Hannah Bale (or Beale) was the daughter of Thomas Bale
and Urath Carnall,
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Event(s):
Birth: 1686 ?1691, , Maryland>
Christening: Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, St Paul Church>
Death: Before 31 MAY 1727
Burial:
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Anthony Bale’s widow Ann was executrix for Anthony, and thus came into possession of both Anthony’s and his brother Thomas’s land. Thomas had died earlier and Anthony was his executor, if I remember correctly. Ann (__) Bale married a second time Michael Taylor of Prince George’s County, Gentleman. Ann died and thus Michael Taylor was possessed of all the land. He apparently did not pay the cash bequests to Anthony’s sister or mother.[Md. State Archives, Vol. 5, p. 347, 351.] In March 1731 Mary (Bale) Wooten brought a bill of complaint against Michael Taylor for her inheritance of £5 sterling which he apparently had kept. It was also noted that £10 bequeathed to Urath Carnell had not been paid.[Md. State Archives, Vol. 5, p. 340-347.] I'm thinking this supports the idea that Urath was actually Urath (__) Bale Carnell.
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Marriages:
Spouse: THOMAS RANDALL
Family
Marriage: About 1707 <, Baltimore, Maryland>
Thomas Bale1 probably lived in Withycombe Raleigh Parish, Devonshire, England.[1] The parish was bounded on the west by the River Exe. Its manor was formerly held "by the tenure of finding the King, whenever he should hunt in Dartmoor, two good arrows stuck in an oaten cake”. A portion of its ancient church, which the Bale family would have known, was pulled down about 1745 and a new church built a half mile from Exmouth.[2] Anthony Bale, gent., from the same parish emigrated to Maryland, but there is no proved connection between the two men.[3]
I have discovered disappointingly little about Thomas. He was married to Urath CARNELL, and died in 1704. Thomas Bale, or Bales, was transported to Maryland in 1665, but under what circumstances, or who bought him, is unknown to me.[4] One intriguing datum is that a Thomas Bale had a sister, Mary WOOTON of Exmouth, Devonshire. Christopher Randall served as attorney for her when she conveyed 222 acres of “Bond’s Desire” to John SWYNYARD--land she had inherited from her brother. Christopher also served as attorney when Mary Wooton, widow, conveyed “Bonner’s Purchase” to Roger MATTHEWS. The deed was acknowledged in court on 8 March 1732.[4a]
Real estate records are frustrating because there were several men named Thomas Bale or Beale. If we eliminate those obtaining land in Calvert, Dorchester, or Prince George’s Counties, that leaves one Thomas Beale of Anne Arundel County who acquired 141 acre “Beale’s Purchase” in Baltimore County 14 July 1700. In June 1702 this Thomas or another purchased 284 “Beale’s Enlargement” and 100 acre “Level”.[5] In 1702 140 acre “Addition” was surveyed to him, and 10 october 1704 it was patented. On 10 May 1704 Thomas Bale of Baltimore County, merchant, conveyed 200 acre “Stout” (part of 529 acres) to John WHIPS, Jr., Thomas's wife Sarah, consenting.[5a] The spelling is not necessarily a reliable guide. However, Thomas Bale obtained three tracts in Baltimore County. “Bale’s Increase” of 300 acres was surveyed 10 October 1704. Its name implies that he already had some land. He obtained 222 acre “Bond’s Discovery” on 20 November 1705, and 221 acre “Thomas’s Choice” on 10 June 1706.[6]
Thomas’s will was proved in 1704; he was buried in St. George’s Parish, in what later became Harford County, Maryland, north of Baltimore. Urath married a second time, and this husband was alive in 1720.[7] I have been unable to discover his name.
The name Bale eventually became corrupted to Beale, and became a fairly
frequent first name in colonial Maryland.[8] But it more likely refers
back to Ninian Bale/Beale rather than to our Thomas.
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Ba11. Thomas Bale and Urath Carnell Ca11 had the following children:
Ba11-1 Thomas Bale2, b. ca. 1664; bur. 5 Feb. 1708 in St. George's Parish; m. (2?) Sarah GIBSON, daughter of Miles Gibson.[9] Thomas’s will was probated 18 Mar. 1707. He had a daughter, Urath, whose will dated 18 June 1708 (pr. 19 Nov. 1708) mentions her “mother- in-law” (often meaning step-mother), her Uncle Anthony Bale, and aunt Hannah RANDALL, the wife of Thomas Randall.[10]
Ba11 Hannah Bale, d. by May 1727; m. by 2 Feb. 1708 Thomas RANDALL.
Ba11-3 Mary Bale, m. ___ WOOTON; res. in Exmouth, Devonshire in Jan. 1729 when she sold “Bond’s Discovery”, land she inherited in Maryland from her brother Thomas.[11]
Ba11-4 Anthony Bale, d. Apr. 1720 in Balt. Co.; m. 15
June 1713 Anne PLUMMER.[12] An Anthony Bale of Withycomb, Gent.,
purchased a lot in London Town (Md.) 6 Aug. 1717 from Nicholas GASSAWAY.[13]
In Anthony's will, dated 10 Apr. 1720, he gave to his sister Hannah Randall
the plantation at Patapsco, mentioned his sister Mary Wooten “now in England”,
and his “dear and antient mother, if alive”. His wife was executrix and
received the residue of his estate.[14] He was styled “Gent.”, and was
brother and heir-at-law with Thomas of Withycomb Rawleigh Parish.[15]
Second Generation
Hannah Bale2, daughter of Thomas and Urath, is even less well-documented than her father. We know she married Thomas RANDALL in 1707. Hannah took out an administrative bond 16 April 1722 to settle his estate. It was valued at £285.[16]
In 1706, before her marriage, her brother Thomas bequeathed Hannah land at the Garrison named “Green Spring Punch”, “Rich Level”, and “The Addition”, as well as “Tom’s” in the Garrison Road which Thomas had purchased from Andrew HURD. In a codicil, he also left her 100 acres of “Gibson’s Park”.[17] Some fourteen years later her other brother, Anthony, left her tracts called “Murray’s Point”, “Gutridge’s Addition”, and “Kinsey’s Choice”.[18]
Hannah Bale Randall signed her will 23 October 1726 (proved 19 February 1732). In it she mentioned her son Christopher and her daughter Urath Randall Ra9, wife of Samuel OWINGS. It gave to Samuel £74, being in right of his wife Urath from her father. This language might have been used if Urath had already died and the hope was to make sure her children inherited. But she was still very much alive; the legal fiction of femme covert (that a husband and wife were one legal person, that person being, of course, the husband) encouraged parents to bequeath items to their sons-in-law on behalf of their daughters.
Children of Thomas and Hannah (Bale) Randall (may be incomplete):[19]
i. Christopher Randall, b. ca. 1708; m. Catherine LARKIN.[20]
ii. Urath Randall, b. 1 or 22 Jan. 1713/4; d. 15 Dec.
1796; m. 1 Jan. 1729/30 at St. Thomas Parish in Baltimore Co., Samuel OWINGS.
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See some other colonial Maryland families that link one way or another with these Bales: Addison, Brooke, Browne, Dent, Dorsey, Ely, Hall, Hatton, Holliday, Howard, Isaac, Molton, Norwood, Owings, Randall, Ridgely, Sim, Smith, Stone, Tasker. Warfield. and Wilkinson.
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Citations and Notes
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is mentioned, but is not repeated each time that source is cited. Scroll
up til you find the first mention and there you will find the complete
citation.
1. Robert W. Barnes, comp., Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1989), 24.
2. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions, . . . 5th. ed., 4 vols. (London: S. Lewis & Co., 1842), 4:596.
3. Harry Wright Newman, To Maryland From Overseas: A Complete Digest of Jacobite Loyalists Sold into White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental Background of Approximately 1400 Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the Early Federal Period with Source Documentation (Balt.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1985), 17.
4. Gust Skordas, The Early Settlers of Maryland: An Index to Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968), 20.
4a. Robert Barnes, Baltimore County, Maryland Deed Abstracts, 1659-1750 (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1996), 21, 23.
5. Peter Wilson Coldham, Settlers of Maryland, 5 vols. (Balt.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1995-96), 1:10.
5a. Robert Barnes, Baltimore County, Maryland Deed Abstracts, 1659-1750 (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1996), 2, 197.
6. Coldham, Settlers of Maryland, 2:6, citing Liber WD, fol. 391, Lib. DD5, fol. 207, 209; Lib. PL2, fol. 109, 120.
7. Ferdinand B. Focke, "Winchester-Owens-Owings-Price, and Allied Families", in Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, indexed by Thomas L. Hollowick, 2 vols., 2:490.
8. Harry Wright Newman, To Maryland From Overseas: A Complete Digest of Jacobite Loyalists Sold into White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental Background of Approximately 1400 Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the Early Federal Period with Source Documentation (Balt.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1985), 17. For more on Ninian Beale, see also Elise Greenup Jourdan, Early Families of Southern Maryland, 6:131ff.
9. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, 24.
10. Robert Barnes, The Green Spring Valley: Its History and Heritage, 2 vols. Vol. 2: Genealogies (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1978), 2:6; Focke, "Winchester-Owens-Owings-Price, and Allied Families", 2:490.
11. Barnes, The Green Spring Valley, 2:6.
12. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, 25.
13. Newman, To Maryland From Overseas, 17. Who might this be if a brother named Thomas died in 1708 in Maryland? Could he be a younger generation? or the older one?
14. Barnes, The Green Spring Valley, 2:6; Focke, "Winchester-Owens-Owings-Price, and Allied Families", 2:490.
15. Newman, To Maryland From Overseas, 17.
16. Focke, "Winchester-Owens-Owings-Price, and Allied Families", 2:490; for more information, see Barnes, The Green Spring Valley, vol. 1, chapt. 3, “The Early Settlers”.
17. Barnes, The Green Spring Valley, 2:6, citing Balt. Co. Wills, Lib. A, fol. 97.
18. Barnes, The Green Spring Valley, 2:6, citing Balt. Co. Wills, Lib. B, fol. 3.
19. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, 529.
20. Edward C. Papenfuse, Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, and Gregory A.
Stiverson, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 2:627.