Caleb Baker Wallace (abt. 1742 - abt. 1814)

Born about 1742 in Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (McDowell) Wallace — married 1774 in Botetourt, Virginia, United States

Husband of Rosanna (Christian) Wallace — married 10 May 1779 in Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA

Husband of Mary (Brown) Wallace — married 1807 in Frankfort, Franklin Co., KY

Descendants

Died about Apr 1814 at about age 72 in Midway, Woodford Co., KY

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Biography

Caleb Wallace is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A119873.

Birth

1742

Charlotte Co., VA^[1]

Death

APR 1814

Midway, Woodford Co., KY^[2]

Burial

Withrow Farm, Versailles, Woodford Co.,KY^[3]

Note

Princeton graduate; frontier Presbyterian minister; among founders of Hampden-Sidney College and Washington & Lee Univ. in Va. and Transylvania Univ. in Ky. 3rd justice appointed to 1st Ky Court of Appeals. Listed in DAR Patriot Index, Vol. I, p.173.

SOURCE: Biographical sketch in "Portrait and Biographical Record of LaFayette and Saline Counties, Missouri", Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1893, as follows: first settlement in Pennsylvania and later in Virginia." ... "Caleb Wallace, was among the first settlers in that portion of Virginia which was afterward taken into the State of Kentucky. In the year 1792 he was a member of four successive conventions of Kentucky at Danville in 1792, as well as a member of the Constitutional Convention that which formed the first constitution of Kentucky at Frankfort in 1797; also a Presidential Elector from Kentucky in 1797, when John Adams was elected President, and was one of the first Judges of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, appointed in 1792, soon after that State was admitted into the Union. He served for twenty years in the latter capacity, associated with the most distinguished jurists of Kentucy's early history, and resided successively in Lincoln, Fayette, and Woodford Counties."

In an E-mail communication from James H. Fristoe , Sept. 1998, he has Caleb's place of birth as "Cub Creek, Lunenburg, now Lunenburg Co. VA; died Apr 1814"..

DAR Patriot Index-Centennial Edition, p. 3282

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.

Marriage

FAM

@I1707@

@I1708@

1774

, Botetourt Co., VA^[4]

FAM

@I1707@

@I1709@

@I1710@

@I1711@

@I604@

@I1713@

@I1714@

@I1715@

@I1716@

@I1717@

@I1718@

11 MAY 1779

Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA^[5][6]

FAM

@I1707@

@I1719@

1807

Frankfort, Franklin Co., KY^[7]

FAM

@I1703@

@I1706@

@I1707@

@I1720@

@I1721@

@I1724@

1841

Charlotte Co., VA^[8][9]

Sources

• Source: S128 Author: Wallace, William Donald , Sr. Title: Wallace Family Abbreviation: Wallace, William D., Sr. Publication: RootsWeb/31 Oct 2001 Repository: #R58 Media: Electronic Paranthetical: Y
• Repository: R58 Name: RootsWeb E-Mail Address: foodeter at poetic dot com
• Source: S32 Author: Dennis and Jean Boyer Title: Descendants of Peter Wallace Sr. Abbreviation: Peter Wallace Descendants Publication: 10 Sep 2000 Repository: #R21 Media: Electronic Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Repository: R21 Name: RootsWeb Address: Dennis and Jean Boyer CONT 2890 S Hunt Lane CONT Fayetteville AR 72701-8051 Phone Number: 501 442 6098 E-Mail Address: deboyer at cox-internet dot com

1. ↑ Source: #S128
2. ↑ Source: #S32
3. ↑ Source: #S128
4. ↑ Source: #S128
5. ↑ Source: #S128
6. ↑ Source: #S32
7. ↑ Source: #S128
8. ↑ Source: #S128
9. ↑ Source: #S32

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Bob Nichol for creating WikiTree profile Wallace-2998 through the import of Willis.ged on Mar 8, 2013.

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