Family:Edward Leeds and Ruth Ball (1)

Parents: William Leeds and Unknown Edward Leeds, of Wade's Point b. Wade's Point Plantation, Bay Hundred, Talbot county, Maryland d. Abt 1706 Wade's Point Plantation, Bay Hundred, Talbot county, Maryland	Parents: John Ball and Mary Unknown Ruth Ball b. 25 Dec 1677 Dungannon, Drumglass, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland d. Abt 1728 Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States

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Marriage^[1]

Abt 1697

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Hon. John Leeds, of Wade's Point, Talbot County, Maryland	18 Jul 1705 Wade's Point Plantation, Bay Hundred, Talbot county, Maryland	Mar 1790 Wade's Point Plantation, Bay Hundred, Talbot county, Maryland

References

↑ Edward Leeds and Ruth Ball, in The Patriotic Marylander. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Maryland Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
2:58.

... She [Ruth Ball] married (1) Edward Leeds, son of Captain William and grandson of Timothy Leeds, a gentleman of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1697. ... By her first husband she had one child, John Leeds, born in 1705, a celebrated mathematician, surveyor-general of the Eastern Shore and Judge of the Provincial Court, who married Rachel Harrison, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Dickinson) Harrison, and was the grandfather of Hon. John Leeds Bozman (1757-1823), the first historian of Maryland. ...