CLARKE COUNTY, GA - MILITARY INDIAN War of 1812 Pension Charles Allen 1871

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War of 1812 & Creek War Pension for Charles ALLEN; Clarke Co., GA

ALLEN, CHARLES, War of 1812 & Campaign against Creek Indians, #19509
Retyped by Mary Lu Johnson from abstract by A. D.
Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator,
Commissioner of Pensions.  Abstract was found in the
pension record of Rev War Private Charles Allen
[different individual], who received #S17819 while
living in Laurens Dist, SC.  Was in reply to Mrs.
Nellie P. Long then of Philadelphia, PA dated 14 July
1936.

"CHARLES ALLEN-S. C. 19509.  War of 1812 and Campaign
against Creek Indians. Charles Allen was born in
Watkinsville, Clarke County, Georgia:  the date of his
birth not stated.  At the time of the War of 1812, he
lived in Watkinsville, Georgia, with his mother and his
step-father; the names of his own father, of his
brother and of his step-father were not given. June 16,
1871, Charles Allen, aged seventy-one years, of
Watkinsville, Clarke County, Georgia applied for
pension which might have been due on account of his
service in the War of 1812.  It was stated then that
when about fourteen years of age, he ran away from his
step-father, that he enlisted in Washington, Wilkes
County, Georgia, served first as drummer boy,
afterwards as private in Captain Bailey's company, that
he served also in Captain Mason's company of Infantry,
that he was transferred in the fall of 1814, at Fort
George, Canada to General Coffe?y's Light Brigade, was
?out to Florida where he served against the Indians,
and was discharged in April 1815 at Mobile, Alabama
also, that during said service, he was in the battle of
Horseshoe with the Creek Indians, was in the battle of
Erie in Canada, that he was in the battle of Fort
Jackson in Florida and was stationed at Mobile at the
time of the battle of New Orleans. His claim for
pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof
of service in the War of 1812 as required by the
pension law. 

This Charles Allen volunteered in
Watkinsville, Clarke County, Georgia, served from June
4 to July 12, 18?35 against the Creek Indians and was
discharged at Columbus, Georgia. 

April 7, 1857, he
applied for bounty land which was due on account of his
service against the Creek Indians; he was then a
resident of Clarke County, Georgia.  On this
application, he was allowed 160 acres of bounty land on
warrant #72445, under the Act of 1855.

The soldier married December 26, 1826, in Clarke
County, Georgia Elizabeth Lee; the names of her
parents, her age, and the date and place of her birth
were not shown.

No reference was made to children of this Charles
Allen. If you desire information regarding the location
of the land granted this 

Charles Allen on account of his service against the
Creek Indians, you should apply to the official named
on page 2, and cite this warrant number, acreage and 
Act.*   s/s A. D. Hiller
*[Person on P. 2 was Commissioner of the General Land Office, Wash, D.C.]