Daniel Ballard

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Daniel Ballard is my 4th Cousin, six times removed. He was a Private in American Revolution Abridged Compendium by Frederick Virkus. New Salem. Private, Captain Ebenexer Goodall's Company, Colonel B. R. Woodbridge's regiment which marked the alarm of April 19, 1775, 7 days, also, list of men returned as having served on picket guard May 11, 1775, under Major Loammi Baldwin, also Captain John King's Company, Colonel Woodbridge's regiment; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 29, 1775, also, muster roll dated August 1, 1775, enlisted April 26, 1775, service, 3 months 13 days, also company return dated Cambridge, September 29, 1775, also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp at Porspect Hill, October 25, 1775. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" ( Boston, 1869 ) Volume 1, page 547. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......

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Jeremiah Ballard was a Captain in the colonial wars Abridge Compendium by Frederick Virkus. He sold the old family place at Andover in 1735, 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 captain. In 1745 he was in command of a companyengaged inprotecting the frontiers of Maine, and his manuscrript 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 Jeseph William's Regiment. In 1750 Jeremiah Meacham and he 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. Ancestors of Harold Foote Ballard. Mary Dane and Jeremiah Ballard had the children listed.