This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4201.1 Message Board Post: I am wondering if you have any information about other Allen's of Greeneville in the late 1700s and 1800s? My great, great grandfather, John Reynolds m. Mary Alen/Allen and named her and his children in his Will of 1814. I know nothing more about him or about her but think they either came to Greene Co. from VA or PA. In the 1787-88 Greene Co. Tax list was Bengamin Alen. In 1798 in Capt. James Guthrie's Company was John Alen who had l00 acres in Greene Co., and Robert Allen who had 500 acres. Also Robert was with Capt. James Lauderdale's Co. in 1798 and in 1800 Robert Alen had 500 acres on the Chuckey River with 2 white tax payers and 2 blacks. John Allen had l00 acres on Lick Creek in 1799 and was with Capt. Chris-topher Bullard's Co. Any of these men could be the father of my great, great grandmother Mary Alen, or could be her brother or other relative. In 1830 Greene co. census was Daniel Allen who had 167 acres, 320101 males and 022061 females. Joseph Allen had 235 acres and 00021001 females but no males in his family, and Martha Allen had 967 acres and 00000101 males and herself. When Peach Tree Meets Sweet Auburn is the book by Gary Pomerantz (with whom I have spoken) about the Robert Allen line to whom Mary might be related because they were originally in Greeneville, TN. and moved to Atlanta, GA. Robert Allen is the oldest known ancestor who left Chester Co. PA when he was nearly 60 after the Revolutionary War and came to NC/TN by 1786. [He arrived from Ulster, Ireland about 1737 in Chester Co. PA with siblings John, Benjamin, Ruth and Mary, and in a couple of years moved to the shenandoah Valley, VA but don't know if his siblings joined him.] He lived 7 miles south of Greeneville where he built a log cabin with portholes to fight off the Cherokee. In 1811 Robert Allen wrote his Will. He married twice and with second wife Martha ?Kerr (m. 1791) was the father of Samuel, Daniel, Francis and possibly Margaret. With his first unknown wife he had Reuben (m.Mary Jones) Frances (m. Henry Farnsworth Jr. in 1799), Mary Polly (m. Samuel Leming) James (m. Rebecca Hall), Robert Jr., and possibly others. Reuben contested his father's will because the 500-acre plantation was left to his half-brothers Daniel, Samuel and two of his half-sisters. In 1812 the Will was ruled to be legitimate but the slaves had to be sold with 10 and 1/5th of the proceeds to go to Frances Allen (Mrs. Henry Farnsworth). Robert's son Daniel built toll roads, bridges, owned a saw mill and a grist mill, and often loaned money to people. He mar-ried Mary 'Polly' Baker in 1813 at the Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, TN and had 12 children--5 boys inc. Isaac and James who went to Tusculum College in Greeneville. His daughter Nancy married James M. Lowry and built a house for her on Irish Street, another one in the country and both are still standing. Daniel's brother Samuel lived on the adjoining plantation in 1830 and both bought clothes from Andrew Johnson's tailor shop. Sam's name was spelled Alen by Andrew Johnson, later President of the United States. In 1838 Daniel owned 1100 acres and in 1840 had 19 slaves. His 42-year old Presbyterian brother Samuel had 10 slaves and was a farmer. Daniel died intestate in 1857 leaving 9 living children (inc. Margaret), was worth $l00,000.00, had 4500 acres of land and 23 slaves. [One of his nephews was Robert A. Crawford.] On Sept. 2, 1857 the farm, furnishings, livestock and slaves were divided. James Allen took 7 slaves, Isaac took 4. Notes showed that Daniel was owed $13,000. In 1850 Samuel wrote his will on Dec. 2, 1851 and died before Feb. 6, 1860. Their mother Martha, the family matriach, died July, 1840 and the family squabble over the slaves ended up in Chancery Court. (She had sued Reuben Allen 4/8/1812 and won, which established that her husband Robert's will was legit.) Daniel's son Isaac who married Sarah Ruth Earnest of Fairfield Co.S.C. in 1843 had a son Daniel II December 1847. Isaac was a livestock trader. Sarah Ruth died in 1852 during childbirth leaving 3 children; Issac soon married Laura Haygood, age 19, from Sandy Level, SC and had 7 more children. He formed a partnership with John Pogue in 1861. One of Isaac's daughters was named Margaret Luana died at 20 months of age on 9/8/1863 according to The Family Bible of Laura Haygood Allen now owned by Mrs. Helen Britton of Greeneville, TN. [Juanita Renner is also a descendent and cousin of the Allens and has information.] In 1863 Isaac moved into the old Daniel Allen home but in 1865 his credi-tors demanded money, including Margaret Noell Allen, who sued to collect and got Isaac's father's home. James Allen sold animals and food-stuff to the Confederacy at least 18 times then became a Captain in the Civil War and left an extensive war record. He was hospitalized at Shelbyville ! and later died in action at Chickamauga on Sept. 19, 1863. Isaac's brother-in-law Nick Ernest also sued and the court took most of Isaac's land to pay his debts, leaving him with a clapboard house on Lick Creek near Mosheim. Isaac A. Allen died in 1884 ahd his obit is in the April 1885 report of Big Springs Baptist Church, Mosheim, TN with the church records in the hands of James A. Butler of Mosheim. James and Robert Allen also died insolvent. D. Earnest Allen and wife Susie Harris left Greene Co. TN. for Dalton, GA in 1875, but he soon returned ill in 1879 at age 31, and died on 9/14/1879. Susie changed the name of their son born in from Isaac Anderson Allen to Ivan Earnest Allen. Ivan married Irene Unknown when he was 31 and they had son Ivan Jr. on 3/1911 (who m. Louise Richardson and had Ivan Allen 3rd who died in 1992), Hugh Inman (who m. Tricia and had Louise), Beaumont (who married and had Beau and Sarah). Ivan the lst also had a brother Will and sister Mary Ruth who married a Thomas. Their mother Susie died in 1936. Ivan the lst died October 16, 1968 and is buried at Westview Cemetery in Georgia. [Sue Frick Sanders, niece of Ivan Allen lst, has notes on the family.] Somewhere in the files of Ivan Allen Jr. there is a Family Genealogy Pamphlet, 'Data of the Allen Family', which is a family history prepared by an unknown author in 1920 which traces the Allens from Somerset County, England and described their migration to PA and Providence, Rhode Island where Robert Allen is said to have been born. [I was hoping to get a copy of this but no one called me back in response to my request for genealogy information.] On 9/4/1848 Henry and Frances Farnsworth sued Samuel, James, Robert Allen and Polly Leming, et al. I found this information also: a Mary Allen b. 1/7/1776 was disowned in 1801 at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting in TN for marryingher first cousin, Jonathan Mathews. She was the daughter of James Allen (1742-1815) and Erica Laughlin (1749-1820) of Chester Co. PA. James was son of William Allen and Mary Unknown of St. George Parish, Hartford Co. MD. William Allen was b. abt. 1700 and Mary abt 1755 in Hartford Co. MD. Childreh: Susannah, William, John, Joseph, Zach, James. Zach b. 1735 m. Lavina Jones and had Wm b. 1844 NC who m. Jane Hobson and had Mary (1793-1870) who m. Jospeh Hobsin, Zach (1796-1865) m. Susanna Reynolds (1796-1862 Marshall Co) m. 1818 Guilford Co. NC and Susanna and Zach had Charles, Rebecca, Zimri, Sarah, Jesse, Joseph, Lavina, Hannah. The Allens were Quakers. Some of my information came from Gary Pomerantz's book, When Peach Tree Meets Sweet Auburn, and as you can see I am still looking for information because there isn't much on the Greene County site. Hopefully someone will come forward and help us out.