Family of Robert Allen III

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1.  ROBERT¹⁰ ALLEN III  (ROBERT⁹, ROBERT⁸, RICHARD⁷, RICHARD⁶, RICHARD⁵ ALLEYNE, RICHARD⁴, JOHN³, RICHARD², GEORGE¹) was born Bet. June 1734 - May 1735 in Hanover County, Virginia, and died August 03, 1801 in Richmond County, Georgia^3,4.  He married ELIZABETH WEST⁵ 1761, daughter of WILLIAM WEST and MARY UNKNOWN.  She was born Abt. 1740, and died November 07, 1805 in Richmond County, Georgia⁶.

 

More About ROBERT ALLEN III:

Military service: Revolutionary War Veteran

 

More About ROBERT ALLEN and ELIZABETH WEST:

Marriage: 1761

     

Children of ROBERT ALLEN and ELIZABETH WEST are:

              i.   WEST¹¹ ALLEN.

 

Notes for WEST ALLEN:

Database: Georgia Tax Index, 1789-99

 

       NAME         COUNTY   DISTRICT  YEAR   PAGE

ALLEN, WEST   GREENE   MELTON    1789     21

 

 

 

              ii.   WILLIAM ALLEN, m. ELIZABETH CALHOUN, May 27, 1809, Richmond County, Georgia.

 

More About WILLIAM ALLEN and ELIZABETH CALHOUN:

Marriage: May 27, 1809, Richmond County, Georgia

 

             iii.   JESSE ALLEN .

             iv.   LUCY DANIEL ALLEN, b. February 22, 1762, 96th Dist., South Carolina; d. November 13, 1815, Putnam County, Georgia¹¹; m. (1) SAMUEL WILLIAMS, Abt. 1779; b. Abt. 1755; d. 1780; m. (2) WILLIAM MELTON, June 3, 1783, Edgefield County, South Carolina; b. July 31, 1761, Haw River, Orange County, North Carolina; d. June 06, 1836, Walton County, Georgia.

 

More About SAMUEL WILLIAMS and LUCY ALLEN:

Marriage: Abt. 1779

 

Notes for WILLIAM MELTON:

Revolutionary War Vet (W 25703, BLW+ 30939-160-55) Joined on May 8, 1778, on the Saluda River in the 96th District, South Carolina, and later as a substitute for his father.  He applied for pension in Walton County, Georgia on March 4, 1833.

 

Transcribed from MELTON FAMILY HISTORY  by James R. Wilson, 1963

 

(The 1800 Census of South Carolina shows that Nathan had at least two other children other than William, but I do not know their names.)

 

    William Allen Melton was born July 31, 1761, on the Haw River in NC, the son of Nathan and Nancy (Allen) Melton, and died June 6, 1836, in Walton County, Georgia.

    The Melton's were living on the Little Saluda River in South Carolina when the Revolutionary War began. William served in the SC Militia as a sergeant, enlisting on May 8, 1778, at the age of 17.

    In May 1780, the militia of SC was surrendered and received paroles in obedience to the British ultimatum: "Surrender, or have your homes destroyed and all your property confiscated." A year later, the British released the Americans from their paroles and ordered them into British service. William describes this in his pension file: "Here were trying times. The old Whigs, still loyal to their country and regardless of the threats and mandates of Britain, flew to their arms and determined on Freedom or Death."

    During the period the Americans were under parole, the British seized a large amount of rebel property. In order to keep their Negro slaves from falling into British hands, William Melton's fellow officers gave him the slaves to hide from the British and their Tory spies. He kept them concealed for about a month until he was sent word to bring them to Wadmalaw Island, which is just below the city of Charleston. To do this, he had to make a trip of about 130 miles through country infested with British and Tories. He successfully accomplished this journey.  William served in several missions against the British and Indians in northern Georgia and along the Savannah River before the close of the war.

    In 1783, William Allen Melton went to Greene County, Tennessee, in what was then the independent state of Franklin. Here he was commander of a troop of horse, but in 1786, shortly before the rapidly dissolving state of Franklin was subjugated by a United States military force, William moved to Greene County, Georgia. Arriving in November of 1786, he lived in Greene County for 24 years.  At this time in Georgia, there was danger of an Indian uprising and a militia was maintained to protect the settlers from raids by the Indians. William received a commission in the State Militia and from May 28, 1787 until May 9, 1793, he served as the Captain of the Fifth Company, Greene County Regiment of Militia. He received a new commission on May 9, 1793 and from then until September of 1804, he served as a Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the First Regiment, Greene County Militia.

    William was elected to a term in the Georgia House of Representatives from Greene County in 1800.  In March 1800, he moved to Putnam County, Georgia where he lived until December of 1821, when he went to Walton County, Georgia. He lived there until his death in 1836.

    In what is now Saluda County, SC, on February 1, 1780 William Allen Melton married Polly Bates who was born on April 24, 1762. The story of their marriage is related in William Alexander Melton's family Bible: "...Wm. Melton, son of William Melton and Polly, his wife, was born the 29th day of January, 1781. Wm. born two o'clock. The above Polly died the same day about six o'clock. William deceased ninth day of February of the same year." Thus William lost both wife and son in the space of ten days.

 

    On May 9, 1816 in Putnam County, Georgia, William was married to Rebecca Thompson. She was born December 25, 1778. The date of her death is not known; however, she was living in 1853 when she applied for a pension as the widow of William Allen Melton. She was then living in Meriweather County, Georgia.

 

 

The Following was Donated by Karon Mac Smith.

William Melton wrote the following letter dated August 19, 1835 to his son W.A. Melton and sent it to him in Alabama from Georgia.

 

"A history of the age and life of William Melton.  He was born 31 of July 1761 in North Carolina near the Hawfield on Haw/river and in his 7 year of his age his farther Nathan Melton moved from that place to South Carolina then Edgefield District (lived here 15 years and in my 19 year of age I married on 1 day of Jan. 1781 Polley Bates dau Wm. Bates and she departed this life 29 of Jan. 1781 and on the 3 of July 1783 married the widder Williams dau of Robert Allen.  We moved from 96th. Dist. on the 9 of Oct 1783 to Holston River now East (not plain but is Tennessee) from thence on the 16 of November 1786 to State of Georgia, Green County.  We continued there upwards of 24 years to the 10 of March 1810, we moved from Green Co., to Putman Co. and on 13 of Nov. 1815 my wife Lucy departed this life.  We lived together 32 yrs.  We had 13 children, 10 now living with 103 grandchildren.  I then on the 9 of May 1816 married the widder Boren, dau of Seth Thompson.  We had 2 chn.  We moved from Putman to Walton Co. on the 31 of Dec. 1827 where we now live.

To my family as a soldier and an officer, in my 17 yr. of age I turned out as a vol. soldier in the American service in the Florida Expedition on the 8 of May 1778.  Served until the 28 of Aug. following and on the 2 of Sept. I took my fathers place as a soldier in an Exped. to the frontier of George an cont. in his place and on my own in the American Service two yrs. 6 mo. and 10 days in the R. Ware until peace with Great Briton for which the United States allowed me as my pension during my life $80.83 annually.  I was in 7 battles against the British, 6 running fights and one general Battel at Stone Perry on the 20 of June 1779.  On the 5 of Jan. 1787 I was elected Capt. on the frontiers of Georgia and on the 28th of May 1787 the Creeke Indians came into the district I commanded, killed Ezekiel McMichel and Wm. Jones.  Now begins the Creek Ware.  I commanded as Capt. of the district and 4 troops of hors until Jan. 1793 held the command for 15 yrs.  I ware in 13 battles with the Indians, was at the burning of the Indian Village on the Chatehucha River above West Point.  We arrived at the river before day. None knew we where the fouerd ware...two men vollentered their servises to serch out the ffouerd to wit David Adams and Mr. Cribes.  After a long search Cribs returned but no Adams.  At length Adams went into the towm, took an Indian pony which was tide came to the river, found the foured, pilotted 87 men across the river, then we went to the town which was a 1/2 mile, burnt the town, held a grate many indians, took 9 prisoners and returned with out a loss of a man at that place."

 

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More About WILLIAM MELTON and LUCY ALLEN:

Marriage: June 3, 1783, Edgefield County, SC¹⁹

 

             v.   ELIZABETH ALLEN, b. March 17, 1772, Edgefield Dist, SC²²; d. Aft. 1829, AL or MS²³; m. THOMAS MELTON, Abt. 1789; b. May 7, 1760, Haw River, Orange Co, NC; d. Abt. 1830, Greene Co, AL.

 

 

             vi.   MARTHA ALLEN, d. Bef. 1818; m. LEWIS COLLINS, January 02, 1799, Richmond County, Georgia.

 

More About LEWIS COLLINS and MARTHA ALLEN:

Marriage: January 02, 1799, Richmond County, Georgia

 

            vii.   DRURY ALLEN, b. 1773, South Carolina.

           viii.   ROBERT ALLEN IV, b. Bef. 1775, North Carolina; d. Georgia; m. (1) UNKNOWN; m. (2) ELIZABETH ANDERSON, June 13, 1796, Richmond County, Georgia; b. Bef. 1775.

 

Notes for ROBERT ALLEN IV:

Received a grant of land for his services as a Revolutionary Soldier of North Carolina.

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More About ROBERT ALLEN and ELIZABETH ANDERSON:

Marriage: June 13, 1796, Richmond County, Georgia

 

             ix.   YOUNG ALLEN, b. Abt. 1775; m. JANE ANDERSON, February 14, 1804, Richmond County, Georgia.

 

More About YOUNG ALLEN and JANE ANDERSON:

Marriage: February 14, 1804, Richmond County, Georgia

 

             x.   DAVID ALLEN.

 

Notes for DAVID ALLEN:

Could this be the same David Allen that married Mary Wilson Bruce?

 

 

             xi.   NANCY ALLEN.