Sarah Waller

1740 - 1819  (79 years)

• Name	Sarah Waller
  Born	1740	Spotsylvania County, Virginia   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	1819	Scott County, Kentucky   [1]
  Person ID	I1988	Dabneys of Virginia
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2017

  
  

  Father	Col. John Waller,   b. Abt 1701, King William County, Virginia ,   d. 1776, Spotsylvania County, Virginia  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Mother	Agnes Carr,   b. 1712, King William County, Virginia ,   d. 1777, Spotsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 65 years)
  Married	1730  [2]
  Family ID	F365	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Clifton Rodes,   b. 1740, Albemarle County, Virginia ,   d. 1819, Scott County, Kentucky  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2019
  Family ID	F1415	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Sarah Waller was born to Col. John and Agnes (Carr) Waller in 1740 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. She married Clifton Rodes, who was born in 1740 to John and Mary (Crawford) Rodes of Louisa County. Sarah and Clifton had seven children: Agnes, married Maj. William Boone, a lawyer, born May 2, 1768 in King George County, died January 20, 1837 at Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky; Henrietta, married Joseph Rogers of Fayette County, Kentucky; Nancy married James Rogers of Fayette County, Kentucky; Debora, married David Kerr Nov 25, 1784, in Albemarle County, moved to Scott County, Kentucky; John, married Jane Stapleton Burch, 23 May,1786; Mary, married Joseph Burch November 26, 1786, moved to Scott County, Kentucky; Waller, born in 1768, died in 1808. married Elizabeth Thomson, lived in Scott County, Kentucky. Clifton was a private in the Louisa County militia in 1758. He moved to Albemarle County about 1769 when he was listed in the Louisa County 1769 tax list and purchased 273 acres in Albemarle County from Matthew Mullins in the same year. In 1773, he purchased 600 acres from William Lewis and obtained 152 acres by patent in 1787. He served as a Justice of the Peace and sheriff in Albemarle in 1783. His farm was known as Spring Hill. In 1788, he sold the property to George Nicholas and moved to Kentucky, where he settled in Fayette County. He was listed in the Fayette tax rolls from 1789 through 1812 with 200-1,000 acres, 8-24 slaves, and 5-12 horses. In 1813/14, he moved to neighboring Scott County, where his son, Waller, and daughters, Debora Kerr and Mary Birch, were living. He was listed in Scott County tax rolls from 1814 through 1817 (1818 record missing). He died in 1819. His will was signed September 25, 1816, and proved in October, 1819. In it, he forgave bonds that his sons-in-law James Burch, James Rogers, and Joseph Rogers had given him when he loaned each one $1,045.42. He gave his daughter, Agnes Rodes, a slave named Jacob. He ordered that the remainder of his estate be sold at public auction with the proceeds divided equally among his children, except for a slave boy, Randolf, to be auctioned among the children with the proceeds divided among them. As executors, he appointed Joseph Burch and Menallen Prewitt. There was a Clifton Rodes Jr. in Albemarle County, who was a son of Clifton Sr.’s brother, John. He was listed in the Albemarle tax rolls from 1793 through 1811, He married Elizabeth Jouett, a daughter of John Jouett, whose famous nighttime ride warned Jefferson and other revolutionary leaders that British cavalry were coming to arrest them. He was an ensign in the militia and justice of the peace. He sold his farm of 788 acres in 1810 and moved to Barren County, Kentucky, in 1811, where he died in 1857. [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

  
  

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