===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: VA-NORTHERN-NECK@rootsweb.com From: Craig Kilby <persisto@live.com> Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] William Ball I, emigrant Here are my crib notes on William Ball I, emigrant to Maryland and Virginia (they are not perfect): 1. Major William Ball I. Born ABT 1615 in England. William died at "Millenbeck", St. Mary's White Chapel Parish, Lancaster Co., VA, in 1680; he was 65. Secondary Sources: Margaret L. Hill, p. 1; Diane Cuckro, p. 1-5 (#1); Hayden, p. 50-53 (#1) Original Sources: Earliest Records in Lancaster County: 24 OCT 1653. Certificate granted to Capt. Henry Fleet for importation of 21 people, including William Ball. (DB 1, p. 89) 8 DEC 1653. William Ball and Toby Smyth witness Capt. Henry Fleete's assignment of 200 ares of land on Hadaway's Creek "including three Indyan Cabins" to John Sharpe. (DW 1, p. 132; OB 1652-1654, p. 132) 12 FEB 1654/55. William Ball and Toby Smyth witness Capt. Henry Fleet's assignment of 200 acres of land on Hadaways Creek in Fleet's Bay to John Sharpe. (DW 1, p. 186; OB 1652-1654, p. 149) 29 MAR 1655. William Ball and William Underwood witness to Power of Attorney from Edward Bradshaw to Mr. Hum. Booth to sue William Cotton. (OB 1652-1654, p. 14; Fleet, p 103). 6 JUN 1655. (Recorded). William Ball and William Anderson witness to Edward Bradshaw's Power of Attorney to Mr. Humphrey Booth to sue William Catten. (DW 2, p. 14, Sparcio, p. 8) 16 NOV 1655. William Ball and Thomas Widdon witness Arthur Dunn's Will. Dunn's will makes a provision that "Thomas Kidd shall satisfy unto Robert Middleton 1,200 lbs. of tobo: & cask & to Willm. Ball about four hundred pounds more both of which are my sd debt." Thomas Kidd and Bartran Hobert were Dunn's executors. (DW 2, p. 23). Thomas Kidd lived in what is now Middlesex County. 19 MAY 1657. Certifcate for land issued to William Ball for transporting himself four times and also for transporting Hugh Davys and Richard Ball. (Orders 1656-1666, p. 16, Sparacio, p. 10). 2 JUN 1657. Land Patent to Domick Theriott of Lancaster County, land on Clapham's Creek and adjacent to Edwin Conway, due for importation of 32 persons, including William Ball FOUR TIMES, and Richard Ball. (Nugent Vol. I, p. 347-348, citing PB 4, p. 102.) These were probably same headrights named in the certificate issued to William Ball above, and apparently sold by William Ball to Domick Theriott. 27 NOV 1658. William Ball and Richard Ball were witnesses to a deed from Enock Hawker to John Dickenson of a 3 year old red heifer. (DW 2, p. 174). 18 APR 1659. William Ball (by mark), John Sharpe (by mark) and Thomas Powell (signature) appraised the estate of Mr. John Irish. This estate included a sea plat, a sea quadrant, a cross staff, one pair of brass compasses, a gunter scale, "another sea instrument", a seaman's "kalander" and carpenter's tools. (DW 2, p. 63-64) 9 MAR 1660/61. William Ball and others, including Mr. David Fox, paid debts due from estate from estate of Mr. Thomas Prettyman. (DW 2, p. 127) Records in Maryland: See: "A Forgotten Member of the Ball Family" (Anonymous), The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 7, No. 4, p. 440-441 (April, 1900) and Vol. 8, No. 1 (July, 1900). See: Mrs. William Montgomery Sweeny, "Colonel William Ball, of Balleston, Maryland, And Millenbeck, Virginia, Great-Grandfather of George Washington", Genealogies of Virginia Families From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 1, p. 74-80 (Baltimore: Clearfield Publishing Co., 2004). 16 JUL 1659, warrant for 500 acres 15 FEB 1659/60, grant of 420 acres called Balleston, on west side of Chesapeake Bay called North West River, on Ball's Creek [later Baltimore County] (Land Office, Liber 4, folio 342). Land Patents to William Ball I in Virginia 1. 18 JAN 1663/64. Mr. William Ball, 300 acres [Lancaster County] at head of a small branch proceeding out of the SW side of Narrow Neck Creek, which divides this land and land in possession of Thomas Rootes formerly belonging to Edward Grimes, dec'd, proceeding out of Coratoman River, and granted to David Fox 1 NOV 1653 and by him assigned to Thomas Hobkins and by him sold to said Ball. Source: Nugent, Vol. I, p. 491, citing PB 3, p. 270 2. 30 SEP 1667. Maj. William Ball. 240 acres on North side of Rappahannock River [Lancaster County], adj. David Fox, land of Grimes, a creek dividing this land from and of Thomas Harwood. Granted to Edward Grimes 21 MAY 1651 and by him deserted, and now granted to said Ball. Due for transportation of 5 persons: William Jeffres, Abram Jackson, Tim White, Bernard Moore, Mary Field. Source: Nugent, Vol. II, p. 20, citing PB 6, p. 67 (LVA Reel 6) [His 1680 Lancaster County will leaves 540 acres by TWO patents to his son William Ball II] 3. 17 April 1667. William Ball and Thomas Chetwood. 1600 acres on North Side of Rappahannock River in [Old] Rappahannock County (now Stafford County). Due for transportation of 32 persons: William Ball, his son, Hannah Ball, her daughter, Mary Jones, Martha, Ran. Gwill, Jos. Haseldowne, Joseph Foster, Ralph Gath, George Comes, Yarrett Williams, Henry Scoller, William Higgins, Edward Wagg, Dorothy Wells, William Morris, Joshua Greene, Jno. Chandler, Wm. Harloe, Nath. Freeman, Thomas Harris, George Martin, Jno. Bridgman, Elizabeth Smith, Grace -----, Edward Salter, RIchard Blackman, Robert Sanders, Thomas Bowles, Thomas Dickins, Robert Ambrose. Source: Nugent, Vol. II, p. 20, citing PB 6, p. 67 (LVA Reel 6). [His 1680 Lancaster County will leaves this 1600 acres by TWO patents to his sons William and Joseph] WILL: Dated 5 OCT 1680, proved 11 NOV 1680, WB 5:70-71. Names "wife" not named; sons William and Joseph. On 2 JUL 1638 when William was 23, he married Hannah Atherold in London, England. Hannah died in 1695 in Lancaster Co., VA. Testate. =====================================================================