Person:Joseph Ballinger (2)
Joseph Ballinger
b.1733 Goochland, VA
d.12 Aug 1787 Amherst County, Virginia
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1720
  1. Joseph Ballinger1733 - 1787
Spouse and Children
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m. 1753
  1. Mildred T. Ballinger1756 - 1840
  2. Achilles Ballinger1766 - 1854
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Joseph Ballinger1733 - 1787
  • W.  Tabitha BallouAbt 1745 - Aft 1802
m. 3 Apr 1781
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Facts and Events
Name Joseph Ballinger
Gender Male
Birth? 1733 Goochland, VA
Marriage 1753 Albemarle, Amherst, Virginia, USAto Sarah Hensley Franklin
Marriage 3 Apr 1781 Amherst County, Virginiato Tabitha Ballou
Death[1] 12 Aug 1787 Amherst County, Virginia
Alt Death? 3 Feb 1802 Amherst, VA
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About Joseph Ballinger

Joseph Ballinger, Jr. lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia during the Revolutionary War. He furnished supplies and money to the Continental Army because he was too feeble for active service.

Virginia, Amherst County, "Will Book 4", 1801-1810, as printed in Reeves, Emma Barrett. "Three Centuries of Ballingers in America", 1977, page 399.

Will of Joseph Ballinger, Jr.
In the Name of God Amen:
I Joseph Ballinger of the County of Amherst & state of Virginia being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory for which I thank God, and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with.
(Item) I gave and bequeath the same in manner following that is to say, I gave to my beloved wife all the stock of Black Cattle that belongs to the house plantation which is twenty-one in number. Six head of which is not the mark of my cattle belonging to the plantation that William Hicks at present lives on, one third of all my live stock of Hogs, all the necessary plantation tools sufficient for her Negroes to work with all the household and kitchen furniture belonging to the home plantation consisting of beds, potts, kettles &c also three head of horses, cows, the dun horse a mare by the name of Bonny a Filly that was got by my horse ______ which horse I gave to my son Richard and mystock of sheep, half of all my bacon (?), seventy barrels of corn & five barrels of wheat.
Item. To my three sons Echillis, Richard and James Ballinger I bequeath all the balance of my Estate real & personal not above mentioned they to pay all funeral expences and debts also they to pay my daughter Peggy Hensley Gravely two hundred Dollars.
The ballance to be equally divided. This bequeath consists of first of a Tract of land of Eighty Acres on _____tain Creek with a Mill on sd. tract. Another tract of land containing ninety (?) acres tract Wm. Hicks now lives on.
Third one of the tract of land containing one hundred twenty seven acres laying on Pevlon (?) River purchased of Wm. Hicks, together with six slaves, viz. Charlotte, Jack, Blackman, Moses, Stephen & Guy. The ______ of horses, cattle, hogs, one set of smiths tools, one Still boyler & vessels. All my other children (Viz) Milly White, Elizabeth Johnston, Charity Cox, Torrance & Pheby Tucker, those last four Daughters mentioned I gave nothing at present, for reason I gave them what I intended ever to gave when they left me.
And Lastly do hereby constitute and appoint my friends Joel Franklin, Henry Ballinger, & John Wain (Weir?) Executors of this my last will and testament by me heretofore made.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this third day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & two.
The will was proved February 15, 1802.


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Records in Amherst County, VA

  • 3 Apr 1781 - Joseph Ballenger, widower marriage to Tabitha Ballow, daughter of Leonard Ballow. Surety, Jacob Smith. Witness: Betty Loving, Henry Franklin, Joel Franklin. George Samuel Reid Family Roots Website
References
  1. ↑ Terrance Armstrong. Research of Terrance Armstrong
    3, 4 Oct 1999.
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