Samuel ALLEN

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: History and Genealogy Record of the Allens-Begleys-Mays of Kentucky, p. 60. "We find that the Allens came from Connecticut to Virginia, and after the Revolution many went to North Carolina and from there to Kentucky and Tennessee. George Allen and two other Allens, it has been told, came to Kentucky about 1793, and it was believed these three were brothers." p. 8.
DAR states: "John Allen was born 1750 and was a second cousin of Ethan Allen, and married Janet (Jane) Colman, a daughter of Samuel and Sara Lyons Colman of Virginia. John and Samuel were both Revolutionary War soldiers." According to this version John had three sons: George, William (Bill), and an unknown (Abraham ?) p. 8.
"Bill Allen (b. ca. 1770 or 1775) married a Martin or a Gayheart. He came to Kentucky with George Allen and another whose name is lost (Abraham ?) about 1793. Bill went to the Licking River and raised his family in Magoffin County." HISTORY AND GENEALOGY RECORD OF THE ALLENS-BEGLEYS-MAYS OF KENTUCKY by Jackson Allen Begley. p. 60.

• Military Service: Rev War, 1780. Samuel ALLEN enlisted in the Revolutionary forces, Sept 11, 1780, with Archibald PRATER. Sarah PRATER was a sister of Archibald. Samuel ALLEN signed an oath of allegiance to the United States in Henry Co., VA. on the third Monday of January, 1777. A Samuel ALLEN was taken prisoner during the Rev. War by the British 19 Oct 1781. Samuel may have been the brother of John ALLEN. During the period of 1782-87 the name of Samuel ALLEN was on the tax lists of Henry Co. VA. In 1795 Samuel ALLEN was one of the signers of a petition asking that Tazewell County be formed from part of Russell County. In the 1810 census of Floyd County, KY. was a Sarah ALLEN, probably the widow of Samuel ALLEN.
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Samuel married Sarah PRATER, daughter of Archibald PRATER and Sarah FUGATE, on 17 Sep 1783 in Henry County, VA. (Sarah PRATER was born about 1765 in KY and died Est 1799-1858 in KY.)