Keziah Ball

Not the daughter of Captain Thomas Osborne, III, of Coxendale

Keziah Osborne

• Source: The Ball Family of Carter's Run
• Birth: ABT 1674 England
• Death: 9 Jul 1736, Christ Church Parish, Virginia
• Parents: unknown
• Spouse: Edward Ball - married about 1694 in Viriginia

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Identity

It is not certain that the Keziah who married Edward Ball is Keziah Osborne, immigrant of 1685/86. However, given that several of their grandsons were named Osborn, it seems likely.[3]

Biography

U.S. Southern Colonies Project logo
Keziah (Osborne) Ball was a Virginia colonist.
Keziah Osborne was born about 1674 in England.[1] She died in 1736 in Middlesex County, Virginia.[2

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Osborne-214

Research Notes

Caution: Several attempts have been made to link her to Thomas Osborne III (abt.1641-bef.1692). That’s a different line of Osbornes. They had lived in Henrico Co. VA several generations, she had just immigrated.

Keziah Osborne immigrated to Virginia before 4 January 1685/6 on the ship Stephan & Edward. On that date she was adjudged 11 years old by the Middlesex County Virginia Court. She was the servant of the Reverend Mr. Duell Pead, rector of Christ Church in Middlesex County.[3] The Reverend Pead claimed importation of Keziah, presumably from England, and eight others for a land patent he obtained two years later.[4]

Keziah married Edward Ball about the year 1694.[5]

After the death of her husband in 1726, Keziah was made the sexton of the middle church of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County. A position she held until her death 10 years later. Her salary was 600 pounds of tobacco a year.

Excerpt from Ball Place

A convention I have used in the database is to place parenthesis around a surname which is unproved. A case in point involves the identity of Keziah, wife of Edward Ball of Middlesex. There was a Keziah Osborne who, upon arrival, had her age adjudged by the court to be eleven years. This placed her in the proper age category to become the future wife of Edward. She was indentured to the Rev. Duel Pead until his ministry contract expired and he returned to England. No other Keziah appears in the records of early Middlesex and she would have been of equal social class to Edward [1]

There were researchers who concluded Keziah's surname was Williamson. The reasoning apparently was based upon the fact that Edward and Keziah were paid by the parish to give shelter to Charity Williamson. This was quite common in wealthy Middlesex and in fact was a form of subsidized welfare for folks of lower economic stature as were Edward and Keziah. Charity was about Edward's age and was one of a dozen children of Andrew and Sarah Williamson who originally came into Middlesex from Gloucester County. These poor freemen had no daughter, nor any kin, named Keziah. To add to this I suppose was Haden's recognition of "Williamson" for William as noted under "Caveats".

Edward and Keziah were married during the ministry of Rev. Samuel Gray, a man of somewhat dubious character who was unceremoniously relieved of his duties. History can thank Rev. Gray for the absence of marriage entries in the parish register during his ministry. Keziah's undisclosed identity is one of many unknowns directly attributable to this man.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ball-558

U.S. Southern Colonies Project logo
Edward Ball was a Virginia colonist.
Edward Ball was born about the year 1672.[1] He died in 1726 in Middlesex County, Virginia.[2]

Edward married Keziah Osborne about the year 1694.[3]

A Place in Time Middlesex Co VA by Darrett Rutman and Anita Rutman pg 197 Edward Ball and Keziah Osborne Ball

"So too is the Ball family a good example (recipients of welfare). Edward Ball, father of eleven children, was named sexton of the Middle Church in 1714 and served until his death in 1726 when the sextonship was awarded to his widow, Keziah, who held it until she in turn died ten years later. In that year, two sextonships were open, one at the Middle Church (Keziah's position) and the other at the Lower Church...The lower church position went to Keziah's son-in-law Joseph Smith. And when Smith died in 1740, Keziah's daughter Elizabeth replaced him. Elizabeth had one grown son Edward, who could give little help to his mother for what he had was expended on the family of his indigent father-in-law, Philip Brooks, five of whose orphans were in Edward's care at vestry expense in 1745.

Children

1. Johannah Ann Ball
2. Edmund Ball
3. Edward Ball, Jr.
4. Daniel Ball, Sr
5. Kezia Ball
6. Phebe Ball
7. Williamson William Ball
8. Elizabeth Smith (born Ball)
9. Benjamin Ball, I
10. Arthur Ball
11. Valentine Ball
12. Mary Ball

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Discrepancy

Her maiden name was not Osborne. The surname is from her first marriage. Find a Grave indicated that she was married to Edward Osborne, before she married Edward Ball.

However the same Find A Grave shows a Thomas Osborne to be her father. It also shows that she had a brother named Thomas.

Also Immigration Lists Index in the sources below show that her name was Keziah Osborne at the age of 11.

Passenger record:
Name: Keziah Osborne
Birth Year: abt 1674
Arrival Year: 1685-1686
Arrival Place: Middlesex Co., Virginia
Age: 11
Death Date: 9 Jul 1736

GEDCOM Note

Find-A-Grave: Keziah Osborne Ball Birth: 1674, Christchurch, Middlesex County, Virginia, USA Death: Jul. 9, 1736, Christchurch, Middlesex County, Virginia, USA Family links: Parents: Thomas Osborne (1641 - ____) Spouse: Edward Ball (1670 - 1726)* Sibling: Thomas Osborne (1665 - ____)* Keziah Osborne Ball (1674 - 1736)

• Calculated relationship Burial: Christ Church Cemetery, Christchurch, Middlesex County, Virginia, USA Created by: Glenn Ellis Record added: Jul 29, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 7413627

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Family

References

1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Keziah_Osborne_%281%29 cites
   1. Ancestry.com. Christ Church Parish, Virginia Deaths, 1653-1812. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.Original data - National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia from 1653 to 1812. Rich). Name: Keziah Ball Death Date: 09 Jul 1736 Death Place: Christ Church, Virginia Dorman, John Frederick, ed.
   2. The Virginia Genealogist. (Washington, District of Columbia: Dorman, John Frederick) 25:94. 'Keziah Osborne servant to Mr. Deuell Pead coming in the ship Stephen & Edward is adjudged 11 years of age. 4 Jan. 1685/6, p. 227.'
   3. Hill, Ronald A. “Edward1 Ball of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia.” In “Family Migration: Virginia to Kentucky, 1784.” American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus) 78:110. 'Edward Ball ... married about 1695, Keziah --- (perhaps Osborne, who came in the ship Stephen & Edward and was adjudged 11 years of age, 4 January 1685/6).' [citing The Virginia Genealogist 25:94, and noting that several of their grandsons were named Osborn] The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1932-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) < AmericanAncestors > Page 110-111.
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5. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I5080...
6. WikiTree contributors, "Edward Ball (abt.1672-1726)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ball-558 : accessed 04 May 2024). Cites
   1. Middlesex County, Virginia, Order books, 1673-1904, Order book No. 2, 1680-1694, page 227; Keziah Osborne servant to Mr. Duell Pead coming in the ship Stephan & Edward is adjudged 11 years of age, on 4 January 1685/6; Middlesex County Courthouse, Saluda, Virginia; FHL microfilm 32449, digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYD-25L3?i=377&ca... : accessed 22 August 2023).
   2. Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, Parish register and miscellaneous material, 1653-1814 [Middlesex County, Virginia], page 236, "Keziah Ball Dyed July 9th 1736"; digital images, FHL microfilm 30821, Photocopy of the original parish register, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL6-Q345-Q?i=193&... : accessed 23 August 2023).
   3. Middlesex County, Virginia, Order books, 1673-1904, Order book No. 2, 1680-1694, page 227; Keziah Osborne servant to Mr. Duell Pead coming in the ship Stephan & Edward is adjudged 11 years of age, on 4 January 1685/6; Middlesex County Courthouse, Saluda, Virginia; FHL microfilm 32449, digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYD-25L3?i=377&ca... : accessed 22 August 2023).
   4. Duell Pead, grantee, 296 acres woodland and marsh on the south side of Rappahannock River for importation John Cresswell and Keziah Osborne, Rappahannock Co., Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 7, 1679-1689, pages 650-651; Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774, Library of Virginia; digital images, Library of Virginia (https://lva.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01LVA_INST/altrmk/alm... : accessed 22 August 2023). See also, Middlesex County, Virginia, Order books, 1673-1904, Order book No. 2, 1680-1694, page 346; "Cartifficate is granted according to act to Mr. Deuel Pead, for the Importation of nine persons in this Colloney, having proved the sam[e] upon his Corporall oath vizt. Mary Athy, Martha Allentain, [t]ho B[ ], John Creswell, Jonathan Whitehead, Keziah Osborne negro Jack, Betty, Sary", on 14 May 1688; Middlesex County Courthouse, Saluda, Virginia; FHL microfilm 32449, digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYD-25PL?i=438&ca... : accessed 22 August 2023).
   5. Estimated marriage date is based on the birth date of their daughter Catherine. Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, Parish register and miscellaneous material, 1653-1814 [Middlesex County, Virginia], page 83, "Catherine Ye Daughter of Edward & Keziah Ball was Born January Ye 25th Anno Domini 1696."; digital images, FHL microfilm 30821, Photocopy of the original parish register, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL6-Q348-4?i=89&c... : accessed 23 August 2023).
   6. http://www.ballsplace.com/NOTES.html
   7. See also: Ball Place Notes, Explanations, and Research Shortcomings