Joseph Ballard
1644 - 1722 (78 years)-
Name Joseph Ballard Birth Abt. 1644 Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 
Gender Male Burial Sep 1722 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Death 29 Sep 1722 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Person ID I312684222487 Oswald Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Family Elizabeth Phelps, b. Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. 27 Jul 1692, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Marriage Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Family ID F2333 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
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Notes - Joseph Ballard Weblinks
* http://dgmweb.net/FGS/B/BallardJoseph-ElizabethPhelps-RebeccaRea.html
* https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/joseph-ballard-home-site-of/
Arrival
John Joseph Sr Ballard He arrival in 1635. Lynn, Massachusetts. He was Birth 1635 . Bitton, Gloucestershire, England.
Joseph Ballard
Accuser of Elizabeth Phelps as a witch
PROBLEM RECORD that mixes data from multiple different people and from unrelated families from different locations.
So far he has been Joseph and also John and also Joshua and mixed up the Andover, MA Ballard family with an unrelated family in Virginia which has invented various people who don't exist but borrows parts of other peoples' names. All of the real people involved were accurate on FS and well documented but lots of variations on new "duplicates" that are mixtures of different people have created Ballard chaos adversely affecting many families. Today there were new ones found that were making up fanciful families so this explanation does not include some of these new mistakes.
PLEASE DO NOT COPY ALL THE ONLINE GARBAGE that strings names together in false lineages.
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! PAR REG OF WASHINGBOROUGH; TIMBERLAND
! PAR REG OF WASHINGBOROUGH; TIMBERLAND GS 504755,508013, 508010; !SEMPRINGHAM PAR REG; WILL OF THOMAS HAKER; 7022415-08;F847812
witchcraft
The witchcraft delusion in Andover began with the accusation and arrest of Martha Carrier in late May of 1692, but escalated in mid-July when Joseph Ballard invited two of the afflicted girls from Salem Village to visit his sick wife in Andover. Elizabeth (Phelps) Ballard had been inexplicably ill all summer. Was she bewitched? The girls (it is assumed they were Ann Putnam Jr. and Mary Walcott) confirmed Elizabeth Ballard was tormented by witchcraft and accused several Andover residents. Shortly thereafter Joseph Ballard entered a complaint against Mary Lacy Sr. and her daughter, Mary Lacy Jr.
Why did Joseph Ballard initially suspect witchcraft was behind his wife’s illness? There are a few possibilities. The fear that pervaded Essex County in 1692 may have been one reason. Joseph’s brother John Ballard was the constable for Andover’s south end and it was he who arrested Martha Carrier and escorted her to Salem in May. Perhaps John witnessed the hysteria that gripped Salem and brought home stories.
A family connection may have also been involved. John Ballard’s wife, Rebecca Hooper, was the sister of Sarah Hooper, wife of Samuel Wardwell. (Another brother, William Ballard, was married to a third Hooper sister, Hannah.) The Wardwells lived about a mile and a half to the northeast. Wardwell expressed worry to his brother-in-law that he [Wardwell] might be suspected of witchcraft, perhaps because he was a known fortune-teller. This was apparently an idea that had not occurred to John Ballard – but did he share this information with his brother Joseph? A family member might be accused? It was prescient of Samuel Wardwell to worry – he was accused of witchcraft and arrested on August 31, and hanged on September 22.
Identifying those who “tormented” Elizabeth Ballard did not help her. She died of her illness on July 27, 1692.
Charlotte Helen Abbott’s Notes and Records of the Ballard Family of Andover, available at Memorial Hall Library, list the parents of Joseph and John Ballard as William and Grace Ballard. They were known to have been in Andover by the 1660s.
Joseph Ballard married Elizabeth Phelps, from Newbury, MA, in 1665.
first 6 children with birthdates from Ed
first 6 children with birthdates from Edward Broyles onProdigy. Lynne Miller gives b-place. Jan Ballard quotes The Adams' Notes and sayshe was Sheriff of York Co. and his half-broth Francis was hissub-sheriff. He moved to Nansemond Co. and m Mgt in 1673 and died inSept 1694.
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!FGR for William Ballard by Jesse L. War
!FGR for William Ballard by Jesse L. Warner of Salt Lake City, Utah citing Bassett-Preston Ancestry B11E15 p 17 - 18; Ballard Family by E. S. Ballard (1907); Babcock and Allied Families by L. E. DeForest (1928); Ballard Genealogy by C. F. Farlow (1911) p 15 - 18; shows age 1 in 1635; shows death at age 92 11 Jun 1725
BALLARD-BALLORD BITS Sutro Library San F
BALLARD-BALLORD BITS Sutro Library San Franciso California pg 28 Ensign Joseph Ballard, b 1645 in Andover, Essex Co, Massachuttes, where he had a fulling mill with his brother John BAllard, where in 1694 and 1699 was an Ensign in co Foot militia where he died Sept 29 1701 or 1702 and where he married (1) Feb 28, 1665\6, Elizabeth Phelps who was born c1646 in Newbury, Essex Co, Massachuttes, "became sick of a fever and after the usual method of curing her had proved ineffectual, it was decided that she was bewitched. Her husband posted (that's all I have).
Ballard Gen., op cit: 1 Joseph m Eliz. P
Ballard Gen., op cit: 1 Joseph m Eliz. Phelps, 9 ch; 2 William, m 1682Hannah Hooper, 6 ch; 3 SARAH; 4 Elizabeth m Wm Blunt, 7 ch; 5 John b1653, m Rebekah Hooper, 7 ch; 6 Hannah b 1655 m 1681 John Spaulding; 7Lydia b 1657, m 1674 Joseph Butterfield, 6 ch; 8 Abigail; 9 Ann mSamuel Betterfield. Joseph Ballard, concerned over his sick wife, invited the SalemVillage teenagers and their sponsors to inquire into witchcraft inAndover. His son, John, was constable and arrested those accused. Theyincluded Samuel & Sarah Wardwell, Mary Clement Osgood, and others. Seethose records.
Will of John Ballard mentions Richard Parker
1681. Dec. 29 Will of John Ballard. To Richard PARKER, all of my
estate after debts paid. To God-daughter Sarah Perkins, dau of
Nicholas Perkins, a cow calf. To God-daughter Jane Whitly, dau of
William Whitly, a cow calf. Richard PARKER, sole executor. Wit:
James Morrice, Robert Sharp, William Peirce. Recd. 1 Feb. 1691.
Henrico Co, VA Wills & Deeds Book #3 1688-1697, p. 269.
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Ancestral File found May 1998 is messed
Ancestral File found May 1998 is messed up terribly in this family.First sonWm was born when his father(also William) was 14! and diedthe same day as his father and he married to the same wife as his father. Son Johanthan, Wm's 4th child, had his baptism done in 1937 and was endowed in1928. I DON'T THINK SO. What do I do with a mess like this? Wm's first wife with the 5 kids was recorded as Elizabeth Lee and another record said that it was Elizabeth Mary? Which woman was my Ester Ballard's mother??
!BIRTH: FATHER: SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: CHILDR
!BIRTH: FATHER: SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: CHILDREN: DEATH: Genealogy-Boston and Eastern Massacusetts; William R.Cutter; 1908: Page 1522.
!Death: At age 92.
!Death: At age 92.
He married (1) Pasheba. He had 3 sons b
He married (1) Pasheba. He had 3 sons by her, Joseph, Peter and Ralph. He married (2) Margaret, their issue, Elisha and Jarvis. Immigrated from England in 1659 and was an indentured servant of John Brian/Bryan of Isle of Wight.
Source: "Ballard Records of Lynne Mille
Source: "Ballard Records of Lynne Miller" Lynne is the organizer ofBallards of America and the Ballard internet e-mail list. She hasextensive records on many Ballard families. Some are also published in"North Carolina Ballards" by Lynne D. Miller, Publication Date 1997. John "immigrated direct from England in 1659 and was an indenturedservant of John Brian/Bryan of Isle of Wight/Nansemond County, VA.Immigration record is found in the Peter Coldham's series of immigrationrecords that names a John Ballard coming to Virginia on Aug 15, 1659 (ref1 p. 432). John Ballard comes with Lewes (Lewis) and Robert Brian to beindentured to a John Brian. While there are other John Brians (spellingchanged to Bryan), the only one with land lives in Nansemond and Isle ofWight Co. Lewes/Lewis, Robert and John Brian all show up in this areaalong with John Ballard. To further support the linkage, the Bryans andBallards appear together in other documents about the Bryan and Smithfamilies of the area and apparently they or their kin moved to NorthCarolina together. No information concerning the parentage of John Ballard has beendiscovered at the time of this writing. In the documents section of this book is a photocopy of a land patentgranted to John Ballard and wife Pasheba. The grant was made 2 June 1673 in Nansemond County, Virginia.
Sister b. 2OCT1668 (21) D
Sister b. 2OCT1668 (21) D
Note: Lived in Andover, MA, and was a hu
Note: Lived in Andover, MA, and was a husbandman, being one of the soldiers to whom land in Souhegan-west was granted "for their service in a hard & tedious march to ye Narragansett Country & their Extraordinary Engagement with ye Enemy there" Dec. 19, 1675, as a deed of his children says.
Massachusetts Town Birth Records about John Ballerd
Name: John Ballerd
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1653
Birth Place: Andover
Father's First Name: William
Mother's First Name: Grace
Gender: Male
Source: Vital Records of Andover
!NOTE: Ancestors of Aleta M: WorldConnec
!NOTE: Ancestors of Aleta M: WorldConnect Project: Aleta Jean T. Morrison <AletaM@aol.com> ; ; ; , . Source Media Type: Book !BIRTH: The Ballard Family of Massachusetts: WorldConnect Project:J. Dudley Richards <auddud@erols.com> ; ; ; , . Source Media Type: Book !DEATH: Ancestors of Aleta M: WorldConnect Project: Aleta Jean T. Morrison <AletaM@aol.com> ; ; ; , . Source Media Type: Book !MARRIAGE:Ancestors of Aleta M: WorldConnect Project: Aleta Jean T. Morrison <AletaM@aol.com> ; ; ; , . Source Media Type: Book
Source; LDS Film 0896614 Book-George Abb
Source; LDS Film 0896614 Book-George Abbott and his decendents.
sister b. 2Oct1668
sister b. 2Oct1668
!son of man who made first witchcraft ac
!son of man who made first witchcraft accusation in Andover MA
- Joseph Ballard Weblinks