William Ball (abt. 1620 - bef. 1648)

Born about 1620 in England

Died before 30 Apr 1648 before about age 28 in New Haven, Connecticut

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Jean Ball [send private message]

Notice:The Puritan Great Migration Project, the New Haven Colony One Place Study, and the Connecticut Project have identified several significant errors and some duplication in the wikitree profiles for the Alling Ball family of New Haven. We used the research of Donald Lines Jacobus to make corrections. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, concerns, objections please contact me. B-404 08:49, 14 June 2017 (EDT)

Biography

This profile represents the William Ball who emigrated to New Haven by 1638 and died there in 1648.

"William Ball died in New Haven, intestate and probably without issue, in the month of April, 1648. The inventory of his estate, taken on the 30th of April of that year, was presented to the Court held at New Haven. The amount of his estate was L13.0.9d."^[1][2]

Jacobus theorized that this was the William Ball, cousin to John Ball, testator of 1638 who made a bequest to "the wife of my cousin William Ball who is beyond the seas." He suggests the possibility that he might have been brother of Alling Ball, emigrant to New Haven; but he could just as easily been a cousin.^[3]

An earlier version of this profile included a marriage to Hannah Atherton, but there is no record of such a marriage. She has been disconnected.

• 7 Mar 1643, fined for being late. 1644 took the oath of Fidelity. 4 Aug 1646, William was fined for not having powder and for lying. ^[4]

• 2 May 1648 William's inventory was delivered to court. 1649 mentioned in court, along with others, who had deceased without leaving affairs in order.^[5]

This profile is a collaborative work-in-progress. Can you contribute information or sources?

Sources

1. ↑ Leonard A. Bradley, History of the Ball family, (1916), pp 20-21, citing New Haven Probate Records, vol. 1, p 23; and Hoadley's New Haven Col. Rec., Vol. 1, pp 378 and 465
2. ↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9J9-V?i=19&cat=347594 : 5 March 2021), , New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 20. New Haven Probate Record, 1647-1687, Vol. 1, Part 1, page 23.
3. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, "Notes on the Ball Family of New Haven, Conn.," in The American Genealogist, vol 10 (April 1934):208
4. ↑ Hoadly, Charles J, MA. (editor) Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649. (Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857.)late p 125; p. 139 Oath; p. 264 powder
5. ↑ Hoadly: Records of the Colony p. 380; p. 465

See also:

• Add sources here.