Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11065, Isaac H Wallace, Vt.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Vt
Wallace, Isaac H.

NUMBER
R. 11065

CONTENTS
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[crossed out-”Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.”]
11065
P.O
Isaac H Wallace
Service:
Enlisted:  REJECTED
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Searched for
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Reject
See letter 8 June
1835 to E. Parker
Elyria did not
serve six month
11065
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Ohio June 4
June 1835
Bounty Land Office
Pension Office

Application for a
Pension under the
Act of June 1832-

Referred to
Jas L. Edward Esqr
Commiss’r of Pensions
June 4. 1835
Recd June 4th 1835
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Rec’d 4 June
Elyria May 2d 1835
Dear Sir I here enclose for your consideration
the Declaration and Evidence in the case of Isaac
H. Wallace for a Pension. He is man that is very
infirm & he came to our Court Last Term for the
purpose of having his papers made out and taken
in open Court - the two first days of the term was
taken up in Jury business and his case could not be
taken up, and on the third day of the Term
he was taken so unwell as not to be able to
attend to it. During the Residue of the time
and some days elapsed before he so far recovered as
to return home and it afterwards was taken before
Judge Harris who lives within about five miles
of him where his friends brot him in a carriage
with much difficulty.
I also [inclose] the Petition of Nathan Nelle &
Daniel W. Cousins Soldiers in the late war with
Great Britton together with their discharges.
We have not the act of Congress [passing] the years
men in this Town and whether they would
be entitled to Lands under the act or not,  I am
not at present Advised. They however inform
me that there are those that enlisted and served
with them in the years service who have petition’d
and have recv’d their land. I have therefore
made out their papers in the form [inclosed],
supposing it the most proper course in case
the Law had not made that provision.  and if
it had it was only surplusage. I am acquainted with
the Petitioners and know them the be poor but worthy
men. If any further Testimony should be wanting
Please to write me and I will furnish such as
they may have in their power-- Sir yours
and the Public Humble Servnt 
Elijah Parker

To the Hon. Secretary of War
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33,10.6
Israel H Wallace
Declaration &
papers for Pension
Ohio
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State of Ohio
Lorain County
To the Honorable the Secretary of War
of the United States at Washington City

Isaac H. Wallace, now a resident in the Township
of Brown Helm in the County of Lorain &
State of Ohio Aged Seventy three years who
being duly sworn according to Law doth depose
on his oath make the following declaration in
Order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
Passed June 7th 18 1832. That in the month of
September as near as I can recollect in 1776
He Volunteered with the Whiggs of Earlington &
Shaftsbury in Bennington County Vermont to
go to Crown Point to and the Inhabitants
against the Depredations of the Tories and Indians, 
on an alarum that marched under the command
of Capt Mathew Lyon, the forepart of September
and had a skirmish with the Tories and Indians
in Hubbardton, called the Hubbardton Mountains.
That the Enemy retreated to the Lake and [vary]
Then were marched to Panton on other [illegible] by
the way of Rutland and Pittsford fort. And was
stationed at Panton and Bridport & Weybridge
for two or three weeks where they were found
by about three Hundred Volunteers and Militia
making in the whole something over four hundred
Troops.  That they were some part of the time
commanded by Major Baker son of Capt
Baker who was before that time killed by the
Tories and Indians, and his head carried into
Montreal on a Pole, and some times by other
Officers. He Rembers that Col Coggswell was out
Some & Captain M. Lyon some but to State who
was the principle in command at that time
he cannot for the whole troops at that time
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were composed of Farmers, Fathers, Sons &
 Grandfathers & were all on a par and united in our
Best efforts for defence, and often commanded as
they had ability without any regular appointment.
At this time the Enemies [Shiping] day off on Lake
Champlain and after finding that we were
prepared to give them a warm reception in
case they landed. They in the latter part of
October went to the North and it was supposed
for winter quarters. And our troops being nearly
out of provisions afterwards returned and
arrived in Bennington County in the month of
October being six weeks from the time we left
to the time of our arriving at Bennington County.
In that we then formed into Companies
of minute men in which company I also joined.
That during the above said six weeks I was not
engaged in any civil pursuit but faithfully
served my country as faithful soldier of
the Revolution. 
That afterwards about the middle of April
1776 there was an alarum and call for Troops
to go to Ticonderoga at which time I volunteered
as a private Soldier and was marched part of
the way under the command of Capt Elijah
Galusha of Earlington but before we arrived
said Capt Galusha Left our party for some
purpose, whether it was to March a part of the
troops to Crown Point or return for Provisions
I cannot Recollect. But we continued our March
to Ticonderoga where we were stationed part of
the time and part at Crown Point and some
of the time our company was commanded by
Capt Matthew Lyon and some times by Capt
Galusha as we had direction for scouting &c.
We continued in and about Ticonderoga & Crown
Point until the fore part of June 1776 and Returned
home the middle of that month, June 1776. That
 [insert-making three months service]. When I returned

home, I was immediately drafted as a private soldier
to Return to Ticonderoga and was marched in the
company commanded by Capt Matthew Lyon to
 serve as a front [guard] to Defend the inhabitants

[left margin notes] 
1 ½  months
3 months
2
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against the Enemy & Tories and served in said
guard with the Militia there stationed one month
and Seven days when I was discharged with
the rest of the Company and return home.
That during the whole of the two last mentioned
tours being four months and Seven Days I was
not engaged in any civil pursuit but faithfully
 served my country as a faithful soldier
of the Revolution.
That the first of September 1776 I volunteered
as a private Soldier to go to Castleton to Defend
the inhabitants against the Torys and Indians.
And Marched for Castleton but before we arrived
we met our Regular Troops under the command
of a Man Called Colonel Warner or Col Warner’s Troops
so called and part of Col Hazeltine who informed
us of the skirmish which had taken place at
Castleton and of the Burning of Castleton and
Hubbardton Mills and we were ordered to return
and did return and arrived at Bennington
County Earlington the latter part of September 1776.
that from the time I started from home until
I arrived at home again was three weeks that
this last term of three weeks I was not ingaged
in any civil pursuit but during the whole of
the said three weeks last aforesaid I faithfully
served my country as a private Soldier
of the Revolution & during both the two
last tours I furnished my own provisions and
Clothing and served faithfully as I have stated.
That on the first of August 1777 I was again
drafted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary
War and entered the service from Shaftsbury
in the County of Bennington Vermont in the
company commanded by Capt David Galusha
in Col Seth Warner’s Regiment which said Regiment
had been considerably [lost to process] at or near Castleton
we were united to Samuel Sanford’s regiment at the
 Bennington Battle of

[left margin notes] 
1 month & 7 days
3 weeks
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which Troops General Starks as I understood was
the principle in command at the Benington
Battle which Battle was as near as [Slan Knollet]
about the middle of August 1777- Soon after
the Bennington Battle, we were marched to Saratoga
to meet Burgoyne’s Army- Colonel Warner
having received a wound at Bennington Battle
was unable to take command and we were
Marched under the command of Col Safford
to the vicinity of  Saratoga and there stationed
until after the surrender of Burgoyne which
as near as I can recollect took place the
16th of October 1777 - That soon after
Burgoyne’s Surrender I was with the Rest
of the Troops in which I served Discharged and
Returned Home and arrived at Bennington
the first of November making in this last
mentioned tour a period of three months.
 That during the whole of this last mentioned
three months I was not ingaged in any civil
pursuit but faithfully served my country
as a faithful soldier of the Revolution.
That during the whole of said services at
the several times above stated I faithfully served
my country in the manner above stated the
Period of nine months & fifteen days as a
faithful soldier of the Revolution.  That I
never received any written discharge nor
any wages for my services.
And in answer to the several questions proposed-
1st - I was born in Pawnee in the County
of Benington & State of Vermont in 1761.
2nd - I have no record of my age to my knowledge.
3rd - I lived in the Town of Earlington when called
into the service. That I continued to live there
after the close of the war until 1818 when I
moved to Huron County in Ohio into the Township
 of [S. Lorain] and lived there [illegible insert] until 1831.
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Then I moved to Elyria Lorain County Ohio
and from thence to the Township of Brown
Helm in the same County last aforesaid where I
now live.
4th - I was called into the service twice by being drafted
and three times I volunteered as I have before stated
5th - The officers under whom and the Regiments
in which I served I have stated in the foregoing
as near as I can recollect. 
6 - I never received any written discharge.
I have no knowledge of any one now living
with whom I served 
May 5th 1835 Isaac H. Wallis [not spelled Wallace?]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Josiah Harris Associate Judge

I will name Eleazar Crawford & Caleb Ormsbee as
my Witnesses.
Eleazar Crawford & Caleb Ormster being duly
[sworn] & Certified that they had been personally
acquainted with the Applicant since he came
to Ohio and for some years lived near neighbor.
That his character for Truth & veracity is
good and [they] should give full credit to him
as a witness. They believe him to be the age
he represents himself to be and that said
Wallace is reputed in his neighborhood to be
a Revolutionary Soldier.

We Caleb Ormsbee a Clergyman Residing in
the Township of Amherst in the County of Lorain
and Eleazar Crawford Residing in the same
county, [insert} town of Black River depose and hereby certify
 we are well acquainted with Isaac H. Wallace who has
Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.
That we believe him to be seventy three years
of age. That he is reputed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and that we concur in that
opinion. May 5th 1832
Caleb Ormsbee
Eleazar Crawford
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid before me Josiah Harris
Associate Judge (L.S.)
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and I the said Josiah Harris Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
do hereby State and declare that it is my
opinion after the investigation of the
matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he states and I further
certify that it appears to me that Caleb Ormsbee
who has signed the preceding certificate is a
Clergyman resident in Amherst Lorain County
and that Eleazer Crawford who has also
signed the same is a resident in the Township
Black River in said County and is a credible
person and that their statement is Entitled to credit.
& I further certify that the Applicant is so
infirm as to render it very inconvenient for him
 to attend Court
Josiah Harris
Associate Judge (seal)