Breakthrough with the Allen family!

If you searched back through this blog you would find several posts lamenting the gaps in my research regarding the Allen family. Finally, finally, I found what I was looking for!

Buried deep in a publication by the DAR was a detailed genealogy of my great grandfather Augustus Allen. It confirmed his lineage back to the Allens of Mecklenburg Va. It also revealed that his middle name was Dozier and gave the date of his death. There was a lot more information that fleshed out his family tree. The link to the Dozier family adds an interesting twist to our family story...I knew we were connected to the Doziers of Lunenburg County by DNA, but until now, could not confirm the lineage. The Doziers were French Huguenots who became respected leaders in early Virginia history.

This is what I found at first...a mere snippet:

It took some digging in the DAR archives to find the actual article... so very exciting!

Here is the lineage denoted in the article... the DAR couldn't be wrong, could they?

Augustus Dozier Allen, b. 1859, Illinois, son of...
Robert Scott Allen, b. 1797, Lunenburg, Virginia, son of...
John Watson Allen, b. 1769, Lunenburg, Virginia, son of...
Turner Allen, b. 1751, Mecklenburg, Virginia, son of...
William Allen, b. 1725...

William's parentage gets a little muddy but there is evidence that his father was from New Kent County. I think a visit to the Library of Virginia is in order.

Full text of the article from DAR Magazine, May 1988, pp. 352-353:

http://services.dar.org/members/magazine_archive/download/?file=DARMAG_1988_05.pdf