman, Esq, whose Genuine
signature is attached to the foregoing certificate
is an acting Justice of the Peace within and
for the County of Orleans, duly qualified
and authorized by the laws of this State
to administer oaths,
Given under my hand and
Seal of Office, at Irasburgh
in said County of Orleans
this 6th day of February A.D.
1854
                             S. D. Kimball, Clerk
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I, Sumner Allen of Barton in the County of
Orleans aged 51 years, depose and say
that I am son of Cyrus & Eleanor Allen
late of Troy in said Orleans County deceased
I attended the funeral of both of my said
Parents, which took place as follows (viz) my said
father was burried on the 30th day of March
A.D. 1851, & my Said mother on the 12- day of
Sept 1853, T. L. Tenney of Glover in said Orleans
County officiated as Clergyman at both of
their said funerals, my father was a U.S.
Pensioner, at the rate of $40 per Annum
My said Mother Eleanor Allen remained a
Widow from the death of my said
father untill her death,
                                         Sumner Allen

State of Vermont
Orleans Count ss⎬ At Barton in said
                          County of Orleans on this
6th day of Feby, A. D. 1854 personally came
Summer Allen & Signed and made oath to the truth
of the above affidavit before me. - I certify that
deponant is a man of truth,
                                  John Le Woodman Justice
                                                                 Peace
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Widow decd
Sep 10, 1853
7 Mo. 37 days
at $40 per annum

Children
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State of Vermont             Probate Office Irasburgh
Orleans District ss.          18 March 1854
                            I Geo Nye Judge of Probate
in and for the District of Orleans aforesaid
                             Hereby Certify
That at a Probate Court holden at the Probate
Office at Irasburgh in and for the District aforesd
on the 18th day of March AD 1854, Satisfactory
evidence was adduced, that Wid Eleanor Allen
died in the Town of Troy Orleans County Vermont
on the 10th day of September AD 1853; and that
she left seven children which so far as known
now survice viz. J F. Allen, Charles B Allen, Mary
Townsend, Almira Allen, Roxana Kay, Hannah
Merrill & Sumner Allen: and that they are the heirs
and only heirs of the said Eleanor Allen deceased
    And that at a Probate Court holden on the
30th day of December AD 1853 Robert Kay the husband
of Roxana Kay was duly appointed Administrator 
of Eleanor Allen deceased and gave the bonds
required by law; all of which appears from the
records and files of the Probate Court,
    In witness whereof I hereunto affix
    my official signature and seal of
    Office on the day and year first
    above written
                                       Geo. Nye Judge
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July 1. 1903- His to
Dr. W. T. Slayton- Hyde Park, Vt.

Revolution
            Connecticut
                       WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8094
Eleanor Allen
Wid.
Cyrus Allen
Pvt Rev War
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Act: Feby 3d 1853.
Index:--Vol.  A   Page- 8

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No   5083
Children of
Eleanor Allen wdo
of Cyrus
Let to S.D. Kimball
       17 1854
Allowed $40 per annum
for Elenor Allen decd who was
the widow of Cyrus Allen to com-
mence on the 3 of February 1853 and
end on the 10th of Sept 1853- the date
her death - payable to Robert Kay
admr to be equally distributed
between J F Allen Charles B. Allen Mary
Townshend, Almira Allen, Roxana Kay
Hannah Merrill & Sumner Allen, only
surviving heirs of the said Eleanor Allen
deceased
              Act Feb 3/53
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14 Feby            Pension Office
                              February 14/54
               4  M  51
Sir
    Please report time of
last payment to, or death

of within named pensioner

                             Respectfully &c
F Burt Esqr
3 aud                            S. Cole
Present                               for Comr

Cyrus Allen Act 1832
$40 per annum Paid
to 4 Mar 18571. No death

                              F Burt
                               Auditor
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                         Pension Office
                                     February 13/54
Sir,
      Dennis Trammel was placed
upon
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4168
Vermont,  Burlington
Eleanor Allen decd.
widow of
              Cyrus Allen
who served in the Revolution-
any war, as a private
X Ending Sept 10 1853
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of  40  Dollars  00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853. X
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Certificate of Pension issued
23d day of May 1834
and sent to
S. D. Kimball
Irasburgh
Orleans Co.
           Vt.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 25 Vol. A
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Cyrus Allen
Vermont
Rejected Let
to Jno H. Kimball
Barton Vt July 11, 1834

admit order of
Secy of War
1 year
$40

Act June 7, 1832
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Sent Soldiers
Wages
(A)
( see letter of inside)

Calvin Preston Enlistment dated from
(unreadable)
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Capt  Allen Dr

one months pay in the
Spring                                                     £12 ---
By Cash                                                     10 ---
By half months pay                                     
pr. Col. Devenport -                                   6--- 
by Cloathing--                                         10.15--
By order at Hartford -                            116.19
By orders at Ashford..                                4 17 8
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                                                               160.4  8
Joseph Allen Dr
To Pr. Shoes & Pr Stockings
                                           £14---

Levy Bumpus  Dr.
   to Shoes & Stockings     £12--
X Saml. Aspenwall Dr
To Sundries in Clothing         1 ,1 ,6
To removing from Stamford  1 .5 .6
                                             £2 .7 .0

Benjm' Bankster Dr
For Cloathing                         £6---                   
room & bording for ????         1---
                                            ----------
                                               £7---


Contra
        By wages for service
Byone order from Postman      £2 .4 .8
                                                         14
                                                    ------
                                                     2.5. 2
                                                          14
                                                  --------
                                 due          £ 2 .4 .8 

Contra
       By wages for service          £20  4
                                                       12     
                                 due          £19 .12  
                                              -----------   
Contra
By wages                                  £24 18  8
                                                     7
                                              ----------------
                                due            17 18  8
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John Bush Dr
to two pr shoes                                   £0 .16

X John Clerk D.
To Cloathing & orders                       £15  9  9

Cyrus Cleaveland L'
        To cloathing & orders on wagons
                                                           £10 17

Jos Colborn Cred'
By wages &c                                      £23 4  2
 Norwich 21 Novr for Colborn Dr Train order                           
of Seven hound                                   25 4  2 
                                                              7
                                                         -----------
X Benj' Dimock                                    18 4  2

                                                     due £14 14  6
David Lee
                                                    due  £20 19 10

Reuben Robinson
                                                 due     £18 -7 -10
Eben. Talbot
                                                   due   £18  3 10
Sam Perry                                   due   £23:17: 8
X Sergt Coon                              due X£9-10--
Serg Spencer                              due   £1- 10-
2d Lt. Baldwin,                            due   £6---


X Contra By wages for services           £29- 5-
                                                                   16
                                                    due  £21 ; 9-

X Contra By wages for Service            £24
                                                              15--9--9
                                                    due  £ 8-10- 3

X Contra By wages for services & orders
in his ??                                                £25-19- 4
                                                              10--07
                                                     due  £15- 9- 4

James Chandler Cred
By wages &c                                          £ .95 7

X Ephm Hollis                               due   £4- 7- 2

X Asa Martin Due on wages                  £10 -7 -4
X Saml Thowdne                           due  £18- 7- 8
Sergt Whiton
       Ensn Cutler                             due  £7 ----
 Refd of ??? for his gun                            2 -16--
Ebenr Luce                                     due X£17 -6--
Israel Clerkdne                               due   £ 1-19 -7
Jos Crais                                         due   £1- 4---
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Garison Near Stamford July 20 '78
Dearest         Garison
I have the pleasure to inform you that I am well
Cyrus is well and makes a hardy Soldier he has
been on guard wile he says he can eat twice
much as when he lived at home
I have no new to wright some talk of peece some
of war however Both armies ly Still at present
We are in some expectation of a french fleet
if they should com No dought we may be more
active on the ofencive - I saw both armies by Hill
I mean the main Bodies their or some small
scouts out and there is som of Infamus Said
Cow boys scattering in the wood and the
there Besiness is to Steel Cattle and Defect to
the enemy we have lately taken some of them &
I dont know as I can com home Untill winter
would advise you to agree with some body for hay
or keeping for the Cows next winter -
Immediately after I came to this place which is
three mile from Stamford town I inquired into
the Surcumstance of the sickness and Both of our
Brothers Samuel I found it as we had hand I further
inquired into matter of his Effects and Expenses
Sickness found the Cemetary taken by Capt David
Webb & Doct Cogswell the haol amount is between
Seven and Eight pound the Bill of Expene against
him is abut Fourteen pounds
                                            your Effectionet husband
Place to shew this to
Father Allen                                                 D. Allan
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Hanover Sunday 13th day of March 1779
Enquire for peace by all
                                                      Hanover
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To

Capt Daniel Allen
Ashford

Favor by
W Bumpas                              (El)
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I Eber Robinson of Holland County of Orleans and
State of Vermont formerly of Windham County of
Windham & State of Connecticut do testify and say
that early in the Spring AD 1782 was appointed an Ensn
in Capt Danl Allens Company Col Saml Canfield
Regt of Connecticut State Troops and that I served in
sd Company one year & I further say that Cyrus
Allen son of Capt Allen then a stout Boy of between
ten and twelve years old (as I then and now Judge)
was an enrolled soldier in sd Company that he served
principaly as his Fathers waiter but that at times
he did company duty as I assisted his Father in setting
with his company I know that he drew his pay as
a Soldier in sd company and I further say that I am
very certain that Cyrus Allen now of Troy in Orleans
County is the same Identical person that then serv'd in
his Fathers company
                                   Eber Robinson
State of Vermont } 
Orleans County ss}  August 26th 1834
Then Personally appeared before the under signer and made oath
to the truth of the above affidavit Eber Robinson the subscri-
ber  to the same. I also certify that the said Eber Robinson is a
credible witness
                          Attest Timo-  Hinman  Just of Peace
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State of Vermont  }
Orleans County ss } I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans
County Court do hereby certify that
Timo Hinman who has affixed
his name to the within is a magis-
trate duly qualified and that I
believe the same to be his genuine
Signature
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of said Court at Irasburgh this
6 day of September 1834
                                           Ira H. Allen Clerk

Elias Robinson
deposition
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State of Vermont  }   at a Probate Court holden at
Orleans District  ss}  Holland within and for said district
of Orleans on this 4th day of February 1834 appears
Eber Robinson a resident of said Holland a Revoluti-
onary Pensioner aged 74 years and makes the
following declaration or affidavit
I Eber Robinson of Holland do testify and say
that in the last year of the war of the Revolution
I served as an Ensign in Capt Daniel Allens
Company was stationed most of the time in Stam-
ford in the State of Connecticut and I know
that Cyrus Allen a son of Capt Allen
served that year as waiter to his Father and
although he was not required to stand on Guard
or go out on scouting parties as he was waiter he would frequently
from choice preform that service and although
he was but a youth of about twelve years of age
I at that time had rather have him with me on
a scouting party than one half of the soldiers take them
as they then would rise and on one instance as
we were going out on a scouting party to watch
the cow boys I said to him Cyrus you had better 
not go for they will kill you, he replied I am so
small that he will not be half so likely to kill me ┃
as they meare to kill you

Sworn and Subscribed to the day and year afore
                                               Eber Robinson
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Payment to be made
Burlington
by Presd Bank of Burlington
Agent for paying Pension-
ers in the Agency of
Vermont

Recorded in the Pension
Office in Book F2 Vol. 3
Page 53 by  Elce
                     Clerk.
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                            WAR DEPARTMENT

                          REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United 
States, of the 7th June, 1832, Cyrus Allen
of the State of Vermont
who was a private in the War of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Forty dollars and
 --- cents per annum, during his natural life, com-
mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-
annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in
every year
Given at the War Office of the United
States this 28th day of
January one thousand eight
hundred and thirty five
                                          Lew Cass
                                           Secretary of War
Examined and  }
Countersigned. }
                           J L. Edwards
                                      Commissioner of Pensions.

March 1835 2 years in Troy
previous in Haverhill NH
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T. J. Tenney's
    affidavit
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State of Vermont    }
Orleans County, ss. }    I S. D. Kimball, Clerk
                               of Orleans County Court
do hereby certify that H. S. Chaplin, Esq. whose
genuine signature is attached to the foreg-
oing certificate is an acting Justice of the
Peace within and for the County of Orleans
duly qualified and authorized by the
law of this State to administer oaths.
Given under my hand and seal
of Office this 16th day of February
A.D. 1854.
                                        S.D. Kimball, Clerk
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I T. J. Tenney of Glover in the county of
Orleans State of Vermont of lawful age 
depose & say
      That I am preacher at the Gos-
pel, that on the 30th of March A.D. 1851, at Troy
in said County of Orleans I preached the
funeral service of Cyrus Allen an aged
pensioner who died on the 28 day of said March
I was informed he left a Widow  - when funeral
I attended on the 11th day of September A.D. 1853
and preached the sermon she did as I was infor-
med on the 10th of said September, she died the
Widow of said Cyrus Allen
                                             T. J. Tenney

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss⎬   At Glover in said
                      County of Orleans on the
6th day of July A.D. 1854 personally Came
T. J. Tenney, who signed & made oath to the
truth of the foregoing affidavit before and I
certify that deponent is a preacher of the
Gospel, & in the whose whole statements are
entitled to full credit
                               H S Chaplin-  Justice Peace
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S. D. Kimball
Letter
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                           Irasburgh February 7 1854
                                  Vermont
Sir
Herewith Enclosed please find the papers
of Robert, Kay Administrator of the late
Eleanor Allen,
            Cyrus Allens Pension Certificate
is herewith surrendered, there as a trifle due
on it Will you please send me a form of in-
structions how to proceed to obtain if if
will not cost more than it will come
to if so let it go.
                        Respectfully your
                             Obt. Svnt,
                          S. D. Kimball


 Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Commis of Pensions
     Washington, D.C.
Page 43


                        Barton, Vt. May 7th1854,
Sir:-
Enclosed please find the certificate of the Judge
of Probate, agreeable to the instructions in your
late leller, (the date I cannot give for I have not the
letter before me) all the other papers in this
case are now on file in your office,
   Declaration is in the name of the
administrator, Robert Kay.
                            I am Sir Respectfully
                               Your Obt Serv
                                          S. D. Kimball

Hon L. P. Waldo
     Comr of Pensions
           Washington, D.C.
Page 44


Brief in the case of Elenor Allen decd who was the widow of Cyrus
Orleans County and State of Vermont
act of February 3, 1853
-------------------------------------
Claim, original " or " for increase)
Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Cyrus Allen was a pensioner at $40 per annum
and paid
Elenor Allen
his widow died September
10, 1853. leaving J. F Allen, Charles B Allen
Mary Townshend, Almira Allen, Roxana Kay
Hannah Merrill & Sumner Allen, only surviving
(If for increase.)   children
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
Marriage proven by public record

Death of pensioner & widow known by credible witnesses
Identity & Widowhood by credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
S.D. Kimball                                                                    Examining Clerk.
     Irasburgh                                                                       J L Gray
         Orleans Co
                   Vt.
Page 45



STATE OF VERMONT,  }  I S. D. Kimball Clerk of the County Court of the
Orleans COUNTY.. SS. }  County of Orleans in the State of Vermont.
do hereby certify that John W. Mussey Esq

is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county
duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was
dated on the 30th of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  53,
and will expire on the thirtieth day of November next, and
that his signature to the within Certificate

Given underCourt,                    this Court, this 3d day of
   June  A. D. 185?

                                                 S. D. Kimball Clerk
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⎬
16.
five
Page 46

I Hinderson C Willson of Troy in the County of
of Orleans & State of Vermont of lawful age
depose and say, That I reside within some two or
3 miles of Robert Kays of Said Troy that
Cyrus Allen, & his wife Elanor Allen, were living
with the said Ray whenI first became acqu-
=ainted with them, which was some years prior
to the death of said Allen which took place
some years since, Mrs. Allen Continued to live
with the said Robert Kay as the Widow of
the said Cyrus Allen untill her death, which
took place, in the fall of 1853,
                              They were aged people
and the said Cyrus Allen was reputed to have
been a U.S. Pensioner, but I had no personal
knowlage, of the fact, and I know that the
said Elanor Allen, Continued the Widow of the
said Cyrus Allen until her death as above
stated,
                                                         H. C. Wilson
State of Vermont  }
County of Orleans} Ss.     At Irasburgh in
said County of Orleans on this 2d day of
January 1854, personally came Hinderson C.
Willson, and signed and made oath
to the truth of the above affidavit before
me, I certify that I am personally
acquainted with deponant and that
he is a credible witness
    John W Mussey        Justice Peace
Page 47

I Curtis Elkins of Troy in the County of
Orleans and State of Vermont of lawful age
depose & say,
That for a long time of years
prior to the death of Cyrus Allen late of
said Troy deceased which deceive the plate
2 or 3 year since, If I recollect right I heard ??? of
said Allen, I understood that he was U. States
same when he will he left a Widow Viz Elanor
Allen with whom he had ever lived as his lawful
wife from my first acquaintance with him
which was at least 15 years, when Mr. Allen
died he was living with Robert Kay who
married a daughter of Said Allen, his
Widow the said Eleanor Allen Continued to
reside in the family of said Kay until
her death, which took place some 3 or 4
months since
                  Curtis Elkins Jr
State of Vermont
County of Orleans, ⎬ ss At Irasburgh in said
County of Orleans on this 2d day of January
A.D. 1853, personally came Curtis Elkins Jr and
Signed and made oath to the truth of the above
affidavit before me. I certify that I am
personally acquainted with deponant and
know him to be a man whose statements are
entitled to full credit.
     John W Mussey       Justice Peace
Page 48

John Adams
deposition


Hon. S. Prentiss
             Senate
Page 49

I John Adams of Barton in the County of Orleans
and State of Vermont do testify and say that
some time in the month of January last I was called
upon to give my testimony in support of the
claim of Cyrus Allen of Troy in this County
for a pension. I accordingly gave my testimony
stating that he the said Cyrus served one year in
the American army as waiter to his Father Capt.
Daniel Allen that he entered the army in the
spring of the year 1782 as I stated in my former
testimony and served as I herein stated - I further
state that (that) the said Cyrus was enrolled in
the company and was called morning and evening
to answer to his name as other soldiers, and although
according as he states his age to be (he being now
present) he could not have been only between the
age of ten and eleven years at the time he entered
the army and I know (notwithstanding his tender age)
(and was not required to do that service) (being waiter) that he often took his turn standing on sentry and going out on scouting parties to watch the cow boys and
I am fully persuaded that this same Cyrus Allen
who now live in Troy before stated (with whom I have
this day conversed) must be the same Cyrus Allen
who served as waiter to Capt Daniel Allen as before
stated as no person could have the knowledge of what
took place during that year campain that the
said Cyrus Allen has unless they had been present --
and I further state that the looks of the said Cyrus
now alluded to is almost an exact likeness of the said
Capt. Daniel Allen before alluded to,-- and I further
state that the said Cyrus Allen at the time he served
with me in the war (as stated in my former and present testimony)
was an uncommon large stout boy of his age and for courage
and resolution he exceeded any boy that I had ever seen as there
was no place or danger where he had any fears to go --
                                                      John Adams
Page 50

State of Vermont ⎬}       At a Probate Court holden
Orleans District ss..}        at Barton in said District on
this 22d day of December 1834 personally appeared
before said Count John Adams a resident of
said Barton and signer of the within certificate
and made oath that the same is true
And the Court further certifies that the said
Adams is a credible person.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
22d day of December 1834
                            John H. Kimball Register


John Adams
deposition

Hon S. Prentiss
            Senate
Page 51

@R
                                OFFICE OF
WILLIAM T. SLAYTON, M. D.,
                   HYDE PARK, VT.

June 23 1933
---------------
        MEMBER OF
American Medical Association.
Vermont State Medical Society.
The Harvard University Medical Alumni Association.
Fellow Massachusetts Medical Society.
       EXAMINER FOR
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York.
Surgeon Commercial Travelers Accident Assoc. of America.

Commisioner of Pensions
Washington
         D.C.
Dear Sir
           Will you kindly furnish me with a statement
of the revolutionary service of Cyrus Allen, Said Allen
was in a Connecicut Company and at the time
of his death in 1851 was a resident of Troy and
was pensioned. I wish to know in particular the
places and dates of his birth and marriage

                                I am respectfully
                                         W. T. Slayton

PENSION
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U.  25  S.
   1903
  OFFICE