William BALLANCE

                   "Cavaliers and Pioneers", p. 380, and Norfolk County land grants Book, p. 252.
   :  "William HESLETT and William (B.) BALLANCE (wife Mary Any) 750 acres,
Norfolk County, south side of the North West River;  on south side of the Ash
branch; crossing the cypress swamp, etc. 29 Apr 1693 for the importation of
fifteen persons:  Daniel JONES, Robert THORNE, John WRIGHT, Peter STORY and
others."  Wit:  James KEMP, Thomas WILLOUGHBY, James WILSON."
ibid, p. 13:  "William BALLANCE, 950 acres Norfolk County; 28 Oct 1697 (p. 94) On SW side of the NorthWest River, nigh the runn branch, on little Br., dividing this and the White Oake Ridge; nigh..."

Will Book 1, p. 229, Norfolk County Wills.  dated 25 Nov 1700, proved 27 Apr
1701.  Son Samuel (800 acres, my dwelling plantation), dau. Mary, 150 acres
joining the 800 and that near the fresh ponds), son William (my plantation at
the swamp and one half of the land belonging to it), son Richard (the other
half of tract of land to be divided by the Steerup Branch), dau. Lucretha
(one-half of land which Joseph Chew surveyed), dau. Catheron (other half.)

"The Ballance Family History," by Ernestine Ballance Liverman, pp. 88-89:  "William Ballance, who came over from England in 1656, is believed to be the first Ballance on record in North Carolina.  He was one of 24 passengers whose passage was paid by William Justice, and the captain of the ship that brought them over, Capt. John Frame, was granted 1,198 acres of land in what is now Charles City County, Virginia, Apr. 26, 1656, for the transport of the 24 persons.
    "In later years William Ballance at times made itj possible for others to come over by paying their passage and he was granted land."
    "After his arrival in Virginia in 1656, William Ballance found his way down to what is now Currituck County, North Carolina...Inhabitants at that time were mostly Indians, who gave the area the name Currituck, 'Land of the wild goose.'
    "The Ballances, who were among the first to come to Currituck County, settled around the area where later there was much controversy over the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.  Some didn't know which state they were living in and paid taxes in one state and the other claimed the taxes belonged to them.
    "In 1728 Gov. Everard of North Carolina appointed four commissioners. . . to work with representatives of the Virginia Government. . .The commissioners met at Currituck Inlet on Mar 5, 1728, and, after some argument as to the 'starting point of the line', joined the surveyors and ran the boundary westward.
    "According to Colonial records, the line took them through large marshes, very wet and mirey, through swamp and beaver dams and otter holes, into which some of the men plunged up to their middle.  The survey party at one place followed the Northwest River,...and ran the line to high land, cutting several plantations.  They encamped on Rob Ballance's plantation a little way southward of the Northwest River Bridge.  Later the line ran by the land of Richard Ballance and Moses Linton.
    "The survey party had spent many miserable days and nights in the open in the rain before the boundary line was finally finished.  Virginia was surprised to learn that they had lost much land that they had believed to be their own.
    "Most of the land that belonged to the Ballance families was found to be in North Carolina, although at least one Ballance plantation was in Virginia.  The dispute and debate that had gone on for so long was finally at an end."

Wm. Ballance Year: 1656 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 2772 Primary Immigrant: Ballance, Wm Annotation: Includes 25,000 names from records of the Virginia State Land Office. Excerpts of the Irish names from the Greer list were published in no. 6258, O'Brien, Early Immigrants to Virginia.... Source Bibliography: GREER, GEORGE CABELL. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond [Va.]: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912, 376p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978. Repr. 1982. Page: 19

Wm. Ballance Year: 1656 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6220 Primary Immigrant: Ballance, Wm Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977 Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983. Page: 329

Wm. Ballance Year: 1656 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 9450 Primary Immigrant: Ballance, Wm Annotation: Published extracts from The Magazine of American Genealogy, section 4, nos. 1-27 (1929 - [1932]). Good compilation but incomplete, since publication of the magazine was suspended; it contains names from beginning of alphabet through 'Battles' only. Source Source Bibliography: VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrants to America before 1750. An Alphabetical List of Immigrants to the Colonies, before 1750, Compiled from Official and Other Records. Surnames 'A through Battles.' Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. 220p. Page: 143