On 20 November 1844, and inquisition was taken before Richard Croxton JP upon the view of the body of Thomas J. G. B. Allen. That one James M. Drinkwater of the Town of Tappahannock, not having God before his eyes on 19 November…did inflict several wounds upon the head…sundry blows with his fist…Allen fell upon the floor of Thomas Muse’s Tavern in the Town of Tappahannock and struck his head against the floor, or a table therein standing. Jurors who found both to be cause: Wm: S Croxton, John R. Semple, Wm: R. G. Trible, Richard L. Covington, Thomas Boughan, Richard F. Rowzee, M. G. Wood, Elzer Fogg, Mace Clements, Chas Thos Broocke, Z. M. P. Carter, Caston Boughan. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 25, page 332.]

On 18 March 1845, Richard P. Banks and Z. M. P. Carter were bound $100 for Richard P. Banks’s administration of the goods, chattles and credits of Thomas J. G. B. Allen. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Bokok 25, page 366.]

The division of the lands of Thomas Allen Senr were recorded on 21 May 1849. Lots went to James Allen’s children (Jonathan Hart and Mary his wife, Elizabeth F. Allen, Thomas J. G. B. Allen’s administrator, Pleasant T. Southall and his wife, John B. Allen, George W. Allen, Susan Allen and Augustus Allen), Thomas Allen, Addison Allen, Caty B. Allen, Barbara Bohannon (deceased), Mary Owen’s children, Banks Allen (deceased) and Lucy Bank’s children (Thomas A. Banks, Elizabeth A. Durham, Lucy C. Banks, and James W. Banks). [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 26, pages 449–452.]