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The "Redd" family. Waller "founder" Mary Waller born October 26, 1763.
Listed below are "Waller" marriages recorded in
Henry County. If
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Oct 18 1841 Malinda Waller married Bassett Burwell
Oct 04 1836 Martha S Waller married William P Brewer
Jun 10 1814 Sarah Matilda Waller married Henry Edwards
Feb 07 1810 Sarah Waller married William Hanby
Nov 12 1827 Polley Waller married George King
Mar 17 1822 Elizabeth Waller married John King
Jan 09 1809 Penelope Waller married George McCrow
Oct 14 1822 Martha M Waller married Henry Pritchett
Jul 21 1849 Sarah J Waller married Peter R Reamy
Aug 24 1843 Mary Waller Dillard married David H Spencer
Jul 12 1806 Carr Waller married Susanna Edwards
Mar 20 1823 Edmund Waller married Ann King
Jul 10 1806 George Waller Jr married Polley Staples
Mar 24 1830 George Waller married Eliza Waller
Jan 07 1822 Granvill Waller married Virginia McDonald
Oct 18 1841 James E Waller married Mary Fontaine
Feb 08 1803 William Waller married Polley Barksdale
Apr 23 1814 Sarah Waller married Henry D Watson
Oct 20 1842 Sally H Waller married Elam Williams
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots: Volume 4,
(Ancestry)
WALLER George Maj Nr Fieldale, Henry Co VA 31
Waller, George
Waller, John
Waller, Joseph G.
Waller, Maria
Waller, Mary
Colonel George Waller (1734-1814) is one of our more interesting Wallers. He was born in Prince William County, VA, son of George Waller and Elizabeth Allen. When George was four the family moved to Springhill, Stafford County VA where they settled on part of the old Waller-Masters grant of 1669.
George found his wife in near-by Spotsylvania County, where in December, 1760, he married Anne Winston Carr, daughter of Captain William Carr and his wife Elizabeth Winston. Of illustrious family and connection, Anne was a second cousin of Patrick Henry, the Revolutionary War hero.
It is probable George and Anne first established a home in Spotsylvania County, possibly on land belonging to the Carr family. Deeds were witnessed in that county in 1769 by George, Anne, and her father.
By September 27, 1775 the young couple were in Pittsylvania County Virginia, where a court nominated George to be an Ensign in the Militia. Pittsylvania County, established in 1766 was only nine years old at this time. Henry County was not cut from Pittsylvania County until 1776.
Henry County, (named for Patrick Henry) at that time a wild and rugged frontier, is located high on the Piedmont Plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The new County held it’s first court on April 20, 1778. George was one of the four Justices seated. In October 1780 he was appointed Tax Commissioner.
Virginia had had little part in the Revolutionary War in it’s early northern stages, but after the fall of Charleston, South Carolina, to the British on April 12, 1780, General Cornwallis began a devastating march across the Carolinas. It was to strengthen the American forces under General Green in North Carolina that George Waller, then holding the rank of Major of Militia, was ordered to march twenty-one companies of Militia to Hillsborough, North Carolina to join General Adam Stevens.
They engaged the English at the Battle of Guilford Court House. The efforts against Cornwallis were not very spectacular but they did elbow him back to the coast and into the trap General Washington had prepared on Yorktown peninsula. The English surrendered on October 19, 1781. George Waller and the troops under his command were with Washington during the siege of Yorktown and at the surrender. George was recommended for a commission as Colonel of Militia in March, 1782, and was commissioned soon thereafter.