But they had been there but two or three days when Allen took the old
gentleman out to view his flats; and as they were deliberately walking on
the bank of the river, pushed him into the water. The old man, almost
strangled, succeeded in getting out; but his fall and exertions had so
powerful an effect upon his system that he died in two or three days, and
left his young widow to the protection of his murderer. She lived with him
about one year in a state of concubinage and then left him.

How long Allen lived at Allen's Creek I am unable to state; but soon after
the young widow left him, he removed to his old place at Mount Morris, and
built a house, where he made Sally, his squaw, by whom he had two
daughters, a slave to Lucy, by whom he had had one son; still, however, he
considered Sally to be his wife.

After Allen came to Mt. Morris at that time, he married a girl by the name
of Morilla Gregory, whose father at the time lived on Genesee Flats. The
ceremony being over, he took her home to live in common with his other
wives; but his house was too small for his family; for Sally and Lucy,
conceiving that their lawful privileges would be abridged if they received
a partner, united their strength and whipped poor Morilla so cruelly that
he was obliged to keep her in a small Indian house a short distance from
his own, or lose her entirely. Morilla, before she left Mt. Morris, had
four children.

One of Morilla's sisters lived with Allen about a year after Morilla was
married, and then quit him.

A short time after they all got to living at Mt. Morris, Allen prevailed
upon the Chiefs to give to his Indian children, a tract of land four miles
square, where he then resided. The Chiefs gave them the land, but he so