Re: SPOTSYLVANIA Co. VA Waller's c1700s
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SPOTSYLVANIA Co. VA Waller's c1700s
5/29/98
Mary Waller daughter of John Waller was my 6th Great Grandmother. Mary Wallers brother John Waller lived in Virginia they came from Virginia here is some info I found at the Library of Virginia on the Wallers. Anyone researching this line contact me .The Virginia Library
Archives & Manuscripts: CATALOG CARDAccession No 26035 Author Waller family. Title Papers, 1667-1816. Record Ser. Personal papers collection; 26035.
Archives & Manuscripts: CATALOG CARDAccession No 26035 Author Waller family. Title Papers, 1667-1816. Record Ser. Personal papers collection; 26035. Quantity 82 leaves. Format Photostats (negative). Background Prominent family from King William and Spotsylvania Counties; and Williamsburg, Virginia. John Waller, of Enfield, King William County, Virginia, was born in 1673 to John and Mary (Key) Waller of England. John Waller was a sheriff in King William County and first clerk of Spotsylvania County, 1722-1742. John married Dorothy King and had six children: Mary (1699-1781), who married Zachary Lewis; John (1701-1776), married to Agnes Carr (1712-1777); William (1714-1760), married to Ann Standard; Benjamin (1716-1786), married to Martha Hall (1728-1780); Edmund (1718-1771), married to Mary Pendleton (1720-1806); and Thomas (1732-1788), married to Sarah Dabney (1740-1822). Benjamin Waller, 3rd son of John and Dorothy Waller, resided in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was a lawyer, served as deputy clerk, King's Attorney, and represented James City County, Virginia in the House of Burgesses. Later, he was a member of the Council of the State of Virginia and presided in the Court of Admiralty from 1779 until his resignation in 1786. William Waller, like his father John, was a clerk in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Summary Papers, 1667-1816, of the Waller family of New Kent and Spotsylvania Counties, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence, suit papers, deeds, surveys and plats for land in King William and New Kent Counties, Virginia. The suit papers, 1761-1763, concern a dispute between John and Benjamin Waller over the inheritance of their father's land. Includes depositions, decrees, land patents, orders, surveys, letters and wills
Waller family. Papers, 1667-1816. Accession 26035. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
Subject Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786. Subject Waller, John, Sr., 1673-1754. Subject Waller, John, Jr., 1701-1767. Subject Waller, Pomfrett, 1747-1799. Subject Waller, William, 1714-1760. Subject Martin family. Subject Waller family.
Subject Virginia -- History -- 17th century. Subject Virginia -- History -- 18th Century. Subject Williamsburg (Va.) -- History -- 18th century. Form Deeds -- Virginia -- King William County. Form Land grants -- Virginia -- New Kent County. Form Letters (correspondence) Form Personal papers. Form Plats. Form Surveys. Form Wills -- Virginia -- King William County.