Samuel Wallace

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Other Names: Wallis

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1736

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1798

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Phila. Quaker shipper and land jobber. b. Md.; acquired land in n. Pa. for James and Drinker and himself (1760s); major landowner in Muncy, Pa., region. m. Lydia Hollingsworth (1770). Associated with James Wilson in Holland Land Co. (1780s-90s); both went bankrupt. Henry Drinker loaned him money and paid his bail; after his death, Henry Drinker tried to buy back his Muncy farm for his widow. Unknown to most of his contemporaries was evidence found in the twentieth century that Wallis was a go-between for Benedict Arnold and the British. Lived in Muncy. Hosted Jacob Lindley and Joseph Moore in 1793, Joshua Sharpless in 1797.

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