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Benjamin Casey Allin (Mercer County, Kentucky, circuit clerk)

b. 1808-05-06 d. 1895-09-26

Mercer County, Kentucky, circuit clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Allin and Mary Jouett Allin. Married to Susan Hart Warren Allin in Mercer County, Kentucky, on January 28, 1829. Father of Benjmain Allin, commMaria "Kate" Allin, Phillip T. Allin, Bushrod W. Allin, William B. Allin, Susan J. Allin, Grant Allin, Mary D. Allin, and Thomas Allin. Clerk of the Mercer Circuit Court in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Clerk of Mercer Circuit Court in Mercer County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, District 2, pp. 351B-352A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, District 2, p. 901.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, Harrodsburg, p. 685.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, Harrodsburg, p. 46A.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Ky, National 81954, State 4839.

"Ben Allin Dead," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), September 26, 1895.

"Col Benjamin Casey Allin (1808-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 58899976, accessed April 12, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58899976.

Citation

Allin, Benjamin Casey. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209122 (November 12, 2026).

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