Family of Francis BALL and Abigail + BURT
Husband: Francis BALL
Francis BALL
| Name: |
Francis BALL |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Father: |
William BALL (1573-1647) |
| Mother: |
Alice WALTHAM (1573-1622) |
| Birth |
1599 |
|
| Death |
Oct 1648 (age 48-49) |
Springfield, Hampden, MA, US3 |
|
Cause: drowning
Drowned in the Great River. |
| Burial |
|
Springfield Cemetary |
|
Springfield, Hampden, MA, US
Body relocated in 1848 to Springfield Cemetary |
Wife: Abigail + BURT
| Name: |
Jonathan BALL |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
6 Oct 1645 |
|
| Name: |
Samuel BALL |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
16 Mar 1648 |
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Note on Husband: Francis BALL
Springfield, propr 1643. Contracted to build a ship for a smith Sept 4,1646. Town Officer. He m. 3 (8) 1644, Abigail Burt. He was drowned in the Great River in Octover 1648.
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His home-lot was than on which the Chicopee Bank building now stands. This lot was first granted to John Woodcock, and when he left town the improvements were purchased by Ball, as testified to by his widow, who at that time, February 12, 1690, was the widow of Thomas STEBBINS. The title being in dispute between the children of her second marriage and her own the court record states: "Widow Abigail Stebbins, aged about 67 years, testified that her first husband, Francis Ball, bought of John Woodcocke alotments in Springfield and paid 5 pounds for his labor and what he had done."
Francis Ball was drowned in the Connecticut River October 3, 1648, and his widow married Benjamin MUNN, April 12, 1649. 4,5
Sources
| 1 | "US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT). |
| 2 | "US New England Marriages prior to 1700". |
| 3 | "MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record". |
| 4 | Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998). |
