Amzi Lewis Ball
1783 - 1860 (76 years)-
Name Amzi Lewis Ball Born Nov 29, 1783 Gender Male Died Sep 26, 1860 Person ID I14507 mykindred Last Modified Feb 6, 2003
Father Capt. Samuel Ball, b. Jul 17, 1734, Bloomfield, Essex county, New Jersey, USA 
, d. Jan 12, 1810, Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey, USA (Age 75 years) Mother Deborah Farrand, b. 1744, New Jersey, USA , d. Feb 21, 1806, Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey, USA (Age 62 years) Married circa 1775 Notes - Capt. Samuel Ball of Hanover, New Jersey REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT
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Gravestone photos taken by Blaine Ball, Texas
Deacon Samuel BALL. Son of Deacon John BALL I & his 1st Wife. Born 17 Jul 1734 in Bloomfield, Essex Co., New Jersey. Died 12 Jan 1810 in Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Buried in, Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Capt. Samuel Ball of Morris Co., New Jersey served in the active military forces from New Jersey during the period of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, as follows
? Captain, Colonel William Winds' Battalion of Volunteers, May 2nd 1775
? Captain, First Company, from Hanover, Colonel William Winds' Regiment, Morris Co., NJ Militia, Sept 14, 1775
? Adjutant, Colonel Sylvanus Seeley's Regiment Morris Co. Militia
? Active Service: In alarm at Springfield from 7th to the 15th of June 1780 and from Jan 2nd to Jan 8th 1781
Received Certificate #163 dated May 3rd, 1784, signed by Silas Condict for L12: 2: 10, depreciation of his Continental pay as Adjutant in the Morris Co. Militia
FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF Signed JP Callahan, Major, Arty, NJARING Assistant Adjutant General
TIMELINE:
? Jul 1734 - born
? Samuel lived near "Whipeny" River, Morris Co., New Jersey (according to a letter from Cornelius L. Ball to John R. Burnet, 13 Jul 1850)
? Buried at First Presbyterian Church, Morris Co., NJ
? Died at age 75 years, 6 months (according to History of FPC Hanover)
? 12 Jan 1810 - died
He married Deborah FARRAND, About 1775. Born 1744 in New Jersey. Died 21 Feb 1806 in Hanover, New Jersey. "of" Bloomfield, New Jersey - 17 Aug 1777 - Hanover, NJ Presbyterian Church member
They had the following children:
i. Aaron BALL
ii. Samuel BALL II
iii. Electa BALL
iv. Lydia BALL
v. Sarah BALL
vi. Dr. John BALL
vii. James Harvey BALL I
viii. Amzi Lewis BALL
ix. Deborah BALL
Family ID F5308 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jane Crane, b. Feb 05, 1785, Essex county, New Jersey, USA , d. Feb 09, 1864, Montclair, Essex county, New Jersey, USA (Age 79 years) Notes - Pg. 107, Encyclopedia of Genealogy & Biography of Lake Co., Indiana by Rev. T.H. Ball has this to say about Amzi Lewis BALL: The name Amsi L. BALL, occurs quite frequently in the earliest history of Lake county. He was one of the more mature men active and prominent in laying the foundations of civil and social institutions. He came with his son, John Ball, from the State of New York in 1836. To which band of the large family of Balls emigrating from England between 1630 and 1640 he belonged is not known. In March, 1837, an election was held at his house, also at the house of Russell Eddy and at the house of Samuel D. Bryant, at which election, having received seventy-eight votes for county Commissioner, he was elected for three years; but he resigned this office in the summer in order to be a candidate at the August election for Representative to Indianapolis. Lake county voted for him, but Porter county, with which Lake for some years was united in electing a Representative, did not. He gave up a certainty for an uncertainty and so lost both offices. He was rather tall in person, a fluent speaker, a man capable and ambitious. He was, as the political parties of those days were designed, a Democrat, and Solon Robinson, who had been the "Squatter King" of Lake, was a strong Whig. Politically these two, both ambitious men, were not friendly, and each had the credit in those days of defeating to some extent the political aspirations of the other. Amsi L. Ball, while not holding office, continued to be an influential and prominent citizen, but, about 1851 or soon after, he returned to the State of New York after a residence here of about fifteen years. Of his son's sojourn here but little is known.
From The History of Orange Co., NY, Ruttenber & Clark 1881 pg. 549: "A.L. Ball was appointed May 14th 1821 in Goshen as a member of a committee to solicit funds to help pay for collecting the bones of men killed by the Indians in the battle of Minisink many years before. The remains were to be reburied and a monument erected in their memory. The dedication was held July 22, 1822. Capt. (Samuel?) Ball was one of the aides to the Marshall of the day."
This was sent to Joanne Rabun by Iva Hubbard Cook of Sunnyside, Oregon 1994 and was recorded in The History of Lake County, Indiana by T.H. Ball.
Children 1. Rev. John Ball, b. Jul 12, 1817, New York, USA , d. Jul 23, 1891, Oregon, USA (Age 74 years)Family ID F5152 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Capt. Samuel Ball of Hanover, New Jersey REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT
