Thanks Kathleen!   I didn't have this specific marriage record for Thomas Ball & Mildred Downman and appreciate you posting (as well as the other information you shared).   I guess what confuses me about this couple is why they are found in Amelia (and I believe Spotsylvana too) records, but then must have returned to Northumberland Co., VA.   Does this return migration make sense???   I too agree that Thomas Ball (who married Mildred Downman) was son of George Ball, Jr. & Ann Taylor (George Ball, Jr. is, in turn, the son of George Ball, Sr. & Grace Haynie).  However, since Thomas  is called "Jr." in the record I posted, I'd just like to figure out the identity of Thomas Ball, Sr.  I would assume Thomas Ball, Sr. was either an uncle or older cousin to Thomas Ball, Jr. My opinion is that Harris had maiden name of Ball and married a Downman.   Someone else has shared that Harris Ball married a William Downman.   It this is correct, any ideas on who this William Downman may have been?   Could he be a brother to Travers who married Grace Ball and Robert who married Elizabeth Porteus (parents to Mildred who married Thomas Ball, son of George Ball, Jr., brother to aforementioned Harris Ball & Grace Ball)???? Thanks again! David P.S. By the way, I stumbled upon this information, which I thought was interesting.  I believe the below Joseph Dameron was a grandson of Christopher Dameron & Sarah Ball (i.e., a first cousin to my ancestor Christopher Dameron who married Sarah Ingram and died in Caswell Co., NC in c.1807).  Is the Col. Downman mentioned below actually Raleigh Downman??? The Pensions Declaration of Joseph Dameron of Caswell County, N.C., says he was a private under Capt. Mumford and Col. Downman, 1780, entered the militia from Amelia County, Va., first and later in 1781 joined up from Brunswick County, Va., where his "father lived" who owned the plantation in Amelia which Joseph had managed as overseer. In 1781 he marched to N.C. with Capt. Win. Harrison and Col. Robt. Mumford, and was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and at Rumsous Mills.  George(Ball?) B. Dameron testified for the pension saying he was "too young" to go with Joseph into the army.   Joseph Dameron in his paper no. 7129 said he was b. Feb. 2, 1763, Northumberland County, Va., lived in Amelia, then returned to Brunswick, Va. finall;r moving to Caswell County, N.C. Source: Dameron Genealogy by Helen Foster Snow. From: Kathleen Much <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Downing/Ball Connections G.H.S King, _Marriages of Richmond County, VA, 1668-1853_ (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1986), p. 8: "BALL, THOMAS and Mildred Downman, bond 3 April 1766. Raleigh Downman (b). [She was born in North Farnham Parish, 6 March 1749, the daughter of Captain Robert Downman and his wife nee Elizabeth Porteus. Thomas and Mildred Ball moved to Amelia County, Virginia, and appear frequently on those records. AB#2, P. 4; WB#7, P. 40, 48.]"