| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93007416 |
| Last name | Wallace |
| First name | Samuel |
| Display name | Samuel Wallis |
| Other names | Wallis |
| Birth date | 1736 |
| Death date | 1798 |
| Birth place | Md |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends |
| Bio 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. |
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
Joseph Moore's Journal
Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue