Mary JANE Walls

A New user as of 25 July 2016; Today Sep 1, 2016 deleted the profile of Mary Walls (Derby or Debry) was able to recover it - and restore it - it affected the following profiles and the connection to the GENI tree as a whole.

• Thomas Nehemiah Walls
• Gender:Male
• Birth: 1715 Maryland, United States
• Death: 1780 (65) Sussex, Delaware, USA
• Immediate Family:
• Son of William Walls - 1690 and Elizabeth Walls Cooper (Crew) - 1694
• Husband of Mary Walls (Derby or Debry) and Jane Walls
• Father of
• Samuel Walls;
• Dalilah Walls;
• Barsheba Walls;
• Levi Walls - 1748;
• Levin Walls - 1748 (twin of Levi Walls);
• Thomas Walls, Jr.;
• Jacob Walls;
• Jesse Walls;
• Nelly Walls
• Burton Walls

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R-Hignut... Mary Jane Derby was born 1726. She married Thomas Nehemiah Walls, son of William Walls and Elizabeth Crew.

Notes for Mary Jane Derby: Know all men by the prefents, that we Mary Walls of the county of Sussex, in the state od Delaware, and Smauel Walls of the same county, yeoman are held firmly bound unto the state of Delaware aforesaid, in the sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Lawful Moneyof the Delaware state, to be paid for the use of the same: to which payment, well and truly to be made and done, We bind ourselves, our and each of our heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated the 20th day of May, One thousand Seven hundred and Ninety four. The condition of the above Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Mary Walls Executor of the testamnet and Last Will of Thomas Walls late of Sussex County, deceased do make and cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods and Chattels and Credits of the said deceased which have , shall, or may come to the hands, possession, or possession of any other person or persons whatever, four you and the same so made, do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Register's Office, for the county aforesaid, on or before the 20th day of August, next ensuing: And the same Goods and Chattles and Credits, and all other Goods, Chattles and Credits of the said deceased, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of her the said Mary Walls or to the hands of to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for you do well and truly and just account of your said Administrator, on or before the 2oth day of May next ensuing: And all the Rest residue and remainder of the Goods and CHattles and Credits of the said deceased, which shall be found remaining on said Executnix Account, the same being first examined and allowed by the said Registor, or his Successor, the regifter for the time being, Shall deliver and pay, distribute and dispose of, agreeable to the Tenor and Effect of the Last Will and Testament of the said deceased, then the above Obligation to be viod and of none effect, or to remain in fulk force and virture. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Phillip Rollody Signed by Mary Walls (her mark) (seal)  Eli Collins Samuel Walls (seal)

Children of Mary Jane Derby and Thomas Nehemiah Walls are: +Samuel Walls, b. 1737, Delaware, d. 13 Mar 1812, Delaware.

John Walls was dead before 1739 when his wife was mentioned in her father's last will as the wife of Wrixam Christopher. In an earlier will of her father (Richard Bracy) he named her as Sarah Walls. The Jacob Walls found in Sussex County during the 1750's and 1760's named a son Jacob Bracy Walls, suggesting strongly that he was a son of the aforesaid John.

We can prove that this John Walls was was the son of a William Walls and Elizabeth Crew (daughter of John Crew). I know precious little of this William Walls, but from the dearth of land records about him suspect that he was possibly the ship capatain William Walls whp plied the waters of the Cheasapeake and the Mid-Atlantic Coast.

Elizabeth Crew was the daughter of John Crew and his first wife Elizabeth (surname unknown). John Crew married second (or third) Annabelle Harvey, the widow of Richard Harvey on the same day that Elizabeth married William Walls. John Crew died in 1712 and named Elizabeth Walls and his grandson John Walls. John Crew's widow married third, the widower Richard Bracy (aforesaid), who had the daughter Sarah by an earlier wife.

The bothers Thomas and William Walls end up in very close proximity to the acres of land owned by John Crew. The Jacob Kollock who got the 480 acres the brothers lived on as a grant then deeded them to the brothers without mention of money also lived on land originally patented to John Crew or to his step-father Richard Hignett and which devolved to Crew.

Thomas Walls did have a son Samuel b. c1735-38. Nothing else exists in records of the time to suggest that Thomas' father was a Samuel. I suggest to you all that Thomas and William were most probably sons of the aforesaid William Walls and Elizabeth Crew Walls. As Thomas's proven brother William did not name any sons 'Samuel,' the likelihood of some 'Samuel' being in the tree might then be maternal.

Thomas' son Samuel's descendants are the overwhelmingly most represented in later Sussex County. Thomas's sons Levin and Levi and William's sons William and Joshua all moved westward before 1800. A hundred years later (1899), a history was written wherein the descendants of the b. 1738 Samuel claimed that he was the immigrant and that he cleared the Walls land. Deeds clearly show that this was not the case. Nevertheless, the error of Samuel as progenitor persists.

Most of this has been put together from deeds and wills of early Sussex County, DE. More records exist and I will continue to search for proof of this likely connection. I believe that it was Lewis Kiehn of California who provided the information on the very early ship Captain, William Walls. He might have more information and his book on the family, unlike others, is filled with supporting proofs.

Brian Walls Columbia, MD

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 13 2017, 23:41:13 UTC

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Dec 31 2016, 2:44:12 UTC