Huddleston/Waller information
At a Court held for Spotsylvania County on Tuesday Decemb. The fourth 1750-Recorded in Will Book B at page 56. The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Warrin Deced. Being Exhibit ted and sworn to in Court By Hackley Warrin Exor. Therein named and was proved by the oaths of Robert Huddlestone and Abrahm. Rogers Witnesses thereto & is ordered to be Record ~ Test ~ Edmund Waller A copy, _-~-i. Cl Cur. Teste: ~ " Deputy Clerk
House of Commons Journal 3 15 March 1643 Sir Hugh Chomeley is mentioned. In the index it shows Sir Hugh Chomeley deserting the Parliament. 3 April 1643 Sir Hugh Chomeley gets impeached for High Treason. 5 June 1643 we find the first mention of Lady Cholmeley and her two children. With the 3 July 1624 entry of Sir Hugh Cholmeley being restored we have to believe that Lady Cholmeley is Sir Hugh Cholmeley's wife. 10 July 1643 Sir Hugh Cholmeley writes a letter. (In the Journal Middlesex county is still mentioned) 2 August 1643 H. Cholmeley is mentioned and we can surmised it is still Hugh. By 5 August 1643 we can clearly see Sir H. Cholmeley is back in the House of Commons. But I spoke to soon because the H. is for Henry now. Sir Henry Cholmeley is in a list of people compounding with prisoners. This entry must be read carefully because it talks about putting prisoners on ships. 12 October 1643 Sir Henry Cholmeley at two o'clock with others meets at the Star Chamber to decide the decide the fate of Clement Walker, esq. who is sentenced to the tower of London. 16 October 1643 Sir Henry Cholmeley is back in the House of Commons. 2 December 1643 Sir Henry Cholmeley meets with the Coventry. Busy day for Henry. 16 January 1644 Sir Henry Cholmeley meets with Sir William Waller in Journal 3 of the House of Commons.
Die Sabbati, Octobris 26, 1644 British History Online House of Commons Journal Volume 3 26 October 1644 Subtitle: 1642-1644 Sponsor: History of Parliament Trust Year Published: 1802 Description: The official minute book of the House of Commons, covering the central period of the English Civil War Period covered: 1642-1644 Punishment of Waller.
Mr. White reports the Amendments to the Ordinance concerning the Fine and Banishment of Mr. Edmond Waller: The which were twice read; and assented unto: And the Ordinance, with the Amendments, upon the Question, passed; and ordered to be sent unto the Lords for their Concurrence. Ordered, That Mr. Waller shall have Liberty to go abroad with a Keeper.
Banishment of Waller.
An Ordinance of Lords and Commons, assembled in Parliament, for the Fining and Banishment of Edmond Waller Esquire; Whereas it was formerly intended, That Edmond Waller Esquire, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, should be tried by the Commissioners appointed for the Hearing and Determining of Causes belonging to Military Cognizance, according to an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, made the Twenty-sixth of August last past: And whereas, since, upon further Consideration, and mature Deliberation had of and concerning him, and his Confessions of the Offence for which he stands committed, and of his Petition on his Behalf, preferred the Three-and-twentieth of September last, it hath been, and is thought convenient, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that he be put to the Fine of Ten thousand Pounds, and Banishment; and that he be not further proceeded against before the said Commissioners, or otherwise put to further Question, concerning the said Offence: And whereas the said Edmond Waller hath thereupon paid and satisfied, to the Use of the Parliament, the said Sum or Fine of Ten thousand Pounds (of which he stands hereby fully acquitted and discharged): Be it therefore Ordained and Established, by the said Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the said Edmond Waller shall from henceforth stand and be a Person banished out of the Realm of England, and the Dominion of Wales; and shall be and stand, from and after the Sixth Day of November next coming, wholly discharged and freed from his Imprisonment aforesaid; and shall, within Eight-and-twenty Days after his Discharge of Imprisonment, go out of, and leave the said Realm of England; and thenceforth shall continue and remain under, and in the Condition of, such Banishment as aforesaid, not to return into the said Realm or Dominion, without the Consent of both Houses of Parliament: And if he shall return into the said Realm or Dominion, without such Consent, he shall incur such Punishment for the same as both Houses of Parliament shall think fit. And it is further also Ordained and Established, by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall be no further Proceeding whatsoever against the said Edmond Waller, by the said Commissioners, or by any of them, or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever, for or by reason of his said Offence, or of any thing concerning the same: And that the Sequestration of his Estate, and of every Part thereof, be wholly taken off, and hereby is wholly taken off, and discharged, from the said Three-and-twentieth Day of September last.
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1.(Jul., 1900), pp. 60-64. Page 63. WALLER. Through the courtesy of Rev. C. M. Ottley, vicar of Newport Pagnall, in Bucks, England, I am able to give the following record, from the Parish Register, of the Wallers of Newport Pagnall: "Doctor John Waller" and Mary his wife had issue: (1) William, born September 24, 1671,(2)John, born February 23,1673,(3)Mary, born May 23, 1674,(4) Thomas, born October 17,1675, (5) Steven, born November 24, 1676, (6) Benjamin, born March 19, 1678,(7) Edmund, born February 3, 1680,(8) James, born May 25, 1683,(9)Jemima, born August 31, 1684. Buried: Ann Waller, July 7, 1678, James Waller, son of John, January, 1683, Alice Waller, September 27, 1699. Mr. Ottley thinks "the family came from Beaconsfield, in the south of Bucks, where probably more and earlier records may be found." At Beaconsfield, in Bucks, was buried Edmund Waller, the poet, who died October 1, 1687, and there may be seen a monument with an inscription written on four sides. He married (1) Ann, daughter of Edward Banks, Esq., by whom he had a son, died in infancy, and a daughter, who married Mr. Dormer, of Oxfordshire, England. He married, secondly, Mary Bresse, or Breaux, by whom he had five sons and eight daughters, viz., Benjamin, Edmund, William, Stephen, a son, name unknown, Margaret, Mary, Eliza, Dorothy, Octavia and three daughters, with names unknown. Most of these names have been family names in the Virginia family. John Waller, of Newport Pagnall, Bucks, born 1673, is supposed to have been Col. John Waller, of Virginia, who married Dorothea King, and had issue: John, Thomas, William, Benjamin, Edmund, Mary, wife of Zachary Lewis. He names in his will, grandson Pomfret Waller, son of John Waller, and his wife names in her will Dorothy Jemima, daughter of Page 64. son Edmund. Col. John Waller's residence in Spotsylvania county was known as Newport, and his arms were the same as the poet Edmund Waller's.
Yet they had the stoutest hearts, the most masculine intellects, and some of them were eloquent to a proverb; a perfect phalanx of Christian Spartans. About thiry of them were put in prison, some of them several times, but by preaching Jesus through the gates and on the high walls many were brought to Christ. Rev. Eleazar Clay, the guardian of the great statesman, Henry Clay, wrote from Chesterfield County to John Williams: 'The preaching at the prison is not attended in vain, for we hope that several are converted, while others are under great distress and made to cry out, What shall we do to be saved?' and he begged him to come down and baptize the converts. Crowds gathered around the prisons at Fredericksburg, in the counties of King and Queen, Culpepper, Middlesex and Essex, Orange and Caroline. They were preached to by Harris, Ireland, Pickett, the Craigs, of whom there were three brothers, Greenwood, Barrow, Weathersford, Ware, Tinsley, Waller, Webber and others whose names will be honored while Virginia exists. And there are some noted cases of holy triumph, as in the prison at Culpepper, whence Ireland, much after the order of Bunyan, who was 'had home to prison in the county jail of Bedford,' dated his letters, from 'my palace in Culpepper.' On the very spot where the prison stood, where powder was cast under the floor to blow him up, and brimstone was burnt to suffocate him and poison was administered to kill him; on that spot where he preached through the iron grates to the people, there the Baptist meeting-house now stands; and the Church which occupies it numbers more than 200 members. These diabolical schemes were all frustrated and, after much suffering, he barely escaped with his life; yet he says: 'My prison was a place in which I enjoyed much of the divine presence; a day seldom passed without some token of the divine goodness toward me.' Waller, a most powerful man, who before his conversion was the terror of the good, being known as the 'Devil's Adjutant and Swearing Jack,' spent 113 days in four different prisons, besides enduring all forms of abuse; but in Virginia alone he immersed 2,000 believers and helped to constitute eighteen Churches. Want of space demands silence concerning a list of most illustrious ministers and laymen, whose names will never be honored as they deserve, until some equally illustrious son of Virginia shall arrange and shape her abundant mass of Baptist material with the integrity of a Bancroft and the eloquence of a Macaulay. For three months in succession three men of God lay in the jail at Fredericksburg for the crime of preaching the glorious Gospel of the blissful God-Elders Lewis Craig, John Waller and James Childs. But their brethren stood nobly by these grand confessors. Truly, in the words of Dr. Hawks, 'No dissenters in Virginia, experienced for a time harsher treatment than did the Baptists. They were beaten and imprisoned; and cruelty taxed its ingenuity to devise new modes of punishment and annoyance. The usual consequences followed. Persecution made friends for its victims; and the men who were not permitted to speak in public found willing auditors in the sympathizing crowds who gathered around the prisons to hear them preach from the grated windows. It is not improbable that this very opposition imparted strength in another mode, inasmuch as it at last furnished the Baptists with a common ground on which to make resistance.' [Hist. Prot. Ep. Ch. in Va., p. 121]
Commissioned December 2, 1769 as Lower Spotsylvania Baptist Church, John Waller founded and became the first pastor of what now is known as Wallers Baptist Church-named in honor of John Waller and his nephew Absalom Waller. Absalom served as the second pastor of Wallers for over 30 years. At its organization, it had 154 members and there were "few, if any less than 1,500 members" during John Waller’s pastorate from 1770 to 1793. With over 230 years of continuous service, Wallers has the longest continuous service of any Baptist Church in the state of Virginia.
When reviewing the life of John Waller, we are also reviewing the life of many of the early settlers who came to the young colonies to escape religious persecution in Europe. England, who ruled the colonies, established the Church of England was subject to the law established by the church and dissenters were punished and jailed for their beliefs. This was especially true of the Baptists.
A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN AMERICA, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD By David Benedict 1813 London: Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, No. 53, Cornhill, for the Author Read and Harris, particularly the latter, were men of great zeal and indefatigable diligence and perseverance in their Master’s cause. Their spirit was caught by many of the young prophets in Orange and Spottsylvania. Lewis and Elijah Craig, John Waller, James Childs, John Burrus, and others, animated by an ardent desire for the advancement of their Master’s kingdom, sallied forth in every direction, spreading the tidings of peace and salvation wherever they went. These plants were watered by the labors of the Spottsylvania preachers, particularly J. Waller, who, early in his visits to Goochland, baptized William Webber and Joseph Anthony, who, with Reuben Ford, had been exhorting, etc. previous to their being baptized. One William Mullin, afterwards an useful preacher, had moved from Middlesex and settled in the county of Amelia. When the gospel reached his neighborhood, Mr. Mullin cordially embraced it. Going afterwards, in 1769, on a visit to his relations in Middlesex and Essex, by arguments drawn from the scripture, he convinced his brother John, and his brother-inlaw James Greenwood, with several others, of the necessity of being born again. Of these, some found peace in believing, before they ever heard the gospel publickly preached. November, 1770, John Waller and John Burrus came down and preached in Middlesex They continued preaching at and near the same place for three days; great crowds came out. Waller baptized five; but persecution began to rage. Some said they were deceivers; others that they were good men. On the second day, a magistrate attempted to pull Waller off the stage, but the clergyman of the parish prevented it. The next day a man threw a stone at Waller while he was preaching; but the stone missed him, and struck a friend of the man who threw it. James Greenwood and others now began to hold publick meetings by day and by night; much good was done by them. Many believed, and only waited an opportunity to be baptized, there being no ordained preacher nearer than Spottsylvania. A HISTORY OF THE BAPTISTS By Thomas Armitage THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS VIII. THE BAPTISTS OF VIRGINIA
(Hopkins, p. 222). "Colonial Caroline A History of Caroline County, Va". by T. E. Campbell starting on pg. 217 it tells about John Waller and preaching in different peoples houses and they were put in jail because they allowed him to preach in their homes. One was Henry Goodloe and their were others. Waller and Goodloe went to jail rather than say they wouldn't preach for a period of time. Henry Goodloe was a preacher.
Spotsylvania County Records by William Armstrong Crozier page 191, Deed Book E, 1751-1761.
Augt. 4, 1752. John Lea of Orange Co., North Carolina, and Anne, his wife, to Thomas McNeal of St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., Va. £24 curr. 185 a. wheron sd. McNeal now dwells and formerly being a pat. granted George Carter and given by sd. Carter to the sd. John Lea, his son-in-Iaw, by Deed of Gift. Said land joining the lands of Humphrey Bell of London, John Williamson, Robert Huddleston, Colo. John Waller and Richard Coleman, etc., etc. No witnesses. August 4, 1752.
Sources: Order Book Abstracts of Spotsylvania County, Virginia 1738-1740 Sparacio R. & S. Sparacio (1991) Virginia County Court Records. Order Book Abstracts of Spotsylvania County, Virginia 1738-1740, The Antient Press, 1320 Mayflower Drive, McLean, VA 22101-3402
Amey Sutton 7 November 1738 (Will Book A)
The Last Will and Testament of Amey Sutton deced being exhibited & sworn to by Edmund Waller the Executor therein names & was proved by the oaths of Edmund Waller & Samuel Brown, two of the witnesses to the sd. Will, and the sd. Executor having taken the oaths as the Law directs & entered into Bond with John Waller Gent. His security & acknowledged the same in Court, Certificate is due form is granted him Huddleston, William Bradburn & Robert Wills or any three of them being first sworn before some Majestrate of this County do appraise all such of the sd deceds. Estate as shall be produced and shewn to them by the sd Executor & make report of their proceedings therein to the next Court.
Spotsylvania County Records by William Armstrong Crozier Copyright Baltimore Southern Book Company 1955
Deed Book C-1734-1742
page 146
Nov 30, 1738. John Waller, Jr., of St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., planters, to William Hawkins of Orange Co., Gent., to Henry downs of St. Mark's Par., Orange Co., Gent. L2 15s. curr. Lot No. 56, in town of Fredksburg. John Waller, Edwd. Hearndon, Jr.; Robt. Huddleston, Z. Lewis. Feby 6, 1738.
Octr. 16th, 1770. John Huddleston of Johnston Co., North Carolina, son and heir at law of Robert Huddleston, late of Spts. Co., Va., Decd., to Robert Huddleston, now of Berkeley Par., Spts. Co., Va. Whereas, Robert Huddleston, Decd., did, by his last will and testament, desire that a tract of 113 a. in Spts. Co., whereon he formerly lived, should be sold and the money arising therefrom equally divided amongst all his children, and the sd. Robt., party to these preseants, having purchased the shares of all the sd. children; and the sd. John, being satisfied with his proportionable part and and being desirous that the will of his decd. father should be carried out, etc., by this Indenture, conveys the sd. Robert, 113 a. in Berkely Par., Spts. Co. Witnesses John Waller, junr., Lewis Craig, James Chiles, Andrew Tribble. No date of record.