Joseph Wallen

    Joseph Wallen was born about 1735 in Maryland to Elisha Wallen Sr. and his wife Mary (likely a Blevins) The Wallens settled in the area pf present Henry County, Virginia, in about 1745, on the Smith River. There is no record of land purchase so they were likely squatters, not uncommon in that time.
    Joseph Wallen was paid a bounty for a wolf's head in 1746 at about 11 years of age.
    Joseph married Milly Jones in about 1768.  They had 6 daughters, Elizabeth, Nancy, Susannah, Mary, Morning, Rosamond, and one son name James Carr.
(TL NOTE I believe the Carr is for a Longhunter name Wm Carr a  “Negro man of color… about the ordinary height, little inclined to be corpulent, slightly round shouldered and weighed about 160 or 170 pounds and very strong for one of his age… Few men possessed a more high sense of honor and true bravery than he did. He was possessed of a very strong natural mind and always cheerful and the very life of any company he was in.” My theory no evidence.)

It is presumed by most researchers that Elisha Wallen Jr. the Longhunter took his brothers with him on the hunts.

CAPTAIN DAVID LOONEY'S COMPANY OF VIRGINIA MILITIA, 1774, LORD DUNMORE'S WAR:  (Formed from Southwestern Virginia and Sullivan County, Tennessee)
Lt. Daniel Boone   Lt. Jno Cox  (I am related to Boone  through my Watkins line)
David Cox    John Cox, Senr.    John Cox, Jr.
William Roberts    David Roberts    Henry Roberts    Cornelius Roberts
Deswell Rogers (Dauzwell/Doswell Rogers)
James Walling   Joseph Walling    Thomas Walling
William Vaughn

Joseph is registered as D A R Ancestor #: A132354   Service: VIRGINIA   Rank: SOLDIER  Birth: (CIRCA) 1734  Death: 1792 HAWKINS CO TENNESSEE 

Service Source: KEGLEY, THE MILITIA OF MONTGOMERY CO VA 1777-1790, PP 50,51 

Service Description: 1) MONTGOMERY CO MILITIA; 2) CAPT HARMON COX 1777  

 An article in the Knoxville Gazette of June 30, 1792 listed Joseph Wallen as having found a red cow

Dec. 1986, Vol.2 #3, issue of Tennessee Ancestors, pub. by the East TN Hist. Soc.
has the ledgers for storekeeper,Thomas Amis.
The first one is dated 1782-1789 and includes:      Elisha Walling 1786    John Walling 1786
   Joseph Walling 1786      William Walling 1787
Milly Walling (widow) 1794  Wm. Walling 1794
(This would establish Milly as Joseph's widow and we certainly have other evidence to support that fact. It also brackets the year of 1792, when Joseph is said to have died.)

   From David Dolling Weddle’s Diary (written in 1881) "My grandfather, Joseph Walling, moved from Baltimore and settled in Grayson County, Virginia on the New River. There, my mother was born on the 22nd day of February, 1780-and when she was 12 years old, my grandfather moved down and settled on Clinch River which empties into big Tennessee, where Kingston now stands, some two hundred miles above said place-there my grandfather (Joseph Walling) built a fort and took a company of his settlement and his oldest son Thomas Walling, twelve in number over on to the three folks of the Cumberland River to the place now called Lot**, in the state of Kentucky. There him and his son and eight out of 12 others was killed by the Indians."
(TL NOTE most say the Thomas killed was a nephew,  Benge, the half breed renegade, was thought to be the leader of the Indians.)

Thomas Wallen the "Bad Boy"

 Thomas Walling - court records  Plymouth colony  1650
"The fourth of Aprell, 1650. Tho Wallen, Richard Carle, Gorg Way, Katheren Warner, and Mary Mills were apprehended at Barnstable,
 in the jurisdiction of New Plym; and on the eight day of Aprell, aforsaid, they being examined before William Bradford, gent, Gouer,
Willam Collyar, and Willam Thomas, gent, Assistants, confessed yt they, the said Tho Wallen, Richard Carle, & Gorge Way did healpe
away Katheren Warner & Mary Mills, who were run away from theire husbands; and for yt purpose yt Richard Carle aforsaid did steale  his fathers boat, which they came away in; it was therefore ordered by the Gouer & Assistants aboue mensioned, that the aforsaid  Gorg Way, Katheren Warner, & Mary Mills should bee sent from constabel to constable to the place from whence they came, wh is a place  called Winter Harbor, near Richmans Iland to the eastward; and yt Tho Wallen & Richard Carle aforsaid bee comitted to ward; all which  accordingly was forthwith pformed."
(TL NOTE apparently Winter Harbor is in present-day Maine I think commited to ward might be a little like colonial house arrest )
Genealogical Dictionary of New Hampshire and Maine reveals a Thomas Warner whose wife Katheren went “with an eloping party from Winter Harbor to Barnstable.”
 The Early Records of the Town of Providence--1662/63
-For asmuch as Thomas Walling, formerly inhabitant of this Towne of providence; hath departed this towne, the Towne being doubtfull of his return to take care for the Releife of the wife and child which he hath left in the Towne: This to signiffie unto all persons, that the town hath seized into their handes and Secured, all the estate of the said Thomas Walling....
..
 Court Oct. 1664 Providence, Providence, RI:  Indicted by the grand Jury for Committing Fornication with Ann Smith... pay forye shillings or to be whipt. The sayd walwin Doth Choose to pay Fortye shllings

He returned for a while then abandoned his wife and children again in  1667
“in October of 1666 Thomas Walling was found guilty of assault on Robert Colwell and paid a bond of 20 pounds, but he failed to appear in court and forfeited his bond. It turned out that he had run away with Colwell's wife Margaret White, whom Colwell subsequently divorced.”

In a separate incident, William White's daughter, Margaret, already married to Robert Colwell, ran away with her married neighbor, Thomas Walling; both deserted their families. Colwell secured his divorce 2 July 1667; Margaret had returned to Boston and was ordered to be publicly whipped 15 stripes and was fined £5 in October 1666.

 Thomas was also whipped this time twice once in Providence and the other was I believe in Boston
http://www.patconwell.com/familytree/histories/TWallen.html

Poor Mary, first Wife of Thomas Wallen
from -- Thomas Wallen/Walling: Pilgrim Rogue?  by Joan Gatturna
"Roger Williams wrote the following to the town of Providence: “I understand that one of the orphans of our dear friend Daniel Abbott is likely(as she herself told me) to be disposed of in marriage.'Tis true she has now come to some years, but who knows not what need the poor maid hath of your fatherly care, counsel and direction. I would not disparage the young man (for I hear he hath been laborious)...”
 Williams went on to urge the town to seek assurance that the young man will “forsake his former courses.”

"The Early Records of the Town of Providence
For asmuch as Thomas Walling, formerly inhabitant of this Towne of providence;
hath departed this towne, the Towne being doubtfull of his return to take care
for the Releife of the wife and child which he hath left in the Towne: This to
signiffie unto all persons, that the town hath seized into their handes and Secured,
 all the estate of the said Thomas Walling......
There are several entries about the absence of Thomas. Mary petitions the town to be
relieved of the care of an apprentice named Daniel Comstock, as she can no longer care
for him. During the same year she also apprentices her own son Gerhom to Nathaniel Mowry.
 The entries about the apprenticeships are dated 1667, the same year as the divorce of
Margaret and Robert Colwell. Mary Abbott Wallen dies in 1669  and Thomas reappears to marry Margaret Colwell. "

http://www.patconwell.com/familytree/histories/TWallen.html

FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Who was Ann Smith 1654?

While reading about my Thomas Wallen, I read  a claim he was involved with a pirate's widow. Naturally I had to know more. .
There was a Samuel Comstock , part owner of  a frigate, or barque,  called the Swallow.  This Comstock seems to have been involved in privateering.
"In the fall of September 1654, a Samuel Cromstock and Anna Tchuys were arrested and convicted in New Amsterdam, for adultery." Both were apparently already married.  There has been no marriage record found.  This is where the pirate story comes from though.  Others will need to determine if it is the same couple found at Providence in 1654, though the date overlap makes me believe not.
However, the Ann I am showing here does appear to be the Ann Smith, Thomas Wallen ran away with.

1654	Samuel Comstock was in Providence, married to Ann -_____ *
1654	Samuel Comstock bought house and lot in Providence from John Smith
1660	Samuel Comstock has died. He and Ann have two sons, Samuel (Jr.) and Daniel
1660	Ann married a John Smith. He was the son of John, the mason.* Town records call him Jameco
1660	March 9 -John has died Town council took action about the estates of Samuel Comstock & John Smith, deceased,
1661	April 27 -Ann Smith ,widow, ask the town to secure the inheritance of her son, John Smith.
1661	April 27- Robert Colwell * became guardian of Margaret Smith, daughter of Jameco (John) Smith (and Unknown)
1661	May 4 -Ann Smith sold house & home share of former husband, Samuel Comstock, to Roger Mowry
1661	Dec. “the said Tho:Walling being now departed the Towne;” Mary Wallen petitions for relief to take over the care of a young boy named "Ann Comstock's son" Daniel . “ the Towne shall from this day take care of the said Ladd” he was later apprenticed to William Carpenter
1663	Mary Wallen asking for help again “Towne being doubful of the returne of the said Thomas Walling”
1664	October Thomas Wallen indicted & fined 40 schillings Committing Fornication with Ann Smith, late of Providence ( this may be Boston area)
1666	October Thomas Wallen indicted “that he did Asault beate and Wound Robert Colwell”
1667	May- Mary Walling & children “left destitute by the sayd Thomas Walwin who is supposed to be run away with Robert Colwell's wife.
1667	July- Court granted Robert Colwell's petition for divorce from Margret (White) Colwell
1683	March 17 -John Smith petitions for his inheritance from his father John Smith's, ” sometime knowne by the name of Jameco” estate. John sold the 25 acres to Samuel Comstock
	* there was charge of adultery between a Samuel Comstock with Ann Tuchys but not clear if this was the same pair.
	*John Smith ,the mason ,father of Jameco, bought land from Thomas Wallen * Could Robert Colwell be related to the first unknown wife of John "Jameco" Smith?

Doubts at every turn

         This weekend I decided to change my family tree.  For over a year now I have known that DNA evidence was not leading me up the Smith branch of my tree the way I had been told by other researchers.  But I was holding fast that it would eventually be shown that my supposed gggg-grandfather  was a cousin to the DNA proven line.  I like the story that he  and his wife have attached to them.  But when I found myself trying to make the evidence fit my theory, instead of following the trail of evidence to wherever it may lead... Then I knew it was time to give it up.  No point in leaving that on the list, I can always put him back if the evidence ever supports it ,right?

          So with a deep breath I hit DELETE.

         Then to console myself , I decided to dig around a bit with one of my favorites, Hot Grandma Elizabeth.  I  found her Wild Child Malinda mentioined in an old Rootsweb list and began to read about her husbands and children and then----OH NO!!!  The writer suggested that Malinda was the granddaughter of Lewis Wilburn.  Now I am sure Lewis was a great guy, he was the brother of Stephen Wilburn , the grandpa I have listed.  The problem with this Lewis theory is that, if true, I will lose my beloved Wallen/ Walling connection!!!!! I have spent hours reading about the Longhunters and their adventures. I have studied the Salem Witch Trials, and poured thru pages of early New England Puritan history.  Now to possibly lose that whole line!!!!!!. 

       So I pushed myself away from the computer last night, with a very Scarlett O'Hara attitude of     "I'll think about that tomorrow".  
      
        This morning I turned to Morning Wallen, sad that I could lose her wonderful history.  I looked at the picture I had attached to her not really sure what that was, though I  thought it was a page from the marriage records book.  When I brought it up on screen -Lo and Behold- it was a page from a diary dated 1850  listing  births of her, Stephen,  and their children including Hot Grandma Elizabeth! 

From intro to document: The pages copies herein are from an old record book brought from Eastern Tennessee to Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas in 1850 and discovered among the personal papers of Thomas J. Walden, Busch, Arkansas, after his death in 1951

 

 That is what happens when you collect so much you can not keep track of it all.  Anyone that wishes to see that page can find it at Ancestry.com   posted on the Kelsey Wilburn Family Tree    

Daniel Abbott fined for making a statement

DANIEL ABBOTT 
ORIGIN: Unknown   BIRTH: Before 1610, based on freemanship
MIGRATION: est 1630  FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge

FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]

ESTATE: "Daniell Abott" was  granted three acres behind the Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5

REMOVES: Providence possibly in 1636, and certainly by 1639
   On 4 June 1639, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, for unknown reasons,
       noted that "Daniell Abbot is departed to New Providence" [MBCR 1:267].
  Since Daniel Abbott does not appear in Cambridge records after February of 1636,
    he may have gone to Providence as early as 1636.
"Mary Abbott wife unto Daniell Abbott of this town of Providence departed this life in the year 1643,
 or thereabouts" [PrTR 5:203].
 DECEASED  "Daniell Abbott Husband to said Mary departed this life in the year 1647"  [PrTR 5:203].
 On 27 July 1650 Nicholas Power and Gregory Dexter were ordered to "take the goods belonging to the children of Daniel Abbot . deceased ,into their hands.."

*******COMMENTS: 18 May 1631: "Daniell Abbott is fined 5s. for refusing to watch, & for other ill
behavior showed towards Captain Pattricke"  the fine was remitted in the general amnesty of
 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:243].***********

So this caught my eye -who was Captain Pattricke and why did Grandpa Abbott disrespect him?

DANIEL PATRICK (listed as possibly Irish in other sources)

 ORIGIN: The Hague, Holland
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Cambridge by 1632, Watertown 1636, Greenwich by 1640
OCCUPATION: Soldier.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Watertown [ WJ 2:182].
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 (TL NOTE same day as Daniel Abbott and when Abbott was fined)
DEATH: Killed at Stamford late in 1643 of Capt. Daniel Patrick who was shot at Stantford in New England by one Hans Frederick

The Winthrop Papers contain three letters written by Capt. Daniel Patrick during the Pequot War, each including current details of encounters and supplies [WP 3:421, 430-31, 440-41].
EDWARD WINSLOW and ROGER WILLIAMS also made frequent mention of his activities during the war [WP 3:427-28, 436-37, 450].

 Winthrop and Patrick were not friends and their relationship grew more strained with time. About 1640, Daniel Patrick wrote to Winthrop asking to be reconciled and saying "I do confess I am a man of many failings, and certainly I am not ignorant of that unbeseeming carriage, once, nay twice towards yourself, but as time ripeneth fruit, so have I through God's goodness since that thoroughly considered the folly of such rash and proudlike actions ... I am unfeignedly sorry for mine offence" [WP 4:168-69].

   About 1641 Elizabeth Sturgis made a plain statement of the assaults made on her by Captain Patrick, first at the time when  she was a servant to Mr. Cumines and later after her marriage. Patrick wrote back rebutting her account and saying that he had  written to her husband saying that "if such things were spoken ... I should expect satisfaction" [WP 4:300-03].

Winthrop wrote of Patrick in 1643 as "very proud and vicious" and that he followed after other women .
Winthrop described his last day as  this --The Dutchman (Hans Frederick) had charged him with treachery, for causing 120 men to come to  him upon his promise to direct them to the Indians, etc.,but deluded them. Whereupon the captain (Patrick) gave him ill language and spit in his face, and turning to go out, the Dutchman shot him behind in the head, so he fell down dead and never spake. The murderer escaped out of custody.--"

It looks like Grandpa Abbott may have recognized a bad egg when he saw one. I think he refused to watch a man make an oath  that Abbott believed he had no intention of honoring.  It appears he was right.


The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN
Robert Charles Anderson. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
A marvelous book.

Maddness of Folly , Margaret White

Margaret was not a blood relative of mine, but I find her story very interesting. 
She was  hot tempered adultress, and apparently more than a little intimidating.  Now imagine all of this  dressed in the the garments of our Old Comers ( original name for Pilgrims).  Read on and just imagine how mad she may have been!

She was the daughter of  William White (d Oct 1673) and Elizabeth Cadman? (d Dec 1690)  / William was a bricklayer , his will proved 31 January 1673/4 in Boston is shown as follows:

His wife was to have "all my vissable estate so long as she was a widowe and to have her thirds if she remarried; two Sonnes  Isaacke & Cornelius White; two sonnes & 1 daughter Susanna Waggett, wife of Thomas Waggett after the decease of wife;  to son William White 5 shillings... to other 3 daughters, Elysabeth Harnden, wife of Benjamyne.  Margaret Wallen, wife of Thomas Wallen, and Usrulla Bennett, the wife of John Bennett each 4 shillings."

Margaret married Robert Colewell 1660 they  had two children Robert, Jr., b. 1662, and Elizabeth, b 1664 Robert (Colwel, Coleway, Caldwell)  took the  freemans oath 1658 in Providence,took oath. of alleg. May 1666-

October 1666, Thomas Walling was found guilty of assault on Robert Colwell and paid a bond of 20 pounds, but he failed to appear in court and forfeited his bond.
October 1666 Margaret was convicted of  fornication with Thomas Wallin ordered to be publicly whipped 15 stripes in Boston and was fined £5
 July 21, 1667 Colwell was granted a divorce from Margaret.
Margaret married Thomas in 1669, he died in 1674. In just five short years she gave birth to four boys,
  John (he may be Mary Abbott's son), William, Cornelius, and James.
On Decmber 25,1678 Margaret married Daniel Abbott, brother of Thomas Wallen's first wife.(-some speculate he did this to regain his sister's share of family inheritance)
Daniel is mentioned in the Providece town records in 1680 petioning for money for the orphans of Thomas Walling
Dan: Abbott.wtj ye orphs of Tho: wallings Right 
To the 7 pd Rate    8d    -July  1680 (page 207)
 and listed  again as July 1680 different amount
A List of a Rate of a ii (in or/as/money) Leivied on this
Towne of providence july y 16th:1680: to y end appoynted,
 as y Towne order enjoyneth Conderneing y sd rate: / the w are/
As ffolloweth jmpremes,/ Dan : Abbott, with ye orphans of Thomas Walling     2s 8d  (page 210-211)

Margaret's oldest son made reference to Daniel  February 8, 1682/3
 [PrTR 17:11]. Robert Colwell (Jr.) refers to "my father-in-law Daniell Abbott"

In about 1682 Margaret gave birth to Daniel Abbott,III. (the future Deputy Governor of the Colny of Rhode Island)
 Magaret and Daniel hit a "rough patch" in their marriage  August 7, 1683


Petion " Whereas my wife Margrett through her maddness of folly & turbulency of her currupt will,  hath often threatened to ruinate my family, routeing me (as she saith) of horse & foote, destroying me root & branch, putting out one of her owne eyes to putt out both mine, & sett  my house on fire: And is since deparated from me takeing away my Children without my consent. And as I have been enformed, is now plotting micheife with wsome , of her turbulent Spiritt, that when I am absent from home to rifle my house & take away my goodes, to accomplish her Divelish resolution against me. These are therefore, not only to advise, but alsoe to charge all persons vpon theire perrill to forbare any such illegal proceedings, and alsoe do hereby foreworne & forbid al persons whatsoever, to forbare bargaineing with, contracting of Debts, or receiveing any part of my estate of my sd wife Mrgrett without my approbation."

Published 8 January 1684: "These are to desire the Towne, that the within Written prohibition may be put
 upon the publick record of this Towne, And alsoe published in this Towne meeting."

Daniel died  early 1700's (dates  found vary from 1700-1717)  and mentioned Margaret in his will , so they apparently never divorced.   (TL NOTE not yet located the will )

Margaret appeared once more in the public records  (Margaret may have died later this year):
1717
" 'Upon the Cumplaint of Mrs Margret Abbott widow of mr Daniel Abbott deceased that shee wants Releif and being sensible  that the sd Daniel Abbott her deceased husband Left a Compitent Esstate: suffuciant to Releife his sd widdow and being Informed that his son Daniel Abbott Administred vpon sd Esstate and being also sumthing sinsable of the same Where vpon wee doe order as hereby it is ordered that the sd suruiueing Daniel Abbott shall pay to the Relief of his mother the sd Margreet Abbott the sum of Eight shillings Per weeke Currant money into the hands of one of the ouer seers of the poor of  sd Towne Except he prouide for her sum other way to her Content vntill sum further order be taken.' "

FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen, AND  to Abbott

Thomas Wallen Sr. probate record 1680

This would be the first proven Wallen ( Walden, Walling)  the one I affectionaly call "Bad Boy" 
Daniel Abbott was his brother in law.  Many people presume Ralph Wallen was his father which would make the family techncially a Pilgrim Lineage  (Arrival on the first three ships is considered Pilgrim)
As far as I know, this is an unproven claim ,and I believe even unlikley.

The Enrolement of a Coppie of ye jnventory As ffolloweth
An Jnventory of ye Estate of Thomas walling of this Towne of providence Now Deceased.
 Three Cowes       10-10-00
 Two yovng bulls       03-10-00
 Three Calves       01-10-00
 Two horses        04-10-00
 Tenn Swine        10-00-00
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 jn ye outer Roome of ye dwelling house   00 00 00
  Two iron potts       01-00-00
 one Bell mettle Skillett      00-02-00
 tinning ware       00-00-06
 Two ffrying pans       00-08-00
 One spitt & Two Gunns      01-18-00
 Earthen ware       00-02-00
 One Tramell & two hooks     00-3-06
 Two bibles, Two spinning wheeles, one P of Cards 00-14-00
 wooden dishes & Lumber     00-10-00
 Jn ye inner Roome      00 00 00
 One bed, & beding thereto belonging   03-00-00
 One Chest and what is in it     00-10-00
 home made Cloath, & one Lonthorne   01-10-00
 his wareing Cloathes      02-10-00
 One paire of bootes without Tops, one paire of shoes 00-15-00
 homemade yarne       01-10-00
 one P of Gloves, & Two P of Stockings   00-06-00
 homemade yarne       00-12-00
 Lumber        00-15-00
 [13]   Jn ye Leantoo     00-00-00
 Two Blanketts being homemade    01-15-00
 Three Sieves       00-03-00
 Lumber        00-12-06
   Jn ye Chamber     00-00-00
 Sheeps wooll, & Cotten wooll     01-08-00
 Jndian Corne & Cheese      00-13-00
 Lumber        00-10-00
   Jn ye Sellar      00-00-00
 One firkin of Butter      01-10-00
 One Tub & Two keellars      01-08-00
 One Churne, Two pailes, & one pigging   00-04-00
 Tallow & Candals       00-06-00
   Jn ye Sellar Chamber    00-00-00
 foure Barrels       00-12-00
 Sheeps wooll & Lumber      00-10-00
 One horse Cart & wheeles, with other horse Tack-
  ling to it       02-15-00
 all his working tooles      02-10-00
 One Saddle, one pillion, & one pannell   01-10-00
 Two Sithes, one P of horse ffetters plow & plow-
  Jrons        00-14-06
 The dwelling house outhouseing Land & medow
  there vnto Adjoyneing           100-00-00
 his Right of Commonning on ye East Side of ye
  foure mile Line Sett by the Towne   03-00-00
 his halfe Right of Commoning between ye Seaven
  mile Line 7 ye foure mile Line sett as afore-
  sayd        01-00-00
 His Right of Landes medowes, & commonning
 Lieing vpon ye west side of ye seaven mile
  Lione        05-00-00
 His Right of Landes wescodomsett    01-00-00
 The Sum totall if noe mistake in ye Casting vp is     171-07-00
    A ffaire prizall of what was made appeare vnto us to be the
 Estate of ye aforesayd Thomas walling now Deceased.
 Being Taken this Tenth day of August one Thousand Six hun-
 dred Seaventy and foure, by vs As wittnesse our handes
      John Smith
      John whipple junr
  The Enroled Coppie afore mentioned, was Endorsed As
 followeth              Cop P me John Smith Clerke
                    of ye Town of providence.
  Entered vpon Record ye first of june 1680:
  P Daniell Abbott Towne Clerke


FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Staid and went not away

The aftermath of the King Phillip's War left the people of Providence with an abundance of  prisoners.
In August 1676 a meeting of those men referred to as those "that{staid} and went not away:" were chosen to make the final decision about these prisoners.  They had to consider that to simply release  the Indians would threaten safety of the colonists . They could  hang or shoot their prisoners but that  was a path that could likely lead to more battles later. The decision issued was as follows:

“We whose names are underwritten, being Chosen by the Town to set the
disposal of the Indians now in Town, we agree, that Roger Williams,
Nathaniel Waterman, Thomas Fenner, Henry Ashton, John Morey, Daniel
Abbott, James Olney, Valentine Whitman, John Whipple, Sen., Ephraim Pray,
John Pray, John Angell, James Angell, Thomas Arnold, Abraham Man,
Thomas Field, Edward Bennett, Thomas Clemence, William Lancaster,
William Hopkins, William Hawkins, William Harris, Zachariah Field, Samuel
Windsor, and Captain Fenner Joseph Woodward and Richard Pray, each
three fourths of a share, John Smith, Miller, and Edward Smith, Samuel Whipple,
Nelle Whipple, and Thomas Walling, each half a share. Inhabitants wanting, to
have Indians at the price they sell at Rhode Island or elsewhere. All under five
 years to serve till thirty, above five and under ten, till twenty eight, above
ten to fifteen, till twenty seven, above fifteen to twenty, till twenty six,
from twenty to thirty shall serve eight years, all above thirty, seven years.

Roger Williams Thomas Field
Thomas Harris, Sen. John Whipple, jr.
Thomas + Angell
August 14; 1676."

The committee authorized Capt. Arthur Fenner ,William Hopkins ,and John Whipple Jr. to procure a boat to transport the  Indians where they might be sold,  and after cost and reasonalble payment for their efforts the remaining funds would be divided the company _
"This being our reall act and deed as wittness our handes this 16 day of August 1676:
Roger Williams
Daniell Abbott  John Morey   Henry Ashton   Nathaniell Waterman
Ephraim Pray   Joseph Woodward   Abraham Man   Eliazur Whipple
John Angell   James Olney  James Angell  Vallintine Whittman
Edward Bennett  Thomas Field   John Pray-”

Now one might wonder why ther appears to be a length of servitude attached to this sale.   It seems that in March 1675,before the troubles had begun,  legislature of Rhode Island had passed a law “that noe Indian in this Collony be a slave, but only to pay their debts or for their bringeing up, or Custody they have
received, or to performed Covenant as if they had been Countrymen and not taken in war.” 
Did the committee believe that by imposing time limits  it made the sale into an  contract of servitude for debt repayment?
 Here is an accounting of at least a part of the sale
To Anthony Low, five Indians, great and small, £8.
'To James Rogers, two, for twenty two bushels of Indian corn.
'To Philip Smith, two, in silver, £4, 10.
'To Daniel Allen, one, in silver, £2, 10.
'To Caleb Carr, one, twelve bushels of Indian corn.
'To Elisha Smith, one, in wool, 100 lbs.
'To Elisha Smith, one, for three fat sheep

Daniel Abbott listed is my 8th grand uncle and Thomas Walling is my 7th great grandfather.
  He is the son of "Bad Boy Thomas" who died between 1674 and 1675, before the war. Thomas Jr. would have been only 21 maybe 22 when this occurred.


FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Death by Indian

Several of the Wallen/Wallin/Walling  (or W. for clarity) family members are said to have died in Indian attacks.
I believe that many of these accounts are just variations of  these  three incidents.

 John W.'s (1740-1836) wife did die in an attack 17 Mar 1785 though  there is no evidence yet about what her name was. He may have been married several times.
 John W.(1740-1836) was likely attacked at his home, reputed to be on the outskirts of the "civilized" area.
 Joseph W. (1735-1792) and a younger man named Thomas W. did die in an attack near Lot
 
John's Wife
Name may have been Francy, Lucy, Hale,McKinney,Cox or Roberts, no records have yet given proof of her name.
Colonel Arthur Campbell wrote to Governor Patrick Henry on March 26, 1785:   “since the muder of Mrs. Wallen, which I mentioned in my laster letter, a Mrs. Cox was shot at the Indians, but hapilly escaped."
On the same day Col. Joseph Martin, who had built Martin’s Station in Powell Valley also wrote Governor Henry, from his home in Henry Co., VA, stating : “i Ihave enclosed a letter from Ellis Harlin, who is from Chickamauga. On the 17th instant a party of Indians came to the house of John Wallen." Spring Creek area on March 17, 1785 
TL NOTE  I have found no details of just how Mrs. W. was killed , though the story is that she was scalped . Martin says she was killed about 15 miles from his station, which would have to be up Powell Valley, thus placing their residence somewhere in the vicinty of the present Rose Hill Community. This John W. was a son of Elisha W.  Sr., (1708-1785) and brother of Long Hunter Elisha W. (1732-1814),  for whom Wallen’s Ridge in Powell Valley was named.

The Home Invasion
...quotes Thomas Carter’s letter found in the Draper manuscripts:
"Sometime in the year 1789, John Wallen build a small cabin at the mouth of Stock Creek where Clinchport is situated now. He located his cabin on the Kentucky Path, and no double, helped to entertain some of the hundreds of settlers who were emigrating to Kentucky at the time oveer the Wilderness Road. Wallen was not left long in the peacable enjoyment of his new home in the wilderness. Benge and his forest bloodhounds soon found his cabin. One morning, must at daybreak, his wife, opening the door was shot at by an Indian and slightly wounded. Quickly closing the door, she bared it to prevent its being forced. Wallen, who was yet in bed, then hastily across and snatching the gun from its rack, shot and killed the Indian nearest the door. The other Indians then rushed upon the house trying to effect an entrance, nor did they retreat until Wallen had killed three of them. After driving the Indians away, Wallen and his wife went to Carter’s Fort, eight miles distant.”
TL NOTE If this story is accurate on the date, then this lucky woman is a new wife of John's. I believe it might be true because the location seems different- now they went eight miles to Carter's instead of 15  miles to Martin's.

The Lot Attack
"Tommy Wallin who came to Wallins Creek.  There were about seven killed here. they were some of his boys who were killed. The Indians killed the seven Wallin men. Watts was an Indian. Wallin killed Watts brother in Tennessee is why they came here, said killing in Tennessee was above Kyles Ford. Hancock, County...some say that Wallin's dog led them to his body while others say that his dog stood over the bodies, protecting them from wild beasts. At any rate these men had been killed by Indians and it is the first known death of a white man to be scalped in Harlan County. The ridge, the creek and the town of Wallins' Creek were named for them. The actual location is at the end of the old abandoned logging road at a place which was referred to in old records as the Lot/Lott,  situated between Blanton Branch and Rob Blanton Branch TL NOTE  In 1993, the two most common names in that community(Knox/Harlan County, Ky) are Helton and Wallen . ( My 5th great grandfather John Helton is listed at Wallen Creek, Harlan, KY. The Tommy W. said to have killed the  Watts brother is an odd story about continuing to attack the indian after he was dead. )

Joseph and Tommy
From an account of Joseph's death recorded in a family Bible last reported to  be owned
the Weddel family: "Joseph was killed by Indians. There he built a fort and took a company of his settlement and his  oldest son Thomas Walling, 12 in number and over on to the Three Forks of the Cumberland to the place now called the Lot in the state of Kentucky. When there him and his son and 8 out of 12 others was killed by the Indians".
 Many say it was a nephew Tommy not actually his son. Story rates a likely . We do know that Milly W. was a widow in 1794. She was listed as such in a storekeeper's account book.


It was Elisha the Longhunter killed in KY on a hunting trip.
"On the hunters' return to camp the other men saw blood on the snow and found the remains of him and his companion; some say that Wallin's dog led them to his body while others say that his dog stood over the bodies protecting them from wild beasts.  At any rate, these men had been killed by Indians and it is the first known death of a white scout to be scalped in Harland County, Kentucky. The ridge where they camped, the creek, and the town of "Wallins" were named for him.
His body was found whence almost decayed recognized by the buttons on his clothes".

TL NOTE  This is not likely considering the records and grave in Missouri.   Long Hunter Elisha was still living in the valley in 1785, sometime soon thereafter leaving for Missouri , his time there appears well documented. Of course one of the Wallen boys killed could have been an Elisha namesake.

 TL NOTE Elisha W. Sr. (1708- about 1784) It could have been  Elisha Sr, killed that day  This version of Elisha Walling Sr's death has some credence. Since no will has been located  it would  indicate his death was unexpected, for normally when ill, a person would have written a will  (but at 76 ...?)  It is notable that the line " the first known death of a white" is often repeated in the various stories.    So this story rates a maybe. (If anyone has access to the original  source of the quote I would love to hear from you)

Sources to look for
1. Name: Hamilton, Mullins, Weaver. (1992). Unsettled settlements: Indian Forays on the Holston and Clinch Rivers 1773-1794. Clintwood, VA: Mullins Printing
2. Name: Wallen, Delmar H. Sr. (1993). Families and History of Sullivan County, Tenn, Vol I, 1779-1992. Complied by Holston Territory Genealogical Society.
3. Name: Wilder, M.H. & H. B. (1991). A Wallen/Walling Genealogy, vol II Baltimore: Gateway
4.Virginia State Papers, Vol. IV, page 20
5. O. C. Helton, "The Wallin's Creek Killings, Knox County, Kentucky", MS 1993,

FAMILY PATH   Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Elizabeth Wilburn, Hot Grandma

     My Elizabeth was married to Eli T(h)ompkins about 1820. She was the daughter of Morning Wallen and Stephen Wilborn of TN. There has been some discussion that she was perhaps the second wife of Eli, the first could have been a Martha Beatty, (TL NOTE I believe "Beatty" was Betty as in Elizabeth.)  They  had  a lot of children at the very least these four girls Nancy Tompkins Morgan, Malinda Tompkins Adams, Mary Tompkins, Burnetta Tompkins Turner, and quite likely these two boys Charles Storm Tompkins and Benjamin H. Tompkins , &  possibly Andy. 
The marriage ended sometime between about 1840 to 1850, apparently the papers were loose and no date is on them.

Marriage Notes for Eli Tompkins and Elizabeth Wilborn: Transcription of divorce papers:

To the Honorable the Judge of the Laurel Circuit Court, in Chancery sitting, your petition in Eli Thompkins humbly complaining, would respectively show unto your honor that some 20 years since he married his wife, Elizabeth and **** as a family *** life tolerably well for some time but at last
         by degrees a fire began to rise in the breast of my wife till it has grown to such an extent, that it cannot be put out with management and good treatment or with water.
She seemed to be everything but a wife and everything but a prudent woman. I have a large family of gals and boys and I am willing to take them and work for them and do all that is in my power if I could get them out of her company. She is no wife to me nor has she been for 4 or 5 years, she is loose in her habits and plays too much with other men. With her there is no confidence in her virtue or chastity. Adultery seems to be her pleasure, therefore your petition in **** in Justice and mercy on your honor to set aside the marriage contract to divorce me and dissolve the union between us and in mercy ever will pray a he is in duty bound and prays that said Elizabeth Thompkins may be made a *** to this bill.

     Ok, now really what do you think Grandpa Eli meant "with water" ?
Elizabeth  has been a bit hard to track after the divorce, She remarried a man named Dudley Faris in 1859  Elizabeth died in  the fall of 1873 (TL NOTE found this on internet M.E. makes me believe she was  named Martha Elizabeth-remember the note above)

"M. E. Tompkins married Dudley Faris in Laurel Co. in 1859, the date is given is February 29, 1859, although it was a leap year and the date cannot be correct. Witnesses were Burnetta Tompkins and Mary Tompkins, clearly Elizabeth's daughters."       from Casey Meshbesher 

 Census July 20, 1860, Laurel county Kentucky, Page 102
Dudley Farris m 60 ky farm laborer
Elizabeth Farris f 55 ky
Viva Farris f 11 ky
Bernetty Farris f 18 ky

 I don't know if Dudley died or they divorced. I am still looking but Elizabeth was calling herself Thompkins again in her will.

      Notes for Elizabeth Wilborn: Transcription of Elizabeth Thompkins' will.

I, Elizabeth Thompkins of Laurel County being  feeble in health and
advanced in years and being of sound mind and disposing memory and
desiring to make such disposition of my estate as seems to me justice do make and constitute this my last will and testament.
It is my will and desire that my daughter Nancy Morgan have one  bee hive.
This my desire that my daughter Malinda Adams have one bee  hive.
This my desire that my daughter Mary Thompkins have one bee hive.
This my desire that my grandson W. S. Turner have my red heifer calf and  bed clothing, bedstead.
It is my desire that my daughter Burnetta Turner have one bee hive and all the rest of my estate consisting of household and kitchen furniture and one brown milk cow 2 years old heifer, two head of sheep, and five head of hogs.
This is my will and desire that Robert Early be appointed Executor of this my last will and testament. It is my desire that this instrument be placed upon record in the Laurel County Court.
Witness my mark and signature this 25 of Aug, 1873.
Witness: W. E. Smith      Elizabeth Thompkins mark
John Sparks   State of Kentucky

Laurel County Court, Oct. two 1873, a paper purporting to be the last  will and testament of Betty Thompkins was produced to court and by the oath of W.E. Smith subscribing who also attended the signature of John Sparks. Whereupon the same to record this day by: L. Ewell
(TL NOTE  "grandson W. S. Turner"  was William Sherman , my great-grandfather)


I have done some reading on the Wilborn  (also Wilburn) , have found several notes about them being, shall we, say a bit rowdy.  If you consider that Elizabeth was also a descendent of  our Bad Boy Tom Wallen , there can be little doubt that it was in her DNA .
 Her daughter Malinda has been referred to on the internet as Wild Child  She will require her own page.

Abbotts of RI

We don't know alot about DANIEL ABBOTT SR
from   The Great Migration Begins    Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN

ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Providence possibly in 1636, and certainly by 1639
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366].
ESTATE: "Daniell Abott" (Sr.)was granted three acres behind the Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5 [CaTR 11].
His proportional rating in the division of Fresh Pond Meadow was 1/2 [CaTR 13].

 May 18 1631(or 1637 ?)
 Fined five shillings "for refusing to watch, & for other ill behavior showed towards Captain Pattricke"
[MBCR 1:87]; the fine was remitted in the general amnesty of 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:243].
In the 8 February 1635/6 list of houses, Daniel Abbott appears with one house [CaTR 19].
   In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635 "Daniell Abott" held two parcels of
land: "one house with backside about half a rood"; and three acres behind the Pine Swamp [CaBOP 27].
These two parcels (owned house N. W. cor. Holyoke and Mount Auburn Sts.)were purchased by John Russell and appear under his name in the inventory of land carried out about 1639; the third parcel in Russell's  inventory may also have belonged to Abbott [CaBOP 60-61].

Marriage -  Mary-- ; according to the "Enroulments of Burialls" in Providence
"Mary Abbott wife unto Daniell Abbott of this town of Providence departed this life in the year 1643, or thereabouts"    [PrTR 5:203].
   On 20 May 1644 Daniel Abbott sold to Robert Morris five parcels of land in Providence: twenty acres upland, a share of meadow, sixty acres, another share of meadow, and a fifth parcel the details of which are no longer  legible [PrTR ]
 "Daniell Abbott Husband to said Mary departed this life in the year 1647" [PrTR 5:203]
 (*See TL NOTE 1)
  On 27 July 1650 Nicholas Power and Gregory Dexter were ordered to "take the goods belonging to the children of Daniel Abbot deceased into their hands & take notice of the goats, & also care of them, to see to the disposal  of them & bring in a list into the town, & record them" [PrTR 2:49].
22 January 1650/1 See Roger William letter to the Town of Providence (SEE Mary Abbott)

DANIEL ABBOTT Jr.
24 May 1673, a grant was made "unto Daniel Abott [Jr.]  and Thomas Wallin two lots together" [PrTR 3:244-45];   the combining of these two grants by the town may indicate that this was in fact a grant made in the right of the elder, deceased, Daniel Abbott, the grantees here being his son and son-in-law, and only known heirs. On 16 and 21 November 1685 two grants of land were made to Daniel Abbott "in the right of his deceased father 
 Daniell Abbott" [PrTR 14:186-87].   Although not recorded as such, Daniel Abbott  was a proprietor in Providence, for on 27 April 1680 the town   voted "that whereas there is no record in our town book now found extant that Daniell Abbott formerly inhabitant in this town of Providence, deceased, was an equal proprietor with the rest of the purchasers within the township thereof, though known to this town to be a purchaser with them. This town doth thereupon order & it is hereby
ordered that Daniell Abbott his son and heir by right of succession, be now recorded a purchaser in his father's room & stead" [PrTR 8:69-70].
In 1676 Daniel Abbott was  one the the Providence men "that stayed{staid} and went not away:" during what became known as King Philip's War .  Thomas Wallen was there also. It is a very interesting story I may try to include later 
 (*See TL NOTE-2)
 Daniel Abbott married Margaret White ,- he filed the following prohibition against her;
" Whereas my wife Margrett through her maddness of folly & turbulency of her currupt will, hath often threatened   to ruinate my family, routeing me (as she saith) of horse & foote, destroying me root & branch, putting out one of  her owne eyes to putt out both mine, & sett my house on fire: And is since deparated from me takeing away my Children  without my consent. And as I have been enformed, is now plotting micheife with wsome , of her turbulent Spiritt, that when I am absent from home to rifle my house & take away my goodes, to accomplish her Divelish resolution against me. These are therefore, not only to advise, but alsoe to charge all persons vpon theire perrill to forbare any such illegal proceedings, and alsoe do hereby foreworne & forbid allpersons whatsoever, to forbare bargaineing with, contracting of Debts, or receiveing any part of my estate of my sd wife Mrgrett without my approbation."l (Published 7 August 1683:)
28 January 1684: "These are to desire the Towne, that the within Written prohibition may be put upon the publick record of this Towne, And alsoe published in this Towne meeting." 
(*See TL NOTE-3)
 Apparently they must have settled their differences  somewhat because as his wife  she signed a deed dated in 1709;  and Margaret was mentioned in her husband's will in 1717 but Margaret's problems were not over yet. Late in the year 1717, Margaret filed a complaint against her son Daniel Abbott for relief:

"Upon the Cumplaint of Mrs Margret Abbott widow of Mr. Daniel Abbott deceased that shee wants Relief and being sensible that the sd Daniel Abbott her deceased husband left a compitent Esstate; sufficiant to releife his sd  widdow and being informed that his son Daniel Abbott administred upon sd Esstate and being also sum thing insable of the same where upon wee doe order as hereby it is ordered that the sd suruiueing Daniel Abbott shall  pay to the Relief of his mother the sd Margreet Abbott the sum of Eight Shillings per weeke curant money into the   hands of one of  the over seers of the poor of sd Towne except he prouide for her sum other way to her content  until sum further  order be taken."
(*See TL NOTE-4)

MARY ABBOTT
 Letter from Roger Williams to the town fathers of Providence, dated 22 February 1650/1.
It does not name Thomas Walling, but Williams knew of Wallings past:
 "I understand that an unknown age  one of the Orphanes of or dead freind Dan: Abbot, is likely
(as she herselfe told me) to be disposed of in mariage[.] Tis true that she is now come to some yeares:
But who knowes not, what neede the poore maid hath of yor fatherly Care, Councell & Direction: I would not  disparage the young man (for I heare he hath bene Laborious) yet with your leaue
 I must say I durst not, you will not give yor daughters in mariage to such those liues have bene in such
 course without some good  Assurance & Certificate of / his/ not being engaged to other women or otherwayes criminous, as allso of his Resolution to forsake his former course, least (this Jnquireie being neglected) The Maid & orselues repent when Miserie hath befallen her, & a just Reprove & charges befall orselues: of wch we haue no neede"[.]
   (* See TL NOTE 5)
TL NOTES
  1 -Apparently the Abbots had no family on this side of the ocean because others were asked to handle their affairs. 
      I am guessing both children were so nearly adult age that they were able to take care of themselves in most matters.
      I have not seen any mention of guardians
   2- Daniel Abbott (Jr.) married Margaret White (Colwell,Walling)  in 1678. This is the same Margaret that had been publically  whipped for her affair with Thomas Walling(Wallen) prior to their marrage .
   3-Not sure but perhaps he was asking for a repeat publishing of the same statement? destroying root and
   branch what do you suppose that means? I am guessing a reference to male anatomy)
   4- I did not transcribe this passage & for some reason made a note of the fact but now can not remember  why,   I apologize to whomever did the work for not giving credit.
      I presume that Daniel III did not even want to speak to his mother if he was using the Overseer of the
     Poor to pass the money to her each week. If she was alive today, I wonder what the doctors diagnosis might be ?)
      
   5- I understand this to be asking the town to verify Tom is not engaged to any other women & that he truly intends to settle down.  Mary is mentioned several times in records after Thomas starts misbehaving -see his page.)
I beleive CaTR stands for Cambridge Town Records and PrTR stands for Providence Town Records but I am not sure
 

Wallen, Ralph and Joyce

This couple might not be my relatives. There has never been any official paper connection of them to my relative "Bad Boy" Thomas Wallen.  There is however the proximity and the time which makes it possible they are related.  but I notice Tom never named a child Ralph or Joyce  which has made me speculate Ralph was pehaps an uncle or cousin so please note them as "MAYBE"  or "LIKELY" not certain. 

1595  presumed date of birth Ralph and Joyce
1623 married before arrival July 10th in Plimouth on the "ANNE"
1623 Ralfe Walen: received a small homesite in division of lands
1627 land division Ralph & Joyce in Eaton company
1627 Ralph & Joyce each given a single share apparently had no children as of June 1st
1633 Ralph on freeman list
1633  Ralph taxed 9 shillings March 25th
1633 "Goodwife Wallen" named as a guardian of Mercy Fuller July 30th (TLNOTE 1)
1634  Ralph sold acres to Thomas Clark for 20 bushels of corn & 40 shilling
1634  "Widow Wallen" on the tax list  ( TL NOTE 2)
1637  Ralph allotted mowing ground "where he had the last year"  March 20th
1638   Ralph acknowledged paid in full from Thomas Clark Feb. 2nd 
1639   Ralph's name  in list  with later annotation "dead"
1643  Ralph is not on list of all men 16-60 able to bear arms in August
1643 "Joyce Wallen Widdow" sold to Edward Bangs,"her house etc." sold
          September 7th
1645   "Joyce Wallen widdow" arranged to "winter her cow" March 3rd
1660  John Jenkens of Barnstable makes claim on property as "heire apparent of
          Ralph Wallen, Deceased.." June 9th     (TL NOTE 3)

    
           (TL NOTE 1) 1633 the term "Goodwife" is typically a single female head of a household &
           (TL NOTE 2)  "Widow Wallen" makes me wonder if there could have been some
           other Wallen family. Why else is there a Ralph in 1637 & 1638
           because even if it was a Ralph Jr. he would be no more than 10 yrs old (** see 1627)
          this again could support my Tom as a nephew to Ralph theory.
              (TL NOTE 3)   The most likely explanation for this is that Jenkens is married to Ralph's
           daughter & would have been the legal manager of  all his wife's property.
           This does not help to clarify the matter of any other children Ralph &
           Joyce may have had.  It only indicates that for whatever reason Jenkens did not
          expect anyone else would come forward to make a claim on the property.

Ralph & Joyce Wallen
This couple are presumed to be Ralph's parents
Ralph WALLING Sr 25   Marriage: Margaret LAWSON in 1587 in , Yorkshire, England
Ralph married Margaret LAWSON in 1587 in , Yorkshire, England. (Margaret LAWSON was born in , Yorkshire, England  Son Ralph went America
 TL NOTE 4 I have no idea where I found this -please proceed with caution


Ralph  born about estimated 1595  marriage latest was 1623 and probably deceased by 1639 up to 1644
Joyce born about estimated 1595  second marriage was 1644 to Thomas Lumbard/Lombard

 Ralph and Joyce sailed from port of London, arrived in Plymouth, Mass. on July 10, 1623  aboard the "Anne"   They were on the third ship of Pilgrims arriving at Plimouth. The "Mayflower" in 1620 and the "Fortune" in 1621 preceeded them. The arrival of the "Anne" and her sister ship, the "Little James" brought the total number of colonists to about 200. (The Anne and the Little James were classed as the last of the Pilgrim Ships.)
 **In 1627, a division of land and assets in Plimouth was made. Ralph and Joyce Wallen were assigned to the thirteen member Francis Eaton company. Their group was given "an heyfer of the last yeare called the white belyed heyfer and two shee goats." The documents were signed by Governor William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Nathaniel Morton, Nathaniel Clarke and Samuel Sprague. In 1633 the freemen of the Colony were listed and Ralph Wallen was on the list. He was on the Plimouth Colony tax list for 1632/33.(See *TL NOTES 5)
 In 1633/34 the name "widow Wallen" replaced her husband's on the tax list. Joyce Wallen continued to live in Plimouth until she sold her land on September 7, 1643. The will of Nicholas Snow who had come to Plimouth on the "Anne" with the Wallens gives the names of his neighbors: Ralph Wallen, Thomas Clarke, Manessah Kempton, Edward Bangs and the Hopkins family.
The will of Dr. Samuel Fuller on July 30, 1633 directs that "my daughter Mercy be and remaine to Goodwife Wallen". "Goodwife" was a term used for a single female head of a household.
(See *TL NOTES 6)

Ann, the first child of Ralph and Joyce Wallen, was born either at sea or shortly after their arrival, the story varies.  Ann married John Smalley, a tailor. The Smalleys moved to Eastham then to Little Compton, RI, then later to Piscataway, New Jersey. Thomas and Richard,  reptuted  to be the sons of Ralph and Joyce Wallen, moved to Providence, Rhode Island.


ESTATE: In 1623 Plymouth land division "Ralfe Walen" granted an unknown number of acres as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:6]. In 1627 Plymouth land division Ralph Wallen and Joyce Wallen were the ninth and tenth persons in the company of Francis Eaton [PCR 12:12]. In list 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3].
   Assessed 9s. in Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 [PCR 1:10]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].
   On 24 February 1633/4 sold to Thomas Clark, for twenty bushels of corn and 40s. in money, "so much land next adjoining to the said Thomas, on the south side of his dwelling, as maketh up a former moiety the said Thomas bought of the said Raph twenty acres," and also "one share of meadow ground belonging to the said lot when division shall be made thereof" [PCR 1:25].Also in  list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:53],  On 5 February 1637/8 "Raph Wallen acknowledgeth to have received of Thomas Clark £18, in full payment for the lands he bought of him" [PCR 1:76].
   On 20 March 1636/7 allotted mowing ground "where he had the last year" [PCR 1:57].and in list of "1639," with later annotation "dead" [PCR 8:174].
 Sources
The Great Migration at Ancestry .com
Much of Wallen family information from "Elisha Wallen, the Longhunter" by Carolyn Wallin, wherein she cites many sources
TL NOTES 4 I read it was half a cow per person so one cow was two people only
TL NOTES 5 I think this Sprague is a relative on Lord side
 TL NOTES 6  I read that "Bad Boy" Tom  was caught near where Joyce was living which led the writer to   surmise he may have been heading to a familiar area, again not proof just theory, of the relation to Ralph and Joyce