Mary
(Polly)
Willis
Born in Pittsylvania, Virginia
Daughter of William Willis
and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Willis
Sister of
Letticia (Willis) Speer and Joel Willis
Wife of
Jesse Law
— married
1 Dec 1780 (to 14 Nov 1839) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
William Joel Law, Willis Law, Elizabeth (Law) LeMaster, Averilla Law, Sarah (Law) Barnes, John B. Law and Anderson Law
Died
at about age 86
in Jefferson Co, Indiana
Profile last modified
| Created 9 May 2014
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Biography
Mary was born in 1759. She married Jesse Law on 1 December 1780 in Pittsylvania, Virginia and moved on to Kentucky, where all of their children except the oldest son were born. She passed away April 23, 1845 in Jefferson Co., Indiana. [1]
At the time of her death, she was living with her daughter Averilla and her son-in-law Francis Barnes.
There must have been an issue about Mary's (Polly) estate because through a series of sworn testimony it was legally established who her children were. Or possibly she died intestate. Text of document posted on Ancestry.com. Or it may have related to her husband Revolutionary War pension. Only a few pages of the original documents are posted.
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Trimble County, November Assizes (?) 1853
It was this day satisfactorily proven by the oaths of Anderson Law and Avale (?) Abbott that Polly Law widow of Jesse Law died in Jefferson County, Indiana on the 23rd April 1845, that she left five children being Elizabeth, Daniel Averilla, Sally, and Anderson, in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 20th day of December 1853.
Samuel XXX [unreadable]
Sources
- FindaGrave, Mary Polly Willis
- Trimble County acknowledgement of Polly Law's death Page 15. Photography of document posted on Ancestry.com by Cathy Field on 19 Aug 2013. Location of original document not specified. Assume it is Trimble County, KY. https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/115415772/person/280142879334/media/3893a895-e864-4f3b-ba21-25d27ac7da19?_phsrc=Pbn21548&usePUBJs=true
- ↑ edited by Juedeman-1, 6 December 2014
Acknowledgements
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Polly:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Polly:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Donna (Holland) Hornback 
:
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A678445 [compare], Ancestry member dkhotx
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~1.56%
Brenda (Green) Price :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member brendaprice37
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~1.56%
Sherry Juedeman :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~1.56%
Tracy (Grogan) Rojas :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #927245
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~0.78%
Roger Anderson :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Tim Barnes :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Marie Friederichs :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member MarieTF
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~0.78%
Janet (Seebauer) Wagoner :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Janetwagoner57
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Dennis Skidmore :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UU9896117 [compare], Ancestry member dennis_skidmore
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch XT2211478 [compare], FTDNA kit #643774
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~0.39%
R Matthews :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member DARPatriotLady
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Laura McCurry :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #854072
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Rev Daniel Washburn Jones
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Rev Daniel Washburn Jones
glitch in the system .... I've seen this happen a few times now ... the edits I made show if you click the edit tab, but not under public display ... it will update eventually, at least the others did.
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by Rev Daniel Washburn Jones
Sherry Juedeman
Mary 'Polly' Willis appears to have married Jesse Law 1 December 1780 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She was my 4th g-grandmother. Stilll researching the Willis connection
posted
by Sherry Juedeman
Bob Nichol
Willis-2880 and Willis-2879 appear to represent the same person because: same person.
posted
by Bob Nichol
Polly is 21 degrees from Emeril Lagasse, 23 degrees from Nigella Lawson, 20 degrees from Maggie Beer, 42 degrees from Mary Hunnings, 26 degrees from Joop Braakhekke, 24 degrees from Michael Chow, 18 degrees from Ree Drummond, 22 degrees from Paul Hollywood, 23 degrees from Matty Matheson, 22 degrees from Martha Stewart, 27 degrees from Danny Trejo and 27 degrees from Molly Yeh on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.