Philip Mallory

1618 - 1660  (41 years)

• Name	Philip Mallory
  Birth	29 Apr 1618	Davenham, Cheshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1660	London, London, England
  Person ID	I23240	Master
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Thomas Mallory, Rev., Sr,   b. 1566, Studley, Conyers, Yorkshire, England d. 3 Apr 1644, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Vaughan,   b. 1570, Chester, Cheshire, England d. 9 Feb 1644, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	1590	Davenham, Cheshire, England
  Family ID	F6091	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 29 Apr 1618 - Davenham, Cheshire, England Death - 1660 - London, London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Somewhere on the coast of Ireland, a ship stood at anchor. A small boy was playing on the shore with other lads. His mother, in the usual crowd of onlookers, was intent on getting news of her home in Chesire, a short day's sail across the Irish Sea. After a while, a man approached and invited the boys tocome and see the ship. They were hesitant, but he offered a knife to each boy if he would come on board to get it. Those who did go aboard were seized, gagged, and hidden, and the ship sailed off with them. The story goes that one of the boys was named John Ford, and he was "about eight years old." The ship arrived at the port of Kicotan (now called Hampton), at the mouth of the James River. John was taken ashore and offered for sale (indenture). It was the custom in the colony for widows, orphans and abandoned children to be cared for by the vestry, under the charge of the minister of the local parish, following the Anglican practice in England. The Rev. Phillip Mallory was rector of Hampton Parish at this time. He recognized John at once, as he had known his family in Sandbach Parish in County Chester. The minister had been pastor of Moberly Parish, only a short distance from Abbeyfield Park, the Ford homeplace. The Rev. Phillip Mallory soon had the boy released, probably paying the cost of passage. From then on, John's home was in the Mallory household, where he was fed, clothed, and given an education. Sixteen years later, John Ford married the niece of the Rev. Phillip Mallory. She was Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mallory, Dean of the Cathedral Church in Chester, England. Mary's name appears in her father's will, 1671, which speaks of her as the wife of John Ford in Virginia. The Rev. Phillip Mallory returned to England and died in London in 1661. His will, dated July 23, 1661 and probated July 27, 1661 names "nephew Roger Mallory all my plantations in Virginia." Since Mary was the younger sister of Capt. Roger Mallory, it is possible that she made her home with him. His name appears in a number of county records, all indicating that as a land owner, he was of the "gentleman class." John Ford's people, as land owners, were also of the same social standing. The custom of education of apprenticeship, common in England, would naturally be followed in the colony. Thus John would be brought up to the position of a Virginia gentleman, if indeed he did form part of Captain Roger Mallory's household. The Mallory's bought and sold land in the Northern Neck region of the colony as well as in the York River valley. When John Ford's name appears in the county records he is found living on Rappahannock Creek, close to the point where the creek runs into the Rappahannock River. The Rev. Phillip Mallory at one time owned 1,000 acres of land on Fleet's Bay in "Old" Rappahannock County.