Reverend John Waller (1741-1802), was a Baptist preacher who, in 1793, moved from Spotsylvania County, VA to today's Greenwood area of SC (then Abbeville District), accompanied by a large contingent of relatives and connections.
He was married to Elizabeth Curtis daughter of Rice Curtis of VA, the father of nine children and founder of Bethabara Baptist Church in 1794 in Laurens County, just across the Saluda River and Siloam Baptist Church in 1799, a few miles above Cambridge (Old Ninety Six).
He and his wife are buried in the Waller-Hackett family cemetery which is on the Vines home place on the road from Scotch Cross to Cambridge. A monument to the Rev. John Waller was erected there in 1878. A descendant believed the Waller home was near the family burying ground.
Source - Extracted from "Virginia Baptist Ministers" by James B. Taylor (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859, pages 78 - 85) and from pages 404 - 406 of "Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families" by Margaret and Louise Watson.
Known in his young manhood and before his conversion as "Swearing Jack," the Reverend John Waller is regarded today as an historic figure in the fight for religious freedom in this country.
He refused to abide by the Virginia statute which forbade preaching in the colony by anyone except ministers of the Established Church, the Church of England.
He spent 187 days in Virginia jails at various times after preaching the gospel as he believed it. He was scourged while in prison, and, on one occasion, struck across the back of his right hand with a sword wielded by a guard.
Source - Semple's "History of Virginia Baptists" and E. Payton Little's "Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia."
Married Elizabeth Curtis.
Children of John and Elizabeth Waller:
Nancy Ann Waller Marshall 1765 1815
John Nicodemus Waller 1767 1802
Benjamin Waller 1768 1804
Dorothy Virginia Waller McGehee xxxx xxxx
Frances Jane Waller Wardlaw 1770 1845
Phoebe Waller Turner 1775 xxxx
Mary Magdalene Waller Watson 1774 1828
Elizabeth Waller Chiles 1775 xxxx
Thomas Baxter Waller 1776 1869
He was married to Elizabeth Curtis daughter of Rice Curtis of VA, the father of nine children and founder of Bethabara Baptist Church in 1794 in Laurens County, just across the Saluda River and Siloam Baptist Church in 1799, a few miles above Cambridge (Old Ninety Six).
He and his wife are buried in the Waller-Hackett family cemetery which is on the Vines home place on the road from Scotch Cross to Cambridge. A monument to the Rev. John Waller was erected there in 1878. A descendant believed the Waller home was near the family burying ground.
Source - Extracted from "Virginia Baptist Ministers" by James B. Taylor (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859, pages 78 - 85) and from pages 404 - 406 of "Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families" by Margaret and Louise Watson.
Known in his young manhood and before his conversion as "Swearing Jack," the Reverend John Waller is regarded today as an historic figure in the fight for religious freedom in this country.
He refused to abide by the Virginia statute which forbade preaching in the colony by anyone except ministers of the Established Church, the Church of England.
He spent 187 days in Virginia jails at various times after preaching the gospel as he believed it. He was scourged while in prison, and, on one occasion, struck across the back of his right hand with a sword wielded by a guard.
Source - Semple's "History of Virginia Baptists" and E. Payton Little's "Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia."
Married Elizabeth Curtis.
Children of John and Elizabeth Waller:
Nancy Ann Waller Marshall 1765 1815
John Nicodemus Waller 1767 1802
Benjamin Waller 1768 1804
Dorothy Virginia Waller McGehee xxxx xxxx
Frances Jane Waller Wardlaw 1770 1845
Phoebe Waller Turner 1775 xxxx
Mary Magdalene Waller Watson 1774 1828
Elizabeth Waller Chiles 1775 xxxx
Thomas Baxter Waller 1776 1869
Reverend John Waller (1741-1802), was a Baptist preacher who, in 1793, moved from Spotsylvania County, VA to today's Greenwood area of SC (then Abbeville District), accompanied by a large contingent of relatives and connections.
He was married to Elizabeth Curtis daughter of Rice Curtis of VA, the father of nine children and founder of Bethabara Baptist Church in 1794 in Laurens County, just across the Saluda River and Siloam Baptist Church in 1799, a few miles above Cambridge (Old Ninety Six).
He and his wife are buried in the Waller-Hackett family cemetery which is on the Vines home place on the road from Scotch Cross to Cambridge. A monument to the Rev. John Waller was erected there in 1878. A descendant believed the Waller home was near the family burying ground.
Source - Extracted from "Virginia Baptist Ministers" by James B. Taylor (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859, pages 78 - 85) and from pages 404 - 406 of "Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families" by Margaret and Louise Watson.
Known in his young manhood and before his conversion as "Swearing Jack," the Reverend John Waller is regarded today as an historic figure in the fight for religious freedom in this country.
He refused to abide by the Virginia statute which forbade preaching in the colony by anyone except ministers of the Established Church, the Church of England.
He spent 187 days in Virginia jails at various times after preaching the gospel as he believed it. He was scourged while in prison, and, on one occasion, struck across the back of his right hand with a sword wielded by a guard.
Source - Semple's "History of Virginia Baptists" and E. Payton Little's "Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia."
Married Elizabeth Curtis.
Children of John and Elizabeth Waller:
Nancy Ann Waller Marshall 1765 1815
John Nicodemus Waller 1767 1802
Benjamin Waller 1768 1804
Dorothy Virginia Waller McGehee xxxx xxxx
Frances Jane Waller Wardlaw 1770 1845
Phoebe Waller Turner 1775 xxxx
Mary Magdalene Waller Watson 1774 1828
Elizabeth Waller Chiles 1775 xxxx
Thomas Baxter Waller 1776 1869
He was married to Elizabeth Curtis daughter of Rice Curtis of VA, the father of nine children and founder of Bethabara Baptist Church in 1794 in Laurens County, just across the Saluda River and Siloam Baptist Church in 1799, a few miles above Cambridge (Old Ninety Six).
He and his wife are buried in the Waller-Hackett family cemetery which is on the Vines home place on the road from Scotch Cross to Cambridge. A monument to the Rev. John Waller was erected there in 1878. A descendant believed the Waller home was near the family burying ground.
Source - Extracted from "Virginia Baptist Ministers" by James B. Taylor (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1859, pages 78 - 85) and from pages 404 - 406 of "Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families" by Margaret and Louise Watson.
Known in his young manhood and before his conversion as "Swearing Jack," the Reverend John Waller is regarded today as an historic figure in the fight for religious freedom in this country.
He refused to abide by the Virginia statute which forbade preaching in the colony by anyone except ministers of the Established Church, the Church of England.
He spent 187 days in Virginia jails at various times after preaching the gospel as he believed it. He was scourged while in prison, and, on one occasion, struck across the back of his right hand with a sword wielded by a guard.
Source - Semple's "History of Virginia Baptists" and E. Payton Little's "Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia."
Married Elizabeth Curtis.
Children of John and Elizabeth Waller:
Nancy Ann Waller Marshall 1765 1815
John Nicodemus Waller 1767 1802
Benjamin Waller 1768 1804
Dorothy Virginia Waller McGehee xxxx xxxx
Frances Jane Waller Wardlaw 1770 1845
Phoebe Waller Turner 1775 xxxx
Mary Magdalene Waller Watson 1774 1828
Elizabeth Waller Chiles 1775 xxxx
Thomas Baxter Waller 1776 1869
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