Mary Ann BERTRAND

Other Events:

• AFN: PTTX-M5
• Name: BALL
• Name: BALLENDINE
• Name: EWELL
• Reference Number: 30
• _UID: 3EBD9DD102E04BBEBF245AEDE8A7FD2832E2

Notes:

!Am. Pub. U(15) Vol 6 P. 104
Am. Pub. U(15) Vol 12 p. 97
!Samuel Hayes Letter states that the Charles in both counties are the same person.
!Marianne Lefever Harden's letter 0ct 8, 1999
!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 15
Death: Descendant, Wallis Holt Hunsicker, 338 41st Ave. Pl. NW, Hickory NC 28601 She sent E-mail in 1997

Hayden, "Virginia Genealogies" p. 63: "m. III, April 25, 1742, Mary Ann (Bertrand) Ballendine, b. 1670; d. Feb 12, 1749-50, dau. of Rev. John Bertrand, of Rapp'k Co., and wid. or Capt. Wm. Ballendine (Ewell 1); will dat. Feb 12, 1749-50; pro. Mar 8, 1749."
Footnote: "Lanc'r Co., Mar. 8, 1749. Dorothy Fountain and Elizabeth Ball swore this day that on her death bed, Feb. 12, 1749-50, Mrs. Mary Ann Ball devised her negroes and her estate between her daughters, Hannah and Frances. James Ball, Jr., presented the certificate and the will was proven. (Bk. 14, 273, Est. Audit, id. 285.)"

Mary married Charles EWELL in 1705 in , Lancaster, Virginia. Charles (son of Charles EWELL) was born in 1660 in , London, Middlesex, England; died in Apr 1722 in Mt. Mary's Parish, Lancaster, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married about 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married on 16 Dec 1724 in , Lancaster, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married on 25 Apr 1742 in , Lancaster, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: PTRP-RN
• _UID: C2DAF96773D24EE9A571C2A4860C541AF463
• schooling: 11 Aug 1736, W. P. Wm. Ballendine; schooling
• Occupation: Aft 1736, M.I.White; occupation

Notes:

!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19The Ewells in America pg 62, clarified by Samuel Hayes letter

Mary married on 16 Dec 1724 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married on 11 Oct 1727 in , Lancaster, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married after 1736 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• AFN: PTQX-W7
• _UID: 99BDED0D28564E3D9B8C471069EE5F47D41E

Notes:

!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19

Additional Source:
http://www.historicprincewilliam.org/fom/millhistory.html
Historical Information (Prince William County, VA) "Friends of the Occoquan Mills"
"In 1734, Occoquan was identified as a town early. There were public warehouses for tobacco, which was then shipped to many foreign ports. In 1749, Charles Ewell and John Ballendine established iron furnaces on the Occoquan River [completed?] in 1755. (A water powered Country Grist Mill operated until 1890.) In 1758, John Ballendine built Rockledge, his 11 room home overlooking the town. Ballendine, an industrial entrepreneur of his time, is considered the founder of Occoquan."

City of Winchester, VA (Tours)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/vaguide/tour01.html :
"Bel Air was built about 1740 by Major Charles Ewell. Marianne Ewell, his daughter, was married here to Dr.James Craik, surgeon general of the Continental armies; and in 1795, Fanny Ewell, granddaughter of the builder, married Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825). Weems, a Marylander, was ordained a clergyman by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1784 and returned to take charge of a Maryland parish. He was not particularly happy in the church and had such difficulty making a living that he exchanged preaching for book peddling. Marriage anchored him only temporarily. After the death of his father-in-law, Colonel Jesse Ewell, in 1806, Parson Weems, who had become both author and bookseller, moved his family to Bel Air (on which he held a mortgage), where he visited them briefly at intervals as he journeyed up and down the Atlantic seaboard. His many moral tracts and his biographies of William Penn and General Francis Marion were eclipsed by that egregious mixture of fact and fiction: A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington, With Curious Anecdotes Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen. The chronicler of the 'cherry tree' and 'Spanish dollar' episodes lies in the Ewell graveyard behind the house."

Additional Source: Hayden, "Virginia Genealogies" p.335. Data entered by Paul A. Jensen 7 Dec 2003: "Of Bewley, Lancaster Co., VA" "Captain Ewell was vestryman of Dettengen Par., P.W. Co., June 1, 1645; was paid 541 lbs. tobacco for a book for the Parish, Oct. 14, 1645; was Church Warden Oct. 4, 1746-7; ordered then to buy a large Prayer Book for the Church, (Par. Reg.) he was a mem. Va. Grand Jury, Apr. 1745. Charles Ewell, pro. No. 3, retired from the Commission of Peace, K. G. Co., 1745."

There have been references to other manors built in Virginia. Bel Air (Bel Ayr) was built by Charles Ewell in Stafford Co. Virginia and it still exists today.

Charles married on 22 Sep 1736 in , Lancaster, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: PTR0-4H
• Reference Number: 307A,187
• _UID: 71C3AA26B6494F669FC6C1D5EFCCD7DF24CC
• Occupation: 1742, Justice Of King George Co
• unknown: 21 Apr 1786, Prince William Co, VA, P. 94, Inv. P. 52; Will Dated
• unknown: 6 Jun 1794; Will Proved

Notes:

!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19
! Descendant Ann Thurman 4702 Toreador Dr. Austin TX 78746-2411!VA 42 p336,337
!Marianne Lefever Harden's letter 0ct 8, 1999, gave title of Major

James H. Ewell, "Ewell in America..." p. 64:
"All of Bertrand's children were probably born in the family home of 'Buck Hall' in Lancaster Co., VA.
"Major Bertrand Ewell was a very active man both in the practice of law as well as in business. Major Bertrand's home was called 'Buck Hall'. He was Church Warden in 1755; Vestryman of Dettingen Parish 1749-1751; was listed as 'Justice' 1743-1754; Surveyor for Price William County 1759.
"When the town of Dumfries was enlarged in 1761 by Act of Ass'y, it did so by condemning land belonging to Major Bertrand Ewell.
"According to British Mercantile Claims from Dumfries, Bertrand died insolvent and his son Maj. Charles refused to pay the claims on him as well as for Charles's brother Thomas W. Ewell."

Additional Source: Hayden, "Virginia Genealogies" p.335. Data entered by Paul A. Jensen 7 Dec 2003:
"Maj. Ewell was a vestryman of Dettengen Par., Nov. 1749-51; church warden, 1955; styled "Major" in official documents; justice, 1743-1754; surveyor for P. W. Co., 1759. Bertrand Ewell, gent., and Frances his wife, deeded lands Fauq. Co., Sep. 23, 1760 (119), to Nimrod Ashby, being part of grant to Charles Burgess, gent., by pat. of 1176 a., June 17, 1731, conveyed by deed to James and Jesse Ball, by Edwin Conway and James Ball, excr's of Charles Burgess, 1740, and by Jas. Ball to B. Ewell. The town of Dumfried, Va. was in 1761 enlarged by Act of Ass'y, by condemning the land of B. Ewell, etc. (Hen. VII., 424, 472.) Major Ewell's will dat. Apr. 21, 1786, pro. P.W. Co., Jan. 6, 1794, gives all his est. to his wife and children. Charles to inherit the mother's part. The record of his children is not full. It is drawn from charts and wills. The Bible of Charles, son of Maj. E., contains his record as the 18th child of Maj. Bertrand E.
"He was pro. also Colonel of the P.W. Militia or County. Lieut. in 1756, but in the absence of more positive data he is here recorded as Major. Col. Washington, in his notes of the events of 1756, when he was in command of the Va. forces at Winchester, mentions, under May 6, 1756, the arrival of the P. W. Militia, adding, 'an hour later Colonel Ewell came to town.' (Writings of Washington, I., 271)."

Bertrand married in 1734-1735 in , , Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• AFN: 10VD-30V
• _UID: BBC85D8233C2477583ED48576971AEDD87DB

Notes:

!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19
!Death date: Descendant Sharon D. Clark, 52 Ingham Hill Road, Essex Ct06426

Charlotte married about 1729 in , , Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: PTRD-RF
• _UID: 5C242C47BAEB4AB4847B4F45DB35F4517EDC

Notes:

!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19

Additional Source: James H. Ewell, "Ewells in America and Some Allied Families 1635-1990", p. 65. Data entered into Ewell Webiste database Sunday, 7 Dec 2003, by Paul A. Jensen.

Frances married about 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: PTT1-BV
• Reference Number: 323
• _UID: 2A291052B8E14FD6B3CC4A85613439D362DE

Notes:

! Birthdate and Death Date taken from "The Ewells in America"
!Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19

Additional Source: James H. Ewell, "Ewells in America and Some Allied Families 1635-1990", p. 64. Data entered into Ewell Webiste database Sunday, 7 Dec 2003, by Paul A. Jensen: "After Solomon Ewell had married Eva (Ball) Taylor, they lived in Lancaster County where Captain Solomon was Vestryman of St. Mary's White Chapel. When their eldest son, Colonel Jesse Ewell of the Revolutionary Army, died in 1805, "Bel Air" became the property of the latter's son-in-law, the Reverend Mason Locke Weems, bcause of a debt owed him by the Ewells."

Additional Source: Hayden, "Virginia Genealogies" p.333. Data entered by Paul A. Jensen 7 Dec 2003: Hayden gives a birth date for Solomon of 17 May 1716-1718. "Capt. E.'s estate was inventoried July 29, 1768, at L1352, 91, 3. Eve Ewell, adm'x."
"Dr. Jesse Ewell wrote (1869) that there were other daughters. It is said that Gen'l James Ewell Brown Stuart, the Chevalier Bayard of the C. S. Army, was of this line. Mrs. Gen'l Stuart wrote me in 1877: 'My husband was named for an uncle by marriage, Judge James Ewell Brown of Wytherville, and was not related to the Ewells."

Solomon married on 10 Jan 1746 in , , Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• AFN: 1NW7-5RR
• _UID: CCA83B2E34714C6E90C0FDECDBD114B3E84D