Thomas Ballard

• Not the same as Thomas Ballard, Ill, of York County

William Ballard and Elizabeth _ had issue:

[i] THOMAS, married Mary Dancy.

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jbh&id=I7240

He married

1. Mary DANCY 1724 in , Charles City Co., Va., daughter of Francis DANCY and Amy. She was born ABT 1697 in ,,Va., and died 1741 in , Charles City Co., Va.
2. Elizabeth AFT 1741. She was born ABT 1700.

Children of Thomas BALLARD and Mary DANCY are:

• i. Mary BALLARD was born ABT 1725 in ,Charles City, Va,, and died 1775 in ,Charles City, Va,. She married James MAJOR ABT 1745 in ,Charles City, Va,, son of John MAJOR and Anne BALLARD. He was born ABT 1720 in ,Charles City, Va,, and died ABT 1780 in ,Charles City, Va,.
• ii. Ann Elizabeth BALLARD was born ABT 1725 in ,,Va..
• iii. Thomas BALLARD was born ABT 1725 in ,,Va., and died Nov 1790 in ,Charles City, Va

Disputed Origins

From https://ballardofvirginia.com/about/the-children-of-thomas-ballard-...

Thomas, born c. 1695. Likely the Thomas Ballard of York County who took a patent on 28 September 1728 for 330 acres of new land in Spotylsvania County in St. George’s Parish, on the North side of the Northanna River & on the South side of the Main Road; adjacent Mr. Augustin Moore, in the County line. Patent Book No. 13, p. 452. It’s worth noting that the very next patent recorded after this one was by a “William Smith, Jr” of Spotylvania County, who may have been a relation of Elizabeth Ballard’s husband. There is no mention of him in the Spotylvania County records before or after 1728, which suggests that the land was never seated.

Thomas is believed by some researchers to have married (1) Mary Dancy, the daughter of Francis and Amy Dancy, and (2) Elizabeth _, and removed to Charles City county. This compiler disagrees, and believes that this Thomas likely predeceased his brothers without issue, and that the Thomas Ballard who married Mary Dancy is the son of William Ballard of Charles City County, Virginia (c. 1668-c. 1725).

https://ballardofvirginia.com/about/william-ballard-of-charles-city...

Notes

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=susan84911&id=I07707

"....who settled in Charles City county,..."

[Source: "The Majors and Their Marriages," by James Branch Cabell, 1915; The W. C. Hill Printing Co., Richmond, VA; p. 75. SMB Apr. 2003.]

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"The younger THOMAS BALLARD was born circa 1695, and was in consequence fifteen or sixteen years old at the time of his father's death. He seems to have been bound apprentice, under the terms of Colonel Ballard's will, to his brother-in-law John Major, and to have been reared in the latter's household in Charles City. He was at all events married and living in Charles City in 1737, prior to which year, as has been said, there are no coherent records pertaining to that county."

[Source: "The Majors and Their Marriages," by James Branch Cabell, 1915; The W. C. Hill Printing Co., Richmond, VA; p. 86. SMB Apr. 2003.]

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"Thomas Ballard was appointed inspector at Kennon's Warehouse in August 1742. At the May court 1743, 'On the petition of THOMAS BALLARD, he is permitted to keep an ordinary at his house, he having given bond as the law directs.' The license was renewed 14 March 1743-4, and several times afterward; and Thomas Ballard appears to have maintained this inn until the close of his life. At a court held the first Wednesday in September 1750 he brought suit 'on behalfe of himself & our Lord the King' against Daniel Boyce, for retailing liquor illegally--an infringement of the law which touched Ballard professionally. The outcome is not recorded. Thomas Ballard died not very long afterward, as in March 1756, and again in June 1756, his administratrix, Elizabeth Ballard, was bringing a Chancery suit against Richard Weir. He had married, first, Mary, daughter of Francis Dancy, and, second, Elizabeth (???), by whom he had no children."

[Source: "The Majors and Their Marriages," by James Branch Cabell, 1915; The W. C. Hill Printing Co., Richmond, VA; p. 87. SMB Apr. 2003.]

"A deed from John Side and his wife Sarah to Thomas Ballard was acknowledged at the August court 1739. Thomas Ballard and his wife Mary had a suit against Francis Dancy in April 1742, which was prolonged until December 1742. The verdict in this case, (hereinafter given), shows that Ballard's wife was the elder daughter of Francis Dancy and his wife Amy, who had left issue: Francis Dancy, the eldest son, defendant in the suit; Mary Dancy, the elder daughter, married to Thomas Ballard, and, with her husband, one of the complainants; Samuel Dancy, dead without issue in 1742; Ann Dancy, dead without issue in 1742; and Edward Dancy. William Dancy, and Benjamin Dancy, these last-named three being plaintiffs with Mary Ballard. The older Francis Dancy had by his will left certain slaves to his wife, to be divided at her death among his children equally, excluding his eldest son, Francis, and his elder daughter, Mary: and the main question at issue was, Amy Dancy being dead, what disposition was to be made of these slaves, now that two of the younger children had died intestate. It was ruled that the limitation held, excluding Mary Ballard and Francis Dancy from any interest in the slaves; but that, none the less, Francis Dancy, as the heir at law, inherited after Samuel and Ann, and so was entitled to their two shares in the division."

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Other Thomas Ballards: John Ballard, Elizabeth Beverley (born Bland) has a son named Thomas Ballard about the same time as this Thomas

• Links says it is not working passed the first page. Thomas Ballard, III of Charles City County, Virginia (c.1695-c.1725).

References

• https://frostandgilchrist.com/getperson.php?personID=I37291&tree=fr...