Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19586, Henry Wallis, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Wallis, Henry Sabat
W. 19586
CONTENTS

1827 29/124 New York Henry Wallis Greenpoint in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wells of the regt commanded by Col. Murray in the Massachusetts line for 6 months and 28 days d. Feb. 1840 m. 84
Inscribed on the Roll New York at the rate of 23 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Feb'y 1835 and sent to Mason J Smith Perry Greenpoint Arrears to the 14th of Sept 34 80 88 Semi-annual allowance ending March 35 11 55 $92.43
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by David Boyd Clerk, Book 62 Vol. 4 Page
See let to John Fleming Pen. agt March 2 35-
due to Edward Whitney 1835

2 Certs:
1838 } rep. 27 May '44 1843 }
5596
Albany New York
Sabra Wallis
widow of Henry Wallis Mass who was a Private
in the Mass. Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May 1844 and sent to
Hon Albert Smith Ho of Reps
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 269

Hugh Wallis of New York
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Rev. J. S. Tracy

by
BRIEF in the case of  Henry Wallis of Perry of  Conesville  in the State of  New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 74  110 119 129  117 119 129  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     June 1 1777 In 1777 Two Weeks Pri Gen. Wallis, Gen. Schuyler   Sept 1 " " Seven 3.29 " Gen. Clinton, Gen. Sullivan   Aug 1 1779 1779 2 Months " Gen. Washington, Col. Porter   " 1780 1780 3 at " Col. Pease   829 Capt. Norton, Col. Myers Q.M. Col. Arnold  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Fort Edward  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hampshire County Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Papers not attached as required
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Nelson  Examining Clerk. July 28. 1833

affr: Henry Wallis Declaration.
1837/
Please make returns to H. W. Soper Patania Genesee Co N.Y.
admitted
8 mo. 29 days private

Declaration of Henry Wallis, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York, Genesee County, ss.
On this fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in and for said county of Genesee, Henry Wallis, a resident of the town of Perry, in said county, aged 74 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated;—
1. About the first of June, 1777, he resided in the town of Colerain, in the county of Hampshire, and state of Massachusetts; that he then volunteered and served ten weeks, under Captain Grip Wells, in the Massachusetts State troops; that he marched immediately and joined the United States army at Fort Edward, then under the command of Genl. Schuyler; that he retreated with the army to Bemis' Heights, near Stillwater; that at the expiration of the said ten weeks he returned home to Colerain aforesaid.
2. That on the first of September, 1777, he again volunteered and served seven weeks, in Capt. Hugh McClarin's Company of Volunteers, marched the same day and joined the army at Bemis's Heights; Genl. Fellows commanded the division to which he belonged; immediately retreated about nine miles towards Shaftsbury where he remained about a fortnight; then marched through the woods about twelve miles opposite to Saratoga,

where he remained until after the surrender of Burgoyne; having been in the service of the United States, seven weeks.
3. That about the first of July, 1779, he again volunteered, and entered Capt. James Walworth's company; marched immediately for New-London, Connecticut, under Col. Elihu Porter; — rendezvoused at Norwich Landing; Col. Peas, of the regular army, had the command at that place; was employed in keeping guard at Rogers' Point; that he left the service about the last of September, of the same year, having been out two months.
4. In the month of July, 1780, he again volunteered for, and served three months, under Capt. Isaac Newton, in a regiment commanded by Col. Seth Murray; marched to Claverick, back of Hudson, and staid one week; Marched to Fishkill, and from there went on to West Point, where Genl. Arnold had the command; was there, and at Verplank's Point, or King's Ferry, the residue of the three months; Saw the boat and crew, on their return, from the British ship Vulture, which put Arnold on board of that vessel. — was discharged in the month of October, of that year, and returned home to the town of Caledon, aforesaid, where he resided, at each and every time, when he volunteered and entered the service, as before specified; that the whole time that he served the United States as a Volunteer as aforesaid, amounts to nine and a quarter months; and that he never had any written discharge.

on 23 d September 1758 he was born in the Year 1758 in the Town and County of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts. has resided ever since his remembrance until he was thirty Eight years of age in the town of Colerain aforesaid - then in Burlington, Otsego Co. N.Y. 2 years - in Dorico, in Chenango Co. N.Y. 5 years - in Solon, Onondaga Co. N.Y. 6 years - in Genoa, in Cayuga Co. N.Y. 7 years, then in Perry, Genesee County where he now resides and has resided 16 years - that he has a Record of his age in his bible copied from his fathers bible - that he has no documentary evidence of his services - that the Rev. & he knows of no one by whom he can prove his services - that Hugh Wallis who was known to him He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Subscribed & sworn to the day aforesaid in open court. Timothy Fitch Clerk
Henry Wallis
We, Micah Leager, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Covington, near Perry, County of Genesee, & State of New York, & Hugh Wallis a Clergyman residing in the same County, do hereby certify, that we are well acquaint- ed with Henry Wallis, named in the foregoing declara- tion; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court Timothy Fitch Clerk
Hugh Wallis Micah Leager

And the said Court. do hereby declare their Opinion after the Investigations of the War. And after putting the interrogatories pre- scribed by the War. Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served at the State. And the court further certifies, that Micah Gage a resident of the town of Covington in said county of Greene & Hugh Wallace of the same County are Clergymen and that their testimony is entitled to credit
Isaac Wilson
Robert Earll Jr.
William Mitchell
I Timothy Fitch Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of Genesee County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the appli- cation of Henry Wallis for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fifteenth day of October 1832
Timothy Fitch Clerk

State of New York ss: Genesee County
I, Hugh Wallis, of the town of Pembroke, county of Genesee and State of New York, being sixty five years of age, being duly sworn, do testify and declare, that I am a brother of Henry Wallis, now of the town of Perry, county and State aforesaid, and distinctly remember his leaving our father's house, to go into the army, at the various times mentioned in his declarations; which he has heard read and no farther saith this deponent.
Sworn before me this 16 th day of October 1832.
Hugh Wallis.
Moses Saygat Justice of the Peace for said County
State of New York
Genesee County ss: I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said County, certify, that Moses Saygat before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken and made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice and justly believe that his signature subscribed to said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed my official seal this twenty fifth day of October 1832.
Timothy Fitch Clerk By D. Pringle Deputy

7134
Declaration of Sabra Wallis, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of bon- yess of the 7 th July, 1838.
m 84. d 40.
husband died Feb 7 th 1840
Mason G. Smith, Agent, Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y.

Declarations of Sabra Wallis 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 New York, } ss. County of Genesee, }
On this tenth day of June 1840, before the Court of Common Pleas, now holden at Batavia, in and for said County, personally appeared Sabra Wallis, a resident of the town of Castile, in said County, aged seventy-five years and over, 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 7, 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Henry Wallis, who was a private in the Massachusetts militia, in the war of the Revolution, for which service the said Henry Wallis was pensioned under the act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832; That he resided in the town of Penn, in the County of Genesee, aforesaid, when he was pensioned. She further declares that she was married to the said Henry Wallis, on the ninth day of December, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four, and that she has a record of said marriage, in the hand writing of her brother Stephen H. Dodge, of Cazenovia, in the County of Madison, and State of New York, which was made many years ago, and has been in her possession ever since the same was made; - that her husband the the aforesaid Henry Wallis, died on the first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thou-

Land eight hundred and forty, at the town of Castile, in said county of Genesee; — that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of Janu- ary, Seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. on the ninth day of December, Seven- teen hundred and eighty-four, as before stated.
Sabra her X Wallis Mark.
Sworn to and subscribed, in open court, on the day and year above written, before
M c Oper. Clerk

A Memorandum of the age and marriage of Henry Wallis and wife etc
Henry Wallis was married to Sabra Dodge
in the year of our Lord 1784 December 9
the S r Wallis was 26 years & 2 months & 16 days
the S c Sabra was 20 years and 2 months and 25 days when married
Henry Wallis was born in the year of our Lord 1758 September the 23
Sabra Dodge was born in Sept r 1st in the year of our Lord 1764
Rate By Stephen Dodge
Brother to the S r Eupple
Rate in the 20 th year of his age and never was Schooled & has in very life

Register of the Children of the family of Mr Henry Wallis of Plain in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts containing their names & time when Born & when died & what they died of & their several Ages &c &c
   Names month Born in Day of month year month when Died Day of month year What's Disease Died of Age   years Months Weeks Days Hours Minutes     Polly Wallis August 26 1786 Nov. 27 1812 Consumption 26 3 2 3 6   Robert H Wallis November 22 1788   David D Wallis October 14 1790   Charles Dodge Wallis November 26 1792 Octbr 25 1802 Throat 9 11 3 5 11 30 40   Hugh Wallis October 29 1794 Sept 13 1819 Consumption   Clarissa Wallis May 13 1791   Hannah Wallis April 28 1799   Truman Wallis April 1 1802 June 24 1821 Consumption  

State of New York, County of Senesee, Yds.
David D. Wallis, of the town of Castile, in said County, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that his father, Henry Wallis, died on the first day of February last past , and that the said Henry was a pensioner of the United States; - that Sabra Wallis mentioned in the foregoing declaration, is the widow of the said Henry Wallis; - that he is well acquainted with the family record herunto annexed, and has always understood and believes the same, to be in the hand writing of Stephen H. Dodge, brother to the said Sabra, and that the same is a correct, genuine and original record.
David D Wallis
Sworn to and subscribed this 27 th day of February  April , 1840, before me; - and I do hereby certify that the said David D. Wallis, with whom I am well acquainted is a person of undoubted credibility, and that his statements are entitled to full credence. The words "last past" and "April", are inserted over erasures.
Mason G. Smith, Commissioner of Deeds.

State of New York } ss. Genesee County
I Certify that Mason G. Smith Esq. was a barr at law at the time of taking the within affidavit and that his name subscribed to the certificate of taking the same is his hand writing — In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this 12 th June 1846 —
N. D. Dyer. Atty

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Henry Wallis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. W. F. 19,586.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1, 1777 10 wks Pri. Agrippa Wells ✓ Mass   Sept. 1, 1777 7 " Hugh McLallen ✓   July 1, 1779 2 mos. Jas. Walworth Elisha Porter   July, 1780 3 " Isaac Newton Seth Murray  
Battles engaged in, _____ ✓ _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Colerain, Hampshire Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 15, 1832. His cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, B. Sept. 23, 1758 {He died Sept. 1, 1840 at Castile, Genesee Co. N.Y.}
Remarks: He mar. Dec. 9, 1784, Sabra Dodge, who was born Sept. 14, 1764. She was al pen on her ap. ex. June 10, 1840 while a resident of Castile, N.Y. Their children were: Polly b. Aug. 26, 1786, d. Nov. 27, 1812; Robert H. b. Nov. 22, 1788; David D. b. Oct. 14, 1790; Charles Dodge, b. Nov. 26, 1792, d. Nov. 25, 1802; Hugh b. Oct. 29, 1794, d. Sept. 9, 1819; Clarissa, b. May 13, 1797; Huldah, b. Apr. 28, 1799; Sherman b. Apr. 1, 1802, d. June 28, 1821.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Dec. 9, 1916. History to Mrs. F. A. Haakinson. Fr.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19586 Sabra Wallis Widow of Henry Wallis Brw. Rev. Pan Act: Mar. 3 rd 1873 Index:—Vol. M , Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]

8422
Albany
New York
Sabra Smith Wallis
widow of Henry Wallis
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 1 Feb. 1840
of Seneca Co in the State of New
who was a Pr in the C
commanded by Captain Wallis of the
reg commanded by Col Murray
the Mass line for 6 mo. 28 d
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 2 3/4 Dollars 11
Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of
March, 1836. 1 Feby: 1840
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of
May 1844 and sent to Hon
Albert Smith H R
Total Amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. L. Swann Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 187.

1827 New York
Henry Wallis of Perry in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wells of the Regt commanded by Col. Murray in the N'keepsack line for 8 months & 29 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 29 Dollars 86 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Jan'y. 1833 and sent to Mr. P. G. L. Gray A. J. R.
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 $44.79 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th N'33 14.93
$59.72
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. L. Stiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5. Page 148

Nov. 20. Certificate returned and the date of its issuing (which had been omitted) inserted viz - 29. Janz. '33. A notification sent to Asst. J. Fleming - esq. to suspend his pension -
Letter to Head Master Wapen. A. Smith Esq Nov 20. 1834 Perrey. N.Y.

N.Y. act 1838-7134 Sabia Wallis - of Henry Let to Mason G. Smith 7 Augt 1840.
Let. to Hon. Albert Smith March 18. 1844.

Bluffton, S.C. Feb. 18, 1875
Bluffton 21 Jan
Free
Honble Sidney Bruce U.S. Senator Washington D.C.
John Boyd Co. Virginia Co. Mason Feb 18 75

Tremont, Lake St. & St. Lawrence 21 st of Oct r 1848
Hon. & dear Sir, I am obliged to throw myself upon your mercy & benevolency - In the midst of all my endeavors to vindicate the rights of widows, and heirs - in the state line of Virginia - against the wrongs of others have met with a most deplorable case in that of poor Mrs. Sarah D. Houston, deserted & robbed of from 10 to 120000 by a Dr. Samuel B. Wallis (of Eng) some 12 months ago with his came to my house - The Houston case 3 meritorious characters - The Superior Court out free now with a decree of the Superior Court of Fredall Co. Va. to attach Wallis and secure in Maryland - to the amt in Maryland of $3333 - They are to inform in our Court the payment to one in consideration with $1000 to what amt I ought to receive for him from his late father, James Madison - I have a bond of $5000 full I have not from Col. J. G. Edwards & Peter Major Esq. That Major's 10 per cent. due was paid one to the State pay - with the year 1833 without paying for of 2 years before the year 1833 was here, in for whom I have been collecting money for him or any him that as my father's supervisor to get through. Bonds of his father's bond for $10000 - the 1833 Bonds - having influence at the Botts - I think I did from the last Richmond, Va. some 5 or 6 years ago Department there whether they are still may not be still living - in Va. - I still to my poor neglected, I deserted, now di-

...worked hard, & other new... But let no purpose - Gallis cared for none of these things. Dr. W. wd have proved here that his Uncle S r off - walls died in 1817 - what says Col S r Edwards? That the records at W h gave his death in 1785! a difference of 32 years in the 1/2 pay we wd receive. How should they know at the pension office when a S r died unless he had commenced to 1/2 pay? Mrs. Mayt. walls - is on record to have in the enclosed to have survived her husband from 1822 to 1880 which wd be 20 years of his full pay coming to the heirs - if true I think we can prove they were married before the 1 st Jany - 1792 - all by the Law of - July 1855 - Be pleased to hand the enclosed to S r J. Edwards - If there could be interest made with any of the B r Sub- -gates to S r J. Edwards to S r J. Jackson - part of Col Glynn 20 years of Richm d - (and I am agent too in Col. Richm d - the Comptroller's office the whole matter with regard to the Mayt. B r 5% pay, & time of death, wd done out as soon as possible, this is a good Senator - by the views of Gov t - by the Comptroller, which his & stand was I enclose on this in regard to poor widows her - I hope you neglect not this office of love fervently & gratefully will you be remunerated for yr. barren interference - I believed it any way incompre h ible with Senatorial dignity mis. When poor widow in the supreme Court be the best act of my life to make these overviews excuse this miserable paper I happened to meet with & believe me Most sincerely Thome John Boyd - agent for widows.

P.S. Mrs. B & I are known to Senator Canfield J.B.
Wm Lloyd Jones 1846

Washington Apr. 12 1844
Sir, I enclose you the additional writings required in case of Mrs Sabra Wallis. - Please send me her certificate as soon as convenient & obey your o'd Servt
Albert Smith
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Papers

7134
Wallis Sabra Smith
NY.
Act July 7 th 38
add
6m. 28d
prior
$ 23.11 per an.
to commence July 1 st 1840.
Also in behalf Register this case and issued certificates under Act Mar. 3 rd 1843.
Honble Albert Smith Hop R

Washington Feb. 12. 1844
Hon. J. S. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Sir, I send you the enclosed
letter to call your attention to the case therein mentioned, I believe the difficulty has been occasioned by subsequent registration. If so please re-examine the case and let me know the result.
I have the honor to be your obedt Servt
Albert Smith

W
Mason G. Smith Esq. Perry Genesee County N.Y.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, December 31 st 1834.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Henry "Walls", as a private, is borne on a Pay Roll of Captain Agrippa Wells' Company, in Col. Porter's Reg't where he is allowed from July 10 th to August 18 th 1777, for services and travel one month and eight days -
m. 2. 1 8
Henry "Walls" name is also borne on a payroll of Capt. Hugh McCallen's Company, in Col. David Wells' Reg't where he is allowed from September 22 nd to October 18. 1777, for services and travel one month and two days.
1 2
Henry Wallace's name is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. James Walworth's Company, in Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment, where he is allowed from July 22 nd to August 27. 1779 - for services and travel one month and eleven days.
1. 11
Henry "Wallace's" name is also borne on a payroll of Capt. Isaac Newton's Company, in Col. S. Murray's Reg't where he is allowed from July 13 th to Oct. 10 th 1780 for services and travel three months and seven days.
3. 7
Edward D. Bangs Esq

Henry Wallis
Payments to be made at New York by Presd: U.S. Natl Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, in Book D Vol. 5. page 148.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Henry Wallis of the State of New York — who was a Private in the Revolutionary
Army is entitled to receive Sixty Nine dollars and Eighty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1832, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards
March 4th 1833 in Perry's Post & given to Isaac in Cash Subt Newton Co. Pa. for Col. Seth Murray's Key

In the matter of the application of Sabra Wallis for a pension. Proof that she is still living.

State of New York, } County of Wyoming, } ss.
John Tompkins, of the town of Perry, in said County, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is well acquainted with Sabra Wallis, of the town of Castile, in said county, widow of Henry Wallis, late of said town, of Castile; - that said Sabra Wallis is now living, at the same place where her late husband died, about half a mile from the residence of this deponent; and had resided there since the death of her said husband who was, as this deponent has understood and believes, a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death.
John Tompkins
Sworn to and subscribed this 28th day of March, 1844, before me, and I hereby certify that the above named John Tompkins is a person of undoubted credibility, and that his statement is correct.
Mason G. Smith Justice of the Peace.
State of New York } Wyoming County } ss
I Walter Howards Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Mason G Smith before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the time of taking such proof and Affidavit a justice of the peace in and for the County of Wyoming, duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said affidavit is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed My Official Seal at Warsaw in said County this 2 nd day of April 1844 Walter Howards

NOV 20 ERR Nov 14 P.M. Plan Cert. not for correction
Hon. J. S. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, City of Washington. D.C.

Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y. November 13, 1834.
Sir, The enclosed certificate is defective, the day of the month being omitted in the date. The agent for paying pensioners in New York, requires that it shall be forwarded to the Department, to have the omission supplied, before paying the last semi-annual payment. Will you have the goodness to have the omission filled, and forward the certificate me.
Very respectfully,
Yours. &c.
Mason G. Smith
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Comm. of Pensions.

Cancel the old certificate and issue a new one for 6 mo. 28 days from
$23.11
Jan my Henry Wallis
Jan 13
J. S. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions, City of Washington.

Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y.
Jan. 8, 1835.
Sir,
Enclosed is the certificate of Edward D. Bangs Secretary of State of Mass. relative to the evidence found in his office respecting the services of Henry Wallis, in the Revolutionary War.
The pension certificate of Henry Wallis, was some time since forwarded to the War Department for the purpose of having the date inserted, which had been omitted; and by your letter of the 20th Novr. last, the enclosed evidence of the pensioner's service was required.
Please forward the Pensioner's certificate to me, whenever the case shall have been acted upon.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient Servt.
Mason G. Smith.
J. S. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Rev. Dr. Sioux City, Iowa. Dec. Dec. 4, 1916. 2
Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D. C.
Dear Sir: Having received no reply to a letter written November sixteenth, and thinking the letter may have gone astray, I take the liberty of writing you again.
We are anxious to obtain proof of service in the Revolutionary War, of Henry Wallace. It has been a family

tradition that he fought in the war and drew a pension after the war.
We would like to get an affidavit of the records on the basis of which this pension was granted.
I will enclose a paper which con- tains recollections my grandfather has of Henry Wallace.
Will you kindly return the paper to me?
We will be greatly obliged if this mat- ter can be given early attention.
Very respectfully
Mrs. H. A. Haakinson
2423 Jones Street Sioux City Iowa.

Sioux City, Iowa.
Nov. 16, 1916.
The Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Desiring to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, we are trying to obtain the record of service in the Revolutionary War of Henry Wallace.
He was born September, twenty third, 1758 and died in Perry, Seneca County, New York, on the

first day of February, 1840.
He drew a pension from the United States Government, after the war until his death.
We would like to obtain the records, on the basis of which this pension was granted.
Any information you are able to give us will be greatly appreciated.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. H. A. Haakinson, 2423 Jones St., Sioux City, Iowa.

Rev Ward M Col