Person:Easter Ball (2)

Watchers
m. Abt 1675
  1. Frances Ball1681 - 1699
  2. Hannah Ball1683 - 1748
  3. Elizabeth Ball1684 - Abt 1706
  4. Easter "Esther" Ball1684 - 1751
  5. Anne Ball1686 - 1720
  6. Joseph Ball, Jr.1688/89 - 1760
m. Bef 1703
  1. Joseph Chinn1703 - 1784
  2. Rawleigh Chinn, Jr.Abt 1708 - Bef 1756
  3. Chichester Chinn1709 - Bef 1749
  4. Thomas Chinn, of St. Mary's White Chapel Parish1710 - Bef 1768
  5. Ann ChinnAbt 1712 - 1793
  6. Sarah ChinnAbt 1715 - Bef 1741
Facts and Events
Name Easter "Esther" Ball
Married Name _____ Chinn
Gender Female
Birth[4] 1684 Millenbeck, Lancaster County, Virginia
Marriage Bef 1703 to Rawleigh Chinn, of North Farnham Parish
Other[2] 25 Jun 1711 Lancaster County, Virginianamed in Will of Joseph Ball, father
Other[3] 11 Jul 1722 Lancaster County, VirginiaCourt orders Rawleigh to support Ester's child
Death[1] 1751 Lancaster County, Virginia
Probate[1] 10 May 1751 Lancaster County, VirginiaWill Book 15, p 32
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Will and Inventory Abstracts of Easter Chinn, in Lee, Ida J. Abstracts Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800. (Richmond: Dietz Press, 1959).

    p 50 -
    CHINN, Easter. Will 2 August 1749. Rec. 10 May 1751.
    Sons: Joseph, Rawleigh and Thomas Chinn;
    Daughter Ann Shearman;
    Heirs of Chichester Chinn;
    Gr.son Rawleigh Shearman, son of Martin Shearman and Ann his wife;
    Gr.daughter Mary Shearman, dau. of Martin Shearman and Ann his wife.
    Gr.dau. Easter Shearman.
    Wits. Henry Tapscott, Margaret Tapscott.
    W.B. 15, p. 32.

    CHINN, Easter. Inventory 10 May 1751. Rec. 14 June 1751. Returned by Easter Chinn, Extrx. W.B. 15, p. 41.

  2. Will Abstract of Joseph Ball, in Lee, Ida J. Abstracts Lancaster County, Virginia, Wills, 1653-1800. (Richmond: Dietz Press, 1959).

    p 6 -
    BALL, Joseph,. Psh. St. Mary's White Chapel. Will. 25 June 1711. Rec. 11 July 1711. Wife Mary; son Joseph; daus. Hannah Travers; Anne Conway; Esther Chinn; Elizabeth Cornegie; Mary Ball; Eliza Johnson (dau. of his wife), dau. Mary, 400 acres of land in Richmond county; grandson James Cornegie (not 21) acknowledges gift to son Joseph Ball, and daus. Hannah Travers, Anne Conway and Esther Chinn made 11 Feb. 1707; Overseer John Hagan; negroes formerly belonging to Jon. Carnegie, decd. Extr. Joseph Ball. Wits. Geo. Finch, Elizabeth Finch, Margaret Miller, Joseph Taylor.
    W.B. 10, p. 88.
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    [Identifies Esther (Ball) Chinn as the daughter of Joseph Ball.]

  3. Ester Chinn and Rawleigh Chinn, in Lancaster, Virginia, United States. Lancaster County Court Orders.

    Book 7, p 51 -
    At a Court held for Lancaster County, Wednesday, the 11th July, 1722; On the prayer of Ester Chinn setting forth that her husband Rawleigh Chinn doth daily abuse her and refuse her any competency whereby she may subsist and that by sd means thereof she hath lately been obliged away from her home to be delivered of a child which she prays may be by her sd husband maintained. It is ordered that the Sheriff of this county acquaint the sd Rawleigh that it is the courts direction that he take care of and maintain the sd child and that he have ten days notice from the time of his being served with this order to provide for the same, and it is further ordered that in case the sd Rawleigh do not then take care of the sd child as before directed, the sheriff take him into custody till he give security for so doing.

  4. Family Recorded, in Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial families of the Southern States of America: a history and genealogy of colonial families who settled in the colonies prior to the Revolution. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965)
    39.

    9—3. Esther, b. 1685; d. May, 1751; m. 1700, Rawleigh Chinn, of Lancaster Co., Va.; he was a Vestryman of Christ Church, 1739; son of John Chinn or Chynn, of "Morattico," Lancaster Co., Va., and had issue.

  5.   Peirce, Elizabeth Combs "The Unhappy Life of Esther Ball, Half Sister of Mary Ball and Wife of Rawleigh Chinn, Gent.", in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
    Series 2;18 (3):294-296, Jul 1938.
  6.   Family Recorded, in Cukro, Diane. Descendants of William Ball. (Huntington, NY: Private Manuscript, 2002)
    41-42.
  7.   Family Recorded, in Hill, Margaret Lester. Ball Families of Virginia's Northern Neck: An Outline. (Lancaster, VA: Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library, 1990)
    46-47.
  8.   Family Recorded, in Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 : marriages and marriage references for the counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, and Westmoreland. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003)
    75.

    CHINN, Rawleigh & BALL, Esther; bef. 11 Feb 1707; bride was a dau. of Jos. & Eliz. (ROMNEY) BALL of SMWCP (d. LC 1711); bride was granted a separate maintenance from Rawleigh CHINN; (LC DB 9:246, 271; DW 13:253; DW 14:70; WB 10:88; DW 15:32; Chinn: 115; Haynie, 1994:79)

    [where LC DB = Lancaster County Deed Book]
    [where DW = deeds and wills.]
    [where WB = will book.]
    [where Chinn = Dillon, Ruth Wilson and Marguerite Relyea Lewis. 1972. The Chinn Book. cottonport: Polyanthus (This book containes much useful material on Northern Neck families, but it must be used with caution. The dates are often transposed or otherwise incorrect.]
    [where Haynie = Haynie, W. Preston. 1994. Marital Discord, Separate Maintenance and Divorce. BNCHS. 31:75-90.]
    [where BNCHS = Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society, Heathville 1964-1999.]