John Mallory 1795 Caswell County North Carolina

On the 27th of August, 1784, a William Mallory of St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, Virginia, wrote his Last Will and Testament.  It was presented for probate on October 28, 1784.  In this will he names his brothers and sisters: Henry Mallory, John, Thomas, and Stephen, and James, Mary, Nancy, Sally, Dice, and Rebecca.  He appoints his father, John Mallory, as his executor, and William Sawyer as his second executor.  (Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1852-1900.)


 
In 1795, John Mallory (Senior) died, leaving probate records in Caswell County, North Caroline, of which John Mallory (Junior), Joseph Carter, and William Sawyer were administrators.  The "Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits" of John Sr., were inventoried, and many items were sold.  Included in the inventory were 500 acres of land and three Negro slaves.  (North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998.)
 
John Mallory Junior bought items totaling 29 pounds 10 shillings 11 pence (or a little over $4,000 in 2023).  Among these were nine hogs, a shovel and a scythe, a case of razors, a grindstone, 280 ten penny nails, flax seed and a flax wheel, and three large bells.

Stephen Mallory bought half a wagon for 15 pounds, and paid 113 pounds for a Negro woman (equal to $16,500 in 2023). 

James Mallory purchased a Negro man for 147 pounds ($21,500 in 2023), eleven hogs, a cow, two beds, and a Bible.  

Sally Mallory bought dishes and silverware, furniture, a cows and two calves, and some books.  

"Rebecker" Mallory bought pewter dishes, a colt and three hogs, a looking glass, and five barrels of corn.  

 Thomas Mallory purchased, among other things, a Negro man for 107 pounds, and a shot gun.

Henry Mallory bought three horses for 79 pounds.

Joseph Carter, husband of Ann Mallory, bought mostly tools, and a yearling horse.

All of John Mallory's "goods and chattels" sold for 805 pounds (about $118,000 in 2023).  This list did not include the land or the crops growing on them. 


Sometime before December 1801, James Mallory died.  (North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998.)

According to the Montgomery County (Tenn) Genealogical Journal Vol. IX, June 1980, No. 4, "Deed Book J of Caswell Co. shows distribution of the land of John Mallory [Senior]....  Listed are sons John, Henry (living in Virginia), James, Thomas, and Stephen" (Gladys Higgins, "Some Descendants of George Sims and of John Mallory Caswell Co., N.C., page 103).

This same Journal records that "Stephen Mallory and his family came to Montgomery County about 1806...[and] Thomas Mallory and his family came to Montgomery County between 1811 and 1814.  He died there in 1814" (103).

In addition, the author states that "John Mallory [Junior] and his family were settled in southern Christian County, Kentucky, by 1808.  He was a Baptist preacher and was said to have preached a sermon in a Baptist church there in 1808.

The Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Wills Vol. C-D, 1815-1826, provides the will of John Mallory [Junior], who names his wife, Sarah, his son, John, his "two oldest sons Thomas Mallory and William Mallory and my son in law Thomas Davis."  Thomas Davis was married to Nancey Mallory.  The will was proved in 1824.

Which brings us to William Mallory, 1787-1851, son of John Jr., d. 1824, son of John Sr., d. 1795.


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