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About West (John Wesley?) Allen:

General Assembly Petitions, No. 16, SC Archives. Petition of sundry inhabitants of Great and Little Saluda, Red Barn, Richland and Cloud Creek for a public road to carry their produce to Charleston. Among the signers were the names James Allen, Young Allen and West Allen.

April 7, 1794, Orangeburg Co, SC District Court. West Allen made oath that he and William were neighbors of William Melton while he lived in Edgefield Co, SC before he moved to Greene, Ga

He also made oath that William Melton was in the American Service during the Revolutionary War until the fall of Charlestown. Signed by West Allen. Similar statements were sworn to by Jesse Allen and Stephen Williams. (Ga Genealogical Society, No. 7-10, page 585).

In the book, HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF , Jones Co, Ga, VOLUME II, EARLY RECORDS: Abstracts of 1811 Tax Digest for West Allen - 202 1/2 acres in Jones Co granted by Sutton; Adj. - Greer; Watercourse - Wolf Creek.

He was also listed in an Index to Ordinary's Court Minutes for , Jones Co, Ga 1816-1818 on page 52.
According to Dianne DaLee's research, there were other children by a second wife. He was in , Jones Co, Ga for awhile and then settled in Conech Co, Al before 1820. He is listed on the 1820 Conecuh Co, census. He settled about four miles above Brooklyn on the Evergreen Road.

from littlehitchcock tree on ancestry
Mr. Allen was a gunsmith of Edgefield district, South Carolina before he moved to the area around Jones Co, Georgia. He received grants in Jones county. He served in the Revolutionary War. West Allen was mentioned in the settlement of his father's estate in 1801. Earlier his name was found in the records of Edgefield and Orangeburg Counties in South Carolina