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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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The Honorable William Cocke, of County Suffolk, England and Williamsburg, VA. Immigrant. Secretary to the Colony of Virginia, 1712-1720, and member of the Governor's Council. He entered Queen's College, Cambridge, 1688; graduated M.B., 1693; Member of the Council of Virginia; Judge of the General Court; Secretary of the Colony; intimate friend of Gov. Spotswood. There is a mural tablet to his memory in Bruton Parish Church). (See Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. V, p. 191).
Elizabeth Brent died unmarried.
Civil Service, VA-DAR Patriotic Index-Centennial Edition, Part 1, p. 355.
Capt. Hugh Brent was one of His Majesty's Justices for Lancaster Co., VA, a member of the Committee of Safety, County Lieutenant, and Tobacco Inspector, with Fortunatus sydnor, for both Lancaster and Northumberland Counties. He was a vestryman for Christ Church, and also a Church Warden.
He took the Oath of the Government and to qualify himself for a Commission - 16 March 1767 (L. Order Book).
Lieut. Newton Brent served in the Revolutionary Army.
Col. Spencer Mottrom Ball was a member of the Virginia Legislature from Fairfax County, 1832-1838. He was a clerk of the Fairfax court.
Annie Corbin Ball never married.
William P. Byrd, of Westover.
Mottrom Dulany Ball/ Lieut. Col. Dr.
Mottrom Dulany Ball graduated from William & Mary College in 1854. He was valedictorian and delivered his address, "The Old Dominion), which was described in the Williamsburg Gazette as "very far above, both in manner and matter, what we usually hear at college commencements... the production was considered by the faculty, the visitors, and the audience one of peculiar merit".
He entered the Confederate Army in 1861. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 11th Va. Cav. He was twice wounded. He won merit by his conduct at Manassas, 1861. Also at Yorktown, 1862. General Magruder in his report of the Yorktown siege, said: "My thanks are due to Lt. Co. Ball, of the Va. Cav., who for several weeks during the siege acted as volunteer aide. His conduct on the 5th, in my immediate presence and under a severe fire of the enemy, was very gallant and worthy of the high reputation which he won at Manassas." General Rosser, in whose Brigade he served, said of him: "Col. Ball was one of the most gifted and gallant officers who served under me during the war, and his memory is dear to me. My heart sinks to contemplate the life, vigor and hope upon which the unwitting frosts have laid their spell of everlasting stillness in the bosom of my friend."
Col Ball was appointed, 1876, US District Attorney for the Territory of Alaska, holding the office when he died.
Mottrom Dulany Ball was one of the outstanding men in Fairfax County, Virginia just before the war, where he was an able young school teacher. He had graduated from William and Mary, where he delivered an unusually fine valedictory address. Before the war broke out he organized a local cavalry unit. At Lewinsville, several young men organized a cavalry company and elected a talented, witty schoolmaster, Mottrom Dulany Ball, as captain. By mid-January, forty-two new members had joinded Ball's company.
Through a fluke his unit was captured by union troops in the course of the occupation of Alexandria. He was later released and joined the Confederate Army. After the war he went into law practice with his first cousin William H. Dulany. Ironically, they often defended local blacks charged with crimes by the local government, then under the control of Unionists from the North. (Virginia Historical Society) ("Fairfax County, Virginia, A History", Netherton, et al, 1978, Fairfax Board of Supervisors, p. 314).
Lt. John Addison, C.S.A., from Richmond, Virginia entered the Confederate Army April, 1861, as 2nd Sgt., Co. A, Alexandria Rifles, 17th Va. Inf.; elected 2nd Lt. April 18, 1862; wounded at battles of Williamsburg and 2nd Manassas. He distinguished himself by his gallantry on both occasions. His Captain was captured early in 1861, and remained a prisoner a long time, during which Lt. Addison commanded the company. (Hayden, p. 141).