BFHA-RC-000009
Research record and source registry for Anne Ball. This archive entry preserves the corresponding publication section for website research review.
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ANNE BALL: Bartholomew; William, Sr. Anne Ball, daughter of Bartholomew Ball and wife, Elizabeth Henlen, was born and reared in the Prince Frederick Winyaw Parish -Queensborough area of Craven County, South Carolina. The exact date and place of her birth and marriage is unknown. 1 Anne married John Mikell, Sr., of Virginia, and they lived in the Darlington District, South Carolina. John was a farmer and rancher. They had ten children of whom eight lived to adulthood: Anne Mikell married John Lucas and had two sons and five daughters; Elizabeth Mikell married her cousin, John McIntosh; Sarah Mikell married another cousin, John McIntosh, a son of Gud McIntosh; Catherine Mikell married Moss Murphy and died without issue; Fannie Mikell married a cousin, William McIntosh. He died and she married a Mr. Watson. John Mikell, Jr. married first, Sarah Lucas and second Elizabeth Thomson, a first cousin; William Mikell died a young man, and never married. James Mikell married Margaret Thompson, a first cousin and sister of Elizabeth Thompson above and had four sons and three daughters. John Mikell, Jr., and wife Elizabeth Thompson had four daughters and two sons. Edward Mikell married a cousin, Elizabeth Mikell, and had several daughters. Sampson Mikell died at the age of eight. 2 In the late 1790’s John, Jr., James and Edward and their families moved to Bullock County, Georgia. John Mikell, Jr., died in Bullock County about 1799 and the estate was administered by Edward Mikell 26 November 1799. A division of property and final settlement was made in 1805. 3 Anne Ball Mikell made her last will and testament 27th September, 1807. She died in the spring of 1808: Anne Mikell’s will: [“In the name of God amen, I, Anne Mikell, being sick and weak in body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for the same and knowing that it is appointed for all ----- to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament. Viz. First, my will and desire is that all my just debts and funeral charges be paid. Secondly, I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter, Fanny C. McIntosh my negro fellow, Peter, together with the whole of my other personal property consisting of cattle, beds and bed furniture and all other kinds of household and kitchen furniture with every other kind of property that I may die possessed of is hers and her heirs forever. Lastly, I constitute and appoint my beloved daughter, Fanny C. McIntosh, to be my only executrix to this my last will and testament: In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal this 27th day of September, in the presence of Alexander McIntosh, Matthew Lyle. SIGNED: Anne Mikell (Seal): The state of South Carolina, Darlington District: Personally appeared before me, Alexander McIntosh and Matthew Lyle who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God sayeth that they were present and did see Anne Mikell the testatrix, sign, seal and publish and declare the within to be her last Will and Testament and that she the said Anne Mikell was of sound and perfect mind and memory and that they did subscribe their names, as witnesses, to the same in the presence of each other. __________ before me this Lyle.”] 4 _________ 1808. SIGNED: Alexander McIntosh, Matthew Lyle. A passport for safe passage through the Creek Indian Nation was issued to Captain James Mikell, wife and 4 children, of Liberty County, Georgia: Edward Mikell of Bullock County, his wife and 3 children, his sister-in-law Elizabeth Mikell, widow, and her 3 children, dated April 19, 1810. 5 The two brothers, James Mikell and Edward Mikell and their families and the widow of John Mikell, Jr., and her children are known to have settled in Marion County, Mississippi, in the same neighborhood with Sampson Edward Ball. James and Edward Mikell and Sampson Edward Ball served on the same jury panel to decide a trespass violation, 27 August 1812. 6 In November of 1819, James Mikell bought 160 acres of land at $2.00 an acre about 12 miles north of Sandy Hook, Mississippi, T2n, R18W. 7