Mallory Todd 1742-1817 of Isle of Wight Co, Virginia

Mallory Todd of Isle of Wight County appears to be kin to Joseph Todd of Bermuda. The is inferred from the following newspaper article in 1784:

If any descendant of Miriam Rogers, the wife of Joseph Roges, late of Chowan County, State of North Carolina, yeoman, is now alive and will apply to the subscribers, he or she may hear of something very advantageous. The above named Mirriam was the daughter of Cap. Joseph todd, of South Hapton parish in the island of Bermuda, and having married he said Joseph Rogers, they removed to the State of Virginia and thence toChowan County in the State of North Carolina. Any person who can point out the time whe and the place where the last descendant of the above family dep[arted this life (in case they are all dead) will confer a consdierable obligation on John Marrlery and Mallery Todd

State of Virgina, Isle of Wight county, 18th July 1784

There are Mallory Todds on Bermuda but this connects the Bermuda Todds to the Mallory Todd of Isle of Wight. Similar DNA patterns exist amongst families in nearby Prince George’s and Dinwiddie County, Virginia, eastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina.

1. Mallory Todd , Capt. (Unplaced Todds1) was born 1742, and died 1817 in Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA. He was buried in *** See "Spouses.". He married Ann Robinson, daughter of Unplaced Robesons and Robinsons. She was born ABT 1761, and died 1832 in Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA. He married XX Mallory, daughter of John Mallory and Mary Cutchins?. She was born ABT 1745.

Children of Mallory Todd , Capt. and Ann Robinson are: 2 i. Ann Robinson Todd was born ABT 1790, and died in Bermuda. She married James H. Tucker 1809 in Isle of Wight Co., VA, son of Unplaced Tuckers. He was born ABT 1785.

+ 3 ii. John R. Todd was born ABT 1792.

4 iii. Frances Robertson Todd.

5 iv. Mallory Moore Todd.

6 v. William Todd.

7 vi. Martha Todd.

+ 8 vii. XY Todd was born ABT 1785.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 2

3. John R. Todd (Mallory Todd , Capt.2, Unplaced Todds1) was born ABT 1792. He married Eliza Armistead. She was born 1794, and died 1879.

Child of John R. Todd and Eliza Armistead is: 9 i. Everard Moore Todd , Esq..

8. XY Todd (Mallory Todd , Capt.2, Unplaced Todds1) was born ABT 1785. He married XX Person, daughter of Joseph Person and Mary Burwell?. She was born ABT 1790.

Children of XY Todd and XX Person are: 10 i. Jacob Todd.

11 ii. Anthony Todd.

12 iii. Thomas Todd.

13 iv. Joseph Todd.

14 v. Merritt Womble Todd.

15 vi. Martha R. Todd.

John Robinson TODD died UNKNOWN. He married Eliza ARMISTEAD 31 AUG 1814, daughter of Robert ARMISTEAD and Elizabeth SMITH. She was born 26 MAY 1794 in Norfolk, , VA, and died UNKNOWN.

1850 John R Todd 69 Farmer 15000 b VA

Eliza 56

Robertson A. 28 (b 1822)

Thomas S? 23

Eliza P 26

Wm M Hodges 39 farmer

1860 Smikthfield, Eastern District, Isle of Wight

Robinson A. Todd 38 Farmer 20000 3000 VA

Nannie todd 30

John W. 5

Robinson A. 3 (b 1857)

Nannie 9/12

1870 Newport, Isle of Wight, Virginia

415 418

Todd E. M. 41 M farmer

Nancy S 44

Mary e 13

Nannie S 12

Laura 8

Dianah 6

Helen 2

416 419

R . A. Todd 49 farmer b VA

Angelina D 46

? Jno W 15

Nannie 12

Armistead 14 (b 1856)

Alice 11

1900: Norfolk Ward 3, Norfolk City, Virginia

Robinson E Todd 42 (he was shown as Robinson A.on the 1910 & 1920 census')(b 1858)

Lilly A Todd 35

Robinson A Todd 8

Geo F Todd 6

Alicia L Todd 4

Nannie T Todd 39 sister

Alice Todd 35 sister

Captain Mallory Todd was a wandering seaman who settled in Smithfield in 1767 and opened a ham curing and shipping business by early 1779. Todd sided with colonists during the Revolutionary War and used his sailing vessels to bring arms and supplies to the colonies, according to: "Smithfield, A Pictorial History," by Segar Cofer Dashiell.

     Mallory Todd's son, John R. Todd, later took over the ham business. He owned the area now known as Battery Park, including the Gatling Pointe land. In a deed dated Dec. 13, 1851, he and his wife, Eliza Todd, deeded the Gatling Pointe land to Robinson A. Todd. The deed doesn't state how Robinson A. Todd was related to the couple but it does state that the land was changing hands, "in consideration of natural love and affection" - and because Robinson A. Todd paid $1 for it.    Abstracted from: DailyPress.com Extra Hampton Roads Edition. Article by Laurie Koch Thrower.

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY 1608 - 1907, by Col. E. M. Morrison. A Brief History of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Compiled for Distribution at the Jamestown Tercentenary Exposition:
"Before the building of railroads and the advent of steamboats, Smithfield, being the principal port of this county, had a large export and coastwise trade, as has already been recited, principally with the English colonies in the West Indies, the principal articles of export being staves, peas, hoop poles and bacon. The trade in bacon early gave rise to much attention in the feeding, slaughtering and curing of the bacon in this county, and especially as to the ham. One of the packing houses in Smithfield, being the oldest of the kind in this country, the house of E. M. Todd & Co., has been in the business for a period of at least one hundred and twenty seven years as shown by an old invoice dated April 30th, 1779, for hams furnished Ellerston and John Perrot in the Island of St. Eustatius, West Indies, by Mallory Todd, Smithfield, Virginia. [p39] among other articles taken in exchange for hams, is one two-pound cannon, £13 6s and one hat £0 5s 4d. The trading vessel was named Parnelia, Francis Herbert, captain. The invoice is now in the possession of Mr. E. M. Todd, grandson of Mallory Todd, and the proprietor of the present establishment. The shipment of cured hams, annually, from Smithfield, is about forty thousand. The supply of hogs furnishing these hams is limited, or else the shipments would be much heavier. It is a fact that the ham curers have their full supply of hams sold, as a rule as early as the first of March of every year."