Elias Ball (1709 - 1786)

Born 22 Dec 1709 in Wambaw Creek, Will, Berkeley, Charleston County, South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Child) Ball — married 28 Jan 1747 in St Tho St Denis, Berkeley, South Carolina

Descendants

Died 8 Aug 1786 at age 76 in South Carolina, United States

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Elias Ball is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A005408.

Biography

Elias Ball performed Patriotic Service in South Carolina in the American Revolution.

Elias was born in 1709. He was the son of Elias Ball and Elizabeth Harleston. He passed away in 1786. He is buried in Strawberry Chapel Cemetery, Berkeley County, S.C.

In the late 1730’s, Elias Ball Sr moved to town and left the management of his estate to sons Elias (“Second Elias,” 1709-1786) and John Coming Ball (1714-1764). John Coming developed Hyde Park Plantation, purchased in March 1740, while Second Elias remained at Comingtee Plantation alone. ^[1][2]

Second Elias already owned the 1,000 acre tract known as St. James. In 1747, he married Lydia (Child) Chicken (1721-1765), widow of George Chicken. With his marriage to Lydia, Strawberry Plantation, a plantation belonging to her deceased first husband George Chicken, came into Ball ownership.

In Feb 1747, Elias purchased an undeveloped tract of 670 acres next to Hyde Park, which he named Kensington. Elias and Lydia then moved to Kensington with about seventy-five enslaved people. (Ball 1998, pp. 44-147.)^[1]

After his father’s death in 1751, John Coming’s plantation holdings included not only Hyde Park, but also Cypress Grove, Dockum and Three Mile Head (Dockum and Three Mile Head are referred to as “lands” in Elias Ball’s will and may not have been developed plantations).^[3]

In 1764, Second Elias purchased Limerick Plantation, which bordered Hyde Park. ^[4]

He died at Kensington Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina.

Burial

Strawberry Chapel Cemetery, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA. ^[5]

Elias Ball (22 Dec 1709–8 Aug 1786)

- Find A Grave: Memorial #41660453

Lydia Child Ball (22 Sep 1721–1 Apr 1765) (spouse)

- Find A Grave: Memorial #29470099

Sources

South Carolina Archive, Accounts Audit no. 256, roll no. 5

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Ball, Edward 1998 Slaves In the Family. New York: Ballantine Books, p. 139; pp. 146-147. (Hereinafter Ball 1998)
2. ↑ Low Country Africana: Gall Family Slaveholder Index: Elias Ball
3. ↑ “South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977,” Databaseonline at FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1919417:accessed 27 Mar 2013), Will of Elias Ball, Wills, 1671-1724, Vol. 6, pp. 546-549. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19428-5221-16?cc=1919417&wc=9386041); “South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills of Sale, 1732-1872,” Database online at Fold 3 (http://www.fold3.com/title_700/south_carolina_estate_inventories_and_bills/: accessed 27 Mar 2013), Estate Inventory of Elias Ball, Book T (1758-61) pp. 81-82.
4. ↑ Ball 1998, p. 181.
5. ↑ "Find a Grave", database and images accessed accessed ), memorial page for Elias Ball (22 Dec 1709–8 Aug 1786), Find A Grave: Memorial #41660453, citing Strawberry Chapel Cemetery, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA.

See also:

• South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980, South Carolina Wills and Related Probate Matters,
• land and Property Records
• public Records
• Some Marriage Contracts, 1671, 1692-1868; Author: South Carolina. Probate Court (Charleston County); Probate.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Franz Winn", Ancestor # Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Franz Winn", Ancestor # A005408.
• Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree