The Roseate was featured in the November 2006 issue of PassageMaker Magazine , both on the cover and in a nice article. I've attached a copy of the article here, but it's only accessible to family members. Its copyright belongs to PassageMaker, and though it's fair for me to show it to other family members, wider distribution without their explicit permission would be both wrong and illegal. So log in and you can see it.

Captain spawns a family of seafaring men

Give a man a colorful ancestor who sailed square-riggers around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, kept records of voyages in journals and on charts, and what do you end up with?

Either someone so daunted by those records that he heads inland, or a modern sailor who is fascinated by it all and keeps the old records with loving care while he builds his own boats and sails them.

That’s how it worked with Charles Ball, a Sarasota attorney whose great-grandfather Charles A. Johnson spent his life at sea, captain of at least three trading barks in the 19th century.

Jessie Askew

Translator's Preface

This study was written by Jessie Askew, a friend of my parents in Evington, Virginia. I don't know how to contact her to ask for permission to post this. Jessie, if you ever find this, please feel free to contact me at mike@ballfam.net to let me know how you feel. Of course, I hope that you will be delighted, but if you aren't, I'll do whatever you like with it.

I've scanned this in from a type-written document, then run it through an optical character recognizer to get back to text. I've had to edit it to clean up errors in the process, and have also corrected a few obvious typographical errors. I've tried not to change anything substantive. I've also added some formatting for easier online reading. One thing I added was occasional notes that look like [note 0] If you click on one of these, it will take you to some question or comment that I felt compelled to add. If anybody has a note to add, or perhaps some answers, please send me email.

As I bring up this website, I'm logging discoveries, problems, and processes. It should eventually come together into a maintenance document of sorts.

I put the site together on my home PC, got it pretty much working, then transferred it to the server. Unfortunately, I couldn't transfer the database information because of version differences in the mySQL implementations.  I'm now recreating all of that work by hand.  Of course it goes a lot faster the second time, because I almost know what I'm doing.