Notes for J. Samuel Wallis

Notes for J. Samuel Wallis

!Information based upon data furnished by Barbara Palmer [ bpalmer@@sunlink.net ] : Samuel's date of birth is listed in the West River Meeting (Quaker Records of Southern Maryland) records where he is listed in error as a birthdate of 1736. This was apparently a transcription error. Without actually seeing the handwritten record, I can't assume anything but I suspect that the entry was written at some period of time after the births of Samuel and Cassandra's children, when they were all listed at the same time. Enough evidence exists to place Samuel as the eldest son of the family and whereas his birthdate of 1732 which is listed for brother John should be reversed with John being born in 1736.

After an unusually busy life Samuel Wallis died at Philadelphia, October 14, 1798, aged sixty-seven years, eight months, of yellow fever contracted while on a visit to North Carolina to look after his great creditor, James Wilson. On his return he stopped at a lonely inn and was put in a bed where a man had died with the fever but a few days before!

!RECORD OF PENNSYLVANIA MARRIAGES, PRIOR TO 1810. Volume I. Clarence M. Busch. State Printer of Pennsylvania. 1895; page 134: 1770, March 1, Hollingsworth, Lydia, and Samuel Wallis.