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Subject: [LDR] Chesapeake Wallers -- Nottoway Co VA
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:22:18 EDT

Good Morning Everyone,

Confession Time...About a month ago, my entire "Springhill" Waller line
(Stafford Co VA), collapsed when it became apparent that birth dates did not
fit the picture for my Mary Waller who married Crispen Robertson Shelton 1807
in Pittsylvania Co to have been the granddaughter of George Waller & Anne
Winston Carr, via their son John Waller who married Mary Polly Cooper,
daughter of Thomas Cooper and Sarah Anthony.

So now I am starting over from ground zero, surrounded by a plethora John
Wallers in Pittsylvania Co, and recently came across some old references to
Crispen Robertson Shelton's uncle Gabriel Shelton having married Mary Waller
Buford (widow likely), the daughter of a MAJOR WALLER (a Somerset Co, MD,
Chesapeake Waller name), who died in Nottoway Co 1793/4. The following
information on this Major Waller was provided by Jan Shelton Nixon and can be
found at this website http://members.xoom.com/janicekmc/ralphsr.htm:

"The Will of Major Waller, written 23 Jan 1793, and probated 11 Dec 1794, in
Nottoway Co., VA names wife Elizabeth Waller, his daughters, Susannah Parham
(who married James Parham), MARY BUFORD, Elizabeth Ellis, Christianna
Bennett, Dicey Waller, and his sons John, William, Hampton [Chesapeake
Wallers have a Waller/Hampton marriage back in England], Garred, and Major
Waller.
An Order Book entry for the Nottoway County Court for 7 May 1796, names the
following litigants:
Susannah Parham
GABRIEL SHELTON and MARY his wife
William Ellis and Eliza his wife
Richard Bennett and Christianna his wife
John Waller
Garred Waller-Exors of Major Waller, dec'd.
VS
William Waller
Hampton Waller
Dicey Waller- Infants and orphans of Major Waller, dec'd."."

Note: Gabriel Shelton married Mary Buford June 29, 1794 in Pittsylvania Co.

This looks like as good a starting place for me as anywhere, since the
Sheltons preferred to marry their in-law's families & next door neighbors
whenever first and second cousins weren't available (as in my own case where
Crispen and Mary Waller Shelton's daughter Nancy Clark Shelton married her
second cousin Moses Hurt Shelton, who himself was the son of first cousins
Charles Coleman Shelton and Elizabeth Shelton).

Are any of you familiar with this family? I tried unsuccessfully to find
them at Carol's [Help! :-)] Rootsweb World Connect site which appears to have
entered most of the linneage data from this family's basic reference: "The
Chesapeakers" by Charles S. Waller, Sr.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=seajae&id=I2786.

Any thoughts are much appreciated. When my recent Waller debacle occurred (I
even visited the Springhill and Concord places in Stafford!), I told my
cousins I just knew we were going to end up as Chesapeakers! Yes, I realize
the ties go back to the same folks in England.

My best regards,
Janet (Baugh) Hunter

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