Capt. Benjamin Wallace and Letitia Ralston

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Husband Capt. Benjamin Wallace ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1727 or 1738 4 5
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           Died: 8 Dec 1803 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: James Wallace (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 1761 5

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Culbertson (      -      ) 2 6 7 - 1767 4

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Rush (      -      ) 7 - 1784 7

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Wife Letitia Ralston ⁴

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            AKA: Lettice Ralston 5
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         Father: John Ralston (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Mary Wallace ⁴

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           Born: Abt 1761
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           Died: May 1844 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: James B. Wilson (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1803 5

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Benjamin Wallace

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He was taught the trade of wheelwright.
When the Revolution occurred, Mr. Wallace entered with the spirit of his race. He held a command in the battle of Long Island, was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in November, 1776, was captive for nearly a year, when he was exchanged and returned to his family. In December, 1777, he makes application for the discharge of his brother, Michael Wallace, who had been "put under guard" for the reason that he had obtained "a warrant for a substitute in Boyd's battalion for abuse." The Supreme Executive Council granted the application and discharged his brother. In what this "abuse" consisted we are not informed. We do not further hear of him in public or private life until 1780, when he was appointed a magistrate. In the affairs of the Hanover Church, on Bow Creek, he appears to have taken a deep interest, as his name is found upon nearly all the papers relating to it from 1783 to 1792. In 1785, upon the formation of Dauphin County, he was appointed one of the judges. He retained this station until the adoption of the Constitution of 1790, when the mode of constituting courts was changed. He, however, continued in the commission of the peace until his death.
He died and was buried in Hanover graveyard on Bow Creek.

He was, at the time of the Indian raids, about eighteen years of age, and as his father's refuge was "the Irish settlements near the Delaware," the son formed such acquaintance there as led him to choose two of his three wives from the daughters of his father's friends.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 543.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 148.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 379, 458.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 544.

5 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 458.

6 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 19.

7 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 380.