Husband: Jacob BALLIET

Born: 1641 in Schalbach, Lorraine Married: before 1680 Died: 19 FEB 1706 in Schalbach, Lorraine Buried: in Rauweiler, Bas-Rhin, France Father: Isaac BALLIOTE Mother: >>> Spouses: Notes: Jacob was Gerichts-Schoffe, or associate judge, of Schalbach. From: THE BALLIET, BALLIETT, BALLIETTE, BALYLEAT, BOLYARD and ALLIED FAMILIES by STEPHEN CLAY BALLIET, 1968 Jacob had three sons: 1. STEPHEN BAILLET was married at Burbach, Alsace on April 26, 1707 to Maria Katherina Schweitzer, daughter of Nicholas Schweitzer of Schalbach. Stephen and Maria had a son, PAULUS and several daughters, one of whom was Maria. PAULUS and Maria emigrated to America. PAULUS became the founder of The Balliets of Whitehall, and Maria married Johannes Solt in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is quite possible the parents, Stephen and Maria K. also came to Pennsylvania. However, no trace of their death either in France or Pennsylvania was found. 2. ABRAHAM BAILLET was born in 1684 and died April, 1767 at or near Schalbach, Lorraine. He married Susanna Hahn, daughter of Jacob Hahn of Fleisheim. Susanna was born in 1683 and died December 18, 1777. As far as is known, they had only a son, JOSEPH Balliet, who became founder of The Balliets of Heidelberg in America. 3. JOHAN NICHOLAS BAILLET was born November of 1680 and died January 24, 1745. He married Margaretha Durand, born in 1684 and died March 27, 1766, a daughter of Mathieu Durand of Lixheint. Johan was an elder of the Reformed Church. They remained at Schalbach and had eight children, one of whom was also named Johan Nicholas Baillet, who married Susanna Alleman on November 17, 1743 at Schalbach, Lorraine. Their son, JOHANNES Balliet emigrated to America and was the progenitor of The Balliets of Sugar Loaf. ....... The Family Name The earliest known record of the family name was that of a Jean Balliet and his daughter Poncette, who in 1312 were residents of Besancon, capital of the Old Province of Franehe Comte, located on the eastern border of France, south of Lorraine and Alsace. Its adoption as a surname cannot be traced. Surnames when they first began to be assumed were based upon some physical peculiarities, personal achievement, occupation, possessions, as well as territorial distinctions, and were not in common usage before the twelfth century. The surname Balliet is no doubt a corrupted form of the old French "Baillet," meaning sorrel or light colored when the word is used in referring to a horse of that color. The name may well have been given to some French knight who rode a horse of the color and who became known as Chevalier de Baillet, "the Knight of the Sorrel Horse", which finally became his family or surname. In the French tongue, Balliet, as the name is spelled in America, and Baillet as it is mostly written in France, has practically the same pronunciation, Ba-yea, and will account for some of the vagaries of its orthography in the early French and Alsatian-Lorraine records. Intercourse with the Germans in Alsace and Lorraine eventually gave the name a German sound, the double 'l' losing its characteristic French sound and the name pronounced Ball-yet or Bal-yet as at the present time in Alsace-Lorraine and Pennsylvania. PAULUS, JOSEPH, and JOHANNES, the three immigrant pioneers signed their names Balliet, with a few exceptions when the Baliet spelling is found. The name in Pennsylvania has been firmly established as Balliet and has remained unchanged since the days of the pioneers. Some of the second and third generation of JOSEPH's line who migrated to Riehiand County, Ohio and what is now Preston County, West Virginia, adopted the spelling of Balyeat and Bolyard. In several instances, later generations have used Balliett or Dalliette. One family in California has given the name an Irish touch, O'Balliet. Just how or why these changes were made is unknown. Perhaps when members of the family left their German speaking communities in Pennsylvania and located in the predominant English speaking settlements of Ohio and West Virginia, their new friends and neighbors spelled the name as it sounded to their English ears when spoken by their German speaking owners, and eventually they themselves adopted the new spelling. The sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of PAULUS remained in Pennsylvania, and members of this branch, except one or two families, used the Balliet form. The same is true of the descendants of JOSEPH's sons who remained in Pennsylvania. Whereas a considerable number of those from the line of JOSEPH's sons who migrated to other sections use the Balliett, Balyeat and Bolyard spelling. JOHANNES' descendants are known as Balliet, with the exception of a few lines which have taken the Balliett or Balliette form of the family name. It is not unlikely that some of the "missing links" in the delineation of the family have so altered the spelling of the name until it is beyond recognition, and all connection with the family lost. In 1685, when Louis XIV of France declared void the Edict of Nantes which had given all people religious freedom, all Protestants who did not obey were persecuted or killed, soldiers (Dragonades) quartered in their homes and their property confiscated. It was at this time that Jacob Balliet escaped, traveled over eight hundred miles at night to Schalbach where he established a home. Sachalbach was about 40 miles northeast of Nancy, France and 35 miles southeast of Metz. Later, when Louis XIV promised religious freedom, this area was given back to France. It had been part of the old German or Holy Roman Empire. Presecution begin again and some of the Hugenots emigrated to America, including Joseph Balliet, grandson of Jacob Balliet.

Wife: Anna FRUIBEAU

Born: before 1666 Died: Unknown Father: Mother: Spouses:

Children

01 (M): Johan Nicholas (Hans Nickel) BALLIET Born: 24 OCT 1680 Died: 24 JAN 1745 in Schalbach, Lorraine Spouses: Margaretha DURAND

02 (M): Stephen BALLIET Born: 1682 in Schalbach, Lorraine Died: 1742 Spouses: M. C. SCHWEITZER

03 (M): Abraham BALLIET Born: 1684 in Lorraine, France Died: 16 APR 1767 in Schalbach, Lorraine Spouses: Susanna Catharina HAHN

04 (F): M. BALLIET Born: Died: Spouses: J. DILLER

05 (F): Anna Jeanette BALLIET Born: 1678 Died: 06 JAN 1750 Spouses: Jacob TOUSSAINT; P. MANNLEIN