Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11071, Samuel Wallace, Va.
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Service: Va 
Wallace Samuel, Lilly Ann
Number: R. 11071
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Samuel Wallace 
Indiana
EX. A – 1
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State of Indiana
Bartholomew County, On this 13th day of September A.D. 1842  . . . 
Before the Circuit Court of Bartholomew County now sitting Samuel Wallace a resident of Hal-boek Township in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana aged Eighty-one years the 18th day of last February [Illegible] being first-duty sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in [illegible] to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress past June 7th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and serves as herein stated that he enlisted as a volunteer in the Army of the United states for and during the Continuance of the war. That he so enlisted in the fall of the year 1779 as he believes (superscript – but from old age and loss of memory is unable to say [illegible through next  3 words] in fall) and continued in the service during the remainder of the Revolutionary War that he enlisted in the Company commanded by Andrew Wallace in the County of Albemarle in the State of Virginia. That he served in the regiment commanded by Col Morgan and he believes that he was in the battle at Guilford Courthouse and at the Cowpens and in the battle at the Eutaw Springs. That he was discharged at the close of the war, that he has cast his discharge and knows of person living who can prove his service, 
That he was born in the county of Albemarle and State of Virginia on the 19th of Feb 1761, that he has a record of his age, in his old family Bible in his possession, That he living in Albemarle County in the State of Virginia when he enlisted as above, that he he has since the Revolutionary War lived 6 years in the State of Georgia
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And 12 years in the State of Kentucky, since which he has been living and is still living in the State of Indiana, That he believes Andrew Wallace and Col Morgan were regular officers with the troops where he served, That he believes his discharge was given by Colonel Abel Shirptan
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Wallace X his mark

The Uriah McQueen clergyman residing in Bartholomew County and the State of Indiana and Thomas G leek residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Wallace who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Uriah McQueen
Thomas G L[illegible]r

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War [illegible] men that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Uriah McQueen jim who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Bartholomew and the state of Indiana and that Thomas G Lice
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Is a charitable person and that this statement is entitled to credit
Joseph Hermen / Justice of the Cir Court

I Isaac I Boardman clerk of the Bartholomew circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Wallace for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hitherto set my hand seal of office this 13th day of September A D 1842
Isaac I Boardman
Please direct your answer [illegible] Adams post office LA 
Samuel Wallace
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State of Indiana
Wabash County
Be it known that before the Probate Court in and for said County began and holden in and for said County on the tenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty foursactually appeared [bold] Lilly Ann Wallace a resident of said county ages sixty two years who being first duly [illegible] according to law doth on her oath swears the following Declaration in order to obtain the arrears of pension due to her late husband Samuel Wallace under the act of 7 June 1832 _ that in the war of the Revolution that he was at the Battle of King’s Mountain, and was for a portion of the time under Col. Cleveland and she believes her said husband was in the Militia of South Carolina but resen for the facts to the declaration of her said husband under the act foresaid – that she also made application about a year ago for the benefits of the service act in the County of Bartholomew in the State of Indiana where her said husband died and where she there resided. But she is informed that the Declaration she then made is lost
That she was married to the said Samuel Wallace in the County of Bartholomew in the state of Indiana on the second day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one (1831). And that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Wallace died in said County of Bartholomew on the fourth day of [superscript] December [original crossed out] in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three (1843) that she has not intermarried, but is still the widow of said Samuel Wallace. That she makes this application for the purpose of attaining the anear of pension due to her said husband under the act aforesaid from the [superscript] Second [fourth, crossed out] day of March 1831 to the
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4th of [March, crossed out] December 1843 that being the date of his Subscribed and sworn to before one in Open Court ato day and year aforesaid 
[Signature] John G. Liry Clerk – [Signature] Lily Ann Wallace
State of Indiana
Wabash County [signature] John G Livry
The Probate Court in and for said County do hereby certify that at [illegible]  of said Court began and held in and for said county on the 11th day of February in the year 1851 Satisfactory proof was exhibited to said court that Saumel Wallace the husband of the foregoing applicant Lilly Ann Wallace died in Bartholomew County in the State of Indiana on the fourth day of [crossed out] [superscript] December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three (1843) and that he left a widow whose name was Lilly Ann Wallace and who is the above applicant and that she has not intermarried but is at this time the widow of the above named Samuel Wallace
In testimony whereof I swear hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said Court this 11th day of February 183[illegible] 
John G Livry Clerk
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I John C Livry Clerk at the Probate Court in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing as this original proceedings of said court at the February Term thereof 1851 in the matter of the application of Lilly Ann Wallace to obtain the amean of pension due to her late husband Samuel Wallace under the act of [illegible, paper creased]
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said Court the 11th say of February 1851
John C. Livry Clerk
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11071
[Printed] P.O. [written] Samuel Wallace
[Printed] Service: [blank]
[Printed] Enlisted: [Stamped] Rejected [printed], 18
[Printed] Discharged [blank], 18
[Printed] Application Filed: [blank], 18
[Printed] Alleges: [blank]
[Printed] Re-Enlisted: [blank]
[Printed] Alleges: [blank]
[Printed] P.O. [blank]
______ Recognized _____ Contract
[bottom of page cut off scan, more text, appears blank form]
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Samuel Wallace
Indiana 
Suspended
See let. 22-
Dept. 42 I.S.
Boardman, 
Let. To Hon. S. Breese May 22/48
“         “ J.R. Young 8th Dec 1849
“       “ W Secr Date 14 Nov 1850
Decision affirmed by Secr
[illegible] 16 Nov 1850
Set Th Lumpkin March 15/57
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Washington D.C. 
March 11th 1857
I am desired by Mr Manly to present to you the evidence document, sharing the death of Samuel Wallace, [crossed out] [superscript] ddhth of Nov, where widow claimed a long time since for his services, but was returned for want of proof of his service. Having supplied such proof a plea may Communication to the Hon. A. He. Ho. Stuart on the 11th of Nov. last ending the Comptroller certificate of Mr. C Herring a payment to Samuel Wallace for 25.17.6 I trust the claim may be favorably considered. [illegible] 
Hon, J.G. Heath 
Comms of Pensions
Th. Lumpkin
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Washington D.C.
Dec. 2nd 1850
Sir, 
I have the honor to enclose herewith a certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina, [illegible]. H. Calling, Esq. showing payment to Samuel Wallace for the sum of £25.17.6. I trust that you will be satisfied that my client Samuel Wallace, whose application was rejected, on accounting of his not proving that he did serve in the War of the Revolution, will now i_e his heirs, receive of your hands what they have so long been denied. Bring, a small pittance on account of the said Samuel Wallace, services in the Revolution.
I have the honor to be, 
[title illegible] 
Th. Lumpfkin
I E Heath 
Commw. Of Pensionary
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(Copy)
Department of the Interior
November 10th 1830, 
Sir, 
I herewith inform the propers in the case of Samuel Wallace, and applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832, and I have to inform you that your respond of the 14th first has been affirmed. 

I am very respectfully
Your Obd Servant
Alex H.H. Stuart
Secretary, 

J.S. Edwards Esq. 
Comm 0/5
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Paper folded in half, left side of paper, pencil
Lilly Ann Wallace
No Case found – not enough wither to identify it with any case
Endonement (over) for heval leave it doubtful if any way filed as an application

[visible through opposite side of paper, backwards] 
#434 368 [illegible]

[Written vertically at the bottom]
255.264 [illegible] 398.817

[right side of paper, pen] 
[checkmark] May 24 1850
TH Lumpkins 
[pencil] 22,508 May 30/12 [illegible]
[pen] Enclosing letter from Mr Manly asking for information respecting to the application of Mrs Lilly Ann Wallace for pension, and an early report of Comf Pension are same
[pencil] [illegible] this side -no changes
[pen] R [illegible] of Pensions
Dept of Interior
May 28 1850
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Washington, D.C. 
May 24th 1850
Sir, 
The letter, herewith enclosed, of Mr Manly Esq, asking for information on the case of Mrs Lilly Ann Wallace, whose [crossed out, illegible] application is now pending before the Pension Office, I must respectfully request may be transmitted to the Comniupiner of Pensions, and that a response may be mailed as to the merit or demerit of this claim, on the carrier normal. Mr. Manly thinks this claim is a just one. 
I have the honor to the [illegible], most respectfully, [title illegible]
Th Lumpkin
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Raleigh N C 
Comp Office
Nov 29 1830
I William F Collins Comptroller of Picole a Ac county in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Samuel Wallace appears of record in this office as having had the following special Certificate issued in his favor for Military Service [illegible] for Twenty four pounds, see Book [illegible] 24 page 105 also one other for One pound seventeen shillings and six pence see Book S No 3 page 19 given under my hand and Seal this the day and date above in item
[signature illegible]