Person:John Wallis (12)

A note in Maryland Room, Talbot County Library says; "John Wallis, Born 12 July 1775 in Kent County MD was a planter. In addition to much other property, he owned through his wife Sarah Everett Comegys (daughter of Jesse Comegys and his wife Mary Everett) Sewards Hope and Gleaves Adventure. He had been reared as a Friend but when he married Sarah Everett Comegys he became a Churchman and attended Shrewsbury Church with his wife whose ancestor Cornelius Comegys was one of the organizers of the parish in 1692. John Wallis was a noble upright christian gentleman loved by his family and universally respected."

John Wallis served in the War of 1812. He first enlisted in Capt. George Spry's Company on 3 May 1813 and served for 8 days. In Aug 1813 he again served in the same company for 12 days. Between 11 and 27 Sep 1814 he was serving under Capt Frederick Boyer attached to the 21st Regiment under Lieut Coln Phillip Reed at Rock Hall.

John inherited his fathers two thirds interest in Partnership and purchased the remainding one third from his uncle John Jr's widow, Hennerritta Hull.

Notice in The Telegraph Friday 25 July 1828. Died at his residence near Georgetown Crossroads on Thursday the 17th inst. Mr John Wallis an intelligent and respectable man and a most valuable and useful citizen.

John styled himself as a merchant when he sold his property Agreement.

All of the sons of John and Sarah went to Louisiana and bought sugar plantations. Only two, Francis Ludolph and Arthur Johns returned to live in Kent Co MD.

"My very dear children - Francis, Jesse, Cornelius, Benjamine and Sophia:

   It has pleased the Almighty to remove from your protection and support ye Father. You are still bless'd with an affectionate and deserving Mother which is a comfort. Ye several duties toward ye mother are strongly pointed out by nature as also the devine precept of the Gospel.
   Attend my dear children to every respectful duty to ye mother, ye country and ye God.
   Let the vocations during the period of ye several apprenticeships be assiduously applied in improving ye education by writing, reading and close study.
   Carefully avoid becoming too much enamoured with frivolities of the youth of the present time.
   Let ye attention be always engaged about something laudable and praise worthy, and you my sons, avoid the alluring paths of vice and dissipation as you would the greatest dangers. Make friends and confidents of few, always be religiously just in all ye dealings, faithful and dutiful to ye several masters and mistresses, vigilent in performing their directions; you will thereby acquire their love and confidence.
   Cherish always that brotherly love that ought to subsist between brothers and sisters. Avoid all strife and contention.
   The little property ye father has been able to leave you (the wreak of a better fortune lost and wasted for want of early admonition) will give you a tolerable start, which by industry and prudence will increase sufficiently to enable you to support a family genteely and become useful members of society - if ye several portions was considerable, with a watchful care over yeselves by pursuing the paths of industry and virtue. It would not last should a course of that kind be either of ye unfortunate lots.
   It was wise disposition of providence that I was not enabled to lay up stores of wealth for a dissipated child or children, thereby curtailing ye powers to do injury to yeselves and society - the little ye have by proper management may make you a credit to ye father, ye mother and ye country.
   Ye father has seen a good deal of the world and has found that those that attend little to it and pursue their own conserns have the most tranquil time of it.
   Ye father earnestly recommends to each of you marry early, be discreet in ye choice, and let that one be near ye own years as to age, of reputation pure, of habits industrious and economical. Such companions cannot fail in making you happy. Avoid as you would certain destruction the illicit commune with bad women, it being the groundwork of every other vice, and in the end will lead to destruction, reputation and ye property.
   In ye commune with the world always deal openly and justly with everyone, take from no one what is not ye own, but in all cases and at all times keep alive every honourable and just feeling.
   Should ye country ever want ye support as soldiers or otherwise the call is just and ought to be attended, always keeping in view that you are citizen therof and bound as well from duty as honour to give ye support when required even unto death.
   These my sons are ye father's reflections when well which he has committed to paper that each and every one of you may at times, after he has gone from you, read them over, weigh them and govern yourselves accordingly, so may the blessing of the Almighty be always with you.

John Wallis choose Elizabeth Wallis as his guardian. Peregrin Cooper and John Hudson provided bond.

Francis Wallis owned Partnership, Agreement & Vacancy and Mannor Bought.

Kent County Maryland Indentures Guardian Bonds Book 2 1786-1795 MSA CR481.

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 cellar under same walled up with brick. Plank floors above and below and one brick chimney. 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 weather boarded 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 and plank 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 in 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, which 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 cellar under it and one third part of 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 & Manor Bought we do find one log dwelling house twenty two feet long by eighteen feet wide enclosed with an oak board cedar 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....

Dated 13 July 1790

1. ↑ John & Sarah Wallis family bible records, Record Number: CS71.W2144 1948. (Mathew Carey, #22 Market St., Philadelphia, PA, 1806).
2. ↑ John & Sarah Wallis family bible records, Record Number: CS71.W2144 1948. (Mathew Carey, #22 Market St., Philadelphia, PA, 1806).
3. ↑ Wallis, Guy. Comegys-Wallis Burial Ground.
4.   Kent County, MD, Land Records
   Liber TW1 folio 1.
5.   Wallis, Ellen Isham Schutt. Wallis Genealogy. (unpublished, c 1930)
   page 106.
6.   Orphan Court Proceeding, Kent County MD
   Indentures 1786-95. CR 481.
7.   Orphan Court Proceeding, Kent County MD
   Indentures 1786-95. CR 481.
8.   Orphan Court Proceeding, Kent County MD
   Indentures 1786-95. CR 481.
9. ↑ Ellen Isham Schutt Wallises notes say the John was born at Whitestone Farm near Sassafras.
10. ↑ Cause of death was a "severe affliction of the throat." Family Record of John Wallis' based on information supplied by Emily Thomas Wallis indicates that John Wallis was born on 12 July 1775. His tombstone indicates he was born on 1 August 1774 and died on 27 July 1828.