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Nancy Allen (Arnold)

Also Known As: "Ann", "Annie", "Nancy Allen", "Nancy Arnold"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Goochland County, Virginia
Death: 1797 (63-64)
Rockingham, North Carolina, United States
Place of Burial: Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William C Arnold, Sr. and Elizabeth Noel Arnold
Wife of Captain Valentine Allen
Mother of Elizabeth Joyce; William Hunt Allen; Polly Scales (Allen); Mary Garland-Peay-Chadwell; Valentine Sublett Allen, Jr., and 7 others
Sister of Thomas R. Arnold; Henry Arnold, Sr.; Dr. John Arnold, Sr.; Moses Arnold and James Arnold
Half sister of William Arnold, Jr.

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About Nancy Allen

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DEGRAFFENREID/1997-12...



Alternate death dates: 17 September 1798 or 1810. Nancy was born to William Arnold (1700-1774) and Elizabeth Bostick Arnold (1705-1774). On 26 February 1753 at the age of 20 she married Valentine Allen, who later served his country during the Revolutionary War.

Ancestry.com researchers list a family of 11 children for them. They were:

  1. 1 Elizabeth ALLEN b. 1754 in Goochland Co., VA m. Elijah J. Joyce 23 Nov. 1773 Guilford Co., NCd. Nov. 1804 or 1808 Rockingham Co., NC
  2. 2 William Hunt ALLEN b. 1756 in Goochland Co., VA m. Agathy Scales 3 July 1777 in Guilford Co., NC d. 1823 in Bedford, Bedford Co., TN.
  3. 3 Nancy Ann ALLEN b. 1759 in VA m. Nathaniel Scales 3 July 1777 Guilford Co., NC d. 6 July 1824 or 1840 in Rockingham Co., NC
  4. 4 Mary ALLEN b. 1762 in Albemarle or Buckingham Co., VA m. John Chadwell 1780 Rockingham Co., NC m.2nd James Peay
  5. 5 George ALLEN b. 1765 in NC d. 1791 in NC d. 15 October 1821 Williamson Co, NC
  6. 6 Valentine Sublett ALLEN b. 1 Jan 1764 in Guilford Co., NC m. Agnes Whitlock Hogatte 1792 Rockingham Co., NC d. 6 September 1840 Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN
  7. 7 Patricia ALLEN b. 1766 Guilford Co., NC d. 1780
  8. 8 Martha "Patsey" ALLEN b. 16 Jul 1768 m. Joseph Scales 7 April 1785 d. 25 July 1818 Shelby Co., TN
  9. 9 Obedience "Biddy" ALLEN b. about 1768 in Guilford Co., NC d. 1782.
  10. 10 Samuel Alexander ALLEN b. 22 Jul 1778 in Guilford Co., NC m. Ellen Scales 1800 d. 15 February 1855 Dan River, Rockingham, NC
  11. 11 George ALLEN b. 22 Jul 1778 in Guilford Co., NC m. Mildred B. Johnson d. 1791 in NC

Some have also stated that descendants of Nancy are Laura Welch Bush and John McCain.

Husband Valentine is memorialized on a monument erected by the D.A.R. in Glenn's Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Ayersville, Rockingham Co., North Carolina. Photo of monument at right taken by Find-A-Grave contributor David Clay (#46973418).

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54257802


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Nancy Allen's Timeline

1733
April 29, 1733
Goochland County, Virginia
1754
1754
Goochland County, Virginia, United States
1756
1756
Goochland County, Virginia, United States
1759
1759
Guilford, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1761
1761
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
1764
January 1, 1764
Guilford, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1766
1766
Guilford, North Carolina, United States
1768
July 16, 1768
Guilford County, North Carolina
1771
1771
Guilford, North Carolina, United States