Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,396, William Wallar, Continental Va.
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Service
Continental Va.
Wallar, William
or Waller
Wallar, Sarah
W 6,396
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4793
Ohio  Wheeling  Reported
Sarah Waller
widow of William Waller
VA
Who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars ~
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
31st Day of [illegible] 1844
and sent to W. W. Tracy
Cambridge
Ohio
Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 page 164
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Treasurer Department
Second Comptroller's Office
August 15, 1849
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act
directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United
States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension
agents, the [illegible] of Sarah Waller, [illegible] late
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Wheeling, Va
Agency, at the rate of  Eighty ~ Dollars
and ~ cents per annum, under the law of the 17th June
1844, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1847, to the 4th March 1848.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller
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Greenfield In April 27 (41
Sir
I have just received yours of the 10th instant in relation to the application of My Mother Sarah Waller for a pension-
If my Mother mistakes not My Father was placed upon the pension Rolls in the year 1833 - His first application was made in June or July 1832 - This application was not made sufficient untill March 1833 - James M Bells acted as his atty - at the time he made application & was placed upon the pension Rolls he resided in Gemsay Co Ohio - I think my Father drew his pension at Pittsburgh Pa. If not Wheeling [illegible] to me know the result of your Research as to those particulars
Elisha Waller
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5.142
William Waller decd
Ohio
on roll as a private
May 5, 1841
Adm as Corporal from 4 March 1831: to 21st Sept 1832 the time of his decease
12 - 18. Mo 66.
6.
17. 17 days 2.08
68.08
James M Bell Esq
Cambridge 
Guernsey Co.
Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
20th Sep. 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necefsary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (this: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of William Wallea dec..
Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's services. Years. Months. Days. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.
09. July 1776. 3 Corp. Cap. Brady Col. Morgan 11 Reg Va line 80 years Virginia Traditionary and living witnefs.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commission of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians of privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of } ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a) before
A B. a resident (b) of    in the county of    and State, Territory or District of    aged (c)    years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)   , with    and served in the    (e) regiment of the    line, under the following named officers:
{Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [illegible] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the States of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I   of the Court of 
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of    for a pension.
In a testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this 
day of    &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the    and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with    , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 
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.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the 
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,   Clerk of the Court of    do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of 
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this   day of   &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claims cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the 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 as 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."
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 that 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 into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in the garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 
Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers 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, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case 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 claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the [illegible], as well as the regiment, company, and 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.
[illegible] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

The State of Ohio
County of Guernsey
On this second day of August in 
the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and thirty-two, personally appeared before William Skinner
one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
for the aforesaid County of Guernsey, William Waller,
aged Eighty years on the 5th day of November next, who
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the Act of Congress
June 7, 1832.
That he enlisted in the Army of the United
States, on the 29th day of July 1771, for the term of three
years, with Captain William Bradey, and served in the
Rifle regiment - commanded by Col. Moses Rawlins, (the number
of which regiment he does not now recollect) of the
Virginia line, until after the battle of Fort Washington,
when he was attached to the 11th regiment of the Virginia
line - he served under the following named officers
[illegible] - In the first regiment mentioned, Hugh Stevenson was the 
Colonel, but died at home before the regiment marched - the
Regiment was commanded during the time this declarant was
attached to it by Moses Rawlins who was the Lieut. Colonel -
Otho Williams was the Major - The officers of his company
were Capt. Wm. Bradey above named - 1st Lieutenant William
Piles - 2nd Lieut Christopher Bradey (a brother of the Captain)
Ensign [illegible] Harrison, who was killed at the battle of Fort
Washington. ~ After the battle of Fort Washington, as above stated,
he was attached to the 11th Virginia Regiment, commanded
by Col. Daniel Morgan, who was at the time he joined it, away
at the taking of Burgoyne - the Lieut Col. was Phibaken
during the time he was with the Regiment, they had different
majors - he recollects Majors Sneed, Porterfield & Wallace,
the Capt. of whom acted as Major at the battle of Monmouth -
his company in the Regiment was commanded by Capt. Long,
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Who was also away with Col. Morgan - the Lieut was Philip
Slaughter & the Ensign __________ Barnes.  The 11th Regiment was
Infantry and Capt. Long, when he went with Morgan, joined
the Rifleman & did not return to this regiment while he was with
it.
This declarant was in the battle of Germantown & Monmouth
and was with the army at the battle of Brandywine,
but being at that time sick with the dysentery, he was wholly
unable to go into the battle, and was left about one half mile
in the rear - he could hear the firing & see the smoke.  He was
not in the battle of Fort Washington, being prevented from crossing the
river with his Regiment by some reason which he does not now 
distinctly recollect, but thinks he was then on the sick bed with
the yellow jaundice.
When this declarant entered the service he resided 
between Shepherdstown & Harpers Ferry, in Berkely County, Virginia.
He marched through Fredericktown & Laneytown in the State of
Maryland, and through Little York & Lancaster to Philadelphia
in the State of Pennsylvania - from Philadelphia he
went by water to Trenton, in the State of New Jersey, and thence through
Jersey by Princeton to New Brunswick, and then to B_____ point
where his regiment was stationed.
He served out the full term of three years, for which
he had enlisted, and on the 30th day of July, 1779 was discharged
from his service, near Stoney Point Fort by Brig. Gen. Wm
Woodford, and received an honorable discharge
This declarant further states that in October 1781, he was
drafted for the term of three months in the Virginia Militia, in
Capt. Mc. Cormicks Company, in the regiment commanded by Col.
Morgan of Shepherdstown, and served therein until 
Sunday before the surrender of Cornwallis when he was discharged
in consequence of fits to which he became subject, and received
and honorable discharge.  That he presented both the discharges received by him as aforesaid, until about ten or
eleven years since, when his dwelling house was destroyed
by fire, and every thing therein burned.  His discharges
were in the house and destroyed at the same time.
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19.8hf.
Ohio - Pittsburg
William Waller Dec 8
of Guernsey Co in the State of Ohio
who was a corporal in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Brady of the Regt Commanded
by Col Morgan in the Virginia
line of 2 years.
[illegible] issued to Sarah Waller
widow of Wm. Waller who died 21st
September 1832.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio - Pittsburg
at the rate of 80 dollars ~ cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sept
1833 and sent to [illegible]
M. Bele Cambridge O
Arrears to the 4th of
semi-anl. allowance ending
Amount due said deceased up to the period of his death
24 September 1832.
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E Vol. 8 Page 132
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an
annuity, except - the present and he declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
He deems it proper further to state that after he enlisted
and before he marched, he was appointed first - Corporal 
by Capt. Bradey, in which capacity he served during the whole
term of three years.
After the battle of Fort Washington Capt. Bradey resigned and went home.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid, the erasures & interlineation in the second page having been
made before signing, that is to say the words "Maryland", "Captain", "and was in the service at the time of his capture and [illegible]" "that after said capture" erased; and the words "Sunday before the surrender" and "when" interlined.
William Waller
his X mark
I, the said William Skinner, associate judge as aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above named William Waller was sworn
to the above declaration before me, and subscribed the same in my presence - And I do further certify that in my opinion the said William Waller was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And I do further certify that the said Wm Waller is unable, and cannot from bodily infirmary, attend this court, for the purpose of making his said declaration.  Given under my hand & Deed the said 2nd day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Skinner
Associate Judge
Also at the same time personally came before me the said Wm. Skinner, Associate Judge, as aforesaid, Zacheus A. Beatty and George Metcalf, both residing in the Town of Cambridge in the aforesaid County of Guernsey, who being sworn say that they are acquainted with William Waller, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that he resides in the Township of [illegible] in said Guernsey County; that they believe him to be Eighty years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides.
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to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that they consent in 
that opinion - and that they well recollect when the dwelling 
house of the said Wm Wallar was destroyed by fire as stated by 
the said Wallar, in the above declaration - and the said George 
Metcalf says that previous to that time, perhaps amount 12 or 13 
years ago, the said Wm Wallar, who was there as the said Metcalf believes,
about making application for a pension under the act of 1818,
showed to the said Metcalf the two discharges mentioned in said
declaration; and that as well as the said Metcalf recollects, 
they were both what are called honorable discharges.
Z. A. Beatty
Geo Metcalf
Sworn to & subscribed this said 2nd day of August, A. D. 1872, and I do certify that the said Zaccheus A. Beatty & George
Metcalf are credible persons, and that their statement is entered
to credit - Given under my hand & seal this 2nd August, A.
D. 1872.
Wm Skinner
Associate Judge
The Guernsey County
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for said County of Guernsey do certify that William Skinner
Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration and Affidavit
were sworn, was at the time and still is one of the Associate
Judges of the County of Common Pleas for the County of
Guernsey aforesaid duly elected commissioned and sworn and duly empowered
to administer oaths to whose acts full fait and credit are due, and I do further
certify that the above and within signatures of the said Judge are genuine
This Testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Cambridge this 3rd day of August, A.D., 1832
Moses Sarchet Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Guernsey County
On the eleventh day of January A.D. 1842
before me William Rickey a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County personally appeared Joseph 
Wallar of said County known by me to be a man of truth
respectability and [illegible].  Who being by me first duly sworn
according to law, doth depose and say, that he is the son of William
Wallar late of said Guernsey County deceased and his widow Sarah
Wallar of said Guernsey County and that his 
deposition is attached
to a declaration made by the said Sarah Wallar for the
purposes of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of
July 7, 1838.  That deponent said father kept a record of the
births of his children including the birth of this deponent in 
a family bible, that deponent frequently saw and examined said 
records, the same was made in the hand writing of deponents
father and that in and by said record deponent was stated to
have been born on the thirteenth day of July AD 1791 that in the
year 1816 or 1817 the dwelling house of deponents father was
burned and said family bible and record were burned up
with said house, after which time deponents father made no
family records to the knowledge of this deponent.  That the
record hereto attached marked A is the family record of
this deponent and was made by this deponent between the 
first day of January in the year eighteen hundred an thirty six
and the first day of April in the same year and has been in
the possession of deponents ever since, that in entering A date of
deponents birth in said last mentioned record he entered it in the
year 1891 in the [illegible] of 1791.  And that as soon as he discovered his mistake
he altered said last mentioned record as to make the birth of himself and Sarah Wallar deponents wife, in 1791.  Which is all the attestation
which has been made in said record to deponents knowledge and 
further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed on the eleventh day 
of January A.D. 1842, before me.
Joseph Wallar
Wm Richey - Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Guernsey County
On the twelfth day of January A.D. 1842 before
me Ebenezer Smith a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, personally appeared William M. Tracy
of said County, known by me to be a person of respectability
and honesty who being duly sworn did depose and say
that Joseph Wallar named in the written deposition and
who has subscribed and sworn is the same person whose
deposition is attached or subjoined to a declaration
made by Sarah Wallar widow of William Wallar did
for the purposes of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress
of July 7, 1838 and which declaration and deposition
have been heretofore transmitted by department to James
L. Edwards Esquire Commission of Pensions of Washington
City and further saith not
W M Tracy
Sworn and subscribed on the 12th day of January A. D.
1842 before me E Smith
Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Guernsey County
I Moses Sarclat Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County hereby
certify that William Richey and Ebenezer Smith Esquires
before whom the foregoing affiants of Joseph Wallar and
William W. Tracy were subscribed and sworn, were and
that each of them was at the time of taking said affidavit by
him severally taken as aforesaid, a Justice of the Peace within
and for said county of Guernsey, duly elected commissioned
and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths to where
several ads [illegible] full faith and [illegible]
ought to be given - And I do further certify that
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the foregoing signature of said Justice and Commission
given under my hand and this seal of [illegible] Court of Common Pleas
is [illegible] this twelfth day of
January A.D. 1842
Moses Sarchet Clerk
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Family Record
Births
Joseph Wallar
was born July the 13 1791
Sarah Wallar
was born December 
the 4 1791
Eliza Wallar was
born February the
8 1813
Samuel Wallar
was born April
the 10 1815
Frances Asberry 
Wallar was borh
March the 4 1817
Millinda Wallar
was born August the
11 1819
Jacob Wallar was
born September the
22 1821
Benjamin Wallar
was born December the 1
1823
Joseph Wallar was
born February the 10
1824
Finly Wallar was
born February the 24
1833
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Family Record
Marriages
Joseph Wallar and Sarah Board was
married April the 31 
1812
Eliza Wallar was
married August the
2 1833
Samuel Wallar
was married January
8 1839
marked A
This is the record exhibited
before me and referenced in the
deposition of Joseph Wallar
Jan 11th 1842
WM Richy
Justice of the Peace
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8.081
Sarah Waller
of William
Ohio
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th 
July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows
State of Ohio
Guernsey County
On this seventeenth day of November A.D. 1841 personally
appeared before me Joseph D. Tingle one of
the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the
said County of Guernsey Sarah Wallar a resident of [illegible]
Township in said Guernsey County aged Eighty two years who
being first duly sworn according to laws doth on her oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress [illegible] July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half
pay and pensions to certain widows".  That she is the widow of
William Wallar who was a private in the Virginia line in the
Army of the Revolution, that said William Wallar in his life time had
a pension granted to him by the [illegible] on account of his services
in the Revolutionary war but she thinks he did not draw any part of 
the same during his life but the same was paid to her after his death
that at the time of having said pension granted to him he resided in
said County of Guernsey.  She further declares that she was
lawfully married to the said William Wallar on the ninth day
of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty that her husband
the said William Wallar died on the twenty first day of September
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two that she was
married to him prior to his leaving the service but being unable to prove that said
marriage took place prior to his leaving said service she hereby relinquishes
[illegible] benefits which might accrue to her if her said marriage were proven
to have taken place before her said husband left said service but the
marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred 
and ninety four at the time above stated that she does not know
that any person beside herself is now living who was present at said marriage
nor does she know of any records of the same in existence
Sarah Wallar
X
her mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I do
hereby certify that the said Sarah Wallar cannot from bodily infirmity 
attend  before any court of record to make said declaration.
Jos D Tingle
Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Guernsey County
On the Seventeenth day of November A.D. 1841 personally
appeared fore me Joseph D. Tingle one of the Associate
Judges of the Court of Common Please for the said County of Guernsey, Joseph
Wallar of said Guernsey County aged fifty-one years and known
to me to be a man of truth and veracity and a creditable person
who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth depose
and say that he is a sone of William Wallar and Sarah his wife
married in the foregoing declaration that he believes himself to be fifty
years of age on the thirteenth day of July last that desponants said
father & mother had five children older than himself all of whom
except one resides at home in the family of William Wallar
and Sarah his wife [illegible] the recollection of this desponant That
said desponants said father and mother lived and cohabited
together as man and wife from the earliest recollection of desponant
until the death of the said William Wallas which occured on
the twenty first day of September A.D. 1832 desponant never had
a doubt expressed as to the legality of the marriage between his
said father and mother nor does he know or believe that
any doubt of the legality of said marriage was ever entertained
by any person acquainted with his said father & mother
but they always treated each other and were recognized by others
as lawful husband and wife that desponants father obtained a pension
in his lifetime which was drawn by desponants said mother after
his decease as stated in the written declaration
Joseph Wallar
Sworn & subscribed 17 day and
year aforesaid before me
Jos D. Tingle
Associate Judge
The State of Ohio
Guernsey County
On the Seventeenth day of November A.D. 1841 personally 
appeared before me Joseph D. Tingle one of the Associate 
Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for said County of Guernsey
Benjamin Hudson of said County aged forty-one years known to
me to be a creditable person and a man of truth and veracity
who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth depose
and say that he has been well acquainted with the said William Wallar
and Sarah Wallar his wife named in the written declaration [illegible]
the year eighteen hundred and fifteen that at that time their oldest
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child with which desponant was acquainted was about thirty years of
age that said William Wallar and Sarah his wife were always
esteemed as reputable people, that they always [illegible] as husband
and wife and lived an cohabited together as such until
the death of the said William Wallar which occurred in the
year 1832 that desponant never had a boubt expressed as to the
legality of the marriage between said William Wallar and Sarah
his wife nor does he believe there is any doubt as to the
legality of their said marriage the said Sarah Wallar has
continued the widow of the said William Wallar ever since his death
That he has been well acquainted with Joseph Wallar who
has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing deposition and that
he is a man of truth and veracity in the truth of [illegible]
deposition entire confidence may be [illegible]
Benjamin Hudson
Sworn and subscribed on this
day and year aforesaid before me
Jos D. Tingle
Associate Judge
The State of Ohio Guernsey County
I Moses Carchet - Clerk of the Court
of Common Please within and for said county hereby certify that Joseph
D. Tingle Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sarah
Wallar was subscribed and sworn and before whom the foregoing
Depositions of Joseph Wallar and Benjamin Hudson, were subscribed
and sworn, was at this time and associate judge
of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County
of Guernsey duly appointed Commissioner and sworn and 
hereby authorized to administer oaths to whose acts as
such full faith and [illegible] as due - and I further can
testify that the foregoing [illegible] [illegible] of said Judges are
[illegible] and that said Court of Common Pleas is a court
of Record - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court of Commission on this Seventeenth day
of November A.D. 1841 - 
Moses Sarchet Clerk
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War Section

March 6, 1914

Mrs. Lela Young, 

   Guthrie Center, Iowa           W. 6496

Madam:

In response to your letter dated 23rd ultimo, you are herewith furnished the military history of the only __William Wallar__ or Waller, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau to which is added the following family data from papers on file in his claim.

Joseph Wallar - -  born July 13, 1791 married
Sarah Board -- " December 4, 1791 April 31, 1812
Eliza Wallar -- " February 8, 1813 August 2, 1833
Samuel Wallar -- " April 10, 1815 January 8, 1839
Frances Asberry Wallar -- " March 7, 1817
Melinda Wallar -- " August 11, 1819
Jacob Wallar -- " September 22, 1821
Benjamin Wallar -- " December 7, 1823
Joseph Wallar -- " February 10, 1827
Finly Wallar -- " February 27, 1833

Joseph Wallar, born 1791, stated that his parents had five children older than himself but did not give their names.

Fore the date of widow's death and name of person to whom the arrears of per pension were paid.  apply to the
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Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department.  giving him all of the following data:
"Sarah Waller widow of William Waller Certificate No. 4,793, issued January 31, 1844, for $80 per annum from March 4, 1843, under the Act of March 3, 943, at the Wheeling, Ohio Agency."

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

Waller. - 2
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1914 Mch. 6. History to
Lela Young. C/
Reoy Widow, &c.
File No. 6396
Sarah Waller
Wid.
Wm Waller
Pvt. Rev: War
Act: Mach, 3 [illegible]
Index:-Vol. M, Page 306
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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h 541 -
Ohio
Sarah Waller
widow of
William Waller ded
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 21 Sept. 1832
of Guernsey in the State of Ohio
who was a pri : in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Brady of the regt commanded
by Col Morgan in the Ohio
line for 2 years,
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 80 Dollars ____________ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. day of Feby
1842 and sent to W. W. Tracy
Cambridge Ohio
arrears to the 4th of March '41 400.00
400.00
Act July 7,
1838
Recorded by Theo L. Moody Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 216
Agent Notified Feb 9, 42
Order sent to H. H. Tracy
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Indiana
Sarah Waller
[illegible] T. D. Malpole 3. Aug. 1860
"  Elisha Waller, Apl: 10. '41
Act July 1836
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5062
Sarah Waller
of William
Ohio
suspended
[illegible] 5 May
41 E. Waller
let:  to do:  19 July
'41, to do: 11 Sep: 41
Act 4 July 1836
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Sarah Waller
of Williams
Ohio
Suspended
See let: 24th Nov:
1841 W. W. Tracy
let: to do: 16 Dec
1841
Act 7 July 1838
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William Waller a Sgt. 21. 18m
Sarah M. 79 Berkley Co
74. 3 yrs Cap Bradly Va Rifle Co
M b mo pra. hcap. of [illegible]
Was as him on fralay
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of an act of Congress of the 4th day of July 1836

The State of Ohio Gurnsey County SS
On this 17th day of January 1840 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within & for said County Sarah Waller a resident of the county aforesaid and State of Ohio aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 That she is the widow of William Waller who was a enlisted private in the 1st Virginia Rifle Regiment in the year 1774 under Captain Brady. That the said William Waller served for three years under his enlistment. That the affiant was married to said William Waller on the 9th day of March 1779 by a Presbyterian minister named Mr. Knight at his residence in Bartley County Virginia. Which marriage took place about six months prior to the expiration of his term of enlistment. The said William at the time of his marriage was on a furlow
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The affiant can not say particulars of the services of her Deceased husband but refers to the Two applications made by him to a pension - One the June 1832 & the Other in August 1832

She further says & declares that she was married on the 9" March 1779 to Said William Waller that her husband, the aforesaid William Waller died on the 21st day of September 1832 And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Sarah Wallar x her mark
Sworn to & subscribed to on the day and year above written
Wm Stewart Seal
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Gumby County SS
Be It Known that on this 17th day of January 1840 Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for said County Sarah Waller (Who from Bodily disability is unable to appear in Court) & says under her Oath that the matters & [illegible] as set forth in the above Declaration is true as sub & sworn to before me Wm Stewart
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio Gemsy County SS
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby Certify that William Stewart - who signed the foregoing Certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County duly Commissioned and Qualified to act as such and that full faith & credit should be given to his acts as such and that I believe the Signature purporting to be his Signature - to be Genuine as witness my hand & the Seal of Said Court
On this 20th day of Jany
in the Year of Our Lord
1840 AD-
Moses Sarchet

The State of Indiana Hanorch County SS
Be it known that Personally appeared before me William Whington a Justice of the Peace within & for said County and they being duly sworn according to Law Say that they are personally acquainted with said Sarah Wallar for about thirty five years - that they believe here statement as above from to its True That they ware well acquainted with William Waller her husband who was reputed by themselves as such & believed by all their acquaintances, and they do Solemnly swear that said William Waller deceased at Gumby County Ohio in the Year Eighteen hundred & thirty
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Two and that said Sarah has not intermarried with any person since his the said William Wallace decease. That they believe the foregoing statements of said Sarah is true. As witness our hand & c this 1st day Februy in the year 1840.
William Leamon
Elisha Willard

Sworn & subscribed to by the said William Leamon and Elizah Waller before a Justice of the peace as aforesaid on this 1st Feb 1840.
William Johnson seal(circled)
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Hancock County SS
I John Hager Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court do hereby certify that William Johnson before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County of Hancock duly elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and moreover that I believe his signature thereunto to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 16th day of March AD 1840.
John Hager Clerk
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The State of Indiana Hancock County SS
Be it known that on this 4th day of February 1840 personally appeared before me Andrw Hatfield a Justice of the Peace within & for said County Delila Jenkins a person of lawful age who being duly sworn says that she has been well & personally acquainted with Sarah Waller who make an application for a pension. That she has known her for about forty five years. That she knows that she was reputed as the wife of said William Waller by her husband William Waller & all who knew her that the affiant personally knew him in the state of Virginia and afterwards in the State of Ohio. That she believes the accompanying declaration is true. That she knows that William Waller who is now deceased was a reputed soldier of the Revolutionary war and that the statement made by Sarah Waller in her declaration she believes to be true.  
As witness my hand & seal 
Delilia Jenkins X her mark 

Sworn & subscribed to before me on the day & year aforesaid.
A. F. Hatfield seal(circled)
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana Hancock County
I John Hager Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court do hereby certify that Andrew F. Hatfield before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County of Hancock duly elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and moreover that I believe his signature thereunto to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 16th day of March 1840.
John Hager Clerk
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The State of Indiana Hancock County SS
Be it known that on the fifth day of February 1840 personally appeared before me William Galliher a Justice of the Peace of Hancock County State of Indiana Thomas Gadd a person of lawful age who being duly sworn upon his oath says that he is personally acquainted with Sarah Waller widow of William Waller a soldier of the Revolutionary War, That he has been personally acquainted with said Sarah Waller for about forty five years. That his acquaintance with Said William & Sarah Waller commenced in the State of Virginia. That he knew of no other Sarah Waller whos age exceeds fifty years of age. That said Sarah the applicant for a pension is about eighty one years of age. That she was always reputed the wife of said William Waller by all her acquaintances, that he believes that her declaration for a pension accompany this is true. That he knows that William Waller the husband of said Sarah was a reputed soldier of the Revolutionary war Feb 5th, 1840
Thomas Gadd

Sworn & subscribed to before me Wm Galliher 
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana Hancock County
I John Hager Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court do hereby certify that William Galliher before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County of Hancock duly elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and moreover that I believe his signature thereunto to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 16th day of March 1840
John Hager Clerk

(written vertically)
5062
Sarah Waller of William Ohio.
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Cambridge, Ohio Nov. 18th 1841.

James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I enclose herein the declaration of Mrs Sarah Waller made for the purpose of procuring a pension under the act of July 7th 1838, together with the testimony taken to sustain the claim. Mrs Waller states that she was married for more than six months before her husband left the service but she knows of no record or other evidence by which her marriage could be proven to have taken place before her husband left the service. I have therefore drawn her declaration under the act of 1838. Stating the fact as to the time of her marriage according to the facts as stated by her, to avoid any difficulty she has in her declaration relinquished any advantage or benefit which might accrue to her were her marriage proven to have taken place before her husband left the service. I trust the manner in which the declaration is drawn as to the period of her marriage &c will be satisfactory. It is evident that she should not be required to state that the marriage took place after her husband left the service, when she knows the fact to otherwise.
I am most respectfully your obt. servt.
W. W. Tracy
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Greenfield In
March 28th 1851
Dear Sir
in Feb 1850, I mailed at this office the application of Mrs Sarah Waller for a pension - It was - [illegible] at the War Department - But at the latest  [illegible] on it - nothing was done, you will please advice me how that application stands + what will be done with it
[illegible] your [illegible]
Thomas D Walpole or Elisha Waller
[illegible] John Bell
secretary of war 
Washington City
D.C.
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15 Jany 1842
Allison Waller 
CAMBRIDGE JAN 12
FREE
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commipsioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Cambridge Jany 12th 1842

James L. Edwards Comr of Pensions
Sir.
I herein enclose additional evidence in support of the claim of Mrs Sarah Wallar widow of William Wallar deed to a Pension under the Act of July 7th 1842. I have as yet been unable to find any record evidence of the age of Joseph Wallar, whose disposition accompanied the widows declaration except the enclosed, which was made as appears from the enclosed disposition between the first of Jan +first of Jul 1836. whether that record has been "recently made" or not you will determine, the mistake of [illegible] 100 years as to the birth of Joseph Wallar is making the enclosed record I trust is satisfactorily explained by his disposition, the mistake is so evident and from all the facts corrected with the case it is so certain that never should have been the record figures in the date of the year of his birth that I do not anticipate any difficulty about it but if the record should be rejected I trust that the enclosed disposition of Joseph Wallar proving the existence contents and destruction of the family record kept by Old Mrs Wallar will be deemed sufficient to establish the birth of Joseph Wallar to have been on the 13th of July 1791.
Most Respectfully [illegible]
W. W. Tracy
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Dec 11 1841
Ohio
Waller
CAMBRIDGE DEC
FREE
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C.
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Cambridge Dec 9th 1841.

J. L. Edwards Esquire
 Commipsioner of Pensions
Sir. 
Your favor of the 24th of Nov. last acknowledging the [illegible] of the declaration of Mrs. Sarah Wallar widow of William Wallar cleared under the Act of July 7th 1838 has been received [illegible] came popible [possible] I should suppose that the testimony accompaning [accompanying] the declaration has entirely escaped your notice as you make no reference to it and observe that the testimony before exhibited under the act of July 4th 1836 is not satisfactory. I am the more disposed to believe that the proof accompanied the declaration forwarded by me under the act of 1838, escaped your notice because that, so far as I am judge, the proof enclosed with the declaration under the act of 1838 is of the same nature and so satisfactory as the proof lately forwarded to the department in the case of Mrs Sara Grimes of this County upon which a certificate of pension has been received The application forwarded by me was [illegible]to be entirely unconnected with any papers which may have been forwarded by Mr Elisha Wallar as I have no knowledge of the statements or proof forwarded by him in the case further than that I have been informed by the family that Elisha has been trying to get a pension for his Mother for some length of tie fors-
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[illegible] for some years. If I am not mistaken Mr Joseph Wallar in his disposition on the same sheet of paper containing Mrs Wallars declaration under the act of 1838 notes that he is a son of Andrew William + Sarah Wallar that he was born in 1791 and that his father and mother had some children older than himself and that from his earliest recollection his father + mother lived together as man + wife, treated each other as such and came were always so respected and treated by others, by the testimony of Mr Hudson on the same that can prove their living together as husband + wife since 1815 until Mr Wallar's death, and that the same universally reported to be man + wife and are that at that time to wit 1815. Their oldest child was about thirty years of age. If you presented proof of any other character or made any stronger case, in the case of Mrs Grimes above mentioned I am not aware of it 
If there are any suspicious circumstances convoluted with the application of Mrs Wallar which under it proper for the department  to require more strict proof in her case than in others, will you give me such information respecting the circumstances of suspicion as it may be proper for you to disclose, so that I may be able to be able to be among testimony as to repel such suspicion, as I have not a doubt as to her right to a Pension.
I am very Respectfully yours 
W. W. Tracy
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8081
Sarah Waller 
of William
Ohio
Admitted
Private 2 yr $80
Cap Brady Col Morgan 
Va

died 21 Sept 1832

Act of July 1838

W.W.Tracy
Cambridge 
Ohio.
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Cambridge Dec. 30th 1848

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Comr of Pensions
From your printed favor of the 20th [illegible] accompanied the Pension papers of Mrs Rop [Ross] and Mrs Wallar I could not be certain whether you intended to have the Justice certificate added to the papers returned or to have new papers prepared but to make the papers correct beyond doubt I have had a new declaration made by Mrs Wallar to which the certificate of the justice is duly affixed and I trust will be found correct. I also enclose the first declaration made under the law of 1843 not because I suppose it be of any use to you but because I do not know that it will not. I trust the new declaration will be entitled to immediate attention to considered only as correction of the former papers not as a new application
I am very respectfully
your Obt. Servt.
W. W. Tracy
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5194

Sarah Waller
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3rd March 1843. granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.
State of Ohio
On this Twenty-seventh day of December A.D. 1843. Guernsey County personally appeared before me Williams Richey one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Guernsey Sarah Mallar a resident of the Township of Kirtland in said County of Guernsey aged Eighty-three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Waller who was a private in the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution. That the said William Wallar recived a pension during his life time from the United States on account of said services under the act of 1832. That said William Waller resided at the time of receiving said pension and at the time of his death in said Guernsey County and the amount of the pension which the received under the act of July 7, 1838. was Eighty Dollars per annum for five years the further declares, that she is still a widow. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and her year above written before me 
Sarah Waller X her mark
 
William Richey Justice of the Peace

I William Richey before whom the foregoing declaration was Sworn to and subscribed, do hereby certify that the above named and signed Sarah Wallar is personally known to me and that she has drawn a pension under the act of July 7, 1838.  Given under my hand and seal this Twenty-seventh day of December A.D. 1843 

William Richey Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Guernsey County
I Thomas W. Peacock Clerk of the Court
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of Common Pleas within and for said Guernsey County hereby certify that William Richey Ergine who subscribed the foregoing certificate and before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn and subscribed was on the 
twenty-seventh day of December Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-three and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said Guernsey County, duly commissioned and qualified and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit waters, and of right ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice and where and that his said signatures attached to the same are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge the 30th day of 
December AD 1843 - 
 Attest. Theodore W. Peacock Clerk
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9413 5794
act 1838 -

Sarah Wallar
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.

State of Ohio

On this Fifteenth day of August A.D. 1843 Guernsey County personally appeared before me William Richey one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Guernsey Sarah Waller, a resident of the Township of Kirtland in said County of Guernsey aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Waller who was a Private in the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution. That the said William Waller received a pension during his life time from the United States for said services under the Act of 1832. that he resided at the time of obtaining said pension and at the time of his death in said County of Guernsey, and the annual amount of the pension which the received under the act of July 7. 1838. was Eighty Dollars, as she believes, she further declares that she is still a widow
 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid above written before me

Sarah Waller ner mark

 William Richer Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Guernsey County

Thomas W Peacock Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for said County of Guernsey that William Richey Esquire before whom the forgoing declaration was sworn to and witnessed and was on the fifteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty-three, and thy justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and to all of who official acts, as such, full faith and credit are and of right ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere, and that his said signature as a check to the source is genuine

 in testimony whereof I have
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hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the Courthouse in Cambridge this 18th day of August A.D. 1843- Attest, Thomas M. Peacock Clerk
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Charlottesville Hancock County Indiana

Sir I have had the pleasure of receiving your answer of July 19th 1841 in regard to Mrs Sarah Waller widdow of William Waller Deceased which times sets forth the requirements of the law showing under act of 4th July 1836 that she was married to the above named William Waller before the termination of his service since the Receipt of your answer I have ascertained from the Evidence that I expect to offer that they will testify that during the service of William Waller the above named that they was personally acquainted with him as well as the present claimant pertaining to there marriage that they then resided in Virginia that they was present when they started said they was going to get married also present when they returned and stated they was married that the said officials have him acquainted with the above applicant for about fifty years and know that her and the said William Waller lived and cohabitated together as man and wife until the death of the said William Waller which they believe took place in 1830 or 31 we will also prove that the family record as to birth +c was consumed by fire about the time of William Wallars death or about time frame if the above testimony will answer with the credibility well authenticated please answer this immediately
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and sir your next to Sharlottsville Hancock county Indiana as 
Mr Wallar whom I imployed is at this time absent on professional business direct your letter to yours +c 
To J L Edward 
Commis of Pensions
Elisha Waller
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Greenfield Indiana
May 1831
Sir
I have with answers [illegible] endeavored on this application of Mrs Sarah Wallar If I mistake not her or [illegible] finding that the Record  of Family Births was Burnt When this case is examined please write If the case is not supported sufficiently let me know where the case is [illegible] off please write this copy of the will of Wm Wallar Which is [illegible] sent on as Circumstantial Evidence to satisfy you of this [illegible] of the marriage [illegible] between them
Elisha Wallar 
J L Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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[illegible]
J M Bell is a Member of Congress elect. S Kelly is a pensioner 
Therefore his character is already certified to.
F S Evans
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The State of Ohio Guernsey County
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said County, do certify that at a Court of Common pleas continued and held at and in the Court house in the town of Cambridge
within and for the County of Guernsey in the fifth Judicial circuit of the State of Ohio on the twenty-ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty -
three, Before the Honerable Turner G. Brown Williams Skinner and William Thompson Associate Judges of said Court, the following proceedings were amongst others, have to wit
"On motion of Mrs Sarah Waller widow of William Waller, late of Westland township, in the County of Guernsey, in the State of Ohio, deceased, It is ordered to be certified that it has been made to appear to this Court, by sufficient
 and satisfactory testimony, that the said William Waller departed this life on the 21st day of September A.D. 1832- That the said Mrs Sarah Waller is the widow of the said Wm Waller
deceased;- That the said Wm Waller resided, at the time of his death, in the said Westland township, where he had resided for about nineteen years, previous to his death. And it is further ordered to be certified, as the opinion of this court, that the said Wm Waller, was a soldier of the Revolution, in the service of the
United States - that such was the general belief in the neighborhood where he resided; and that the said William Waller was a man of credibility, whose statements were (quotted)? to credit"
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge this twenty ninth day of
March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three

Moses Sarchet Clerk
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The State of Indiana
Hancock County
Be It Known that on this 24th day May 1851 Personally appeared before the undersigned - a Justice of the peace within & for said County William Leming who being duly sworn says upon his Oath that he has been & now is well acquainted with Sarah Wallar who makes application for a pension as the widow of William Wallar Deceased Says that he has been personally acquainted with Sarah Wallar the said applicant for about 35 years - That she was well acquainted with William Wallar her husband that he knows - that said Wallar was a pensioner who drew the same for his services in the War of Revolution & says upon his oath that they the said Wm. & Sarah were Reputed as man & wife - that the above append Copy of the will of William Waller - was the Husband of Said Sarah - That Said Sarah who is named in said will is the same person who makes application for a pension that he is also well acquainted with the family of said William & Sarah & that there youngest child is about 36 years of age - Sworn & Subscribed to by me
William Samson

The State of Ind. and Before me the under
Hancock County signed a Justice of the peace of the county aforesaid personally appeared before me William Leming Sworn &  Subscribes to the same & that he maintains a Character for strict Truth & veracity
Edward Barrett
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana
Hancock County ss I John Hager Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court do hereby Certify that Edward Barrett Esquire before whom he foregoing Certificate was made and taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace duly elected Commissioned and qualified and that full faith and Credit is due and should be given to all his Official acts as such and Moreover that I believe his Signature thereunto to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 3rd day of July AD 1841
John Hager
teste.
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Greenfield In
May 14th 1840
Dear Sir
Here with you finish enclosed the application of Mrs Wallar you will please inform me of the [illegible] of your Department on it
Please write to
Me or Mrs Sarah Wallar to my case 
Thomas D Walpole
J L Edwards
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J. L . Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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Cambridge, O. Apl. 12 1833-
Sir-
I herewith return the declaration of Wm. Wallar an applicant for a pension under the law of June 1832. Mr. Wallar having died since his declaration was made, his widow is now the applicant, and I herewith enclose for her, the necessary document to establish her claim to the pension, - I also enclose some additional testimony on the subject of Mr. Wallar's pension. He had died previous to the return of the papers to me, so that it is now probably impossible for his widow to procure petition testimony that he acted as a Colonel. The affidavit of Mr. Kelly, also an old soldier, will however, it is hoped be satisfactory.-
The widow requests me to say that she will be grateful for an early decision. She is left in rather straitened circumstances, and if she is entitled to the pension, would be exceedingly glad to get it as soon as possible.-
Very Respectfully,
Yours, &c
James M. Bell
J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City-
N.B. - The document on the behalf of Mrs. Wallar is prepared according to the direction of your letter to Mr. Kennon, of 18th Decr. 1832, sent by him to me-
J.M.B.
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The State of Ohio Before me, Nicholas Bailhache,
Guernsey County ss. a Justice of the peace within & for the said County of Guernsey, personally came John Kelly, a resident of Muskingum County, in the said State of Ohio, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States - that he was attached to & served in the Eleventh Regiment of the Virginia Line - that he served the term of three years - that he does not now distinctly recollect the date of his entry into the army, but thinks it was in February 1777.- This deponent further says that he was well acquainted with William Waller, late of Westlend Township in the said County of Guernsey; now deceased - That he first became acquainted with the said Wm. Waller in the Army of the Revolution, who was a solider in the said 11th Regiment, when this deponent entered it - this deponent became well acquainted with him, and knows that he served in the said Regiment, for about the term of two years after this deponent entered the Regiment, and this deponent believes that he was regularly discharged. - This deponent and the said Waller belonged to different companies, and this deponent does not recollect whether he served as a Corporal or not - but from his Knowledge of the said Waller, this deponent has no doubt that he did act as corporal, if he has so stated - This deponent lived near the said Waller, in Virginia, for many years after the Revolutionary War, and for the last fifteen years within eight or nine miles from him, in Ohio - The said Waller always had the reputation of being a man of strict truth and veracity, and this deponent would not hesitate to believe any statement made by the said Waller, whether under oath or not. This deponent always understood in the army, that the said Waller served the full term of three years.-
John Kelly x his mark
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Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of April, A. D. 1833 - Before me
Nicholas Bailhache, seal
Justice of the peace

Also at the same time & place personally came James M. Bell, who being sworn says, that he was acquainted with the above named Wm. Waller for twelve or fourteen years previous to his death - that he always understood the said Waller was a soldier of the Revolution, and such was the general belief in the neighborhood 
- This deponent further says that the said Wm. Waller was a man of good standing & character, and believed by all whom knew him to be a man of truth & veracity.-
J. M. Bell
Sworn to & subscribed this 12th day of April 1833, before me
Nicholas Bailhache, seal
Justice of the peace

State of Ohio. Guernsey County ss.
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said county of Guernsey, do certify that the above signed Nicholas Bailhache Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Guernsey, duly elected Commissioned and sworn, and duly empowered to administer oaths to whose official acts full faith and credit are due and I do further certify that the above signatures of the said Justice are genuine-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge this twelfth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty-three-
Moses Sarchet Clk
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AUTO SPRINGS MADE OR REPAIRED GENERAL REPAIR WORK
DEPT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED FEB261914 TO BUR. PENSIONS
L. B. YOUNG
Horse-Shoeing and Blacksmithing 
Guthrie Center, Iowa, [illegible] 23. 1914
Department of the Interior
Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir: - I will greatly appreciate any information you will give me concerning a Revolutionary ancestor William Wallar whom I believe enlisted from what is now West Virginia.
I wish to know the date and place of his birth and marriage, his wifes maiden name and the place from which he enlisted.
It may assist you to know that his son William Waller also married Sarah Matheny, but I do not know their dates.
Thanking you most kindly I am
yours respt.
Lela Young 
PENSION OFFICE U.S. FEB 26 1914
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Rev. reply to your request   , received only one for a statement of the military history of William Waller, or Wallar a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.
July 29, 1776 discharged July 30, 1779 miss. Stony Pt. fort Oct. 1781
3 yrs 
few days
1st Capt.
William Brady 
Long
McCormick
Hugh Stephenson
Moses Rawlings
 Daniel Morgan
Wm Morgan 
Maryland + Virginia Rifleman 11th Va Va
Battles engage in, Germantown + Monmouth.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Berkley Co Va [illegible] Shepperds + Harpers Ferry 
Date of application for pension, Aug. 2, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Westland Twp. Guernsey Co Ohio.
Age at date of application, 80 yrs. 5 Nov, next.
Remarks: He mar. while on through Berkeley Co., Va. Mch. 9, 1779, Sarah;
he died Sept. 21 1832,
+ she was allowed pension on her appl. executed Jany. 17. 1840, while 81 yrs. of age + a resident of Guernsey Co., Ohio - 
Respectfully,
Commissioner.