Person:John Wampler (2)

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 6, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Wampler, John - born 10/22/1761 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he entered service in 1776 as wagon train driver to haul ammunition for troops; moved in 1783 to Wythe County, Virginia where he applied for Pension in 1834 & Pension Application Rejected, service not considered military, per current Pension laws; Henry Wampler (no kinship given) & John Stanger made affidavit then that they were neighbors of soldier there, per County Clerk of Court John P. Mathews & his deputy clerk A.B. Moore; query letter in file says soldier died abt. age 80, granted Bounty Land Warrant for Revolutionary War service. F-R11109, R2486.

Records

John Wampler's wife Elizabeth was listed in the will of her father, David Jansohn, written 1809 in Wythe County, Virginia.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Births (not a reliable source). (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

   Name: John Wampler
   Birth: 22 October 1761
   Lancaster, PA, USA
   
   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoolb&h=4704962&ti=0&indiv=try
   http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoolb&h=4704962&ti=0&indiv=try

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Deaths: [database on-line] (not a reliable source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001).

   Name: John Wampler
   Death: 1835
   Wythe, VA, USA

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: [database online] (not considered a reliable primary source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004)
   Source number: 128.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: ENS.

   Name: John Wampler
   Birth: 1761
   PA
   Marriage: 1792
   VA
   
   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=1280385&ti=0&indiv=try
   http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=1280385&ti=0&indiv=try

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Ancestry.com - OneWorldTree (discontinued in 2013): - extremely unreliable source.
5.   Find A Grave.

   John Wampler
   Birth 22 Oct 1761
   Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
   Death unknown
   Wythe County, Virginia, USA
   
   ~ Served in the Revolutionary War
   ~ He filed for a pension on 10 June 1834 in Wythe County and stated he hauled ammunition for the army between 1776 to 1781.
   ~ Married Elizabeth Janson on 22 April 1792 in Wythe County
   ~ Died sometime after 10 June 1834 in Wythe County
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152070693/john-wampler