Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14790, Cornelius Wallace, New York
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New York
Wallace, Cornelius 
S14790
BL.Wt. 26520-160-55.
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Duplicate certificate issued & sent to Hon. H.S. Conger 3 Mar. 1851

New York 28.637
Cornelius Wallace
Of Onondaga Co. in the State of New York
Who was a private and the company commanded by Captain Cuddeback of the regimen command by Colonel…. In the 
N. York line for 24 months.
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 80 dollars ….cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 3 rd day of May 1834 and sent to Hon. W. Taylor house rep.
Arrears to 4th of March 1834                    $249.
Semi-anl. Allowance ending Sept 4’34        40.
                                                                           $280.
Revolutionary claim, act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Sam’l H. Page
Clerk
Book E     Vol. 4.   Page 135
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Sent:to claimant June 19/‘53
“ to A. P. [Illegible.] Sept: 12/‘55
Vol. W.1 page 15.
L- No 28637
9.467 Act March 3,/53
Recd            “     22/. “
Cornelius Wallace, Pri
Capts. Cuddeback & Dewit  N.Y. Mil.
Maj or Col. Phelps
Ent:
Dis:
Revolutionary War 
CW 1600 May 15/56
Boyton
Claimant Schroeppel. Oswego NY
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State of New York
County of Oswego SS:
On this 13th day of March 1855 personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and four county and state aforesaid Cornelius Wallace aged 75 years a resident of Schroeppel in said county who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Cornelius Wallace, who was a private in the company commanded by capt. Cuddeback & Dewit in the regiment commanded by major or Colonel Phelps in the war of the revolution that he was called out to protect fort Gomez, Orange County, N. Y. And continued in actual service for the term of nine months and was honorably discharged At said fort as it appears by the muster rolls of said company, no written discharge given that the now draws a pension of 80 dollars per annum by a certificate of pension under the seal of the department dated 2 nd March 1831.
Signed Alan H. Stewart Sec. of Interior & J E Heath Commissioner of [illegible] that he has not applied for nor received bounty land heretofore now is he, to his knowledge and belief entitled to receive any under any former act of Congress. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 1855.
Cornelius Wallace X his mark
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year above written. I hereby certify that I believe the said Cornelius Wallace to be the identical man who served as aforesaid that he is of the age above stated.
A. Baird
Justice
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State of New York
County of Oswego SS: personally cameJohn C. Owen and George W.Hills residents of Schroeppel in said county, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit  who being duly sworn say that he was present  when Cornelius Wallace made his mark and acknowledged the signature to the foregoing declaration to be his hand and deed. He further swore that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be and that the deponents do reside in the County aforesaid.
John C. Owen
George W. Hills
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day, March 1835
A. Baird. Justice.
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the applicants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
A. Baird, Justice
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State of New York
Oswego county clerks office SS:
I, E.W. Hill Clerk of Oswego County, Certify that A.Baird Esq., before whom the annexed Affidavits and certificates were taken was at the time of taking such affidavits and certificates justice of the peace in and for Sid County, duly authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe that his signatures thereto is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this the 17th day of 1855.
E. W. Hill Clerk
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12066
Cornelius Wallace
4.5.6.8.17.
P. 360
Enrolled at the age of 14 not The rolls at all
Not on the rolls of Capt. Westfall
29 Apr. ‘35 
Hon. W. Taylor
Geo. Petit
[illegible]
Daniel L. Mostly, Esq. 
Onondaga, NY
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Cc
Brief in the case of Cornelius Wallace of Onondaga in the state of New York
(act 7th June, 1832)
1. What is the declaration made before a court or a judge? Open court.
2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 67 years
4. State in his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period- spring in 1779 
Period and amount of service not stated.
Names of generals or field officers under whom he served- captain Cuddeback 
5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Onondaga N York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect?
The papers are not much, if any?
I certify  that the foregoing statement and the answer answers Agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cottes 
Examining Clerk.
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Cornelius Wallace
George Pettit agent of
Julius, Onondaga County
Adm d
24 mo Pri.
Hon.W.Taylor
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The Court of Chancery held for the State of New York at the Village of Onondaga in the county of Onondaga on the eleventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two:
Present: David Moseley Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit 
Personally appeared Cornelius Wallace of the town of Pompey in the county of Onondaga aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
He was born in the town of Mamakating in the county of Sullivan, New York, April 20, 1765. He has a record of his age in his possession in a Testament which is copied from an original record in the family Bible made by his parents. In the year 1779 he was living with his father and family in the Fort Gumear on the west side of Neversink  River in the town of Mamakating about 2 miles below, Fort Dewitt half a mile from the river. Captain Abraham Cuddeback commanded at the Fort and continued in command until the end of the war. In the spring of 1779 he was enrolled among Capt. Cuddeback’s crew and continued to until the end of the war. For nine months in the year they were assisted in guarding the Fort by parties of Militia from the East. In the fort there were three sons of the Capt. Peter Gumear, Jacob Gumear, his son, Pomp, a colored man, Benjamin Cuddeback, a brother of the captain. Ezekiel Gumear, & John Wallace, this deponent’s father does not know that any of
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those who were in the fort are now living.
In the summer of 1779, a party of the Tories and Indians made an attack on the settlement below Gumear fort & commenced burning & plundering. There were a number of houses belonging to the Tories which were not destroyed. The distance which they ravaged was about four or five miles. This was in the fall of the year. The enemy retreated up the Delaware River and in a day or two afterwards a party of the militia started in pursuit and came up with the enemy on the second day at Beaver Brook. Capt. Cuddeback and this deponent’s father were of the number. He was not present at the action but he heard at the time that about half the militia retreated at the first fort and nearly all who remained were killed. Col. Wiesner was with the party and was also killed. The Tories made no other incursion during the war. This deponent continued to remain at the fort until the end of the war. His father was employed as a scout and was absent in the woods about half the time. He drew rations regularly and supported his family in that way. This deponent, from the time he was enrolled at the fort to the close of the war; he was engaged in no other occupation except his service at the fort.
His father’s farm lay about five miles from the fort and remained neglected until the end of the war. After the he lived in the Town of Mamakating until about the year 1796 when he removed to Pompey in Onondaga County, New York where he has lived to this time with the ex elf about a year when he lived in Marcellus in said County. Benjamin DePuy, John DePuy & James, a colored man were at
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Fort DePuy during the war.
He has no documentary evidence in his possession of his services and has paid John & Benjamin Dupuy & James a colored, are the only persons living who can testify to his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.
Cornelius Wallace X his mark
Sworn this 11th day of sept 1832
Before me
David Moseley Court Judge
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We, Hiram Gilbert of the Town of LaFayette, living adjoining the town of Pompey & within a  few roads of the residence of Cornelius Wallace & Henry DePuy of the town of Pompey, being duly sworn say that they are personally acquainted with Cornelius Wallace who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age, and that it is the general belief in the neighborhood where he reside that he served in the for as stated in the foregoing declaration and we concur in that opinion.
Hiram Gilbert
Henry Depuy
Sworn this 11th day of September 1832
Before me
David Moseley
Circuit judge
I, Daniel T Mosley Clerk of the courts a chancery of the seventh circuit for the state of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applications of Cornelius Wallace for a pension.
In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the office this 11th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Daniel T. Moseley
Deputy Clerk
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Cornelius Wallace
12.006
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BRIEF objections to the admission of pension claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Cornelius Wallace, Onondaga, which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does a declaration show where the applicant resides? Y
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Y
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides. Is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served. No
V. * has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades which he served, in language, so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
Date, length, grade, and names of officers required. Evidence. Also as. Established the character of the survivor and that was rendered by order from competent authority.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? No
IX. Has the clerk given his certificate? Y
X. Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Y
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No
XIV. + If the applicant’s name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to his service, has the magistrate who administered his oath, certified the credibility of the witness or witnesses as? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?
XVI. ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cann, by reason of loss of memory state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“ Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. a.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively at to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For——year ——months——, and —— days ——, I served as a ———- For ——-months and ——days, I served as a  ——; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. Without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and the manner of leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and the line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
++ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the clarifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In Eve case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, providing the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Supplemental declaration, made in addition to, and an explanation an original declaration to which this is annexed in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, and to obviate the printed objections to said original declaration hereto annexed.
State of New York
Onondaga County§ On this 11th day of June 1833 personally appeared before John Watson, George Pettit and James M. Allen, three of the Judges of the county courts in and for said county, now sitting at Salina in said county Cornelius Wallace of town of Pompey in said county, aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following supplemental declaration. That in his said original declaration written by Mr. Morton by mistake in him, which was overstated by the declarant, Sullivan was inserted as the county in which he lived and performed the duty therein stated, whereas the name after county should have been Ulster. That on the Neversink River mentioned in said declaration there were three Forts, the upper one was called Dewitt, next below was Fort DePuy, and the lower one was called Fort Gumear, a half a mile West from the river and 2 miles below Fort Dewitt. That these Forts and that frontier for a number of miles above and below them were under the command of Captain Abraham Cuddeback of Mamakating who was an officer in the local militia of that place and his under officers were Lieutenants Harding and King and Ensign Samuel Depuy. And they and their company belonged to a regiment commanded by Colonel Newkirk as the declarant believes, and major Phillips of Walkill whom he well recollects that these officers commanded aforesaid during the whole
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War, the inhabitants on that frontier being few and scattered, and left to protect and defend themselves, without any aid excepting in the years 1781 and 1782 when a small detachment of nine [illegible] men belonging to a regiment of that description, which was said to be distributed along that frontier for fifty or sixty miles were stationed at said Forts commanded at different times by Captain Wood and Lieutenant Stewart and sometimes by their non-commissioned officers by the names of Cassidy and Ingalls , that Captain Tyler who had a company of volunteers, was there in the time of the War, but declarant does not remember the year, and marched from over the Shawangunk  Mountain through that frontier to the Beaverbrook battle, where he was killed and most of his men were cut off. That in 1779 he was involved as a volunteer. Under Captain Cuddeback, as stated in said original declaration in the month of April and was mustered at Fort Gumear, where he performed constant duty on guard till the month of December, not less than eight months. That from April in the year before, in 1778, till October he was as regular in performing guard, as afterwards, but was not enrolled on account of his age. In 1780 he was again enrolled at the call of Captain Cuddeback and performed guard duty from March till December, at the same fort, a tour of nine months and continued service the three following years is called upon by Captain Cuddeback, that he cannot now recollect distinctly that month, or time in the month, when he began and ended the service in 1781 - 1782 and 1783 but does not hesitate to say on his oath that in each of the
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said years, his service extended from May to October, making fifteen months service. That during all the time of service. As. Previously stated, the declarant answered roll call mornings and evenings with the nine months men when they were present and drew rations at Fort Gumear a part, if not all of the time, and was not employed any part of the time in any civic pursuit, and that all said service was performed as a private soldier, that said original declaration has this day been new to the declarant and excepting wherein this declaration explains the variations between the two, he now testifies to all the facts contained in both, in order to have the whole properly authenticated by the certificate and seal of the Clerk of the Court and so obviate the negative answers given to Quere No. 16 in the printed objections to said original declaration hereto annexed. That he does not recollect nor can he now state the names of any regular officers who were with the troops where he served, nor any other officers in addition to to those named in his said original declaration has, and this present declaration, that he never received a written or printed discharge from the service.
That Daniel Marsh, a clergyman, Hiram Gilbert and Kenny DePuy are present to whom the declarant is known in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and then belief of his services as a Revolutionary soldier. That John and Benjamin DePuy were not in Fort DePuy all the time as stated on said original declaration has by mistake.
Cornelius Wallace X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
R.L. Hess
Clerk of Onondaga County
We, Daniel Marsh, a clergyman residing in the town of Pompey, county of Onondaga and State of New York, and Hiram Gilbert residing in the town of Lafayette, on the town line, but in the immediate neighborhood of Cornelius Wallace do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Cornelius Wallace who has sworn to subscribe the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty eight
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Years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Hiram Gilbert
David Marsh
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
R.L. Hess
Clerk of Onondaga County
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting interrogatories prescribed by the word 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 Daniel Marsh who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen resident in the town of Pompey in said County and that Hiram Gilbert, who has also signed the same is a resident in the immediate neighborhood of said applicant, but in the town of Lafayette, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Watson
James M. Allen
George Pettit
Judges
I Reuben L. Hess clerk of the county court in and for the county of Onondaga do hereby certify that the forgoing contains proceedings of the said court in the matter of the declaration of Cornelius Wallace for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11th day of June in the year 1833.
R.S. Hess.
Clerk of Onondaga County
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This is a duplicate of item number 21 which is already transcribed.
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State of New York
County of Onondaga § on this 7th day of June 1833 John DePuy of Manlius in said County comes before John Watson first judge of the county courts in and for said county, and being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is 70 years old, that acquainted with Cornelius Wallace of Pompey in said County, who is an applicant for a pension that deponent said Cornelius resided in Mamakating, County of Ulster, state aforesaid, and were both revolutionary soldiers that in April 1778 volunteered Abraham Cuddeback , who was Amer in the regular militia of that place at that, and his company belonged to Colonel Newkirk’s regiment in which Moses Phillips was major and lieutenant Harding and King and ensign Samuel DePuy belonged to Captain Cuddeback’s company that served under said officers from April of that year to October making six months service and their duty was making a private fort on the Neversink river and said town, guarding the same reconnecting the front and through the country during which time said Cornelius was stationed at Fort Gumear, that in 1779 they both volunteered and were enrolled in Captain Cuddeback’s company and under the same officers, to guard fort Gumear below Fort Depuy which had then been burnt by the enemy the fall before where they both remained on duty standing guard from April to December amounting to eight months.
That in March 1780 they were both again and as volunteers under the same officers and served on guard duty till December, the o deponent in Fort Depuy, and the said Cornelius in Fort Gumear, and performed duty as aforesaid eight or nine months. That afterwards from 1780 to the close of the revolutionary war, the Tories and Indians continued their depredations and the deponent and the said Cornelius served as volunteers together under Captain Cuddeback, his lieutenants, and Ensign as Aforesaid on difficult tours of service guarding the new forts and reconnoitering, but deponent cannot remember the precise times of commencing or ending of the same nor the number of tours, but
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He believes they all amounted is not less than one and a half years, that the inhabitants for a great distance around the said forts were few and scattered and they had to defend and protect themselves without any other aid excepting detachments of Nine Months Men occasionally sent from about the north river which were commanded part of the time by Captain Wood, part of the time by Lieutenant Stewart and Lieutenants Nicholas Cassidy and George Ingalls and we’re stationed at Fort Depuy. The deponent recollect that Captain Tyler, who was afterwards killed at the Beaverbrook battle a company of volunteers stationed one season on the picket forts on the Neversink River and further says not.
John Depuy
Sworn and subscribed this  7th day of June 1833 before me, and I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent and know him to be a reputable person and that his statement above is entitled to full credit and belief.
John Watson
First Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas

State of New York County of Onondaga SS:
I, Reuben L. Hess Clerk of the said county do certify that John Watson before whom the proceeding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date, the same first judge of Onondaga common pleas and that I was acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witnessing hand and seal of office this 11th day of June 1833.
R.L. Hess Clerk

John DePuy Affidavit 
For
Cornelius Wallace
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State of New York
Onondaga County SS: On this 10 th day of June 1833, Benjamin Depuy of the Town of Lysander in said county came before DD Norton, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, depose and say that he is sixty eight years old last December, that he is well acquainted with Cornelius Wallace of the town of Pompey in said county who is an applicant for a pension, and lived with and near him through the revolutionary war in the Town or precinct of Mamakaking in the county  of Ulster in the said state. That they both served as volunteers and were enrolled under captain Abraham Cuddeback, Lieutenant Harding and King and Ensign Samuel Depuy, whose company belonged to Colonel Newkirk’s regiment of local militia in which Moses Phillips was major. That the deponent and said Cornelius served in said in the year 1778 from April to October, being six months in the year 1779. Deponent served only from April to August and then retired with his father’s family to Philippine Bridge in Wallkill and many others into forts Dewitt & Gumear on the River Neversink in the said Town but the said Cornelius commenced service sometime and served into December, that in the following year 1780 they both performed nine months service from the month of March to the month of December, the deponent at Fort Depuy and said Cornelius at Fort Gumear, lower down said River, that during the following three years they were both in the service on short towns from two to four and six months each, the particulars of which deponent cannot now remember, but he is sure the whole was not less than a year, they , both since as above stated as volunteers under no other officers except those whose named, their being but few inhabitants and all having to do military duty for their own security. Captain Wood, Lieutenant Steward and Lieutenants Casssidy & Ingalls came occasionally, particularly in 1781 and
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(he believes that all amounted to not less than) from previous Page

and 1782, and relieved the people on that frontier with detachments from the Easward of what was called the Nine Months Men that Captain Cuddeback’s volunteers built and rebuilt after the enemy burnt it, the said Fort Depuy and quartered the same together with Fort Gumear & Dewitt on the same river a short distance above and below the former and performed other duty in watching the Tories and Indians who came and destroyed the property of the poor inhabitants and killed and took them prisoner and carried them away, reconnoitering the country and on scouting parties so constantly that the volunteers did little as no other business, specially in summer & fall. Listed is the duties above mentioned and further says not.
Benjamin Depuy
Sworn and subscribed this 10th day of June 1833 before me, & I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Depuy, this deponent. I know him to be respectable in his neighborhood and that his statement above is entitled to full credit and belief.
Dudley D. Norton
Justice of the peace
State of New York county of Onondaga SS: I Ruben L Hess, of the said county to certify that Dudley D Norton before whom the preceding affidavit impart to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature witness my hand and seal of office this 11th day of June 1833
R.L. Hess
[Entire  crossed out section states:  Benjamin Depuy affidavit, any justice who can subscribe to the facts in the certificate written will fill all the blanks properly. Swear the deponent after he signs. And then sign the said certificate officially.]
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BA-J/ILL
Cornelius Wallace
S. 14790
Mrs. F. E. Roper
5 Henry Street
Norwich, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Cornelius Wallace, a pensioner of New York.
The record of Cornelius Wallace is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 14790, based upon his service in that war.
Cornelius Wallace (the name is shown as Wallis also), the son of John, [was born April 20, 1765 crossed out], in Mamakating Ulster County, New York. He was living with his father and family in Fort Gumaer in said town of Mamakating during the Revolutionary War, his father being on duty as guard and scout during that period.
Cornelius Wallace enlisted in April, 1779 and served at various times until the end of the war, amounting in all fifteen months, as private under Captain Abraham Cuddeback and Colonel Newkirk in the New York troops, stationed most of the time at Fort Gumaer.
After his service, the soldier resided in Mamakating, Ulster County, New York, until 1796 with the exception of one year when he lived in Marcellus, New York, then moved to Pompey, Onondaga County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, while a resident  of Pompey, New York.
In 1855, the soldier resided in Schroeppel, Oswego County, New York; he stated then that he was ninety-five years of age, however, in 1832, he stated that he was born Apr. 20, 1764. It is not stated that he was married.
One Reuben Wallis was a resident of Oswego County, New York, in 1851, no relationship to the soldier stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
[written on bottom of letter] Miss Stokes replied to req. for John-, father of Cornelius- (in Neg. file)
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14790
 INVALID 
Rev. War
File No. 14790.
Cornelius Wallace
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—-Vol. 1, Page 395
[Arrangement of 1870]
1912 Oct. 29. Hist. To Alice.Schenek V.L.M.
1932- May 25 Hist. To Lula V. Huntley ILL
1932-May 31, Miss Lula V Huntley advised
History sent ILL.
1933- Aug. 9 Hist. To Mrs. F. E. Roper ILL.
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New York 28.637
Cornelius Wallace
Of Onondaga Co. In the state of New York
Who was a private in the company commanded by captain Cuddeback of the Reg’t commanded by Col. ——in the N York line for 24 months
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars — [cents, crossed out] per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of May 1834 and sent to Hon. W. Taylor, House Rep.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834   $ 240.00
Semi Ani allowance ending Sept 4’34 40.00
                                                                      280.00
{revolutionary claim act June 7, 1832}
Recorded bylaw H. Page, clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 135

Suspended
Lett 22 July 34 two I. Flemming agent.
“     2 Jany 36 to Hon W. Taylor 
“     27 June 1837 to Hicks Worden
“     to Hon. N H Earl 3 Feb. 1840
“     Hon. AC Hand March 25 1840
Hon. HS Conger Feby 5/51
[illegible] sent letter to R. Agent March 3/51
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26.520
Rev. Army
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Dec 7/50
AOD
Howard
Cornelius Wallace 
Rev War
J L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
FREE
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28,637 March 14-57
Eng. rel to Cornelius Wallace
Case N Y
Francis Allen
Central Square
N.Y.
File
Official Business 
Heath
Commissioner of pensions
Pension office
Washington DC
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Cornelius Wallace
Reg 3 M 55- No 9467
Act 7 June 37-“ 28637
Boyton
NY Cou’t P. Min Ott
Commissioner of pensions
Washington D. C.
FREE
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Pension
M Cole
Official Business 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Pension office
Washington city D.C.
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3324
9467
FREE
NY
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of pensions
Washington D. C.
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Cornelius Wallace
NY32
For duplicate certificate
Hon. H.L. Conger
H of R
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I hear by certify that my original pension certificate was known to be in the hands of a gentleman in Onondaga County, one who drew my last pension money sometime in year 1834. I cause to be conveyed to him, in regard to said certificate.  I have received an answer stating that he does not know where it is or cannot find it, therefore I must say that I cannot obtain it and do not know where it is.
Rueban Wallis
Cornelius Findlay
Cornelius Wallace X his mark
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Central Square, December 5, 1830
Hon. JS Edwards 
Commissioner of pensions
Enclosed I send You a revocation of a power of attorney given by Cornelius Wallace to Chester Babcock. I was obtained from Mr. Wallace in a fraudulent manner and he is desirous of stopping his proceedings and supposes you to be the proper person to address. If you are not will you have the goodness to send it to the proper place.
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Francis Allen
By request of C. Wallace
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Cornelius Wallace Act June 1832
Record and pension of $80
Up to March 4, 1834
When was told by an agent that it was discontinued
Never knew the reason
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Asks re-examination 
Case of
Cornelius Wallace
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Washington
December 17, 1850
Sir
Please favor me with a reexamination of the case of Cornelius Wallace of N.Y. Who was pensioned under the law of 7th June 1832 as $80 per annum & subsequently dropped from the rolls.
The soldier in this case is behind to be abundantly sufficient to realize the restoration Mr. Wallace’s application to that effect is now made.
Yours truly,
H.S.Conger
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Dec 9/50
Respecting power
Of attorney given by
Cornelius Wallace
To Chester Babcock

Wm Hunt
Washington D.C.

Hon J Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington City D.C. December 9 1850
Sir
Cornelius Wallace of the Town of Schroeppel, county of Oswego, State of New York, has requested me to state that on the 25th of 1850 he gave a power of attorney to a man named Chester Babcock related to a pension to which said Wallace considers himself entitled but that on the said power of attorney was obtained by forced and deception by the said Cornelius Wallace on 4 th of December or thereabouts, sent on to the pension office a revocation said power of attorney.
Will you please inform me whether said revocation has been received or not.
Respectfully 
Your Obt S
William Hunt
Hon. J. Heath
Comm of Pensions
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Central Square Jan 15th 1837
Commissioner of pension
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send for Mr. Cornelius Wallace an application for back pay on a pension which he considers due him. Also a revocation of a power of attorney fraudulently obtained from him by Chester Babcock. Mr. Wallace never knew the reason his pension was stopped, but suspects fraud on the part of the man who held his pension certificate as he has never been able to obtain it from him.
He thinks he still lives somewhere in Onondaga County and if it is necessary for you to have the old certificate he will try and obtain it. Will you have the goodness to advise me of the arrival of this and inform me if anything more will be required from me in this  investigation  and about what time I may expect the matter to be attended to by the department.
Yours Respectfully 
Francis Allen
Direct
Francis Allen
Central Square
Oswego Co.
N.Y.
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Comptroller’s Office 
Albany, 30 Jan 1851
Hon. H.S. Conger
Ho. Of Representatives 
Washington
Sir
I am sorry after the long delay which I assure you has been inevitable, that the search we have made for the name of Cornelius Wallace upon our books has been entirely unsuccessful.
Capt. Cuddeback’s name occurs once, in 1782 in connection with a certificate for L1.11.0.
Further than this, nothing is found.
Have the honor to be your Obt. Servt.
Ph. C. Fuller
Comp.
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Comm Pensions
(Cornelius Wallace)
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Pension office
Feby 5 1851
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that the case of Cornelius Wallace has been re-examined at your request. The evidence is not sufficient to justify his restoration  to the pension rolls. No evidence of his service is found in New York and it seems that only L.1.10 never paid to the captain under whom he alleges service. The found testimony in the case proves too much, since, if that be credited, he entered the service at the age of 12 years, an age of which it is to be presumed that no officer would have received him had he offered himself for such duty.
I have the honor to be your Obt. Servt.
JE Heath
Comm of Pensions 

Hon H.S. Conger
H of Rep.
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Phoeuise Sept 8th 1855
Dear Sir
The claim of Cornelius Wallace a Revolutionary Pensioner was suspended by your mediator Hon. L.P. Waldo as no record appeared of service in your office. The Hon’r L.P.Waldo letter suspending the claim was dated June 19, 1835 and sent to Mr. Wallace’s address and has this day reached me as his agent. This accounts for not answering his letter sooner. Mr. Wallace’s family being ignorant, they supposed the letter was no objection to me , and it was by mere accident that I rec’d it, therefore you will please send communications addressed to me for those whoever I represent as agent. Cornelius Wallace rec’d a certificate of pension in conformity with the law of the United States, June 7, 1832, dated 3 rd day May 1834 entitling him to a pension of eighty dollars from 4 March 1831 and now has a certificate in lieu of those dated, 4 th May 1834 given at the Department of the Interior 3rd day March 1851 Signed Alex H.H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and countersigned J.E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions
Yours with Respect
A. Baird Agent
Hon. J. Minott
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I hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Moses Knapp, late deceased. Hiram Gilbert, James U. Allen, John Watson all of the county of Onondaga, N.Y. that each and all of them are men of high character and respectability and worthy of full credit and belief.
I also certify that while I was not personally acquainted with James Terwillinger, Francis DeWitt & John Depuy of the said County, I have no doubt [four words crossed out] from the fact that their character is certified to by the said Gilbert, Allen & Watson ( who would not give certificates of character unless they knew them to be the men described) that they are each & all men of truth and veracity whose statements are deserving entire credit.
Feby 19, 1851 Daniel Gott M C
I hereby certify that the above named individual has a genuine reputation of being respectable men worthy of belief & to whose statements full credit should be given
Feby 19, 1851
H.L. Conger
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Know all men by these present that I Cornelius Wallace of the town of Schroeppel, county of Oswego, State of New York, a revolutionary Soldier who was placed on the Pension roll under the Act of June 7, 1832 at $80 per year and who received only one year pension under said Act, do hereby constitute and appoint Francis Allen of Central Square, Oswego County, State of New York. My true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to inquire of the Commissioner of Pensions whether my name has ever been stricken off the Pension roll and if so for what reason. I also hereby constitute and appoint the said Francis Allen as my attorney to receive for me and in my name any sum or sums of money which may be due to me as a pensioner under this said act of June 7, 1832.
I also authorize and empower the said Francis Allen to authorize one or more as he may deem necessary [crossed out four words] to act under him as he may direct in investigating the above named matter. I also hereby revoke, countermand and make void a power of attorney fraudulently obtained from me by one Chesterfield Babcock on or about the 25th day of November 1830 and disclaim his authority to act in the premises in any manner whatever.
Witness my hand and seal this eleventh day of January 1851
Cornelius Wallace X his mark
Signed signed and delivered in presence of
Gilbert Brundage
Reuben T Hanchet

State of New York
County of Oswego SS:
Be it known that before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County above named and duly authorized to administer oaths of and [illegible] personally appeared Cornelius Wallace and acknowledged the forgoing power of attorney of Francis Alllen also the revocation of the former attorney to Chester Babcock to be his [illegible] and died. He likewise made oath that he is the identical Cornelius Wallace who was a revolutionary and who commenced drawing a pension for his services I also certify that there can be no doubt whatever but he is the identical man. 
Sworn to end subscribed on this eleventh day of January 1851
Before me
Reuben T. Hanchet
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Oswego SS:
Be it known that before Ruben T. Hanchet a justice of the peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Ruben Wallis and Gilbert Brundage residence of the county of Oswego in the state of New York and made oath that they have been acquainted with Wallace how many years and that he is the identical Cornelius Wallace, who was a revolutionary soldier and who commenced drawing a  pension for his services.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this eleventh day of January 1851 and I hear by CERT that the above named persons are credible witnesses.
Ruben T Hanchet 
Justice of the Peace 

State of New York
County of Oswego SS:
I, P Rathbun, clerk of the county court in and four the county and state above named do hereby certify that Reuben T. Hanchet whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid County Court is a court of record, having general jurisdiction given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Oswego this 11th day of [crossed out two words]
January 1851
P. Rathbun Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga  County§ on this 16th day of April 1834 personally appear before Hiram Gilbert a justice of the peace in and for this said county Moses Knapp of Pompey in said County and he being duly sworn by and before they said justice did depose and say that he is a neighbor to Cornelius Wallace who have said town where they have lived and joined farms as they would do for nearly thirty years, that Deponent resided during the revolutionary war at a place called Port Church in the county of Orange, N. Y. State and was well acquainted with said Wallace at that time, who resided at Pion Park in the precinct of Mamakating, County of Ulster, state of New York that deponent belonged to captain Calvin Shepherd’s Company of militia which was frequently [illegible] and marched to the relief of the frontier where said Wallace resided on the Neversink River that deponent will recollect being there in said camp in NY while the views of Benjamin Depuy’s house, barn and other buildings were smoking, the enemy having burned them but a day or two before and burnt them together with a Pickett fort which enclosed said buildings which was in the month of October 1778. Said Fort was called Fort Depuy, that he saw said Wallace there at that time [words, with his family crossed out] that there was another for called Fort Gumear, on the river about three fourths of a mile below and Fort Dewitt on the same river about a mile above said Fort Depuy.
That said forts were erected by the inhabitants at that frontier and mannned and guarded day and night by them, that while deponent was stationed at Fort Decker on the Delaware River about five miles from Pion Park, in the three months service, he was frequently on the Neversink River and saw the said Wallace and understood and remembered hearing that said Wallace did military duty with the other inhabitants in guarding said Fort and now remembers that he was at the time in the belief that said inhabitants were concerned for their own safety to be constantly on guard duty and that said Cornelius Wallace has always been situated in that county and in this to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that this deponent in now in the seventy ninth year of his age and further says not.
Moses Knapp
Subscribed and Sworn to the day and year above written before me.
Hiram Gilbert Justice
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I, Hiram Gilbert, the Justice before whom the written affidavit was sworn, do certify that I am acquainted with Moses Knapp, the within deponent, who has been my neighbor for more than twenty years and that he is a man of credit in any court and that his statement written is entitled to belief.
Dated [Pampy ] April 16th 1834
Hiram Gilbert
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State of New York
Onondaga County SS: On this 19th day of April 1834 personally appeared before James M. Allen a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, who being duly sworn by and before the said justice did depose and say that he is in the 73rd year of his age, that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war and was well acquainted with Cornelius Wallace who now resides in the town of Pompey in the said County and is an applicant for a pension I’m the law of Congress that Deponent  said Cornelius Wallace resided at that time at Pion Park, precinct of Mamakating, county of Ulster and state aforesaid, on the Neversink river on which river was there picket forts erected by the inhabitants at the frontier , the middle one of which was called for Depuy, thence further a mile below which was  Fort Gumear and about a mile above was Fort Dewitt. That the families of the deponent, father and said Wallace, the father together with nine other families lived in, said Fort Gumear from the time the said fort was built in the spring of the year 1777 till the war closed., excepting then tat got killed by the Indians among whom were the deponent’s father, that in both the other said forts about the same number of families contained in them from the time they were built till the end of the war, that said inhabitants erected  said forts and quartered there day and night during said period. That Deponent and said Wallace with others in that frontier belonged to Captain Abraham Cuddeback’s company of local Militia who commanded at said forts and quartered Gumear, and that both did regular military duty on guard and patrol and on alarms which were very frequent and troublesome and which were regularly & daily paraded and answered to the roll call during said period, and a part of said time they were supplied with provisions and ammunition by authority of the state. The deponent excepts from the above statement a portion of the time which he served among the rangers. That Lieutenants King and Hardin and Ensign Samuel Depuy were officers of Captain Cuddeback’s company, that said Wallace was very young, but the dangers of that frontier were such that all who could do guard duty were called in from the year 1779 and 1780 to 1783 the war more constant on that duty than before, though I remember his earlier services.
James Terwilliger X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 19th day and year above written and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with James Terwilliger the above deponent, that he is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and that his testimony above is entitled to credit.
J.M. Allen
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Onondaga County § SS:
On this 19th day of April in the year 1834 before me James M. Allen, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Francis Dewitt, who being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is in the eighty eighth year of his age that he is well acquainted with Cornelius Wallace of the Town of Pompey in the county of Onondaga and knew him well in the time of the Revolutionary War in a place called Pion Park in the precinct of Mamakating, County of Ulster, State aforesaid where they both resided during that period, that this place was situated on the frontier near the banks of the River Neversink in said County of Ulster.
That the inhabitants of said frontier were forced to live in three several forts built, manned and guarded by the inhabitants alone, themselves under the direction and command of Captain Abraham Cuddeback and his Lieutenants King and Hurd and Ensign Samuel Depuy, that said frontier was so constantly harassed by the Indians and Tories, from the enemy that all persons, old and young that could carry a gun were engaged in their own defenses.
That this deponent will recollect that said Wallace took an active part and was in constant and regular duty on guard or otherwise among the settlers there who were all organized under the aforesaid officers and were daily mustered and then roll-called by them and other officers that came with the Nine Months Men to guard that frontier such as Col. or Capt. John
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Newkirk, Leuit. Steward Capt. Wood in 1779, 
Sgt. Cassidy, Sgt. Ingels and that these other officers whom this deponent has forgotten until the end of the war.
And this deponent recollect that said Wallace was all the time at the war in said Fort Gumear and was steady in said duty and that this service was so constantly harassed by that he and the other inhabitants were prevented from attending to any business whatever of either profit or advantage. And further this deponent says not.
Francis DeWitt X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me; and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Francis DeWitt the above deponent and knows him to be a person of reputation for truth and veracity and that his foregoing statement can be depended upon.
James M Allen
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Onondaga County § SS: I Alanson Edwards Junior Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that Hiram Gilbert Esquire was on the 16th day of April instant one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county duly elected and qualified; and also that James M. Allen, Esquire, was on the 19th day of April instant one of the justices of the peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with their hand writing and verity believe their names respectively subscribed to the jurats of the proceeding affidavit and certificates
to be the genuine signature of the said justices. 
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 21st day of April 1834.
A. Edwards Jr. Deputy Clerk
Affidavit of Francis DeWitt in the matter of Cornelius Wallace
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Affidavit of 
William Cuddeback Jun.
For 
Cornelius Wallace
Hon. W. Taylor
HR
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State of New York
County of Orange SS:
On the 17th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared before me, Peter E Gumaer a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said county, William Cuddeback Jr. who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he now is nearly seventy one [years, crossed out] years of age that he resides in the Town of Deerpark in the County of Orange and State of New York, that before and during the Revolutionary War he was acquainted with Cornelius Wallace who at that time resided at Deerpark in then precinct of Mamakating in the [town, crossed out] County of Ulster and State aforesaid being now in then precinct Town of Deerpark, County of Orange aforesaid and now resides as deponent is informed and believes in the Town of Pompey, in then precinct County of Onondaga and State aforesaid, that he the said deponent saw said Cornelius Wallace early in the Spring of 1777 doing duty in the Militia in Deerpark aforesaid on the frontier in Captain Abraham Cuddeback’s company of which King and Herding were first and second Lieutenants and Samuel Depuy Ensign and Moses Philips Major of the Regiment to which said company belonged, that he the said Cornelius Wallace continued all that season in service in scouting and alarm parties and aiding and assisting at building Forts Depuy, Dewitt and Gumaer by order of the Committee of safety which consisted of Philips, Lieutenant, Esgn.  Benjamin DePuy, Esgn. And Harmarius Van Inwegan , Esgn, and others; that early in the spring of 1778 captain  Cuddeback called his company together at Fort Dewitt and beat up volunteers to guard the front and the whole company volunteered and among them he thinks, was the said Cornelius Wallace who was station by the order of the said committee of safety in the spring of 1778 at Fort Gunaer where he continued
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doing duty as a soldier that year. Early in the spring of 1779 a corps of nine months men was stationed at Fort Gumaer commanded by Captain Wood part of that year and the said o deponent knows that the said Cornelius Wallace was stationed at said fort and did duty with the nine months men as a volunteer under the officers of that Corps to the end of that year. That from early in the spring 1780 the deponent knows that the said Wallace was stationed as a [Cross out soldier] volunteer soldier at Fort Gumaer under the command of Captain Abraham Westfall to the end of that year. That early in the spring is 1781 said deponent saw the said Wallace stationed as a volunteer soldier under Capt. Westfall at Fort Gumaer and knows that he continued at that Fort until the end of the year, also that he was stationed at that fort from the Spring of 1782 under the command of Captain Westfall until the end of that year and from that time until the troops were dismissed from service doing duty with the Nine Months Men. 
And that said Wallace continued through the Winter season of each winter to guard the said fort with the other volunteers in the service. And further said not.
William Cuddeback Jr.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me and I do certify that I am acquainted with William Cuddeback Jr. the above named deponent and know him to be reputed as a man of truth and that the above statement is entitled to credit and belief.
Peter E. Gumaer 
Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
Orange County § I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Orange County do hereby certify that Peter E. Gumaer is a Commissioner of Deeds and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 20Th day of October 1835.
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
Of Orange Common Pleas
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Affidavit of 
David Van Inwegen
For
Cornelius Wallace
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State of NewYork
County of Orange SS:
On this seventeenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared before me Peter E. Gumaer a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said county David Van Inwegen who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now between seventy and seventy one years of age, that he resides in the town of Thompson in the County of [the word Orange is crossed out] Sullivan and State of New York that before and during the revolutionary war he was acquainted with Cornelius Wallace who at that time resided at Deerpark in the then precinct of Mamakating in the county of Ulster and State of New York, being niw in the Town of Deerpark, county of Orange aforesaid and now resides as deponent is informed and believes in the town of Pompey in the county of Onondaga and the state aforesaid, that he, the said deponent, saw said Cornelius Wallace early in the spring of the year 1777 doing duty in the militia at Deerpark aforesaid on the frontier in Captain Abraham Cuddeback’s company of which King and Harding were first and second Lieutenants and Samuel Depuy Ensign and Moses Philips Major of the Regiment to which said company belonged; that he the said Cornelius Wallace continued all that season in service in scouting and alarm parties and aiding and assisting at building forts[crossed out words] Gumaer by order of the committee of safety which consisted of Philip Swartrout Esgn. Benjamin. Depuy Esgn. and Harmanus Van Inwegen Esgn. and others. That early in the spring of1778 captain Cuddeback called his company together at Fort Dewitt and beat up for volunteers to guard the frontier and the whole company volunteered and among them was the said Cornelius Wallace, as he thinks, who was stationed by the order of the committee of safety in the spring of 1778 at Fort Gumaer where he continued doing duty as a volunteer soldier that
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year. Early in the spring of 1779 a corps of Nine Months Men was stationed at Fort Gumaer commanded by Captain Wood part of that year and the said deponent knows that the said Cornelius Wallace was stationed at said Fort and did duty with the Nine Months Men as a volunteer under the officers of that corps to the end of that year. That from early in the spring of 1780 the deponent knows that the said Wallace was stationed as volunteer soldier at Fort Gumaer under the command of Captain Abraham Westfall to the end of that year. That early in the spring of 1781 said deponent saw the said Wallace stationed as a volunteer soldier under Captain Westfall at Fort Gumaer and knows that he continued at that fort until the end of the year, also that he saw Wallace was stationed at that fort from the spring of 1782 under the command of Captain Westfall until the end of  that year and from that time until the troops were Desmith from service and that said Wallace continue through the winter season of each winter to guard the said fort with the other volunteers at the same. And further said not.
“Thompson” was enter lined above “Deerpark” erased and “Sullivan” above “Orange” erased between the 6th bylines and in between the 7th and 8 th lines.
David Van Inwegen 
Sworn and subscribed and year first above written before me and I do certify that I am acquainted with David Van Inwegen the above named deponent and knows him to be reputed as a man of truth that the above statement is entitled to credit and belief
“ Thompson was interlined above Deer Park crossed” 
Peter E. Gumaer
Commissioner of deeds
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State of New York
Orange County SS: I, Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for Orange County do certify that Peter E. Gumaer is a commissioner of deeds and that the foregoing   Certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony, whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name
This twentieth day of October in the year 1835.
Lebbeus L. Vail
Clerk of Orange Com. Pleas
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Affidavit for 
Cornelius Wallace
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State of New York
County of Orange
On this thirtieth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally appeared before me, Peter E.Gumaer a commissioner of deeds in and for said county. William A. Cuddeback of the Town of Deer Park in the County aforesaid, who, being duly sworn before me, deposes and says that he is now seventy six or seventy seven years of age, that before the breaking out of the revolutionary war and up to the close of the war he was personally acquainted with Cornelius Wallace who then resided in the town of Deer Park, county of Orange, formerly the precinct of Mamakating in the County of Ulster, and now resides as deponent is informed and believes in the town of Pompey in the county of Onondaga; that the said Cornelius Wallace was a soldier stationed as deponent thinks and believes by the authority of the committee of safety at Fort Gumaer in the Spring of 1778, and believes he continued in that fort as a soldier in the service of the country from that period until the close of the wars. Further deponent saith not.
William A. Cuddeback 
Sworn and subscribed The day and year first above written before me and I, the said commissioner above named do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William A. Cuddeback and know him to be reputed a man of truth and veracity and that the statement above is entitled to credit and belief.
Peter E. Gumaer 
Commissioner of deeds
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Fayetteville June 21, 1837
(Onondaga Co.- New York)
Dear Sir
Benjamin DePuy, John DePuy and Cornelius Wallace were formerly on the Pension List of the Soldiers of the Revolution.
In the spring of 1830 they received this pension for the years next proceeding that time, after which their pensions were stopped.
It is supposed that there must have Been something insufficient in their proofs or [illegible] which occasioned their pensions to be stopped if for any other reasons they wish to be informed.
I would respectfully solicit such information as the department may be able to give in relation to those pensions and the reasons Why their pensions were discontinued.
They received a full pension of $80 per year for their years preceding March 1834.
Respectfully yours
Hicks Worden
Hon. J.L. Edwards 
Comm. Of Pensions
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I, Cornelius Wallace of the town of Schroeppel in the County of Oswego and State of New York did on or about the twenty fifth day of November in the year [crossed out ,of] one thousand eight hundred and fifty nominate and appoint one Chester Babcock as my true and lawful attorney for the purpose of procuring any claims which I might have have against the United States of America to a pension for services performed by me the said Wallace in the war against Great Britain commenced in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, closed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.
Commonly called and termed the Revolutionary war and whereas said power of attorney would direct from me the said Wallace by deceit paid, and [Word crossed out] misrepresentation on the part of the said Chester Babcock.
Now, therefore I, the said Cornelius Wallace hereby revoke and annul the said power of attorney to the said Chester Babcock given asforesaid and forbid all persons transacting or doing anything with said Chester Babcock in relation to the said pension asforesaid and the war department of the United States of America is hereby in [Illegible] and forbid doing anything with said Chester Babcock in or about the said pension or any opportunity with same. As will not  sanction or notify or comment to anything or act which he may do in the previous with with any persons or with the ward department the United States of America or any office there of. Given under. My hand and seal this fourth day of December in the year[Crossed out three words] one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 
Cornelius Wallace X my mark
In the presence of Cornelius Smedley
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Central Square, March 10Th 1851
Hon. James E. Heath
Dear sir
Yours of the 4th informing me that a new pension certificate had been granted in the case of Cornelius Wallace is as heard and as there some things in this case I do not fully understand. I take the liberty of making a few inquiries. Was Wallace’s case investigated and certificate granted upon the papers sent to the department by me , and if so why was the certificate sent to the Hon. H.S. Couger. Is his name only replaced upon the pension roll, or is he entitled to backpay by answering the above inquiry at your earliest convenience, you much oblige me.
Very respectfully yours
Francis Allen
PS 
Warmes & Allen have sent bounty [illegible] applications to your office. Some, the first lot, in November but they also not received notice of their arrival when they may affect returns.
FA
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Miss Lula V. Huntley
R. F. D. NO. 2
Phoenix, N.Y.
May 22, 1932
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to administrator
Washington, D. C.
Dear sir,
Sometime ago, I wrote inquiring about a revolutionary ancestor, Cornelius Wallis (Wallace). Your acknowledgment said to refer to “Ba-J-ADY”. My address was then.” 1210 Lodi St., Syracuse,N.Y.”
It is now as given at heading.
I realize I may have to wait sometime, but wish this information by Memorial Day if possible.
Very truly yours,
Lula V. Huntley
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Mrs. F. E. Roper
5 Henry St.
Norwich, N. Y.
Aug. 3, 1933
Mr. A. D. Hiller
Assistant to administrator
Veterans administration
Dear: referring to your reply(B.A.- J/WCS.) to my request for information relative to John Wallace or Wallis a soldier of the revolution it might aid in search to tell you that Cornelius Wallace son of John Wallace was also a soldier of the revolution, and he received pension. Will you kindly look up data relating to Cornelius Wallace; both were lived at Mamakating,Ulster County, New York during the war the Cornelius Wallis died in the town of Schroeppel, Oswego County, New York.
Mrs. F. E. Roper
5 Henry St. 
Norwich, New York
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Mrs. Went
Kayendatsyona 
Daughters of the American Revolution
10-23-12
303 Worth St.
Fulton, N.Y.
Department of the Interior
Bureau of pensions
Washington DC
The commissioner
Dear sir.
Will you kindly send me copy of application for pension of Cornelius Wallace who served in the Revolutionary War. I think from Conn. he later lived in N.Y. Died at Pennellville, Oswego Co. N.Y. Mch. 6- 1858 aged 96 years. He received a pension.
Would also like copy of pension papers of Ebenezer Allen of Conn. at time of his application resided at Winfield Herkimer Co. N.Y. Born Dec. 27, 1761[1734 crossed out]
at Old Fairfield Conn. and died April. 19-1845
at Schroeppel Oswego Co. N.Y. His widow also received pension.
Thanks for your trouble.
Respectfully yours,
Miss Alice Schenck
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1210 Lodi Street 
Syracuse, N.Y.
April 19, 1932
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly look up the following reference in regard to my great, great grandfather Cornelius Wallis, who is buried in the cemetery at Pennellville, Oswego Co., N. Y.
And furnish me with all information you find regarding him. There are two markers on the  lot. They read:

C. Wallis
Died March 6, 1858
AE 96 years
A soldier of the revolution

Elizabeth
Wife of Cornelius Wallace
Died Feb 6 1849
Aged 86 years

I understood he received a pension and thought it might be possible to verify the statement. You will notice the different spellings of the last name. I think the name on his marker the one used, but it might be the other. It has been suggested that the descendants look into this and
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perhaps, give some special mention to Memorial Day as there are few revolutionary soldiers buried in the vicinity.
If there is extra expense for this, I shall be glad to pay you.
Very truly yours,
Lula V. Huntley
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Veterans administration
Washington
July 23, 1932.
In reply refer to:
BA-J/ILL
YOUR FILE REFERENCE:
Lula V. Huntley
R. D.#2
Phoenix, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in regard to securing the record of James Hawks and of John Wallace, the father of Cornelius Wallace, S. 14790, whose record was furnished you. You state that John Wallace served in the French and Indian war and revolution war.
Revolutionary war records do not show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of service in that war of James Hawk or Hawks as described by you, or of the above noted John Wallace.
This office has no record of services rendered in the colonies prior to the revolutionary war, and is unable to advise you relative to the source of information other than the state records.
If you desire to apply to the British government for data, it is suggested you address the secretary, public record office, London, England.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller.
Assistant to administrator.
In your record of Cornelius Wallace(Wallis), the statement is made: he was living with his family in Fort Gumaer in said town of Mamakating (N.Y.) during the revolution, soldier‘s father (John) being on duty as guard and scout there during the war.
This statement led me to believe that it would be possible for me to obtain a more complete record of the father, John Wallace (Wallis).
Thank you for this reply. If there is no further record, you need not reply, if more information can be obtained, I shall appreciate it.
Very truly yours,
Lula V. Huntley.
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September 21, 1932.
BA-J/ILL
Lula V. Huntley
R.D. #2
Phoenix
New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in regard to securing further information relative to John Wallace(Wallis), father of Cornelius Wallace (Wallis), S.14790. Whose record was furnished you on May 25, 1932.
In office letter of July 23 1932, which you returned with your request, the statement is that there is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Wallace, the father of Cornelius. The office has no further information in regard to him than the reference to his service as guard and scout as shown in the claim of his son, Cornelius.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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May 31, 1932.
BA-J/ILL
Miss Lula V. Huntley
R.F.D.#2
Phoenix, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of May 22, in regard to Revolutionary War record of Cornelius Wallis, also in regard to change of address. Our records show that the history of Cornelius Wallace, S.14790, was furnished you on May 25, and was sent to 1210 Lodi Street, Syracuse, New York, and perhaps was forwarded and has reached you by this time.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller.
Assistant to Administrator.
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May 25, 1932
BA-J/ILL
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cornelius Wallace
S. 14790
Lula V. Huntley
1210 Lodi Street
Syracuse, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to Cornelius Wallis, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.14790, based upon the service of Cornelius Wallace in that war.
Cornelius Wallace(the name appears also Wallis) , the son of John, was born April 20, 1765 in Mamakating Ulster County, New York; he was living with his father and his in Fort Gumaer and sit town of Mamakating during the revolution, soldier’s father being on as guard and scout there during the war.
Cornelius Wallace enlisted in April, 1779 and served at various times until the end of the war, mounting in all to 15 months, as private under captain Abraham Cuddeback and Colonel Newkirk in the New York troops, stationed most of the time at Fort Gumaer.
After his service, he resided in Mamakating, Ulster County, New York, until 1796, with the exception of one year when he lived in Marcellus, New York, then moved to Pompey, Onondaga County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, while a resident of Pompey, Onondaga County, New York.
In 1855, the soldier resided in Schroeppel, Oswego County, New York; he stated then that he was 95 years of age. It is not stated that he was married in the papers in this claim.
In 1851, one Reuben Wallis, was a resident of Oswego county, New York, no relationship to the soldier stated.
There is no charge for the service.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller.
Assisted to administrator
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Record division
3–525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of pensions
Washington DC
S. F. 14790.
In reply to your request of————-, received—— for a statement of the military history of Cornelius Wallace, a soldier of the revolutionary war, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application on file in this bureau.

Dates of enlistment or appointment-
April 1779
Length of service-
Served at various times, 15 months to end of war
Rank- private
Officers under whom served was rendered-
Captain Abraham Cuddeback 
Colonel Newkirk
State- N.Y.
Battles Engaged in——
Residence of soldier at enlistment- Mamakating, N.Y.
Date of application for pension- September 11, 1832 [Illegible]
Residence at date of application- Pompey, Onondaga County, N.Y.
Age at date of application- at Mamakating, Ulster Co., N.Y. April 20, 1765.
Remarks: soldier’s father was John Wallace
Very Respectfully,
Commissioner.