Jeremiah Ballard

1697 - 1759  (61 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Ballard
  Birth	29 Mar 1697	Andover, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Death	1759	New Salem, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I342223161065	Tripp Family Genealogical Website

  
  

  Family	Mary Dane,   b. 22 Apr 1699, Andover, Massachusetts
  Marriage	29 Dec 1721
  Children	1. Mary Ballard,   b. 27 Dec 1722   d. Aft. 18 Feb 1757 (Age 34 years)   2. Phebe Ballard,   b. 01 Oct 1724   d. Aft. 10 Jan 1758 (Age 33 years)   3. Jeremiah Ballard,   b. 16 Sep 1726   d. 1761, New Salem, Massachusetts (Age 34 years)   4. Daniel Ballard,   b. 01 May 1728, Andover, Massachusetts d. 31 May 1808, Wendell, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)   5. Joshua Ballard,   b. 03 Aug 1730   d. 1776 (Age 45 years)   6. Hannah Ballard   7. Joseph Ballard
  Family ID	F52667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.