Reverend James Wallace, I

James Wallace I

• Son of James Wallace and Issobell Thomson
• Christening: May 31 1668 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000007553918304?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000106935362821&position=0
• Place of Burial: Third Church of Elizabeth City Parish Cemetery Hampton City, Virginia, USA
• Here lyes the body of the Reverend Mr. James Wallace, late Minister of this Parish. He was born at Errol in Perthshire, in North Britain. He was serviceable to this Colony in a double capacity, both as a Devine and a Physician, for the space of one and twenty years. He exchanged this life for a better on the 3rd of November, A. D. 1712, and in the 45 year of his age. "Excuse deceased Friend if I Forbear t'attempt thy praise, "'tis far above my sphere. "Only in silence let me drop a tear, "Say Virtue fled and left one temple here."
• Find A Grave Memorial - Here lyes the body of the Reverend Mr. James Wallace, late Minister of this Parish. He was born at Errol in Perthshire, in North Britain. He was serviceable to this Colony in a double capacity, both as a Devine and a Physician, for the space of one and twenty years. He exchanged this life for a better on the 3rd of November, A. D. 1712, and in the 45 year of his age. "Excuse deceased Friend if I Forbear t'attempt thy praise, "'tis far above my sphere. "Only in silence let me drop a tear,"Say Virtue fled and left one temple here." (source: the book "Cemeteries of the City of Hampton, Virginia/formerly Elizabeth City County") https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14193982

Married

• Married: Ann Sheppard on July 11, 1695 in Elizabeth City, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America. Ann was widowed first with Quintilian Gutherick, and second Thomas Wythe (son of Thomas Wythe, the emigrant), grandfather of George Wythe. Rev. James Wallace obtained July 11, 1695, a license to marry Anne Wythe ( born Sheppard, who was then the widow of Thomas Wythe.

Children

• Euphan Wallace; 1696–1717: born in 1696, and died April 22, 1717. Married Judge William Roscow Wilson Curle.
• James Wallace; 1698–1749; married (1) Martha Westwood, Widow of Baylor. He had 3 sets of children from 3 different wives. He was a student at William and Mary College in 1757, burgess for Elizabeth City county, 1769 and 1772, justice of the county, and member of the County Committee in 1775. He married Elizabeth Westwood, daughter of William Westwood, and had issue, (1) Robert, student at William and Mary College in 1775, died in 1789, issueless; (2) James Westwood(4); (3) William Westwood; (4) Martha; (5) Euphan (who married, first, Bailey Washington, of Stafford county; second, Daniel Carroll Brent, of Stafford), died March 28, 1845, aged about eightyone; (6) Elizabeth,married John McCrea; (7) Mary. Elizabeth Wallace, widow of James(2) Wallace, married, secondly, Hon. Thomson Mason, of Stafford county, and appears to have had two sons,Westwood Thomson Mason and William Temple Thomson Mason. He had by a previous marriage Stevens and John Thomson Mason. In his will, which was proved September 26, 1784, he ordered that "neither of his two younger sons s hall reside on the south side of James River or below Williamsburg, before they respectively attain the age of twenty-one years, lest they should imbibe more exalted notions of their own
• John Wallace; 1699–1724; married (1) Mary Westwood, daughter of Westwood and Elizabeth Naylor, (2) Susanna unknown. She is listed in his Will
• Mary Wallace; 1702–1738; married (1) William Westwood, son of Son of Worlich Westwood and Elizabeth Naylor
• Anne Wallace; 1709–1760; married Robert Armistead, son of William, son of Anthony, son of William, who came to Virginia about 1635.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY.

Wallace. Rev. James(1) Wallace was born in Error, Perthshire, Scotland 1667, and died in Elizabeth City county, Va., at his home, "Erroll,"on Back River, Nov. 3, 1712. His tombstone,* bearing his coat-of-arms, is still to be seen there. He served for twenty-one years as minister of Elizabeth City, and practiced physic also. He married Anne, widow first of Quintilian Gutherick, and second of Thomas Wythe (son of Thomas Wythe, the emigrant), grandfather of George Wythe. Rev. James Wallace obtained July 11, 1695, a license to marry Anne Wythe, and their issue were, (1) Euphan, born in 1696, and died April 22, 1717, widow of Capt. Wilson Roscow, and first wife of Col. William Dandridge; (2) Anne, who married Col. Robert Armistead (son of William, son of Anthony, son of William, who came to Virginia about 1635); (3) a daughter, who married Ballard; (4) Mary, married William Westwood; (5) John, died about 1724; (6) James (2). This last married Martha Westwood and her will was proved in 1768, according to which they had (1) Robert, student at William and Mary College in 1753, who had James and Wilson;(2) Martha, married [Thomas] Tabb; (3) Elizabeth, married John Selden; (4) Mary, who married Richard
Ball, of Lancaster (see Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, p. 102); (5) Euphan, married Judge William Roscow Wilson Curle (his first wife);(6) Anne, who married George Wray, Jr.; (7) (Captain) James(2), student at William and Mary College in 1757, burgess for Elizabeth City, 1769 and 1772, justice of the county, and member of the County Committee in 1775. He married Elizabeth Westwood, daughter of William Westwood, and had issue, (1) Robert, student at William and Mary College in 1775, died in 1789, issueless; (2) James Westwood(4); (3) William Westwood; (4) Martha; (5) Euphan (who married, first, Bailey Washington, of Stafford county; second, Daniel Carroll Brent, of Stafford), died March 28, 1845, aged about eighty-one; (6) Elizabeth, married John McCrea; (7) Mary. Elizabeth Wallace, widow of James(2) Wallace, married, secondly, Hon. Thomson Mason, of Stafford county, and appears to have had two sons,Westwood Thomson Mason and William Temple Thomson Mason. He had by a previous marriage Stevens and John Thomson Mason. In his Will, which was proved September 26, 1784, he ordered that "neither of his two younger sons s hall reside on the south side of James River or below Williamsburg, before they respectively attain the age of twenty-one years, lest they should imbibe more exalted notions of their own

• The Wallace arms, as shown on the tombstone of Rev. James Wallace, on Back River, are: A lion rampant. Crest: An ostrich holding in his beak a horseshoe, ppr.

Source Old Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City County, VA - Old Records; Wm. & Mary Qtrly, Vol. 9, No. 2 - http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/elizabethcity/court/kecoughtan.txt

WALLACE FAMILY

JAMES“ WALLACE fled from Scotland in the
He was born in Erroll, Scotland, and his birth was attested by three lairds. He emigrated to Back River, Elizabeth City He brought with him an immense table service Virginia and settled on County ‘ . which was engraved the Wallace Coat of l Reverend James Wallace married, in 1695, Ann, daughter Of John Shepard and widow Of Thomas Wythe. She was a widow for the second time, having married first Quintillian Gutherick, Justice of Eliz abeth City County. Her will was probated in 1740, and names grandchildren, Mary, James Westwood, Matthew Bal Eliz abeth City County, and bears his arms : rampant argent within a bordure company Of the second of plate, Arms, he being a collateral descendant Of Sir James W lace. on Reverend James Wallace died lard, and George Wythe. November 3, 1712. His tomb is at Erroll, his home in and azure crest out of a ducal coronet or an ostriche’ s 63 ;
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head and neck proper holding a horseshoe in the beak. His epitaph states that he was from Erroll, in Perthshire, Scotland, and was minister in Elizabeth City for twenty One years, and died November 3, 1712, forty-five Of age (see Dandridge Family) Children (see Hayden ; Va. Historical Magaz ine, viii, and William and Mary College Quarterly) W .
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Sources

• York County, Virginia, Genealogy Trails, Genealogy and History, Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy - http://genealogytrails.com/vir/york/biographies.html
• William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 13 - https://books.google.com/books?id=xy8SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&d...
• SELDENS OF VIRGINIA AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by MARY SELDEN KENNEDY VOLU ME I - https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/Seldens_of_Virginia_and_...
• Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. V. Thompson-Yates. Page 660. < AncestrySharing > lists “a daughter of Anne, widow 1) Gutherick 2) Wythe, and Rev. James Wallace, married Ballard.”