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A
Time Line of the
Mossman & Ballard Relations
Compiled
by
Patricia Peters &
Kathleen O'Connell ©2000-2004
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Berwick Upon Tweed,
England
Colonial America
1771 - 1799 |
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| 1771 |
Archibald Mossman, the son of George and
Eleanor, is born 18 January in Berwick Upon Tweed,
Northumberland, England. |
| 1771 |
George Mossman, father of Archibald and
husband of Eleanor, dies six weeks after the birth of his
son. Holy Trinity burial records record this date
as March 4th. |
| 1771 |
Old Quakers
from Nantucket, Massachusetts begin to come to the New
Garden Monthly Meeting, but migration from the north
stopped at the outbreak of the Revolution, and thereafter
increased naturally with other new arrivals. |
| 1771 |
Samuel Brown, the son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Edwards), is born in Virginia on the 15th of
March. He later becomes the father-in-law of George
Mossman (1804-1871). |
| 1771 |
Eleanor Mossman, widow of George, marries a
bachelor of Newburn, John Banks, on the 1st of
September. Family letters indicate this man had
been the grounds keeper or an employee on the Mossman
estate. |
| 1773 |
On April 27th
Parliament passes the Tea Act which leads to the Boston
Tea Party in December. |
| 1773 |
Springfield
Monthly Meetings are maintained in Guilford County, North
Carolina but their records do not begin until 1790. |
| 1773 |
Byrom or
Byrum Ballard, son of Byrom and Eleanor is born on the
ninth day of the sixth month, but dies about five months
later - South River Monthly Meeting. |
| 1774 |
The first of
the Intolerable Acts are passed as punishment for the
Boston Tea Party. |
| 1774 |
Mary Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and
Elizabeth, is born on the 30th day of the ninth month in
New Guilford, NC. - recorded in the Deep River and
Springfield Monthly Meetings. She later marries
Samuel Brown, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edwards). |
| 1775 |
Susanna
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 7th day of the first month - recorded in the Deep
River and Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1776 |
Norfolk is
burned by Lord Dunmore on the first of January and in
May, Virginia declares independence, and in May George
Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted which
becomes the basis for the Bill of Rights. |
| 1776 |
On the 2nd of
August, the Declaration of Independence is signed. |
| 1777 |
On the 12th
day of the fourth month, Byrom Ballard, and elder,
informs Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting that he intends to
visit "his relations" in North Carolina. |
| 1777 |
William
Thornburg, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on the
26th day of the eleventh month - recorded in the Deep
River and Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1778 |
The first
settling of Deep River Monthly Meeting in Guilford County
North Carolina, is set up under the jurisdiction of the
New Garden Monthly Meeting on the 7th day of the ninth
month. |
| 1779 |
Margaret
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 5th day of the eighth month - recorded in the Deep
River and Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1780 |
Capital is
moved to Richmond to keep the British Navy from cutting
off the political leaders in Williamsburg. |
| 1781 |
Campbell
County is set off from Bedford County this year, Campbell
embracing all terrain surrounding Lynchburg. If anyone
had lived in this area prior to 1752, they would have
been living in Albemarle County, and if after this year,
they would have been considered residents of Campbell
County although they had never removed from their
originally built log cabins. |
| 1781 |
Jane
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 30th day of the ninth month - recorded in the Deep
River and Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1782 |
Joseph
Thornburg and family were granted a certificate to Deep
River Monthly Meeting (apparently from New Garden MM) on
the 29th day of the sixth month. |
| 1783 |
Revolution is
ended with the Treaty of Paris in September and by
November, the last of the British troops leave New York. |
| 1783 |
Elizabeth
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 22nd day of the tenth month - recorded in the Deep
River and Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1784 |
Eleanor
Ballard (wife of Byrom), is approved as a minister by the
Upper Quarterly Meeting on the third day of the 5th month
- recorded in the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting - a few
months later the family of Byrom and Eleanor are granted
a certificate of removal to South River Monthly Meeting
in Bedford County (now Campbell). |
| 1784 |
The Family of
Joseph and Elizabeth Thornburg remove from Deep River
Monthly Meeting to Springfield Monthly Meeting.
Note - It is speculated that the Thornburgs may have been
at new Garden Monthly Meeting before removing to Deep
River. |
| 1785 |
Hannah
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 24th day of the eighth month - recorded in the
Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1787 |
Tensions
between the frontier settlers and the Creek Indians have
been brewing since the Revolutionary era. The Continental
Congress received numerous reports on the status of
Indian affairs in the South. The following excerpt, from
a 1787 report, identifies settler greed as a major cause
of the conflict: An
avaricious disposition in some of our people to acquire
large tracts of land, and often by unfair means, appears
to be the principal source of difficulties with the
Indians . . . various pretences seem to be set up by the
white people for making those settlements, which the
Indians, tenacious of their rights, appear to be
determined to oppose." (The
Committee Consised of Mr. Kearney, Mr. Carrington, Mr.
Bingham, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Dane, to Whom was Referred
the Report . . . Relative to Indian affairs in the
Southern Department) |
| 1787 |
Walter
Thornburg, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on the 17th
day of the tenth month - recorded in the Springfield
Monthly Meetings. |
| 1788 |
Elizabeth
Anthony, daughter of Christopher Anthony and Judith
(Moorman), marries William Ballard on the 24th day of the
fourth month - recorded in the South River Monthly
Meeting, Bedford County, VA. William is the son of
Byrom Ballard and Eleanor (Candler). |
| 1789 |
Christopher
Anthony patents nine acres on both sides of Trent's Ferry
Road in Campbell County, VA. |
| 1789 |
Family notes indicate that Archibald Mossman
married Margaret Young about this time or prior in Gretna
Green, Scotland - a popular place for young people under
21 to get married without parental consent. In
England the parties being married had to be 21 years of
age. At the time of their daughter Eleanor's birth,
Archibald was only 20 years and 10 months and his wife
Margaret 20 years and 2 months. |
| 1789 |
Christopher
"Anthony" Ballard, eldest child of William and
Elizabeth (Anthony) is born 22 February - birth recorded
in the South River MM). He later marries Eleanor
Mossman, daughter of Archibald Mossman & Margaret
Young. |
| 1789 |
Lydia
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 17th day of the fifth month - recorded in the
Springfield Monthly Meetings. |
| 1791 |
Joseph
Thornburg, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on the
30th day of the third month - recorded in the Springfield
Monthly Meetings. |
| 1791 |
Eleanor Mossman, the daughter of Archibald
and Margaret Young, is born in Berwick Upon-Tweed,
England on the 29th of November. |
| 1792 |
Archibald Mossman is listed as having been
made a Freeman on the 13th day of January (they had to be
at least 21 years of age). According to the 1796 Roll of
Freeman of Berwick, information indicates Archibald was
the eldest son of George and that he was a butcher, who
by 1796 was living in America. |
| 1792 |
Grayson County, Virginia is formed from
Wythe County. |
| 1792 |
Byrom
Ballard, who married Sarah Hutton in Bedford County,
Virginia at the South River Meeting on the 20th day of
the 10th month, is granted permission to remove with his
family to Grayson County, Virginia.
Note: Byrom's first wife, Eleanor Candler, was a Quaker
minister whose death was recorded in the South River
Meeting, listed as deceased on the 16th day of the 4th
month 1791. |
| 1792 |
Mary Ballard
(b.1764), daughter of Byrom and his first wife Eleanor
(Candler) has married Moses Cadwalader about this
time. Their children will include Amos, Eleanor,
Elizabeth, Byrom, Joseph, and Judith who are born between
the years 1793 and 1803. |
| 1792 |
Sometime between this year and 1795, the
Archibald Mossman family emigrates to America. Some
family notes indicate some of the children were born in
Norfolk, however, this has not been proven. |
| 1793 |
Family notes indicate that Josiah Mossman,
son of Archibald and Margaret (Young) is born on the 11th
of February in Norfolk at five o'clock in the
morning. |
| 1793 |
Sarah
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, is born on
the 24th day of the fifth month - recorded in the
Springfield Monthly Meeting. |
| 1793 |
Philip
Ballard, the son of Byrom and Sarah (Hutton), is born on
the 18th day of the 6th month - his birth is recorded in
the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting. |
| 1794 |
Goose Creek
Monthly Meeting in Bedford County, Virginia, is divided
this year into the South River Monthly Meeting and the
Goose Creek Monthly Meeting. Goose Creek is later
discontinued in 1814 and its members return to South
River. |
| 1794 |
It is speculated that Margaret Mossman, the
daughter of Archibald and Margaret (Young) was born on
the 3rd of February of 1793, but this seems impossible,
and birth date is probably this year. Her date of
death is listed as November of this year in Norfolk. |
| 1794 |
William
Ballard, the son of Byrom & Eleanor (Candler) who was
born in Campbell county, VA in 1767 and married to
Elizabeth Anthony, the daughter of Christopher and Judith
(Moorman), migrates to Grayson County this year - this
portion of Grayson county later becoming Carroll County. |
| 1794 |
William
Ballard, son of William and Elizabeth (Anthony) is born
on the 26th day of the 12th month, his birth recorded in
Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Bedford County, VA. |
| 1795 |
Samuel Brown,
son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edwards), marries Mary
Thornburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, on the 13th
day of the first month - Springfield Monthly Meeting,
Guilford Co. , NC records the marriage stating Mary is
disowned for marrying out of unity. |
| 1795 |
Archibald Mossmans family is said to have
settled in Grayson county, Virginia at this time. |
| 1795 |
Byrom Ballard
and his son Philip are received on certificate dated the
2nd day of the 5th month from Goose Creek Monthly Meeting
in Bedford County; and are received at Westfield Monthly
Meeting in Surry County, North Carolina the following
year. |
| 1795 |
Moses
Ballard, the son of Byrom and Sarah (Hutton) s born on
the 19th day of the 1th month - his birth recorded in the
minutes of the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting. |
| 1796 |
Patrick Henry
patents 200 acres on east side of Falling River and 125
acres on both sides of Falling River, in Campbell County,
VA. |
| 1796 |
Hannah Ballard, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Anthony) Ballard, is born 10th of November in
Grayson County, VA. She later becomes the aunt of
Louisa Ballard (daughter of C.A. Ballard & wife
Eleanor Mossman); and wife of William Hill. |
| 1797 |
Thomas
Jefferson patents 800 acres on Dreaming & Buffalo
Creeks, and 100 acres on the south branch of Ivy Creek,
Campbell County, VA |
| 1797 |
According to family notes, Mina Mossman,
daughter of Archibald and Margaret (Young) is born in
Grayson, VA on the 12th of December. |
| 1798 |
The
Democratic party which was orrganized by Thomas Jefferson
in 1792 as a Congressional Caucus to fight for the Bill
of Rights and against the elite Federalist Party, becomes
the "party of the common man" and is officially
called the Democratic-Republicans. |
| 1798 |
Samuel Brown writes his will on the 8th of
March, naming his wife Elizabeth, sons Thomas, Samuel,
William, David and Isaac; and daughters Ruth, Elander,
Hannah & Elizabeth who are not yet of age. Recorded
in Grayson County Deed Book 1, page 216. His will
is probated on the 27th of July. |
| 1798 |
Ruth Ballard, daughter of Byrom and Sarah
(Hutton) is born on the 24th day of the 4th month - her
birth recorded at the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting. |
| 1799 |
Byrom Ballard is listed in the Land Tax List
for Grayson County, Virginia owning 190 acres. |
| 1799 |
Jane Mossman, daughter of Archibald and
Margaret (Young) is born and dies on the 29th of April in
Grayson county, Virginia. |
| 1799 |
Lydia Brown,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Thornburg) is born on the
3rd of August. She later marries Robert Franklin. |
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