Person:Francis Wallis (2)

Lt. Francis Wallis was raised as a Quaker and was a member and elder of the Cecil Meeting of Friends. He was one of the first to prepair himself for military service, for which he was "disowned" by the Cecil Meeting of Friends. In his death he was forgiven by the Friends of Cecil Meeting and was buried under the great oaks by the meeting house. Early in 1775 he was commissioned 2nd Lt. in Capt. Nathaniel Comegys 7th Co of 27th Btn of Kent Co MD Militia, under Col. Donaldson Yates, which joined the "Flying Camp" and served from 1775-1778. He received from his father's estate part of a tract of land called Agreement and part of Partnership.

Samuel Wallis of Hartford County sold 17.5 acres of Partnership to Francis Wallis for £420. Based on the price this parcel may have contained buildings.

Estate administered by John Graham second husband of widow and guardian of John.

From the Indentures Books, Partnership, Agreement & Vacancy & Manor Bought. 493 acres total. Property under care of John Graham who married Elizabeth Wallis. Partnership has dwelling with two rooms below. The one a frame 18 feet long by 18 feet wide with celler under same walled up with brick. Plank floors above and below and one brick chiminy. The other room of log twenty foot long eighteen foot wide. One brick chimney and plank floors above and below. The whole weather boarded with pine plank in bad repair, a framed passage between the house and kitchen ten feet wide by eight feet wide weather boarded with clapboards. One log kitchen twenty feet long by eighteen feet wide weatherboarded with clapboards with one brick chimney in bad repair. One framed barn 30 feet long by 24 feet wide--?-- with pine plank and an oak roof andplank floor in good repair. One oak corn house 20 feet long and 10 feet wide in bad repair. One log meat house 12 feet square in bad repair. One log stable 20 feet long by 18 feet wide in middlin repair. Two old stables of --?-- logs in very bad repair and one carriage house in very bad repair. One draw well about 22 feet deep walled up with bricks i bad repair. With 30 apple trees 12 cherry trees and 6 peach trees. The plantation enclosed with a tolerable oak fence. But as much as William Hull in right of his wife hath title to dowery in the tract which heretofore was laid off in the life time of Francis Wallis father to the minor whivh thirds is one hundred acres laid off on the west side with the following buildings and opurtments to wit the framed dwelling room with the celler under it and one third part od all other buildings and the whole of the fruit trees and one third of the wood lands. In consideration where of we estimate the annual value thereof to be thirty pounds current money.....

On the lands called the Agreement and Vacancy & Manorbought we do find one log dwelling house twenty two feet long by eighteen feet wide inclosed with an oak board ceader roof and oak plank floors above and below. One brick chimney, a shed adjoining twenty two feet long by 10 feet wide enclosed with clapboard both in midling repair....

1. ↑ Records of Meetings, Cecil Meeting of Friends, Kent Co, MD
   Vol 2, p 3.
2. ↑ Wallis, Thomas Smythe, Mrs. Appendix to the Comegys & Wallis Families published in the 1936 edition of Old Kent.. (1936).
3. ↑ Wallis, Thomas Smythe, Mrs. Appendix to the Comegys & Wallis Families published in the 1936 edition of Old Kent.. (1936).
4. ↑ Wallis, Thomas Smythe, Mrs. Appendix to the Comegys & Wallis Families published in the 1936 edition of Old Kent.. (1936).
5.   Wallis, Thomas Smythe, Mrs. Appendix to the Comegys & Wallis Families published in the 1936 edition of Old Kent.. (1936).
6.   Wallis, Ellen Isham Schutt. Revolutionary Patriots of the Comegys Family, Volume: Vol 67, Pages: 15-18 & 86-88. (DAR Magazine, Jan & Feb 1933)
   Jan & Feb 1933.
7.   Skirven, Margaret R. Kent County Muster Roll, 1778, 27th Btn, Volume: Vol 3. (Patriotic Marylander, Second Date, Dec 1916).
8.   Kent County Probate Records
   Inventories Vol 9 page 338.
9.   Kent County Probate Records
   Guardian book Vol 2 page 189. Maryland State Archive microfilm CR 481.
10. ↑ Birth date given as 5th day, 10th month, 1749.
11. ↑ Will proved 13 June 1789.