Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25897, John Wallace, N.C.

SERVICE
N. 6.
Wallace, John Frances
NUMBER _____
1/ 25-897
B. L. Mt. 18.209-160-55,
CONTENTS

20,266
Indiana
John Wallace
of Owen Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Stewart of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Patton in the N. Carolina line, for the term of from 1777 to 1780
Inscribed on the roll of Indiana at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th day of November 1830
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of November 1830 . — and sent to, Thomas . F. G. Adams, Spencer, Owen Co. Ind.
Arrears to 4th of March 1831 $ 30. 33 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 30. 33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Book D Vol: 9. fol: 199
in letters to T. Poyey Apr. 11. 1832 & T. F. G. Adams. do. to same person Apr. 19. 1832
Set. to Hon. J. W. Davis — Feb. 2 / 5 1845.

3.540 Indiana Evansville
Let. to G. M. Hardin July 17 1856
Frances Wallace, widow of John Wallace ne who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of January 1854. and sent to
Geo. M. Hardin Bloomington Ind.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 191 Vol. A
Date of death not on ob.
[Handwritten signature]
(18+20)

132,328 { Act March 30 May 14
Frances Wallace, Widow, of John Wallace, Dist.
Capt. H. C. M. Lane, Cal
Assassination Act of June 1853 Ind Agency
Revolutionary War
Ad: 160 Ac, Mich. 11/56
Inda Feb 5 1858
Geo. M. Harding, Bloomington Ind
Vol. W-11. 5

State of Indiana } On an Circuit Court October Term in the Owen County set } year One Thousand Eight hundred & thirty
On the twenty first day of October One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty, personally appeared in Open Court (being a court of Record, expressly made a Court of Record by the laws and Constitution of the State of Indiana, which proceed for according to the course of Common Law, with a Jurisdiction extended on point of amount keeping a Record of their proceedings and having and possessing and using a seal, also having power to punish the perpetrator or perpetrators of Murder by hanging.) John Wallace, Resident in said County, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st May 1820. That he the said John Wallace, enlisted for the term of three years in the Spring of the year 1777 (the precise day or month not recollected) in the State of North Carolina in the County of Dupland in the company of Infantry commanded by Captain Joseph Rhodes. Who marched this deponent to Valley Forge where he was placed in Captain Charles Stewards company of Infantry in the Eight North Carolina Regiment That shortly after the said Regiment was reduced to the Third and then afterwards to the 2nd. North Carolina Regiment, where this deponent served the remainder of my time (except about 11 months I was prisoner to the British as will be more fully hereafter mentioned) in the company
July 22 nd Oct. 6 1820 J. R. H. Indiana 612

of Infantry, Commanded by Captain Partabone , (his Christian Name not recollected) The Regiment to which his Company was then belonging, was Commanded by Colonel Patten in the line of the State of North Carolina on the Continental establishment, and that he continued in the said Company and Regiment until taken prisoner, when he and 60, 70 or 80 others were taken by the British (at Blanks Point, Kings Ferry on the North or Hudson River,) who were Commanded this deponent believes by General Clinton, and that at the time we were taken Captain Armstrong Commanded us, That before I was taken prisoner and after I served at Valley Forge that I served at Pram- us's Church in New Jersey and stood guard one winter at Hakkiak , That Clinton Marched us to New York after we were taken prisoners and kept this deponent and the rest of us about Eleven months when we were exchanged and placed under the Command of General De Kobb in the Jerseys, General Gates being the Commander in Chief there, and that after the expiration of this deponent's term of Enlistment he was discharged from the service by Colonel Armstrong at his house in North Carolina which discharge is long since lost, as this deponent was not particular in taking care of it, Not knowing he would want the same that he hereby relinquished every Claim whatever to a pension except the present; That his name is not on the Roll of any State except North Carolina and that the following are his reasons for not applying sooner for a pension, He is, considering his age, a hale old man and heretofore could make a living by h ustry and

Strict economy. That he did not wish to become a pensioner, but is now forced through old age of him and wife to apply to his country for the provisions made by law for Revolutionary Pensioners, that this present application he considers as a continuation of his application of last spring for a pension which was returned to him as not setting out fully the changes in his property since the 18th March 1818. and the circumstances of his being taken prisoner &c.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States of America all my live time, being born in the United States, never out of them, and never owing allegiance to any Government but the said United States, that I was a Resident Citizen of the said United States on the 18th March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or transfer, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person interest for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by and by me subscribed to. Wit- Two Feather Beds, six Peter plates, Two Cows, one horse, six Shot and one bow, (and some old knives forks &c.

not worth Ten Dollars. And the whole of My property is not Now worth Sixty Dollars and That I have not any real Estate or any other property, Nor had any person or persons Interest for Me any property Real personal or mixed Other than as above described.
his John Wallace mark
I do also solemnly Swear That Since the 18 th day of March 1818 the following Changes have been made in my property
   Description of Property Name of the person To whom disposed of - sold to Time of Sale better than a year ago amount of money or description of property Received in return     80 acres of Poor Land in Warrick County Kentucky John Blake one horse worth about Eighty dollars  
And That since the 18 th day of March 1818 No other Changes have taken place or been made in My property or circum- stances, That I have always been Since the sale of said land in about the same circumstances as at present, Not being Twenty dollars Wealthier or poorer, That the said horse for which I sold said land I traded off for the support of My family
his John Wallace mark
And Now in Open Court learned Boston Potter of lawful age and On his Oath says That the said John Wallace is a poor Man Not worth More than fifty or sixty dollars, That he is a Neighbor of his; and That he heard the said Wallace Make the aforesaid declaration as to the Value of his prop- erty and believes the same to be true, and at the same Time came Now in Open Court Isaac Steaton and on

his Oath says that he heard the said John Wallace State in Open Court at the last term of this Court the Circumstances as to the said Wallace being taken prisoner as he now sets forth as he the said Deaton Verily believes and also, the Honorable John Dunn One of the Judges of this Court recollects that the said Wallace mentioned at last term of this Court, the Circumstances of his being taken prisoner as aforesaid as some such similar statement, the said Wallace being then sworn before the Court on an application similar to the present
I John R. Freeland Clerk of the Owen County Circuit Court, Do Certify that it appears to Satisfaction of said Court aforesaid, that the said John Wallace did serve in the in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term at least of nine months under our engagement on the Continental Establishment, I Also Certify that the forgoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court, and I do further Certify that it is the Opinion of said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth sixty Dollars. — In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set My hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on the 23 rd Day of April 1830 —
J. R. Freeland Clerk

Revolutionary
Claim to bounty land under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1855
State of Indiana § 55
Green County §
On This 4 th day of May A.D. One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Frances Wallace aged seventy four years; a resident of Green County in the State of Indiana who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Wallace deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain _____ in the Regiment of _____ commanded by Colonel _____ in the war of the Revolution declared by the United States of America against Great-Britain. That her said husband enlisted or engaged at _____ in the County of _____ and State of _____ on or about the _____ day of _____ A.D. _____ for the term of _____ and continued in actual service in said war for the term of _____ and was honorably discharged at _____ on the _____ day of _____ A.D. _____. She further states that she was married to the said John Wallace in the County of _____ and State of Tennessee on the 18 th day of January A.D. 1813 by one Erg King a Justice of the peace and that her name before her said marriage was Frances Meadows; That her said husband died at home in _____ on the 24 th day of August A.D. 1834 and within the County of Owen and State of Indiana and that she is now a widow and has remained the widow of the identical John Wallace deceased above mentioned ever since his decease at the period above stated. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received under this or any other

act of Congress any bounty-land warrant except the one above mentioned. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty-land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3. 1855." That she gives reference to the declaration & testimony filed in the war and pension offices of the United States of America upon which they were both placed on the pension list roll of the Indiana agency for proof more correctly set forth proving the services of the said deceased husband John Wallace & claimant's marriage with him. That she is now a pensioner of the United States on the Indiana agency at Evansville under the act of Congress approved February 3. 1853 and she believes that John Wallace aforesaid was placed on the pension list roll under the act of Congress approved June 7. 1832. or at a more early period. She declares that she has no family record of her marriage with the said John Wallace & that she does not know of any record proof of their said marriage at any place whatever.
her Frances Wallace mark
We William B. Baker and Samuel Hamilton, Reserve President of Green County in the State of Indiana upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Frances Wallace in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be: and that she is a widow at this time and is the widow of John Wallace above mentioned. That the said John Wallace & Frances Wallace lived together in the character of husband and wife and was regarded & esteemed as such by their neighbors and acquaintances generally without any doubts of their legal marriage.

and they had children Their off-spring recognized as their lawful descendants and that we are dis-interested in making this affida- -vit —
William H. Baker Hamilton Burge
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
Thomas Mason Justice of the Peace.
State of Indiana
Green County ss. I Samuel R. Cavins Clerk of the Circuit Court within & for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Mason Esq. whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate of declaration and affidavit having been sworn to and subscribed before him was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said Green County & State of Indiana duly commissioned and qualified according to law & by law authorized to administer oaths and is entitled to full faith & credit as such Justice of the Peace In witness whereof I set my hand and the seal of the said Court hereunto this 7 th day of May A.D. 1855
Samuel R. Cavins Clerk By E. H. Cavins Dept.

Bloomington Indiana
May 9. 1855
S. P. Waldo Esqr. Comr. of Pensions
Sir Please find in this paper The claim of Mrs. Francis Wallace as set forth for the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1855 - address me if necessary on the occasion - I am very respectfully
Yours etc. sent
George W. Hardin
13223

State of Indiana } ss On This Ninth day of Green County — } ss
August Eighteen hundred and fifty-Three personally appeared before the Subscriber a County Commissioner of The Commissioners Council in & for The said County of Green & State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to law and authorized by law to administer oaths. Lewis A. Meadows and Eli Wallace of Stockton Township in The County of Green & State of Indiana lawful witnesses who first being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration —
That They are The children of Mrs. Frances Wallace who is The widow of John Wallace deceased who died in Owen County State of Indiana on or about The 24 th day of August in or about The year of 1834. That declarant Lewis A. Meadows well recollects The death of The said John Wallace who was his step-father by intermarrying with his mother Mrs. Frances Meadows. That declarant Eli Wallace recollects The death of his father The said John Wallace which took place as he has been taught & remembers on The day & year above stated or thereabout and in Owen County Indiana. Declarant well recollects The said John Wallace was a pensioner of The United States at The period of his death That he was on The pension list roll of The Indiana Agency at The rate of Ninety-Six dollars per year as a revolutionary Soldier which pension was granted him when he resided in Owen County Indiana. That since The death of The said John Wallace declarant Eli has lived with his mother The said Frances Wallace and she with him both

before and since the marriage of declarant Eli Wallace who started to remove from Owen County Indiana in November 1852 to the state of Missouri having his mother the said Frances Wallace in company with his family but was con- strained on account of the bad roads & disability of his said mother to travel to abandon his remove & has remained ever since in Stockton Township in said Green County where his mother still remains a member of his family. That declarant Lewis A. Meadows removed from Owen County Indiana where he had resided since ever since the year eighteen hundred and thirty to Stockton Township Green County Indiana in April last. Declarant from the foregoing & other reasons knows the said Frances Wallace to be the widow of John Wallace deceased the identical person named above & in her declarant this date made in order to claim the provisions of the act of Congress of 3 rd February 1853 granting pensions to certain widows there in stated as declarant has understood in preparing this & the said Frances, declaration.
witness
James Goodman
Josiah Goodman
Lewis A Meadows
Eli his Wallace mark

The foregoing declaration was subscribed & sworn to the day and year first above mentioned Before me and in presence of the James Goodman and Josiah Goodman the subscribing witnesses who doth severally state that They are now residents of Stockton Township in Green County Indiana and have been residents thereof for the space of Twenty one years past & that They each & severally have personally known Eli Wallace since November last & Lewis A. Meadows since April last and that They are entitled to credit. That the affiants Mrs. Frances Wallace and Eli Wallace and Lewis A. Meadows are all and each of them and said witnesses James & Josiah Goodman entire strangers to me But I believe said witnesses are residents as above stated and that said affiants are the persons stated to be in their affidavits and are entitled to credit.
Alfred L. Frutch

State of Indiana Green County ss
I Samuel P. Leavins
Clerk
of the Circuit Court in and for the said County of Green do hereby Certify That The Hon. Alfred S. Rutch was a Commissioner of the Commissioners Court in & for Green County & state of said duly Commissioner and qualified according to law & authorized by law to administer oaths at the date of the foregoing certificate of affidavit made before him as thereunto appears and I believe the said Signature purporting to be his is genuine and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record by virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of the said Court This 15th day of August A. D. 1853.
Samuel P. Leavins Clerk

State of Indiana § 88.
Owen County §
Be it known That on the 30 th day of August 1853 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths Joseph G. Stevenson and Benjamin H. Stevenson residents of Clay Township in said County of Owen who after being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration That declarants have resided at their present place of residence and within one mile of it for and during the last thirty years.
That they well recollect John Wallace & his family who settled within the distance of one mile of declarants in the fall season of the year 1829 and that the said John Wallace & his family continued to reside within the distance of one mile of declarants until the death of said John Wallace which took place on or about the twenty-fourth day of August One Thousand eight hundred and thirty four. That the said John Wallace died as above stated leaving his wife Frances a widow & five children viz Isaac, Elias, Angus, Robt, John and Eli Wallace his survivors.
That during the life time of said Wallace & his residence above stated he and his wife Frances were esteemed by the public generally as having been lawfully married and as such companions were accredited & esteemed by their neighbours & acquaintances. That the said declarants well recollect the death of said John Wallace whom they both visited during his last sickness and that the coffin in which he was buried was made at declarants residence by declarant Benjamin H. Stevenson and others & furnished without price or cost at all. Declarants are further impressed with the recollection of the day on which the said John Wallace died on account of the birth of

a daughter of declarant Joseph G. Stevenson which is noted on his family record to have been born the 22 d day of August A.D. 1834.
Declarant doth further recollect that the aforesaid John Wallace was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the period of his death and that his pension was procured after he settled with his family as before stated & that his name was on the pension list roll of the Indiana Agency and his attorney or agent who procured for said Wallace his pension was Thomas H. G. Adams who resided in Spencer Owen County Indiana - The words "And within one mile of it" interlined in the eighth line first page before signed - Declarant gives reference to their affidavit relative to the foregoing John Wallace and his widow & so forth as before stated & sworn to in or about the month of February last -
J. G. Stevenson
B. F. Stevenson
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first above written Before me - I further certify that said witnesses are residents of the said Township & County above mentioned and that each of them are personally known by me to be of good moral character and credible affiants - I further certify that to my knowledge the aforesaid affiant Joseph G. Stevenson was associate Judge of the Owen County Circuit Court for the six or seven years last preceding the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one -
John J. Crisp (seal)
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana. Owen County SS. I, Isaac C. Johnson, clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, hereby certify that John P. Crisp, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made, whose genuine signature is thereto attached, is sworn at the time of taking the same an acting justice of the peace, in and for said county, duly elected commissioned and qualified to act as such, that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such justice.
Witness, my hand, the seal of said court, at Spencer, this 30 th day of August, A.D. 1853.
Isaac C. Johnson, Clerk.

Bloomington Indiana
September 21. 1853
L. P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of pensions
Sir with This I send anore Testimony in Mrs. Frances Wallace, claim to a pension - I have no expectation of procuring (Rev. & 2d) record proof of her marriage to John Wallace which I have diligently sought. Nor do I expect from any other source more strong or credible proof of her marriage and identity than I now send in addition to that already filed & submit the case for your decision again -
I am very respectfully Your obedt. servt George W. Hardin

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2 d section of the act of 3 d February 1853.
State of Indiana } Green County } S.S. On this ninth day of August One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before the subscriber a County Commissioner of the Commissioners Court in & for the said County of Green & State aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified according to law & by law authorized to administer oaths. Mrs. Frances Wallace a resident of Stackton Township in said County of Green & State aforesaid aged Sixty nine years past who first being 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 3 d February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: That she is the widow of John Wallace who was a private soldier during the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States on the Indiana Agency at the period of his death at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum. That she does not recollect the names of any officers under whom he served nor of any particulars as to when he entered the service or when he left it or the length of time he rendered service even if she ever knew. Declarant drew the arrears of pension due the said John Wallace deceased at time of his death and that she resided in Owen County Indiana when & where her formal claim was made & certified upon which she received about forty three

doctors. That the said John Wallace died in Owen County in The State of Indiana on the Twenty-fourth day of August in The year Eighteen hundred and Thirty-four. She further de- -clares that she was married to the said John Wallace on the day of January in the year of _____ in the County of _____ in the State of Tennessee by Esquire King. That she was Frances Brooks before her first mar- -riage to Sam Meadows which took place in Surson County North-Carolina & was solemnized by Elizah Lowry a Gentile of the Peace in January in the year of _____ That she & the said John Wallace both resided in the County of Knox in the State of Kentucky and went into said County of _____ in Tennessee in order to be married & was there intermarried by a person called Esquire King. That her said husband died on the 24 th of August she thinks in the year 1834. That she was not mar- -ried to him prior to the second of January Eighteen hun- -dred but at the time above stated. She has no family record of her marriages or either time of her marriage before stated nor of the births or death of any of her family. That she never has drawn a pension under any act of Congress & once applied for the benefit of the provision of the act of February 3 rd 1853. Which claim was dis allowed or suspended as she doth verily believe. That she refers to the papers above mentioned now sup- -posed filed in the departments of the United States in Washington City especially the papers on which the said John Wallace was pensioned & her testimony in proof of her right to the provisions of the act of February 3 rd 1853. That she has five children by the said John Wallace

whose names are Isaac Wallace & John Wallace of Newton County State of Missouri Angus Ross Wallace of Ripley County Missouri Eli Wallace of Hopkins County State of Texas and Eli Wallace of Green County State of Indiana That the said Eli is the younger of the above named children of declarant & John Wallace deceased above mentioned & is aged twenty-eight years of age. That the said John Wallace had his papers & claim to a pension prepared & completed in Owen County State of Indiana & was granted a pension & placed on the Indiana pension list roll as before stated. her witness James Goodman Gosiah Goodman Frances Wallace mark
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above mentioned Before me. And I certify that I have no interest in the result of the case and am not concerned in its prosecution.
I further certify that I believe the aforesaid affiant is of the age above stated to be & that from her apparent advanced age and debility she would be unable to appear in a court of record of the county of Green in which she resides in order to make this declaration or her claim to the provisions of said act of 3 rd February 1853 Bloomfield the county seat of said Green County being distant eighteen miles from the said affiant's place of residence with her son Eli Wallace who and his mother Mrs. Frances Wallace are in very indigent circumstances if not poor.
Alfred L. Tuttle

State of Indiana Green County ss. J. Samuel R. Leavins Clerk of The Circuit Court in and for The said County of Green do hereby certify That Alfred E. Butch was a commis- -sioner of The Commissioners Court in and for Green County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified according to law & authorized by law to administer oaths at the date of The foregoing certificate of affidavit purporting to have been made before him and I believe The signature to The said certificate of affidavit is his genuine signature & That The aforesaid court is a court of record by virtue of The laws of The state of Indiana. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of said court. This 15 day of August A. D. 1853.
J. Samuel R. Leavins Clerk

State of Indiana } Morgan County } 55
On This 29 th day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty-Three Before The subscriber a Justice of The Peace in and for said County personally appeared David Jones of Washington Township in Morgan County State of Indiana aged forty five years who after being first duly sworn according to law doth an oath make The following declaration - That he well recollects John Wallace deceased who it was reputed & believed was a soldier of The war of The Revolution; and he also well recollects in The said John Wallace, wife Mrs. Frances Wallace The identical woman who was reputed & believed To be The lawful wife of The said John Wallace deceased. That declarant well recollects of going with his father To The house & residence of said John Wallace when The said Wallace & his declarant's father resided in The state of Kentucky in The county of Wayne at which time declarant's father bought some cattle of The said John Wallace - That declarant became acquainted with The said John Wallace & his wife Frances about twenty five years ago & with The family about The same time I have recollects & had a knowledge of them both; in The state of Kentucky & state of Indiana ever since he was about fourteen years old & know The said Frances Wallace to be the reputed mother of Mordecai Meadows now of Morgan County Indiana & of his brothers & sisters descendants & children of The said Frances Wallace her first husband - That The said John Wallace & Frances Meadows now Frances Wallace were believed by their acquaintance, & neighbors in The state of Kentucky & he believes where ever they were known To have been lawfully married & that they were esteemed & treated as husband & wife by all who knew them in the be-

-lief of declarant & Justly so as he never knew or heard anything contrary or doubtful in regard to the lawful marriage of the identical John Wallace & Frances Meadows - Declarant has good reasons to believe from persons of credit that said John Wallace died in Owen County Indiana and was a citizen of the United States at the period of his death - That the said John Wallace & Frances lived together as husband & wife & cohabitation for the space of about Seven years in the State of Kentucky & to declarant, knowledge had a family of children their descendants declarant is disinterested in making this declaration which he is informed is to be used as testimony in a claim to a pension of the United States by the said Frances Wallace in right of her being the widow of John Wallace deceased & of his Revolutionary Services. Darid Jones
Subscribed & sworn to before me, & I hereby certify that said affiant is personally known to me, entitled to credit, dated this December 29 th 1833. Abraham A. Barrickman (sine) Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Morgan County ss
On This 30 th day of December 1853 personally appeared before The subscriber a Justice of The Peace in and for The aforesaid County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and by law authorized to administer oaths Mordecai Meadows of Washington Township in Morgan County State of Indiana aged fifty _____ years who after being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make The following declaration - That Mrs Frances Wallace of Green County State of Indiana is his Mother and that his father was Isam Meadows.
That declarants aforesaid father died in Giles County State of Tennessee in the year of 1811. and That in or about The year 1814 his said Mother Frances Meadows intermarried with John Wallace of Knox County State of Kentucky who was reputed to have been a soldier in The war of The revolution and who was a pensioner of The United States at the time of his death which death occurred in Owen County Indiana in or about The year of 18 38. and in The month of August. - That declarants Mother the identical Frances Meadows now Frances Wallace aforesaid resided in The County of Knox, State of Kentucky at The time of her marriage with The said John Wallace who was a resident of The County of Knox in The State of Kentucky and That They were married in Knox County in The State of Kentucky near or adjoining The residences of John Wallace & Frances Meadows of The State before stated in or about The year 1814. - That The said John Wallace and Frances Meadows were lawfully married is The truth and a fact believed by declarant and that They lived together as husband

and wife and as such companions and in that character were esteemed and believed to be by their acquaintances & neigh- -bors, wherever they resided & by all who knew them - That the cohabitation of said John Wallace & Frances Wallace continued for the space of about twenty three years viz. from the time of their mar- -riage as above stated until the death of said John Wallace at the time & place before stated - That the said John Wallace & his wife Frances had several children born of them during the life time of said John Wallace and that Eli Wallace of Green County Indiana and Isaac Wallace of the State of Missouri, English B. Wallace of the State of Missouri John Wallace of the State of Missouri and Elias Wallace since deceased, And that four of said number of their children are now living or at least are believed by declarant to be living at this time - Declarant is disinterested in making this declaration which he is informed is to be used as testimony in a claim to a pension of the United States by Frances Wallace the identical mother & widow before mentioned -
Mark Mordcai his Meadows
Subscribed & sworn to before me this December 30 th 1853. And I hereby certify that said affiant is personally known to me, and entitled to credit, the day & date above written.
Abraham A. Barnhart (Seal) Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana } Morgan County, Set } I, Oliver H. Roughton, Clerk of the Morgan Circuit Court, do hereby certify that Abram N. Barrackman Esquire, whose name appears to the two cer- tificates foregoing, was at the time of signing said certificates, an acting justice of the Peace within and for said County of Morgan duly elected, commissioned and qualified according to law, and that the signatures to said certificates, pur- porting to be his, are genuine.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court at Mar- tinsville this 30th. day of De- cember 1833.
O. H. Roughton Clerk

Martinsville Dec 30. 1853.
Geo W. Stanton Esq.
I have at last succeed- ed in having the Affidavits sent to me perfected, I did not write new ones as the ones sent by you contained the facts as they recollected them.
I was forced to have a subp issued and served in order to bring them in and therefore some fees were made, Clerks fees. 50. J.P. 50. Const. 57. & one wit- 50. Making in all $2.07. which you forward, as this will be all of the fees As I make no charge.
Yours Truly
W. G. Quick

Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 d day of February 1853 State of Indiana Green County - } ss. On this first day of April eighteen hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of The Peace in and for said County of Green duly Commissioned and qualified ac- -cording to law and authorized by law to administer Oath, Francis Wallace a resident of The County of Green & State of Indiana aged Sixty Nine years past who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed The Third day of February One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty-three - That she is The widow of John Wallace who was a revolutionary pensioner of The United States and was enrolled on The Pension list roll of The Indiana Agency at the period of his death - Declarant believes The said John Wallace as pension was at the rate of Ninety-Six dollars per year - She further declares that she was married to the said John Wallace on The — day of January in the year of — That her husband the aforesaid John Wallace died on The 24 th day August (1834) about eighteen years past since last August 1852 That she was married to him in the month of January but she has forgotten and have no recollection at this time of the day of month and The year when she & the said John Wallace were married - She further Swears that she was a widow at the passage of the act of February The 3 d 1853 and that she is still The widow of the identical John Wallace above mentioned - and that she never has received a pension but that she made an application for a pension some years since which applica- -tion was dis-allowed by The Commissioner of Pensions and the paper her declaration and testimony filed in the Pension office

of the United States, withdrawn by George W. Bardin of Bloom- ington Monroe County Indiana or upon his directions and pre- -sented with a petition to Congress for the passage of a special act granting declarant a pension which petition she is informed was never granted her and to which declaration by her and the Testimony therewith she respectfully gives reference to prove her identity & right to the provisions of said act of 3 d Feb 1853—
That the said John Wallace died in Owen County State of Indiana on the day & month before stated and also the year—That she was Frances Meadows when she intermarried with the said John Wallace which marriage took place in the County of — State of Tennessee—
That she had five children by the said John Wallace viz Isaac Wallace now a resident of Missouri but in what County or Town declarant does not know or recollect, Angus Ross Wallace of Butler County Missouri John Wallace of Missouri the County of his residence not known or recollected by declarant, Elias Wallace now of the State of Texas County of his residence not recollected, Eli Hubbard Wallace of Green County State of Indiana—declarant had by her first husband five children viz Mordecai & Lewis Meadows now residents of Owen County Indiana, Mary Abb, Bhatt of Butler County Missouri Job Meadows supposed some place in the State of Arkansas & Rhoda Bapp who is now dead—That she has no family record of her marriages nor of the births of her children nor of the death of her husband—That she was Frances Sharp before intermar- -ied with Isaac Meadows her first husband & was married to him in the County of Anson North Carolina in the month of January but does not recollect the day of month or year of said first marriage with Isaac Meadows—of the truth of the foregoing she is fully satisfied and she doth further make oath that from advanced age and infirmity & lack of convenience to travel she could not go to court at Bloomfield the County Seat of this Green County in order to make a declaration in

open Court to claim the benefits of said act of February 3 d 1853 with out much trouble & risk of great fatigue & injury of health The said Bloomfield being eighteen or Twenty miles distant from declarants residence - That declarants children before mentioned are all over Twenty - one years of age; That Eli Hubbard Wallace be- -fore named is aged Twenty eight years part & is declarants youngest child -
Witness,
Henry Strong John Dye
her Frances X Wallace mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written. And I certify That I have no interest in the resuit of the case and am not concerned in its prosecution - and that the subscribing witnesses are residents of Green County Indiana & are personally known to me before whom the above declaration was subscribed & sworn to and in presence of said affiant.
Thomas Mason Justice of the peace

State of Indiana ss. Green County ss.
I hereby certify that Thomas H. Hume Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made and whose name is subscribed to the certificate thereof was at the date therein mentioned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Green duly Commissioned and qualified according to law and authorized by law to administer oaths and that the said signature subscribed to the aforesaid certificate of affidavit is in my opinion his genuine signature and entitled to credit as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk of the Circuit Court of the said County This 11 th day of April A. D. 1853
J. N. BARNES Clerk

Gilton Ind Nov. 11833
5-
George Hardin Esq Bloomington Ind

State of Ind. Green County Oct 27 th 1853 Mr Tharlin your letter let me know of matters concerning our business my maiden name marriage & cofowitt, i will try to explain my Mothers name was Sally Rhory and my fathers name was also they never was married and in giving you the base here before i never thought of the matter for i always went by my fathers name also I was born in South Carolina Mason County with in 12 or 13 miles of Wade's Borough the country left I also was married to Isom Meadows in the same county and state by Elizah Lauray a Just ice of the peace some time in the month of Jan. in or about the year 1799 or 1800. we also moved from Carolina to Knoxville Knox County on Cumberland River below Barbours ville we had five children and he died know concerning the marriage of me and John Wallace we lived in Knox County Ky. know to Shelby County, tho we were married in Tennessee state county i doe not remember the reason we went to Tennessee it was arrested nearer than it was to the county left in Knox where we lived we was married in Jan. in or about the year 1812. old John Meadows Isom Meadows and daughter Polly Meadows and Isah Meadows James Lasly all in the same neighborhood betwixt Cumberland river and Tillo creek from there i and Wallace moved to Wayne County Ky on the little south fork of Cumberland river and there live until we had five children

We lived in about seventeen or eighteen miles of Monticello the County Seat of Wayne. Some of the Joining Countys was Polasky oddare and * Russell i think some of our neighbours there was Eli Thubboard and Richard Bygres Aron Bygres in the southeast part of the County, and then we moved to Indiana Owen County you wish to know of the Children on and about Owen they have all left there Mordacai Meadows is living in Morgan County near Martins ville you make inquire about one Isom Meadows living in or about Bloomington and see if he recollects any thing about the marriage of me and John Wallace also make inquire about Mahley Meadows you will find him if he is alive living some where on Blew River near Salem Ia. see if he noes any thing about I and Wallas being married and living as husband and wife ————— Those people old John Meadows Isom Meadows and Isiah Meadows and Edy Meadows and James Lasley all went with us and saw us married respecting yours
Francis Wallace to Francis Wallace Esq
Geo. W. Hardin

V.B.
I forgot to say that I and John Wallau was marreid by one King a Esqyr
Francis + Wallau Ad not. marreid
State of Indiana County of Greene ss This is to certify that Francis Wallace came personally this day before me a justice of the peace in and for said County and being duly sworn, says the foregoing instrument of writing is true in substance and fact to the best of her knowledge and belief In Witness of which I set my hand and official seal at my office in Greene this October the 31 1853
Thomas Mason Justice of the peace
I do also certify that the said Francis Wallace is personally known to me and that she is of good repute and worthy of due credit in all her statements Tho Mason Ad
State of Indiana Green County ss. I, Samuel R. Caven Clerk of the Circuit Court in for said Green County do certify that Thomas Mason Esqyr is now & was at the date of his foregoing certificate of affidavit a Justice of The Peace in for said County duly commissioned & qualified accor- -ding to law & authorized by law to administer oaths & That his above signature is genuine and entitled to full credit as one of his official acts - In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court This 12 th day of November A. D. 1853.
J. R. Caverns Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWF/HBM
May 22, 1930.
Mrs. C. S. Baston 224 E. Gulton Street Warrensburg Missouri.
Dear Madam:
WV-25897 I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 25899 , it appears that John Wallace was born in the United States , no specific place stated, nor is the date of his birth given. was in this country
Capt. He enlisted in Duplin County, North Carolina, June 4, 1777 and served as a private in Captain Joseph Rhodes Company, Colonel Charles Stewart's North Carolina Regiment, and in Captain Tartanson's Company Colonel Patten's North Carolina Regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth. While at Fort Plank, Kings Ferry, on the North River, under Captain Armstrong, he was taken prisoner, carried to New York and held there eleven months when he was exchanged. He then joined the army at Washington's headquarters "in the Jerseys", was placed under General De Kalb and marched to Camden, was in the battle there and continued to serve until the close of the war. W. Reg. Williams
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 21, 1830, at which time he was living in Owen County, Indiana and was aged eighty years.
He died August 25, 1834 in Owen County, Indiana.
The soldier married in 1812, 1813 or 1814, in Tennessee, Mrs. Frances Meadows, the widow of Isam Meadows. He died about 1811.
She stated that she was born (date not given) in Anson  Anson County, North Carolina, and that her mother's name was Sally Rhory and her father's name was -- Alsop. at the time of her marriage
by J. W. ... She was allowed pension on account of the service of John

Wallace, on her application executed April 1, 1853, at which time she was living in Stockton Township, Green County, Indiana, aged about sixty-nine years.
The widow Frances also stated that she and John Wallace were both living in Knox County, Kentucky, when they were married, and that their five children were all born there.
The five children of John Wallace and his wife Frances:
Isaac residing in 1853 in Newton County, Missouri John " " " " " " " Elias H. " " " " Hopkins " Texas Angus Ross " " " " Butler, Ripley County, Missouri Eli Hubbard " " " " Stockton Township, Green County, Indiana.
Eli Hubbard Wallace, their youngest child, was twenty-eight years of age in 1853 - ages of others not given
The soldier by a former wife (her name is not given, nor are there any details as to their marriage) had the following children:
Ellin Mary Ann John George Washington.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25,897
Frances Wallace Widow of John Wallace Prior Rev War
Act: Feb. 3 rd 1853
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1930 - May 22 - Hith. Rev. Mrs. C. S. Boston 1937 - June 15 - " " Bessie Bradshaw (Agg)

✓ 18219
5 No Agns

No 1192
Frances Wallace widow of John Ind -
Let to Geo. W. Harding June 17/53. To same left 30/53
Act Wby 3/53.

No 11,661 by Frances W Wallace Monroe Co. Inda
act 7. July 38 m 12 ! d 34 rejected
Let to Hon. J. W. Davis, Feb. 21. 1848. Let to G. W. Warden 2 May 1851

March 153, Ant.
W. H. Dallinger

FREE
132328
L. P. Waldo Esqr Commissioner of pensions Washington D.C.

Marriage inferred from the parties having B.C. man & wife - by aff. of J. G. Stevenson and B. P. Stevenson - and ident. by same.
bind 25 th . August 1834 and Cuff correspond. with the prop.

Raleigh 20 th May 1830
James L. Edwards Esq r
Sir
I herewith send you a certificate in the case of John Wallis or Wallace, enclosed to me on the 15 th instant. It is imperfect, but I am not able to make it more perfect than it is, the name of the Captain under whom he served being blank on the rolls. Had Mr Wallis mentioned any thing of his having been a prisoner, I should have believed the one for whom the certificate is made to be the person claiming and now making application, but I think it extraordinary that he should have omitted such a circumstance in his declaration of it actually took place with him.
I am respectfully
your Ob t Serv t
W. Hill

Pension Office, June 14, 1853.
Sir,
Please state the date of the death of John Wallace a revolutionary pensioner, and (if the information be in your office) the place at which he died. He was a pensioner as private, under the act of March 18. 1818, at the $8 per month, and inscribed on the Indiana rolls - and pension made payable at the Madison Agency, probably, as he resided in Owen County in 1830.
Very respectfully Your Ob't. Servant J. P. Waldo Commissioner
Died 25 th August 1834, and Paid to his death. F. Burk Auditor.
George C. H. Francis Burk Esqr Third Auditor Treasury Department.
N. B. He died in Owen County Indiana, the date above. -

N o 11.662 as of 1838

House of Rep s July 19 th 45
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you the declaration of Frances Wallau of her for a pension
Have the goodness to give me your decision on the case at your earliest con- venience
Resp y your obt. Serv t J. W. Davis
J. L. Edwards Jr Clerk of Persons

John Wallace Indiana
Recd 24 May 1830.
Rev. T. G. Adams. Spencer. Indiana

State of North Carolina, Secretary of States Office I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that John Wallis a private in                      company of the 10 th Regiment enlisted on the 4 th day of June 1777 for the term of three years or the war, that he was a Prison- er on the 2 nd day of June 1779, and that no- thing more is said of him on said rolls.
Given under my hand this 20 th day of May 1830.
W. Hill

Spencer Ind Oct 26 th
Free
Parsons
Hon. The Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
Parson claim
per: to com: Nov. 11. 1850
Parson claim Nov 11 - 1850

Spencer Ind a Owen County Oct 24 th 1830
Sir
I enclose you again John Wallace's new application to be placed on the Pension Roll, Mr Wallace requests that all communications relative to his pension may be sent to me
Very respectfully Yours obed Serv t
Thos. M c Adams
Hon. Sec y of War.

Bloomington Indiana
January 2 d 1854.
S. P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir With This I send Mrs. Francis Wallace explanatory letter sworn to; Also The affidavits of M. Meadows & S. Jones being the result of my best efforts to comply with yours of the 30 th last September relative to her disallowed claim to pension under the Act of February 3 d 1853 - I have written to Knox & Wayne Counties in Kentucky & to other places named in the above mentioned letter as well as heretofore for information in order to procure proof to meet your expectations freely expressed in said letter of 30 th Sept. last; But cannot obtain any more beside the above mentioned - John Wallace has been dead so many years and in my opinion was during his life so unknown or unnoticed his family also that and his family are but little remembered and hard to identify - Her testimony in regard to the death of her two husbands and her last marriage and all together in her two several applications and filed at the sundry times and allowances if any made on account of her age and forgetfulness, & discrepancy of testimony as to the place of her marriage with her 2 d husband & his & her first husband's death must be considered & determined by you whether her identity is satisfactory - I would here refer to the remarks in your letter of 30 th Sept. as to the credibility of the witness then named was not "duly certified" & their testimony consequently inadmissible & was set forth as stated by Judge Rutch (as his conclusion & that of my own) on account of their evident indifference & lack of information generally but that no immoral or vicious conduct was at all on the part of said witness the cause of not being "duly certified" - The question

was caused such witnesses be partly or conscientiously 'duly certified'. The said certificate may not have been sufficiently liberal but was governed by conscious self-duty. ~ ~
I am very Respectfully Yours abt. Servt.
George W. Hardin

Bloomington Indiana
June 2 nd 1856
J. Minot Esqr Comr of Pensions
Sir I have stated that the object of writing this letter is for information for the benefit of Mrs Frances Wallace of Green County Indiana a revolutionary pensioner under the act of Congress approved Feb. 28 th 1853 (If I am not mistaken in the act of Congress) in relation to her stipend due March 4. 1856 & payable at the Evansville Ind. pension Agency which claim I forwarded her papers to D. Raleigh the late U.S. pension Agent there with directions in regard to the money early in March last & received his reply that he had resigned his agency & handed the papers & directions to the agent when appointed. Some time there after I again addressed him on the subject, but received no reply. After which I read in a public News-paper the abandonment of said office in Evansville & that the pensioners names were transferred to the Indianapolis Agency & I addressed Maj. Alex. H. Morrison the agent of the U.S. at that place relative to the papers & payment of Mrs Wallace. He replied in substance that it was a difficult matter to obtain the records, books, & money & so forth of the former agent of that office (D. Raleigh who was dead) that Judge Packwood had the business to attend to — Mrs Wallace is in indigent circumstances & lives with a son who is also poor. I am frequently applied to for the money & information to know when it can be received by her. I know the money never have been paid to her.

and I believe it never has been paid to Mrs. Wallace who greatly needs it. Can you or the proper department afford her any relief by having her name transferred to the New Albany agency pension list or some other & the payment for six months to March 4, 1856 paid upon complying with instructions in the case -
I am Your obt Servt
George W. Bardin

Brief in the case of
Frances Wallace. Wid: of John, County and State of Indiana, act 3 d Feby, 1853,
Green
Claim, ("original," for increase )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
It was a petition under the acts of 18 th March 1818 & 1 st May, 1820,
Two witnesses testifying to general reputation of marriage & habit- -ation, parties raising family of children,
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Geo: W. Hardin Esq., Bloomington,
Name and residence of Agent
Ja: H. B. Bynum, Examining Clerk

Rec 25 March 1852 State of North Carolina
Secretary of State's office.
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary War, that John Wallis a private soldier in Capt. Company of the 10th Regiment enlisted on the 4 th June 1777 for three years or the war, and that he was a prisoner on 2 nd June 1779. This is all that the said rolls says of him.
Given under my hand at office in Raleigh this 8 th day of April 1831.
W. Hill
Exd. Ref. M rs 25897 OK
No record of him ✓
I have been informed that the Officers and soldiers of the revolution were frequently transferred from one Regiment and Company to another, Mr Wallis's name not appearing in regiment or Company in which he says he enlisted or served, should not therefore prejudice his claim.
W. Hill

John Wallace's paper
FILE
Thomas J. G. Adams Esq. & Master
Spencer
Indiana

Recd 5 March 1831 Raleigh 8th April 1831.
Dear Sir
1828 papers
Your letter of the 4 th Ultimo came to hand this morning, and in order to serve the old soldier I have examined carefully the rolls &c in my office and here enclose you such a certificate as I am enabled from said rolls to make. I regret that the rolls in this case are so defective, but I have done what I could. In 1820 a Mr Wm Brinkley of Halifax County in this State obtained a warrant for 640 Acres of land for the services of John Wallace a private soldier of the Revolution. On the oath of Martha Blackburn, and a power of atty from Edw d Sturdivant & Elizabeth his wife and Sarah, Nancy & William Wallace, who the said Martha Blackburn swore were the heirs of John Wallace the soldier. She also says in her deposition that John Wallace lived in Halifax City.
There does not appear on the rolls any other John Wallace than the one named in the enclosed certificate who could have been entitled to land. There is one enlisted for 12 mos. in Capt. Donoho's Comp y 10 th Reg t in 1781, served out his time.
Yours &c
W m Pitt

P. S. You may if you please enclose me 50 Cents for this service. Wm. Hill

Dear Friend James T. Heath Confirmation of previous Washington S. G.
Frances Wallace New Jersey Ind by
FREE

Bloomington Indiana
March 12. 1851.
Hon. James E. Heath — Commr of pensions
Sir Will you please inform me whether the late explanatory act by Congress relative to the right of certain widows to the benefit of former acts i.e. acts of 1836 & 1838 or acts there after in regard to said rights make provision for the dis allowed claims in favor of Martha Pines & Dica Gardner also Frances Wallace which were sent by me from this County about the year of 1843 or 1844. and if so inform me what if any thing further is necessary to be done by the claimants of said arrears & by one of said surviving widows (The last named) and oblige the parties —
I am very respectfully Your obt. Servt
George W. Hardin

No 50
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington City War Department. Pension office

Spencer County Ind a
27th. March 1832
Dear Sir
Yours of 10th March 1832 has come to hand, I am entirely satisfied that a fraud on the Government is practiced by some of the John Wallaces, to whom you refer, and I can assure you of giving my aid in detecting the impostor, as you say both may be impostors. The old man in this county tell, a very straight tall and actually detailed in court all the circumstances of His being taken prisoner in New York, in his first and second application, I will without his being aware of my object get a history of his services from him, and forward it on to you as soon as I can obtain it, there is certainly as you observe some imposition in this case practiced, and ought to be detected, the John Wallace here can name several of his fellows, which induced me to believe his statement correct, and I cannot see how a person of his ignorance could actually fabricate his statement, how to find out whether John Wallace who drew the land in N. C. by the oath of Mr Blackburn, is the one (if any) entitled to it I cannot tell but I think she might give information as to the time of Wallace's enlistment. As to the place of his being taken prisoner and who were the persons taken with him, even which can describe the personal appearance of the officers by whom they were taken might throw some light on the subject. This old man here is a sober sensible old man and if he was taken as he has alleged he can detail some circumstances that could not be known by an impostor, as soon as I possibly can I will give

you the information you desire, let me reassure you that I will spare no pains to bring this matter to light, so far as I can
With respect,
In haste I remain
Your fellow citizen
Thos. M c L. Adams
J. L. Edwards Esq.

ACF 1828
M c H. Dickins will thank M c Edwards to read this letter & return it by the messenger who will wait
On mid
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25.987

Recd 5 March 1832. Spencer Owen County Indiana 4347
Jan. 30th 1832
Hon ble The Sec'y of { The Treasury
Sir. Enclosed you will find John Wallace's claim for the benefits of the act of Congress of "May 15th 1828" together with other papers which I shall notice hereafter. The case of Mr Wallace is important inasmuch as I believe fraud has been practiced on the Government thro perjury. The fact, John Wallace is now here a pensioner since 11th Nov. 1830 I beg you to refer to the enclosed statement being a copy of the one by which he obtained his pension Certificate, please notice the statement of the Sec'y of State of North Carolina and you will find it corresponds almost exactly with the statement made here in open court some time before by Mr Wallace. now it is important to know who the Right John Wallace is, or in other words has the heirs of a John Wallace ne? from N. Carolina 640 acres of land thro the death of Martha Blackburn to which they were not entitled, but to which John Wallace of this County (who is now drawing a pension) is entitled.
There must be some fraud, there is only one John Wallace entitled to the land and the benefits of the act of Congress of 1828, and I will venture to predict that the same Martha Blackburn cannot tell, where John Wallace enlisted where or when prisoner, or by whom, or how he  was  made prisoner, or where they or when or where or in what

Manner they were discharged or exchanged, or into what ranks they were placed after being exchang- ed, all of which I think The John Wallace of this County XXXXXX can satisfactorily show otherwise he is getting a pension he is not entitled to.
I hope this subject will be attended to and that you will put me on the track to discover the fraud and the means of Mr John Wallace of this County obtaining his rights, I also refer you to Mr John Wallace's declaration to the Sec. of War, whereby he was placed on the pension roll.
My being out of this State on business and indisposition has prevented me from mention- ing this matter sooner. I expect Mr Wallace is town tomorrow, and will therefore conclude, until I can see what light further can be thrown on the Sec. of States letter enclosed, I do wish this matter thorou- ghly investigated, and for this reason, I was instru- mental in getting him a pension, and I want now to see who this second John Wallace is, for from what I can see as I observed before there is only one N. C. John Wallace entitled to a pension.
I know I am trespassing on your patience but hope you will excuse me,
Jan 31. 1832
Mr John Wallace is in town and says that the oath of Martha Blackburn is all fraud , Please direct any communications on this subject to Mr. Brewster and refer to the receipt of this, respectfully

State of Indiana } Morgan County } Declaration
Rec 2 Feb 19. 1845 In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838. entitled an act granting half pay and pension to Certain widows - On this 11 th day of February 1845. personally appeared before the Probate Court of Morgan County State of Indiana a court of record by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana and having unlimited jurisdiction as to amount Frances Wallace a resident of the County of Owen in the State aforesaid aged sixty odd years (last) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838. entitled An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows - That she is the widow of John Wallace deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war as will appear by testimony filed in the War office of the United States upon which he was placed on the agency of the State of Indiana as a pensioner under act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. at the rate of eight dollars per month as she believes and which was as well as she recollects for awhile discontinued but was again allowed and continued all of which is respectfully given reference to - She further declares that to the best of her recollection her deceased husband John Wallace died the 24 th day of August in the year of 1834. at his residence in Owen County State of Indiana - That she respectfully gives reference to the testimony in regard to his death upon which she collected the arrears of pension due to that period - She declares that her first name was Frances Rhory that in Surson County North Carolina in the month of January in the year of ~~~ she intermarried with one Isaac Meadows who died in the County of Giles in the State of Tennessee in the month of July in the year of ~~~ That the said Meadows and her had five children viz. Rhody, Mordaica, Mary Abb, Job Lewis ~~~ That she lived in Knox County Kentucky when intermarried

with said John Wallace; That they crossed the line dividing the states of Kentucky and Tennessee and was married in the County of ~~~~~ State of Tennessee by ~~~~ King the 8 th day of January and year of ~~~~~ That he died in August as she believes in the year of 1834 in the County of Owen State of Indiana ~ That the said John Wallace was a widower when she was married to him that he had four Three children when they were married viz: Ellis, Mary Ann, John George Washington That she and her husband John Wallace had five children; to wit; Isaac, Elias B. Angus B. John, Eli B. ~~~~~ She declares she has no knowl- -edge of any record testimony to prove her age or either of her marriages ~ That she is illiterate as to the art or knowledge of reading ~ That during the whole space of time which she has been a house keeper the families were with- -out a family Bible until about twelve years ago when a strange Gentleman, person enquired at their house if they were able to buy a Bible and being answered in the negative he (gave) left one with the family ~ That her son Isaac had learned to read a little and when he left the family took the said Bible with him ~ That her residence is in Owen County State of Indiana eight miles from Spencer The County Seat That she resides near the line which divides the Counties of said Owen and the County of Monroe and about twelve miles from Bloomington The County seat of Monroe and prefers and is induced to prepare her decla- -ration and vouchers to obtain the benefits of a pension as above stated in Bloomington Monroe County to avoid the danger and expenses of ferrying the West Fork of White- -River in going to and returning from Spencer The County seat of Owen to complete said vouchers, testimony ~ She further declares that she was married to said John Wallace on the 8 th day of January in the year of One Thousand eight hundred and Ten or twelve or near that period

That her husband the aforesaid John Wallace died on the 24 th day of August in the year of 1834.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place after the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz. at the time above stated - She further declares that she has remained and is still the widow of said John Wallace deceased before named
by her Frances Wallace mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open Probate court the day and year before written before me
Agulla Rogers Probate Judge M. Co. La.
State of Indiana } Monroe County } S.S.
On this 11 th day of February in the year of 1845, personally appeared in Probate Court now sitting in Bloomington in and for the County of Monroe and State of Indiana a court of record by virtue of the Laws of the State of Indiana Mordeica H. Meadows aged ~ years resident of Owen County State of In- -diana and after being duly sworn according to law doth testify and say that he well recollects the time and circumstances of the intermarriage of his Mother Frances Meadows with John Wallace after the death of his father Isaac Meadows That he believes he was about twelve or fourteen years old at the time of said marriage - That his Mother had been a widow for the space of about three years and resided in Knox County in the State of Kentucky - That she accompanied said John Wallace into some neighborhood or vicinity as he believes and recollects for the purpose of getting married That on their return the two families were united

and lived together by his mother removing her goods and effects and children to the house and residence of said John Wallace that they lived together until the decease of said John Wallace and that his mother is still alive
Mordecai his S. Meadows (seal) mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open Probate court - now in session the day and year before written before me
Agulla Rogers Probate Judge M Co Ia
1011.664
State of Indiana } Monroe County } ss William F. Browning Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of Monroe in the state of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing declarations of Frances Wallace and also that of her son Mordecai S. Meadows was sworn to and subscribed in (open) Probate court when in session - That said court is a court of record by reason of: and virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana - That Agulla Rogers whose name is here before signed is Judge of said court duly commissioned and qualified that his two signatures there to are genuine - That the said declarations by the declarants Frances Wallace and her son Mordecai S. Meadows contain the truth to the satisfaction of said court and that they are respectable and entitled to credit
Given under my hand and seal of said court this Eleventh day of February Eighteen hundred and forty-five
W. F. Browning Clerk Probate Court M Co. Ia.

Re: 5 March 1832 State of Indiana Owen County, Set,
2016.
Before me Isaac Beaton a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared John Wallace and on his oath by me duly administered deposed and saith, that on the fourth of June 1777 or about that time he enlisted in the State of North Carolina in the County of Dupland in the Infantry Company Commanded by Captain Joseph Rhodes who marched this de- ponent to Valley Forge, where he was placed in Captain Charles Stewarts Company of Inf- antry in the 8 th North Carolina Regiment, and that shortly after, the said Regiment was reduced to the third and afterwards to the Second North Carolina Regiment where this deponent served the remainder of his term of enlistment except about Eleven months that he was prisoner to the British (as hereinafter mention- ed), That in his last mentioned change he was in the Company of Infantry Commanded by Captain Tatterson, in the Regiment Com- manded by Colonel Patten which this deponent believes was the 10 th Regiment in the line of the State of North Carolina, on the Continental establishment and that he continued in said Company and Regiment until taken Prisoner by the British, When he and from 50 to 80 of his fellow Soldiers were taken prisoners at Blankets

Point, Kings ferry on the South or Hudson River, That this deponent believes that the British Who took him and his fellow soldiers prisoners were commanded by General Clinton That at the time he was taken prisoner one Captain Armstrong commanded the Company to which this deponent belonged, This deponent further states that before he was taken prisoner, (and after he served at Valley forge) that he served at Pemberton's Church, in New Jersey, and also stood Guard one winter at Cakkiack, That Genl Clinton marched this deponent with the rest of the prisoners to New York, and kept them as prisoners about Eleven months, When they were exchanged and placed under the Command of General De Kalb in the Jerseys, General Gates being the Commander in Chief there, and that this deponent after the war was over was discharged by Colonel Armstrong at his own house in North Carolina, that his discharge is long since lost as this deponent took no care of it not knowing it would be of any use to him, This deponent cannot state the time he was taken prisoner but thinks it was summer of 1779.
This deponent further states on oath that he was placed on the pension list Roll of the Indiana agency as a revolutionary sol

died on the 11 th day of November in the year 1830 as the records of the Secretary of War by reference thereto will more fully show, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, and that he is the identical John Wallace in said Certificate from the Secretary of War mentioned therein. This deponent claims the benefit of the act of Congress entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, approved May 15. 1828"
And in support of his claim together with such other testimony as he may offer, he this deponent refers to the records of the Secretary of War and to the enclosed Certificate and letter from the Secretary of State of North Carolina.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30 th day of January in the year 1832.
John this Wallace mark
Isaac Keaton seal Justice of the Peace State of Indiana Owen County ss
Before me Isaac Keaton a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally came Thomas F. G. Adams and George Leigman — and on their oath saith that they are well acquainted with the said John Wallace, that they verily believe his statement aforesaid to be true, they know him to be the identical John Wallace who is now drawing a pension as by him above set forth. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30 day of January in the year 1832 seal Isaac Keaton Justice of the Peace
Thos. F. G. Adams G. Leigman

State of Indiana Owen County, Set
I, John R. Speedland Clerk of the circuit Court in and for said County, do certify that the foregoing Isaac Heaton now is and was at the time of his taking the depositions aforesaid an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly elected commissioned and qualified. And that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such And that the said Thomas F. G. Adams and George Dugnam are for truth and veracity as respectable as any in this County.
Given Under my hand and the seal of the Owen Circuit Court at my office the 31 st day of January In the Year 1832
J. R. Speedland Clerk

George Harden Esq 5 Bloomington Ind. White Hall Ia 6 April

State of Indiana } ss Owen County }
Be it known that on this 2 nd day of April Eighteen Hundred and fifty Three Before The Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for The said County of Owen duly commis- -sioned and qualified according to law and by law authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Benjamin H Stephenson aged fifty-two years past and Joseph Stephenson aged fifty-five years past residents of said Owen County and State aforesaid who after being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration - That They sever- -ally were acquainted with John Wallace and Frances Wallace his wife and well knew them for the space of nearly five years last preceding the decease of the said John Wallace who from the best of their recollection died on or about the 24 th day of August in the year of 1852 and to their knowledge he the said John Wallace died in Owen County Indiana and left the said Frances Wallace his widow - That they John Wallace & Frances Wallace lived together in the character of husband & wife and as such were esteemed & believed to be by their neighbours generally without any doubts whatever to the best of the recollection & belief of the declarants who well knew said decedent & his wife for the space of the years above stated & they have known the said Frances Wallace ever since the death of her husband during her stay & residence within the vicinity or neighborhood which was until in the fall season of the year 1852. That the aforesaid John Wallace was reputed & believed generally and especially by declarants to be a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the period of his death and for some years before that period. Declarants are disinterested in making this affidavit which they are informed is to be presented as testimony in a claim for a pension by the said Frances Wallace of the United States by reason of her being the widow of John Wallace aforesaid & by virtue of the laws of the United States.
Benjamin H Stephenson Joseph G Stephenson

State of Indiana } Owen County } ss.
Be it known that on this second day of April 1853 The foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to before me. And I certify that I have no interest in the result of the case and am not concerned in its prosecution and that the said affiants Benjamin H. Stephenson & Joseph Stephenson are personally known to me and that they are each of good moral character and entitled to credit.
William M. Smith
Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana } ss.
Owen County }
I hereby certify that William M. Smith Esq. Before whom the foregoing declaration was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and by law authorized to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the Circuit Court of said County This 17 th day of April A.D. 1853. Isaac C. Johnson, Clerk.

Know All men by these presents That I Frances Wallace of Greene County State of Indiana do hereby constitute and appoint George W. Hardin of Bloomington Monroe County my true & lawful attorney for me in my name to procure for me the benefit of the act of congress passed February 3 d 1853 granting certain widows therein mentioned pensions by reason of their husbands having rendered military service in the war of the revolution I authorize my said attorney to do all acts necessary agreeing with said act of February 3 d 1853 or other act or acts passed by the Congress of the United States to which I am now or may be entitled to the benefits of I authorize him to receive of the Agent of the United States or the proper officer thereof any cer- -tificate or equivalent issued for me or in my name by virtue of my right of said act or acts of congress & hereby ratify all my said attorneys acts necessary in prosecuting my claim & right to a pension of the United States by virtue of the acts of congress & of these presents - Given under my hand and seal this first day of April A. D. 1853
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of
Henry Strong John Dye
by her Frances X Wallace (Seal) mark

State of Indiana ss. Green County ss. Be it known That On this First day of April 1853 Before me The Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in for said County duly Commissioned and qualified according to law & by law authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Frances Wallace above mentioned and acknow- ledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein stated & given under my hand & Seal The day & year last above mentioned ~
Seal
Thomas Mason Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana ss. Green County ss. I hereby certify That Thomas Mason Esqr. before whom the foregoing power of attorney appears to have been ac- knowledged and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time therein mentioned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn and author- ized to administer oaths that said signature purporting to be his is in my opinion his genuine signature - In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed The Seal of my office as Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county this 4 th day of April A.D. 1853
J. R. Gause Clerk

Bloomington, Indiana
April 11 th 1853
The Commissioner of Pensions will please forward to me the pension certificate claimed by Mrs. Frances Wallace on the annexed claim & testimony if issued - If necessary address me on the subject of her claim -
I am respectfully Your obt. Servt,
George W. Hardin

Spencer Owen County Ind.
April 6. 1832
Sir.
I have acknowledged the rec d . of yours of 10th Ult o . and I am now glad to give you the History I see you desire on the John Wallace subject. I think from the relation you will find that He must be the very identical person who is entitled to a pension. I have taken his narrative step by step from the enlistment to His discharge and refer you to the same as follows
1 st He enlisted in Dupland County North Carolina with Capt Joseph Rhodes. in the 8 th N.C. Regt. Capt. Rhodes was about 5. ft. 11 in high making lusty man. 2 nd John Barker, Jacob Brewer, and Thomas Pridgen belonged to his company. 3. Capt. Rhodes marched them to Halifax on the Roanoke River where there appears to have been a Genl Rndezvous for all recruits, then the Colonel took command of them. 4. a Colonel Williams marched Wallace and other recruits to Head Quarters at Valley forge in Penn a . about perhaps Wallace thinks 600 miles. and the Col. was assisted in Command by the Adjutant. Cheehee , who was a limping or lame man, there was perhaps 40 or 45 miles from Halifax to Valley forge. 5. Col. Williams was about 30 years of age 5' 7" high none or ten inches high fair complexion, on the march from Halifax to Head Quarters at Valley forge the recruits were inoculated for the Small Pock. in Virginia at Alexandria. 6. The recruits reached Valley forge in the fall of 1777. Wallace thinks late in the fall. then he was placed with others in Captain Charles Stewards Company of Infantry in the Eight Regt.

13. Wallace and the rest of the prisoners were then placed on board of a vessel sent to New York as prisoners, confined in a Stone House two or three stories high, situated in King or Queen Street, - The House had a stack of Chimneys running thro it, the arrival of the prisoners was about third forth or fifth June. He was kept in New York a prisoner in said House about Eleven months. One of each mess was allowed to go into the cellar of said House once in two days to Cook.
14. He was at the expiration of 11 months exchanged. He went to Washington Head Quarters in the Jerseys. The N. Carolina troops had been marched to Charleston in South Carolina, He was placed under Dr Rabb and marched to Camden where him and his folks were decently whipped (using his own language) after the war was over Colonel Armstrong discharged him at Tar River N.C. at the Colonel's House, Col. A. was a man about thirty middle size. and Wallace says he served altogether about five or six years.
For Sir you will confer a favour by acknowledging the receipt of this communication as soon as circumstances will permit. any other enquiries you may think necessary to make will be answered, I think I have the right John Wallace, how could it be possible he could detail the foregoing Circumstances and be an impostor, I hope his tale is true, that it will be satisfactory to you and that he will be reinstated on the pension list of this agency. With respect. Your fellow citizen Wm. H. Adams

State of Indiana Brown County ss. Before me Isaac Walton a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came the above named John Wallace a citizen of said County an aged and grey headed man and on his solemn oath by me duly administered according to Law deposes and says that the foregoing statements contained in fourteen different heads in the communication from Thomas F. S. Harris to which this Affidavit is appended are true in substance and matter of fact to the best of his recollection and belief
John S Wallace mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 1832
Isaac Walton Read Justice of the Peace

Vallejo Cal.
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to the Pension Dept.
Will you please send me the record of John Wallace who was wounded in service of the Revolution war at the Battle of Brandywine and moved from Viri to Kent. and received a land grant in (Owens Co. Ind. for service in Rev. war. His wife's name was Fanny . OK Yours Respectfully Bessie Bradshaw.

224 E. Cullton St Warrensburg Mo Mar. 11, 1930
Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen —
Will you please send me a copy of the pension application of John Wallace who was placed on the pension roll from Owen Co. Ind. Nov. 11, 1830 for service during the American Revolution in the North Carolina line. I would also appreciate having any family data that he sent.
Sincerely
Hannah Baston
Mrs. C. S. Baston

June 15, 1937
John Wallace W. 25897 BA-J/AWF aw
Bessie Bradshaw Vallejo California
Dear Madam:
John Wallace
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Virginia, who moved from there to Kentucky and thence to Owen County, Indiana.
The date furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 25897, based upon the service of John Wallace in the War of the Revolution.
John Wallace was born in this country, specific place not stated; the date of his birth was not given, nor were the names of his parents shown.
John Wallace enlisted in Duplin County, North Carolina, June 4, 1777, served as a private in Captain Joseph Rhodes' company, Colonel Williams' North Carolina regiment, marched to Valley Forge, and there placed in Captain Charles Stewart's company, also served in Captain Tartanson's company, in Colonel Patten's 2nd North Carolina regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth; while at Fort Plank, Kings Ferry on the North River, under Captain Armstrong, he was taken prisoner about June 2, 1779, carried to New York and held there eleven months when he was exchanged. He then joined the army at Washington's headquarters "in the Jerseys", was placed under General De Kalb and marched to Camden, was in the battle there and was discharged at the close of the war.
He was allowed pension on his application ex-
corrections made before mailing.

cuted October 21, 1830, at which time he was eighty years of age and living in Owen County, Indiana.
The soldier, John Wallace, died August 24 or 25, 1834 in Owen County, Indiana.
John Wallace married in 1812, 1813 or 1814 in the State of Tennessee, Mrs. Frances Meadows, the widow of Isam Meadows, who died about 1811 in Giles County, Tennessee.
The widow stated that she was born (date not given) in Anson County, North Carolina, that her mother's name was Sally Rhory and her father's name was --- Alsop.
She was allowed pension on account of the service of her husband, John Wallace, on her application executed April 1, 1853, at which time she was living in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, aged about sixty-nine years.
The widow, Frances Wallace, also stated that at the time of their marriage, both she and John Wallace were living in Knox County, Kentucky, and that their five children were all born in that county.
The children of John Wallace and his wife, Frances:
Isaac residing in 1853 in Newton County, Missouri John " " " " Newton County, Missouri Elias H. " " " " Hopkins County, Texas Angus Ross " " " " Butler County, Missouri Eli Hubbard " " " " Stockton Township, Greene County, Missouri . Indiana
Eli Hubbard Wallace, their youngest child, was twenty-eight years of age in 1853. Ages of other children not stated.
The soldier, John Wallace, by a former wife (her name

is not given, nor are there any details as to their marriage) had the following children:
Ellin Mary Ann John George Washington.
There are no further data in regard to these children.
The widow, Frances, by her first husband, Isam Meadows, had five children: Rhody Ross, referred to as deceased in 1853; Mordecai H. Meadows, living in Morgan County, Indiana in 1853; Mary Abb Holt, in 1853 a resident of Butler County, Missouri; Job Meadows, in 1853 living in the State of Arkansas; Lewis A. Meadows, in 1853 living in Stockton Township, Indiana.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator