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John Morton, the signer, did more than affix his signature to the immortal docu- ment. When the day of trial came for the great question of independence, the Pennsyl- vania delegation to the Continental congress on the fourth of July, 1776, stood four in favor and five against the weighty question. But when the final vote was taken but five of the delegation were present-Franklin, Wilson, Morton, Humphreys and Willing. Franklin and Wilson voted for, Humphreys and Willing against. John Morton voted "Yea" and thus the vote of Pennsylvania was recorded in favor of independence through his high, disinterested courage. And it took a high courage, for he lived in a section hostile to independence, and every pressure was brought by his neighbors to
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induce him to vote "Nay." He withstood their efforts and by his favorable vote se- cured that unanimity of action so essential to colonial success and gave to Pennsylvania the proud name of the "Keystone State." John Morton did not live to see the result of his action, although he lived a few months after signing the declaration. He died in April, 1777, aged fifty-three years. To his neighbors who had ostracized him and who had withdrawn their friendship on account of his vote he sent this message from his bedside: "Tell them they will live to see the hour when they shall acknowledge it to have been the most glorious service that I ever rendered to my country." He was the first of the signers to die. After the battle of Brandywine the British army, in passing through the region of his home, despoiled his residence, damaging property of his widow and children to the value of three hundred and sixty-five pounds.
About the year 1764, Mr. Morton was commissioned as a justice of the peace, and was sent as a delegate to the general assem- bly of Pennsylvania. Of this body, he was for many years an active and distinguished member, and for some time the speaker of the house of representatives. The follow- ing year he was appointed by the house to attend the general congress in New York. In 1766, Mr. Morton was appointed sheriff of Chester county, an office he continued to hold for the three following years. Some time after, he was elevated to a seat on the bench in the superior court of Pennsylvania. Of the memorable congress of 1774 he was a member and continued to represent the state of Pennsylvania in the National As- sembly through the memorable session of that body which gave birth to the Declara- tion of American Independence. This branch of the Morton family was among the first Swedish emigrants who located them- selves on the banks of the Delaware, in the year 1654, in Ridley township. Chester (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania, where John Morton was born in 1724. In the third generation his great-granddaughter, Anna Mary Morton Brown, married Captain Alex- ander Hamilton Fultz-John Morton Fultz being the eldest child of this marriage.
Along paternal lines the ancestors of Mr. Fultz were Virginians, seated early in Albe- marle and Augusta counties, having emi- grated from York, Pennsylvania, in 1788.
His grandfather, Judge David Fultz, the son of Frederick and Hannah (Hanger) Fultz, was born at Staunton, Virginia, May 4, 1802. Judge Fultz studied law with Judge Hugh Holmes, of Staunton, and was an emi- nent lawyer, jurist and farmer-a man of learning and high standing. He was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1850, and judge of the circuit court of Augusta, Rockbridge, Highland and Rockingham counties. He married. in 1825, Margaret Ann Leas, of Staunton, the daughter of Jacob and Margarethe A. (Kinzer) Leas, their children being : Algernon Sidney, Mar- garet Ann (married John Lewis, of Scotts- ville, Virginia), Amanda Cornelia (married Frederick Lafayette Fultz, of Staunton), Marshall Kent, Alexander Hamilton, Mary Louisa (married Harvey Lathrop, of Savan- nah, Georgia), Augusta Virginia (married John W. Alby, of Washington), Hugh Holmes and John Hampden.
Alexander Hamilton Fultz, son of Judge David and Margaret Ann (Leas) Fultz, was born at Warm Springs, Virginia, January 13, 1837, died at Paoli, Pennsylvania, De- cember 3, 1908. At two years of age, his parents removed to Staunton. Captain Fultz graduated from the law department of Washington and Lee College, and asso- ciated himself with his father in the practice of law in Staunton. As a young man he warmly espoused the Southern cause ; en- listed in the "Staunton Artillery" at the very beginning of the war between the states, and the day the state of Virginia seceded, April 17, 1861, the battery was ordered to Har- per's Ferry. At the reorganization of the company in the spring of 1862, Mr. Fultz was elected second lieutenant, and in De- cember, 1862, was made first lieutenant, which position he held until the company was paroled at Appomattox Court House. During a large part of this time the captain of the battery was absent on sick leave, and Lieutenant Fultz was in full charge of the battery. This battery was attached at various times to Bee's brigade, Whiting's brigade, Hood's brigade, Lawton's brigade. Colonel H. P. Jones' battalion, Cutshaw's battalion, McClain's division, Pendleton's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was a brave, gallant officer, and during battle was once slightly wounded, having his horse shot from under him, and the heel of his shoe torn away. He served through-
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out the war, ranking high in the regard of his associates. After the close of the war, he reorganized the Staunton Artillery, and was elected captain of the same, in which position he continued until he withdrew from the organization December 1, 1882.
On January 9, 1868, Captain Fultz mar- ried Anna Mary Morton Brown, of Phila- delphia, the only child of Dr. John Lewis Brown and Ann Elizabeth (Davis) Brown, the latter being a daughter of General John Davis, of the Pennsylvania Line, Conti- nental Army of the Revolution, and Ann (Morton) Davis, and a granddaughter of John Morton, the signer. Their three chil- dren are John Morton, David Lewis Fultz, an attorney of New York City (born at Staunton, May 29, 1875) and Mary Mar- garetha, of New York City (born at Staun- ton, January 8, 1881). Captain Fultz was a member of the city council of Staunton, and served as its president. He was elected mayor of the city of Staunton, in 1888, and occupied that office for ten years, when he removed with his family to Paoli, Pennsyl- vania.
John Morton Fultz, son of Alexander Hamilton and Anna Mary Morton (Brown) Fultz, was born in Staunton, Virginia, April 3. 1873, acquiring his early and technical education in private schools, and the Staun- ton Military Academy. During the period of his early life he was engaged in surveying in Virginia with Major Jed Hotchkiss, of Staunton, and as private secretary and col- lege instructor. As private secretary he was associated with the Hon. John Randolph Tucker, and the Hon. A. Caperton Braxton, and as instructor, taught in the Staunton Business College. In 1898 Mr. Fultz moved to Philadelphia, there entering the employ of The Philadelphia Electric Company, and in 1912 was elected secretary of the com- pany, which position he now holds. In poli- tics he is strictly independent in thought and action, and in religious belief a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Mr. Fultz married, April 19, 1910, Ellen Duncan Baltz, born at Whitford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1878, the only daughter of John Daniel and Ann (Sagehorn) Baltz. Children: John Morton, Jr., born in Philadelphia, April 28, 1913, and Sarah Ann, born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1915. Mr. John Daniel Baltz is a promi- nent attorney of Philadelphia, being de-
scended from the German family of von der Baltz. On her maternal side, Mrs. Fultz is of English ancestry, the first of whom in this country, Godfrey Hancock, settled in New Jersey, in 1678, where he owned a tract of 8,000 acres of land, including part of the present town of Burlington and its environs, and served as the representative of the First or Yorkshire Tenth in the first free general assembly of the province of West New Jer- sey, in May, 1682, and again in the sessions of 1684. In the sixth generation his descend- ant, Susan Bradbury Hancock, married Henry Sagehorn, a manufacturer of New York City, on April 28, 1839, they being the grandparents of Mrs. Fultz.
James William Ball. James William Ball, a well known banker and broker of New York, was born at Richmond, Virginia, April II, 1876. The father of Mr. Ball was Au- gustus Montgomery Ball, who was born in Essex county, Virginia, in 1834, and died in December, 1902. Mr. Ball, Sr., was a merchant and manufacturer of harness and sadlery at Berryville and Richmond, Vir- ginia. The mother of James William Ball was Ann Elizabeth Walker (Browne) Ball, who was born in James City county, Vir- ginia. The grandfather of James William Ball on the paternal side was a quartermas- ter in the Revolutionary war, and the Ball family with which he is connected is related to the Washington and Tyler families, the founder of the family in this country being Colonel William Ball, great-grandfather of Mary (Ball) Washington, mother of General Washington, Patriæ Pater.
There were several Balls in Virginia prev- ious to 1624. Some of them were from Eng- land, some from Ireland, and some presum- ably from Scotland and Wales. The name of the English families were doubtless taken from the name of districts in the midland counties, and those from Ireland and Scot- land derived in a translated or anglicised form from the ancient name O'Buachail, which in Gaelic is pronounced Ball. Robert Ball and Goodwife Ball were on the Eastern Shore, Virginia, in 1623. Robert Ball, aged twenty-seven, in 1624, came in the ship "London Merchant" in 1619. Robert Ball's wife died in 1623 at Elizabeth City. Rich- ard Ball came in the "George" in 1617 and was located in 1624 on the plantation of Hugh Crowder. Richard Ball, planter, re-
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ceived in 1627, Virginia, patent No. 85, being six acres at Buck Roe, Elizabeth City, ad- joining the land of David Poole, Frenchman. There were other Balls in New England, though it is apparent that there was neces- sarily no relation between them all. The arms of the leading Ball family of Virginia are thus heraldically described in "Hayden's Virginia Genealogies:" "Arg. a lion passant sa. on a chief of the second three mullets of the first." Crest: "Out of the clouds ppr. a demi-lion rampant sa. powdered with estoiles arg. holding a globe or." Motto: "Coelumque tueri."
Colonel William Ball had three sons, Richard, William and Joseph. He himself may have been born in Virginia as a son of one of the early settlers, certainty cannot be obtained on that point. It is probable that William Ball named his first son, Rich- ard, after his own father. He first appears in Virginia records as plain "William Ball." His business was that of a merchant, and later a planter. His title of "colonel" did not exist till 1672. Colonel William Ball was born about 1615, and died at "Millenbeck," Lancaster county, Virginia, November, 1680. His will was dated October 15, 1680, and proved in Lancaster county, in Novem- ber, 1680. The probable name of his wife was Hannah Atherall, though there has been discussion on the subject. It has been a long accepted tradition in the various lines of the family that William Ball came to Vir- ginia with his wife and three children about 1650. It appears that he did not immediate- ly obtain land. He is named in the North- umberland county records in 1661 as "Wil- liam Ball, merchant." He was engaged in merchandising when he died in 1680. As his will shows no grant of land appears in his name until January 18, 1663, when he re- ceived three hundred acres on Narrow Neck creek, Lancaster county.
His son, Colonel Joseph Ball, was born May 24, 1649, and came to Virginia in his infancy, dying in June, 1711. Of Colonel Joseph Ball little is known, despite the fact that he was the grandfather of General Washington. However he was a man of prominence in his county and parish, a lieu- tenant-colonel, and a vestryman. He re- ceived a grant of land in 1704. He married (first) Elizabeth Rogers, and (second) Mary Johnson, having by this second marriage Mary, who married Augustine Washington
and became the mother of the immortal father of his country. The great-grandfather of James William Ball was a cousin of Mary Ball, and was connected with the same state and county.
James William Ball was educated in the Richmond public schools, including the high school, and then entered Richmond College, leaving it, however, without graduating. He took up the study of the law in the office of the Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall, leading at- torney and ex-governor of Virginia, remain- ing so engaged for a period of two years. He then entered commercial life and was secretary for four years to Charles W. Tan- ner, a banker of Richmond, Virginia. Later he came to New York and was for three years financial reporter on the "New York Commercial." He then established the bank- ing and brokerage firm of James William Ball & Company, of which he is the head, and which he has conducted with much suc- cess. Mr. Ball is a member of the New York Press Club, the Southern Society of New York City, and other societies and fra- ternities. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion he is a liberal. He is fond of outdoor sports, particularly of horseback riding, and he rides like a cavalryman. He married, in 1901, Mabel Grace, daughter of Jonas R. Price, having one child that died in infancy.
The brothers and sisters of Mr. Ball are : Edward Walker Ball, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1861, now a wholesale dealer in hardware, at Newport News, Virginia, married Rosa Phillips ; Annie Virginia, died 1902; Otway Walter, born in Richmond 1865, married Fidelia Nunally ; Harvey Grif- fith, born 1871, married Sadie Crump, and has children : Elsie Lee and Stuart Franklin.
John Zollikoffer Lowe, Sr. John Zolli- koffer Lowe, Sr., bears in his veins the blood of many of the oldest families of England and America. The family was very conspic- uous during the Revolutionary period in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Vir- ginia and Massachusetts, and was also active in governmental affairs of Maryland during the administration of Lord Baltimore. In fact, Jane Lowe, sister of Colonel Henry Lowe, married the second Lord Baltimore.
The arms of the Lowe family of county Derby: Azure, a hart, trippant, argent. Crest : A wolf, passant, argent. Motto: In-
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nocentia quamvis in agro sanguinis: (With innocence tho in a field of blood). The Lowe family is traced to a very early period in England, proving their descent from a cer- tain captain, a companion in arms of William the Conqueror. This family has preserved a male successor since this remote era. Their royal descent is through the Stanleys, Lord Stanley having for his second wife Margaret, Countess of Richmond, who was the great- granddaughter of the Duke of Lancaster and the mother of Henry VII. Ferdinand Stan- ley, Earl of Derby, married Alice, daughter of Sir John Spenser. Their daughter and heir, Lady Frances Stanley, married John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater. Their son, Hon. Thomas Egerton, of Tatton Park, mar- ried Hester, daughter of Sir John Brisby, Knight of Addington. Elizabeth, their daughter, married Rev. Peter Leigh, rector of Lynne, High Leigh. Margaret, daugh- ter of Rev. Peter Leigh, married Geoffrey Lowe, son of Thomas Lowe, descendant of William del Lowe, of Chester, 1342. Of this family is the renouned Bishop of Roches- ter, John Lowe, who died in 1467. He was confessor to the King Henry VI., a descend- ant of Henry and Isabella Lowe, of the reign of Richard II. (Nash's "Worcestershire" 1195). Geoffrey Lowe's son, Lawrence Lowe, of Mecclesfield, Sergeant-at-arms, had for second wife, Alice, daughter and heir of William Mylton, of Gratton, Derbyshire, and had three sons, Humphrey, heir of Law- rence Lowe, resided at Denville, had wife, Margaret, and sons, Vincent and Clement. Vincent Lowe, heir of Humphrey, died in 1558. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Cokayne, of Ashburne, Derby, Knight. Jasper, heir of Vincent Lowe, died 1565. Married Dorothy, daughter of Wil- liam Sackerville, of Stanton-le-Bridge. Peter, heir of Jasper Lowe, born 1562, married Jane, daughter of a Knight of Derbyshire. John Lowe, of Derby, eldest son of Vincent and Anne Lowe, born 1616, married Cath- erine, daughter of Sir Arthur Pilkington, baronet of Stanley, Yorkshire. Sir Arthur Pilkington was created a baronet, June 9, 1635. He was descended from Leonard Pilkington, Lord of Pilkington Castle, York- shire, in the reign of Henry I. His great- grandsons, Edward and Thomas, were the first Knights of the family, the former being the heir of the latter. The twelfth in the lineal descent from Leonard Pilkington was
Thomas Pilkington, who married Barbara, daughter of Lionel Revesby. Their son, Thomas Pilkington, of Nether Bradley, mar- ried Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Rodes, Knight of Derby, one of the justices of the common pleas court. They were the parents of Sir Arthur Pilkington, whose wife Ellen was a daughter of Henry Lyon, of Roxby, Lincolnshire, and mother of Catherine, wife of John Lowe, above mentioned. John and Catherine Lowe had sons: John, Jasper, Nicholas, Henry, and daughters: Elizabeth, Jane and Dorothy.
Colonel Henry Lowe, the youngest son, married Susanna Maria Bennett, daughter of Hon. Richard Bennett, Jr. (who was said to be the richest man in Virginia), and granddaughter of Major-General Richard Bennett, Royal Governor of Virginia from 1652 to 1655, when Claiborne was his secre- tary of state. Her monument in St. Mary's county, Maryland, states that she died July 28, 1714, aged forty-eight years.
Their oldest son, Henry Lowe, made his will, September 13, 1713, names wife Lovey, and sons, Henry and Peter. To the eldest he bequeathed "the land I had of Captain W. Crawford" (of Portsmouth, Virginia), the last named seems to have been his wife's father.
Henry Lowe, son of Henry and Lovey (Crawford) Lowe, resided in Norfolk coun- ty, Virginia, and married Sara Jolliffe, daughter of John and Mary (Rigglesworth) Jolliffe, of same county, granddaughter and heiress of Peter and Jane Rigglesworth. In her will recorded at Portsmouth, she names son John and several daughters, her eldest son, Henry, being deceased.
John Lowe, son of Henry and Sara (Jol- liffe) Lowe, resided in Norfolk county, and married Margaret Pugh. On July 19, 1728, he sold fifty acres of land on the main run, Spring Mill.
His son, Henry Lowe, of Norfolk, had a wife Lydia, as shown by a deed recorded at Portsmouth.
James Lowe, son of Henry and Lydia Lowe, married, April 12, 1789, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Hol- lingsworth) Carter, granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Watkins) Carter, descended from Robert and Mary (Darnall) Carter, of Hastingsford, England. Their son, Wil- liam Carter, of Carston, was the father of John Carter, who married Sara Ludlow, of
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Lancaster, Virginia, and they were the par- ents of Isaac Carter, grandfather of Eliza- beth, wife of James Lowe. Elizabeth (Wat- kins) Carter, grandmother of Elizabeth (Carter) Lowe, was the daughter of Eliza- beth Cary, of Warwick, and Benjamin Wat- kins. The latter was the first clerk of Ches- terfield county, Virginia, and represented the county in colonial assemblies on several occasions. He was also a member of the convention of 1776. James Lowe was a colonial justice of the peace and a Revolu- tionary soldier. The children of James and Elizabeth Lowe were: Lydia, Ferebee and Caty (all of whom died in infancy) ; Liney, married Mr. Moore (no issue) ; William, born 1799; James, born 1801.
William Lowe, son of James and Eliza- beth (Carter) Lowe, of Norfolk county, mar- ried Ann (Nancy) Owens, daughter of Ed- ward Owen and Nancy Walker, his wife, granddaughter of Dr. Ajax Walker and Lucy Merriwether Lewis, his wife. Here we have an illustration of the Welsh system, whereby Owen's daughter became Ann Owens.
John Zollikoffer Lowe, son of William and Nancy (Owens) Lowe, was born April 13, 1839, in Norfolk county, Virginia, and was engaged for many years in mercantile busi- ness, from which he is now retired. He served four years as a non-commissioned officer in the Confederate army in General Mahone's division. He fought in the battles of Seven Pines. Charles City Roads, Mal- vern Hill, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Salem Church, Second Manassas, Sharps- burg. He was present at Gettysburg, but could not fight, his leg being wounded. His uncle, Colonel John Owens, who was acting brigadier-general, was killed during this famous charge. John Z. Lowe, Sr., married, December 6, 1876, Quill Ella Jenkins, born June 17, 1859, in Richmond, Virginia. She was the daughter of Equilla Light Jenkins and Mary Susan Taylor, his wife, of Rich- mond.
John Zollikoffer Lowe, Jr., was born July 25, 1884, in Norfolk, and received instruction at private schools and under home tutors in Norfolk. In 1905 he entered the New York Law School and completed his studies in the office of the Hon. Samuel Seabury, judge of the supreme court of New York. In 1910 Mr. Lowe was admitted to the bar and since has been engaged in general practice
in New York City as a member of the law firm "Ingram, Root, Massay, Clark & Lowe." On March 5, 1915, he was commis- sioned by President Wilson collector of in- ternal revenue for the second district of New York and is now filling that important station. He is not affiliated with any religious organ- ization, entertains liberal theological views and acts politically with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Southern Society of New York, Virginians of New York City, North Carolina Society of New York City, Manhattan. Reform and Pros- pect Gun clubs of New York City. He mar- ried, December, 1907, Mignon Wildy Archer, daughter of Judge Osceola and Minnie Wildy Archer, born December 4, 1888, in Austin, Texas.
Other children of John Z. Lowe, Sr., were : I. Mary Elizabeth, born November 11, 1877 ; married Rev. Francis Haramond Richey, son of Dr. Thomas Richey, of General Theo- logical Seminary, New York City ; had two children : Elizabeth Carter (died in infancy) and Martha Bacot. 2. Ann, born July 2, 1879; married Lee Wood Walker, and has children : Azulah, John Lowe and Quell Ella. 3. Quell Ella, born July 26, 1882, in Norfolk, Virginia. 4. John Z. Jr. (above mentioned ). 5. James Jenkins, born April 15. 1889, in Norfolk ; educated in the Uni- versity of Virginia and Cornell University ; is a farmer and fruit grower near Cannon Station, Fairfield county, Connecticut. 6. William Hyslop, born July 3. 1891, at Nor- folk: educated in private schools at Ra- leigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, now resides at Cannon Station, Connecticut.
Joseph Edward Bridger Holladay. Joseph Edward Bridger Holladay, an inventor, and lawyer, was born at Suffolk, Virginia, March 18, 1880. The name Holladay has been closely identified with the history of Vir- ginia. Hayden says, in his "Virginia Gene- alogies" that the name is a corruption of the old English name "Halladay." Simon Hal- laday was master minstrel to Edward IV. In 1604 Leonard Holladay was Lord Mayor of London. On his paternal side he is a descendant of Anthony Holladay, whose name appeared in Nansemond county rec- ords in 1690, and was attorney for his son, Joseph.
Anthony Coventry Holladay, grandson of
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Anthony Holladay, was church warden in 1749 of the Chuckatuck parish ; and a bur- gess for Nansemond county in 1752. His uncle, Jonas Holladay, was a burgess for Norfolk county in 1714. Others of the fam- ily were prominent in the Chuckatuck par- ish. (Thomas, a vestryman and church warden in 1758-62; Joseph, a vestryman, 1779; Brewer, church warden in 1779; Jo- seph and James, vestrymen in 1825, and in the Revolutionary and Civil wars; Joseph, lieutenant in the Revolution ; Francis David, a captain, major and colonel of the Confed- eracy). Alto Francis Holladay was the son of Colonel Francis David and Emily Susan Holladay (nee Pinner), was born in 1843 at Holladay's Point, Nansemond county, Vir- ginia. The estate of Colonel Joseph Holla- day was inherited by his son, Colonel Fran- cis David Holladay. Alto Francis Holladay was first sergeant of Company B, Sixteenth Virginia Regiment, Mahone's Brigade. He entered the service at the age of sixteen and served through the Civil war, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.
Sergeant Alto Francis Holladay on Feb- ruary 15, 1866, married Judith Beverly Hun- ter Copeland. Their children are: Kath- erine Beverly (Mrs. R. H. Pretlow), Francis Alto, John Copeland and Joseph Edward Bridger. Grandchildren: Robert Henley and Francis Beverly Holladay Pretlow; John C., Beverly Long and Francis David Holladay (children of John Copeland Hol- laday).
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