Since John Nall died in the Battle of Cane Creek during the Revolutionary War it is not known definitely where his body was buried. Family stories say he was buried in his own backyard which later became the first cemetery for Bear Creek Baptist Church. The church has 3 cemeteries in which the later two reside on one side of the church and across the road. The first cemetery is located behind and across bear creek from the church up on a hill in a wooded area. The following tells more about about his life.
book:
Dolphin Sally Nall & Nall, Charles Fuller, Nall Families of America (West Palm Beach, Florida: A&R Printing, 1978), pg 505-507 as follows. The sources are primarily Wake Co., N.C Will book D, Revolutionary War Pension Application of Mary Nall, no R7552, Chatham Co. Deed books, and Revolutionary War Pension application of Richard Nall, no W5401.
"John Nall, (his father is Richard and his father is Martin) was born probably about 1741 in then Orange, now Culpeper, County, VA. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth Nalle. In Richard Nalle's will of 1794 he referred to his "nine grandchildren orphans of John Nalle dec'd." John Nall died 14 Dept. 1781 in the Revolutionary War "Battle of Cane Creek" in North Carolina.
John Nall married probably about 1763 to Martha. Her surname and parentage are unknown. Martha Nall was living in 1800, when on 1 Mar she made a deed to Sion Record selling 180 acres on the South side of Bear Creek … Being part of a tract of land Belonging to John Nall Deceased and left to Martha Nall in his Will …
John Nall probably moved to North Carolina with his parents about 1762. By 1764 he was buying land in Cumberland Co., N.C. From 1764 through 1766 he purchased 1262 acres, much of it located on the Cape Fear River. By 1778 he had sold his Cumberland County property and moved to Chatham Co., N.C.
His first purchase of land in Chatham Co.,N.C. took place in Sept. 1773 when he paid three pounds ten shillings to George Hendry for 100 acres "on the North side of Bear Creek."
On 3 Jan 1774 John Nall purchased an additional 200 acres "in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds Lawful money of the province," the land was Lying and being on the South Side of Bear Creek whereon the sd. Nall now lives on." William Pearsey was the grantor of the deed.
On 1 July 1779 and 31 Mar 1780 John Nall was granted by the State of North Carolina 1204 acres of land in Chatham County. One tract of 304 acres was "Joining the South side of his [John Nall's] deeded land." A 600 acre tract was located on "Bear Creek at the Rackoon ford where the new road crosses Hence running by the John Nall's old line …" The third grant of 300 acres was "on the North side of Bear Creek." The charge for the granted land was "fifty shillings for every hundred acres."
On 22 Jan 1781 John Nall purchased from Jon Poe for two hundred and twenty five pounds of Specie or hard Money 540 acres of land in Chatham Co., N.C. on both sides Bare Creek adjoining John Nall's property.
A final land grant to John Nall from the State of North Carolina was filed on 23 Oct 1782, more than a year after his death. The 640 acre tract of land was in the County of Chatham on Bear Creek. Thus John Nall's land holdings reached a total of 2684 acres.
From his record of public service John Nall was obviously a respected young man in his community. Under the Ordinances of the North Carolina Convention of 1776, John Nall was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Chatham Co., N.C. In a report of the actions in which he was killed, he was referred to as "Major John Nall of Chatham County and a Member of the Legislature."
At least a portion a portion of the Revolutionary War service in which John Nall participated was described by his eldest son, Richard Nall, in his application for a pension in 1832. /// he [Richard Nall, age 16] entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated – to wit – Captain Jacob Ducksworth and Major John Nall, in the State of North Carolina, Chatham County, I volunteered into service at the court house in said county about the first day of November 1780 and continued in service until the first of May 1781, during which time I was in three engagements in the first engagement which took place the second day after I volunteered, we attacked a Tory General Muster, defeated them, took eighteen prisoners, and retook seven of the whigs, the next engagement was at my father's own house, which was attacked by fifty Tories and there were but seven of us one of whom was killed and the rest of us retreated to Col Ambrose Ramsey's residence to a party of whigs stationed there by order of Brigadier General Butler, from which station we got a reinforcement, and returned to attack the enemy, but they had retreated, after which we returned to Chatham court house." In a supplemental declaration Richard Nall stated "but during this time [the succeeding six months] one month was not spent in the service of the country – as his Father Major John Nall was killed and he had to retire from the service to obtain reinforcement – " John Nall's brother, Nicholas Nall, identified the battle in which John Nall was killed as the Battle of Cane Creek. The date was 14 Sept, 1781.
John Nall's Will (with original spelling)
North Carolina State Archives, Archives & Records Section, Raleigh, N.C.
In the Name of God Amen, I John Nall of the County of Chatham and Province of North Carolina, being in perfect health of body and of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor; nothing doubting but at the resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as with worldly estate whereas with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I lend and leave to Martha, my dearly beloved wife, the tracts of land containing the plantation she now lives on with the saw mill, grist mill and all appurtenances unto the sd. land belonging also all my negroes and moveable property and all debts due to me either by bond, note or agreement and also all stock in trade after paying all my debts, during her widowhood and no longer and in case she should marry, I will she take her thirds agreeable to law in everything except the land and in that I will that she have the tract of land above described during her life and to belong to which ever of my children it may fall to as hearafter described.
Secondly I give to my well beloved sons and daughters namely Richard, John, Martin Molley, James, William, Thomas, Martha and a child or children that my wife is now big with an equal part of all my land, negroes, moveable estate and money and whereas the times is so unsettled in the Cuntry it is out of my power to make an equal division between them at present I therefore will that when my eldest son shall arive at the age of twenty-one years or at some convenient time after that my executors or some persons appointed by the court of their county lay out and devide my land in shears of equal value to each child then alive and that the eldest child take first choice and so on according their ages and that no child make his or her choice under eighteen years of age and that the negroes and moveable property at the death of my wife or her marriage be divided in the same manner and I do here by utterly disallow, revoke and disannual all and every other forms testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequested ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have heare unto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty. I do hearby appoint my beloved wife one of my executrix and also appoint my trusty friends Mial Scerlock and Nicholas Nall my executors see this my will executed. John Nall (seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered by John Nall as his last will and testament in presence of us /s/ George Hendry
/s/ Nicholas Nall
/s/ Richard Nall
A second time I have signed my will and request of all honest men to see my will ratifide. /s/ John Nall
July Court 1782 The above will duly proved in open court by Nicholas Nall of the subscribing witness.
An indenture dated 1 Jan 1811 names John Nall's heirs as they were named in his will, and identified the then unborn child as Nathan Nall."
It is believed that John Nall married Martha, surname might be Glass but there is no proof, about 1763, in North Carolina. Their children are believed to be:
1. Richard Nall, born 6 March 1764 Cumberland County, N.C. and died 13 April 1846. He first married Elizabeth "Betty" White about 1785 and she may have died by 1820. Richard married Mary Dougherty in Nov 1836, Hickman County, TN.
2. John Nall Sr. born about 1766 and may have died between 1831 and 1839. He married Sarah Glass about 1786 and Margaret Thomasson before 18 April 1829.
3. Martin Nall, born 11 June 1767 and died 1841, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia. He may have married Polly Blackwell by 1790.
4. Mary "Polly" Nall, born 25 Dec 1768, and lived in her early years in Williamson County, TN. and died 1 Feb 1864 in Cedar County, Missouri. She married Thomas James Younger, 1785 in Chatham County, N.C.
5. James Nall, born about 1770/1771 and died between 1805-1811, perhaps in Alabama. He married Ann Caroline Wyatt, about 1793.
6. William Nall, born about 1772 and died December 1842, Williamson County, TN. He married Catharine Tucker about 1795.
7. Thomas Nall, born about 1774 and died about 1835. He may have married Nancy Glass.
8. Martha Nall, born about 1777 and died Feb 1818, Montgomery County, N.C. She married Alexander McArthur Sr. about 1797.
9. Nathan Nall, born 18 November 1780 and died after October 1840, Montgomery County, Illinois. He may have married Mary Thompson.
book:
Dolphin Sally Nall & Nall, Charles Fuller, Nall Families of America (West Palm Beach, Florida: A&R Printing, 1978), pg 505-507 as follows. The sources are primarily Wake Co., N.C Will book D, Revolutionary War Pension Application of Mary Nall, no R7552, Chatham Co. Deed books, and Revolutionary War Pension application of Richard Nall, no W5401.
"John Nall, (his father is Richard and his father is Martin) was born probably about 1741 in then Orange, now Culpeper, County, VA. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth Nalle. In Richard Nalle's will of 1794 he referred to his "nine grandchildren orphans of John Nalle dec'd." John Nall died 14 Dept. 1781 in the Revolutionary War "Battle of Cane Creek" in North Carolina.
John Nall married probably about 1763 to Martha. Her surname and parentage are unknown. Martha Nall was living in 1800, when on 1 Mar she made a deed to Sion Record selling 180 acres on the South side of Bear Creek … Being part of a tract of land Belonging to John Nall Deceased and left to Martha Nall in his Will …
John Nall probably moved to North Carolina with his parents about 1762. By 1764 he was buying land in Cumberland Co., N.C. From 1764 through 1766 he purchased 1262 acres, much of it located on the Cape Fear River. By 1778 he had sold his Cumberland County property and moved to Chatham Co., N.C.
His first purchase of land in Chatham Co.,N.C. took place in Sept. 1773 when he paid three pounds ten shillings to George Hendry for 100 acres "on the North side of Bear Creek."
On 3 Jan 1774 John Nall purchased an additional 200 acres "in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds Lawful money of the province," the land was Lying and being on the South Side of Bear Creek whereon the sd. Nall now lives on." William Pearsey was the grantor of the deed.
On 1 July 1779 and 31 Mar 1780 John Nall was granted by the State of North Carolina 1204 acres of land in Chatham County. One tract of 304 acres was "Joining the South side of his [John Nall's] deeded land." A 600 acre tract was located on "Bear Creek at the Rackoon ford where the new road crosses Hence running by the John Nall's old line …" The third grant of 300 acres was "on the North side of Bear Creek." The charge for the granted land was "fifty shillings for every hundred acres."
On 22 Jan 1781 John Nall purchased from Jon Poe for two hundred and twenty five pounds of Specie or hard Money 540 acres of land in Chatham Co., N.C. on both sides Bare Creek adjoining John Nall's property.
A final land grant to John Nall from the State of North Carolina was filed on 23 Oct 1782, more than a year after his death. The 640 acre tract of land was in the County of Chatham on Bear Creek. Thus John Nall's land holdings reached a total of 2684 acres.
From his record of public service John Nall was obviously a respected young man in his community. Under the Ordinances of the North Carolina Convention of 1776, John Nall was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Chatham Co., N.C. In a report of the actions in which he was killed, he was referred to as "Major John Nall of Chatham County and a Member of the Legislature."
At least a portion a portion of the Revolutionary War service in which John Nall participated was described by his eldest son, Richard Nall, in his application for a pension in 1832. /// he [Richard Nall, age 16] entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated – to wit – Captain Jacob Ducksworth and Major John Nall, in the State of North Carolina, Chatham County, I volunteered into service at the court house in said county about the first day of November 1780 and continued in service until the first of May 1781, during which time I was in three engagements in the first engagement which took place the second day after I volunteered, we attacked a Tory General Muster, defeated them, took eighteen prisoners, and retook seven of the whigs, the next engagement was at my father's own house, which was attacked by fifty Tories and there were but seven of us one of whom was killed and the rest of us retreated to Col Ambrose Ramsey's residence to a party of whigs stationed there by order of Brigadier General Butler, from which station we got a reinforcement, and returned to attack the enemy, but they had retreated, after which we returned to Chatham court house." In a supplemental declaration Richard Nall stated "but during this time [the succeeding six months] one month was not spent in the service of the country – as his Father Major John Nall was killed and he had to retire from the service to obtain reinforcement – " John Nall's brother, Nicholas Nall, identified the battle in which John Nall was killed as the Battle of Cane Creek. The date was 14 Sept, 1781.
John Nall's Will (with original spelling)
North Carolina State Archives, Archives & Records Section, Raleigh, N.C.
In the Name of God Amen, I John Nall of the County of Chatham and Province of North Carolina, being in perfect health of body and of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor; nothing doubting but at the resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as with worldly estate whereas with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I lend and leave to Martha, my dearly beloved wife, the tracts of land containing the plantation she now lives on with the saw mill, grist mill and all appurtenances unto the sd. land belonging also all my negroes and moveable property and all debts due to me either by bond, note or agreement and also all stock in trade after paying all my debts, during her widowhood and no longer and in case she should marry, I will she take her thirds agreeable to law in everything except the land and in that I will that she have the tract of land above described during her life and to belong to which ever of my children it may fall to as hearafter described.
Secondly I give to my well beloved sons and daughters namely Richard, John, Martin Molley, James, William, Thomas, Martha and a child or children that my wife is now big with an equal part of all my land, negroes, moveable estate and money and whereas the times is so unsettled in the Cuntry it is out of my power to make an equal division between them at present I therefore will that when my eldest son shall arive at the age of twenty-one years or at some convenient time after that my executors or some persons appointed by the court of their county lay out and devide my land in shears of equal value to each child then alive and that the eldest child take first choice and so on according their ages and that no child make his or her choice under eighteen years of age and that the negroes and moveable property at the death of my wife or her marriage be divided in the same manner and I do here by utterly disallow, revoke and disannual all and every other forms testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequested ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have heare unto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty. I do hearby appoint my beloved wife one of my executrix and also appoint my trusty friends Mial Scerlock and Nicholas Nall my executors see this my will executed. John Nall (seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered by John Nall as his last will and testament in presence of us /s/ George Hendry
/s/ Nicholas Nall
/s/ Richard Nall
A second time I have signed my will and request of all honest men to see my will ratifide. /s/ John Nall
July Court 1782 The above will duly proved in open court by Nicholas Nall of the subscribing witness.
An indenture dated 1 Jan 1811 names John Nall's heirs as they were named in his will, and identified the then unborn child as Nathan Nall."
It is believed that John Nall married Martha, surname might be Glass but there is no proof, about 1763, in North Carolina. Their children are believed to be:
1. Richard Nall, born 6 March 1764 Cumberland County, N.C. and died 13 April 1846. He first married Elizabeth "Betty" White about 1785 and she may have died by 1820. Richard married Mary Dougherty in Nov 1836, Hickman County, TN.
2. John Nall Sr. born about 1766 and may have died between 1831 and 1839. He married Sarah Glass about 1786 and Margaret Thomasson before 18 April 1829.
3. Martin Nall, born 11 June 1767 and died 1841, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia. He may have married Polly Blackwell by 1790.
4. Mary "Polly" Nall, born 25 Dec 1768, and lived in her early years in Williamson County, TN. and died 1 Feb 1864 in Cedar County, Missouri. She married Thomas James Younger, 1785 in Chatham County, N.C.
5. James Nall, born about 1770/1771 and died between 1805-1811, perhaps in Alabama. He married Ann Caroline Wyatt, about 1793.
6. William Nall, born about 1772 and died December 1842, Williamson County, TN. He married Catharine Tucker about 1795.
7. Thomas Nall, born about 1774 and died about 1835. He may have married Nancy Glass.
8. Martha Nall, born about 1777 and died Feb 1818, Montgomery County, N.C. She married Alexander McArthur Sr. about 1797.
9. Nathan Nall, born 18 November 1780 and died after October 1840, Montgomery County, Illinois. He may have married Mary Thompson.
Since John Nall died in the Battle of Cane Creek during the Revolutionary War it is not known definitely where his body was buried. Family stories say he was buried in his own backyard which later became the first cemetery for Bear Creek Baptist Church. The church has 3 cemeteries in which the later two reside on one side of the church and across the road. The first cemetery is located behind and across bear creek from the church up on a hill in a wooded area. The following tells more about about his life.
book:
Dolphin Sally Nall & Nall, Charles Fuller, Nall Families of America (West Palm Beach, Florida: A&R Printing, 1978), pg 505-507 as follows. The sources are primarily Wake Co., N.C Will book D, Revolutionary War Pension Application of Mary Nall, no R7552, Chatham Co. Deed books, and Revolutionary War Pension application of Richard Nall, no W5401.
"John Nall, (his father is Richard and his father is Martin) was born probably about 1741 in then Orange, now Culpeper, County, VA. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth Nalle. In Richard Nalle's will of 1794 he referred to his "nine grandchildren orphans of John Nalle dec'd." John Nall died 14 Dept. 1781 in the Revolutionary War "Battle of Cane Creek" in North Carolina.
John Nall married probably about 1763 to Martha. Her surname and parentage are unknown. Martha Nall was living in 1800, when on 1 Mar she made a deed to Sion Record selling 180 acres on the South side of Bear Creek … Being part of a tract of land Belonging to John Nall Deceased and left to Martha Nall in his Will …
John Nall probably moved to North Carolina with his parents about 1762. By 1764 he was buying land in Cumberland Co., N.C. From 1764 through 1766 he purchased 1262 acres, much of it located on the Cape Fear River. By 1778 he had sold his Cumberland County property and moved to Chatham Co., N.C.
His first purchase of land in Chatham Co.,N.C. took place in Sept. 1773 when he paid three pounds ten shillings to George Hendry for 100 acres "on the North side of Bear Creek."
On 3 Jan 1774 John Nall purchased an additional 200 acres "in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds Lawful money of the province," the land was Lying and being on the South Side of Bear Creek whereon the sd. Nall now lives on." William Pearsey was the grantor of the deed.
On 1 July 1779 and 31 Mar 1780 John Nall was granted by the State of North Carolina 1204 acres of land in Chatham County. One tract of 304 acres was "Joining the South side of his [John Nall's] deeded land." A 600 acre tract was located on "Bear Creek at the Rackoon ford where the new road crosses Hence running by the John Nall's old line …" The third grant of 300 acres was "on the North side of Bear Creek." The charge for the granted land was "fifty shillings for every hundred acres."
On 22 Jan 1781 John Nall purchased from Jon Poe for two hundred and twenty five pounds of Specie or hard Money 540 acres of land in Chatham Co., N.C. on both sides Bare Creek adjoining John Nall's property.
A final land grant to John Nall from the State of North Carolina was filed on 23 Oct 1782, more than a year after his death. The 640 acre tract of land was in the County of Chatham on Bear Creek. Thus John Nall's land holdings reached a total of 2684 acres.
From his record of public service John Nall was obviously a respected young man in his community. Under the Ordinances of the North Carolina Convention of 1776, John Nall was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Chatham Co., N.C. In a report of the actions in which he was killed, he was referred to as "Major John Nall of Chatham County and a Member of the Legislature."
At least a portion a portion of the Revolutionary War service in which John Nall participated was described by his eldest son, Richard Nall, in his application for a pension in 1832. /// he [Richard Nall, age 16] entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated – to wit – Captain Jacob Ducksworth and Major John Nall, in the State of North Carolina, Chatham County, I volunteered into service at the court house in said county about the first day of November 1780 and continued in service until the first of May 1781, during which time I was in three engagements in the first engagement which took place the second day after I volunteered, we attacked a Tory General Muster, defeated them, took eighteen prisoners, and retook seven of the whigs, the next engagement was at my father's own house, which was attacked by fifty Tories and there were but seven of us one of whom was killed and the rest of us retreated to Col Ambrose Ramsey's residence to a party of whigs stationed there by order of Brigadier General Butler, from which station we got a reinforcement, and returned to attack the enemy, but they had retreated, after which we returned to Chatham court house." In a supplemental declaration Richard Nall stated "but during this time [the succeeding six months] one month was not spent in the service of the country – as his Father Major John Nall was killed and he had to retire from the service to obtain reinforcement – " John Nall's brother, Nicholas Nall, identified the battle in which John Nall was killed as the Battle of Cane Creek. The date was 14 Sept, 1781.
John Nall's Will (with original spelling)
North Carolina State Archives, Archives & Records Section, Raleigh, N.C.
In the Name of God Amen, I John Nall of the County of Chatham and Province of North Carolina, being in perfect health of body and of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor; nothing doubting but at the resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as with worldly estate whereas with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I lend and leave to Martha, my dearly beloved wife, the tracts of land containing the plantation she now lives on with the saw mill, grist mill and all appurtenances unto the sd. land belonging also all my negroes and moveable property and all debts due to me either by bond, note or agreement and also all stock in trade after paying all my debts, during her widowhood and no longer and in case she should marry, I will she take her thirds agreeable to law in everything except the land and in that I will that she have the tract of land above described during her life and to belong to which ever of my children it may fall to as hearafter described.
Secondly I give to my well beloved sons and daughters namely Richard, John, Martin Molley, James, William, Thomas, Martha and a child or children that my wife is now big with an equal part of all my land, negroes, moveable estate and money and whereas the times is so unsettled in the Cuntry it is out of my power to make an equal division between them at present I therefore will that when my eldest son shall arive at the age of twenty-one years or at some convenient time after that my executors or some persons appointed by the court of their county lay out and devide my land in shears of equal value to each child then alive and that the eldest child take first choice and so on according their ages and that no child make his or her choice under eighteen years of age and that the negroes and moveable property at the death of my wife or her marriage be divided in the same manner and I do here by utterly disallow, revoke and disannual all and every other forms testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequested ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have heare unto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty. I do hearby appoint my beloved wife one of my executrix and also appoint my trusty friends Mial Scerlock and Nicholas Nall my executors see this my will executed. John Nall (seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered by John Nall as his last will and testament in presence of us /s/ George Hendry
/s/ Nicholas Nall
/s/ Richard Nall
A second time I have signed my will and request of all honest men to see my will ratifide. /s/ John Nall
July Court 1782 The above will duly proved in open court by Nicholas Nall of the subscribing witness.
An indenture dated 1 Jan 1811 names John Nall's heirs as they were named in his will, and identified the then unborn child as Nathan Nall."
It is believed that John Nall married Martha, surname might be Glass but there is no proof, about 1763, in North Carolina. Their children are believed to be:
1. Richard Nall, born 6 March 1764 Cumberland County, N.C. and died 13 April 1846. He first married Elizabeth "Betty" White about 1785 and she may have died by 1820. Richard married Mary Dougherty in Nov 1836, Hickman County, TN.
2. John Nall Sr. born about 1766 and may have died between 1831 and 1839. He married Sarah Glass about 1786 and Margaret Thomasson before 18 April 1829.
3. Martin Nall, born 11 June 1767 and died 1841, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia. He may have married Polly Blackwell by 1790.
4. Mary "Polly" Nall, born 25 Dec 1768, and lived in her early years in Williamson County, TN. and died 1 Feb 1864 in Cedar County, Missouri. She married Thomas James Younger, 1785 in Chatham County, N.C.
5. James Nall, born about 1770/1771 and died between 1805-1811, perhaps in Alabama. He married Ann Caroline Wyatt, about 1793.
6. William Nall, born about 1772 and died December 1842, Williamson County, TN. He married Catharine Tucker about 1795.
7. Thomas Nall, born about 1774 and died about 1835. He may have married Nancy Glass.
8. Martha Nall, born about 1777 and died Feb 1818, Montgomery County, N.C. She married Alexander McArthur Sr. about 1797.
9. Nathan Nall, born 18 November 1780 and died after October 1840, Montgomery County, Illinois. He may have married Mary Thompson.
book:
Dolphin Sally Nall & Nall, Charles Fuller, Nall Families of America (West Palm Beach, Florida: A&R Printing, 1978), pg 505-507 as follows. The sources are primarily Wake Co., N.C Will book D, Revolutionary War Pension Application of Mary Nall, no R7552, Chatham Co. Deed books, and Revolutionary War Pension application of Richard Nall, no W5401.
"John Nall, (his father is Richard and his father is Martin) was born probably about 1741 in then Orange, now Culpeper, County, VA. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth Nalle. In Richard Nalle's will of 1794 he referred to his "nine grandchildren orphans of John Nalle dec'd." John Nall died 14 Dept. 1781 in the Revolutionary War "Battle of Cane Creek" in North Carolina.
John Nall married probably about 1763 to Martha. Her surname and parentage are unknown. Martha Nall was living in 1800, when on 1 Mar she made a deed to Sion Record selling 180 acres on the South side of Bear Creek … Being part of a tract of land Belonging to John Nall Deceased and left to Martha Nall in his Will …
John Nall probably moved to North Carolina with his parents about 1762. By 1764 he was buying land in Cumberland Co., N.C. From 1764 through 1766 he purchased 1262 acres, much of it located on the Cape Fear River. By 1778 he had sold his Cumberland County property and moved to Chatham Co., N.C.
His first purchase of land in Chatham Co.,N.C. took place in Sept. 1773 when he paid three pounds ten shillings to George Hendry for 100 acres "on the North side of Bear Creek."
On 3 Jan 1774 John Nall purchased an additional 200 acres "in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds Lawful money of the province," the land was Lying and being on the South Side of Bear Creek whereon the sd. Nall now lives on." William Pearsey was the grantor of the deed.
On 1 July 1779 and 31 Mar 1780 John Nall was granted by the State of North Carolina 1204 acres of land in Chatham County. One tract of 304 acres was "Joining the South side of his [John Nall's] deeded land." A 600 acre tract was located on "Bear Creek at the Rackoon ford where the new road crosses Hence running by the John Nall's old line …" The third grant of 300 acres was "on the North side of Bear Creek." The charge for the granted land was "fifty shillings for every hundred acres."
On 22 Jan 1781 John Nall purchased from Jon Poe for two hundred and twenty five pounds of Specie or hard Money 540 acres of land in Chatham Co., N.C. on both sides Bare Creek adjoining John Nall's property.
A final land grant to John Nall from the State of North Carolina was filed on 23 Oct 1782, more than a year after his death. The 640 acre tract of land was in the County of Chatham on Bear Creek. Thus John Nall's land holdings reached a total of 2684 acres.
From his record of public service John Nall was obviously a respected young man in his community. Under the Ordinances of the North Carolina Convention of 1776, John Nall was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Chatham Co., N.C. In a report of the actions in which he was killed, he was referred to as "Major John Nall of Chatham County and a Member of the Legislature."
At least a portion a portion of the Revolutionary War service in which John Nall participated was described by his eldest son, Richard Nall, in his application for a pension in 1832. /// he [Richard Nall, age 16] entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated – to wit – Captain Jacob Ducksworth and Major John Nall, in the State of North Carolina, Chatham County, I volunteered into service at the court house in said county about the first day of November 1780 and continued in service until the first of May 1781, during which time I was in three engagements in the first engagement which took place the second day after I volunteered, we attacked a Tory General Muster, defeated them, took eighteen prisoners, and retook seven of the whigs, the next engagement was at my father's own house, which was attacked by fifty Tories and there were but seven of us one of whom was killed and the rest of us retreated to Col Ambrose Ramsey's residence to a party of whigs stationed there by order of Brigadier General Butler, from which station we got a reinforcement, and returned to attack the enemy, but they had retreated, after which we returned to Chatham court house." In a supplemental declaration Richard Nall stated "but during this time [the succeeding six months] one month was not spent in the service of the country – as his Father Major John Nall was killed and he had to retire from the service to obtain reinforcement – " John Nall's brother, Nicholas Nall, identified the battle in which John Nall was killed as the Battle of Cane Creek. The date was 14 Sept, 1781.
John Nall's Will (with original spelling)
North Carolina State Archives, Archives & Records Section, Raleigh, N.C.
In the Name of God Amen, I John Nall of the County of Chatham and Province of North Carolina, being in perfect health of body and of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor; nothing doubting but at the resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as with worldly estate whereas with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I lend and leave to Martha, my dearly beloved wife, the tracts of land containing the plantation she now lives on with the saw mill, grist mill and all appurtenances unto the sd. land belonging also all my negroes and moveable property and all debts due to me either by bond, note or agreement and also all stock in trade after paying all my debts, during her widowhood and no longer and in case she should marry, I will she take her thirds agreeable to law in everything except the land and in that I will that she have the tract of land above described during her life and to belong to which ever of my children it may fall to as hearafter described.
Secondly I give to my well beloved sons and daughters namely Richard, John, Martin Molley, James, William, Thomas, Martha and a child or children that my wife is now big with an equal part of all my land, negroes, moveable estate and money and whereas the times is so unsettled in the Cuntry it is out of my power to make an equal division between them at present I therefore will that when my eldest son shall arive at the age of twenty-one years or at some convenient time after that my executors or some persons appointed by the court of their county lay out and devide my land in shears of equal value to each child then alive and that the eldest child take first choice and so on according their ages and that no child make his or her choice under eighteen years of age and that the negroes and moveable property at the death of my wife or her marriage be divided in the same manner and I do here by utterly disallow, revoke and disannual all and every other forms testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequested ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have heare unto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty. I do hearby appoint my beloved wife one of my executrix and also appoint my trusty friends Mial Scerlock and Nicholas Nall my executors see this my will executed. John Nall (seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered by John Nall as his last will and testament in presence of us /s/ George Hendry
/s/ Nicholas Nall
/s/ Richard Nall
A second time I have signed my will and request of all honest men to see my will ratifide. /s/ John Nall
July Court 1782 The above will duly proved in open court by Nicholas Nall of the subscribing witness.
An indenture dated 1 Jan 1811 names John Nall's heirs as they were named in his will, and identified the then unborn child as Nathan Nall."
It is believed that John Nall married Martha, surname might be Glass but there is no proof, about 1763, in North Carolina. Their children are believed to be:
1. Richard Nall, born 6 March 1764 Cumberland County, N.C. and died 13 April 1846. He first married Elizabeth "Betty" White about 1785 and she may have died by 1820. Richard married Mary Dougherty in Nov 1836, Hickman County, TN.
2. John Nall Sr. born about 1766 and may have died between 1831 and 1839. He married Sarah Glass about 1786 and Margaret Thomasson before 18 April 1829.
3. Martin Nall, born 11 June 1767 and died 1841, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia. He may have married Polly Blackwell by 1790.
4. Mary "Polly" Nall, born 25 Dec 1768, and lived in her early years in Williamson County, TN. and died 1 Feb 1864 in Cedar County, Missouri. She married Thomas James Younger, 1785 in Chatham County, N.C.
5. James Nall, born about 1770/1771 and died between 1805-1811, perhaps in Alabama. He married Ann Caroline Wyatt, about 1793.
6. William Nall, born about 1772 and died December 1842, Williamson County, TN. He married Catharine Tucker about 1795.
7. Thomas Nall, born about 1774 and died about 1835. He may have married Nancy Glass.
8. Martha Nall, born about 1777 and died Feb 1818, Montgomery County, N.C. She married Alexander McArthur Sr. about 1797.
9. Nathan Nall, born 18 November 1780 and died after October 1840, Montgomery County, Illinois. He may have married Mary Thompson.
