Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Hugh Wallis (b. 1797- d. 1857)
MSA SC 5496-34405

Property Owner and Slaveholder
Kent County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources-

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Division of Joseph Cotton’s Real Estate, 1855-1856, MSA CE 57-4, JFG Lib. 3 Folio. 361.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT(Land Records), Hannah I. Wallis to Corben L. Wallis, 1865-1866, MSA CE 57-11, JKH Liber 5, Folio 607.

KENT COUNTY COURT, (Chattel records), Hugh Wallis of Joseph Cotton, 1750-1851, MSA C1035-15 JNG Lib. 1 Folio. 284.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Chattel records), Hugh Wallis to Joseph Cotton, 1750-1851, MSA C1035-15, JNG Lib. 1 Folio. 286.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Hannah Wallis from John Coley, 1761-1765, MSA CE 118-22 DD Liber 1, Folio 58.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Land records), Hugh Wallis with wife to Trustees of the Primary School District, 1839-1840, MSA CE 118-47, JNG Liber 6, Folio 356.

KENT COUNTY COURT, (Land Records), John Wallis, 1772-1775, MSA CE 118-25, DD Liber 4, Folio 109.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Land Records), William Wallis to Hugh Wallis, 1807-1809, MSA CE 118-34, BC Liber 5, Folio 135.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses), 1796-1886, Hugh Wallis to Margaret B. Woodland, Nov. 10, 1817, MSA C1081-2.

KENT COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses), 1796-1886, Hugh Wallis to Hannah B. Wright, June 26, 1828, MSA C1081-2.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Papers), T4834, Box 64, Hugh Wallis, Inventory of Personal Property, Baltimore City Archives. 

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Papers), 1749-1940, T4834, Box 64, Hugh Wallis, Last Will and Testament, Baltimore City Archives.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Estate Papers), 1749-1940, T4834, Box 64, Hugh Wallis, Petition to remove executor, Baltimore City Archives.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), Hannah P. Woodland. 1833-1839, Book 22, pp.491-493.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), Edward Wright, 1816-1827, MSA CM671-12, WK 687-688-3, Liber 10, Folio 375.

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), Samuel Wallis, 1674-1734, C1107-2, Liber 1, Folio 262.

SHREWSBURY PARISH VESTRY RECORDS, Maryland State Archives Church Records, MSA SC 2513, M339-1.

U.S CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Hugh Wallis, 1840, Kent, 2nd Election District, SCM 4721-2, MSA SM 61-116

U.S CENSUS BUREAU (Census Records, MD), Hugh Wallis, 1850, p.226, Kent, 2nd Election District, SCM 1498-2, MSA SM 61-141. 

U.S CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Hugh Wallis, 1850, p.293, Slave Schedule, Kent, SCM 1505-4, MSA SM 61-167.

U.S CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Hugh Maxwell Wallis, 1860, p.63, SCM 7222-2, MSA SM 61-212.

Books-

Wallis, Guy. Ancestors of Ambrose Bodien Wallis, L29275, REF B-3-3, Call no. 450W Wallis (Bristol, VT, 1996), Maryland State Archives.

Wallis, Guy. The Wallis Family of Kent County, (Bristol, VT, 2011), Call no. 450 W Wallis , L20110154, Maryland State Archives.

Wallis, Lucille A. Samuel Wallis of Kent County, Maryland Book 1, Part 1, (Baltimore, MD, 1992), 450 W Wallis REF, Hall of Records #28328-1, Maryland State Archives.

Newspapers-

Kent News, September 12, 1846, p. 2 MSA SC 2901, SCM 2349-0323.

Kent News, October 10, 1846, p.2 MSA SC 2901, SCM 2349-0340.

The Sun, January 29, 1840, p.1

Internet Sources-

Ancestry.com, National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General’s Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-185 (Civil War Union Draft Records); ARC Identifier: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 1 of 3.

Ancestry.com, Slave Manifests, 1807-1860, "Hugh M. Wallis, Louisiana.

Ancestry.com, U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD), Joseph Cotton, 1900, p.3, Kent, Kennedyville, SCM 2386-1, MSA SM 61-415.

Ancestry.com, Wallis Family Bible

Isaac Mason, “Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave,” http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/mason/mason.html.

Other-

1860 Simon Martenet Map, Maryland State Archives

"Joshua Chapel." K-441. Maryland Historical Trust. Inventory of Historic Properties. http://mdihp.net



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