Martha Ball

Martha moved with her family to Great Hunting Creek in Stafford County between 1715 and 1717 on land her father had purchased from Robert Bret, executor of Nicholas Brent, in 1715.

The first documented evidence of Martha Ball was her mention in her father's will dated August 14, 1722 and proven in court on November 14, 1722: "I give to my daughter Martha Ball and my daughter Ann Ball that Tract of land lying situate and being on both sides of Piney Branch containing Five Hundred Ninety five acres equally to be divided between my two daughters Martha & Ann and to their heirs lawfully begotten of their bodys for ever but in default of such heirs that then to fall to the next male heir."

Sources

• "The Ball Family of the Potomac (1654-2004)" by Doris LeClerc Ball, PH.D. and George L. Ball, M.S. pages 18-19, and "Ball Family History" by Joan Huseman Ball (1980).

Links

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89205445, and "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SRW8-328 : accessed 26 September 2012), entry for Martha (2) /Ball/.