Individual Details

Married 16 Dec 1662 at Lynn, MA to Rebecca Hudson.

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Nathaniel was the son of William Ballard of Sanford Priors, Warwickshire England. He was the first of our line of Ballard born in America.
Nathaniel inherited lands from his father William, as shown in public records with Essex County.

"Know all men by these presents the I, Elizabeth Bread of Lynn, in ye county of Essex and ye wife of William Knight as alos his lawful executrix do hereby upon good considerations and divers good causes moving thereunto do hereby freely give and grant by this my deed of gift unto my well beloved son Nathaniel Ballard that parcell of land bought by my late husband William Ballard father of ye said Nathaniel Ballard, that is to say five acres of upland being more or less bounded E upon ye highway N with land of Allen Bread senr and with ye land of Samuel Hart and Benjamin Chadwell W with ye land of John Ballard 18, 8 mo. 1681 acknowledged by Elizabeth Bread 3, 1 mo. 1673"

Nathaniel married Rebeca Hudson (Hutson) in Lynn MA. on Dec. 16, 1662 pg. 33 of the Vital Records of Lynn.
They had the following children that can be verified in the Vital Records of Lynn, MA.

1)Elizabeth b. Nov. 2, 1675 pg. 38.
2)Ester b. Feb. 14, 1677 pg. 38.
3)Sarah b. May 13, 1681 pg. 38.
4)Abigall b. Jan. 20, 1683 pg. 38.
5)William b. Apr. 23, 1686 pg. 38. m. Deborah Ivory; d. Oct. 8, 1771 Framingham, MA.
6)Nathaniel b. Mar. 16, 1688/89 pg. 38.

There are several children in the records listed under only a Nathaniel but all of the Nathanell and Rebeca entries are the only ones I've listed. Originally the spelling was Nathanyell in earlier records.

Dec. 3rd 1675 Capt. Prentice was appointed to command a "Troop of Horse" Calvary, in what was called the Narragansett Campaign. On the 19th of Dec., Prentice's Troop took part in the battle of the Fort. Massachusetts Archives Vol. 68 pg. 73 contains a list of those cavalry soldiers and we find our Nathaniel there.
Nathaniel is listed from Feb. 29, 1675-76, as taking part in scouting trips into Pomham's Country(Warwick, R.I.)pg. 82 of "Soldiers in King Phillip's War by George M. Bodge Published 1896. Troopers were also paid extra money for the keeping of their horse
As payment for their part in the long march with the Indians in Nipmuag Country and the fight at Fort Narragansett, soldiers were promised grants of land. On May 27th 1685, 10 years after the fact, a petition was submitted in Lynn and June 4th at the General Court in Boston signed by Nathaniel and 24 others who wanted lands that were never given. At the slow pace that proceeded, it would be over 40 years before these soldiers saw what was due them. Many of the lands fell to the descendants.
In the annals of Lynn 1692 pg. 293, permission was given to Rebecca Ballard and several other women to sit in the hindmost seat of the gallery in the NE corner and fix it up to their liking provided they not hinder the light from the window.
1692 The town of Lynn attests to seven of it's residents being named as Witches! Nathaniel's family was just 5 miles away from the Salem Trials but no one in his immediate family was in jeopardy. There were other Ballard families involved on both sides of the trials.
Nathaniel Ballard died in Lynn Jan. 12, 1721/22, as recorded in the Vital Records pg. 422. He would have been buried at the "Old Burying Ground of Lynn which was the only one at that time. It is now labeled as the Western Old Burying Ground. Many of the older headstones are lost to the elements and to history, only a small portion remain from the early community.

Birth

Abt 1636

Massachusetts

Father	WILLIAM BALLARD ( - 1639)
Mother	ELIZABETH [Ballard] (1609 - 1687)
Sibling	ESTHER BALLARD ( - 1717)
Sibling	John Ballard (1634 - )