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I would appreciate any help I can get on the ancestry of Joseph. Scroll down on this page to view an article that tells all I know about this Revolutionary War Veteran. I
would also like to exchange information with any other descendants of Joseph Waller and Elizabeth Flint.
Toward the very bottom of this page are a number of Waller family records recorded in Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Maryland.
Descendants of Joseph Waller
1 Joseph Waller
. +Elizabeth Flint
........ 2 Margaret Peggy Waller
............ +Alexander Sample
................... 3 William Sample
....................... +Louisa Smith
.............................. 4 Mary Catherine Sample
.................................. +Darius Berry
......................................... 5 Annie Nora Berry
............................................. +Sam Craig
.................................................... 6 Alton Clifford
Craig
........................................................ +Evelyn Lucille
Cook
.............................................................. 7 Kathryn
Jean Craig
.................................................................. +Unknown
Broussard
........ 2 Joseph Waller
........ 2 Nathaniel Waller
........ 2 Nancy Waller
............ +Eli Tool
........ 2 Sarah Waller
............ +Mack Brown
........ 2 Perry Waller
Joseph Waller served in the Revolutionary War from Georgia, and was in the Continental Line rather than the Militia. He received a Bounty Land Grant in Franklin County, GA in 1784 as a result of his war service. I don't have proof of the Land Grant, but it has been accepted by the DAR.
Joseph appears on the 1807 & 1810 Tax Digests of Baldwin County, GA, and he paid taxes on property in Hancock County which was owned by the orphans of Charles Waller (relationship unknown).
Joseph married Elizabeth Flint on 13 January, 1773 in Granville
County,
He wrote his Will on 17 Nov 1817, and it was filed for Probate 2 Nov 1818,
so he
apparently died in 1818 in Baldwin Co. Elizabeth, his widow, moved to
Autauga Co., AL
where she died in 1827.
WILL of JOSEPH WALLER, SR.
In the name of God Amen.
I Joseph Waller Senr. of the county of Baldwin and State of Georgia call to
mind the
mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last will and testament in
the following
manner and form.
Item 1. I will and bequeath to my two sons Joseph Waller Jr. and
Nathaniel Waller all
my land whereon I now live containing two hundred and two and a half acres,
that after my
decease the same be sold and the money thence arising be equally divided
between them and
that they pay to my beloved wife the Interest of one third parts of the
money annually
during her life.
Item 2. I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth Waller my two negroes Dinahe and Celia to labor and wait on her during her life and that my negroe boy Calvin be hired out amongst my children and the money thence arising be also applied to the support of my wife during her life and that she keep all three of our beads and a horse if she should "choose to keep one also a cow if she wants it.
Item 3. I will that at the decease of my wife my three beads and their furnature be given up to my three daughters, viz. one each to Peggy Sample, Nancy Tool, and Sarah Brown.
Item 4. I will that at the decease of my wife my three slaves above named be sold in my family and the money thence arising be equally divided amongst my four children viz Joseph Waller, Nathaniel Waller, Peggy Sample and Sarah Brown -- Reserving out of the same one hundred and twenty dollars it being one fifth part of what I gave for the said Negroes because I gave her husband Eli Tool an opportunity of joining in my contract for negroes which has been profitable to him.
Item 5. It is also my will that all my movable property note above
disposed of except
such articles about the house as my wife may have need of be sold and my
dues collected
and after paying all my lawful debts the remainder be equally divided
amongst my five
children above named and likewise what of my property left to my wife may
remain at her
death be also equally divided as above stated (Viz) All that has not been
otherwise
appropriated above -
I do hereby constitute and ordain this and no other to be my last will and testament hereby Revoking all former wills and testaments by me hitherto named willed or bequeathed.
Ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament. I also hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Joseph Waller Jr. and Nathaniel Waller or in case of failure my son-in-law Mack Brown and my friend Edmund Brantly Executors to this my last will and testament.
In witness of which I the said Joseph Waller Senior have hereunto set my
hand and seal
this seventeenth of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred &
Seventeen
Signed in the presence of Joseph Waller Sr.
(Seal)
Benjamin Talbert
Nancy Talbert
her mark
Jeremiah Reid
his mark
Will recorded in Baldwin County, Georgia. Pages 134, 135, 136 in 1818.
WALLER FAMILY RECORDS IN STEPNEY PARISH, SOMERSET CO., MD*
Maryland & Delaware Genealogist, Vol. IV, No.3, 1961 - 1964, July
1963
Contributed by Mrs. Hubert Tharp, Copied by Asst. Editor, Sarah Seth Clark
Children of Richard and Ann Waller
Ebenezer, b. Jan. 8, 1742
William Cottman, b. Oct. 14, 1743
Mary, b. Mar. 22, 1745
Richard, b. May 4, 1747
Thomas, b. Jan 28, 1749
George, b. Oct. 1, 1750
Jonathan, b. Sept. 1, 1752
Ann, b. Oct. 29, 1754
Nathaniel Waller m. Elizabeth Strobridge, Sept. 21, 1741. Children were:
Zephariah, b. Feb. 28, 1744
Nathaniel, b. Mar. 13, 1749
Joseph, b. Nov. 22, 1751
Nelly, b. Sept. 12, 1754
Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1757
Ellinor Waller m. John Parramore, Aug. 28, 1743. Children of this
marriage were:
Thomas, Joh, Betsy, and Nathaniel.
John Waller m. Mary Hoffington Aug. 18, 1751. Children were:
Jonathan, B. Aug, 18, 1752
Betty, b. Mar. 30, 1754
Mary, b. May 9, 1756
Sarah, b. Oct. 9, 1758
Littleton, b. Mar. 1. 1761
Aaron Carter m. Mary Waller, Dec. 30, 1751. Children were:
James,
Joseph,
Jane,
Priscilla
William Waller m. Rachel ____. Children were:
Nice, b. Apr. 13, 1751
Rachel, b. Mar. 24, 1754
William, b. Feb 12, 1757
Ephraim, b. Feb. 19, 1760
George and Elender Waller. Child: Thomas, b. Dec. 29, 1793.
Joseph and Elizabeth Waller. Child: William, b. Dec. 26, 1806.
William and Rebecca Waller. Child: Eleanor Whinwright, b. Jan. 4, 1793.
Thomas Waller, Jr., m. Jane CAlloway, Feb. 4, 1733/34. Children were:
Joshua, b. Feb. 12, 1734/35
Jane, b. Feb, 6, 1736/37
EARLY BIRTHS:
Elizabeth, dau. of William and Bridget Waller, b. Nov. 14, 1689.
_____ Waller, b. _____, 1692.
Thomas, b. Feb. 1696.
Jane Ann, b. Sept. 1698
John S., son of William, b. _____
*Copied from Rev. C.H.B. Turner's "Coll. of General. Abstracts of
Somst. &
Coventry Parishes of Somst. Co., MD".