Individual Details

A birth of 12 Aug 1603, Southwell, Nottingham, England is seen for this William - the age seems correct. However, posted on WikiTree was the assertion that the William Ballard baptised in 1603 was buried in 1619, still in Southwell.

Others have intermingled the records of this man with the William Ballard who married Grace Berwick and lived in Andover. These are two very different William Ballards.

William Ballard, later of Lynn, was registered as a passenger in Hotten's "Original Lists". William Ballard, husbandman, age 32 with Mary 26, Hester 2 and John age 1, came in the "James" in July 1635.
Found in family tree on Ancestry:
The James left London, England July, 1635 with her master, John May, arriving in Massachusetts Bay the last week of September 1635.
The following alphabetical roll is from her departure point, not necessarily who landed..
Alphabetical listing with age and roll number includes: Ballard William 32, #8 Ballard Elizabeth 26, #9 Ballard Hester 2, #10 Ballard Jo. 1
and the following is apparently a different ship of the same name:
The ship James left King's Road in Bristol on May 23, 1635 with master John Taylor at the helm. from England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel, the Elizabeth (Bess), the Mary and the Diligence.
On June 3, 1635, the James joined four other ships, and set sail for the New World with just over 100 passengers as part of a fleet of five ships, including the families of Richard Mather, Captain John Evered and John Ayer. As they approached New England, a hurricane struck and they were forced to ride it out just off the coast of modern-day Hampton, New Hampshire. According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were passengers, the following was recorded;
"At this moment,... their lives were given up for lost; but then, in an instant of time, God turned the wind about, which carried them from the rocks of death before their eyes. ...her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they had been rotten ragges..."
They tried to stand down during the storm just outside the Isles of Shoals, but lost all three anchors, as no canvas or rope would hold, but on Aug 13, 1635, torn to pieces, and not one death, all one hundred plus passengers the James managed to make it to Boston Harbor two days later.

Ballard was made a freeman in Massachusetss, 2 May 1638.
He was appointed a magistrate of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay for the session held at Newtown [later Cambridge] 8 Jun 1638.
He settled at Lynn with 60 acres, according to the first record of the two, 1639. He was on the committee to establish the boundary between Salem & Lynn as reported 13 Mar 1638/9.

Ballard died early in 1639, leaving no written will but had told Nicholas Browne & Gerard Spencer Jr, a day or two before his death that he wished half his estate to go to his wife and the rest to be divided among his children. His second wife, Elizabeth, survived him. She then married William Knight of Salem and outlived him as well. When William Knight died, 1655, he made bequests to his four children by Elizabeth and to John & Nathaniel Ballard of 40sh each, though he did not state their relationship. When they made receipt they stated the money was from their father in law [stepfather]. Elizabeth married a 3rd time to Allen Breed, 28th day, 1st month,1656.

There is no definitive list of children. One of the named sons made reference to "his brother Jenckes" thereby identifying his sister Esther [Hester] who had married Joseph Jenckes.

Date of marriage based on age of children. Ancestral File says they married about 1647 in Andover, MA; if this is true she's not the mother of the children. Also the place as Andover would seem to indicate the reference is to the William Ballard who married Grace Berwick and not this man. Some solve the problem of the wife's name - Mary on the passenger list - as asserting her name was "wrong" on the list. I think it likely that William who died in Lynn was married twice - to a Mary that came with him across the pond, and later to an Elizabeth.

Marriage	Abt 1632	England - ELIZABETH [Ballard]
Death	1639	Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts

Spouse	ELIZABETH [Ballard] (1609 - 1687)
Child	ESTHER BALLARD ( - 1717)
Child	John Ballard (1634 - )
Child	Nathaniel Ballard (1636 - )