William Ball of Lincoln's Inn

Not the same as William Ball, of New Haven and not an immigrant to America. Not the father of Col William "William of Millenbeck" Ball.

4. John Ball II's eldest son was William Ball, who appears to have been born around 1601-03. This is the William Ball traditionally asserted to have been the father of Colonel William Ball of Millenbeck.

Disambiguation

The William Ball of Lincoln's Inn, England, who was one of four attorneys in the Office of Pleas and Exchequer, never left England and in fact died in England, so he could not be the same man as the William Ball of New Haven. William Ball of Lincoln's Inn, the son of John Ball II, was born between 1601 and 1603. On 16 July 1627, at the parish church of St. Gregory by St. Paul in the City of London, he married Alice, daughter of Richard Waltham of London. His widow, Alice, was the executrix of his will. There is no record of him ever marrying Joanna King or Dorothy Tuttle. He died in England in late 1647. In his will, William left legacies of £500 each to his four daughters and his sons, Richard and Samuel. There was no reference to a son called William, but 'A Parish Booke for Wokingham ex Dono Willelmi Ball', which William Ball had presented to the parish of Wokingham in 1636, into which local records (e.g. charity deeds) were copied, contains a copy of a 1641 deed of appointment of new almshouse trustees, including William Ball of Wokingham, gentleman, and William Ball, "sonne and heir apparant" of William Ball.

11. The foregoing led Walne to opine that: "On the Berkshire evidence already quoted, the weight of probability is weighed heavily to the point of certainty against William Ball the younger being Colonel William of Millenbeck".E34

References

• Please see the following excellent sources about William Ball of Lincoln's Inn:
• D.J. French. The Ancestry of the Balls of Berkshire, Northamptonshire and Virginia. Online: https://maryballwashington.com/. 2013, accessed 20 Sep 2021.
• Peter Walne. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1959), pp. 399-405 Published by: Virginia Historical Society Article Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4246576. accessed 20 Sep 2021. Also available at http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/ball.richard.html
• The English ancestry of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball - a history of the Balls of Berkshire, Northamptonshire and Virginia Monograph by D.J. French
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ball-186
• http://maryballwashington.com/E.berksBalls.pdf