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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Thomas Beale of "Chestnut Hill", Richmond Co., VA.
Frederick Bates became the Governor of Missouri.
Woodville Bates never married.
Thomas Fleming Bates, of Goochland Co., VA.
From the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress":
BATES, James Woodson, (brother of Edward Bates), a delegate from the Territory of Arkansas; born in Goochland County, Virginia, August 25, 1788; attended Yale College and was graduated from Princeton College in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Virginia; moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1816, and thence to the Post of Arkansas in 1819; elected as first Delegate from Arkansas to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and served from December 21, 1819, to March 3, 1823; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Batesville, Arkansas; judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas Territory of Arkansas Territory 1824-1828; judge of the superior court of Arkansas 1828-1832; delegate to the Arkansas state consitutional convention in 1835; judge of the probate court of Crawford County in 1836; register of the land office in Clarksville 1841-1845; died in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, December 26, 1846; interment in the family burying ground at Moores Rock, Crawford (now Sebastian) County, Arkansas.
Jesse Conway Ball and his wife, Peggy Mitchell, had no children.
Agatha Conway Ball probably died young.
James Wallace Ball was a vestryman of Christ Church, Lancaster Co., VA, 1784. "James Wallace Ball", gent., was elected in the place of John Chinn, resigned; and appointed Church Warden." He was recommended, September 21, 1789, by James Gordon, Sheriff, Lancaster Co., as "a proper person to officiate in the Sheriff's office" (C.P.V., 30), as was also James Ball, Jr.. He was a delegate from Lancaster Co., VA, 1788-1791. It appears in suit of Ball vs. Payne that Mr. Ball, by will settled all his property on his son Cyrus in "estate tail, " but Cyrus d.s.p., and the estate in that case was to e "divided among my daughters". (Randolph's Rep. VI, 78). (Note: Did one daughter marry a Payne?). Mr Ball was Justice of Lancaster Co., VA, 1781, also Delegate, 1781. Richard Ball, under date of May 15, 1779, in view of the approaching marriage of his son, James Wallace Ball, and Anne, the daughter of James Ball, gent., deeds to the former 670 acres of land, with 14 negroes, stock, &c, part to be immediately possessed; the rest to be enjoyed at the death of Mrs. Margaret Ball, who then occupied the land. Recorded, Lancaster Co., VA, July 1770. The deed is endorsed, "Memorandum. That quiet and peaceable possession and Livery of seisin was had and given by the within named Richard Ball unto the within named James Wallace Ball, by delivery of Turf and Twig of the Tract of four hundred acres of Land within mentioned and delivery of sypahe, one of the within mentioned negroes, in the name of the whole within mentioned Lands, Slaves and moveables, &c., in presence of John Smither, John Boyd and Richard Cundiff. (Source: "Virginia Genealogies", Hayden, p. 126-127).
John Smith Ball served as a Lt. Col. in the MO militia during the War of 1812.