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Subject: Wallace.John.1748.Jessamine-Fayette.BIOS


John Wallace 1748 -
Jessamine-Fayette County KyArchives Biography

Author: Bennett H. Young

Capt John Wallace

Was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 18, 1748. His father had 
come from Ireland in 1737. Captain Wallace served in the Revolutionary 
armies under General Washington. He had three brothers in his company. 
He was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, and fought the 
battle of Trenton. Colonel Rahl, the commander of the Hessians, in that 
battle, was killed by one of the sharpshooters in Captain Wallace's 
company. There Captain Wallace took from one of the Hessian officers 
a sword, which was kept in the family for eighty years, and was taken 
by Federal soldiers from the house of the Rev. Joseph Wallace, in 
Independence, Missouri, during the late war. After his marriage to Jane 
Finley, in 1777, he removed to Virginia, but shortly after came to Fayette 
county, Ky., accompanied by several members of his family. His son, Joseph 
Wallace, married Sarah Barr, January 24, 1829, and shortly after this 
Captain Wallace settled in Jessamine county, where the East Fork and main 
Jessamine Creek unite, and carried on for more than forty years an extensive 
tannery. He was a most efficient business man, kindly and considerate in all 
the relations of life, and was one of the best citizens that ever lived in 
Jessamine. He died at his place, a few miles south of Nicholasville, 
Dec. 19, 1855, in the 76th year of his age.
Mrs. T. J. Brown was one of his daughters. Scattered throughout Kentucky 
and Missouri are his descendants. They carry with them as their inheritance 
the manly, patriotic, intelligent and Christian instincts which marked their 
ancestors.


Submitted by: Joy Fisher
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Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 
1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be measured in money, 
and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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