John Miles Duvall

It is believed that John Miles Duvall, son of Jacob Duvall and Mary Miles?, and 2nd Great Grandfather of Ellis Duvall, was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland in the 1750's.  We know he lived on the "western shore" in 1782 because the Council of Maryland ordered at that time that John Miles and others be paid by the western shore treasury; most of the men who received payment were from St. Mary's County. See Newman at 562.   Various family records indicate that John Miles Duvall married Ann Tarleton, who was of the Catholic Tarleton family who resided in St. Mary's County.

John and Ann had the following children:  Mary, William, Eleanor, Sinnett, Thomas, Jacob Duvall II (Great Grandfather of Ellis Duvall), John Miles, Polly Mary, Sarah, Simon, Priscilla, Ann and Gabriel (Gabriel is the direct ancestor of President Barrack Obama). 

John served in the Revolutionery War (DAR Ancestor #A035674).  He was part of the Maryland militia and signed an Oath of Allegiance in 1778.  He also furnished supplies. 

Family legend has John Miles Duvall dying in Virginia by drowning in the Potomac about 1787.  He was supposedly taking his family, along with several other Catholic families, to Kentucky.  It is known that his wife and children were residing in Nelson County, Kentucky sometime before 1790.  John's widow married for a second time to Benjamin Loan on 20 Jan 1792 in Nelson County, Kentucky.