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     Sarah Rhodes was born circa 1694 at Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, USA.¹ She married John Francis Ball Sr. on 12 February 1711 at Burlington Township, Burlington Co., New Jersey, USA,
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Record marriage and family history of marriage in NJ found on WikiTree.^1,2
Sarah Rhodes died on 30 September 1741 at Berks Co., Pennsylvania, USA.¹
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Text of document found on WikiTree
Sarah was the daughter of a trustee of the Quaker Plymouth Meetings of Whitemarsh. Quakers did not use a license to marry, but would request permission at the Meetings. Yet a marriage license was issued in Burlington, New Jersey, just north of Philadelphia across the Delaware River. John and Sarah, who was barely 16 or 17 years old, had eloped. It was three years later, in 1714 at a Radnor Monthly Meeting that John Ball petitioned an apology to Sarah's parent stating "...his being sorry for ye proceedings in Marriage contrary to her father and mother's will...".

The family story was passed down from their daughter, Hannah Ball Holloway, (1715-?) to her daughter, Hannah Holloway Hall (1747-?), to her son, Moses Hall ( 1778- 1834 ), to his son, William Hall (1816-1866) to his daughter, Charlotte Hall Burgett/Burgert (1844-1915), to her daughter, Ella Burgett/Burgent Cornwall (18 - 1966), to her daughter, Vera Cornwall Thayer (1902-1989), to her daughters, LaVonne Thayer Jordan and Diane Thayer Myers. By the time the mysterious story reached the present generation it went something like this: We have a set of Great-Grandparent ancestors on the Hall/Ball line who ran off and eloped across a river that separated two states. The parents were nor supportive of them being together and were very upset for a long time. You can imagine how surprised we were to find that this story was true and it happened over 250 years ago. Sarah Roades Ball would have been Charlotte Hall Burgett/Burgert's G-G-Great Grandmother.

Sources:
Title: Radnor Monthly Meetings, Pennsylvania
Author: Quaker Society of Friends
Note: " I no longer call you servants. because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything I have learned from my Father l have made known to you." John 15:15
Repository:
Media: Book
Page: p. 19 1712-17 18
Text: 1714: Plimouth Overseers being called likewise appeared had only to propose to this meeting a paper of Jno. Ball ' Signifying his being sorry for ye proceedings in marriage with Jno. Road' daughter contrary to her father and mother's will therin and w't otherwise he might have done amiss w'ch paper, This meeting lets lie under consideration. Aso a typed Records of Radnor Monthly Meeting, PA, p. 158, at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, PA.²

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See WikiTree for alleged ancestors of Sarah RHODES #101881.¹

     Sarah Martha Ball was born on 30 October 1712 at Gwynett Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA.¹
Sarah Martha Ball died on 10 December 1779 at Gwynett Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA, at age 67.²

     Hannah Ball was born on 23 June 1715.¹

     Christopher Bernard Martinie was born on 8 February 1815 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA.¹ He married Matilda Stewart, daughter of Asa C. Stewart and Judith Davis, on 20 March 1837 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA,
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According to the 1850 census, their oldest daugher shown, Susan, was 13 years old and b. ca 1737.^1,2
Christopher Bernard Martinie died on 15 November 1846 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA, at age 31.¹

     Susan Martinie was born circa 1837 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
Aged 13 in the 1850 census.¹

     Mary Martinie was born circa 1840 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
Aged 10 in the 1850 census.¹

     Mary (?) was born circa 1826 at Kentucky, USA;
Aged 26 in the 1850 census.¹ She married Allen Stewart, son of Asa C. Stewart and Judith Davis, before 1850 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA,
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According to the 1850 census, their dau Margret was 3/12 in Aug 1850, so born ca April/May 1850.¹

     Lucy (?) was born circa 1815 at Kentucky, USA;
Aged 35 in the 1850 census.¹ She married Duncan Stewart, son of Asa C. Stewart and Judith Davis, before 1841 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA,
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According to the 1850 census, their oldest child shown, W. A., was born ca 1841 in KY.¹

     Mary Ann Chilton was born on 25 November 1821.¹ She married William Stewart, son of Asa C. Stewart and Judith Davis, on 8 September 1842 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA.¹

Mary Ann Chilton died on 14 October 1908 at age 86.¹
Mary Ann Chilton was buried after 14 October 1908 at IOOF Brookston Cemetery, Brookston, White Co., Indiana, USA;
From Find a Grave
Birth     25 Nov 1821
Death     14 Oct 1908 (aged 86)
Burial     IOOF Brookston Cemetery, Brookston, White County, Indiana, USA
William Stewart married Mary Ann Chilton on September 8, 1842 in Henry County, KY.
Children
Family Members
Parents
     John Ball Chilton 1792–1871
Spouse
     William Stewart 1822–1875 (m. 1842)
Siblings
     Charles Thomas Chilton 1815–1855
     James Steptoe Chilton 1820–1914
     Lettcia Ball Chilton Ellis 1823–1899
     Joseph Simpson Chilton 1828–1911
     Rev Levi Scott Chilton 1831–1917
     Benjamin Franklin Chilton 1836–1927
     Samuel Marion Chilton 1840–1913
Children
     James Franklin Stewart 1843–1906
     Mary E. Stewart 1845–1864
     Letticia Jane Stewart Neal 1846–1925
     Henry A. Stewart 1850–1939
     Joseph Warren Stewart 1852–1928
     Francis Marion Stewart 1855–1932
     Malissia Amanda Stewart 1857–1877
     Margaret Ellen Stewart Moody 1860–1946
     John Pendleton Stewart 1862–1928
     Charles William Stewart 1864–1919
Maintained by: Missy Ann
Originally Created by: Donald Miller
Added: Mar 3, 2011
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 66424982.¹

     Helen Stewart was born in 1792 at Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA.^3,4 A contract for the marriage of Helen Stewart and John Ball Chilton was signed on 8 December 1812 at Port Royal, Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
Copy of marriage bond found on FaG memorial:
     "The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be somenized between the above bound John Chilton and Helen Stewart, daughter of John Stewart of this County..."
Signed: John Chilton and Joel Stuart.⁵ Helen Stewart married John Ball Chilton, son of George Chilton and Mary Ellen Ball, on 8 December 1812 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st of 2 wives.
Stewart Helen in the Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850

Record of Marriages in Henry County Kentucky for the Period of Years 1798 to 1851 Inclusive      (p.10), found on FaG. (copy attached)
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Mentioned in father's 1825 will.²

Helen Stewart was listed as a resident in John Stewart Sr. and Sarah "Sally" Duncan's household in the census report on 6 August 1810 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
Jno Stenart in the 1810 United States Federal Census
John's wife, Sarah, d. in 1814, so was still living in 1810, but the oldest woman in this household born after 1765, which doesn't match.
Helen Stewart is mentioned in the will of John Stewart Sr. on 15 July 1825 at Kentucky, USA;
John Stewart in the Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989

     Evaline "Minnie" Ransdell was born circa 1806.¹ She married John Ball Chilton, son of George Chilton and Mary Ellen Ball, before 1831 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA,
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His 2nd of 2 wives.
According to John Ball CHILTON's FaG memorial, his first child with Evaline (Levi) was born 26/4/1831 in Henry Co., KY.^1,3,4
Evaline "Minnie" Ransdell died on 5 April 1852 at Kentucky, USA.¹

     John Ransdell was born in 1765 at Virginia, USA.³ He married Lucy Chilton, daughter of Capt. John Chilton and Letitia/Lettice Blackwell, on 28 November 1792 at Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA,
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Per FaG: "Married at age 16 to John Ransdell, her cousin, on Nov 28th, 1792 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Had 13 children."

Record #1: John Ransdell in the Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
Shows marriage of John RANSDELL and Lucy CHILTON in discussion of Lucy's father, Capt. John CHILTON. (image attached)

Record #2: John Ransdell in the Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800

Record #3: John Ransdell in the Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940
John Ransdell was buried in 1836 at Campbellsburg Masonic Cemetery, Campbellsburg, Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
From Find a Grave:
Birth     1765, Virginia, USA
Death     1836 (aged 70–71), Henry County, Kentucky, USA
Burial     Campbellsburg Masonic Cemetery, Campbellsburg, Henry County, Kentucky, USA
m. Lucy Chilton, daughter of Capt. John Chilton, who was killed in the Battle of Brandywine.
     By 1800, John Ransdell and wife Lucy had moved from Fauquier County, Virginia and settled in Henry County, Kentucky. Records in Henry County, Kentucky show that John's parents, William Ransdell and Mary Chilton (including Mary's brother George Chilton and wife Mary Ellen Ball Chilton) had also migrated west to Kentucky with John and Lucy Ransdell by 1800.
     John Ransdell's Will on record (#154) in Henry County, Kentucky names four sons: Thomas J., Benjamin F., John C., and William H.H.
     A number of John and Lucy's daughter married Chiltons. The Ransdell and Chilton families of early Virginia were very intermingled producing many first and second cousins.
     NOTE: Authoritative and documented research regarding the lineage of this John Ransdell can be viewed from "Sifted From The Ashes" (Thirteen Generations of One Line of the Ransdell Family in America) by William Keith Ransdell
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/e/u/John-Deutsch-Dexter/FILE/0002page.html
Family Members
Parents
     William Ransdell 1720–1776
Spouse
     Lucy Chilton Ransdell 1775–1855
Siblings
     Hannah Anne Ransdell Moore 1758–1810
Children
     Thomas Jefferson Ransdell 1795–1883
     Mariah Ransdell Chilton 1807–1890
Created by: Randall Dill
Added: Aug 30, 2020
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 215024275.³
John Ransdell died in 1836 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA.³
     He was Research Issues
Authoritative and documented research regarding the lineage of this John Ransdell can be viewed from "Sifted From The Ashes" (Thirteen Generations of One Line of the Ransdell Family in America) by William Keith Ransdell
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/e/u/John-Deutsch-Dexter/FILE/0002page.html.⁴

     Lucy Chilton was born on 20 December 1775 at Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA.³ She married John Ransdell, son of William Ransdell and Mary Chilton, on 28 November 1792 at Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA,
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Per FaG: "Married at age 16 to John Ransdell, her cousin, on Nov 28th, 1792 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Had 13 children."

Record #1: John Ransdell in the Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
Shows marriage of John RANSDELL and Lucy CHILTON in discussion of Lucy's father, Capt. John CHILTON. (image attached)

Record #2: John Ransdell in the Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800

Record #3: John Ransdell in the Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940
Lucy Chilton was buried on 26 October 1855 at Campbellsburg Masonic Cemetery, Campbellsburg, Henry Co., Kentucky, USA;
From Find a Grave:
Birth     20 Dec 1775
Death     26 Oct 1855 (aged 79)
Burial     Campbellsburg Masonic Cemetery, Campbellsburg, Henry County, Kentucky, USA
Married at age 16 to John Ransdell, her cousin, on Nov 28th, 1792 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Had 13 children.
Family Members
Parents
     CPT John Chilton 1739–1777
     Letitia Blackwell Chilton 1750–1775
Spouse
     John Ransdell 1765–1836
Siblings
     Nancy Ann Chilton Smith 1771–1847
     George Chilton 1772–1852
     Joseph Chilton 1774–1841
Children
     Thomas Jefferson Ransdell 1795–1883
     Mariah Ransdell Chilton 1807–1890
Created by: Keith Chilton
Added: Sep 1, 2020
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 215095192.³
Lucy Chilton died on 26 October 1855 at Mill Creek, Henry Co., Kentucky, USA, at age 79.^1,3

     William Ransdell married Mary Chilton, daughter of Maj. Thomas Chilton and Jemima Cooke.
William Ransdell was born in 1720.¹
William Ransdell died in 1776.¹

     Leutitia Wells was born on 2 August 1814 at Henry Co., Kentucky, USA.¹ She married James Madison Stewart Sr., son of Asa C. Stewart and Judith Davis, in 1831.¹

Leutitia Wells died on 22 May 1880 at Bartholomew Co., Indiana, USA, at age 65.¹
Leutitia Wells was buried after 22 May 1880 at Little Sand Creek Cemetery, Burnsville, Bartholomew Co., Indiana, USA;
From Find a Grave:
Birth     2 Aug 1814, Henry County, Kentucky, USA
Death     22 May 1880 (aged 65), Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA
Burial     Little Sand Creek Cemetery, Burnsville, Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA
Family Members
Parents
     Richard Wells 1770–1840
Spouse
     James Madison Stewart Sr 1809–1863 (m. 1831)
Siblings
     Sarah Ann "Sally" Wells Spurgin 1793–1863
     Margaret "Peggy" Wells 1795–1863
     Isaac Newton Wells 1799–1876
     John Haston Wells 1801–1878
     Thomas Wells 1802–1899
     William Wells 1809–1863
     Richard C. Wells 1835–1893
Children
     William Thomas Stewart 1833–1904
     Margarett P Stewart 1834–1842
     David A Stewart 1835–1863
     Asa F Stewart 1837–1837
     Sarah Jane Stewart Bush 1840–1907
     Judah E Stewart Purvis 1842–1863
     James Madison Stewart Jr 1843–1928
     John S. Stewart 1845–1924
     Nancy C Stewart Misner 1846–1925
     Charles Stewart 1848–1863
     Charles G. Stewart 1848–1863
     Mary A. Stewart Rorick 1850–1940
     George Duncan Stewart 1853–1934
     Elza Russell Stewart 1858–1925
Created by: Mary Misner Hargitt
Added: Apr 10, 2010
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 50930031.¹

     Ralph de Standish of Standish married Cecilia Bradshagh of the High, daughter of Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh and Alice Osbaldston, circa 6 May 1359
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Per Genealogics: Date of contract or similar.^4,1
Ralph de Standish of Standish died circa 1414 at England.¹
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Genealogics cites:

; Sheriff of Lancashire.¹