Dear Bray Researchers, Thanks to Jane Hutchings who today sent me in the mail a letter concerning her research of Ball Family. Peter Bray below married Sarah Atherton. His sister Margaret (Peggy) Bray married James Ball- and they had a son named Henry Ball Henry BALL b. 24 December 1775, Hampshire Co., VA; d. 1836, Nicholasville, KY; m. MARGARET SHELLY, 05 January 1808, Fayette Co., KY. He died 1836 Nicholasville, KY in this letter was the following information: Henry Ball married Nancy Wise, July 11, 1820, consent by mother , Elizabeth Wise, widow. Wit: John Ball, David Patton, David Wise, bond: David Patton, Min: George Strother. Who was David Patton? it looks like the Elizabeth Wise on Peter Bray's will maybe the Mother of the Nancy Wise who married Henry Ball . Therefore her reason for attending will of Peter Bray is clear. Henry Ball would have related to Peter Bray. The question is who was the parents of the Henry Ball who married Nancy Wise? Still more to learn but Jane Hutchings your Ball Family is the same which is related to my Bray Family. >his son Peter Bray's will in Hamilton, Ohio after his death 23 Oct 1838 >names beneficiaries: Henry Bray, Thomas Bray, Catherine Nugent, Gerusha >Golden, Sarah Cochrane, Elizabeth Wise and Mary Emerson. Not necessarily >all children. >