The Ancestors and Descendants of Reuben Ball


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Reuben Ball, son of Benjamin Ball, was born in about 1780, probably in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married Mary Harding in 1801 in Green County, Kentucky. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska.




Family Records Today


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Wright Family


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"The purpose of this book, Wright 1635-1953, is to present a previously unchronicled family line descended from Walter Wright of 1600s Andover, Massachusetts, and his wife Susannah Johnson. The chapters proceed through eight Wright generations from New England to New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Illinois" -- Pref.







Red Book


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" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.




Wiley World


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Westward into Kentucky


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In his youth Daniel Trabue (1760–1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a founder. A keen observer of people and events, Trabue captures experiences of everyday life in both the Piedmont and frontier Kentucky. His notes on the settling of Kentucky touch on many important moments in the opening of the Bluegrass region.