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d. 1833 - Great grandfather
Benjamin C. Allin. son of William Allin, of Hanover County, Virginia,
served as quartermaster in the army of the Revolution. He was on the staff
of General Greene, participating in the retreat from SC to Virginia which
culminated in the battle of Guilford Court House and remained with him
until the close of the war. He also served as captain and major of light
horse under General Charles Scott at the battle of Tippecanoe. In 1781 he
emigrated to Lincoln Co., KY where he was appointed deputy sheriff. There
he opened the court which was one of the first in the state and when
Mercer County was organized in 1786, he was the first to hold the office
of county clerk and clerk of the circuit or quarterly sessions court, both
of which he filled jointly until his death. He also laid out the towns of
Harrodsburg and Lexington and was a member of the convention to Virginia
which ratified the present constitution of the U.S. He married Mary Jouett,
daughter of Capt. John Jouett, of Revolutionary fame, as having saved the
Virginia legislature from capture by the British under Colonel Tarleton in
his raid upon Charlottesville. Mary Jouett was an aunt of Matthew Jouett,
the well-known portrait painter of Kentucky. |
