This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ball Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBC.2ACI/2257 Message Board Post: Recorded in Cabell,County Va ,and Culpeper ,Va. Cabell deed book 1 page 177 William BALL of Culpeper ,County,Va. set free certain slaves indicating that some of theses slaves went to Cabell,County or some of Williams children,stating that all men are free by nature and a dear conviction of the injustice and the criminality of depriving my fellow creatures of the natural right of liberty,do hearby emancup[ate and set free _ certain slaves only desire for the care of the young ones until they are of age,etc. on the side of the page to be freed 1/1794,Andrew,1/1800 Betty,1/1809 Austin,1/1811 Phillip,1/1813 Fannie