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Joseph BALL

Joseph BALL[1]

Male 1649 - 1711  (62 years)

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  • Name Joseph BALL  [2, 3
    Born 25 May 1649  Northumberland County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID L52B-66G 
    Reference Number 7537 
    _UID 7BCF1664942948CC9332E95CF5AF0C36852F 
    Buried 1711  Saint Marys White Chapel, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died 11 Jul 1711  Epping Forest, Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I2653  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2023 

    Father Col. William BALL, I,   b. 17 Sep 1615, Cripplegate, City of London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Nov 1680, Millenbeck, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Hannah ATHEROLD,   b. 1615, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jun 1695, Millenbeck, Lancaster, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 2 Jul 1638  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7
    Family ID F536729056  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary MONTAGUE,   b. 1665, Christchurch, King George, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1743, Ferry Far, King George, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 1675 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F1237  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married Abt Feb 1708 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F1238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary BENNETT,   b. 12 Mar 1665, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1721, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Children 
     1. Mary BALL,   b. 30 Nov 1708, Epping Forest, Lively, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Aug 1789, Fredericksburg, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2023 
    Family ID F536729055  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 4 Elizabeth Julia ROMNEY,   b. Abt 1648, Hastings, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1703, Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Married Abt 1675  [8
    Children 
     1. Hannah BALL,   b. 1683, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Dec 1748, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     2. Elizabeth BALL,   b. 11 Mar 1684, Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1721, Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years)
     3. Esther BALL,   b. 1685, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 May 1751, Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     4. Anne BALL,   b. 1686, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Oct 1764, Millenbeck, Lancaster, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     5. Joseph BALL,   b. 11 Mar 1689, Bewdley, Lancaster, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jan 1760, Westham, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2023 
    Family ID F536729057  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Joseph Ball (1649-1711) was born in England and came to Virginia sometime before his father's death, making his home at a plantation called Epping Forest. He served as a justice of the county court, a vestryman for his church parish, as a Burgess (in 1698, 1700, and 1702), and as a lieutenant colonel in the county militia. Ball was married twice. From his first marriage to Elizabeth Rogers (or Romney), who died by the early 1700's, he had five children: Anne Ball (later the wife of Colonel Edwin Conway), Elizabeth Ball (later the wife of the Reverend Joseph Carnegie),Esther or Easter Ball (later the wife of Rawleigh Chinn), Hannah Ball (later the wife of Rawleigh Travers, II, and afterwards the wife of Simon Pearson), and Joseph Ball (died 1760).

      After the death of his first wife, Joseph Ball married Mary Johnson (died 1721), a widow who had two children from her previous marriage. Together they had one child, a daughter named Mary Ball (1708-1789). Joseph passed away, however, soon after when Mary Ball was only three years old.

      Mary Johnson Ball was remarried the following year to a man named Richard Hewes, who left her a widow for the third time in 1713. Her daughter, Mary Ball, was completely orphaned by the age of 12 or 13 and was subsequently raised by a guardian named George Eskridge, a local lawyer, land speculator, and Burgess, whose plantation was called Sandy Point. In 1731, at the age of 23, she married Augustine Washington (1694-1743), a middle-aged widower with three children, who ranged in age from 13 to 9. Their first child, a little boy they named George Washington (1732-1799), was born early the following year.

      https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/ball-family/

  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    2. [S477] Genealogy of the US Presidents, Data author: Funk&Wagnall's; Webpage author: Brian Tompsett, (23 April 1996 from book "The Presidents" Contains data from published Gedcoms and is part of larger set of databases held at the University of Hull. Focus is on "Royal and Noble genealogy".), 00418 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 3 Jan 2023), entry for Mary Ball, person ID KNDD-GXQ. (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S477] Genealogy of the US Presidents, Data author: Funk&Wagnall's; Webpage author: Brian Tompsett, (23 April 1996 from book "The Presidents" Contains data from published Gedcoms and is part of larger set of databases held at the University of Hull. Focus is on "Royal and Noble genealogy".), 00412 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S33] Ancestral File - Family History Department - FGRs & IRs, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [Various submitters], (Genealogical information submitted to FHD since 1978), AFN: 9GSH-ZS (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 3 Jan 2023), entry for Hannah Atherold, person ID L1M1-8GY. (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S34] CHESEBRO' Genealogy@RootsWeb, Larry Chesebro' & Nancy Cagle Chesebro', (Originally published August 1998 Extensive "Family Files" {more than 28000 names} with comprehensive Bibliography of Sources. Excellent), ID: I00185 & I01329 (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 3 Jan 2023), entry for Joseph Matthaus Ball, person ID L52B-66G. (Reliability: 3).