Individual Details
Ephraim Ballard
(13 Mar 1779 - 5 Nov 1829)
Events
| Birth | 13 Mar 1779 | Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine | |||
| Marriage | 5 Feb 1804 | Augusta, Kennebec, Maine - Mary Farwell |  | ||
| Residence | 1820 | Augusta, Kennebec, Maine |  | ||
| Marriage | 7 Jan 1822 | Augusta, Kennebec, Maine - Paulina Palmer | |||
| Probate | 1829 | | |||
| Death | 5 Nov 1829 | Bangor, Penobscot, Maine | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Mary Farwell (1785 - 1819) |
| Child | Mary Ballard (1804 - 1804) |
| Child | Sophia Ballard (1805 - 1847) |
| Child | Thomas Sedgwick Ballard (1805 - 1839) |
| Child | Amelia Ballard (1808 - 1808) |
| Child | Daughter Ballard (1809 - ) |
| Child | Edward Ballard (1814 - 1871) |
| Child | Charles Henry Ballard (1815 - 1841) |
| Spouse | Paulina Palmer (1795 - ) |
| Father | Ephraim Ballard (1725 - 1821) |
| Mother | Martha Moore (1735 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Cyrus Ballard (1756 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy Ballard (1758 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Martha Ballard (1761 - 1769) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Ballard (1763 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Tryphena Ballard (1765 - 1769) |
| Sibling | Dorothy Ballard (1767 - 1769) |
| Sibling | Hannah Ballard (1769 - 1856) |
| Sibling | Dorothy Ballard (1772 - 1861) |
Notes
Marriage
some children here – a bunch of them are baptized on the same day by Maryhttps://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.surname=ballard&q.birthLikeDate.from=1804&q.birthLikeDate.to=1819&q.fatherGivenName=ephraim&q.motherGivenName=mary&f.recordCountry=United%20States&f.recordSubcountry=United%20States%2CMaine&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on&count=20&offset=0
Vital records of Augusta Maine – digital access
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/55379?availability=Family%20History%20Library
image 12
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/254368/?offset=0#page=12&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
Probate
probate distribution of dowerhttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8994/images/005428520_00807?usePUB=true&pId=1823833
probate
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8994/images/005428520_00757?usePUB=true&pId=1823833
dower to widow Paulina
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8994/images/005428520_00807?usePUB=true&pId=1823833
image 827, guardian to minor children – Sophia,Theodore S., Edward, and Charles H. – so maybe not the Amelia unless she isoldest and not a minor – it is Ephraim that is named as the guardian so this may related to the estate of Mary’s father or something like that – year of theguardianship is 1822 – in 1831 when Ephraim is deceased, Edward and Charles areminors over 14
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8994/images/005428520_00827?usePUB=true&pId=1823833
Biography
Tiny bithttps://archive.org/details/historyofaugusta00nort/page/803/mode/2up
Ballard Bits image 51 – includes sources that need to be looked up
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9330/images/32569_1220706416_0156-00050?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00king/page/402/mode/2up?q=%22ephraim+ballard%22
A tiny bit here
https://archive.org/details/6AmericaANarrativeHistoryBriefEdition/%283%29%20A%20Midwife%27s%20Tale/page/n237/mode/2up?q=mary+farwell
he was an engineer and built the Kennebec Riverbridge in 1818
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/11714/images/dvm_GenMono001337-00112-1?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=189&rcstate=dvm_GenMono001337-00112-1%3A1627%2C3593%2C1876%2C3649%3B1873%2C3591%2C2083%2C3637%3B1918%2C3811%2C2204%2C3866%3B2201%2C3810%2C2415%2C3854
tiny bit
https://archive.org/details/ballardgenealogy00farl/page/n243/mode/2up?q=farwell
Property
Kennebec County deeds – 72:360 (Paulina), 5:449(Ephraim, Jr. to Ephraim quitclaim)5:449
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-PD85?i=256&cat=323983
72:360
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3HY-H6C?i=427&cat=323983
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Page: 574; NARA Roll: M33_35; Image: 112.