Ball families. Papers, 1676-1879.
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Papers, 1676-1879.
This is a miscellaneous collection of papers of two contemporary Ball families of Philadelphia, sometimes confused because of common names and occupations. The William Ball Family Papers. William Ball, Sr., and William Ball, Jr., were merchants who owned Hope Farm, in Northern Liberties Township (Shakamaxon): correspondence, accounts, surveys, and other papers relate to the Nova Scotia Land Company, a colonizing venture in Nova Scotia, 1760-1771; Richmond Meadows Company account book, 1760-1762, continued with election returns book, 1763, 1766; Elizabeth Byles, wife of William Ball, Sr., letterbook, 1759-1783, and diary, 1757-1763; William Ball, Jr., rent and bond account book, 1782-1808; and miscellaneous other business, land and estate papers. The Joseph Ball Family Papers. Joseph Ball was a Philadelphia merchant, industrialist, insurance executive, and bank director: business accounts and agreements for building, outfitting of several vessels including privateers, and related litigation; insurance policies; estate papers and genealogical depositions from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia, 1855-1860, gathered in the settlement of his vast estate. John Ball, brother of Joseph Ball, was a resident merchant at St. Eustatius, St. Thomas and St. Croix for several years, and partner of William Waddrop and Daniel Jennings (Ball, Waddrop and Jennings) business papers and correspondence, including letters to William Bingham, 1779-1782. Henry Banks was a merchant of Richmond, Va. His business papers and correspondence relate to commercial activities, land purchases, and privateering, including correspondence with his Kentucky partner in trade and land speculation, John Fowler. Bank's financial problems are revealed in legal papers pertaining to various suits and correspondence with Philadelphia lawyer, Daniel Brodhead, in Bank's bankruptcy trial and imprisonment with Robert Morris in 1798. Joseph Ball was a trustee of his bankrupt estate. The collection also includes, from related Richards and Dupuy families, Lewis M. Walker and John Richards, receipt book, 1817-1821, extracts of Burlington, N.J., land surveys, 1741-1833, deeds and other items. Of uncertain origin is an unidentified Philadelphia merchant's journal, 1733-1739. Also Thomas Wotherspoon, Philadelphia merchant, receipt book, 1796-1804.
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