From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"AUCHTERHOUSE, a parish in the county of Forfar, Scotland, 6 miles to the N.W. of Dundee. It has a station on the Dundee and Newtyle branch railway. The parish is situated on the river Dighty, on the southern slope of the Lidlaw Hills, and comprises the villages of Dronley and Kirkton. The living, which is of the value of £229 is in the presbytery of Dundee, and in the patronage of the Earl of Airlie. There is also some glebe attached. Auchterhouse Castle, or the House of Auchterhouse, belongs to the Earl of Airlie. Not far from it is a castle called Wallace Tower. It is a square tower of great strength, the only remains of a largo building conjectured to have been the seat of Sir John Ramsay, formerly lord of Auchterhouse. Here, probably, he received the patriot hero after whom the tower is named, when he arrived from France to attempt the liberation of his country. The parish has an area of 3,567 acres, chiefly arable, and abounds with building and paving stone."

From The Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1845, 'Parish of Auchterhouse' pp 650-651:
“It is called Wallace Tower, and that name had perhaps been given it, on purpose to perpetuate the remembrance of a visit paid by the great Scottish patriot to his contemporary and particular friend, Sir John Ramsay, the proprietor at that time of the Barony of Auchterhouse. That Sir William Wallace did visit Sir John Ramsay at Auchterhouse, there can be no doubt; for it is particularly recorded, that, on landing at Montrose with his French auxiliaries, for the recovery of his native country from the English,

'Then at Montrose they safely all do land.
Good Sir John Ramsay, and the Ruthven true,
Barclay and Bisset, with men not a few,
Do Wallace meet – all canty, keen and crouse,
And with three hundred march to Ochterhouse.' “

The quotation appears in Blind Harry, in Book IX, Chapter III, though it lacks any real provenance other than perhaps oral tradition. It is also mentioned in “Historic scenes in Forfarshire” by William Marshall, 1875:
“In 1303 Sir William Wallace visited it. When he landed that year at Montrose, as has been already narrated, Sir John Ramsay of Auchterhouse was waiting to receive him. He was a particular friend of Wallace, and one of the noble band who devoted their all to support him in his efforts to vindicate the independence and freedom of the country. On that occasion Sir John took Wallace as his guest to Auchterhouse, and with him three hundred of his followers.”

I can find no mention of any other provenance although the verse quoted is the same as that in the S.A. 1845, and there is no mention of the Wallace Tower specifically in the S.A. 1799, which is more primarily concerned with the number of church attendees and the income derived from them, a commonplace finding in these early accounts. Blind Harry mentions Sir John Ramsay many times, from the Council of Ardchattan Priory following the Lanark battle, commencing in Book VII, Chapter II.

'Brave Sir John, who with heart and hand,
Did still stand up for his true native land;
Of noble blood and ancient pedigree,
To Wallace there with sixty men came he.'