Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4624, Robert Allen, Vt.
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Service
Vt.   Allen, Robert
                  Mary
Number 
W. 4624
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Blank
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State of Wisconsin
Dodge County
Nancy Mosher having duly sworn says she is the daughter of Robert and Mary Allen in the annexed Affidavit or declaration of this Mary Allen named, and that she is aged fifty four years, and resides in Chester in Dodge County aforesaid.  That she attended the funeral of said Robert Allen, and knows that he died at Claridon, Marion County Ohio, Sept. 9, 1823, as stated in said annexed Affidavit or declaration.
Sworn [illegible] before me February 26th 1851, Samuel L. Rose, County Judge
Nancy Mosher
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State of Wisconsin
Dodge County I Samuel L.
Rose County Judge and Judge
of Probate in said County do
certify that the foregoing affidavits
were severally taken before me as
such Judge, while sitting in open
Court, as Judge of Probate, at a
term thereof appointed at the residence of the said Mary Allen, for
this same purpose, in consequence of her inability from infirmity
to attend at the noted term of said
Court.
In testimony whereof I
have to affixed my official at
law and in Probate, this 26
day of February A.D. 1857
S. L. Rose
County Judge
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The State of Ohio
Licking County  Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for said
County of Licking personally came Samuel White of Lawful age of said Licking County
who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty six his sister Mary White was married
to one Robert Allen who was afterwards a soldier
in the war of Eighteen hundred and twelve,
from the State of Vermont that the deponent was present at the said Marriage of the said
Robert Allen to his said sister Mary and which
took place in the town of Dorset in the said State of Vermont, and the deponent further states that his said sister Mary Allen
is now living the widow of the said Robert Allen in Dodge County in the State of Wisconsin .
Sam White
Sworn to Subscribed before me this 31st day
of March A.D. 1851
John Lunceford
Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Licking County
I G. Brady Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said
County hereby certify that John Lunceford Esqr before
whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken
was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice
of the peace for said County duly commissioned & qualified
and that his signature is genuine
Witness my hand the seal of said Court at Newark Ohio this 31st March
A D 1851
G Brady Clerk
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Mary Allen's
Declaration

C.W. Bennett
present
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State of Wisconsin
County of Dodge
On this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me the undersigned Samuel L. Rose County Judge and Lawyer of Probate in and for the county of Dodge aforesaid, in open court, Mary Allen, a resident of Chester in the County of Dodge aforesaid aged ninety one years, and who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the acts of Congress passed 3rd March 1837, 3rd March 1843, and February 2nd 1848.
That she is the widow of Robert Allen, who was a private soldier in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution.  That owing to the service of her said husband having been performed before her marriage she has no personal knowledge of it and that her information has been derived from statements made by him before his death: that he was a private in the company commanded by one Captain Thomas Sawyer of the Vermont troops or Militia: that she believes that he entered the service, sometime in the early part of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, and continued in service under the same Captain or other officers until the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, making as she has been informed and believes about three years service. That her said husband resided in Dorset, Bennington County, in the State of Vermont at the time he entered the service. That she has no documentary evidence of her claim, nor can she state the country through which he marched or the battles in which he was engaged. - neither does she know any persons now living by whom she can prove the service of her said husband. And she
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further declares that she was married to the said Robert Allen on the Tenth day of October in the year, seventeen hundred and Eighty six: that her husband the aforesaid Robert Allen, died on the ninth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four. viz: at the time above stated. And she further swears that she is now a widow, having never been married since the date of the death of the said Robert Allen, and that she has never before made any application for a Pension.  X Mary Allen her mark. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me S.L. Rose, County Judge of Dodge County Wis.  & offices Judge of Probate. In presence of Wm. S. Baker
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State of Wisconsin
Dodge County, US
On this fifteenth day of April A.D. 1852, personally appeared before me the subscriber County Judge of said County, Nancy Mosher, a resident of said county, aged fifty five years, and who is personally well known to me as a credible witness, and who being first duly sworn states that she was well acquainted with Mr. Robert Allen in his life time, and who was as she was always informed and believed, a soldier of the Revolution, and also with his wife Mary Allen - that the said Mary lived with Robert Allen as his wife, and was reputed to be such for many years prior to the Ninth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty three, on which day
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he died at Clarindon, Marion County, Ohio - that deponent was present at the funeral of the said Robert Allen. And she further states that the said Mary Allen has since that date remained and now is the widow of the said Robert Allen.  Nancy Mosher. Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year first above written. S. L. Rose.  County Judge of Dodge Co. Wis. ex officio judge of Probate  __________
State of Wisconsin, Dodge County: I Samuel L. Rose County Judge of Dodge Co., Wisconsin and ex officio Judge of Probate do certify that the forgoing declaration of Mary Allen, and the forgoing deposition of Nancy Mosher (who are both to me well known) was before me this day taken on open Court, in Probate, In witness whereof I have hereto set my official seal, & subscribed my name officially this fifteenth of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty two.
S.L. Rose
County Judge, ex officio Judge of Probate for Dodge Co. Wis'n
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State of Vermont
County of Addison
On this 12th day of May AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State Martha Husted who is to me well known as a credible witness and who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that she has resided in the said County 59 years that she was acquainted one Robert Allen and Mary Allen his wife that Robert Allen was her Brother that the said Robert Married Mary White and lived in Dorset Bennington County until about the year 1793 or 4, he then moved to Ferrisburgh Addison County that the said Robert Allen was universally believed by the inhabitants of said County (as deponent thinks) to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war that he was treated and honored as such by the inhabitants and that she knows of no other Robert Allen, that deponent believes him to have been a Revolutionary Soldier. deponent says she was not present at the marriage of the said Robert and Mary but that they were reputed and believed to have been married that they lived together as husband and wife and raised a family of 5 or 6 children, that she has not seen the said Robert since about 1814 but has occasionally corresponded with the family from that time to the present. X Martha Husted her mark.
Witness: Louisa M. Holcomb, S. D. Holcomb
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day & year first about written & I certify that the said Martha Husted is worthy of full credit.  SD Holcomb Justice Peace Starksboro May 12th 1853
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State of Vermont, Bennington County. At Dorset in the County of Bennington
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this 25 Day of June 1853
personally appeared John Soper and maid oath that the foregoing Deposition by him Subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing But the truth
Before me Boynton Viall Justice
of the peace.
I John Soper Depose and say that I was aquainted with Robert Allen and know that he was married to Mary White some time in the year 1785 in the month of Sept or October. I was present at their Marriage.  I also State that Robert Allen and Mary had several children when they lived in Vermont. [Robert] was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. I further
State that Mary Allen now living was
the wife of Robert Allen I knew no
other Robert Allen except the one
named above
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John Soper
the within Deposition of John Soper
was taken before me Boynton Viall Justice of the Peace.
I here certify that I am aquainted with John Soper that he is a man of good Character and is 85 years old and his mind is sound and his memory is very good.
Boynton Viall Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont,
COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE. BENNINGTON, S.S.
I, SAMUEL H. BLACKMER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bennington, being a court of record
and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that
Boynton Viall Esq. was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed
according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is
duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, & c.
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In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Bennington, in the County of Bennington, this 27th
day of June Anne Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
S. H. Blackmer
CLERK.
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                                                         August 2, 1926

Miss Ray Hubbell
929 W. 18th St o/o Del Mar Court
Los Angeles, Calif. 

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 4624, it appears that Robert Allen, while a resident of Dorset, Bennington County, Vermont, entered the service early in 1778 and served as a private in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Company, Vermont Troops, he also served under Captain Beach and Colonel Ethan Allen; served until the fall of 1781. 
He died September 9, 1823 at Clarandon, Marion County, Ohio.
Soldier married October 10, 1786 at Dorset, Vermont, Mary White. She was allowed pension on her application executed February 26, 1851 while a resident of Chester, Dodge County, Wisconsin, aged
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ninety years. 
They had five or six children, the only name stated being that of Mrs. Nancy Mosher, who was fifty-four years of age in 1851, and resided at Chester, Wisconsin. 

Hiram Allen, aged fifty-three years in 1852, testified in the claim, no relationship was stated. 

It is stated that soldier also served in the War of 1813, but no details of this service are given, and the pension records of said War, fail to afford any information in regard to him.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Feby - 6 - 1902
Miss Lovila M. Mosher
Waupun, Wis.
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1918, Mch. 29. History to Mrs. J. M. Topper.  F.W.
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1920 May 13. Hist. to Mrs. Arthur J. Sanderson. AU
1922 Mar. 14, Hist. to Mrs. Willard Noble. AU
1926. Aug. 2 - Hist to Miss Ray Hubbell. [illegible]
1927-Jan.13- Hist to Mrs. A.B. Luckey [illegible]

Rev. of Widow, &c.
File No. 4624, Mary Allen, Wid. Robert Allen, Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby. 2nd 1818
Index:-Vol. A, Page 8
Arrangement of 1870.
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Rejected
Mary Allen
P.O.
Service:
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11.547
Wisconsin
Mary Allen
widow of Robert Allen who died on the ______ of _______ in the State of Wis., who was a private in the _______ commanded by Captain _______ of the _______ commanded by _______ in the Rev.y line for 14 Mos 21 days,
Inscribed on the Roll of Wisconsin at the rate of 109 Dollars ______ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sept 1813. and sent to C.W. Bennet
Arrears to the 4th of  Present Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by H.E. Robinson Clerk. Book D Vol. 1 Page 497
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No. 14.685
Mary Allen
wid. of Robert 
Wis
C.W. Bennett July 30 1852
Same May 19, 1853

Act July 7, 1838
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9422 
Wisconsin
Mary Allen
widow of Robert, who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 49 Dollars ____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of September '53 and sent to C.W. Bennet, Present
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 245
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STATE OF VERMONT
Office of the Secretary of State.
Montpelier, February 17, 1852
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office "A Pay Roll of Capt. Thomas Sawyer's Company of Provincial Troops, from the dates of their several enlistments until discharged, commencing May 1st and ending November 30th 1778"; on which Roll is the name of "Robert Allen" with an allowance for  seven months and four days service as a private, commencing May 1st and ending November 30th.
Also "A Pay Roll of Capt. Thomas Sawyer's Company of Militia raised for the defence of the Northern Frontiers of the United States - 1779;" on which Roll is the name of "Robert Allen", with an allowance for one month and six days service as a private, commencing May 24th, 1779.
Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt. Gideon Ormsby's Company in Col. Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia for services done this State in the alarm in the month of March, 1780"; on which Roll is the name of "Robert Allen" with an allowance for seven days service as a private.
Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt. Jesse Sawyer's Company of Rangers, belonging to Maj. Ebenezer Allen's Detachment
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"raised for the defence of the State of Vermont, beginning April 25th, 1780 and ending January 10th 1781, both days included:" on which Roll is the name of "Robert Allen" with an allowance for five months and twenty five days service as a private, commencing June 6. and ending December 1. 1780. -
Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt. Ebenezer Willson's Company in Col. Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia for service done at Castleton Oct. 1781"; on which Roll is the name of "Robert Allen" with an allowance for nine days service as a private.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office this 17th day of February A.D. 1852
Ferrand F. Merrill
Secretary of State
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Mr. C.W. Bennet
Dear Sir Mrs Mosier of Wisconsin Daughter of Robert Allen is now in Vermont and has bin taken Depositions to send to Washington Respecting her Fathers pension
if the within is not correct you will please Send a Blank and I will attend to the same and Return it to you.
Yours truly,
Boynton Viall
ps Direct yours to South Dorset Vt
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Washington
June 15,1852
Hon. J.E. Heath
Court of Pensions [illegible] Sir.
I have the honor to enclose herewith an affidavit made by Mrs. Anna White relative to the marriage of Mary Allen an applicant for a Pension as widow of Robt Allen deceased. The declaration of Mrs. Allen was filed by me on the 30th April last.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Serv
C.W. Bennett.
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Washington
June 29,1853
Honorable L. P. Waldo
Court of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith an affidavit forwarded to me for the purpose of being filed as additional evidence in support of the application of Mary Allen widow of Robert dec'd for the benefit of the Act of July 1838.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
C.W. Bennett
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Detroit July 15th 1850
Hon Sir
Will you please advise me if the claim of Mrs Mary Allen widow of Robert Allen a Revolutionary pensioner if pension has yet been examined. The papers in her case were transmitted you Apr 13th last. & not since heard from -----
Very Resp'y
Your obt. Servt
G F Lewis
N D Preston
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Mary Allen
widow of Robert
Wis - 
Act of July 7, 1838
Original declaration of Feby 26. 1851 - under Act of 48 - 
Claimant says - 
Robert entered service immediately after commencement of war & continued to its close - 
Cannot name the dates - nor names of officers, except she is informed & believes he served under Col Ethan Allen in building Fort Pitt - 
He resided at Dorsett, Bennington Co. Vt.
Cant describe the service
Married 10th Oct 1786 - to her best recollection.  He died Sept 9. 1823. (no record of marriage)
Nancy Mosher - swears to Robert's death at Clarendon Marion Co O. Sept 9, 1823 - attended his funeral.
Certife of Secy of VT - Feby 17, 1852
in 1778 - 7 mos 4 das T. Sawyers co. Provl Troops
in 1779 - 1 m 6 das T. Sawyers Co. Militia for frontiers
in 1780 Mar 7 das G. Ormsby's Co. Col Ira Allen's Regt
1780 April to Jany 5 mos 25 d J. Sawyer's Co. Maj Ebenezer Allen's detacht
in 1781 14 mo 21 das Ebr Willson's Co I. Allens Regt (at Castleton)
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2nd Declaration -Apl. 15, 1852 - Aged 91 yrs
Act July 7 1838 &c - but not so claimed in Decln
Claimant says
Owing to marriage having been after service closed, cannot state from personal knowledge. Thinks he entered service early in 1778 - under Capt T. Sawyer - and served about 3 years - 
Residence - marriage and Death as before
Nancy Mosher - Repeats as to death of Robert - Knew both several yrs before his death - always lived as man & wife, she is still his widow. He was reputed Revy soldier
Saml White - licking Co. O. March 1851
Is brother of Mary Allen - was present at the marriage in fall of 1786 in Dorset. Allen was afterwards a soldier of War of 1812. from Vt.
Claimant is now living - the widow of Robt Allen in Dodge Co Wis. (no certif of credibility
Hiram Allen - Dodge Co Wis - aged 53 yrs - Mar 23. 52
Was well acquainted with Robert - always informed and believes a Revy soldier.  Also with Mary his wife, always lived & reputed man & wife for many yrs previous to his death the date of his death - was present at his death.
Mary ever since and now his widow.
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Martha Husted - Addison Co Vt. aged 77 yrs. May 12, 1853
Robert Allen was her brother, Married Mary White and lived in Dorset until about the year 1793 or 4. then removed to Ferrisburgh, Addison Co. He was universally believed to have been a Rev soldier, was treated and honored as such by the inhabitants. She knows of no other Robt Allen. Believes he was Rev soldier - not present at marriage but they were reputed & believed to have been married, lived as such & reared family of 6 children. Has not seen him since 1814 but occasionally corresponded with the family from that to the present time.
Ezekiel Husted - same place & date aged 80 yrs
Resided here 59 yrs. Knew Robt & Mary his wife who resided in Dorset - when I first knew them, after in Addison Co. Became Acquainted with them about 1792. Robert universally believed to have been a Rev soldier - treated & honored as such at meetings & festivals as far back as deponent can recollect. They were reputed & believed to have been married & lived as such. Knew them until 1814.

I can find nothing of an application for or allowance of pension to any Robt Allen for this, or any other service performed in Vt - S. G. D--- over
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The remoteness of the claimant's residence from the scene of her husband's service, the fact that the proofs are made in three different states, and the fact that the affidavits are drawn with less than the usual art and skill (leaving the inference that if more skillfully constructed they would have supplies little particulars which are omitted) tend, in my judgment, to favor the conclusion that the claim is meritorious.
That the service was rendered is demonstrated - and the fact that no person has been pensioned for it, and that Robt Allen died in 1823, strongly favor the claim of the applicant, aside from the direct evidence. The declarations and affidavits bear strong internal evidence of scrupulous regard to truth.
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Mary Allen - widow of Robert - 
Wisconsin
Act July 7, 1838
Admitted private - 14 mos
21 days at $49. per annum
from 4th March 1836, except two years -
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Brief in the case of Mary Allen - widow of Robert
Dodge County and State of Wisconsin
act July 7. 1838 VC

Claim, ("original")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

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

Documentary, proof of service
Parol proof of marriage - identity - and death of husband -

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
C. W. Bennett
Present 

S. G. Dodge
Examining Clerk
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Letter
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Washington
April 30th, 1852.
Hon. J.E. Heath
Court of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the declaration of Mrs. Mary Allen, widow of Robert Allen a soldier of the Revolution, asking for the benefit of the Acts of 3rd March 1837 - 3rd March 1843 and 2nd Feby 1848, together with a certificate of the Secretary of State of Vermont relative to the services of the deceased soldier.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
C.W. Bennett.
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Washington
Dec. 23, 1852
Hon. J.E. Heath
Court of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the declaration of Mrs. Mary Allen widow of Robert Allen decd. for benefits of Acts of 29th July 1848, with affidavits in support of her claim, as additional to proofs heretofore filed in the case.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
C.W. Bennett
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Washington
June 11. 1853.
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Court of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith two affidavits forwarded to me for the purpose of being filed as additional proof in support of the application of Mary Allen widow of Robert of Wisconsin for the benefit of the Acts of July 7, 1838.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
C.W. Bennett
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STATE OF WISCONSIN
County of Dodge, 

I, WILLIAM H. LANDER, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Dodge and State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify, that Dennis S. Morse, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof acknowledgement

of the annexed instrument, was, at the date of the execution thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County afore-said, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts throughout this State and elsewhere; and farther, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Justice, and verily believe his signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, to be genuine. And this file's authorization to admissions(?) ----

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this thirtieth day of March A.D. 1880

Wm H. Sanders.... Clerk.
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Certificate of Secretary of State, Vt
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State of Wisconsin
County of Dodge
On this 26th day of February 1851 personally appeared before me Samuel L. Rose County Judge & [illegible] of Probate, in and for the County of Dodge aforesaid. Mary Allen a resident of Chester in the County of Dodge aforesaid, aged ninety (90) years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of congress, passed July 29th 1848 as the widow of Robert Allen - who was a private in the Revolutionary Army - and entered the army immediately after the commencement of the war, and continued until the close of the war,  but the dates, she can not more particularly state, nor can she now state the officers under whom he served, but she is informed and believes that he assisted under the command of Col. Ethan Allen, in building Fort Pitt - He resided at Dorsett, Bennington County, Vermont when he entered the service, as a [illegible] and she has no documentary evidence
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of her claim, and she cannot state the country through which he marched, or the battles in which he was engaged. She further declares that she was married to the said Robert Allen the 10th of October 1786, according to her best recollection, that he died Sept. 9th, 1823, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the 2nd January in the year 1800, but at the time above stated, she further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Mary Allen X her mark
Sworn & inscribed on the day & year above written before Samuel L. Rose, County Judge
in presence of W. S. Smith
Obadiah Moshe
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State of Wisconsin
Dodge County
On this twenty third day of March AD 1852 personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County of Dodge and State aforesaid Hiram Allen a resident of the County of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin aged fifty three years and who is personally well known to me as a credible witness and who being first duly sworn states he was well acquainted with Robert Allen in his life time and who was as he was always informed and believed a soldier of the revolution, and also with his wife Mary Allen that the said Mary lived with Robert Allen as his wife and was reputed to be such for many years prior to the ninth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty three on which day he died at Clarindon Marion County Ohio that deponent was present at the death of the said Robert Allen and he further states that the said Mary Allen has since that date remained and now is the widow of the said Robert Allen 
Hiram Allen
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written. 
Job A. Canfield
Justice of the Peace
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State of Wisconsin
Dodge County
I, William H. Lander clerk of the circuit court in and for the County of Dodge and State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that Job A. Canfield whose name is within subscribed and before when the within affidavit purports to have been made was an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County... at the time of the taking the same. And farther that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and that his signature within written is genuine, & that he authorized to administer oaths generally.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Juneau in said County this Seventeenth day of May A.D. 1832.
William H. Lander, clerk
& H.W. Lander Dept. clerk
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State of Vermont
County of Addison
On this 12th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said county and sate, Ezekiel Husted, who is to me well known as a credible witness, and who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says, that he is a resident of said county and aged 80 years. That he has resided in the said county 59 years. That he was acquainted with one Robert Allen and Mary Allen his wife who also resided in Dorset, Bennington County at my first acquaintance afterwards in Addison Co. also resided in said county. That he became acquainted with them about the year 1792; that the said Robert Allen was universally believed by the inhabitants of said county (as deponent thinks) to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war. That he was trusted and honored as such at meetings and festivals, as far back as deponent can recollect him. That deponent believes him to have been such Revolutionary soldier. That his wifes name was Mary, that he was acquainted with the said Robert and Mary until the year 1814; that they were reputed and believed to have been married - that they lived together as husband and wife.
Ezekiel Husted
Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year first above written & I certify that the said Ezekiel Husted is worthy of full credit
Starksboro May 12th 1853
Samuel D. Holcomb, J.P.
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State of Vermont

I George S Swift clerk of the county court for the county of Addison in the State of Vermont hereby certify that Samuel D. Holcomb whose signature is attached to the certificates annexed to the accompanying affidavits, was at the respective dates thereof, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county duly commissioned as qualified, and that I believe said signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in said county this eighth day of June A.D. 1833.
George Swift
Clerk of Addison County Court.
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No 703

Claim for Pension by Mary Allen a
Widow of Robert Allen
a Revolutionary Soldier

Wisconsin

Act July 29, 1848

G. F Lewis
Attorney
Detroit
Michigan
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STATE OF Wisconsin
County of Dodge] ss

On this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared in open court in and for the County of Dodge and State of Wisconsin Mary Allen a resident of Chester in the county of Dodge and State of Wisconsin aged eight nine 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 law of the United States, approved on the 29th day of July A.D. 1848. and all such other laws as has from time to time passed. That she is the widow of Robert Allen who was a private in company (___ ) Captain Bench regiment of which Cornel Ethan Allen was commandant in the service of the United States; that she was married to the said Robert Allen of Bennington Vermont at the town of Dorset on the tenth day of November 1787 and that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Allen died on the ninth day of September 1823 at Marion Ohio in consequence of Trever tiphus fever and that she has remained a window ever since that period, as will more fully appear  by reference to the proof hereunto annexed; that she has no documentary evidence of her marriage or her husband's service; and that the said Robert Allen left no children under the age of sixteen years

I also certify that I am acquainted with the foregoing affiant; and that in the neighborhood where she resides, she is known as the widow of the said Robert Allen.
Sworn and subscribed in open court day above written. Mary Allen (Widow's Signature.)
Dennis S Morse Justice Peace

At the same time and place came Obadiah Mosher and Nancy Mosher two credible and respectable witnesses, and residents of said County and State, who being by me duly sworn, say, on oath, that they know the before mentioned Mary Allen to be the widow of the late Robert Allen That she was legally married to the said Robert Allen at Dorset Vermont on the tenth day of November 1747 and that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Allen died as above stated leaving Mary Allen a widow and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, and is known in the neighborhood as the widow of Robert Allen.
Obadiah Mosher, Nancy Mosher (Two Witnesses' Signatures.)
Sworn and subscribed in open court
Dennis S Morse Justice Peace
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Know all men by these presents that I Mary Allen of the Town of Chester County of Dodge and State of Wisconsin have made constituted and appointed and by these presents do make constitute and appoint, G. F. Lewis of Detroit in  State of Michigan my true and Lawfull attorney for me and in my name place and Stead, to Demand and receive from the pension agent of the United States what Ever money may be my Due as a pensioner.
Giving and granting unto my Said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as I might on could do if personaly present with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney on his Substitute Shall lawfully do or cause to be done by  virtue hereof 
in wittness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23 day of March AD 1850
Signed sealled and delivered in presence of Dennis S. Morse
Laura June Morse
Mary Allen (Seal)
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State of Vermont
Addison County] ss

On this 7th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State personally appeared Anna White a resident of Starksboro in said County and who is to me well known as a respectable and credible witness and whose statement is worthy of full confidence and who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath say that she is aged eighty four years that sometime in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty six she was present at the marriage of Robert Allen (who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary army) to Mary White that the marriage took place in the year last mentioned of which she is positive but the exact date she cannot state that the marriage took place in due form in the town of Dorsett in the State of Vermont that she was acquainted with the said Robert Allen up to the year eighteen hundred and twenty three and that she is acquainted with Mary Allen his widow now resident of Dodge County in the  State of Wisconsin and knows her to be the credible person married to the said Robert Allen at the time above mentioned
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss
I George S. Swift, clerk of the county court for the county of Addison in the State of Vermont, hereby certify that Samuel D. Holcomb whose signature is attached to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace within and for said county verify duly commissioned qualified and that I verily believe said signature to be genuine. In testimony whenof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in said county this 11th day of June A.D. 1852
[signed] George S. Swift Clerk Add. Co.
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Stamp mark:
PENSION U. S. OFFICE.
JAN 21 1902
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Wampum, Wis.,
Jan. 16th, 1902
Com Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am anxious to find authentic record of the service of Robt. Allen from Vermont, who served in the Rev. War. He lived at one time in Dorset, Vt., I think. We have it handed down that he worked in the Armory the most of the time during the war, serving at times actively when needed. He was a cousin of Ethan Allen's and they were closely associated in the early part of the War.
Robt. Allen died in Ohio, in 1826. His wife was Mary (White) Allen, and she lived to be ninety-five years old, dying in Wis. in 1855. She received a pension during the last years of her life, because of her husband's service in the Rev. War, so there must be some record of his service in your office. I would like copy of such service, with any facts that may be connected therewith.
Respectfully,
(Miss) Lovila M. Mosher.
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                                                  Minneapolis, Minn.
                                                         May 6th, 1929.

Bureau of Pensions,
        Washington D.C.
                        
Replying to your letter stating that you have no record of pension granted to the widow of Robert Allen, a soldier of the Revolution
I wish to say that the record has been verified by the National Society of the D.A.R. 

The record is on file in the Bureau of Pensions and I would like a copy of it. 
If the following will be of service you are very welcome to it. 

Date of application for pension by widow was February 26th, 1851. 
Residence at date of application of widow was Chester, Dodge County, Wisconsin. 
Age at date of application of widow was 90 years.
He married Mary White on October 10th, 1785 at Dorset, Vermont, and died in Marion County, Ohio on September 9th, 1823. 
I have a certified copy of his service done for the state of Vermont, obtained from the office of the Adjutant General. 
I am anxious to have this record from your office, and thank you in advance for your kindness in looking it up. 

Yours very truly
Mrs. Arthur J. Sanderson
801 4th St. S.W.
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Stamp mark:
PENSION U.S. OFFICE
MAR 26 1918
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F. J. Tallant, President.         M. E. Tallant, Vice President.          J. M. Topper, Secv. & Treas. 

The VICTOR Mfg. Co. 
Incorporated 

Washers
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Ironing Boards
Self Heating Sad Irons

Branch Office
Columbus, Ohio

Leavenworth, Kansas

Mar. 22nd, 1918

U.S. Pension Office, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen;

I am anxious to get a record of the descendants of Robert Allen, enlisted in the Revolutionary War with Ethan Allen's Regiment with the Green Mountain Boys. 

So far as I am able to determine, the records show that Robert Allen and Ethan Allen were brothers. Hiram Allen being a son of Rob. Allen, born Aug. 14th, 1799.

Also anxious to get the descendants of Reuben Buck, Captain in Ethan Allen's Regiment. 

I am anxious to get this record that I may place my application for membership with the D.A.R. 

Yours very truly,
Mrs. J.M. Topper
1328 So. Broadway
Leavenworth,
Kansas
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Rev Sec
Galesburg Ill. February 10 - 1922
Dear Sirs
Can you furnish me records of my ancestory on the Allen side? And also on the Buck side?
And what will the costs be?
Yours Truly
Elsia Helen Goddard Noble
Mrs. Willard Noble
Sanborn Terrace No. E.
Galesburg, Ill
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EXACT COPY OF EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY HIRAM BUCK TO URSULA PIERCE

He was of the same generation as Electa Allen Pierce Barnard. Our grandfather, Robert Allen, was a cousin of Ethan Allen. There fathers were brothers. They were born on Grand Isle in the north end of Lake Champlain, nearest the Vermont side, consequently were Vermonters. They were together at the capture of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, etc., until Ethan said, "Bobbie, thee must go into the shop for we have more men than arms." Grandfather was an Armourer. Grandfather Isral Buck was a Captain in the Revolutionary army. At the close of the war was married to Phoebe Benedict, a Quakeress. She made him a Quaker and our father was born a Quaker but married out of the Church.
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Los Angeles, Cal, May 27, 1926
Dear sir-
Could you give me a synopsis of the Pension Certificate of Mary (White) Allen, widow of Robert Allen, Revolutionary soldier.
They were married Oct 10, 1786 at Dorset, Vermont. She applied for pension Feb 26, 1851, residence Chester, Dodge Co., Wisconsin. She was then 90 years old
Robert Allen enlisted Dorset, Vt., May 1, 1778
Respectfully,
Mrss Ray Hubbell
929 West 18th St.
Los Angeles, Cal
c/o Del Mar Court
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Nov. 14 1926
Rev War
Department of Interior
Washington D.C.
Will you send me the Military history of My Ancestors who were soldiers in the Revolutin War
Robert Allen. (A cousin or Bro.) of Eathen Allen. Family traditin tells us that he was a black smith & forged the sword that Ethen carred into battle.
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Can you also give me the military listing of one Amos or Amas Campbell who was a corporal in the militia. A Soldier of the Revolution any thing that you can give me will be highly appreciative and informative is to be used as credentials in D.A.R. Society
Mrs. A. B. Luckey
630 Langden St.
Madison Wis
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Rev. War Section

                                                     March 29, 1913

Mrs. J. M. Topper,
1388 South Broadway, 
Leavenworth, Kansas.

Madam:

In response to your letter of the twenty-second instant, you are advised that in the claim W. File No. 4684, Rev. War, it appears that Robert Allen, while a resident of Dorset, Bennington County, Vermont, entered the service early in 1778, as a Private in Captain Thomas Sawyer's company, Vermont Troops; also served under Captain Beach and Colonel Ethan Allen; served until Fall of 1781.

It is not stated that he was related to Ethan Allen. Soldier married October 10, 1786, at Dorset, Vermont, Mary White. He died September 9, 1823, at Clarendon, Marion County, Ohio, and she was allowed a pension on her application executed February 26, 1851, while a resident of Chester, Dodge County, Wisconsin, aged ninety years. 

They had five or six children, the only name stated being that of Mrs. Nancy Mosher, who was fifty-four years of age in 1851.

Hiram Allen, aged fifty-three years in 1852, testified in the claim, no relationship stated. 

It is stated that soldier also served in the War of 1812, but no details of service are stated, and the pension records of said War fail to afford any information in regard of him. 

Very respectfully, 

FC. Tirman
Acting Commissioner