William Wallis (abt. 1642 - 1720)

Born about 1642 in Virginia [uncertain]

Died 1720 at about age 78 in Carteret Co., NC

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Biography

Land Purchase 1707 • Pasquotank County, NC "Wm. Wallis & Ann my wife of Pasquotank prect. ... (buys) 280 acres lying at the mouth of Flatty Creek ..." Source: Record of Deeds, Vol. A, p. 47. William Wallis, who died circa 1720 and left his property to his eldest son, Valentine. William Wallis Jr. was bound to Jonathan Jacobs until he came of age. Jonathan Jacobs, it turns out lived next to John Boyd, probably related to Col. Thomas Boyd who died in the Tuscarora War after being shot in the head in 1712. Boyd’s home was the location that the Hatteras Indians escaped to toward the end of the war. Puzzle pieces were falling into place… The Boyds, Jacobs, Wallises, and other families were all somehow connected to early Hatteras Island. The Wallises were married to Blounts, also a family with heavy interests in Hatteras Island by the late 1700s. A 1727 deed explains when and where their father, William purchased his Albemarle land in 1707.

Sources

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900