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JOSEPH BALLARD (c. 1642–1722), son of William Ballard and Grace Unknown
ELIZABETH PHELPS (c. 1646–1692), daughter of Edward Phelps and Elizabeth Adams
Joseph was the son of William Ballard. [1][2] He was born about 1642. [1] Ensign Joseph died on 29 September 1722 in Andover. [3] He married first Elizabeth Phelps on 22 January 1665 in Andover. [3][4, 3: 295][5, 28 February 1666][1, 28 February 1665/6] He married second the widow Rebecca Horne on 15 November 1692 in Andover. [3][12] Rebecca was the daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Waters) Ray and granddaughter of Daniel Ray. [1][6][7] She married first Samuel Stevens. [6] Samuel was the son of William and Elizabeth (Bidfield) Stevens. [1] She married second Simon Horne on 28 February 1675 in Salem. [6][8] Simon, the son of John and Frances (Stone) (Greene) Horne, was baptized on 28 October 1649 in Salem. [1][6][8] Rebecca died on 11 February 1739/40 in Andover. [3]
Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward Phelps and Elizabeth Adams, was born about 1646. [5] She died on 27 July 1692 in Andover. [3]
Joseph Ballard is called Edward Phelps's son-in-law in the 31 January 1689/09 settlement of Edward's estate. [9]
Thomas Johnson was presented by the grand jury for selling "strong waters" to the Indians at the April 1671 quarterly court in Ipswich. Testifying in the case, on 12 April 1671, Joseph Ballard, age about 26, deposed that "if he gave a dram or two to the Indians, what was that to any man?" [4, 4: 371]
Joseph was on the trial jury at the 30 March 1686 quarterly court at Ipswich. [4, 9: 576]
In 1688 the town voted that 20 acres of land should be improved by Joseph and John Ballard, so long as they kept up "a grist mill, fulling mill, &c." [2, 50]
Mary Osgood, Mary Tiler, Deliverance Dane, Abigail Barker, Sarah Wilson, and Hannah Tiler, all of Andover, were accused of witchcraft, but were spared after confession. They later signed a document giving an account of their confessions: [10]
We whose Names are under written, Inhabitants of Andover, when as that horrible and tremendous Judgement beginning at Salem-Village in the Year 1692 (by some) call'd Witchcraft, first breaking forth at Mr. Parris's House, several Young persons being seemingly afflicted, did accuse several persons for afflicting them, and many there believing it so to be; we being informed that if a person were sick, that the afflicted persons could tell, what or who was the cause of that sickness. Joseph Ballard of Andover (his Wife being sick at the same time) he either from himself, or by the advice of others, fetch'd two of the persons call'd the afflicted persons, from Salem-Village to Andover. Which was the beginning of that dreadful Calamity that befel us in Andover.
On 19 July 1692 Joseph testified against Mary, the wife of Lawrence Lacey, and her daughter Mary Lacey, complaining that their witchcraft caused the illness of his wife Elizabeth: [11]
Joseph Ballard of Andover husbandman Complaineth of Mary Lacy wife of Lawrence Lacy of Andover husbandm'n and of Mary Lacy daughter of s'd Lawrence Lacy of Andover afores'd Singlewoman: as followeth that whereas this Complainers Wife Elizabeth Ballard hath been this Severall monthes Sorely aflicted & visited w'th Strange pains and pressures & remains So to this day which I verily beleive is Occasioned by Witchcrafts and have cause to Suspect the above Mencioned Mary Lacy & her daughter Mary to be the actors of it & accordingly Enter this my Complaint against them & acknowledge my Selfe Indebted to Our Soveraign Lord & Lady the King & Queen One hundred poundes Currant money of New England On Condition to prosecute this my Complaint to Effect as the law directs: in witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand this 19th day July: 1692.
Mary Lacey, Sr. was sentenced to death, but was sent to prison and later released. Elizabeth died eight days after her husband's testimony.
Children of Joseph Ballard and Elizabeth Phelps:
i. Joseph Ballard was born on 26 January 1667 in Andover. He died on 1 September 1732 in Andover. He married Rebecca Johnson.
ii. Eleanor Ballard was born on 24 August 1672 in Andover. [3][4, 5: 125] She married John Johnson on 13 September 1689 in Andover. [3]
iii. William Ballard was born on 3 December 1674 in Andover. [3] He died on 2 September 1707 in Andover. [3]
iv. Hannah Ballard was born on 17 July 1677 in Andover. [3]
v. Dorothy Ballard was born on 8 November 1679 in Andover. [3]
vi. Hezekiah Ballard was born on 22 March 1682 in Andover. [3]
Abbot says that Joseph had sons Joseph, William, Hezekiah, and Uriah. For some reason, Hezekiah's name is crossed out in the original town records. [2][3]
vii. Uriah Ballard was born on 16 November 1684 in Andover. [3][4, 9: 427] He married Elizabeth Mansur of Woburn after 18 October 1712 (intention) in Andover. [3]
viii. Tabitha Ballard was born on 19 March 1686/7 in Andover. [3] She died 30 May 1687. [5]
ix. Tabitha Ballard was born on 28 March 1688 in Andover. [3] She died on 24 February 1690/1 in Andover. [3]
Children of Joseph Ballard and Rebecca Horne:
x. Sarah Ballard was born on 31 August 1693. She died on 3 January 1715/6, age about 22, in Andover. [3]
xi. Jeremiah Ballard was born on 29 March 1697. He married Mary Dane on 29 December 1721 in Andover. [3]
xii. Josiah Ballard was born on 22 June 1699. [12] He was buried on 26 December 1780, age 81, in Andover. [3] He married Mary Chandler on 7 August 1721 in Andover. [3]
Endnotes:
1. Alicia Crane Williams, "Early New England Families, 1641–1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Edward Phelps (m. 1646).
2. Abiel Abbot, History of Andover: From its Settlement to 1829 (Andover: Flag and Gould, 1829).
3. Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912).
BALLARD/BALLERD births, 48–51. Dorathy, d. Joseph and Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1679. |
BALLARD marriages, 37–39 Elenor, and John Johnson, Sept. 13, 1689. BALLARD deaths, 382–4 Elizabeth, w. Joseph, July 27, 1692. |
4. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).
5. Oliver Seymour Phelps, The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors (Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Pub. Co., 1899).
6. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 992–3.
7. William B. Saxbe, Jr., "John Walling of Glocester, Rhode Island, and His Wife Hope Orne," The American Genealogist 71 (1996): 71.
8. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 6 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1925), vol. 1,vol. 3. HORNE 1: 450 Symond, s. ___ bp. 28: 8m: 1649 C.R.1; 3: 518 Symond, and wid. Rebecka Steevens, Feb. 28, 1675. CT.R.
9. "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, case 21639.
10. Transcription from Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World," in George Lincoln Burr, editor, Narratives of the New England Witchcraft Cases (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002), 374.
11. "Complaint of Joseph Ballard v. Mary Lacey Sr. , & Mary Lacey, Jr.," SWP No. 86.1, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n86.html#n86.1 : accessed 12 November 2023).
12. Frances Davis McTeer, "Children of John Aslebee's Daughters: Browne—Johnson—Frye—Cole," The American Genealogist 41 (1965): 8–16, 77–83.
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