BENJAMIN ALLEN





AN EARLY CASEY COUNTY PIONEER








Life Span: 1745 - 1826





Parents: Robert Allen (born in 1695 Ireland - died before 1 Aug 1769 near


Winchester, Virginia) and Sarah Martha Cathey (born in 1695 Ulster


Province, Ireland - died after 1769 in Virginia)





1745 Birth: Winchester, Virginia.





1765 Dec 30 Identified with his half siblings and his mother in his


father's will.





1770 Marriage: Margaret Green Wohoab (died after 1830 in Kentucky).





1772 Child born (#1): Robert Mark Allen (born in 1772 Virginia, - died


after 29 Dec 1828 in Kentucky).





1774 Feb 8 Child born (#2): John Allen (born on 8 Feb 1774 Virginia, - died


after 4 Oct 1840 in Winchester, Illinois).





1776 Child born (#3): Sarah (Sally) Wohoab Allen (born in 1776 Virginia -


died in 1806 in Kentucky).





1779 Jun 10 Bought 1/2 of 240 acres and 1/2 of 132 acres on Welch Run in


Botetourt County, Virginia.





1779 Sep 24 Aided in returning a deserter to the Seventh Virginia Regiment


during the Revolutionary War.





1779 Oct 7 Child born (#4): James Green Allen (born on 7 Oct 1779 Virginia,


- died on 1 Jul 1864 in Kentucky).





1781 Jun 16 Child born (#5): Thomas Allen (born on 16 Jun 1781 Virginia, -


died on 23 Dec 1859 in Kirksville, Missouri).





1783 Child born (#6): Martha Allen (born in 1783 Virginia, - died on 18 Mar


1825).





1784 First record of his being in Kentucky.





1785 Child born (#7): William D. Allen (born in 1785 Kentucky, - died


before 18 Mar 1825).





1786 Captain Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president's grandfather, had land


surveyed on the south side of the Green River in what





became Casey County.





1787 Child born (#8): Margaret (Peggy) Allen (born in 1787 Kentucky).





1787 Child born (#9): Samuel Allen (born in 1787 Kentucky, - died after


1860 in Illinois).





Bef 1788 Apr 10 Sat on a jury in a trial involving Daniel Boone.





1790 Appears in the first federal census of 1790 in Lincoln County,


Kentucky. Was shown on the Lincoln County annual tax list until 1806 when


Casey County was formed.





1791 Jun 2 Had two Casey County 200 acre and 130 acre sites surveyed.





1795 Appears in the 1795 Kentucky census.





1795 Child born (#10): Elizabeth (Betsy) Allen (born in 1795 Kentucky).





1799 Jun 27 Gave his consent for the marriage of his daughter, Martha, to


Joseph Slatten.





1799 Nov 16 Near Liberty, Kentucky, purchased 200 acres in what was then


Lincoln County.





1803 Dec 14 In Stanford, Kentucky, sold land to William Montgomery.





1806 Death of Child (#3): Sarah (Sally) Wohoab Allen (born in 1776


Virginia, - died in 1806 in Kentucky).





1807 Sold land to Thomas Christenson.





1812 Jun 22 Appointed Casey County coroner.





1816 Took in Benjamin Scott and Sally Scott, children of his


daughter Peggy and Welcome Scott.





1819 Sep 25 Gave land near Canoe creek to his sons: Thomas Allen and


William D. Allen.





1825 Mar 18 Death of Child (#6): Martha Allen (born in 1783 Virginia, -


died on 18 Mar 1825).





Bef 1825 Mar 18 Death of Child (#7): William D. Allen (born in 1785


Kentucky, - died before 18 Mar 1825).





1826 Jan 23 Death on his farm located at Green River and Allen Creek near


Highway 127, south of Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky.





Aft 1826 Jan 26 Burial in Allen Cemetery, Kentucky.





Aft 1826 Jan 26 Will probated.





General Notes:





Between the widow Sarah Givens' children from her first marriage and the


widower Robert Allen's children from his first marriage Benjamin had


sixteen half brothers and sisters. Benjamin lived in the Shenandoah Valley


of Virginia when George Washington was surveying fort locations in the


Winchester, Frederick County, area of Virginia for protection from Indian


attacks.





Benjamin sold 400 acres for 675 pounds on the south side of Opequon Creek


in Frederick County, Virginia that he had inherited from his father,


Robert. The land was originally deeded to Robert Allen about 1737 by Jost


Hite, founder of the earliest Shenandoh Valley settlement.





Daniel Boone's relatives were pioneers near where Benjamin Allen


homesteaded in Kentucky. Likewise, Abraham Lincoln's grandfather was a


pioneer in the same region of Kentucky. Benjamin's grandson, James G.


Allen, served with Abraham Lincoln during the Black Hawk War in Illinois.











Provided on: 30 October 2002,


By: W. D. Allen Sr.


Email: ballensr@roadrunner.com