History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . pply for a lieutenancy in the sen-iceof the United States; I therefore take the hberty to recommend him as a manof spirit and resolution, and have not the least doubt but he will make a goodoificer. He served during the last war.* He was commissioned as secondlieutenant in the Ninth Pennsylvania regiment, January 15, 1777. At theclose of the war he returned to Sunbury. The second jail of Northumber-land county was built by him as a private enterprise. Thomond Ball performed the duties of prothonotary of Northumberlandcounty as deputy under David
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . pply for a lieutenancy in the sen-iceof the United States; I therefore take the hberty to recommend him as a manof spirit and resolution, and have not the least doubt but he will make a goodoificer. He served during the last war.* He was commissioned as secondlieutenant in the Ninth Pennsylvania regiment, January 15, 1777. At theclose of the war he returned to Sunbury. The second jail of Northumber-land county was built by him as a private enterprise. Thomond Ball performed the duties of prothonotary of Northumberlandcounty as deputy under David Harris. The latter was appointed, September11, 1777; he entered the Continental army as third lieutenant in ColonelThompsons battalion and rose to the rank of captain in the First Pennsyl-vania regiment, but resigned on the 20th of October, 1777, and engaged inmercantile pursuits at Baltimore. Mr. Ball was the first secretarj- of theNorthumberland county Committee of Safety and acted as paymaster of ?rennsylvania Archives, Vol. V. pp. CO-, :,N--v.^^s:\§>^-;^«-,
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