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From: David Charlebois <>
Subject: [WALLACE-L] Re: WALLACE-D Digest V01 #192
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:17:52 -0500
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I just realized I made an error on this submittal. This should have said 1790
census.

>>I also found a Nehemiah Wallace living in Addison County, VT in the 1870
census. I believe this to be the same Nehemiah because Allen's Service
Record says he was born in Shoreham, Addison County, VT. I assume
Chester was also born nearby.<<

Dave

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> Subject: [WALLACE-L] Wallaces in Cuyahoga County, OH in 1820 census
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:56:50 -0500
> From: David Charlebois <>
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> I have been trying to find information on the 3 Wallace's that are on
> the 1820 Cuyahoga County, OH census. I believe they are related to my
> ggg-grandfather Ethan Allen Wallace but have not yet proved the
> relationship.
>
> They are Nemiah (Nehemiah) who is listed as being over 45, married with
> a wife over 45, a son 10-16, and a daughter 16-18
> Ira listed as being 26-45, married with a wife 16-18 and 2 daughters
> under 10. The age of Ira's wife could be wrong because the 1830 census
> shows her as being 30-40.
> Chester listed as being 16-26, married with a wife 16-26 and a son and
> daughter both under 10.
>
> Yesterday someone was kind enough to send me this information.
>
> >I found some information on the relationship between Nemiah, Ira, and
> Chester in an 1879 History of Cuyahoga County. The information was given
> as part of the history of Newburg Township, under the heading "Early
> Settlement". A paragraph in the history states:
>
> "When Mr. Marks settled in Newburg there were on the Bedford road in
> Newburg the Jewetts, John and Samuel Brooks, and Nehemiah Wallace, with
> his three sons, Ira, Chester, and Jefferson, the former two being
> married. Chester is still living in Morrow County, in this state".<
>
> So it appears that the male child living with Nemiah at the time is
> Jefferson.
>
> I was trying to determine if Nemiah may possibly be Ethan Allen's
> father. Based on this information, I guess I now have to rule that out.
>
> Ethan Allen fought in the war of 1812 and applied for a pension in
> 1860. At that time Allen (as he is called in the pension documents) was
> living in Morrow County, OH near Chester. Chester submitted the
> following affidavit in support of Allen's pension.
>
> - ---------------------------
> AFFIDAVIT of CHESTER WALLACE
> Morrow County p on this 17th day of April one thousand eight hundred
> and sixty personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within
> and for the County & State aforesaid Chester Wallace aged sixty three
> years a resident of Peru Township in said county, being by me duly sworn
> says that he is well acquainted with Allen Wallace and has been
> acquainted with him all my life time or since he was born and that I
> have been informed by him and others that he enlisted in the regular
> army and I have often heard him complain of a pain in the left side of
> his head and his left eye and often heard him say he xxx a blow on his
> head with what he supposed a but of a musket at the Battle of Fort in
> August, 1814 and that he was sick at my house some four or five years
> after he left the army with a severe pain in his head and eye. The
> doctor xxxxxx xx performed some way on his eye and the physician said he
> thought it proceeded from the wound he xxx on the head. his occupation
> has been working on a farm what he has been able to do much and at
> present not able to do more than half days and his habits have always
> been temperate.
> Chester Wallace
>
> Sworn and subscribed before me on this day and year above written
> And I certify the above name Chester Wallace is a credible witness.
> Solomon Westbrook
> J.P.
> ---------------------------
> So based on this I know that Allen and Chester knew each other all their
> lives and Allen even lived with Chester 4-5 years after the war. Census
> records also says they were both born in Vermont, Allen is 1798 and
> Chester in 1797. From this I come to the conclusion that they were
> probably first cousins.
> I also found a Nehemiah Wallace living in Addison County, VT in the 1870
> census. I believe this to be the same Nehemiah because Allen's Service
> Record says he was born in Shoreham, Addison County, VT. I assume
> Chester was also born nearby.
>
> Also submitted with the pension application was this affidavit by Allen
> ------------------------
> AFFIDAVIT of ALLEN WALLACE
> State of Ohio
> County of Morrow p on this 17th day of April one thousand eight
> hundred and sixty personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace
> within and for the County and State aforesaid Allen Wallace aged sixty
> two years a resident of Peru Township in the State of Ohio who being
> duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical Allen
> Wallace who enlisted in the service of the United States as a private.
> In the Company formed by Lieut McElvane in the war with great Brittian
> declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812 and was
> honorably Discharged on sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one
> thousand eight hundred & fifteen at Chillicothe in the State of Ohio and
> while in the service and in the line of his duty he received the
> following wound. The wound is on the left side of his head near the top
> of the crown of the head on the knight or morning of August 15th 1814.
> Can't state posatively what hour it was as I always supported and vainly
> believe was done with the But of a British Musket at the Battle of Fort
> Erie when the British was storming the fort when I came to my senses I
> found myself in the bomb proof of the fort and was afterwards informed
> by Lieut McElvane that he picked me up senseless and conveyed me to said
> bomb proof and have always been troubled with pane in my head and my
> left eye is and has been affected ever since can't see a single letter
> of print with said left eye.
>
> After I was discharged I remained in the State of Ohio in Franklin
> County until March 1816 then I went to Otsego Co. in the State of New
> York and staid there about three years then came into Cuyahoga Co. Ohio
> and staid about two years and then went to Erie Co, New York staid about
> two years and then back to Cuyahoga Co. O. again, one year in the State
> of Michigan and the balance of the time in this state and my occupation
> has been farming when able to do any thing not to exceed one half the
> time and not able to labor any. The informant further states that he is
> credibly informed and vainly believes that Lieut McElvan is dead and
> died some five years ago and he was the only officer of the Company that
> I know of and not one solitary soldier that I know of now living
> Allen Wallace
>
> State of Ohio
> County of Morrow P Personally appeared A. E. Westbrook and J. H.
> Pennock, residents of the town of Peru in said county, persons whom I
> certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly
> sworn say they were present & saw Allen Wallace sign his name to the
> foregoing declaration and they further swear that they have every reason
> to believe from the appearances of the applicant and those acquainted
> with him that he is the identical person he represents himself to be and
> the informants do reside in the town & County aforesaid
> A.E. Westbrook
> J. H. Pennock
> Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of April 1860
> Solomon Westbrook, J.P.
> - -----------------------------
>
> Since Allen said he spent 3 years (1816-1819) in Otsego County, NY after
> the war, I checked the census records there. The 1800 and 1810 census
> showed only one Wallace living in the county. His name is Nathaniel.
> Could this be Allen's father? I can't think of any other reason Allen
> would have went to live in Otsego County unless he had a relative
> there. Unfortunately the 1820 census indicates a second Nathaniel
> Wallace's living in the county that is also old enough to be his
> father. Of course, I have to leave open the possibility that possibly
> Allen's father was already dead and Nathaniel is another uncle.
>
> I am trying to find more information about the Otsego Wallace's but if
> anyone is researching this family or is descended from Nemiah Wallaces
> family, I would like them to contact me.
>
> Dave

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