Ballard Family History
by: Fay Hunting Bennett
Jeremiah, Joseph's twelfth child (his first by his second wife) was born in Andover March 29, 1697. He married Mary Dane December 29, 1721. Mary Dane was born in Andover about 1700, the daughter of Francis Dane and Hannah Poor.
Jeremiah sold the old family place at Andover in l735, to his brother-in-law Joseph Gibson and moved to Lunenburg, then to Lancaster, then to Concord, where he was living in 1743. At the outbreak of the war with France in 1744, he entered the military service, serving first as sergeant and then as Captain. In 1745 he was in command of a company engaged in protecting the frontiers of Maine, and his manuscript orders signed by Governor Shirley are still in existence. In 1749 he moved west to New Salem, Franklin County, at the foot of the Berkshires.
He became one of the most prominent settlers of that town. In 1738 he was Captain in Colonel Joseph William's Regiment. In 1750 Jeremiah Ballard and Jeremiah Meacham were granted a license to erect a sawmill upon the land belonging to them. This mill was built in the east part of the township, upon the middle branch of Swift River, near the locality called Buffalo.
Many papers relating to his activities are on file. Jeremiah had six children: Mary, Phebe, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joshua and Joseph. He died in New Salem in 1761. His resting-place is not marked, but the location is believed to be on the site now occupied by the old school.
Extracts from "Here Lyes New Salim Grant"
Settlers' Families
Daniel Ballard, Sr. - son of Jeremiah and Mary Dane Ballard b. May 1, 1728 Andover, d. May 31, 1808, Wendall, md. Ruth Houlton, 1754, dau. of Joseph and Rebecca Felton Houlton b. March 2, 1735, Hopkinton, d. Nov. 22, 1817, Wendall. Ch. b. at New Salem:
Daniel, Jr. - bp. June 7, 1755, md. widow (Abigail Ganson?) Chafling, 1780.
Phoebe - bp. Aug. 21, 1757.
Tilly - bp. March 30, 1760.
Josiah - b.c. 1763, md. Frances Jane Juel.
Joseph - b. Feb. 7, 1766, md. Polly Loomis, 1793.
Henry - b. July 20, 1768, md. Anna Sabia.
Lucy - bp. May 6, 1764.
James - b. Sept. 9, 1770, md. Polly White (Eunice Putnam, 1824).
William - b. Dec. 9, 1772, md. Cynthia Woodruff, 1796.
Hannah - b. c. 1778.
He probably came to New Salem with his father's family in 1750. He probably moved to Wendall before 1785. His father left him half of an 80 acre lot in 1761. His house lot was south of Fourth Div. #15.
Jeremiah Ballard, Jr. - son of Jeremiah and Mary Dane Ballard, b. Sept. 6, 1726, Andover, d. after 1817; md. Isabel Pierce, 1753, dau. of Samuel and Hannah Browne Pierce b. Apr. 24, 1732. Ch. b. at New Salem:
Dane - b. Aug. 13, 1753, md. Anna Lindsey, 1797.
Jeremiah - bp. Oct. 24, 1762.
Susannah - bp. Sept. 11, 1755, md. Francis Barnard, 1780.
Mary - bp. Jan. 8, 1758.
Hannah - bp. May 11, 1760, md. Samuel Wheeler, 1781. (Pages state 1784, but must be typo as New Salem Vital Records reflect 1781.)
Benjamin - bp. Jan. 31, 1768.
Rebekah - bp. May 5, 1765, md. Joseph Goldthwait, 1794.
Samuel - bp. Sept. 9, 1770.
He also probably came to New Salem with his father's family in 1750. His father left him half of an 80 acre lot in 1761. He had no real estate or personal estate in New Salem in 1759, but one poll.
Jeremiah Ballard, Sr. - Deacon, Captain, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Phelps b. March 29, 1697, Andover, d. 1761, New Salem, md. Mary Dane, 1721, b. April 22, 1699, Andover. (She md. 2nd Aaron Osgood, 1762) dau. of or g'dau of Francis and Hannah Poor Dane. Ch. b. at Andover:
Mary - b. Dec. 27, 1722, md. Samuel Reed, 1738.
Phebe - b. Oct. 1, 1724, md. Jonathan Willard, Jr., 1743.
Jeremiah, Jr. - b. Sept. 16, 1726, md. Isabel Pierce, 1753.
Daniel - b. May 1, 1728, md. Ruth Houlton, 1754.
Joshua - b. Aug. 3, 1730, md. Ruth Kellogg, 1757.
Joseph - b. Oct. 6, 1732, md. Rebekah Southwick, 1755.
Hannah - b. ?, md. Daniel Shaw, Jr., 1758.
A "mill lot" on Swift River north of Fourth Div.# 32 was sold by him to James Thompson in 1767. He came to New Salem in 1750. As he and Ebenezer Felton paid no polls in 1759, apparently Deacons were excused.
Joseph Ballard - son of Jeremiah and Mary Dane Ballard, b. Oct. 6, 1732, Andover, d. after 1795, md. Rebekah Southwick, 1755, New Salem, b. 1731, dau. of Benjamin and Abigail Burt Southwick. Ch. b. at New Salem:
John Morrow - b. ?
Betsy - b. ?, md. Solomon Wilder.
Drusilla - bp. Jan. 17, 1757(Pages state the 16th, while New Salem Vital Records state the 17th), md. Stephen Holt.
Anna - bp. March 25, 1759.
He also probably came to New Salem in 1750 with his father's family. He sold land here in 1755. He was in Williamstown by 1761 and in Fairhaven in 1779. Probably he, Clerk in Capt. Howe Company in 1755.
Joshua Ballard - son of Jeremiah and Mary Dane Ballard, b. Aug. 3, 1730, Andover, md. Ruth Kellogg, 1757, d. May 3, 1776, dau. of James and Experience Smith Kellogg. Ch. b. at New Salem:
Ruth - b. Dec. 27, 1758, md. Waitstill Cook, 1779.
Louisa - b. Feb. 25, 1761.
Polly - b. Jan. 16, 1764.
Jerusha - b. Dec. 26, 1765.
Billey - b. Nov. 1, 1768.
He also probably came to New Salem in 1750 with his father but moved to Hadley probably before 1755.
You can find more of Settler's Families; which is included the book "Heare Lyes Salim New Grant", now available online at:
A - L www.yeoldewoburn.net/Settlers.htm
M - W www.yeoldewoburn.net/Settlers1.htm
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