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My 4th great-grandfather Isaac's FALLIS Pioneer Cemetery near Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio FOLLIS Families
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by descendant Stanley J. Follis
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Immigrant FALLIS-FOLLIS Notes

There are differing versions of the immigrant FALLIS to America.

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  • One version has the immigrant as George FALLIS of County Antrim, Ireland who came to Philadelphia in 1682 on the ship Welcome with William PENN who was given the land known as Pennsylvania. The Welcome Society shows no one named FALLIS on the ship manifests. The ships sailed in 1681 and 1682 ten to eighteen years before 1692 or 1698 when other FALLIS family stories say our immigrant FALLIS came to Philadelphia.
  • An unknown FALLIS sometimes listed as George, was a glass manufacturer persecuted in Dublin, Ireland for treason for refusing to pay ruinous taxes and executed in 1698 the same year his son Thomas is said to have come to America. This is from the Kentucky banker Daniel James FALLIS biography whose says his grandfather George was born 9 days after father Thomas came to America. There are some factual errors, but the story is supported by some documentation.
  • One possiblility I have not researched is Thomas FOLLIS of Stafford County, Virginia who died around 1690 and is said to have had a son Thomas. This is probably the same Thomas a burgess of 1642 James City, Virginia . It is possible this Thomas could have traveled back and forth from Dublin, Ireland and could have been executed there and his will then recorded where he lived in Virginia. It is a stretch, but not unheard of if he was a wealthy man.
  • The Daniel James FALLIS biography is the only published record I have seen that gives a timeline of the FALLIS immigrant. Daniel was a son of Thomas FALLIS and Mary JAMES, son of George and Mary FALLIS, son of Thomas and Elizabeth FALLIS of Virginia.
"Daniel James FALLIS...was born near Fredericksburg, Fauquier Co., Va., August 19, 1809. The place of his nativity abounds in historic associations. His father's mills stood upon Deep run, about two miles from the Rappahannock river. The northern limit of the Union army rested at that place at the time of the battle of the Rappahannock. While the war was in progress, Mr. Fallis took a thrilling interest in the bloody drama as it was enacted around the home of his childhood. He was descended from Scotch Irish ancestry. His great-great-grandfather presided at a manufacturers' meeting in Dublin in 1698, for which he was compelled to sell his glass manufactory to a pauper to avoid ruinous taxation, and finally was executed for treason. In the same year his great-grandfather, Thomas Fallis, came to the American colonies, and landed in Philadelphia. Nine days after his arrival George Fallis (Daniel's grandfather) was born."
"Remaining there twenty-three years, they migrated to Virginia where they purchased a landed estate in Stafford county, adjoining that on which lived Gen. Washington. There was a Community of Quakers in that vicinity to which the Fallises belonged, owing to which fact he was a noncombatant during the Revolution. George Fallis was personally acquainted with and a friend of Gen. Washington, and, knowing him to be a man of prayer, and hearing of the sufferings of the Continental soldiers, he wrote letters of sympathy, offering to render him any services (except bearing arms) in his power for the relief of his army. Much of his property, consisting of farms, was sold for the purpose of raising money to make his offers good. At one time the Continental money on hand arising front such sales amounted to $101,000, and after the war, when it was supposed to be worthless, it, was burned. In 1797 Thomas Fallis (son of George) married Mary James, and of the eight children born to them Daniel James was the sixth. He remained in Virginia until 1824, when he followed two uncles to Wilmington, Ohio."

There is no mention of the great-great-grandfather as George FALLIS, although I suspect grandfather George FALLIS was confused with the great-great-grandfather. I have not looked for documentation for Daniel's family however his relatives in Ohio and Indiana also had mills located along rivers. Many Irish records were destroyed in the Irish Civil War fire of 1922 , so it is unlikely documentation will be found in Ireland for the treason story.

I believe the second paragraph is referring to grandfather George who did move to Stafford County, Virginia. Great-grandfather Thomas purchased land in 1749-1751 Frederick County, Virginia where his will was recorded in 1756. I believe the 23 years is referring to when George moved from Frederick County to Stafford County, Virginia not when he arrived in Virginia which would have been with his father Thomas. That may have been 'literary license' to connect with George Washington at the wrong time frame. George FALLIS son of Thomas did buy land in Stafford County in the late 1700's several years after his father Thomas died. Perhaps they lived 23 years (1726) in New Jersey before moving to Virginia in 1749? Thomas FALLIS has a 1731 deed where he bought land in Monmouth County, New Jersey while living in neighboring Burlington County which is across the river from Philadelphia. The age of majority when Thomas would have to be 21 years old means he had to be born before 1710. A 1748 marriage bond for Margery FALLIS signed by Thomas FALLIS was the year before Thomas bought land in Virginia. If Margery was at least 16 born 1732 and Thomas was at least 21 when Margery was born, Thomas would have been born before 1710. If the arrival year of 1698 is correct for grandfather George FALLIS' birth then Thomas would have to be born before 1777 as men rarely married before age 21 the age of majority when they could own land. The three minor sons in Thomas' will in 1755 would have been under 21 or born after 1734 making George a generation older than the minor brothers and a second wife/mother Elizabeth more likely as Thomas would have been about 56 when three minor aged sons were born as listed in his will. His age of 77 in his 1755 will would not be unreasonable.

The first Quaker Colony Hopewell formed in 1734 Frederick County. George and Mary FALLIS and their children are found in the Hopewell and other Quaker records. George Washington started as a surveyor in 1748 Winchester the county seat of Frederick County where deeds are recorded one year before Thomas bought his first piece of land in 1749. Brothers George and Thomas FALLIS owned a lot of land, something the younger brothers do not appear to have been able to do. George FALLIS is listed as a chain carrier for the surveyor on several deed surveys of the this time. These are more evidence that perhaps there was a different mother Jane CHELDON for the first two sons George and Thomas who may have been substantially older and a younger second mother Elizabeth for the three younger sons Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who were minors in their father Thomas' 1755 will. There easily could have been FALLIS daughters who were not alive if a 77 year old Thomas wrote his will in 1755. The rest of the biography moving to Ohio appears factually correct.

From various web sites it can be seen George Washington came to Winchester, Virginia at age 16 in 1748 to be surveyor until 1752 when his brother Lawrence died and the process to inherit Mount Vernon began. From 1758-1765 he was Burgess from Winchester, similar to a state legislator today.

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my FOLLIS Families Thomas & Catharine FOLLIS Black FOLLIS Daniel James FALLIS FALLIS vs FOLLIS FALLIS - FOLLIS Civil War FALLIS As First Name FOLLIS Information FOLLIS Places FOLLIS Trivia

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