Notebook. Notes for the Wallace family of Cecil County MD

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Note 1

From: Ancestry Woods Board, by Cecilis Fabos-Becker

This Wallace family lived in Cecil County, Maryland--not Lancaster County, PA. ...[T]he land records and tax records and what exists of parish records thus far published or on-line, or otherwise found, show that the widow Elizabeth Woods Wallace and most of her children lived on or adjacent to the Society Hundred in Cecil County Maryland. They lived near Andrew Wallace--who also had a son named Adam who predeceased him in 1733--who appears to have been an older brother of Samuel Wallace. Andrew, according to his tombstone at the Head of the Christiana church in what is now Newark, Delaware, was born in 1672. He arrived before 1700 and settled on the New Munster Hundred, according to historical records of Maryland and Delaware. He was considered among the first settling landowners of that tract.

Note 2

From Rootsweb Wallace Board by Cecilia Becker 2009. The following has been slightly reorganized as indicated by elipses, and square brackets, to improve clarity, plus minor (unmarked) grammatical corrections.

In going through the thousands of on-line and published records for all the early (pre 1750 Virginia) [Wallace] lines there is only one line that cannot be firmly connected by a will or other similar record to a particular father--the lines of the Augusta County Virginia Wallaces that arrived there before 1743. However, there is a BIG clue from the naming tradition...[I was able to find] only one Wallace named Samuel...[who] doesn't have a will or other record naming his children. ....[he was a seafaring merchant...who died in 1726 at sea]...^[1]

The will and other records of Peter's...older brother Adam, indicate that Adam was a mariner and died in "The War of Jenkins' Ear" aka "Admiral Vernon's War" in 1738 at Cartagena...Adam died in Cecil County, Maryland and left a wife and infant daughter. He named his mother, "the Widow Elizabeth Wallace" as his executrix.

Many years ago, researchers at the Cecil County Historical Society familiar with this [Wallace] family ^[2]... also informed me and at least two other researchers that

"the Widow Wallace" and her sons lived in the Rising Sun area, the expansion area for the old "New Munster Hundred" and

there were connections between this family and that of Andrew Wallace ^[3] who was one of the first settlers of the New Munster Hundred and a founder of the "Rock" Presbyterian Church. He was quite prominent and is well documented in church and county histories.

Indeed there is one big indication of a connection upon even a cursory examination of the published and on-line records for Cecil County: there were only TWO, just TWO Wallace families who had the three names William, Adam and Andrew all together.

The one was the prominent Andrew Wallace [of New Munser Hundred].

The other was that one little group of brothers who went to Augusta County, Virginia commencing in 1734....

[Other findings of the CCHS:]

• there were two more brothers to [our otherwise known] William, Samuel, Adam, Andrew, and Peter. [CCHS adds a] James and John.
• ...there was one more sister than we know about. She was married in Cecil County, as was Peter in 1739.
• They...pointed out, correctly that the Widow Elizabeth Wallace and her known children would not be found among the

Donegal Presbytery pewholders.

• ...[O]ur Wallaces attended the Faggs Manor Church at times and the "Head of the Christiana"--neither of which, unfortunately have many published or on-line early records. I and others have found a few, enough to indicate there were Wallaces there, but not enough to sort them out, well.

[B]oth John and James, the two missing brothers from most lists of the brothers and sisters, were clearly in Augusta County--as shown by dated Augusta County records by 1742. Additionally, James had a grown son by the 1750's named William, called "William Jr." to distinguish him from William Sr. who lived east of him. John was the youngest, very probably born 1722-24. According to a slander lawsuit record dated 1750, he was still single in 1750. Other records show he married Isabel Rutherford, daughter of James and Margaret Rutherford in 1751/2. In 1742, he and James Rutherford, together bought several hundred acres of land directly from Magdalena Woods-McDowell-Borden and her husband Benjamin Borden Jr. and the land was immediately north of them and a corner of it adjoined Samuel Wallace, Peter's older brother. Both John and Samuel, by the way had sons named Robert and they were the only ones of that generation who used that name. Until 1746/7, there was only ONE Wallace family on the Borden Grant in Augusta County--the siblings of Peter Wallace b. 1717.

Footnotes

1. ↑ He made...according to immigration and importation records cited in several sources...four trips between Liverpool and "Virginia"...
2. ↑ They'd had several paid queries for information by that time and a few in-person visits like my own
3. ↑ 1672-1750's--tombstone at Newark, Delaware still