1787 Apr 20 - Wilkes Co.(now Caldwell Co.),NC - Deed, Joel Coffey sold Reuben STANDLEY 80 acres on Kings Creek adjacent John Witherspoon,John Stapp, Nebuzarandan Coffey, including land granted Joel Coffey by John Witherspoon. for 100 pounds.Witnesses: Ananias Allen and Levi Laxson. 1793 Feb - Deed from Joel Coffey to Reuben STANDLEY for 80 acres proved by Anaias Allen

1787 Aug 14 - Wilkes Co.(now Caldwell Co.),NC - David and Thomas Witherspoon sold 10 acres of land on Kings Creek including a grist mill for 200 pounds to Reuben STANDLEY. Witnesses were Ananias Allen and Suffiah Aldridge. 1793 Feb - Deed from David and Thomas Witherspoon to Reuben STANDLEY for 10 acres proved by Anaias Allen.

1789 Apr 25 - Wilkes Co.(now Caldwell Co.), NC - Reuben sold 50 acres of land on Kings Creek to John Kerby for 100 pounds. Witnesses were Ananias Allen and George Lewis. Feb 1799 - Deed from Reuben STANDLEY to John Kerby for 50 acres proved by Annaias Allen. 60

[pg 31][Deed Book A-1]
21 Aug. 1784. Between Thomas Alloms (Allen)..late of Wilkes
County and Thomas Wisdom..40 lbs...150 ac. on
branch Kings Creek..Gorsham Alloms (Allen) line..John Durham line.
Wits: Wm. Dunlap & Annanias Allen. Signed: Thomas Hallum (Allen)
and Elizabeth (X) Hallum (Allen). Page 425.

[pg 77][Deed Book B-1]
14 July 1788. Between Joel Coffey and Ananias Allen..200 lbs...
200 ac. Kings Creek..Phillip Davis line..John
Witherspoons old line..Thomas Witherspoon line..granted Joel
Coffey by deed from John Witherspoon. Wits: Nebuzaradan Coffey
& Thomas Wisdom. Signed: Joel (X) Coffey. Pages 387 & 388.


Only Revolutionary War soldier by this name per National Archives

In the book, Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Located in SLC reads as follows, "Annanias Allen, R100, NC Line, app 24 Jan 1835 Jackson City AL Age 77, b1756 Orange City NC, Lived Wilkes City NC at enl thence to Adair City KY thence to Jackson City TN thence to Jackson City AL sol d. 1840, in 1842 sons Hiram and Wilson L Allen are mentioned as administrators of sol's estate."

HAD ONE EYE GOUGED OUT IN FIGHT OVER CHEATING IN CARD GAME BEFORE 1774.


Birth Year:1756
Birth Location Code:NC


Spouse:Elizabeth Laxton
Birth Year:1757
Birth Location Code:NC

Source Number:1163.313
Source Type:Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents
Number of Pages:1

The 1787 Wilkes County, NC Tax List

Allen, Annanias 150 Acres 1 Poll


1790 > NORTH CAROLINA > WILKES > MORGAN DIST

Series: M637 Roll: 7 Page: 159
Ananias Allen White Males over 16 1White Males under 16 3White Females 4Slaves 0

Census Year 1800
Microfilm M32-19
State NC
County Burke
District Morgan
Enumerator n/a
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Males Females All
Pg# Ln# Head of Household to-10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+ to-10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+ Others Slaves Remarks
Last Name First Name (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
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720 10 Allin Ananias 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 0


1810 > KENTUCKY > ADAIR > COLUMBIA

Series: M252 Roll: 5 Page: 5
Ananias Allen1-1-2--1--


1820 > KENTUCKY > ADAIR > NO TWP LISTED

Series: M33 Roll: 16 Page: 12
Ananias Allen1---1--1

The Allens - Ananias Allen 1756-1840

The arrival of the first Allen in America is something of a mystery. In her collection of family stories, Eulalie Powell wrote that Ananias, our first known Allen ancestor, was a younger son of the Earl of Somerset who left England for America because he was disappointed in his inheritance. Ananias volunteered for service in the North Carolina militia in the American Revolution. He married Jane Laxton, the daughter of a New England shipbuilder.
This account by Eulalie is an excellent example of oral history that changes in the years of retelling. Our research so far has not identified the immigrant Allen, but we have learned a great deal about the militiaman Ananias.
In 1835 Ananias Allen (the only Revolutionary soldier by that name) applied for a pension. In his application he stated that he was born in 1756 in Orange County, N.C. He volunteered for the militia in Wilkes County, N.C. in 1781. Ananias served three months, during which time he fought in a skirmish with British and Tories between Drowning Creek and Little Pee Dee. After his discharge he returned to his wife, Jane Laxton. They had nine children, all born in North Carolina between 1776 and 1802. We know nothing of Jane's ancestry, birth, death, place of death and burial.
Ananias moved to Adair County, Kentucky, with his eldest son John: later Ananias moved to Jackson county, Tennessee then to Jackson County, Alabama, where he joined his son Wilson L. Allen. They settled land recently acquired from the Cherokee Indians near Stevenson.
Ananias made application for a pension in 1835. The pension was denied because Ananias had served only three months instead of the required six months.
Ananias died in 1840 and is buried in the Allen cemetery in Big Coon Valley near Stevenson. The grave is marked by a white marker supplied by the DAR.
The cemetery adjoins the Allen farmhouse, a neat, well-tended frame building. Dolores and I drove into the yard, but there was no one home except a large dog. We snapped a few pictures from the car but decided to leave the dog to his sentry duties.
In Ananias' military file are some letters from other descendants. Several asked information about a "Captain" or "Colonel" Allen who carried a British musket ball in his hip. Ananias was a private and there was no report of an injury.
In Eulalie's family history, she relates an incident when Ananias was a young man. After a card game he got in a fight during which he had an eye "gouged" out. Again, there is no confirmation of such an injury in the records we have.

Sources:
1. Powell-Allen Bible. Katherine Brown of California has it in her possession.
2. Eulalie Powell Unpublished Memoirs. (Copies are in possession of several descendents.)
3. Military records of Ananias Allen. M804 Pension and Bounty Land. Warrants File Drawer 28/1 Tape 33. N.C. Allen, Ananias R100. Regional National Archives, Denver, CO.
4. Trip to Stevenson, AL. Dolores Brown and Jean Irish.
5. The Stevenson Story by Eliza W. Woodell. Stevenson Depot Museum, Stevenson, AL 35772.

• Married: 1775 in WILKES CO,. NC

1. GURSHAM LEE ALLEN b: in NORTH CAROLINA
2. JOHN ALLEN b: 10 APR 1776 in WILKES CO. THEN SURRY Co., NC
3. ANANIAS ALLEN , JR b: 16 MAY 1778 in WILKES CO. THEN SURRY Co., NC
4. GIDEON ALLEN b: 1780 in WILKES Co., NC
5. PATIENCE L ALLEN b: 27 MAY 1782 in WILKES CO. , NC
6. (UNKNOW) ALLEN b: 1784
7. Sophia Elizabeth "BETSY" ALLEN b: 1786 in WILKES CO. , NC
8. LUCY ALLEN b: 1790 in WILKES CO. , NC
9. HIRAM ALLEN b: 22 JAN 1792 in WILKES CO. , NC
10. MARY "POLLY" ALLEN b: 1795 in WILKES CO. , NC
11. SARAH ANN ALLEN b: ABT 1801 in WILKES CO. , NC
12. WILSON LAXTON ALLEN b: 26 AUG 1802 in BURKE Co., NC

1. Title: Cemetery Listing