Person:George Wallis (14)

Rarely do we get a disagreement between two Fellows of the American Genealogical Society. In this case Robert Anderson objects to the notion that George Wallis of Portsmouth was the passenger aged 15 riding with his father Ralph Wallis strictly on the basis that he left no evidence of his existence in New England for several years before reappearing in Portsmouth. Patricia Law Hatcher affirms that he was son of Ralph. Perhaps Anderson overlooked the fact that George Wallis had spent time in Newfoundland after coming to New England before coming back to New England to settle?

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

   George Wallis, Mr., Portsmouth, ‘gent.’ in 1656 when he bot from Samuel Bennett of Rumney Marsh his dwg. ho. called Rumly Hall which he conv. back to B. aft. litigation. Sometime of Newfoundland, he bot at Little Harbor from James Johnson in 1660, in div. of 1661 he and Johnson together had 112 a. Gr.j. 1669, 1672,1684. Bail for Walter Randall 1677. Ag. ± 60 in 1679. Lists 311b, 312eh, 313a, 323, 326bc, 330ab, 331ab, 49, 52, 55b. He d. 14 Dec. 1685; adm. 2 Jan. fol. to wid. Eleanor, her bondsm. Robert Elliot. Settlement was made on s. George, evid. the second s., with consent of wid. and other ch: William. Honor, may have m. James Allard (2). Caleb. Daughter, w. of Walter Randall (17); one Margaret Woollis wit. with Elias Stileman in 1678. Daughter (Eleanor), w. of James Berry (5). In Greenland tax list, Dec. 1688, one line ‘James Allerd Widow Wallis.’ She was also taxed in July 1690. List 307h

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Wright, Helen Marion Locke. The Ancestry of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright . (Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press, 2011)
   57 # 356.

   George² Wallis (Ralph¹) was born in England about 1620 (age at immigration) and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 14 Dec 1685. He married by say 1645 (estimating marriage at 25) Eleanor if she was the mother of his children. He immigrated in 1635, age 15 on the Abigail with Ralph Wallis, presumed to be his father. Eleanor born England say 1625 (estimating five years younger than her husband) and died after 2 Jan 1686 (admin husband's estate) See Hotten 92;

3.   Ralph¹ Wallis, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   2:7:208 .

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4.   George Wallis, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:401.

   WALLIS or WALLACE, GEORGE, a youth of 15 yrs. came in the
   Abigail, from London 1635, perhaps s. of Ralph, wh. came at the same
   time; in Dec. 1656 was of Rumney Marsh, part of Boston now Chelsea,
   there had good est. may have ben f. of the foll. GEORGE, Portsmouth,
   m. 18 Nov. 1686, Ann, perhaps d. of Richard Shortridge, was of
   the gr. jury that yr.