... He [John Ball] died about 1693, intestate, and his widow, Mary Ball, married in 1694 the celebrated "Sir" Ralph Elston, of Elston's Point, later known as Long Point, on the Choptank River, between Broad and "Harris" Creeks, in Talbot County.
John Ball had issue: (a) Thomas (of whom later) ; (b) Benjamin, called of "Kent Island," who married in 1714 Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of William and Margaret (Smith) Richardson, of Anne Arundel County, and died in 1728, without issue; (c) Ruth, born at Dungannon, Ireland, of whom an old family record states: "Ruth Ball came to Talbot in 1688 at about ten years of age with her family, born of English family at Dungannon, County Tyrone, 25th, 12th month, 1677." She married (1) Edward Leeds, son of Captain William and grandson of Timothy Leeds, a gentleman of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1697. She married (2) Daniel Richardson. ...
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