Richard Wallace and Mary Simpson

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Husband Richard Wallace ^{1 2}

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Wife Mary Simpson ³

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1 M Peter Wallace ^{1 2 4}

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Jane Craig (1767-1833) 6 7 8
           Marr: Nov 1786 2

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Wallace

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He came to the "Derry Settlement," Westmoreland County, Pennsylvaina, in 1763, and became an extensive land owner and a great Indian fighter. One of the earliest forts in that region was "Wallace's Fort", about one and a half miles from the present Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and it was the scene of a number of hard fought battles with the Indians. Wallace's mill, near this fort, is said to have been the first mill west of the Alleghenies, and men travelled on horseback along the forest paths great distances to have a sack of corn ground at this mill. Richard Wallace was Quarter Master in the disastrous Lochrey expedition in August, 1781, when all the American soldiers were either killed or captured by the Indians.

The following is from the article on Wallace's Fort in Volume II, Forts of Pennsylvania: "In a memorial directed to President Moore, endorsed July 3, 1782, subscribed by Isaac Anderson, Lieut. of Captain Shearer's Company of Rangers, and Richard Wallace, late Quartermaster to Col. Lochry, it was represented that "they had the misfortune to be made prisoners by the Indians on August 24th last and carried to Montreal, and there kept in close confinement till the 26th May last, when they were so fortunate as to make their escape, and after a long and fatiguing march through the wilderness, they got to the city (Philadelphia) yesterday at 3 o'clock."
Some time after his return home Richard Wallace, with other adventurous spirits, went on an expedition to Ohio and fell into the hands of the Indians and his fate was never definitely known by his family.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 732.

2 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 98.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 359.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 362.

5 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 99.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 408.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 315.

8 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 16, 98.