Length8h 28m
About this audiobook
In this historical novel, Jeff Ball follows generations of the Ball family from the early Carolina settlements through the American Revolution and into Georgia. Drawing on family stories and historical records, Kinsmen traces the choices that shaped a family as its members built households, faced war, and carried what they knew into new country.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length8 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author’s Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Promise of Carolina — Kinsmen
3Chapter 2: A Church Without a Steeple — Screven and the Kittery Congregation
4Chapter 3: The Colleton Commission and Barbados
5Chapter 4: Beyond the Harbor
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6Chapter 5: A Place on the Cooper — William Ball Sr.
7Chapter 6: What the Children Carried Part 1
8Chapter 6: What the Children Carried Part 2
9Chapter 7: Brothers in the Venture — Sampson and Bartholomew
10Chapter 8: Six Names Before the Court — Bartholomew’s Household
11Chapter 9: The Muster — Cherokee Expedition
12Chapter 10: Between War and Inheritance — 1760–1766
13Chapter 11: The Children’s Own Households — 1766–1777 Part 1
14Chapter 11: The Children’s Own Households — 1766–1777 Part 2
15Chapter 12: The Road South — 1767
16Chapter 13: The Regulators
17Chapter 14: Two Hundred Acres — 1769
18Chapter 15: Sugar’s Wedding — 1770
19Chapter 16: A Household Already Begun — Edward and Rebeckah — the early 1770s
20Chapter 17: Dinner on the Grounds
21Chapter 18: The Business of the Province — 1775
22Chapter 19: The Names He Carried — March 1777
23Chapter 20: What They Could Carry — Midway 1778
24Chapter 21: Brothers Again — South Carolina 1779
25Chapter 22: Cherokee and Scout — 1780 Part 1
26Chapter 22: Cherokee and Scout — 1780 Part 2
27Chapter 23: James Courtney on Service
28Chapter 24: Farther South — Sampson and Lucy — 1780–1781
29Chapter 25: Snow Island — Winter and Spring 1781
30Chapter 26: What Remained — 1782
31Chapter 27: After the Armies — 1782–1785
32Chapter 28: Two Men Remember
33Chapter 29: The Road to Beaufort — 1784–1790
34Chapter 30: His Mother’s House — Sarah Brown Ball, 1788
35Chapter 31: The Road to Spirit Creek — After 1788 Part 1
36Chapter 31: The Road to Spirit Creek — After 1788 Part 2
37Chapter 32: A Household of Their Own — 1796
38Chapter 33: A Place Left Empty — 1799
39Chapter 34: A Name in the County — 1803
40Chapter 35: Grandfather Lee and the Children
41Chapter 36: Lessons Remembered
42Chapter 37: The Passports
43Chapter 38: South of the Boundary
44Chapter 39: Business on the Three Chopped Way
45Chapter 40: The Children of the House
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