What was written of this William Candler was that he was of the family of Essex and Northampton Counties of England, and came to Ireland as a captain in the regiment commanded by Sir. Hardress Waller and when Cromwell's army stormed Callan which was defended by a wall and three castles: Butler's Castle, Skerry Castle and the Great Castle.

After a brave battle the men at Butler's Castle surrendered to Cromwell's army and were spared, but the men at Skerry refused to surrender and although the English were unable to make a break in the wall, the defenders at Skerry were scalded to death.

In 1653, when the first allotments of land were given to the English soldiers, Colonel William Candler received his first bounty. After the storming of Callan where the Baron fell to Luitenant Colonel William Candler, William received in the division of the spoils, the barony of Callan Castle, of which his descendants still possess today.

Lieutenant Colonel William Candler married Anne, who was the widow of Captain John Villers of the family of George, Duke of Buckingham and had a son John who married a daughter of Walsignham Esquire; a daughter Mary, who married sometime around 1646 in Beffort, Ireland, Captain Zachariah Moorman who came to America by way of Barbadoes; and a son William of Kilkenny who married Miss Aston; but it is his son Thomas from which the American Candlers have said to have descended.

This Thomas Candler was of Callan Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland. His father, as mentioned was William and his mother Jane Tuite who was the daughter of Sir Henry Tuite, Baron of Sonaugh and Diana (Mabbot), niece of the Earl of Clareson and first cousin of her Royal Highness, Duchess of York, mother of Queens Mary and Anne.

No proof has surfaced to tie Daniel Candler of Bedford, Virginia to this line of ancestry. It is possible, or possible that he was of some relation to these Candlers, there are no primary sources to prove this, and the American colonies had enough Candlers residing in them, that Daniel's ancestry remains a mystery.

The following is information of Daniel since the time he joined the South River Monthly Meeting in Bedford County, Virgina in 1756. The maiden name of Daniel's wife Hannah, is not known. The story has been passed down that because she was a commoner, Daniel received the displeasure of the royal court and thereby emigrated to North Carolina in the year 1735 where his cousin, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, was the governor of the providence. Again, this has not been proven.

What we do know is that Daniel and Hannah were in Virginia and that Daniel was a member of the Friend's South River Monthly Meeting. This information is particularly about their son William who married Elizabeth Anthony, and their daughter Ellenor who married Byrom Ballard.

In July of 1761, Daniel's sons each secured Royal Grants. William on Fishing Creek next to his father, and John on Lynches Creek which is another branch of Blackwater.

Daniel Candler died in Bedford County, Virginia, his will was recorded and reads in part: " I lend to my Loving Wife Hannah Candler during her natural life or widwhood my land and plantation and all things thereto belonging ... after her death I give the said land and every other thing to her lent (one feather bed excepted) to be equally divided amongst and between my children Viz: John Candler, William Candler, Elizabeth Caffery, Elloner Ballard, and Zedikiah Candler ... ,if the said Zedikiah Candler shall leave my wife Hannah Candler without her Consent till he arrrives at the age of twenty years or married that then his part of my estate given to him to be divided shall remain to & amongst the other four mentioned with him above and that he has no part nor parcel thereof but, and if he shall stay as above mentioned then in every thing to be equal. Further I appoint my son William Candler to be my Executor and by this Will revoking all former Wills. I Declare this to be my Last & True Will in Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 4th day of August 1765."

Daniel's will was probated in Bedford County, Virginia on 27 May 1766.

It should be noted that Henry and Thomas, though not listed in Daniel's will, appear in other secondary sources as brothers of Zedekiah and sons of Daniel and Hannah. It is possible they may have died before their father, or that they were not in fact his children.

1. John Candler - born about 1730; married Elizabeth (Gibson), the daughter of James and Ellenor, in about 1750. After her death, he married Penelope (Johnson), the widow of Henry Guthree and daughter of Benjamin & Agnes (Clark).
2. Elizabeth Candler - born about 1733; married John Caffrey.
3. William Candler - born 21 Apr 1736; married Elizabeth Anthony.
4. Ellenor Candler - born between 1739-1742; married Byrom Ballard.
5. Zedekiah Candler - married Anna Moorman.

On 27 May 1766 he qualified as executor of his father's will made in Bedford county of the fourth day of August 1765. It was witness by Charles Lynch, Robert Brooks and Byrom Ballard.

During the war, William served under Colonel Clark, and was in the attack on Agusta at King's Mountain, and Blacstocks, and rose to the rank of Colonel.

In 1767 he applied to the Governor and Council of Georgia for a grant of land in Saint Paul's Parish, afterward Richmond county, and stated in this petition that he "hath four children and two negroes." On 03 Feb 1769 it was recorded that he received two hundred and fifty acres of land on the waters of Little River in the Parish of Saint Paul which is where he settled until his death.

He was a member of legislature in 1784-1785, was appointed a judge, and died at his seat in Columbia County, Georgia in 1789, at the age of fifty-one.

His oldest son, Henry, was a major in his regiment and commanded the small party at King's Mountain which was a detachment of that regiment which Colonel William Candler had sent with Colonel Clark when that officer rescued the women and children (the Candler family among them) from upper Georgia across the mountain into eastern Tennessee between the French Broad and Holston Rivers on the Holachucky River when their women were overrun by the British and Tories in 1780.

William died on 14 Jul 1784 in St Paul's Parish, Georgia, his place of burial is not known. His wife, Elizabeth, who was born on 10 Mar 1746, died in 1789.

1. Mary Candler
2. Henry Candler - born in 1762.
3. Tabby Candler
4. William Candler - married Ann Moorman daughter of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Terrell) on 18 Apr 1772. Ann was born 18 Oct 1756 in Virginia, and she died in Tennessee.
5. Charles Candler
6. Elizabeth Candler
7. John K. Candler - died in Warren Co., Georgia.
8. Amelia Candler
9. Joseph Candler
10. Mark Anthony Candler - born in 1778.
11. Daniel Candler - born in 1779.

In 1753 it has been said that Zed, Mike Clark, Zach Moorman, his brother Thomas Candler, and possibly his brother Henry Candler, left the upper James River Colony for a good country on the Yadkin River, but returned to Virginia. It was said that these boys were good surveyors, and were lining a royal grant charter for the Anthonys, "an Italian people of no mickle good appearance."

In 1765 Zed attended a great safety council at Lynch's Crossing to jower over the Stamp Act, where Rev. Thomas Moorman had also gone and is where the two met. Zed had returned to Virginia and had settled on a royal grant for fighting Indians. He lived on Flat Branch, five miles from the Lynch's and his grant which was for 5000 acres was called Kilkenney, but he was from home all the time fighting Indians ans surveying and got another grant fifty miles distant, in Pittsylvania belt.

He married Ann Moorman, the cousin of Rev. Thomas Moorman and daughter of Zach Moorman and Elizabeth (Terrell). Along with thirty slaves they moved to the new home he called Callan.

Zed and Ann's son, Zachariah was a noted surveyor and land owner who married Rachel Thornhill on 14 Feb 1791. He died possessed of large quantities of land in North Carolina. He owned immense tracts around present city of Asheville. A large portion of the Vanderbilt estate, near Asheville on which stands Biltmore, the palatial residence of Mr. George Vanderbilt, once belonged to him and remained in his family until his great granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Candler Lusk, wife of Colonel Lusk, a distinguished lawyer, sold it to Mr. Vanderbilt.

Eleanor married Byrom Ballard, the son of William Ballard and Mary (Moorman) sometime in 1761 because on the 18th of July in 1761, she publicly condemned her mis-conduct in accompanying her brother William in his disorderly marriage, and by the 20th day of August 1763, its reported she was married to Byrom.

Bryom whose name also appears as Byrum in records, requested certificate to Bedford County on the 13th day of the eleventh month in 1762, but his request was deferred on account of obstructions. He was, however, granted a certtificate to the South River Monthly Meeting in Bedford County, Virginia in 1763 - a request which was recorded in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting records.

Byrom on 14th day of the 9th month of 1776 was recommended as an elder and on the 12th day of the 4th month of 1777, he was listed as an elder who informed the Cedar Creek Meeting of his intents to visit relatives in North Carolina - these probably being Candler relatives as Eleanor's family had settled there.

In the 7th month, 12th day of 1783 Byrom was granted permission to visit relatives in North Carolina and not long after on the 3rd day of the 5th month of 1784, Eleanor was approved as a minister by the Upper Quarterly Meeting (Bedford County) recorded in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting records. In 1784 Byrom and family were granted a certificate to South River Monthly Meeting and were received there on August 21st of same year. It was again recorded in the eighth month of 1784 that Eleanor and children were also granted certificate.

In August of 1787, Eleanor, as a minister along with Mary Embree and Charles Brooke, were granted permission to visit meetings in northern Virginia and some Virginia governments.

Eleanor's death was recorded 8th day of the 10th month of 1791 in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meetings, stating she had died while a member of the South River Montly Meeting. It was also recorded in the Yearly Meeting records on the 23rd day of the 5th month 1791 that she had been a member and minister of the Goose Creek Meeting, and a memorial concerning her was read and ordered recorded.

After Eleanor's death, her husband married Sarah Hutton at the South River (Bedford County) Monthly Meeting and had by her three more children. The family was granted a certificate of removal in July of 1794 and seems to have gone to Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting (Grayson County) where the births of Byrom and Sarah's children Philip, Moses and Ruth were recorded as well as the families of Charles and Elizabeth Anthony, John and Dinah Ballard, Nathan and Martha Ballard, and William and Elizabeth Ballard.

Eleanor's husband Byrom, died on the 13th of July, 1817 at the age of 73. His second wife Sarah died at the age of 46 on the 15th of February 1803, both of their deaths were recorded in the records of Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting in Grayson County, Virginia.

Byrom was most likey buried in the Old Quaker Cemetery in what is now Carrol County, Virginia, this portion of the county having been taken from Grayson in 1842. Byrom owned land on Chesnut Creek, and two tracts of land on Coal Creek, totaling 274 acres, all in what is now considered Carrol County, but what had once been Grayson County, Virginia.

Ballard Branches of Virginia

1. Mary Ballard - born 16th day of the sixth month 1764; married Moses Cadwalader, Jr. on 23 May 1792, recorded in South River Monthly Meeting, Bedford County, VA.
2. Betty Ballard - born 1st day of 11th month 1765; appears to have died young as she is not listed in her father's will.
3. William Ballard - born 20th day of the 7th month 1767; married Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of Christopher and Judith (Moorman) on 24 April 1788 which was recorded in South RiverMonthly Meeting, Bedford Co., VA.
4. Byrom Ballard - 14th day of the fifth month 1769; died 14 Dec 1769.
5. Amos Ballard - born 15th day of 11th month 1770; mentioned in South River MM as being under the care in November 1792, as appearing at a place of military excecise in which he condemns his misconduct in August of 1793 which is not accepted resulting in his being disowned May 10th 1794. His dismissal is read at the Upper Goose Creek Meeting, Bedford Co., VA.
6. Byrom Ballard - born ninth day of the sixth month 1773; appears to have been named for the Byrom born in 1769, a customary tradition of the Quakers when a child has died young.
7. Mourning Ballard - born 14th day of the fifth month 1775; married Joseph Morland/Moreland on 20 Aug 1794, recorded in South River Monthly Meeting, Bedford Co., VA.
8. Judith Ballard - born tenth day of the 12th month 1779; disowned 29 Sep 1804 for marrying out of unity to John Cunningham. This recorded in the Minutes and Marriage records of Mt. Pleasant MM, Grayson Co., VA.

• Colonel William Candler of GA - His Ancestry and Progeny by Allen D. Candler; Franklin Printing & Publishing Co. 1902.
• W.W. Hinshaw's The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
• Anthony Roots & Branches Vol II, The Candler Family 1650-1890; p. 55
• Grayson County Will Book, 1793-1849
• Charles Carroll Moorman & His American Ancestors compiled by B.R. Ambrose
• The Candler Family 1650 - 1890
• The Cabells & Their Kin by Alexander Brown
• Outside Link to Ed Marsh's website "Descendants of Daniel & Hannah Candler of Virginia"

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