Person:Ruth Ball (8)

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Ruth Ball
b.25 Dec 1677 Dungannon, Drumglass, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
d.Abt 1728 Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  • F.  John Ball (add)
  • M.  Mary (add)
m.
  1. Thomas BallAbt 1675 -
  2. Benjamin Ball, of Kent IslandAbt 1676 - 1728
  3. Ruth Ball1677 - Abt 1728
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1697
  1. Hon. John Leeds, of Wade's Point, Talbot County, Maryland1705 - 1790
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1712
  1. Daniel Richardson
  2. Benjamin Richardson
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Facts and Events
Name Ruth Ball
Married Name Mrs. Ruth Leeds
Married Name Mrs. Ruth Richardson
Gender Female
Birth[2] 25 Dec 1677 Dungannon, Drumglass, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Marriage Abt 1697 Talbot, Maryland, United Statesto Edward Leeds, of Wade's Point
Marriage Abt 1712 Anne Arundel, Maryland, United Statesto Daniel Richardson
Death? Abt 1728 Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
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Further Research Needed

Md Test. Pro. 41:242

Md Hist. Mag. 40:156-157

Baltimore Sun July 5, 1906 (could be January)

References
  1.   Ruth (Ball) Leeds, in Warfield, J. D. (Joshua Dorsey). The founders of Anne Arundell and Howard counties, Maryland: a genealogical and biographical review from wills, deeds and church records. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978)
    175.

    ... Daniel Richardson married Elizabeth Welsh, daughter of Major John Welsh by his second wife, Mary, step-daughter of Nicholas Wyatt. They had issue, John, Lauranah, Daniel - all dying young. The remaining heirs were, William, Elizabeth - Wm. Harrison, and Sophia - Charles Dickinson, of Talbott County, 1725. Daniel Richardson married, second, Ruth (Ball) Leeds, widow of John Leeds, of Talbot County. Issue, Daniel and Benjamin. ...
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  2. ↑ Ruth Ball, in The Patriotic Marylander. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Maryland Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
    2:58.

    ... John Ball had 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. 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. By her second husband she had two sons, Benjamin Richardson, who married Mary Ringgold in 1746, and Daniel Richardson, who died early. ...
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