Madness Monday: Deborah (---) Wallis

My closest brick wall at the present, and therefore the woman who could provide the most new New England ancestry for me, is Deborah, the wife of Nathaniel-5 (Samuel-4 William-3-2 George-1) Wallis of New Hampshire.  We know her given name since she released her dower on a deed dated 27 August 1792.  Her children were born between 1772 and 1794.  She was probably born about 1750 and she is probably still alive in the 1830 census, although women weren't separately enumerated at that point.  Her children were Samuel, Nathaniel, John, James, Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Deborah, and Meribah.  No death record, gravestone, or probate record exist for her or her husband.  Her husband didn't serve in the American Revolution either, or never applied for a pension.  There is a gap in his children's estimated births from 1777 to 1784 which is telling.  The actual birth records from Moultonborough are missing.  The children are gathered from their respective marriage records there.  Nathaniel was born in Greenland, lived in Epsom and then moved to Moultonborough before removing once more to New Durham.  Deborah was probably from Greenland or Epsom.  Who is the question.

Comments

[T.J. Rand]

In regards to article on Mary Wallis and Deborah (unknown) Wallis, wife of Nathaniel. History of Sanbornton gives John who married Phebe Rand as son of William Wallace and Mary Brown 1777-1858 - First lived in Pittsfield, then New Hampton before Sanbornton in 1818. Identifies Phebe as from Barnstead, prob. dau. of Samuel Rand and Mary Hill, so not of the Nathaniel/Deborah Wallace line. He also says James married in Epsom 1802, Nancy Rand, sister of Phebe and resided in Epsom. No daughter Nancy of Barnstead found, and no James Wallace lived in Epsom 1810-1840 census. More likely, James Wallace, son of Abraham/Hepzibah (Blake) born Epsom 1779, married unknown Nancy Rand in town 1802. This James Wallace prob. moved to Stanstead as his three sisters did. With at least these errors, it is hard to piece the children of Nathaniel and Deborah from marriage records that do not seem to be accurate. Nathaniel left Epsom 1796 (by deed).

[Martin Hollick]

Do you have any primary evidence for this or just the secondary sources of those town histories? I find the town histories of New Hampshire useful, but riddled with errors. The Wallis family has never been written about and there is much to learn, but much that Ive personally learned from deeds and probates that contradict town histories. In the 1790 census Nathaniel has two men over 16 and six under sixteen. I am trying to account for about seven sons, of which five marry in Moultonborough. The other two may have died young or may have stayed at Epsom, but the John Wallis seemed promising and with him James. I assume you are interested in the Rands.

No one done the Wallises of N.H. at all but me (so far as I can tell). Its as maligned a family as the Yeatons were before I redid them.

[Jean (Wallace) Markley]

Wow...spent the morning reading these messages and now need to look at my tree. I did the DNA Wallace paternal test in 2008 and now have 4 new 'Wallace' families that we are trying to connect. Great information.
Looking for collateral lines to connect to.

Jean