John Ball

• Name	John Ball
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I01180	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014

  
  

  Family	Catherine Lester
  Children	1. Peter Ball,   b. 10 Jun 1711  [Natural]   2. John Ball,   b. 23 Oct 1714,   d. Apr 1789  (Age 74 years)  [Natural]   3. Keziah Ball,   b. 13 Aug 1716,   d. 15 Jan 1803  (Age 86 years)  [Natural]   4. Joseph Ball,   b. 3 May 1719,   d. 31 Oct 1792  (Age 73 years)  [Natural]
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F0470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From - Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks JOHN BALL, the founder of the family in Richland, was a native of Wales or the north of England and was born about the year 1684. He was possibly the son of John Ball who came over on the "Vine of Liverpoole," in 1684, as a servant of Griffith Owen of Dolserne, Marionethshire, but nothing definite has been proved, whether that record belongs to John Ball of Darby or the Ball family of Richland. He was a member of the Society of Friends and married at Abington Meeting 6 mo. 28, 1710, Catharine Lester, daughter of Peter and Mary (Duncalf) Lester. John Ball and his father-in-law Peter Lester appear to have been the first actual settlers in the Great Swamp, and the founders of the Quaker colony in Richland. Griffith Jones, who had secured grants of large tracts of lands in the Manor, though he never lived there, conveyed to John Ball, already a resident of "The Great Swamp," March 25, 1712, 300 acres of land there. Two months later Jones conveyed to Peter Lester 200 acres on the west side of the Philadelphia Road just north of Rich Hill, which the latter, with Mary, his wife, conveyed to their son-in-law, John Ball, on October 11, 1717. A large part of these two tracts was conveyed by John Ball to his sons John and Joseph, many years later and remained in the family for several generations. The 200-acre tract lay along the southern line of the manor and the 300-acre tract one tier of farms further north and two tiers further east, being divided by the road to Rocky Ridge which leaves the Philadelphia Road about one-eighth of a mile north of Rich Hill. John Ball was a carpenter and farmer. He and his wife Catharine continued to reside in Richland until their death. He died 9 mo. 22, 1767, "upwards of eighty years of age," and Catharine on 8 mo. 28, 1764, in her 73d year. They were active and consistent members of the Society of Friends, first as members of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, where the record of their children appears, and after 1742 of Richland Monthly Meeting.