Sinah Ball

“Sinah (Ball) & James Thrift were married in the District of Columbia. [????] Her given name was misread and recorded in that record as "Linah" Ball.”

She was mentioned in her father's will, dated August 14, 1722 and proven in court on November 14, 1722. The transcriber of John Ball's will read Sinah's name as "Dinah" although that name was extremely rare and almost non-existent in colonial America. Transcription from her father's Will: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sinah Ball all that tract of land lying on the south side of Doegg's Run joining on Richard Carpenter's, called Barneby, the said land I give to her heirs lawfully begotten of her body forever but in default of such heirs that then to fall to her sister Martha Ball to her and her heirs forever."

References

• "The Ball Family of the Potomac (1654-2004)" by Doris LeClerc Ball, PH.D. and George L. Ball, M.S., and "Ball Family History" by Joan Huseman Ball (1980)
• http://www.ronulrich.com/rfuged/nti05584.htm
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89202210.

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Sinah is mentioned in her father's will probated 14 Nov 1722 in Stafford Co., VA: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sinah Ball all that tract of land lying on the south side of Doegg's Run joining on Richard Carpenter's called Barneby, the said land I give to her and her heirs lawfully begotten of her body forever and in default of such heirs then to fall to her sister Martha Ball to her and her heirs forever."