James Ball, Jr. The Young Colonel of Bewdley or The Young Colonel.[1][2][3][4][5]
Origins
Born 31 Dec 1789 in Lancaster County, VA. His family's 3rd generation in Lancaster County.
Early Life
1744 - Received 400 lbs. tobacco for keeping John Hogan.
1756 - Sold George Chewning an estate he had bought from William Ball, gentleman.
1760 - Appointed to procession the land.
Frequently a Church Warden
For many years a Delegate and in 1788 Member Virginia Convention.
Family.
Married Lettice Lee born 1731, Ditchley, Northumberland County, died 17 Nov 1811
Occupation
Vestryman of St. Stevens Parish, Northumberland County, VA. Elected Oct 1744. Took the Oath 12 Nov 1744
Elected Church Warden 1745 when his father was in the vestry
Frequently a Church Warden
1755 - Burgess for Lancaster County, VA, and then resigned the same year to become the Sheriff.
Death & Legacy
Burial
Buried at St. Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Churchyard, Lancaster, VA. Inscription: "2nd son of James and Mary Ball, his second wife, daughter of Edwin Conway."
Sources
↑ Harold E. Ball, From Saddlebags to Satellites, The Story of Shadrach D Ball, (Ball Printing Service, PO Box 63, Uniontown, KS, USA; Copyright 1990), page 5.
↑ Earl L. W. Heck, Colonel William Ball of Virginia, The Great-Grandfather of Washington, (Sydney Wm. Dutton, 103 Newgate Street, London, E.C.1.MCMXXVII).>
↑ Stella Picket Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution., (Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Co., 1958.), page 35.
↑ Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia : Also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland, E.B. Yordy, printer, 1891
↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, editor, Encyclopaedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I -, II, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, NY 1915), page 177.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Thanks for completing the merge. Could the two of you please review the sources and eliminate the ones that are duplicated or are not accessible to other family members?
1891 genealogy by Horace Hayden claims he was son of James (b 1678), grandson of William Ball-173, and great-grandson of William Ball-189. You okay with me connecting him into that family?
Respectfully,
Claire ~ Data Doctor