Author: Lee Johnson
The first and only Hallmark progenitor leaving descendants in the US is:
George Hallmark was baptized 23 JUN 1742 at St Oswald’s Anglican Church, Malpas, Cheshire, England as the illegitimate son of Mary Hallmark. No father has been proven but he was sometimes called George Candiland leading to speculation that was his father’s name.
On 12 JAN 1766 George was charged with stealing one linen handkerchief containing coins of ½ gold sovereign and 11 silver shillings at Whitchurch Parish, North Shropshire, England . He was sentenced on 22 MAR 1766 to seven years to be transported to the Colonies, ie Virginia. There is no record of the location in Virginia of George Hallmark’s indenture service. He is shown n December of 1774 on the delinquent Tax Rolls of Fincastle, (now Botetourt) County, Virginia. This shows that he had finished his indenture and purchased property which he owed taxes on.
In January of 1781 George served as a drover and butcher for 25 days for the Militia fighting the Indians during the Revolutionary War. He was then living in Botetourt which became part of Montgomery County, Virginia at this time. This is the service that made him a Patriot.
On 22 OCT 1783 George Hallmark received a NC Land Grant # 1843 for 350 Ac on both sides of Lick Creek in what became Greene County, TN. On 10 DEC 1784 this land was surveyed prior to his purchase for ten British pounds per one hundred acres.
In 1792 George Hallmark served as clerk of Richland Baptist Church in Grainger County, TN. On 08 FEB 1792 he sold the land in Greene County. 140 Aces was sold to Andrew McFerran and 210 Ac to John Blair. On 01 JAN, 1793 a local newspaper reported that party of ten Indians attacked “Holmack’s “Station on Bull Run. In 1794 George Hallmark served as a delegate from Richland Baptist Church to the Holston Baptist Association. On 14 APR 1794 a newspaper reported that two horses were stolen from George “Holmark.” In February of 1795 George and Leannah (his wife)* asked for a Letter of Dismission from Richland Baptist Church. In June of 1795 they still had not moved on as George was a delegate from Richland Baptist to the Holston Baptist Association.
On 21 AUG 1795 George Hallmark purchased 400 Ac from Joseph Beard in Knox County, TN. He served as clerk of the Holston Baptist Association from Richland Baptist in 1796 from Richland Baptist. He also served again as a delegate from Richland Baptist in August of 1797 to the Holston Baptist Association meeting at Coon’s Creek.
On 19 AUG 1797 George was one of the founding members of Little Flat Creek Baptist Church in Corryton, now Knoxville, Knox County, TN. He was also elected clerk of Little Flat Creek Church and a delegate to the Holston Baptist Meeting from that church at that time. In 1799 he was called to be Deacon of the church at Little Flat Creek Church and was ordained there to that position on 03JUL 1801.

On 25 DEC 1802 George was a delegate from Little Flat Creek Baptist Church to a meeting to create a new organization which was called the Tennessee River or Tennessee Baptist Association of which William Johnson was elected as the first Moderator. George served as delegate to this association through 1805 and served as Clerk one of those times under William Johnson.

In 1806 George was a member of Captain McReynolds Company and on January 26th of that year he sold 400 Acres in Knox County to George Faust. Leannah died around this time as did one of their sons, Thomas. Shortly after this George and most of his sons moved south to the Mississippi Territory, now Madison County, Alabama. George died there but his precise death date and burial spot are unknown. But a marker has been placed in Hobbs Cemetery in Madison County which is near where he lived. The problem is that the marker implies George was a Revolutionary War Soldier. He was a Patriot but no evidence of his fighting in the Revolutionary War has come to been found.

George and Leannah (Mynatt) Hallmark’s children are:
William was born ca 1770-75 in Virginia. He married Nancy Freels and died about 1830 in Henderson County, KY.
Thomas was born ca 1770-75 in Virginia. He married Susannah Mynatt, his mother’s youngest sister. He died 1805 in Little Flat Creek, Corryton, Tennessee. It was said that he was killed by Indians.
John was born 05 JUL 1776 in Virginia. He married Amey Satterwhite ca 1801 in Knox County, Tennessee. He died 15 FEB 1840 in what became Crockett, Houston County, TX.
George Jr. frequently called George W. or George William, was born 1778 in Virginia. He died 24 SEP 1852 in Houston County, TX. He is buried on the Mustang Prairie. He married (1) Sarah Calvert ca 1800 (no record found). He married (2) Elvey Dukes 09 APR 1828 in Tuscaloosa County, AL. He married (3) Jincy Box Thompson 06 APR 1831 in Blount County, Alabama. He married (4) Salena unknown 30 JUN 1839 in Nacogcoches, County, Texas. He was postmaster and Justice of the Peace in Houston County.
Richard H. was born ca 1785 in Tennessee, and died 30 JAN 1854 in Bastrop County, TX. He is buried Jeddo Community Cemetery. He married Mary Ann Pruit/Prewitt 14 SEP 1807 in Roane County, TN.
Mary “Polly” was born ca 1790 in Tennessee and married Isaac Steadham on 13 NOV 1809 in Madison County, Alabama. She married a second time to Henry Miller before 1824. She died 1856 in Marion County, Alabama and is buried in the Shottsville Cemetery in Marion County, Alabama.
Mynatt was born 08 OCT 1793 in Tennessee and died in July 1864 in Blount County, Alabama. This was the time of the Forrest Straight Raids but no connection has been proven. He married Mary Calvert, sister to Sarah Calvert, 09 DEC 1820 in Blount County, Alabama. He was a twin to Jesse.
Jesse was born 08 OCT 1793 in Tennessee and died after 1870 in Belmont, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. He married Mary Frances Wright.
Cummins or Cummings was born 09 DEC 1797 in Tennessee and died 10 NOV 1887 in Howelton, Etowah, Alabama. He married (1) Keziah Murphree 09 DEC 1820 in Blount County, Alabama. He married (2) Sarah Ann Cornelius 13 JUL 1841 in Blount County. He married (3) Martha “Patsy” Morton Thomas on 18 APR 1850 in Marshall County, Alabama. She was the widow of Greenbury Thomas.
Carter L (Louis?) was born ca 1800 in Tennessee died after 1838 in Allgood, Blount County, Alabama. He married Kiziah Hughes 01 Jan 1829 in Allgood, Blount County, Alabama
The one listed as Patriot P 173447 has the dates of George Hallmark Senior but the middle initial of his son who became George W or George Wiliam?

*George’s wife is Leannah Mynatt although no marriage record has been found. She is the daughter of Richard Mynatt Jr. and Sarah Jane Cummins. Richard and Sarah were married 31 MAR 1755 in Prince William County, Virginia. Richard was another English Immigrant who was indentured to the Lee Family of Stratford Hall. He also served as an Express Rider during the American Revolution and as Door Keeper for the House of Representatives of the short lived State of Franklin. Richard Mynatt was born 21 OCT 1729 in South Molton, Devonshire, England and died 24 JUL 1824 in Knox County,Tennessee.