Person:Lucy Kerr (2)

Records regarding John Allison, Jr. are very scarce. He probably migrated to Kentucky with his family after living in Augusta County, VA. He may have been married twice, conflicting accounts on his family. The placement of his children may not be positively established until his marriage dates are determined.

The following entries may give some evidence to his families migration:

Kentucky Court of Appeals, Deed Books V-Z, vol. 3, by Michael L. Cook, 1985, pg. 481:

Robert M. Allison and William C. Allison of Wilkes County, Georgia, appoint Cutherbert S. Anderson of Frankfort, Kentucky as their true and lawful attorney in fact, to take all lawful means to recover and establish their right and title to certain lands in Kentucky located for John Allison, their desceased father, on military warrants as compensation rendered for services to his country in the war of the revolution. Said attorney to process patents, institute claims against adverse titles, to enter the lands for taxes, and do all matters relative. February 10, 1820. Wittnesses by William Lennard and John B. Lennard. Acknowledged Wilkes County, Georgia, February 10, 1820 and recorded by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, March 2, 1820.

Kentucky Court of Appeals, Deed Books V-Z, vol. 4, by Michael L. Cook, 1985, pg. 179:

Whereas William C. Allison of Wilkins County, Georgia authorized Cuthbert S. Anderson, late of Frankfort, Kentucky to have surveyed and carried into grant, at Anderson's expense, five entries of land in the country west of the Tennessee River, in Kentucky, containing 1,200 acres and located under a military warrant in the name of his father, John Allison. And whereas Anderson so effectuated the authority as to have surveyed three of the said tracts, viz., one beginning at the lower corner of George Gibson's entry, and on the Mississippi River, one beginning at the southeast corner of John Rodger's entry on Little O'Bion Creek, and one beginning at corner to Matthew Wright's 1,000 acres, John Martin's 1,000 acres and William Pennick's 1,666 2/3 acres on Red Stone Creek, and the said Anderson then departed this life, and since his death his administrator has caused the said to by duly registered. And whereas the remaining two tracts, one beginning where George Wall's entry crosses Clarks River on the upper side, running up the river, entered August 11, 1784, and one of August 14, 1784, beginning where Thomas Clay's entry corners on land Lawrence Muse and others. Now, for the purpose of continuing the objects for which the said Anderson had been appointed and for other purposes, William C. Allison appoints Richard Taylor, Jr. of Hickman County, Kentucky as his true and lawful attorney in fact. November 6, 1824. Recorded by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, November 6, 1824

From Chalkley's Augusta County, Virginia Court Judgements:

Page 252.__ _____, 1770. John ( ) Allison and Janet ( ) to William Ramsey, £130, 204 acres on North Branch of James; corner Andrew Hall; John Thomson's line; corner widow Alison. Delivered: John Ellison August. 1773.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Volume I AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XIX MAY 18, 1785. (38) John Allison, Jr., returned no inhabitant.

NOVEMBER, 1787.

 John Allison, Jr., vs. John Dickson and Rebecca, his wife.--Writ, 13th

June, 1787.

1. ↑ Demastus, Charles A. , e-mail: Demastus@@aol.com.