Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5200, Jacob Allen, Continental Mass.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE

Continental 
Mass.

Allen, Jacob
Susanna

NUMBER
W.5200

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(16,411)

Pennsylvania .
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Jacob Allen
of Tioga  Co. in the State of Pennsylvania, who was a Private in the regiment commande3d by Colonel Brooks of the Massachusetts 
line, for the term of 2 years + Continental 

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to comence on the 10th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of Feb. 1820
and  delivered to the pensioner. 

Arrears to 4th of September 1819 --- $134.66
Semi-anl all'ce ending March 4. 1820 - 48.11
Arr. by. 4m: 25/30.  $ 182.66

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

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Acin

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State of Pennsylvania Tioga County
On this 10th day of April 1818 before me the
subscriber one of the aponiate Judges of the
Court of Commonfile as in an I for the County
aforewaid, personally affirm Jacob Allen
aged fifty five years, resident in Tioga
County aforesaid, in the State aforesaid, who
upon oath declares and says in order to obtain 
the provision made by the latest of Congress,
entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the 
United States in the revolutionary war. That 
he the void Jacob Allen enlisted in the 
year 1776 at Rosbury in the State of 
Massachusetts for one year under Capt Jacob
Allen and under Col. John Baily Massachusetts
 line. this was on Continental establishment 
in the revolutionary war - time of enlistment
in January or Febuary 1776 - And in December
following being still in the same service 
entitled under the same Capt Jacob Allen, 
same Col. John Bailey, same line, and 
continued to serve in said corps till November
1777 as a musition one year and nine or ten
months at one continued term of time and 
was then discharged on account of his youth and
the death of his Capt who was also his father

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fell at HillWater at the battle and taking 
of Burgoine 
also enlisted at Bridge Water in Nov. 
or Dec. Deponant thinks is the year 1780 for three
years and served to the close of the war and 
received a discharge time of service upward 
of two years at one continued term of time on
Continental establishment - under Capt - 
Thanp and lob John Brookes now Governor 
of Massachusetts - 
And that he is in dueed 
in cumstances, and stands in need of 
assistance of his Country for support 
Sworn to, subscribed 
and declared, before 
me
Ira William Associate Judge
Ira William one of the associate Judges is and
for Tioga County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that 
the said Jacob Allen who is a man of undoubted
truth and veracity did serve in the revolutionary
war as stated in the preceding declaration, against 
the Common enemy and know transmit the proceeding 
and taken and had before me, - that he 
served at two continued terms of time nine months
and more at each term of time seperately considered

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in the revolutionary war on continental 
establishment and fair also satisfied that he 
is in reduced in circumstances and stand in need of
assistance from his Country for support according to the 
act of Congress 18th March 1818 Ira William A Judge 

(Left side of Page)
State of Pennsylvania 
Tioga County p
Prothonotary Office 

(Right side of Page)
 I Uriah Spencer Berty of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the 
County of Tioga do Certify and 
make known that Ira William
is and was at the time of Signing and 
taking the foregoing Opositions and certify
my the some Asociate Judge of the County 
of Tioga in the State of Pennsylvania that 
the signature is his proper hand writing and 
full faith and Credit are due to his acts as
such in testimony whereof I have set 
my hand and affirmed the Seal of Office at
Wettsborough in the County of Tioga above -
-said this fifteenth Day of January anno 
Domini one thousand Eight hundred and twenty

uriah Spencer Proty

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District of Pennsylvania 
Court of Common Pleas 
County of Tioga 

On the 20th day of December A.D. One thou-
-sand Eight hundred and Twenty One personally appeared 
In open Court being a Court of record for the Said County
Created as such by the Laws of Pennsylvania Jacob 
Allen aged fifty eight years resident in Said County 
Who being first duly sworn according to Lacrdarthon his
Oath declare that his service in the Revolutionay War as 
Follows- in Colonel John Bailey’s Regiment in Captain
Jacob Allen’s Company in the Massachusetts Line According
to the Original declaration of this Sector and, that this
Deponent has a Certificate which appears to have been 
Given at the War office of the United States on the 2nd Day 
Of Febuary A.D. 1819 Number 16.411, And I so Solemly 
Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States
On the Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818 and that I
Have not since that time by gets sale or in any manner 
disposed of my property or any part these of with intent
thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the
provisions of and that of Congress Entitled an Act to
provide for Certain persons engaged in the Land + 
Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary 
War paped on the Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818
and that I have not nor had any person in that for
me any property or Secured it, Contractor Debts deceit 
me, nor have I any Iverson other than what is Contained 
in the Schedule Hereunto Annexed and by me Said-
-services

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Tioga County p

I do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and
the Scheduled thereto Annexed are treaty Comprise 
from the Reserve of the Said Course, And I further
Certify thee it is the opinion of the Said Court
that the total insurant in value of the property 
exhibited in the appeared Schedule is Thirty four dollars and 
seventy five cents, in testimony whereof I have hereunto
let my hand and official Seal of the laise Court
on the 10th day of July A,D, One Hundred Eighthun-
dred and Seventy Seven 

John

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SEAL AND RIBBON UPPER LEFTHAND CORNER

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Secretary's Office, October 24th 1838.

I hereby Certify, That Artemis Hale, Esquire, justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; and he was so at the date of his attestation.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

SIGNATURE:  John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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LEFTHAND COLUMN

Ohio 4583
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Susanna Allen
[illegible]
who was a private in the Massachusetts line
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Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
(blank) Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843/
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of January 1844 and sent to Alden Allen, Chatham, Medina County, Ohio.
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Volume 1 - Page 156


RIGHTHAND COLUMN

Death no on A. B.
Rep 23rd January

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April 15, 1936.

BA-J/ILL
Jacob Allen
W. 5200

Mrs. Lida B. Dyer
327 North Alabama Street
Butte, Montana.

Dear Madam:

The data given herein were found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 5200, based upon service of Jacob Allen in the Revolutionary War.

Jacob Allen, soon of Jacob Allen, resided in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, at the time of the Revolutionary War; the date of his birth and name of his mother are not shown.

Jacob Allen, Junior, volunteered in January or February 1776 and served as waiter to his father, Captain Jacob Allen, in colonel John Bailey's Massachusetts regiment until December, them re-enlisted and served as private in that same company until November 1777, when, on account of his age and the death of his father, at Stillwater when Burgoyne was taken, he was discharged.  He enlisted in November or December 1780, and served until the close of the war, officers' names not shown.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he resided in Tioga County, Pennsylvania; he was then aged fifty-five years.

The soldier died December 3, or 4, 1836, in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
\
Jacob Allen married November 25, 1784, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Susanna Alden, also of Bridgewater; she was born November 21, 1766.  The names of her parents are not shown.

Susanna Allen, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on

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her application executed November 12, 1838, at which time she resided in Chester Township, Geauga County, Ohio.  In 1843, Susanna Allen resided in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio.

In 1821, Jacob Allen, the soldier, stated that his daughter, Miranda, aged fifteen years, living at home; he did not give the names of any other children.

In 1838, when soldier's widow, Susanna Allen, made her application for pension, John Packard, Jr. stated in Geauga County, Ohio, that he was her grandson on his mother's side, but he did not give the name of his mother.  In 1843, Alden Allen of Chatham, Medina County, Ohio, witnessed the widow's signature before William Packard, a Justice of the Peace for Medina County, Ohio.  No relationship between these persons and the soldier's family was stated.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of Susanna Allen, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and cite the following:

Susanna Allen, Widow of Jacob Allen,
Certificate #4583
Issued January 22, 1844
Rate $80 per annum
Commended march 4, 1843
Act of March 3, 1843
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

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Butte, Montana  March 21, 1936

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

Dear Sir;

What do your records show in regard to the Revolutionary pensioner Susannah Allen, a widow living in Medina County Ohio in 1840.

Also Benjamin Morris of Shelby County Ohio, a pensioner of Revolutionary War.

Do not know where they lived previous to going to Ohio.

Awaiting an early reply, I am
Yours
(Mrs.) Lida B. Dyer
327 N. Alabama Street
Butte, Montana

RECEIPT STAMP AT BOTTOM:  RECE4IVED MARCH 27, 1936
MAIL SUBDIVISION [illegible]

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April 18, 1936
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BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Lida B. Dyer
327 North Alabama Street
Butte, Montana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Benjamin Morris, a pensioner of Ohio, also, of a soldier whose widow, Susannah Allen, received a pension and in 1840 was living in Medina County, Ohio, both soldiers having served in the Revolutionary War.

Records have been found of a Jacob Allen whose widow was pensioned on account of his service, as described by you, and of Benjamin Morris, of Ohio, also a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, and they are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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April 7, 1936.


BA-J/ILL
Jacob Allen-Wt.-Rev.
Jacob Allen Wt. 3069-1812.
Jacob Allen - W. 5200

Mrs. H. T Collins
303 East Johnson
Kingsville, Texas.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War or War of 1812 record of your great-great grandfather,
Jacob Allen, who was born June 22, 1764, married Phebey, who was born
August 6, 1769 and about 1800 went to Cincinnati, Ohio.

You cite a Jacob Allen who received bounty land warrant #3631 for 100 acres, issued November 26, 1791, which was located in Ohio, and a Jacob Allen who served in the 23rd U.S. Infantry and received bounty land warrant #3069 for 160 acres, Act of 1812, which was located in Illinois, and wonder if the citations pertain to the same man.

The bounty land warrant #3631 was issued for service of a Jacob Allen who was a private in the Massachusetts line, War of the Revolution; said warrant was issued November 26, 1791. This office has no further information in regard to that Jacob Allen because of the destruction
of papers in the application for the land, when the War Office was burned in 1800.


the bounty land warrant #3069 for 160 acres issued under the Act of 1812, was for service of a Jacob Allen, private in Captain
Frederick Brown's company, 23rd regiment, U. S. Infantry, War of 1812.  That Jacob Allen, as shown by the records of this office, was born in
Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York; the names of his parents are not shown.  He enlisted June 1, 1812 and was discharged August 11, 1815, at which time he was aged about twenty-seven years. He was six feet,
two and one half inches tall, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair and by occupation, a farmer. This office has no further information in regard to him.  He was not identical with the Revolutionary soldier, as his age indicates. (original sheet  o.k.)
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The Revolutionary War pension records have been searched and only one Jacob Allen found whose family lived in Ohio, and it cannot
be determined by the records of this office whether he was the Jacob Allen who received bounty land warrant #3631.  The papers in
that pension claim, W. 5200, based upon service of Jacob Allen in the Revolutionary War have been examined and the following data found, which, it is hoped, will aid you in your research.

Jacob Allen, son of Jacob Allen, lived in Bridgewater, Plymouth County , Massachusetts, at the time of the Revolutionary War; the date of birth and name of his mother are not shown.

Jacob Allen, Junior, volunteered in January or February 1776, and served as waiter to his father, Captain Jacob Allen, in Colonel
John Bailey's Massachusetts regiment until December, then re-enlisted and served as private in that same company until November 1777, when, on account of his age and the death of his father, said Captain Jacob Allen at Stillwater when Burgoyne was taken, he was discharged. He enlisted in November or December 1780, and served until the close of
the war, officers names not shown.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he resided in Tioga County, Pennsylvania; he was
then aged fifty-five years.

The soldier died December 3, or 4, 1836, in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Allen married November 26, 1784, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Susanna Alden, also of Bridgewater; she was born November 21, 1766. The names of her parents are not shown.

Susanna Allen, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application exe3cuted November 12,1838, at which time she resided in

2.

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Chester, Geauga County, Ohio.  In 1845, Susanna Allen resided in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio.

In 1821, Jacob Allen, the soldier, stated that his daughter, Miranda, aged fifteen years, was living at home; he did not give the
names of any other children.

In 1838, when soldier's widow, Susanna Allen, made her application for pension, John Packard, Jr., stated in Geauga County, Ohio, that he was her grandson on his mother's side, but he did not give the name of his mother.  In 1843, Alden Allen of Chatham, Medina County, Ohio, witnessed the widow's signature before William Packard, a Justice of the Peace for Medina County, Ohio.  No relationship between these persons and the4 soldier's family was stated.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of Susanna Allen, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and site the following:

Susanna Allen, widow of Jacob Allen,
Certificate #4583
Issued January 22, 1844
Rate $80 Per Annum
Commenced March 4, 1843
Act of March 3, 1843
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.