Re: Two Bennett Ballews killed by Indians
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Re: Two Bennett Ballews killed by Indians
Kenneth Ballew 2/11/01
Ken,
I was surprised to receive an eMail/reply from you asking about the connection to Maturin -- since it apparently referenced, or stemmed from, earlier exchanges with Pat King which made no mention of the name.
I frankly wondered if you wrote me by mistake?
I did backtrack and do some searching starting with the exchanges with Pat King -- including word searches through a complicated net of related earlier forum entries. I found mention of Maturin, of whom I had previously never heard, before receiving your query.
The 1998 exchange below, whose veracity I cannot judge, is on record in this Ballew forum. Have you seen it?
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Posted by: Michael Ballou Date: October 23, 1998 at 06:53:40
In Reply to: Ballou/Ballew Differences by Robbie Parks of 662
American records furnish authentic information of only three Ballous who were early (1600Õs) immigrants to the U.S., viz.: Maturin, Robert, and William.
Maturin Ballou was a co-proprietor with Roger Williams, the Colonial founder of Rhode Island, in his Providence Plantations. Maturin appears first on record among those coproprietors in 1646. He subscribed his name Mathurin Bellow. His descendants resolved it into Maturin Ballou.
Robert Ballew was a settler and a landholder in Portsmouth on the Island of Rhode Island, in 1643, but died in Boston, Mass., during the year 1668.
William Ballew was a property owner in Boston, Mass., and also in Dover, N.H., during the years 1644, Ô45, and is presumed to be the same person later called Maj. William and Col. William, once an officer in the British Army. He had a long controversial struggle with his government to obtain, arrange payment for military services, and at last had to accept a minor portion of his claims. He came over and invested his savings in Virginia lands, in the years 1651, Ô52.
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Note: obviously character/font substitution was made by default in a number of places. I have no idea what these were but they don't appear critical.
The LDS familysearch.com site produces numerous Maturin Ballews -- in response to a global search of the US. Until seeing the above, I had discounted these as being unrelated since I previously had no indication any Ballews/Ballous of my line existed north of Virginia. By the way, it appeared, however, that many of these LDS entries (ancestral files, etc) were duplicates.
This may help, or... open Pandoras Box?
Gordon