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Joseph Allen[1]

Male 1761 - 1822  (61 years)


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  • Name Joseph Allen 
    Birth 1761  , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1790  , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Residence 1800  , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Residence 1810  Mason, Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Residence 1820  , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Death 24 Sep 1822  , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I26680  Master
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2016 

    Father John C Allen,   b. 9 Oct 1735, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1812, , Shenandoah, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Lucinde Lucy,   b. 1740, , Brunswick, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1812, , Shenandoah, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 1760  , Shenandoah, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6801  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dorothy Walker,   b. 1765, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1820, , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 3 Sep 1788  , Bourbon, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. James F Allen,   b. 8 Jan 1789, Boonesboro, Madison, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1842, , Daviess, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)
     2. Margaret Allen,   b. 1790, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Sep 1864, Alfordsville, Daviess, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]
     3. Joseph Allen,   b. 14 Feb 1795, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1868, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]
     4. Nancy Allen,   b. 25 Nov 1796, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jun 1821, , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)  [Father: natural]
     5. Henry L Allen,   b. 3 Apr 1798, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1842, , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]
     6. Kate Maria Allen,   b. 1800, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1845, Reeve, Daviess, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)  [Father: natural]
     7. Elizabeth Allen,   b. 1803   d. 1845 (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]
     8. William D Allen,   b. 8 Dec 1806, , Mason, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1865, Reeve, Daviess, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F6808  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2016 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1761 - , , Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 3 Sep 1788 - , Bourbon, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1790 - , Mason, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1800 - , Mason, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1810 - Mason, Mason, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1820 - , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Sep 1822 - , Fleming, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Joseph Allen was born just before 1765, probably in Virginia. He received a Military Land Warrant #848 for three years' service in the Virginia line on 17 June 1783. He is listed as serving in the 2nd Virginia Brigade or State Line, Colonel Marshall's Artillery Regiment.
      What is now Kentucky was previously part of the state of Virginia. In December 1776 Kentucky Co., Virginia was created. In 1780 it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln Counties. In 1785, Bourbon County was created from Fayette County and Joseph appears on 19 Sep 1787 (?) as a signer of a petition to the state of Virginia to create Bourbon County. Mason County was formed from Bourbon County in 1788 and finally in 1798 Fleming County was formed from Mason County. Joseph Allen had lived in four counties without moving.

      Joseph Allen appears on the list for Central Kentucky Militia in 1786 in Captain Cave Johnson's Company along with a William Walker and Henry Chandler

      On 3 Sep 1788 Joseph Allen married Dorothy Walker in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Thought Dorothy was listed as "of age" her guardians were George and Eliza? Elijah Wood.

      On 21 Aug 1790, Joseph Allen appears as the only Allen in the 1790 Kentucky Tax List.

      On 27 August 1793 Joseph Allen purchased lot #42 in the town of Washington, Mason Co., Kentucky from William Wood and Arthur Fox and their wives. This town was developed as a possible capitol city for Kentucky. Joseph is listed there in the census as a blue dyer by occupation.

      Joseph and Dorothy Allen were the parents of at least nine children-five girls and four boys. Daughters were Nancy m. Nathaniel Chandler, Mariah m. Nathaniel Chandler (after death of her sister), Margaret m. William McCord Sr., and Elizabeth who married Thomas Owen Caywood. Sons were James F. Allen who married Mary Hyzer, Joseph, Henry L. Allen who married Elizabeth Sullivan and William H Allen who married Eliza Reader. Many descendants of this family moved into Daviess County, Indiana.

      In 1793 Joseph Allen was appointed in Mason County as a trustee for land and boundary formation.
      Joseph Allen appears in the 1800 census of Kentucky in Mason County. Other Allens in that county were Adam, Barnabas, Hugh, and William. A Robert Allen appeared in Fleming Co. Joseph Allen appears in the 1810 Census of Mason County, Kentucky (with four male children and five female children in addition to himself and Elizabeth, his wife). Joseph Allen appears in the 1820 census of Fleming Co, Kentucky with one male 45+, a female 26-45, a female 16-26, and one male and one female 0-10.

      Shortly after, Joseph Allen died 24 September 1822 in Fleming County, Kentucky. His estate bill of sale named William Mc Cord, Sr. as the administrator. Among those purchasing items at the sale were: Benjamin Allen, William Frealts, Nathaniel Chandler, William McCord, John McCord, Jr., Thomas Caywood, Thomas McCarty, Joseph Thomson, William McCord Sr., John McCord, Jesse Hickman, James McCord Jr., James McCord, and Erasmus Caywood.
      Items found in the sale included ten books, a Bible, a razor and razor strap, a set of weights, a sifter, two candlesticks, two smoothing irons, a sprouting hoe, a shovel, a coffee mill,a pair of knives and forks, two hoes, a keg, an ink stand, two buckets, a teakettle, a pair of snuffers, a big wheel, a bell, three bedstands, a blanket, a hackel, six chairs, a chest, two big kettles, a pot, a tub, a big coat, a coat, two pair pantaloons, a hat, a pair of shoes, a table, a candlestand, two washing tubs, a pair of specks, a howel, thirteen big spools and Chandler's note worth $733. One wonders what his widow used to live with after he died! However, the number of books and writing tools indicate literacy.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=101799235&pid=17

    2. [S784] Ancestry.com, Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1787-1890, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

    3. [S248] Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.), Year: 1810; Census Place: Mason, Mason, Kentucky; Roll: 7; Page: 305; Image: 00312; Family History Library Film: 0181352.

    4. [S1234] Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Fleming, Kentucky; Page: 40; NARA Roll: M33_21; Image: 51.

    5. [S387] Dodd, Jordan, Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.).