KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 
1887, Mercer Co.

BENJAMIN C. ALLIN was born May 6, 1808.  His father, Thomas Allin, was
born in Hanover County, Va.,  May 14, 1757.  In the beginning of the 
Revolution, soon after the battle of Camden, he entered Gen. Greene's 
army as a private, but before his term of enlistment expired was 
promoted quartermaster and commissary.  He participated in the memorable
retreat of Gen. Greene from South Carolina into Virginia, participating 
in the battle of Guilford C.H.  After his term expired he immigrated to 
St. Asaph's, Lincoln County, about 1781, where he was the deputy sheriff
who opened the first court there, among the first in Kentucky.  He 
surveyed the land for the site of the present city of Lexington, 
receiving  as a compensation for this and other services the ground 
where Newport now stands, which he subsequently lost in litigation.  He 
was then appointed deputy clerk in Col. Greenup's office at Danville, 
Ky., afterward becoming the first county clerk, and circuit or quarterly
session court clerk of Mercer after its organization.  These offices he 
held until his resignation, about 1824, of the circuit clerkship, and a 
few years later of the county clerkship, his son Thomas Allin, Jr., 
receiving the latter appointment.  Thomas Allin, besides being a member 
of the convention that formed the Virginia constitution, and the 
convention that formed the first Kentucky constitution, was the 
commander of a company of mounted infantry in the Indian campaign of 
Gen. Scott in Indiana.  He was married on February 16, 1787, to Miss 
Mary Jouett, a daughter of John and Mourning Jouett, of Albemarle 
County, Va.    This marriage was blessed with by ten children: Nancy H.,
wife of Samuel Woodson, clerk of Hopkins County; William H., born 
April 9, 1791, died in Missouri;  John J., born January 23, 1793;
Thomas, Jr., born July 20, 1794; Charles W., born July 13, 1796; Polly 
J., wife of Don Carlos Dixon Grant, born January 20, 1800; Philip T., 
born May 5, 1801; Samuel W., born April 8, 1805, and Benjamin C., who 
alone of the family is living.  Thomas Allin and his wife were both 
members of the Christian Church.  His death occurred June 26, 1833, his 
wife's June 28, same year, both of cholera.  The Allin family is of 
Scotch-Irish origin.  Benjamin C. Allin, a native of Mercer County, 
received as good an education as the schools afforded, and also received
a fair estate from his father, but by security soon lost it all.  He was
married January 28, 1829, to Miss Susan Hart Warren, a daughter of John 
and Judith (Boswell) Warren.  Mr. Allin immediately began an 
agricultural life, at the same time being deputy for his brothers, 
Philip T. Allin and Thomas Allin, in both county and circuit court 
clerks' offices.  On the death of his brother in 1849, Mr. Allin
received the appointment of circuit court clerk, and when the new
constitution went into effect was, in 1950, elected to this position,
being re-elected in 1856.  In 1862 Mr. Allin was not allowed, on account
of his political opinions, to be a candidate for circuit clerk, but in 
1866 he was elected county court clerk of Mercer County, and has been 
re-elected every four years since.  Mr. and Mrs. Allin are both members 
of the Christian Church, and they are parents of twelve children: Mary 
Boswell, who died in infancy; George T., who died in infancy; Ben C., 
Jr.; Maria C., wife of D.N. Wilson; John W., who died in infancy; Philip
T., clerk of the district court of Cleburn, Tex.; Bushrod W. Allin, 
circuit court clerk of Mercer County; William B., county attorney of 
Mercer County; Susan J., who died in 1864; Grant, who died in August, 
1885; Mary A., wife of George W. Reichenberg, and Thomas Allin, who died
in infancy.  Bushrod W. Allin, born February 6, 1843, in Mercer County,
was educated in the Harrodsburg schools, attending several years the 
Kentucky University.  He was in the sophomore year in that college in 
1862, when he enlisted in September in Company H of the Second 
Confederate Cavalry, a part of Gen. Morgan's command.  Mr. Allin was 
afterward transferred to Company H [sic], in the same regiment (Gen. 
Duke's), and participated in all of the battles and raids of that 
celebrated command, serving all the time as a private.  He served in 
the cavalry service until the spring of 1865, when he returned home and 
became deputy county court clerk in 1866, which position he has filled 
ever since.  In 1865, December 21, he married Miss Lucy Hawkins, a
daughter of Benjamin Hawkins, of Woodford County.  Ten children resulted
from this union: G. Jouett, James C., Bush W., Jennie Hart, Benjamin C.,
Jr., John Warren, Margaret Pearl, Susan, Mary and William Poteet, all of
whom are living.  August, 1885, Mr. Allin was elected circuit court
clerk on the Democratic ticket.

Allin Greene Greenup Scott Jouett Woodson Grant Warren Boswell Wilson
Reichenberg Morgan Duke Hawkins
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