Individual Details
Ephraim Ballard
(6 May 1725 - 7 Jan 1821)
https://archive.org/details/ballardgenealogy00farl_0/page/98
Events
| Birth | 6 May 1725 | Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 19 Dec 1754 | Oxford, Massachusetts - Martha Moore |  | ||
| Residence | 2 Aug 1790 | Hallowell, Lincoln, Maine | | ||
| Residence | 6 Aug 1810 | Augusta, Kennebec, Maine | | ||
| Death | 7 Jan 1821 | Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Martha Moore (1735 - 1812) |
| Child | Cyrus Ballard (1756 - ) |
| Child | Lucy Ballard (1758 - 1798) |
| Child | Martha Ballard (1761 - 1769) |
| Child | Jonathan Ballard (1763 - 1838) |
| Child | Tryphena Ballard (1765 - 1769) |
| Child | Dorothy Ballard (1767 - 1769) |
| Child | Hannah Ballard (1769 - 1856) |
| Child | Dorothy Ballard (1772 - 1861) |
| Child | Ephraim Ballard (1779 - 1829) |
| Father | Jonathan Ballard (1686 - 1763) |
| Mother | Hannah Kidder (1696 - ) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Ballard (1723 - 1778) |
| Sibling | Hannah Ballard (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebekah Ballard (1728 - 1823) |
| Sibling | John Ballard (1731 - 1810) |
| Sibling | Ruth Ballard (1733 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Sherebiah Ballard (1735 - 1742) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Ballard (1737 - 1742) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Ballard (1740 - 1742) |
Notes
Property
index for Kennebec County deeds – a lot to look at –also need to look in Lincoln Countyhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-R9J3-J?i=16&cat=323983deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/323983?availability=Family%20History%20Library 5:449, 6:445 8:461 – order and report of survey (this is workhe did as surveyor)https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-6S86-5?i=557&cat=3239834:520 – deposition about survey workhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL5-69DQ-1?i=559&cat=323983Biography
Ephraim was a surveyor – I think he was in jail fora time – debtors’ prison??About going to debtor’s prison starts near thebottom of the left pagehttps://archive.org/details/6AmericaANarrativeHistoryBriefEdition/%283%29%20A%20Midwife%27s%20Tale/page/n227/mode/2up?q=prisontiny mention in history of Augusta – there are acouple of different placeshttps://books.google.com/books?id=KXuB72zLFUMC&q=%22ephraim+butterfield%22#v=snippet&q=%22ephraim%20butterfield%22&f=false Martha was a midwife whose diary is the basis of AMidwife’s Tale.https://archive.org/details/6AmericaANarrativeHistoryBriefEdition/%283%29%20A%20Midwife%27s%20Tale/mode/2up?q=mary+farwell https://archive.org/details/ballardgenealogy00farl_0/page/98/mode/2upEndnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).
2. Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Hallowell, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 258; Family History Library Film: 0568142.
3. Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1810; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 657; Image: Mem252_11-0641; FHL Roll: 0218682.