Notes for John Ball: According to Bond's Watertown Genealogies, pp. 11-12:
1. John BALL, said to have come from Wiltshire, England [Shattuck], was admitted freeman, 1650; d. Nov. 1, 1655. [One record says buried Oct. 1.] He had sons Nathaniel and John, and probably other children.
2. John, a tailor, m. Elizabeth PEIRCE, by whom he had 4 chil. 1. John, b. 1644; 2. Mary; 3. Esther; 4. Abigail, b. in Wat., Ap. 20, 1658, and d. soon. She (wife) was insane in 1660, and probably had been thus some time. She gave much annoyance to her family and neighbors. [See Reg. of Deeds, vol. iii., p. 81.] She died, and he m. (2d) Oct. 3, 1665, Elizabeth FOX (? dr. of Thomas Fox, of Concord, afterwards of Wat.), and had son Joseph, b. Mar. 12, 1669-70. Oct. 21, 1665, he sold to William Perry his farm in Wat. (which he had purchased of John Lawrence), and went to Lancaster, where he was killed by Indians, Sept. 10, 1675. His estate was admin. by his son John, of Wat., Feb. 1, 1677-8.
More About John Ball and Elizabeth Peirce: Marriage: Watertown, Middlesex, MA.
Children of John Ball and Elizabeth Peirce are:
+Mary Ball, b. 1651, Lexington, Middlesex, MA, d. August 1692, Lexington, Middlesex, MA.
John Ball (b. 1620, d. 10 September 1675)
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