0 HEAD
1 SOUR AncestQuest
2 NAME Ancestry Family Tree
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4 CONT Provo, UT 84604
1 DEST Ancestry Family Tree
1 DATE 26 APR 2003
2 TIME 16:46:26
1 FILE balloufam.ged
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR ANSEL
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1 NAME Vicky L Winfield
1 ADDR 9120 Oak Cliff Drive
2 CONT Midwest City, Oklahoma  73130
1 PHON (405) 732-2506
1 _EMAIL ticvic50@cox.net
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Alice (Wid) /Mowry/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 16
1 FAMS @F17@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:33
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Phillips/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 41
1 FAMS @F41@
1 NOTE Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 56 
2 CONT [28.] JOHN BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then Providence, 
2 CONC afterwards Smithfield, R. I., date not found; m. Elizabeth Phillips, dr. 
2 CONC of Joshua Phillips of Sutton, Mass.; her birth-date and the mge. date not 
2 CONC found. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  119--1.  John, b. Apl. 3, 1743; m. Sibella Leland. 
2 CONT  120--2.  Benjamin, b. Nov. 20, '46; m. Mary Phillips Apl. 15, 1770. 
2 CONT  121--3.  Anna, b. Dec. 14, '49; m. John Whitman. 
2 CONT  122--4.  Richard, b. not found; m. Lucy Arnold. 
2 CONT  123--5.  Abigail, b.    "       m. Sylvanus Sayles. 
2 CONT  124--6.  Nancy, b.      "       m. Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONT      John Ballou4 settled on the land given him by his father in 1738-9; 
2 CONC viz. one hundred acres of his home farm in Louisquisset neighborhood. His 
2 CONC house stood about one fourth of a mile on the road south from the Eleazer 
2 CONC Mowry place, latterly so called. Judge Thomas Mann, in his day many years 
2 CONC ago, purchased the estate, and demolished the domicile. This was after 
2 CONC John Ballou5 had sold the property. John4 sold several portions of his 
2 CONC inheritance at various times, and gave the remainder to his three sons, 
2 CONC John, Benjamin and Richard. Richard deeded his portion to Benjamin Feb. 
2 CONC 21, 1780, and settled in the northeasterly part of Cumberland, R. I. See 
2 CONC Smithfield Recs. B. 7, p. 298. John and Benjamin long held their portions 
2 CONC in partnership, but divided them in 1783. Ib. B. 7, p. 413. 
2 CONT      John4 d. May 29, 1788. He was found a corpse in a pasture, which he 
2 CONC was supposed to be crossing on his way to visit his dr., Mrs. Streeter. 
2 CONC He prob. d. instantly from apoplexy or some other deadly fit. Mrs. 
2 CONC Elizabeth, his widow, survived him several years. She is said to have 
2 CONC been a sister of Moses Ballou's first wife. She spent her old age in the 
2 CONC family of her son Benjamin, where she d. at a date not ascertained.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:33
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME John (4th) /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC Then Providence,afterwards Smithfield,RI.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1788
2 PLAC A pasture on way to visit daughter Mrs. Streeter
1 IDNO 43
1 FAMS @F41@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT "Page 56 
2 CONT [28.] JOHN BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then Providence, 
2 CONC afterwards Smithfield, R. I., date not found; m. Elizabeth Phillips, dr. 
2 CONC of Joshua Phillips of Sutton, Mass.; her birth-date and the mge. date not 
2 CONC found. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  119--1.  John, b. Apl. 3, 1743; m. Sibella Leland. 
2 CONT  120--2.  Benjamin, b. Nov. 20, '46; m. Mary Phillips Apl. 15, 1770. 
2 CONT  121--3.  Anna, b. Dec. 14, '49; m. John Whitman. 
2 CONT  122--4.  Richard, b. not found; m. Lucy Arnold. 
2 CONT  123--5.  Abigail, b.    "       m. Sylvanus Sayles. 
2 CONT  124--6.  Nancy, b.      "       m. Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONT      John Ballou4 settled on the land given him by his father in 1738-9; 
2 CONC viz. one hundred acres of his home farm in Louisquisset neighborhood. His 
2 CONC house stood about one fourth of a mile on the road south from the Eleazer 
2 CONC Mowry place, latterly so called. Judge Thomas Mann, in his day many years 
2 CONC ago, purchased the estate, and demolished the domicile. This was after 
2 CONC John Ballou5 had sold the property. John4 sold several portions of his 
2 CONC inheritance at various times, and gave the remainder to his three sons, 
2 CONC John, Benjamin and Richard. Richard deeded his portion to Benjamin Feb. 
2 CONC 21, 1780, and settled in the northeasterly part of Cumberland, R. I. See 
2 CONC Smithfield Recs. B. 7, p. 298. John and Benjamin long held their portions 
2 CONC in partnership, but divided them in 1783. Ib. B. 7, p. 413. 
2 CONT      John4 d. May 29, 1788. He was found a corpse in a pasture, which he 
2 CONC was supposed to be crossing on his way to visit his dr., Mrs. Streeter. 
2 CONC He prob. d. instantly from apoplexy or some other deadly fit. Mrs. 
2 CONC Elizabeth, his widow, survived him several years. She is said to have 
2 CONC been a sister of Moses Ballou's first wife. She spent her old age in the 
2 CONC family of her son Benjamin, where she d. at a date not ascertained."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:33
0 @I260@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 260
1 FAMS @F151@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 116
2 CONT [123.] ABIGAIL BALLOU5, John,4 John,3 John,2 Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, R. I., date not found; m. Sylvanus Sayles of said 
2 CONC Smithfield--no further particulars given. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  489--1.  John Sayles, b. date not found. 
2 CONT  490--2.  Chloe Sayles, b. date not found; m. Martin Hutchinson. 
2 CONT Another skeleton family record--no further traced.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I280@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Sprague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 280
1 FAMS @F163@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I281@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 281
1 FAMS @F163@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 58
2 CONT [32.] SARAH BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. date not found, in 
2 CONC Louisquisset, then Providence, afterwards Smithfield, &c., R. I.; m. 
2 CONC Daniel Sprague, son of Ebenezer and Mary, b. Mar. 28, 1712-13; m. during 
2 CONC 1730. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  135--1.  Naomi Sprague, b. no more ascertained. 
2 CONT  136--2.  Lucy     "     b.   "          " 
2 CONT  137--3.  David    "     b.   "          " 
2 CONT Sarah (Ballou) Sprague4 is mentioned in the Wills of her father and her 
2 CONC uncle Maturin. But our biographical information concerning her and her 
2 CONC family is extremely limited. We have not even the birth-dates of the chn. 
2 CONC nor death-dates of the parents, and so put this branch of descent in the 
2 CONC category--no further traced.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I282@ INDI
1 NAME Lucy /Arnold/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 282
1 FAMS @F164@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I299@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 299
1 FAMS @F164@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 116
2 CONT [122.] RICHARD BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Smithfield, 
2 CONC R. I., date not found; m. Lucy Arnold of Smithfield--no particulars of 
2 CONC ptge., birth or mge. Issue, all b. in the northeasterly part of 
2 CONC Cumberland, R. I.-- 
2 CONT  480--1.  Mercy, b. Apl. 19, 1778; m. Nathan Aldrich. 
2 CONT  481--2.  Arnold, b. May 16, 1780; m. Abigail Trask Feb. 27, 1806. 
2 CONT  482--3.  Lydia, b. Mar. 14, '82; d. Nov. 9, 1789. 
2 CONT  483--4.  Augustus, b. May 4, '84; m. 1st Lucy Tower, 2d Isabella Howard. 
2 CONT  484--5.  Thomas, b. Feb. 21, '86; m. Lydia Gould. 
2 CONT  485--6.  Richard, b. Mar. 21, '88; d. u. m. 
2 CONT  486--7.  Lucy, b. Sept. 19, '90; m. Orren Grant Oct. 14, 1814. 
2 CONT  487--8.  Willard, b. July 28, '95; m. Sally Clark June 27, 1822. 
2 CONT  488--9.  Polly or Mary, b. Feb. 6, '99; m. Simon W. Sheldon Aug. 22, 
2 CONC 1822. 
2 CONT Richard Ballou5 was a sturdy, industrious, frugal farmer. He sold out his 
2 CONC inheritance in the old Smithfield, John Ballou homestead in 1777 to his 
2 CONC bro. Benjamin, and settled in the extreme northeasterly section of 
2 CONC Cumberland. There he and his wife spent their connubial days. Their home 
2 CONC was near what was formerly known as Hathaway Mills. We ought to have been 
2 CONC furnished with their death-dates, but never were.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I300@ INDI
1 NAME John /Whitman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 300
1 FAMS @F170@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 116
2 CONT "[121.] ANNA BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, R. I., Dec. 14, 1749; m. John Whitman, possibly son of Jacob 
2 CONC and Hannah, b. Feb. 13, 1744; no mge.-date reported to us. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  476--1.  Anna Whitman,    b. no dates given; nothing more. 
2 CONT  477--2.  Lucy Whitman, b.      "     "          "     " 
2 CONT  478--3.  Richard Whitman, b.   "     "          "     " 
2 CONT  479--4.  Elizabeth Whitman, b. "     "          "     " 
2 CONT Here we are left without records, or traditionary information, and must 
2 CONC leave the distant cousins of this family branch in the great wilderness 
2 CONC of our common humanity."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I305@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 DEC 1749
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 305
1 FAMS @F170@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 116
2 CONT "[121.] ANNA BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, R. I., Dec. 14, 1749; m. John Whitman, possibly son of Jacob 
2 CONC and Hannah, b. Feb. 13, 1744; no mge.-date reported to us. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  476--1.  Anna Whitman,    b. no dates given; nothing more. 
2 CONT  477--2.  Lucy Whitman, b.      "     "          "     " 
2 CONT  478--3.  Richard Whitman, b.   "     "          "     " 
2 CONT  479--4.  Elizabeth Whitman, b. "     "          "     " 
2 CONT Here we are left without records, or traditionary information, and must 
2 CONC leave the distant cousins of this family branch in the great wilderness 
2 CONC of our common humanity."
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I306@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Phillips/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 306
1 FAMS @F173@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:35
0 @I437@ INDI
1 NAME Phebe /Sprague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1820
2 PLAC Indiana
2 SOUR @S167@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 AUG 1875
2 PLAC Possibly Willmathsville,Adair Co.,Missouri
2 SOUR @S167@
1 BURI
2 DATE AUG 1875
2 PLAC Willmathsville,Adair Co.,Missouri
2 SOUR @S167@
1 IDNO 437
1 FAMC @F237@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S292@
3 PAGE Page 105, Line 13, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Graham Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S293@
3 PAGE Page 387, Line 22, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 3 OCT 1850
2 PLAC Graham Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S168@
3 PAGE Enumeration Date 3 October 1850, Pages 244A & 244B, Lines 39-42 & 1-3;  WILLIAM MATTLY
1 CENS
2 DATE 22 JUN 1860
2 PLAC Lancaster P.O.,Independence Twp.,Schuyler Co.,MO.
2 SOUR @S128@
3 PAGE Page 680, Dwelling 479, Family 471; William MATLEY
1 CENS
2 DATE 10 AUG 1870
2 PLAC Lancaster P.O.,Independence Twp.,Schuyler Co.,MO.
2 SOUR @S130@
3 PAGE August 10, 1870; Page 327 B, Dwelling 12, Family 12.  MATLEY, William
1 NOTE 1  BURI 
2 CONT 2  DATE AUG 1875
2 CONT 2  PLAC Union Church Cemetery, Willmathsville
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1840 US Census of Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 387, 
2 CONC Line 22.  HOSEA SPAGGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 60 & under 70 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female 15 & under 20 (*PHEBE & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 20 & under 30 (*WHO ??? could be Elma Maria back to take 
2 CONC care of father??)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1841 - Dodd, Jordan.  Indiana Marriages to 1850. {database online) Provo, 
2 CONC UT:  Ancestry.com, 1997., Indiana Marriages to 1850 - Full Context,  
2 CONC (Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual 
2 CONC counties in Indiana.), "Electronic," 
2 CONT Indiana Marriages to 1850; Indiana; Jefferson County
2 CONT Matley Sprague, William Phebe 
2 CONT Spouse: Matley, William
2 CONT Sprague, Phebe Marriage Date: 21 Jan 1841 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1850 US Census of Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Enumeration 
2 CONC Date 3 October 1850, Pages 244A & 244B, Lines 39-42 & 1-3;  WILLIAM 
2 CONC MATTLY, 38 years, Male, Farmer, Real Estate Value $500, Born England;    
2 CONC PHEBE, 30 years, Female, Born Ind.;    Wm. S. (could be L or J too), 8 
2 CONC years, Male, Born Ind.;    JONATHAN, 7 years, Male, Born Ind.;    VIOLA 
2 CONC MATTY, 4 years, Female, Born Ind.;    GABRIELLA, 2 years, Female, Born 
2 CONC Ind.;    HOSEA SPRAGUA (could be Spragua), 76 years, Male, Born R.I.
2 CONT MY NOTE:  Hosea Sprague is living with his daughter and son-in-law.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1860 US Census Lancaster Post Office, Independence Twp., Schuyler Co., 
2 CONC Missouri,  (Census Reading by Nancy Guziec, March 26, 2001.), Page 680, 
2 CONC Dwelling 479, Family 471; William MATLEY, 48, Male, Farmer, $2,000 Real 
2 CONC Estate, $600 Personal Estate, Born New Jersey.  Phebe Matley, 38, Female, 
2 CONC Born Indiana.  William Matley, 18, Male, Born Indiana.  Jonithan Matley, 
2 CONC 17, Male, Born Indiana.  Violia Matley, 14, Female, Born Indiana.  
2 CONC Gabrilla Matley, 12, Female, Born Indiana.  Herbert Matley, 9, Male, Born 
2 CONC Indiana.  Henery Matley, 9, Male, Born Indiana.  Luke Matley, 6, Male, 
2 CONC Born Indiana.  John Matley, 6, Male, Born Indiana.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1870 US Census of Lancaster Post Office, Independence Twp., Schuyler Co., 
2 CONC Missouri,  (Census Reading by Nancy Guziec, March 26, 2001.), Date of 
2 CONC Census - August 10, 1870; Page 327 B, Dwelling 12, Family 12.  MATLEY, 
2 CONC William, 58, Male, White, Farmer, $3,600 in Real Estate, $1,400 in 
2 CONC Personal Estate, Born in England, Father foreign born, Mother foreign 
2 CONC born, can read and write English, Citizen.  Phebe Matley, 49, Female, 
2 CONC White, Born Indiana, can read & write English.  Viola Matley, 24, Female, 
2 CONC White, Born in Indiana, Father of foreign birth, Mother not, Can read and 
2 CONC write English.  Gabrilla Mattley, 22, Female, White Born Indiana, Father 
2 CONC Foreign Born, Mother not, can read & write English.  Herbret Matley, 18, 
2 CONC Male, White, Born Indiana, Father Foreign Birth, Mother not, Attended 
2 CONC school, can read & write English.  Henry Matley, 18, Male, White, Born 
2 CONC Indiana, Father of foreign birth, Mother not, Attended school, can read & 
2 CONC write English.  Luke, 15, Male, White, born in Indiana, Father foreign 
2 CONC birth, Mother not, Attended school, can read and write English.  John 
2 CONC Matley, 15, Male, White, Born Indiana, Father foreign birth, Mother not, 
2 CONC Attended school, can read & write English.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1875 & 1879 - Mattley, William & Phebe Burials,  (Compiled & submitted by 
2 CONC Charlotte Ramsey w/info Joe & Francis March donated - 
2 CONC http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cramsey/index.html), 
2 CONC "Electronic," WILLMATHSVILLE UNION CHURCH CEMETERY (Off Hwy 63 - On Hwy A 
2 CONC - Willmathsville, Missouri-Adair Co.)  MATTLEY, Phebe; 13 Aug 1820 to 05 
2 CONC Aug 1875; 54y 11m 23d; wife of William Mattley.  MATTLEY, William; 09 Dec 
2 CONC 1810 to 15 Nov 1879; 68y 11m 6d; husband of Phebe Mattley.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Did Gabriella ever marry and if she did to whom???  Did she marry and 
2 CONC migrate to Missouri????  Is that why we find Phebe & William Mattley 
2 CONC buried at Willmathsville, Adair Co., Missouri????
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT 1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT 2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence County 
2 CONC R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is buried in 
2 CONC Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  Sarah J 
2 CONC Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in Jefferson 
2 CONC County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  He died 
2 CONC Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT 3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT 4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
2 CONT 
2 CONT NEED TO READ:
2 CONT Known Sprague References
2 CONT Books Relating to Sprague Lines
2 CONT 1]  History of the Sprague Families of Rhode Island, Benjamin Knight, 
2 CONC Sr., 1881.
2 CONT 2]  The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts, George Walter Chamberlain, 
2 CONC Boston, MA, 1923, 317 pages.
2 CONT 3]  Genealogy (in part) of the Sprague Families in America, Augustus B. 
2 CONC R. Sprague, 1905.
2 CONT 4]  Supplemental to Sprague Families in America, Frank H. Sprague, 1915.
2 CONT 5]  The Ralph Sprague Genealogy, Edward G. Sprague, The Capital City 
2 CONC Press, Montpelier, VT, 1913.
2 CONT 6]  Genealogy of the Spragues in Hingham, counting from William Sprague, 
2 CONC Hosea Sprague, 1928.
2 CONT 7]  Sprague Families in America, Warren Vincent Sprague, published in 
2 CONC 1913, 578 pages, with additions and corrections, 1928, 8 pages.
2 CONT 8]  Supplement to Sprague Families in America, Warren Vincent Sprague, 
2 CONC 1941.
2 CONT 9]  Descendants of Hon. Seth Sprague's Family, W. B. Weston, 1915.
2 CONT 10]  Memorial of the Sprague Family, Richard Soule, Jr., Boston, MA, 
2 CONC James Munroe Co., 1847, 192 pages.
2 CONT 11]  Sprague Family Items, Dwight H. Kelton, LL.D., Montpelier, VT, 1894.
2 CONT 12]  A Sprague Family Genealogy: The Ancestors of Thomas Spencer Sprague, 
2 CONC IV, and Franklin Wiatt Sprague in America, Thomas Spencer Sprague III, 
2 CONC 1987, Hartford, CT.
2 CONT 13]  The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their 
2 CONC Descendants, Frank William Sprague, N.E.H.G.S. Register, April, 1909. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT OTHER RESEARCH POSSIBLES:
2 CONT 1]  The History of Hartford, Vermont: July 4, 1761 - April 4, 1889, 
2 CONC William Howard Tucker, 1889, The Free Press Association, Burlington, VT.
2 CONT 2]  History of Hingham, Volumes II and III: Genealogies, George Lincoln, 
2 CONC published 1893, reprinted 1982.
2 CONT 3]  Mayflower Marriages, Susan E. Roser, Genealogical Publishing Co., 
2 CONC 1990.
2 CONT 4]  Annals of Staten Island, From Its Discovery to the Present Time, J. 
2 CONC J. Clute, New York, Press of Chas. Vogt, No. 114 Fulton Street, 1877.
2 CONT 5]  Switzerland County, Indiana - Early Marriage Records - 1814-1825, 
2 CONC Colleen Alice Ridlen, 2001, Walter R. Gooldy, Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, 
2 CONC Indianapolis, Indiana.
1 SOUR @S190@
2 PAGE Matley, William Married Sprague, Phebe on 21 Jan 1841 in Jefferson County, Indiana
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I448@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1746
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 448
1 FAMS @F173@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888.
2 CONT Page 115
2 CONT [120.] BENJAMIN BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, now Lincoln, R. I., Nov. 20, 1746; m. Mercy Phillips, dr. of 
2 CONC John Phillips, said to be half-sister to the 1st wife of Moses Ballou4; 
2 CONC cer. Apl. 15, 1770, by Elder Ezekiel Angell. Issue, all b. in said 
2 CONC Smithfield.-- 
2 CONT  469--1.  Phillips, b. date not found; d. young. 
2 CONT  470--2.  Pardon, b.       "      "    d. young. 
2 CONT  471--3.  Benjamin, b.     "      "    d. u. m. in his 31st year. 
2 CONT  472--4.  Mary, b.         "      "    m. William Newman Feb. 14, 1802. 
2 CONT  473--5.  Abner, b.        "      "    d. young. 
2 CONT  474--6.  Content, b.      "      "    d. u. m. in her 21st year. 
2 CONT  475--7.  Mercy, b.        "      "    m. Eleazer Mowry, Jr., Nov. 11, 
2 CONC 1813. 
2 CONT What a pity that a whole family of seven chn. should be left without 
2 CONC birth-dates! We can approximate these dates only by reckoning from the 
2 CONC mge. of the parents, Apl. 15, 1770, and guessing the rest. Benjamin 
2 CONC Ballou5 settled on land given him by his father June 12, 1770. He built 
2 CONC the house afterward occupied by his dr. Mercy and her husband, Eleazer 
2 CONC Mowry. He appears to have been a respectable common citizen, and was a 
2 CONC militia Captain in 1781, near the close of the Revolutionary War. He d. 
2 CONC on his homestead Oct. 24, 1826, a. 79 yrs. 11 mos. and 4 ds. His wife's 
2 CONC death-date not communicated to us.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I449@ INDI
1 NAME Sibella /Leland/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 449
1 FAMS @F241@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 114
2 CONT [119.] JOHN BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, now Lincoln, R. I., Apl. 3, 1743; m. Sibella Leland, eldest 
2 CONC dr. of Amariah and Ursula (Lovett) Leland, b. in Sherborn, Mass., 1739; 
2 CONC date and particulars of cer. not ascertained. No issue. 
2 CONT      It is, however, proper to state that previous to marriage Sibella 
2 CONC Leland became the mother of a son whom she named Richard Olney. This son 
2 CONC was virtually, if not formally, adopted by John5, and made his heir. He 
2 CONC grew up to be a very worthy and enterprising man. He went into successful 
2 CONC trade in Burrillville, and later in Providence, R. I., accumulated a 
2 CONC handsome property, and finally settled in Oxford, Mass., where he became 
2 CONC an influential citizen. We have not numbered him among the Ballous, 
2 CONC because he never took our name. We knew him personally as a friend long 
2 CONC years ago, but have lost the thread of his later history. 
2 CONT      John Ballou5 settled on the land given him by his father in 1777. 
2 CONC See Smithfield Recs., B. 7, p. 180. This estate was deeded jointly to him 
2 CONC and his bro. Richard. The latter sold his portion to their other bro., 
2 CONC Benjamin. John and Benjamin at length divided their inheritance. Later 
2 CONC John5 and wife made their home, for a considerable time, with their son 
2 CONC Richard Olney in Providence, but finally returned to Smithfield and 
2 CONC closed their earthly pilgrimage in the family of his bro. Benjamin. There 
2 CONC she d. Dec. 20, 1805, a. about 66 yrs.; and he Feb. 18, 1806, a. 62 yrs. 
2 CONC 10 mos. and 15 ds. Mr. Olney commendably erected decent grave-stones to 
2 CONC commemorate them; which may be seen on the easterly side of the road near 
2 CONC where the ancient John Ballou domicile formerly stood.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I450@ INDI
1 NAME John /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 APR 1743
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 450
1 FAMS @F241@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 114 & 115
2 CONT [119.] JOHN BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, now Lincoln, R. I., Apl. 3, 1743; m. Sibella Leland, eldest 
2 CONC dr. of Amariah and Ursula (Lovett) Leland, b. in Sherborn, Mass., 1739; 
2 CONC date and particulars of cer. not ascertained. No issue. 
2 CONT      It is, however, proper to state that previous to marriage Sibella 
2 CONC Leland became the mother of a son whom she named Richard Olney. This son 
2 CONC was virtually, if not formally, adopted by John5, and made his heir. He 
2 CONC grew up to be a very worthy and enterprising man. He went into successful 
2 CONC trade in Burrillville, and later in Providence, R. I., accumulated a 
2 CONC handsome property, and finally settled in Oxford, Mass., where he became 
2 CONC an influential citizen. We have not numbered him among the Ballous, 
2 CONC because he never took our name. We knew him personally as a friend long 
2 CONC years ago, but have lost the thread of his later history. 
2 CONT      John Ballou5 settled on the land given him by his father in 1777. 
2 CONC See Smithfield Recs., B. 7, p. 180. This estate was deeded jointly to him 
2 CONC and his bro. Richard. The latter sold his portion to their other bro., 
2 CONC Benjamin. John and Benjamin at length divided their inheritance. Later 
2 CONC John5 and wife made their home, for a considerable time, with their son 
2 CONC Richard Olney in Providence, but finally returned to Smithfield and 
2 CONC closed their earthly pilgrimage in the family of his bro. Benjamin. There 
2 CONC she d. Dec. 20, 1805, a. about 66 yrs.; and he Feb. 18, 1806, a. 62 yrs. 
2 CONC 10 mos. and 15 ds. Mr. Olney commendably erected decent grave-stones to 
2 CONC commemorate them; which may be seen on the easterly side of the road near 
2 CONC where the ancient John Ballou domicile formerly stood.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I454@ INDI
1 NAME Rufus /Streeter/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC Measles caused his death,lived to manhood.
1 IDNO 454
1 FAMC @F242@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 273
2 CONT [492.] RUFUS STREETER6, of this family, lived to manhood, but d. of 
2 CONC Measles unmarried--date not given.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I456@ INDI
1 NAME David F. /Harris/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 AUG 1780
2 PLAC Smithfield,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 456
1 FAMS @F243@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I457@ INDI
1 NAME Lydia /Streeter/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1783
2 PLAC Smithfield,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 457
1 FAMS @F243@
1 FAMC @F242@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 273
2 CONT [494.] LYDIA STREETER6, Nancy Ballou5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; dr. 
2 CONC of Rufus Streeter, husband of Nancy Ballou5, b. in Smithfield, R. I., 
2 CONC Jan. 27, 1783, came to more distinguished account. She m. David F. 
2 CONC Harris, (Joseph, David, Richard, Thomas, Thomas), b. in said Smithfield, 
2 CONC Aug. 17, 1780; cer. Dec. 31, 1800, by Thomas Mann, J. P. Issue.--
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I458@ INDI
1 NAME Rhoda /Streeter/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 458
1 FAMC @F242@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 273
2 CONT [493.] RHODA STREETER6, of the same family, moved with her sister Sprague 
2 CONC and husband into that undefined locality called "the country," and is no 
2 CONC further reported.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:36
0 @I635@ INDI
1 NAME Hosea /Sprague*/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 JUN 1775
2 PLAC Smithfield,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
2 SOUR @S388@
2 SOUR @S389@
3 PAGE Vol. 3, Smithfield, Part VI and Vol. 1, Page 220
3 DATA
4 TEXT States: "Sprague Hosea, of Nehemiah and Ellis, 1d 6m 1775. Smithfield" 
5 CONC and States: "Sprague Hosea, June 1, 1775. Smithfield"
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 APR 1857
2 PLAC Jefferson Co.,IN.
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 BURI
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 635
1 FAMS @F237@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S390@
3 PAGE Page 539, Line 8
1 CENS
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S391@
3 PAGE 2 #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20
1 CENS
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S292@
3 PAGE Page 105, Line 13, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Graham Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S293@
3 PAGE Page 387, Line 22, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 3 OCT 1850
2 PLAC Graham Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S168@
3 PAGE Enumeration Date 3 October 1850, Pages 244A & 244B, Lines 39-42 & 1-3;  WILLIAM MATTLY
1 RESI
2 DATE 1775
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Graham Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 NOTE 1  NAME Hosea L. /Sprague/
2 CONT 2  SOUR S06487
2 CONT 3  DATA 
2 CONT 4  TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
2 CONT 2  SOUR S06430
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Mentioned in Father's will (Nehemiah Sprague)
2 CONT 
2 CONT WILL:  SOURCE:  Rhode Island Vital Records, 1500s-1900s
2 CONT R.I. Gnealogical Register, Volume 13, Abstracts of Smithfield Wills, Page 
2 CONC 131
2 CONT Copy Right Genealogy.com, October 22, 2002
2 CONT "SPRAGUE, NEHEMIAH, of Sm, yeoman.  Will dated 16 Aug 1794, proved 13 Sep 
2 CONC 1796, pg 517.  Mentions:  Wife Alles Sprague, Son Hosea Sprague, Daughter 
2 CONC Phebe Sprague.  Witn:  James Pecks, Dexter Aldrich, Elisha Thornton."
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1800 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 
2 CONC Page 539, Line 8.  HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      2 Males 16 thru 25 (*Hosea & WHO** ???)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 16 thru 25 (*Chloe)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Alice Bassett Sprague)***
2 CONT           (*) my notes - vlww
2 CONT           MY NOTES:  ***Since Hosea's father (Nehemiah) died young (at 47 
2 CONC yrs) I believe the       female 26 thru 44 is his mother Chloe A. 
2 CONC Streeter Sprague.  **The extra male (16 thru           25) could be a 
2 CONC younger brother I do not know of as of now or a farm laborer.  - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1810 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 2 
2 CONC #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.  
2 CONC HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male under 10 (*Clinton (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 Male 26 thru 44 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Chloe)
2 CONT           (*)my notes - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT      MY NOTES:  Hosea & Chloe are living near Seth Sprague & Nathan 
2 CONC Sprague son of           Gideon in 1830.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1840 US Census of Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 387, 
2 CONC Line 22.  HOSEA SPAGGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 60 & under 70 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female 15 & under 20 (*PHEBE & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 20 & under 30 (*WHO ??? could be Elma Maria back to take 
2 CONC care of father??)
2 CONT      (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1850 US Census of Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Enumeration 
2 CONC Date 3 October 1850, Pages 244A & 244B, Lines 39-42 & 1-3;  WILLIAM 
2 CONC MATTLY, 38 years, Male, Farmer, Real Estate Value $500, Born England;    
2 CONC PHEBE, 30 years, Female, Born Ind.;    Wm. S. (could be L or J too), 8 
2 CONC years, Male, Born Ind.;    JONATHAN, 7 years, Male, Born Ind.;    VIOLA 
2 CONC MATTY, 4 years, Female, Born Ind.;    GABRIELLA, 2 years, Female, Born 
2 CONC Ind.;    HOSEA SPRAGUA (could be Spragua), 76 years, Male, Born R.I.
2 CONT MY NOTE:  Hosea Sprague is living with his daughter and son-in-law.
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT      1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT      2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence 
2 CONC County R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is 
2 CONC buried in Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  
2 CONC Sarah J Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  
2 CONC He died Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT      3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT      4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 Mar 2000
2 CONT Author:  Lola;  Email:  lolajbarrett@juno.com
2 CONT Chloe ws the daughter of Rufus Streeter and Nancy Ballou who md. 1779.  
2 CONC Nancy was from Smithfield, RI.  Rufus b. 1754 was the son of Isaiah 
2 CONC Streeter and Elizabeth Barney.  They were from Cumberland, RI.  Chloe md. 
2 CONC Hosea Sprague 1798.  Nancy died in Ohio many years after her husband 
2 CONC died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT http://www.sprague-database.org/02-04/f8425.htm#f19768
2 CONT Descendants of #O2 Ralph & #04 William Sprague 
2 CONT Hosea Sprague & Chloe A. Streeter
2 CONT Hosea Sprague
2 CONT Born: 1 Jun 1775 - Smithfield, Providence Co., RI [1]
2 CONT Died: 1 Apr 1857 2
2 CONT Father: Nehemiah Sprague (1750-1796)
2 CONT Mother: Alice Bassett (1744-      )
2 CONT Married: 27 Jun 1798 - Smithfield, Providence Co., RI [2]
2 CONT Wife Chloe A. Streeter 
2 CONT Born: Abt 1779 - Providence Co., RI [2]
2 CONT Christened: 
2 CONT Died: 9 Sep 1834 - Jefferson Co., IN [2]
2 CONT Buried:  - Smallwood Twp., Jasper Co., IL [3]
2 CONT Father: Rufus Streeter (      -      )
2 CONT Mother:  [none listed]
2 CONT General Notes: 
2 CONT 1]  From Patricia Rockwell, correspondent.
2 CONT A family group sheet was sent to me from my aunt Chelys Hester which she 
2 CONC has been tabulating for many years. It lists Phoebe Sprague as the mother 
2 CONC of Jonathan Sprague Matley. Jonathan is my great grandfather and was born 
2 CONC in Jefferson Co., Indiana. The sheet indicates that the information comes 
2 CONC from Civil War records, the Matley family bible, and court records.
2 CONT A year or so ago, I contacted a researcher in Indiana named Colleen 
2 CONC Ridlen. She found a deed from a Hosea Sprague who she believes to be 
2 CONC Phoebe's father as he is listed as living with Phoebe and her husband 
2 CONC William Matley in 1850 according to the 1850 Jefferson County, Indiana 
2 CONC census. Ms. Ridlen also reported that Hosea Sprague appeared alone in the 
2 CONC 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses of Jefferson County, Indiana. Neither Hosea 
2 CONC nor Phoebe are listed in the 1860 census. I also am including family 
2 CONC group sheets and charts for Hosea and Phoebe.
2 CONT 2]  From David L. Phillips, correspondent.
2 CONT Based upon the 1820 Indiana, Jefferson County Census, Hosea Sprague's 
2 CONC household consisted of 1 male 0-10, 1 male to 26, 1 male to 45, 1 male 
2 CONC greater than 45 (five males), 3 females to 10, 1 female to 26, 1 female 
2 CONC to 45 and 1 female greater than 45 (six females). Of these Hosea and 
2 CONC Chloe are two and Phebe might be one. I do not know who the others are.
2 CONT By the 1830 census there were only two males (15-20 & 50-60) and four 
2 CONC females ( 1 5-10, 2 10-15 & 1 50-60). Again, I am not sure who all of 
2 CONC these are.
2 CONT By 1840, Hosea was living alone and by 1850 he was living with his 
2 CONC daughter, Phebe (Sprague) Matley.
2 CONT Between 1816 and 1820 Hosea and his family had moved from Rhode Island to 
2 CONC near Lancaster, Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana. He continued 
2 CONC to show up in the Jefferson County census through 1850, his wife was not 
2 CONC in the 1840 or 1850 census. In 1850, he was living with his daughter 
2 CONC Phebe, her children and her husband, William matley. He owned several 
2 CONC plots of land (40, 40, and 80 acres). He also was deeded an additional 
2 CONC 160 acres from the estate of Phebe Sprague (she was probably his sister, 
2 CONC although she did not show up in the census records). I have not found 
2 CONC either a Probate record for Hosea Sprague in Jefferson County, Indiana or 
2 CONC records showing the sale of all of his land (this is not unusual).
2 CONT In the 1820 Jefferson County, Indiana census Hosea and Chloe had 1 male 
2 CONC 0-10, 1 male 16-18, 1 male 26-45 and 1 male > 45 (i.e., 4 "dependent 
2 CONC males") and 3 females 0-10, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 26-45 and 1 female 
2 CONC >45 (e.e. 5 "dependent females"). In the 1830 census he was down to 1 
2 CONC dependent male and three dependent females. These four children are known 
2 CONC to be to be Elma Maria, Sarah J., Phebe, and Clinton.
2 CONT SOURCES:
2 CONT 1]  Sprague, Augustus B. R., "Genealogy (in part) of the Sprague Families 
2 CONC in America: as Descended from Edward Sprague of England From 1614", 
2 CONC (Worcester, MA: Privately Published on Press of L. P. Goddard, 1905), 
2 CONC page 21. 
2 CONT 2]  David L. Phillips, correspondent. 
2 CONT 3]  Ancestry Data Bases on the Internet.
1 SOUR @S342@
2 DATA
3 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 SOUR @S388@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:38
0 @I636@ INDI
1 NAME Chloe A. /Streeter/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1779
2 PLAC Providence Co.,RI
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 SEP 1834
2 PLAC Jefferson Co.,IN
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 BURI
2 DATE 1834
2 PLAC Smallwood Twp.,Jasper Co.,IL.
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 IDNO 636
1 FAMS @F237@
1 FAMC @F242@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S390@
3 PAGE Page 539, Line 8
1 CENS
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S391@
3 PAGE 2 #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S292@
3 PAGE Page 105, Line 13, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 RESI
2 DATE 1779
2 PLAC Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 NOTE 1800 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 
2 CONC Page 539, Line 8.  HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      2 Males 16 thru 25 (*Hosea & WHO** ???)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 16 thru 25 (*Chloe)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Alice Bassett Sprague)***
2 CONT MY NOTES:  ***Since Hosea's father (Nehemiah) died young (at 47 yrs) I 
2 CONC believe the female 26 thru 44 is his mother Chloe A. Streeter Sprague.  
2 CONC **The extra male (16 thru 25) could be a younger brother I do not know of 
2 CONC as of now or a farm laborer.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1810 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 2 
2 CONC #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.  
2 CONC HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male under 10 (*Clinton (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 Male 26 thru 44 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Chloe)  (*) = my notes - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)  (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT 1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT 2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence County 
2 CONC R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is buried in 
2 CONC Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  Sarah J 
2 CONC Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in Jefferson 
2 CONC County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  He died 
2 CONC Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT 3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT 4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 Mar 2000
2 CONT Author:  Lola;  Email:  lolajbarrett@juno.com
2 CONT Chloe ws the daughter of Rufus Streeter and Nancy Ballou who md. 1779.  
2 CONC Nancy was from Smithfield, RI.  Rufus b. 1754 was the son of Isaiah 
2 CONC Streeter and Elizabeth Barney.  They were from Cumberland, RI.  Chloe md. 
2 CONC Hosea Sprague 1798.  Nancy died in Ohio many years after her husband 
2 CONC died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 273
2 CONT [491.] CHLOE STREETER 6, Nancy Ballou5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; 
2 CONC dr. of Rufus Streeter, husband of Nancy Ballou 5, birth-date not found; 
2 CONC m. Hosea Sprague, and "moved into the country." No more told. Who Hosea 
2 CONC Sprague was--when, where or by whom m.--and where "the country" was into 
2 CONC which he and his family moved, are problems we should like to see solved, 
2 CONC but must leave the task to smarter experts. 
2 CONT [492.] RUFUS STREETER 6, of this family, lived to manhood, but d. of 
2 CONC Measles unmarried--date not given. 
2 CONT [493.] RHODA STREETER 6, of the same family, moved with her sister 
2 CONC Sprague and husband into that undefined locality called "the country," 
2 CONC and is no further reported. 
2 CONT [494.] LYDIA STREETER 6, Nancy Ballou5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; 
2 CONC dr. of Rufus Streeter, husband of Nancy Ballou 5, b. in Smithfield, R. 
2 CONC I., Jan. 27, 1783, came to more distinguished account. She m. David F. 
2 CONC Harris, (Joseph, David, Richard, Thomas, Thomas), b. in said Smithfield, 
2 CONC Aug. 17, 1780; cer. Dec. 31, 1800, by Thomas Mann, J. P. Issue.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT http://www.sprague-database.org/02-04/f8425.htm#f19768
2 CONT Descendants of #O2 Ralph & #04 William Sprague 
2 CONT Hosea Sprague & Chloe A. Streeter
2 CONT Married: 27 Jun 1798 - Smithfield, Providence Co., RI [2]
2 CONT Wife Chloe A. Streeter 
2 CONT Born: Abt 1779 - Providence Co., RI [2]
2 CONT Christened: 
2 CONT Died: 9 Sep 1834 - Jefferson Co., IN [2]
2 CONT Buried:  - Smallwood Twp., Jasper Co., IL [3]
2 CONT Father: Rufus Streeter (      -      )
2 CONT Mother:  [none listed]
2 CONT SOURCES:
2 CONT 2]  David L. Phillips, correspondent. 
2 CONT 3]  Ancestry Data Bases on the Internet.
1 SOUR @S342@
2 DATA
3 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:38
0 @I1332@ INDI
1 NAME Elma Maria /Sprague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S389@
3 PAGE Vol. 1, Page 354
3 DATA
4 TEXT States: "Sprague Elma Maria, of Hosea and Chloe, March 12, 1800. 
5 CONC Smithfield"
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1332
1 FAMC @F237@
1 RESI
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 CENS
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S390@
3 PAGE Page 539, Line 8
1 CENS
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S391@
3 PAGE 2 #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 NOTE 1  BIRT 
2 CONT 2  DATE 3 DEC 1800
2 CONT 2  PLAC Smithfield, Providence Co., Rhode Island
2 CONT 2  SOUR S06487
2 CONT 3  DATA 
2 CONT 4  TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww (I 
2 CONC question Elma Maria being a child of Hosea & Chloe as she was born in 
2 CONC 1800 & they were not married until 1798?? vlww)
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1800 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 
2 CONC Page 539, Line 8.  HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      2 Males 16 thru 25 (*Hosea & WHO** ???)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 16 thru 25 (*Chloe)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Alice Bassett Sprague)***
2 CONT           (*) my notes - vlww
2 CONT           MY NOTES:  ***Since Hosea's father (Nehemiah) died young (at 47 
2 CONC yrs) I believe the female 26 thru 44 is his mother Chloe A. Streeter 
2 CONC Sprague.  **The extra male (16 thru 25) could be a younger brother I do 
2 CONC not know of as of now or a farm laborer.  - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1810 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 2 
2 CONC #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.  
2 CONC HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male under 10 (*Clinton (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 Male 26 thru 44 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Chloe)
2 CONT           (*)my notes - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1840 US Census of Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 387, 
2 CONC Line 22.  HOSEA SPAGGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 60 & under 70 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female 15 & under 20 (*PHEBE & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 20 & under 30 (*WHO ??? could be Elma Maria back to take 
2 CONC care of father??)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT      1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT      2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence 
2 CONC County R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is 
2 CONC buried in Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  
2 CONC Sarah J Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  
2 CONC He died Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT      3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT      4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
1 SOUR @S342@
2 DATA
3 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 SOUR @S389@
2 PAGE Vol. 1, Page 354
2 DATA
3 TEXT States: "Sprague Elma Maria, of Hosea and Chloe, March 12, 1800. 
4 CONC Smithfield"
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:42
0 @I1333@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah J. /Sprague/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1816
2 PLAC Providence,Providence Co.,RI
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 AUG 1903
2 PLAC Newton,Jasper Co.,IL.
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 BURI
2 DATE 1903
2 PLAC Abbot Cemetery,Smallwood Twp.,Jasper Co.,IL.
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 IDNO 1333
1 FAMC @F237@
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S292@
3 PAGE Page 105, Line 13, HOSEA SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S387@
3 PAGE Page 184, Line 17
1 CENS
2 DATE 10 JUL 1860
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S473@
3 PAGE Page 132 (or 868), Lines 29-35, Dwelling 1005, Family 978
1 RESI
2 DATE 1816
2 PLAC Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1860
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 NOTE 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1834:  Sarah J Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana.
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1840 US Census of Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 184, Line 17.  ISAAC ABBOTT
2 CONT      1 Male under 5 (*WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 Male 30 & under 40 (*Isaac)
2 CONT      2 Females under 5 (*WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 Female 20 & under 30 (*SARAH)
2 CONT           (*)my thoughts - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1850 US Census of Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, 22 Oct 
2 CONC 1850, Page 266 B, Lines 4-10, Dwelling 113, Family 117:  ISAAC ABBOTT, 42 
2 CONC years old, Male, Farmer, $700, Born New York;  SARAH ABBOTT, 35 years 
2 CONC old, Female, Born Rhode Island;  CHLEO ABBOTT, 13 years old, Female, Born 
2 CONC Indiana;  MARTHA ABBOTT, 11 years old, Female, Born Indiana;  AND I.** 
2 CONC ABBOTT, 8 years old, Born Indiana;  JAMES P. ABBOTT, 5 years old, Male, 
2 CONC Born Indiana;  SARAH ABBOTT, 3 years old, Female, Born Indiana. MY NOTE:  
2 CONC **[or L. maybe S.] - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1860 US Census of Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana; 
2 CONC Enumeration Date 10 July 1860, Enumerator R.B. Ryan, Page 132 (or 868), 
2 CONC Lines 29-35, Dwelling 1005, Family 978.  Isaac ABBOTT, Age 50, Male, 
2 CONC Farmer, Value of Real Estate 2500, Value of Personal Estate 736, Born 
2 CONC N.Y.;  Sarah, Age 44, Female, Born R.I.;  Andrew I*, Age 17, Male, 
2 CONC Farmer, Born Ind.;  James, Age 15, Male, Farmer, Born Ind.;  Sarah, Age 
2 CONC 12, Female, Born Ind.;  Analiza, Age 9, Female, Born Ind.; Rhoda, Age 1, 
2 CONC Female, Born Ind.  (MY NOTE:  *Could be Andrew I or Andrew J - difficult 
2 CONC to read - vlww)
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1870 Census - NEED
2 CONT 1880 Census - NEED
2 CONT 1890 Census or Substitute - NEED
2 CONT 1900 Census - NEED
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT 1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT 2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence County 
2 CONC R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is buried in 
2 CONC Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  Sarah J 
2 CONC Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in Jefferson 
2 CONC County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  He died 
2 CONC Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT 3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT 4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
1 SOUR @S342@
2 DATA
3 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:42
0 @I1335@ INDI
1 NAME Clinton /Sprague/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Bef 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 NOV 1848
2 PLAC Jefferson Co.,IN
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 IDNO 1335
1 FAMC @F237@
1 RESI
2 DATE Bef 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
1 RESI
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
1 RESI
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
1 CENS
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC Smithfield Twp.,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
2 SOUR @S391@
3 PAGE 2 #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.
1 CENS
2 DATE 1820
2 PLAC Jefferson County,Indiana
2 SOUR @S291@
3 PAGE Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. SPRAGUE
1 CENS
2 DATE 1830
2 PLAC Lancaster Twp.,Jefferson Co.,Indiana
2 SOUR @S292@
3 PAGE Page 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
1 NOTE 1810 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, 2 
2 CONC #'s for Page - 380 or 375, Line 24 if page 380, Line 55 if page 375.  
2 CONC HOSEA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male under 10 (*Clinton (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 Male 26 thru 44 (*Hosea)
2 CONT      1 Female under 10 (*Elma Maria)
2 CONT      1 Female 26 thru 44 (*Chloe)
2 CONT           (*)my notes - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Page 285, Line 20.  HOSEA L. 
2 CONC SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 free white male under ten years (*CLINTON (birth date unknown))
2 CONT      1 free white male between 16 & eighteen (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 26 & under 35 (*WHO ?? farm laborer)
2 CONT      1 free white male of 45 & upwards (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      3 white females under 10 years (*SARAH, PHEBE & WHO ??)
2 CONT      1 free white female between 16 & eighteen (*ELMA MARIA)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 26 & under 45 (*CHLOE)
2 CONT      1 free white female of 16 & under 26 (*WHO ?? household helper)
2 CONT      3 persons engaged in agriculture.  
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT 1830 US Census of Jefferson County, Lancaster Township, Indiana, Page 
2 CONC 105, Line 13.  HOSIA SPRAGUE
2 CONT      1 Male 15 & under 20, (*CLINTON)
2 CONT      1 Male 50 & under 60, (*HOSEA)
2 CONT      1 Female 5 & under 10, (*PHEBE)
2 CONT      2 Females 10 & under 15, (*SARAH & WHO ???)
2 CONT      1 Female 50 & under 60, (*CHLOE)
2 CONT           (*)are my comments - vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 March 2000
2 CONT Author:  Mary Merriwether; Email:  cissym@jps.net
2 CONT Hosea Sprague b: June 1, Smithfield, Providence, R.I. died: April 1, 1857 
2 CONC Jefferson County, Indiana. m. Chloe Streeter, daughter of Rufus Streeter. 
2 CONC b. about 1779. died: Sept 9, 1834 in Jefferson County, Indiana.  They 
2 CONC were married June 27, 1798.  They had four children:  
2 CONT 1)  Elma Maria Sprague b: Dec. 3, 1800.
2 CONT 2)  Sarah J. Sprague. b: June 14, 1816 in Providence, Providence County 
2 CONC R.I. died: Aug 18, 1903 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.  She is buried in 
2 CONC Abbott Cemetary in, Smallwood Twp., Jasper County Illinois.  Sarah J 
2 CONC Sprague was married to Issac J. Abbott on Feb. 13, 1834 in Jefferson 
2 CONC County, Indiana.  Issac Abbot was born Oct. 14, 1808 in N.Y.  He died 
2 CONC Sept 9, 1879 in Newton, Jasper County, IL.
2 CONT 3)  Clinton Sprague
2 CONT 4)  Phoebe Sprague
2 CONT I have connected the Spragues to the Abbotts to this point, but I can't 
2 CONC find the connection to the Abbott's in Puryear, Henry County, Tennessee.  
2 CONC Thank you for your reply, I hope that I have helped you too.  I have a 
2 CONC bit more info on this Sprague connection if you need it.  Sincerely Mary 
2 CONC L. Merriwether.
2 CONT 
2 CONT SOURCE:  Sprague-database.org
2 CONT Clinton Sprague & Eliza Fewell
2 CONT Husband Clinton Sprague 
2 CONT        Born: 
2 CONT  Christened: 
2 CONT        Died: 13 Nov 1848 - Jefferson Co., IN, USA 1
2 CONT      Buried: 
2 CONT      Father: Hosea Sprague (1775-1857) 2
2 CONT      Mother: Chloe A. Streeter (Abt 1779-1834)
2 CONT Married: 2 Jul 1840 - Jefferson Co., IN, USA 1 3
2 CONT Wife Eliza Fewell 
2 CONT        Born: 
2 CONT  Christened: 
2 CONT        Died: 
2 CONT      Buried: 
2 CONT Children 
2 CONT 1 M Melvin Sprague 
2 CONT        Born: 
2 CONT  Christened: 
2 CONT        Died: 
2 CONT      Buried: 
2 CONT 2 M Hosea Sprague 
2 CONT        Born: 
2 CONT  Christened: 
2 CONT        Died: 
2 CONT      Buried: 
2 CONT 3 M Elbert Sprague 
2 CONT        Born: 
2 CONT  Christened: 
2 CONT        Died: 
2 CONT      Buried: 
2 CONT Sources
2 CONT 1]   David L. Phillips, correspondent.. 
2 CONT 2]   Mary Merriwether, correspondent.. 
2 CONT 3]   Vital Records of Indiana..
1 SOUR @S342@
2 DATA
3 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:42
0 @I1479@ INDI
1 NAME Rufus /Streeter/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 FEB 1754
2 PLAC Rhode Island (?Cumberland?)
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 MAR 1809
2 PLAC Smithfield,Providence Co.,RI.
1 IDNO 1479
1 FAMS @F242@
1 NOTE 1  _MILT 
2 CONT 2  PLAC Revolutionary War, Rhode Island/Captain
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 Mar 2000
2 CONT Author:  Lola;  Email:  lolajbarrett@juno.com
2 CONT Chloe ws the daughter of Rufus Streeter and Nancy Ballou who md. 1779.  
2 CONC Nancy was from Smithfield, RI.  Rufus b. 1754 was the son of Isaiah 
2 CONC Streeter and Elizabeth Barney.  They were from Cumberland, RI.  Chloe md. 
2 CONC Hosea Sprague 1798.  Nancy died in Ohio many years after her husband 
2 CONC died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT DAR Patriot Info from Nancy - she will send me info.
2 CONT Rufus Streeter
2 CONT Rhode Islan
2 CONT 21 Feb 1754 - birth RI
2 CONT Service Location - Rhode Island
2 CONT Rank - Captain
2 CONT Spouce - Nancy B
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:42
0 @I1480@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC Smithfield,Providence Co.,RI.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1820
2 PLAC Ohio - many years after Rufus died.
1 IDNO 1480
1 FAMS @F242@
1 FAMC @F41@
1 NOTE SPRAGUE message board at Ancestry.com, 18 Mar 2000
2 CONT Author:  Lola;  Email:  lolajbarrett@juno.com
2 CONT Chloe ws the daughter of Rufus Streeter and Nancy Ballou who md. 1779.  
2 CONC Nancy was from Smithfield, RI.  Rufus b. 1754 was the son of Isaiah 
2 CONC Streeter and Elizabeth Barney.  They were from Cumberland, RI.  Chloe md. 
2 CONC Hosea Sprague 1798.  Nancy died in Ohio many years after her husband 
2 CONC died.
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 116 & 117
2 CONT Another skeleton family record--no further traced. 
2 CONT [124.] NANCY BALLOU5, John4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in then 
2 CONC Smithfield, R. I., birth dateless; m. Rufus Streeter of said Smithfield, 
2 CONC no particulars of his ptge., birth or mge. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  491--1.  Chloe Streeter, b. not found; m. Hosea Sprague. 
2 CONT  492--2.  Rufus Streeter, b.    "       d. in manhood of measles u. m. 
2 CONT  493--3.  Rhoda Streeter, b.    "       untraced--moved away. 
2 CONT  494--4.  Lydia Streeter, b.    "       m. David F. Harris Dec. 31, 1800. 
2 CONT We have been furnished with no requested information concerning the 
2 CONC character or life-career of these parents. The husband, Rufus Streeter5, 
2 CONC d. Mar. 26, 1809. Mrs. Nancy5 d. Feb. 26, 1820.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:42
0 @I1649@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1649
1 FAMS @F17@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 59/60
2 CONT [34.] PETER BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Louisquisset, as 
2 CONC aforesaid, date not found; m. Alice Mowry, wid. of Jeremiah Mowry, and 
2 CONC dr. of Joseph and Alice (Whipple) Mowry, b. June 6, 1712; cer. May 11, 
2 CONC 1766, by Eld. Nathaniel Cook of Cumberland, R. I. No issue from this mge. 
2 CONC But Peter had previously had born to him an illegitimate daughter by Mrs. 
2 CONC Meribah Phillips, long his housekeeper, and who probably expected to be 
2 CONC made his wife, but was disappointed through some breach of affection. But 
2 CONC the father acknowledged the child his, and finally made her his principal 
2 CONC heir. He chose freely to recognize her by the name of 
2 CONT  139--1.  Rhoda Ballou, b. date not found; m. George Streeter Oct. 30, 
2 CONC 1774. 
2 CONT      We learn from certain records that Mrs. Meribah Phillips was 
2 CONC seriously dissatisfied with the treatment she had received from Peter4, 
2 CONC and demanded better compensation than he was disposed to make her. She 
2 CONC had rendered him fifteen years of domestic service on scanty pay--not to 
2 CONC mention what else had happened. After much unpleasantness, they referred 
2 CONC their controversy to three arbitrators of their vicinage; viz. Stephen 
2 CONC Sly, Thomas Steere and Richard Steere, Esquires. They awarded Mrs. 
2 CONC Phillips ¶39 in full of all demands. So the matter was settled. And if 
2 CONC their conduct was not exemplary in getting into difficulty, they 
2 CONC certainly might have done worse in getting out. 
2 CONT      Peter4 dwelt on the homestead he inherited from his father, since 
2 CONC long known as "the Streeter place," about a mile north of Lime Rock 
2 CONC Village in then Smithfield. He made his Will Dec. 8, 1770. See Smithfield 
2 CONC Recs. B. 2, p. 76. Therein he gave his wife Alice all his household 
2 CONC goods, the occupancy of one third of his lands and buildings, and ¶365. 
2 CONC To his bro. John ¶3. To his nephew John 1 shilling. To his niece Anna, 
2 CONC dr. of his bro. John, 15 shillings. To his nephew Richard, son of his 
2 CONC bro. John, ¶3. To his nieces Abigail and Nancy, drs. of his bro. John, 15 
2 CONC shillings each. To his nieces Naomi and Lucy Sprague, and their bro. 
2 CONC David, 30 shillings each. To his niece Tabitha Weatherhead ¶12. To his 
2 CONC nephews Simeon and David Ballou, sons of his bro. Abraham, ¶30 each. To 
2 CONC his nephew Benjamin Ballou ¶3. To Rhoda, dr. of Meribah Phillips, whom he 
2 CONC says "I choose to call Rhoda Ballou," all his lands and buildings in 
2 CONC Smithfield, estimated to contain one hundred and sixty acres, during her 
2 CONC life, then to her legal heirs in fee simple. He d. May 2, 1777. His widow 
2 CONC d. at a date not found.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:43
0 @I1650@ INDI
1 NAME Manasseh /Kempton/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1650
1 FAMS @F664@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:43
0 @I1651@ INDI
1 NAME Tabitha /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1651
1 FAMS @F664@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 58/59
2 CONT [33.] TABITHA BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in the same locality as 
2 CONC the five immediately preceding brothers and sisters, the birth-date not 
2 CONC found; m. Manasseh Kempton of Smithfield, R. I.; mge.-date and 
2 CONC particulars not found. Issue.-- 138--1.  Tabitha Kempton, b. not found; 
2 CONC m. John Weatherhead Apl. 19,1770. 
2 CONT      Tabitha (Ballou) Kempton d. not long after the birth of her only 
2 CONC child Tabitha, date not found, and we have no further information 
2 CONC concerning her. Her husband m. 2d Sabina Paine Nov. 17, 1751, and is no 
2 CONC further traced, except in respect to the mge. and chn. of his dr. Tabitha 
2 CONC (Kempton) Weatherhead. These will appear in the next generation.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:43
0 @I1767@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1767
1 FAMS @F680@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 58
2 CONT [31.] MARY BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. date not found, in 
2 CONC Louisquisset, then Providence, afterwards Smithfield, &c., R. I.; m. 
2 CONC Joseph Lapham, according to usage of Friends at their meeting in said 
2 CONC Smithfield April 1, 1734, O. S. "Witnesses--John Ballou, Jr., Tabitha 
2 CONC Ballou." Issue.-- 
2 CONT  128--1.  Abner Lapham, b. not found; m. Mary Mowry May 3, 1761. 
2 CONT  129--2.  John     "    b.    "       m. Amey Bucklin June 21, 1767, 
2 CONT              by Eld. N. Cook. 
2 CONT  130--3.  Rebecca Lapham, b. not found; m. Jeremiah Bartlett Mar. 25, 
2 CONT              1762. 
2 CONT  131--4.  Mercy Lapham, b. not found; m. (???) Chase. 
2 CONT  132--5.  Mary     "    b.    "       m. Robert Wilkinson Dec. 29, 1768. 
2 CONT  134--6.  Abigail  "    b.    "       m. (???) Meade. 
2 CONT The record of this family comes to us obscure and imperfect. The names of 
2 CONC the chn. were extracted from the Will of Joseph Lapham, made in 
2 CONC Cumberland, R. I., May 26, 1786. It is presumed that the testator was a 
2 CONC settled inhabitant of that town, where prob. his chn. were b.--though 
2 CONC perhaps some of them in Smithfield. Mrs. Mary is mentioned in the Will of 
2 CONC her father Apl. 19, 1755, and in that of her uncle Maturin3, 1760. Joseph 
2 CONC Lapham d. in Cumberland Dec. 23, 1796. Mrs. Mary (Ballou) Lapham d. at a 
2 CONC date not ascertained. This descent is too difficult for our tracement.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1768@ INDI
1 NAME David /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1768
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 57
2 CONT [30.] DAVID BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. date not found, in 
2 CONC Louisquisset, then Providence, afterwards Smithfield, &c., R. I. No trace 
2 CONC has been found of this David Ballou, and the supposition is that he must 
2 CONC have d. young, or at least that he d. unmarried.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1769@ INDI
1 NAME Abraham /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1769
1 FAMS @F681@
1 FAMC @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 57
2 CONT [29.] ABRAHAM BALLOU4, John3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Louisquisset, then 
2 CONC Providence, later Smithfield, now Lincoln, R. I., date not found; m. Mary 
2 CONC Sayles, her ptge. and birth-date not found; cer. Mar. 3, 1739, by Daniel 
2 CONC Jenckes, Town Clerk. Issue.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT  125--1.  Simeon, b. May 21, 1740; m. Mary Cole Apl. 1, 1762. 
2 CONT  126--2.  David, b. not found; m. Mary Smith. 
2 CONT  127--3.  Phebe, b.    "       m. John Smith Apl. 15, 1761. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Abraham4 dwelt first after mge. in Glocester, R. I., as long ago as 1742, 
2 CONC on land given him by his father. Next, for a short time, he lived on an 
2 CONC estate he had purchased in 1745, situated on the road leading from 
2 CONC Killingly, Ct., to Providence, R. I. That estate he sold in 1747, and 
2 CONC finally settled on a considerable tract of land he took up containing 
2 CONC much of what became the site of Slaterville. His domicile was located on 
2 CONC an adjacent hill, where his son Simeon afterward dwelt and died. We learn 
2 CONC little of his history. We infer that he must have d. in middle age--no 
2 CONC record found of his death. Mrs. Mary, his widow, long survived. She spent 
2 CONC a considerable portion of her widowhood with her daughter Phebe Smith and 
2 CONC husband, outliving both. She was then cared for in the home of Thomas 
2 CONC Appleby, who had married one of her granddaughters--a dr. of Phebe and 
2 CONC John Smith. With them she d. at an untold date, at the age of 90 yrs. or 
2 CONC more.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1770@ INDI
1 NAME Naomi /Inman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1770
1 FAMS @F43@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 31/32
2 CONT [8]. JOHN BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. Providence, R. I., Aug. 26, 1683; 
2 CONC m. Naomi Inman3, John2, Edward1, Feb. 5, 1713-14, by Samuel Wilkinson, J. 
2 CONC P. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  28--1.  John, b. date not found; m. Elizabeth Phillips. 
2 CONT  29--2.  Abraham, b.            ; m. Mary Sayles May 3, 1739. 
2 CONT  30--3.  David, b.              ; d. sup. um. 
2 CONT  31--4.  Mary, b.               ; m. Joseph Lapham Apl. 1, 1734. 
2 CONT  32--5.  Sarah, b.              ; m. Daniel Sprague 1730. 
2 CONT  33--6.  Tabitha, b.            ; m. Manasseh Kempton. 
2 CONT  34--7.  Peter, b.              ; m. Wid. Alice Mowry. 
2 CONT These chn. are presumed to have been b. in Louisquisset, but all research 
2 CONC to ascertain their birth-dates has been baffled. The mge.-date of the 
2 CONC parents affords us a basis of conjecture, but the reader is left to make 
2 CONC his own at discretion. Mrs. Naomi was a grand dr. of Edward Inman, one of 
2 CONC the eminent Colonial Providence Plantationists. John Ballou3 was a large 
2 CONC inheritor of his father's lands, and resided near his uncle James2. His 
2 CONC habitation was closely adjacent to what, in our later times, has been 
2 CONC known as the "old Streeter house," about a mile northward from Lime Rock, 
2 CONC on the Woonsocket road. The Streeter house was built for John's son, 
2 CONC Peter4, and was rebuilt after the modern fashion in 1861. He disposed of 
2 CONC his real estate variously, partly by sale, and partly by gift to his 
2 CONC children. To his son, John4, he gave the westerly portion of his farm, 
2 CONC between 50 and 100 acres--the giftdeed dated Jan. 26, 1738-9; Old 
2 CONC Smithfield Records B. 1, p. 184. To his son, Peter4, he gave one-half of 
2 CONC his homestead Aug. 6, 1744; Ib. B. 2, p. 290.(*) He endowed his son, 
2 CONC Abraham4, with lands in Glocester, where he settled. He seems to have 
2 CONC been a man of respectable abilities, held several minor offices, and 
2 CONC represented Smithfield as deputy to the General Assembly in 1739. His 
2 CONC controversy with his uncle James has been already mentioned--not much to 
2 CONC his credit perhaps, however excusable his intentions. Comparatively few 
2 CONC particulars of his life have come down to us. His Will is dated Apl. 19, 
2 CONC 1755; in which he gave his son, Peter4, the remaining half of his 
2 CONC homestead, and distributed his personal estate among his chn.; Ib. B. 1, 
2 CONC p. 468. He d. Dec. 7, 1765, a. 82 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. His wife's 
2 CONC death-date has not been ascertained.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1771@ INDI
1 NAME Sylvanus /Sayles/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1771
1 FAMS @F151@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1773@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Lapham/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1773
1 FAMS @F680@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1774@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Sayles/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1774
1 FAMS @F681@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1777@ INDI
1 NAME John (3rd) /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 AUG 1683
2 PLAC Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 DEC 1765
1 IDNO 1777
1 FAMS @F43@
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 31/32
2 CONT [8]. JOHN BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. Providence, R. I., Aug. 26, 1683; 
2 CONC m. Naomi Inman3, John2, Edward1, Feb. 5, 1713-14, by Samuel Wilkinson, J. 
2 CONC P. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  28--1.  John, b. date not found; m. Elizabeth Phillips. 
2 CONT  29--2.  Abraham, b.            ; m. Mary Sayles May 3, 1739. 
2 CONT  30--3.  David, b.              ; d. sup. um. 
2 CONT  31--4.  Mary, b.               ; m. Joseph Lapham Apl. 1, 1734. 
2 CONT  32--5.  Sarah, b.              ; m. Daniel Sprague 1730. 
2 CONT  33--6.  Tabitha, b.            ; m. Manasseh Kempton. 
2 CONT  34--7.  Peter, b.              ; m. Wid. Alice Mowry. 
2 CONT These chn. are presumed to have been b. in Louisquisset, but all research 
2 CONC to ascertain their birth-dates has been baffled. The mge.-date of the 
2 CONC parents affords us a basis of conjecture, but the reader is left to make 
2 CONC his own at discretion. Mrs. Naomi was a grand dr. of Edward Inman, one of 
2 CONC the eminent Colonial Providence Plantationists. John Ballou3 was a large 
2 CONC inheritor of his father's lands, and resided near his uncle James2. His 
2 CONC habitation was closely adjacent to what, in our later times, has been 
2 CONC known as the "old Streeter house," about a mile northward from Lime Rock, 
2 CONC on the Woonsocket road. The Streeter house was built for John's son, 
2 CONC Peter4, and was rebuilt after the modern fashion in 1861. He disposed of 
2 CONC his real estate variously, partly by sale, and partly by gift to his 
2 CONC children. To his son, John4, he gave the westerly portion of his farm, 
2 CONC between 50 and 100 acres--the giftdeed dated Jan. 26, 1738-9; Old 
2 CONC Smithfield Records B. 1, p. 184. To his son, Peter4, he gave one-half of 
2 CONC his homestead Aug. 6, 1744; Ib. B. 2, p. 290.(*) He endowed his son, 
2 CONC Abraham4, with lands in Glocester, where he settled. He seems to have 
2 CONC been a man of respectable abilities, held several minor offices, and 
2 CONC represented Smithfield as deputy to the General Assembly in 1739. His 
2 CONC controversy with his uncle James has been already mentioned--not much to 
2 CONC his credit perhaps, however excusable his intentions. Comparatively few 
2 CONC particulars of his life have come down to us. His Will is dated Apl. 19, 
2 CONC 1755; in which he gave his son, Peter4, the remaining half of his 
2 CONC homestead, and distributed his personal estate among his chn.; Ib. B. 1, 
2 CONC p. 468. He d. Dec. 7, 1765, a. 82 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. His wife's 
2 CONC death-date has not been ascertained.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1927@ INDI
1 NAME John /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1650
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1927
1 FAMS @F684@
1 FAMC @F719@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Pages 18 - 22
2 CONT [2.] JOHN BALLOU2, Maturin1; presumed to have been b. in Providence, R. 
2 CONC I., about the year 1650; m. 1st Hannah (???), surname, parentage, date 
2 CONC and particulars of mge. not found. From this wife he was separated by 
2 CONC divorce of the Colonial General Assembly, May 2, 1676. He m. 2d Hannah 
2 CONC Garrett, alias Jarrett, of Rhode Island, Jan. 4, 1678-9. Issue.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT    8--1.  John, b. Aug. 26, 1683; m. Naomi Inman Feb. 5, 1713-14. 
2 CONT    9--2.  Maturin, b. sup. 1685; m. 1st Sarah Arnold, 2d Mary Cooper, 
2 CONC 1759. 
2 CONT   10--3.  Peter, b. Aug. 1, 1689; m. Rebecca Asten or Esten, May 13, 
2 CONC 1714. 
2 CONT   11--4.  Sarah, b. not found; get no satisfactory trace of her. 
2 CONT   12--5.  Hannah, b. not found; no trace; prob. d. in early infancy. 
2 CONT   13--6.  Abigail, b. not found; m. John Albrough June 7, 1713. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT John Ballou2 appears to have lived several years in early manhood on the 
2 CONC Island of Rhode Island, in Portsmouth or Newport. There he was admitted a 
2 CONC freeman in 1671. It is possible he there m. his first wife, the Hannah 
2 CONC from whom he was separated by divorce in 1676. But this is uncertain, as 
2 CONC he resided alternately on the Island and in Providence. All we know 
2 CONC concerning his divorce and the grounds of it is derivable from the 
2 CONC following Colonial record, viz.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "At a Session of the General Assembly, held at Newport May 2, 1676, 
2 CONC Voted: Whereas John Belou, of the town of Providence, presented his 
2 CONC petition to this Assembly for a legal divorce from his wife Hannah Belou; 
2 CONC the Court, upon examination of the matter, finding that from the first of 
2 CONC their marriage they lived very discontentedly--she complaining of his 
2 CONC insufficiency: for the reason abovesaid, and others, the Assembly doth 
2 CONC see cause to divorce the said John Belou from all matrimonial engagements 
2 CONC to the said Hannah Belou, and that from henceforth this Assembly doth 
2 CONC dedeclare him absolutely free as aforesaid." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This looks a little like the easy-going kind of divorces, being granted 
2 CONC mainly on account of incompatibility, with the blame charged on the wife. 
2 CONC We cannot look behind the record into the merits of the case, and might 
2 CONC more properly, as some will think, have ignored the whole matter, but 
2 CONC chose rather to unveil it in the interest of truthful history, and leave 
2 CONC its lesson of human infirmity for admonition. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The following letters from John2 to his brother James (with Nathaniel's 
2 CONC previously given) were rescued from oblivion by our pioneer in this work, 
2 CONC Ira B. Peck, Esq., and several other long half-buried ancient documents, 
2 CONC preserved by the resident descendants of James in their inherited 
2 CONC patrimonial domicile. They are quaint and curious enough for careful 
2 CONC insertion on these pages. They were written from his residence on the 
2 CONC Island, and are as follows.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Feb. 4, 1677. "Loving brother,--My love remembered unto thee, and my love 
2 CONC to my grandmother, and to brother Peter, and to my neighbors. Let this 
2 CONC give you to understand that we are all in pretty good health at this 
2 CONC present time. I do hear that you do intend to come down shortly; and if 
2 CONC thou dost, I would have thee see what is become of them apples which I 
2 CONC put in the ground, and if they ban't spoiled bring them down with thee. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT               I rest thy brother,                 John Ballou. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT It would seem that it was then common to preserve apples during the 
2 CONC winter by burying them in the ground. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Again he wrote, under date of April 1, 1678.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Loving brother,--My love is remembered unto thee, and to my grand 
2 CONC mother, and to Peter. Let this give thee to understand that we are all in 
2 CONC health at this time--thanks be to God for his mercy. I have been three 
2 CONC times to speak to John Thornton about thy business, and yet he hath done 
2 CONC nothing about it. [Here ensues a sentence which is unintelligible.] 
2 CONC Mother's being warned by the Town Council was nothing else but to know 
2 CONC whether she did intend to remain or stay longer upon the Island. Our 
2 CONC purpose it to come up to Providence as soon as ever we can. It may be a 
2 CONC week or a fortnight before we shall be able to come up. I would have thee 
2 CONC not trouble thyself about fencing in any more ground this spring; because 
2 CONC either thee or I must, this summer, if we live, go down to the bay and 
2 CONC look after that business there. So I shall forbear at this time, hoping 
2 CONC you are in health, and to see you before it be long. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT              Your loving brother,               John Ballou. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT One thing more about the rest of the cooper stuf. James Clark has a great 
2 CONC mind to have it; and if you can fetch it down for him, he will pay you 
2 CONC anything except money. But if you can't, then send word by the next boat; 
2 CONC but if you can, then send word what pay."
2 CONT 
2 CONT The originals of these letters, as well as Nathaniel's, have come into 
2 CONC our possession by transmission from Mr. Peck. They are in a tolerable 
2 CONC state of preservation, exhibit an old fashion chirography quite fair in 
2 CONC its style, and with signatures peculiarly distinct. The above would 
2 CONC afford good fac-similes. A few of the words and phrases puzzled my 
2 CONC understanding, but with slight exceptions they are accurately rendered. 
2 CONC They have a homely simplicity, but their naturalness of business detail 
2 CONC does not detract from their value, especially in a case where we have 
2 CONC nothing else to give us even a hint as to the domestic experiences, 
2 CONC circumstances and pursuits of these family ancestors. We infer that John2 
2 CONC was without companionable wife or child during those days, and dwelling 
2 CONC with his mother and sister in their temporary home. James and Peter and 
2 CONC grandmother Pike were on their Providence plantation, with occasional 
2 CONC business of common interest up and down the shores of Narragansett Bay. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT It would seem that his widowed mother, and probably his sister Hannah, 
2 CONC had been staying with John on the Island. Very likely they went thither, 
2 CONC as many others did, just before king Philip's Indians attacked 
2 CONC Providence, to escape impending danger. James, however, and his 
2 CONC grandmother Pike, either did not flee to the Island, or had already 
2 CONC returned to Providence. John took up his abode with the rest of the 
2 CONC family before 1681: for he was then admitted a freeman of Providence. It 
2 CONC seems, too, that he served in the Indian war and was wounded; for the 
2 CONC General Assembly, at their October session in 1684, passed the following 
2 CONC order.--"John Ballou is allowed three pounds in or as money to be paid by 
2 CONC the General Treasurer for his cure of his wound in the late Indian war." 
2 CONC Later the three brothers, John, James and Peter, settled near each other 
2 CONC on a large tract of land in the locality then called by the Indian name, 
2 CONC Loquasquissuck, afterwards modernized into Louisquisset. This locality 
2 CONC lies now mainly, if not wholly, in the town of Lincoln. It includes Lime 
2 CONC Rock and the adjacent vicinity, especially north-eastward. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT As specimens of antique land surveying and recording, we copy the 
2 CONC following layings-out to John Ballou2.--"April ye 11th, 1685. Laid out in 
2 CONC ye right of ye deceased Robert Pike, in lieu of land formerly laid out 
2 CONC for a share of medow in ye second division, now changed & laid down to 
2 CONC common. The said land is ten acres and is now laid out, and is situate 
2 CONC and lieing and being in ye woods commonly called Loquasquissick woods, & 
2 CONC near unto the now dwelling house of James Belloo, about South Eastward 
2 CONC from it, bounding on ye Norwestern Corner with a black oak tree marked, 
2 CONC and on ye noreastern corner with a black oak tree marked, & on ye 
2 CONC southwestern corner with a black oak tree marked, & on ye southeastern 
2 CONC corner with a low rock; it being northward & southward the longest ways, 
2 CONC the breadth ways eastward and westward--ye northern end bounding with a 
2 CONC highway, and ye westward side with a highway, on ye eastern side with 
2 CONC common, and on ye southern end with ye land of Henry Brown. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT   Laid out the year & day abovesaid by me, 
2 CONT                                        Thomas Olney, sirveior. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "By Arthur Fenner, sirvair, & William Hopkins, sirvair. Several years 
2 CONC since laid out unto John Bellou in the right of his dedeased father, 
2 CONC Matureen Belloo, for a share of medow in the second division, ten acres 
2 CONC of low swampy land, lieing & being in that part of Providence plantation 
2 CONC commonly called Loquassqussick woods, & upon a small stream which runneth 
2 CONC into the land of Edward Inman & his partners; the which ten acres of 
2 CONC land, not being by ye said Arthur Fenner & ye said William Hopkins 
2 CONC returned to ye town to be recorded, hath, this eleventh day of April, 
2 CONC 1685, been by me, Thomas Olney, sirveior, returned & the bounds thereof 
2 CONC taken. It is bounded on the southeastern corner with a stake drove into 
2 CONC the ground, the which also is a boundry of the land of Benjamin Hearnton, 
2 CONC and from said stake to range Eastward to a maple tree marked, and from ye 
2 CONC said maple tree to range Northward to a black-oak tree marked, & from 
2 CONC said black oak Northwestward to the aforesaid stream, and so up along the 
2 CONC stream to a maple tree marked for a western corner bound; the southern 
2 CONC part bounding with ye aforesaid Benjamin Hearnton's land--the western 
2 CONC part with ye common, and ye eastern part with ye common, the northern 
2 CONC part with ye aforesaid stream & partly with swampy land." Other examples 
2 CONC omitted as unnecessary. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT On these and other adjacent parcels of land, comprising altogether a 
2 CONC spacious homestead, John Ballou2 and his second wife, Hannah Garrett, 
2 CONC spent the maturer portion of their lives, and reared their family of 
2 CONC seven children. We have found no clew to the parentage or birth-date of 
2 CONC Hannah Garrett, but have given the authentic date of their marriage at 
2 CONC the head of their family record. Besides what has already been given, 
2 CONC very little of his biography has come down to our times. We have assumed, 
2 CONC with sufficient reason that he must have d. in 1714. Of his wife's 
2 CONC decease no information has been obtained. Nor have we any knowledge 
2 CONC concerning their burial place; but probably it was in the near vicinity 
2 CONC of their homestead.(*)
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I1928@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah (Jarrett) /Garrett/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 1928
1 FAMS @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Pages 18 - 22
2 CONT [2.] JOHN BALLOU2, Maturin1; presumed to have been b. in Providence, R. 
2 CONC I., about the year 1650; m. 1st Hannah (???), surname, parentage, date 
2 CONC and particulars of mge. not found. From this wife he was separated by 
2 CONC divorce of the Colonial General Assembly, May 2, 1676. He m. 2d Hannah 
2 CONC Garrett, alias Jarrett, of Rhode Island, Jan. 4, 1678-9. Issue.-- 
2 CONT    8--1.  John, b. Aug. 26, 1683; m. Naomi Inman Feb. 5, 1713-14. 
2 CONT    9--2.  Maturin, b. sup. 1685; m. 1st Sarah Arnold, 2d Mary Cooper, 
2 CONC 1759. 
2 CONT   10--3.  Peter, b. Aug. 1, 1689; m. Rebecca Asten or Esten, May 13, 
2 CONC 1714. 
2 CONT   11--4.  Sarah, b. not found; get no satisfactory trace of her. 
2 CONT   12--5.  Hannah, b. not found; no trace; prob. d. in early infancy. 
2 CONT   13--6.  Abigail, b. not found; m. John Albrough June 7, 1713. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 
2 CONT Author: John Farmer
2 CONT Call Number: R929.1 F233
2 CONT This book contains a genealogical register of the first settlers of New 
2 CONC England.
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Farmer, John. Genealogical Register of the 
2 CONC First Settlers of New England. No publication information. 
2 CONT "GARRETT, JAMES, Charlestown, freeman 1639, had a son James, b. in 1646. 
2 CONC RICHARD, Boston, a shoemaker, and member of the church, came over in 
2 CONC 1630, in which year he requested to be admitted freeman. A particular 
2 CONC account of the circumstances which occasioned his death, 31 Dec. 1630, is 
2 CONC given by Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 39, 40. Richard Garrett, who d. at 
2 CONC Boston, 29 March, 1662, and Robert Garrett living there in 1643, might be 
2 CONC his sons.
2 CONT Page 117 - 118"
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:44
0 @I2276@ INDI
1 NAME Maturin /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1685
2 PLAC Providence,R.I.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1760
2 PLAC ? Smithfield is where Will was proved
1 IDNO 2276
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 32-35
2 CONT [9]. MATURIN BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. Providence, R. I., prob. about 
2 CONC 1685; m. 1st, as supposed, Sarah Arnold, though what little data we have 
2 CONC is imperfect and obscure. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  35--1.  Elce or Alcy, b. date not found; m. 1st David Arnold, 2d R. 
2 CONC Sayles. 
2 CONT Mrs. Sarah had no more chn. She d. at an unascertained date; and Maturin3 
2 CONC m. 2d Mercy Cooper, ptge., birth-date, &c. not found; cer. Feb. 28, 1759, 
2 CONC by Stephen Sly, J. P. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  36--2.  William, b. Smithfield, 1759; m. Mary Bucklin. 
2 CONT  37--3.  Maturin, b. Smithfield, 1760; m. Barbara Bucklin. 
2 CONT Maturin3 selected his home in the then partial wilderness about one mile 
2 CONC west from Valley Falls, in Smithfield, on a sightly swell of land, near 
2 CONC an admirable spring of water. There he extemporized his log cabin, felled 
2 CONC the forest, and cleared up a valuable farm. In process of time he erected 
2 CONC an ample framed house, whose huge oaken beams may still be seen in a 
2 CONC portion of the renovated mansion. The site is plainly visible from the 
2 CONC Providence & Worcester R. Road in approaching Valley Falls from the 
2 CONC northwest. He is reported to have been a very industrious, upright, 
2 CONC benevolent and pious man. How long he lived with his first wife we have 
2 CONC no information. But if he was b. in 1685, as we have supposed, he must 
2 CONC have been over 70 yrs. old at his mge. to 
2 CONT (*) These old Smithfield Records may be found in the custody of the Town 
2 CONC Clerk of Lincoln, one 
2 CONT of the new towns-into which original Smitbfield was subdivided in 1871. 
2 CONT      Mercy Cooper 1759, and she a comparatively young woman. After she 
2 CONC had given birth to her son William, and was prospectively the mother of 
2 CONC another child, it seems that Maturin fell dangerously sick, and deemed it 
2 CONC prudent to make his Will. This is an interesting and valuable 
2 CONC genealogical document, which it seems very proper to copy. It is as 
2 CONC follows.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "In the name of God, amen. I Maturin Belloue, of Smithfield, in the 
2 CONC County of Providence, and Colony of Rhode Island, Yeoman; being sick and 
2 CONC weak of body, but in perfect mind and memory, and calling to mind the 
2 CONC uncertainty of Time in this Life, Do make and ordain this my Last Will 
2 CONC and Testament, in manner and form as follows, viz. Principally and first 
2 CONC of all, I recommend my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth 
2 CONC to be decently Interred at the Discretion of my Executor hereinafter 
2 CONC named. And all the worldly Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in 
2 CONC this Life I give and Dispose of as follows.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Imprimis. My will is that all my just Debts and funeral Expenses be paid 
2 CONC by my Executor, out of my movable Estate. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give unto Sarah Belloue, Daughter of my brother Peter Deceased, 
2 CONC one good cow out of my movables. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give unto my well beloved wife, Mercy belloue, the Improvement 
2 CONC and profits of all my Estate, both Real and personal not yet Disposed of, 
2 CONC to bring up my child or children if she should have any more within the 
2 CONC space of nine months first after my Decease; and in case she should have 
2 CONC a son within the time abovesaid, then he should have a part of my real 
2 CONC Estate hereafter mentioned; but if a daughter, then to have the sum of 
2 CONC three hundred pounds old tenor, or movables equivalent. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my beloved son William Belloue my real estate to the 
2 CONC westward of the Dam that Turns the brook near Eleazer Brown's Land, so to 
2 CONC range southerly to the spring where Atermy Finch fetches water from. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my other son, if my said wife should have one within the 
2 CONC time aforesaid, all my land or Real Estate to the Eastward of the Dam and 
2 CONC spring aforesaid; but in case she should have none, the whole of all my 
2 CONC Real Estate to be and remain to my said son William belloue; but in case 
2 CONC my child or children abovesaid should Die before they Arrive to Lawful 
2 CONC age, and without Legitimate issue, that and then my sd. Estate to be 
2 CONC Disposed of in the following manner, viz.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to the heirs of Susannah Belloue, wife of Samuel Belloue, 
2 CONC the one half of all the Estate whatsoever that her mother's sister my 
2 CONC wife Sarah brought to me; and the other half of sd. estate to Patience 
2 CONC brown widow. [Here the meaning is thrown into confusion by the word 
2 CONC "sister." Whether the draftsman of the Will was in fault, or the Probate 
2 CONC recorder, or our copyist, we know not. But we venture to guess that the 
2 CONC original word, now standing as sister, was first, or former wife. We 
2 CONC therefore assume the meaning to have been, that the testator's former 
2 CONC wife, Sarah, was widow Sarah Arnold, the mother of his cousin Samuel 
2 CONC Ballou's wife.] 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Mary Lapham and Sarah Sprague, Daughters of my brother 
2 CONC John belloue, and Tabitha Cempton [Kempton], grand daughter of my sd. 
2 CONC brother John belleau by his Daughter Tabatha, the sum of thirty pounds 
2 CONC apeace in bills of public credit Old Tenor. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Sarah Belloue, Daughter of my aforesaid brother Peter 
2 CONC Deceased, all the remainder of my personal Estate whatsoever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. My will is that all my Real Estate whatsoever, if need be, be sold 
2 CONC and conveyed by my said Executor to the best advantage, still giving the 
2 CONC first offer of purchasing the same to such of my cousins, Legatees 
2 CONC hereafter named, as are able and willing to purchase; and that the money 
2 CONC arising by said sale be Divided into eighteen Equal parts or shares, 
2 CONC which I give or distribute as follows, viz.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Maturin Belloue, son of my sd. brother Peter belleu, Two 
2 CONC of the aforesaid shares forever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to matturein Albrough, son of my sister Abigail albrough 
2 CONC Deceased, Two other of said shares. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give the remaining fourteen shares to the other Nine Children of 
2 CONC my said Deceased brother, Peter belleaue, and to the other four children 
2 CONC of my sd. sister Abigail Albrough, and to my Grand Daughter Lydia brown, 
2 CONC wife of capt. Christopher brown, To Each of them one full share forever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. my will is, that if any of the Last mentioned sixteen Legatees 
2 CONC shall Die before they arrive to Lawful age, without Legitimate Issue, 
2 CONC that the parts or shares of the Deceased be Equally Divided among the 
2 CONC survivors of the same stock or family. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I constitute, ordain and appoint my friend christopher brown, of 
2 CONC Smithfield aforesaid, sole Executor of this my Last will and Testament; 
2 CONC and I do hereby utterly revoke, Disannul and Disallow all former and 
2 CONC other wills, Testaments, Legacies and Device by me heretofore made, given 
2 CONC or Devised; Ratifying and Confirming this, and no other, as my Last will 
2 CONC and Testament. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In witness and full confirmation hereof, I have set my hand and seal this 
2 CONC third Day of April, in the Thirty Third year of his majestie's Reign, 
2 CONC George the second, King of Great Britain &c; Anno Domini 1760. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Signed, sealed, published, proclaimed and Delivered by the said Maturin 
2 CONC belloue as his last Will and Testament, 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In the presence of us, 
2 CONT 
2 CONT       John Power,                                  his 
2 CONT       Samuel Tucker,                      Maturaen  &  Beloue 
2 CONT       Benjamin Arnold.                             mark. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This Will was duly proved by the Town Council of old Smithfield, at a 
2 CONC session held May 19, 1760. It is recorded in B. I., p. 329. And Mr. Peck 
2 CONC made a note, over twenty years ago, at the foot of his copy, that the 
2 CONC original was then in the possession of a widow Ballou resident on the 
2 CONC ancient homestead. I have had no convenient opportunity to examine either 
2 CONC the original document or the Probate Record of it. If I had made such an 
2 CONC examination, perhaps I could have cleared up some of its obscure 
2 CONC phraseology, and precluded the necessity of my explanation concerning his 
2 CONC wife Sarah. Whatever exceptions may justly be taken to its orthography 
2 CONC and style, it evinces that the testator had a good memory and kind 
2 CONC consideration of his kindred, as also a careful ingenuity in providing 
2 CONC for possible contingencies. The child he anticipated proved to be a son, 
2 CONC received his name, Maturin, and inherited his real estate jointly with 
2 CONC his elder brother William. So the contingent distribution of it among the 
2 CONC sixteen prospective legatees was foreclosed. But it is none the less 
2 CONC helpful to genealogical research by its numerous specifications of 
2 CONC relationship. Maturin3 d. May 7, 1760. Mrs. Mercy, his widow, 
2 CONC subsequently m. Jeremiah Bucklin, and with him dwelt on the farm till her 
2 CONC two sons became of age.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2277@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2277
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 35-38
2 CONT [10.] PETER BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Providence, R. I., Aug. 1, 
2 CONC 1689; m. Rebecca Esten, dr. of Henry and Sarah Esten, b. in Providence 
2 CONC May 9, 1695; cer. May 13, 1714, by R. Waterman, J. P. The maiden surname 
2 CONC of the bride has been found variously written in the old Records 
2 CONC Eustance, Ashton, Asten and Esten. The last seems to be the true one, or 
2 CONC far the most preferable. Issue.-- 
2 CONT  38-- 1.  Rebecca, b. Aug. 26, 1715; m. William Sprague Apl. 10, 1738. 
2 CONT  39-- 2.  Sarah, b. Aug. 30, '17; m. Richard Angell, Jan. 25, 1767. 
2 CONT  40-- 3.  Hannah|twins, b. Aug. 19, '20; m. Ebenezer Bucklin. 
2 CONT  41-- 4.  Mary  |       b.  "   "    "   m. (???) Olney. 
2 CONT  42-- 5.  Maturin Rev., b. Oct. 30, '22; m. 1st Lydia Harris; 2d Lydia 
2 CONC Bliss. 
2 CONT  43-- 6.  Abigail, b. Mar. 20, '25; m. Henry Finch. 
2 CONT  44-- 7.  Amey, b. Sept. 5, '27; m. (???) Jencks. 
2 CONT  45-- 8.  Elizabeth, b. July 15, '30; prob. d. in infancy. 
2 CONT  46-- 9.  Hopestill, b. not found; m. Squire Bucklin. 
2 CONT  47--10.  Peter, b. (???) '37; m. Elce Bucklin. 
2 CONT  48--11.  Mercy, b. not found; m. Elijah Bucklin. 
2 CONT Peter Ballou3 settled on what was afterwards called "Stump Hill," near a 
2 CONC stream known as "Observation Brook," since furnishing water power to 
2 CONC "Olney's Factory," in now Lincoln, R. I., formerly Smithfield, and 
2 CONC originally Providence. It will interest many readers to understand that 
2 CONC he was the grandfather of our celebrated Rev. Hosea Ballou. We have, 
2 CONC however, but little biographical material wherewith to illustrate his 
2 CONC character, worth, or fame. General tradition reports him to have been a 
2 CONC very conscientious and morally exemplary man. We see what a large family 
2 CONC he and his companion reared up in their then frontier home, and can 
2 CONC easily imagine that their lot in life was one of pioneer toil and hard 
2 CONC earned competence. He was a cooper by trade, and probably throve all the 
2 CONC better as farmer by his mechanical profits. His homestead joined that of 
2 CONC his brother Maturin3 toward the north. The principal memorial he left us 
2 CONC is his Will, which may be found on Providence Records, B. I., p. 145, and 
2 CONC is as follows.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "In the name of God, Amen; the eighteenth day of April, in the year of 
2 CONC our Lord 1754. I, Peter Ballou, of Smithfield, in the county of 
2 CONC Providence, in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in 
2 CONC New England, cooper; now calling to mind the mortality of my body, and 
2 CONC knowing that it is appointed for men once to Die--do make and ordain this 
2 CONC my last will and testament; that is to say, Principally first of all I 
2 CONC give and Recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it, hoping, 
2 CONC through the merits, Death and passion of my Savior Jesus Christ, to have 
2 CONC full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins, and to inherit 
2 CONC Everlasting Life; and my body I commit to the earth, to be Deacently 
2 CONC buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereinafter named--nothing 
2 CONC doubting that at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again 
2 CONC by the mighty power of God; and as touching such worldly Estate whereof 
2 CONC it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life; I Give, devise and dispose 
2 CONC of the same in the following manner and form; that is to say, first I 
2 CONC will that those Debts and duties I do owe in Right or concience to any 
2 CONC manner of person or persons whatever shall be well and truly contented 
2 CONC and paid, or ordered to be paid in convenient time after my Decease, by 
2 CONC my Executor hereafter named. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my Eldest son, Maturean Ballou, twenty acres of Land, to 
2 CONC be laid off to him, his heirs and Assigns, the said Maturean Ballou, to 
2 CONC be Laid to him off the South side of my farm, joining to my brother 
2 CONC Maturean Ballou, southerly and easterly to William Brown, and westerly 
2 CONC with Obadiah Olney, the twenty Acres I mortgaged to the colony and took 
2 CONC out money for him, and gave it to him, and he gave me an indemnifying 
2 CONC bond to keep me harmless from the colony; that is to say, he paying the 
2 CONC gold and principle to said colony. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my loving wife all my movable estate, whom I likewise 
2 CONC make my executor. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my youngest son, Peter Ballou, all the rest of my 
2 CONC homestead farm, singular my lands, messuages and tennaments, by him 
2 CONC freely to be possessed and enjoyed. I do here make my Loving wife, 
2 CONC Rebecca Ballou, and ordain her my only sole executor of this my Last will 
2 CONC and testament, and all the profits of said farm untill my son Peter Doth 
2 CONC come to the age of one and twenty, and then to have one half the profits 
2 CONC of the said farm while she continueth my widow, or untill her natural 
2 CONC Death, which ever shall happen first. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Rebecca Sprague ten shillings, to be in some convenient 
2 CONC time paid to her. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my dafter Sarah Ballou ten pounds, and a privilege in my 
2 CONC house while she Liveth Single. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my dafter Mary Olney ten shillings. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my dafter Hannah Bucklin twenty shillings. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Olney Jencks five pounds. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to Abigail Finch five pounds. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my dafter Hope Bucklin five pounds. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Item. I give to my dafter Marcy Ballou twenty pounds. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT I ordain my loving wife to be my sole executor of this my last will and 
2 CONC testament, and do hereby utterly Disallow, Revoke and Disannul all and 
2 CONC every other former testaments, wills and Legacies, bequests and Executors 
2 CONC by me in any way before this time made, willed and bequeathed; ratifying 
2 CONC and confirming this, and no other, to be my last will and testament. In 
2 CONC witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the year and day 
2 CONC above written. Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and Declared, by the 
2 CONC said Peter Ballou as his last will and Testament, in the presence of us 
2 CONC the subscribers, 
2 CONT 
2 CONT   viz. Nicholas Camp,                     Peter Ballou. [L. S.] 
2 CONT        Maturean Ballou, 
2 CONT        Samuel Tucker. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This Will was proved at a Town Council in Smithfield June 17, 1754. The 
2 CONC record says.--"The said Peter Ballou, cooper, departed this life ye 9th 
2 CONC day of May 1754." Mr. Peck says.--"His gravestone I found in the North 
2 CONC Burying Ground at Providence, nearly covered by underbrush, and the 
2 CONC letters much obscured." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT We learn incidentally from this document, besides its fundamental facts, 
2 CONC that his daughter Elizabeth was not living, being unmentioned; that his 
2 CONC dr. Sarah was living in maidenhood; that his youngest dr. Mercy was 
2 CONC living in early youth; and that probably his dr. Amey had been some time 
2 CONC deceased. Whether the Olney Jencks mentioned was the son of Amey, or her 
2 CONC husband, is left unindicated. We may infer from her being made sole 
2 CONC executor, that Mrs. Rebecca, the wife and mother, was a capable, 
2 CONC judicious, trustworthy woman. It seems that Peter3 was designated on 
2 CONC Providence Records as Peter, Jr., simply, we suppose, to distinguish him 
2 CONC from his uncle Peter2. His widow survived him till Feb. 13, 1787, almost 
2 CONC 33 yrs.--aged 93 yrs. 9 mos. and 4 ds. They were obviously people of 
2 CONC substance, respectability and influence among their contemporaries.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2278@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2278
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 38
2 CONT [11.] SARAH BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Providence, R. I., at a date 
2 CONC not ascertained, prob. 1692 or later. We thought at first that we had 
2 CONC found some trace of this Sarah Ballou; but at length ascertained that we 
2 CONC had applied to her certain facts which belonged to the life of her niece, 
2 CONC Sarah Ballou4, dr. of Peter3. We are now satisfied that we have no 
2 CONC reliable trace of Sarah3, and must conclude that she d. at some age 
2 CONC unmarried, if not in early infancy.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2279@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2279
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 38
2 CONT [12.] HANNAH BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1, has left no trace of her birth, 
2 CONC life or death. It is prob. she d. in early infancy.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2280@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2280
1 FAMC @F684@
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Page 38-39
2 CONT [13.] ABIGAIL BALLOU3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Providence, R. I., 
2 CONC birth-date not found, perhaps about 1695; m. John Albrough, Jr., son of 
2 CONC John and Mary (Stokes) Albrough, b. Aug. 23, 1694--as witnessed by the 
2 CONC following certificate.-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "These are to certify all persons whom they may or shall concern--that 
2 CONC John Albro', Junr. & Abigail Billoo were lawfully joined together in 
2 CONC marriage, at the house of John Vaughn in Portsmouth, the seventh day of 
2 CONC ye fourth month called June 1713 within this his majtie's colony of R. I. 
2 CONC &c. per me 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                          George Cornell, Assistant. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT A true copy of the original Recorded, per me 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                     WM. SANFORD, Town Clerk. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Issue, b. and recorded in Portsmouth, R. I.-- 
2 CONT  49--1.  John Albrough, b. June 7, 1714; 
2 CONT  50--2.  Samuel   "     b. Oct. 10, '16; 
2 CONT  51--3.  Mary     "     b. Feb. 6, '18; 
2 CONT  52--4.  Maturin  "     b. June 4, '21; 
2 CONT  53--5.  Sarah    "     b. Feb. 24, '23; d. Apl. 28, 1728. 
2 CONT  54--6.  Peter    "     b. Mar. 19, '27-8. 
2 CONT See First Book of Marriages Portsmouth, R. I., p. 233, and other records. 
2 CONC The Albroughs appear to have been people of enterprise and good social 
2 CONC standing among the colonial pioneers of R. I.; but our information is 
2 CONC very limited concerning them, and whether we shall be able to trace their 
2 CONC descent further, or add anything to the above, is uncertain. As yet we 
2 CONC have not the death-dates of the parents nor any family records of their 
2 CONC descendants.
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2281@ INDI
1 NAME Maturin /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC Probably England
1 DEAT
2 DATE BET 24 FEB 1660/61 AND 31 JAN 1662/63
2 PLAC Probably Providence,R.I.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Probably Providence,R.I.
1 IDNO 2281
1 FAMS @F719@
1 IMMI
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC Probably England
1 NOTE Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Pages 3 - 14  (continuation under his wife's notes Pages 14 - 17 -- vlww) 
2 CONT "1. MATURIN BALLOU1 m. Hannah Pike, dr. of Robert and Catherine Pike, 
2 CONC prob. in Providence, R. I., between 1646 and 1649. Issue,
2 CONT  2--1.  John, b. prob. Providence, 1650; m. Hannah Garrett. 
2 CONT  3--2.  James, b. prob. Providence, 1652; m. Susanna Whitman, 1683. 
2 CONT  4--3.  Peter, b. prob. Providence, 1654; m. Barbary (???) (???). 
2 CONT  5--4.  Hannah, b. prob. Providence, 1656; d. u. m. in advanced 
2 CONC maidenhood. 
2 CONT  6--5.  Nathaniel, b. prob. Providence, 1658; d. in early manhood. 
2 CONT  7--6.  Samuel, b. prob. Providence, 1660; drowned June 10, 1669. 
2 CONT That the above birth-dates, though somewhat conjectural, cannot be far 
2 CONC from the actual ones, is certain; because we have authentic data to 
2 CONC warrant our conclusion. 1. Maturin Ballou with Robert Pike and family 
2 CONC located in Providence as early at least as January, 1646. 2. Maturin died 
2 CONC somewhere between Feb. 24, 1661, and Jan. 31, 1663, and of course all his 
2 CONC children were born previous to the latter date. 3. John, his eldest son, 
2 CONC was admitted a freeman at Newport May 1, 1671, prob. soon after he was 
2 CONC twenty-one years of age. 4. Samuel Ballou, Maturin's youngest son, was 
2 CONC drowned while yet a lad, June 10, 1669--as is proven by the following 
2 CONC verdict of Inquest by a jury:  "We find, according to the evidence given 
2 CONC in, that the lad, the widow Belloo her son, named Samuel Belloo, going 
2 CONC into the river which runneth to the mill in Providence to wash himself, 
2 CONC was by a providence of God drowned." See particulars in a book entitled 
2 CONC "Deeds Transcribed" p. 455, City Clerk's office, Providence. The critical 
2 CONC reader can calculate for himself and understand the probable proximate 
2 CONC correctness of our given birth-dates; which it was deemed proper to place 
2 CONC two years apart. The small river in which the lad Samuel was drowned bore 
2 CONC the name Moshassuck. John Ballou's admission as a freeman may be found in 
2 CONC Colonial Records B. II. under date of May 1, 1671. The death of Maturin 
2 CONC Ballou is proximately determined by the following data. 1. He had land 
2 CONC laid out to him as late as Feb. 24, 1661; 2, a Receipt from Roger 
2 CONC Williams, &c., to his widow, viz.--"Providence 31, 11, '63, (so called) 
2 CONC [i. e. Jan. 31, 1663]. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Rcd. of ye Widow Belleau for her payment toward Mishoasak & ye rest of ye 
2 CONC inland inlargments fiftie shillings at six P pr. peny. We say recd at ye 
2 CONC appointmt of ye town by us. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                   Roger Williams, 
2 CONT                                                   John Fenner." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT We find no particulars concerning the death of Maturin1, but presume it 
2 CONC must have taken place while yet he was in the prime of middle age, to the 
2 CONC great affliction of his wife, children, relatives and friends. Next the 
2 CONC family mourned the loss of Samuel, in 1669, by drowning, and next, in 
2 CONC youthful manhood, that of Nathaniel, probably not far from 1677 or 78. No 
2 CONC record of the precise date has been found, and the only mementoes he left 
2 CONC of his existence are two dateless letters--one to a brother, and one to 
2 CONC his mother. These are thought too precious to omit. They are as 
2 CONC follows:-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Dear and loving brother,-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT My love to thee, and all the rest, and to all that ask after me. Let this 
2 CONC give thee to understand that I have received thy lines, and am glad to 
2 CONC [know) that thou dost harken to my council, to think of thy latter end. 
2 CONC Indeed, that will do the only good that thou canst seek after: and it is 
2 CONC my heart's desire that thou mayest so do, and not put that day of 
2 CONC salvation far from thee. I shall write no more at present, but rest thy 
2 CONC loving brother. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                Nathaniel Ballou." 
2 CONT "Dear and loving mother,-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT My duty is remembered to you, with my love and respects to my 
2 CONC grandmother. Remember my love to my brother John, and to my brother 
2 CONC James, and to my brother Peter, and to my sister--wishing all their 
2 CONC welfare in this life, and if it may be in that which is to come also. 
2 CONC Mother, being very weak, I have wrote a few lines to you, desiring you to 
2 CONC consider this one thing, that there is no fleeing from the grave. For it 
2 CONC is that which I do look for, to put off this earthly tabernacle. And when 
2 CONC you shall hear this news, I pray thee, let not this trouble you: for I 
2 CONC know this, that I shall have my part in the first resurrection, and shall 
2 CONC live forever. So I bid you all farewell, and rest your dutiful son. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                  Nathaniel Ballou. 
2 CONT Brother James, I pray thee not to forget me." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Where Nathaniel was when he wrote these letters, what were his pursuits, 
2 CONC and why he was away from the parental home, no hint is left on record, 
2 CONC and conjecture is useless. It would seem, from his mentioning his 
2 CONC grandmother and not his grandfather, that the latter, Robert Pike, had 
2 CONC gone the way of all the earth, probably sometime between 1673 and 1678. 
2 CONC His two letters show that he was a deeply religious young man, as well as 
2 CONC very affectionate towards his family relatives; and the last one 
2 CONC indicates that his death was at hand. Happily he was ready to depart, and 
2 CONC his soul anticipated with undoubting confidence a joyful entrance into 
2 CONC immortal blessedness. We regret that no more can be told of him. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT After the four surviving children came of age, the estates of their 
2 CONC father and grandfather were legally divided between them and their 
2 CONC mother. The following is the recorded document specifying that 
2 CONC division:-- 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Whereas it hath pleased God by death to remove Matureene Belloo & Robert 
2 CONC Pike, formerly of ye town of Providence in ye collony of Rhode Island & 
2 CONC Providence Plantations in New England, and each of them leaving some 
2 CONC estate behind them in housing, lands, goods and chattel; and whereas ye 
2 CONC said Matureene Belloo & ye said Robert Pike died making no legal 
2 CONC instrument or instruments of disposition of their said estates, by reason 
2 CONC whereof, if not timely prevented, controverseys may arise amongst their 
2 CONC successors concerning the said estates; therefore, for ye preventing of 
2 CONC all inconveniency or differences & discord which might at any time arise 
2 CONC between ye successors and survivors of ye said Matureene Belloo, Robert 
2 CONC Pike & their posterity, it is covenanted, concluded, determined & fully & 
2 CONC jointly agreed by Hannah Belloo, widdow & Relique of ye aforesaid 
2 CONC deceased Matureene Belloo & daughter of ye said deceased Robert Pike, & 
2 CONC by John Belloo, eldest son of ye said Matureene Belloo, and by James 
2 CONC Belloo, son of ye said Matureene Belloo, and by Peter Belloo, son of ye 
2 CONC said Matureene Belloo, and by Hannah Belloo, daughter of ye said 
2 CONC Matureene Belloo, all of ye said town of Providence and collony of Rhode 
2 CONC Island and Providence Plantations in New England: that the house lot, 
2 CONC which is in ye aforesaid Providence, the one which belonged to ye said 
2 CONC Robert Pike, & also ye house lot which belonged unto ye aforesaid 
2 CONC Matureen Belloo with all ye housing on it, & ye share of medow which 
2 CONC belonged to ye said Matureene Belloo which lieth at ye great medow, and 
2 CONC half ye right of common land yet divisible upon it, reckoning so far west 
2 CONC as ye seven mile line(*), which belonged to ye said Robert Pike, and one 
2 CONC quarter part ye right which belonged to ye said Matureene Belloo on ye 
2 CONC west side of ye seven mile line, with all and every their appertances, 
2 CONC three cows & five swine & all ye household goods, shall belong unto ye 
2 CONC said Hannah Belloo, widdow, and ye said Hannah Belloo, daughter, of ye 
2 CONC said Matureene Belloo, unto them and their heirs and assigns forever. And 
2 CONC if any of said estate shall at any time be disposed of, it shall be with 
2 CONC both their consents and approbation; and that ye said estate of housing, 
2 CONC lands, goods and cattle what shall be & remainders possessed of by ye 
2 CONC said two persons shall revert and be unto ye longest lived of said two 
2 CONC persons, (namely) ye said Hannah Belloo, widdow, & Hannah Belloo, 
2 CONC daughter, of ye said Matureene Belloo, to their heirs and assigns for 
2 CONC ever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT (*) This line was establisbed in 1660. It runs north and south from a 
2 CONC point supposed to be seven 
2 CONT miles west of Fox Hill, though it actually measures more. It is now the 
2 CONC dividing line between 
2 CONT Smithfield, Johnston and Cranston on the east, and Seituate, Glouceater 
2 CONC and Burrillville on the 
2 CONT west. It was the western boundary of the early division of Providence 
2 CONC town lands. They subsequently 
2 CONT divided the land on the west side of the line. 
2 CONT  
2 CONT Secondly--that the sixty acres of upland in ye 2d division & ye share of 
2 CONC medow in ye same division in ye right of ye said Matureene Belloo & one 
2 CONC half ye right of common, reckoning so far west from ye town of Providence 
2 CONC as ye seven mile line, & a quarter part of ye right beyond ye seven mile 
2 CONC line, & one acre of swamp land adjoining to ye aforesaid share of medow, 
2 CONC & half a six acre lot lying in ye neck between ye land of John Brown & ye 
2 CONC land of Shadrach Manton, it being the west end or west half of said six 
2 CONC acres of land, together with all and every of their appertances, to be 
2 CONC unto ye said John Belloo, to him & his heirs & assigns for ever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Thirdly--that the sixty acres of land in ye 2d division in ye right of ye 
2 CONC said Robert Pike, & ye ten acres of land in ye said division in ye right 
2 CONC of ye said Robert Pike in lieu of a share of medow, and a piece of swampy 
2 CONC land which was laid out in exchange from ye new field in ye right of ye 
2 CONC aforesaid Matureene Belloo, & half of ye right of common reaching from ye 
2 CONC town of Providence so far west as ye seven mile line in ye right of ye 
2 CONC aforesaid Robert Pike, with what lands are divisible upon it, & one 
2 CONC quarter part in ye right of ye aforesaid Matureene Belloo in ye land 
2 CONC beyond ye seven mile line, & one quarter part of a six acre lot lying in 
2 CONC ye neck betwixt ye land of John Brown and ye land of Shadrach Manton, the 
2 CONC which said quarter part of ye said six acre lot is to be at the east end 
2 CONC thereof, all the said lands & Common & all and every of their appertances 
2 CONC to be unto ye said James Belloo afore named, to his heirs and assigns 
2 CONC forever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fourthly--that the ten acres of land which was bought of Samuel Whipple 
2 CONC lying westward of ye brook called Robbins brook & Southward from 
2 CONC Walling's furnace, & eleven acres of swampy land lying in ye great swamp 
2 CONC in ye neck, the which is both in ye right of Robert Pike aforesaid, & 
2 CONC also of ye aforesaid Matureene Belloo, and half a right of Common 
2 CONC reaching from ye town of Providence so far west as ye seven mile line 
2 CONC with ye lands yet divisible upon it in ye right of ye said Matureene 
2 CONC Belloo, & a quarter part of ye right of ye said Matureene in ye land 
2 CONC beyond on ye west side of ye seven mile line, and one quarter part of a 
2 CONC six acre lot in ye neck which lyeth between ye land of John Brown & ye 
2 CONC land of Shadrach Manton, the which said quarter part is to be between the 
2 CONC aforesaid John Belloo his share of ye six acres & ye said James Belloo 
2 CONC his share of ye said six acres, to be, all and every part of the said 
2 CONC lands & common & all & every of their appertances, unto ye said Peter 
2 CONC Belloo to him, his heirs & assigns for ever. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Fifthly--that in case it shall so fall that ye aforesaid Hannah Belloo, 
2 CONC widdow, shall stand in need of assistance with maintainance for her 
2 CONC relief, then shall the said John Belloo & James Belloo & Peter Belloo 
2 CONC each of them and their executors, heirs & administrators, be at equal 
2 CONC charges for her maintainance to the end of her natural life. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sixthly--that four written instruments be made the which shall all 
2 CONC correspond & agree each with the other, and that each one of ye aforesaid 
2 CONC concerned persons shall sign and set his seal to every one of ye said 
2 CONC four written instruments, that any one of ye said four written 
2 CONC instruments shall be good to all intents and purposes for each of said 
2 CONC persons their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns to hold and 
2 CONC maintain their lands and estates by the which are therein contained and 
2 CONC mentioned for each one their part, and that this instrument is one of ye 
2 CONC said four written instruments. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This being covenant conclusion, determination and full & joint agreement 
2 CONC made by ye aforesaid Hannah Belloo, widdow, John Belloo, James Belloo, 
2 CONC Peter Belloo & Hannah Belloo, daughter of ye said deceased Matureene 
2 CONC Belloo; in witness thereof they do all hereunto set their hands & seals 
2 CONC this first day of March, in ye year one thousand six hundred eighty and 
2 CONC five, six." See Providence Records B. II. p. 112, &c. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is certainly a very important instrument, remarkable for its 
2 CONC clearness and strength of specification, considering its date, and 
2 CONC invaluable for its historic details. It puts us in possession of 
2 CONC authentic facts respecting the early circumstances and affairs of Maturin 
2 CONC Ballou's family almost indispensable to a fair start of their genealogy. 
2 CONC It would seem from its silence concerning Mrs. Catherine Pike, widow of 
2 CONC Robert, that she had followed him to the world of spirits--probably 
2 CONC sometime between 1680 and 1685. Whether we can infer from the orthography 
2 CONC of the name, "Matureene Belloo," anything conclusive as to the early 
2 CONC pronunciation of it, is doubtful; though it is probable that the 
2 CONC draftsman of the instrument, an evidently legal gentleman, gave nearly 
2 CONC its usual phonetic pronunciation. But the scribes and clerks of 
2 CONC subsequent date made such incongruous work of writing it and the sur-name 
2 CONC generally, that we are only amazed at their multiform whimsicality. We 
2 CONC know, however, by the original letters of Nathaniel and John, sons of 
2 CONC Maturin, that they spelled their surname as we now do--Ballou. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT What next occurred in the experience of the family? It is probable, if 
2 CONC not certain, that the widow Hannah Ballou and her daughter Hannah resided 
2 CONC for several years on the original homestead in the northerly section of 
2 CONC Providence. Meantime the three brothers, John, James and Peter, settled 
2 CONC within a short distance of each other on their respective divisions of 
2 CONC inherited common land in a locality then called Loquasquissuck, but now 
2 CONC Louisquiset. This tract was then in its wilderness state, but had several 
2 CONC attractive open meadows, created by the ancient beavers, yielding 
2 CONC annually large crops of nutritious grasses, much needed in those days for 
2 CONC the sustenance of cattle. It was situated only a few miles northwest of 
2 CONC the parental homestead, in what is now the westerly part of Lincoln, 
2 CONC between the villages of Manville on the north and Lime Rock on the south. 
2 CONC This locality was originally in the town of Providence and included in 
2 CONC the tract of common territory called the Outlands of Providence. In 1730 
2 CONC those Outlands were divided into three towns, viz.: Smithfield, 
2 CONC Gloucester and Scituate. Thenceforth the Ballou locality of the second 
2 CONC generation was in Smithfield. In 1871 Smithfield was subdivided so as to 
2 CONC constitute wholly or in part four towns, viz.: Smithfield, North 
2 CONC Smithfield, Woonsocket and Lincoln. Burrillville was set off from 
2 CONC Gloucester in 1806. The ancient James Ballou homestead lies about half a 
2 CONC mile westward from the village of Albion. A portion of it continues in 
2 CONC possession of their descendants to this day. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT At length the mother and daughter began to stand in need of special care 
2 CONC from one or more of the sons. They preferred that of James, and entered 
2 CONC into the following Agreement with him, Oct. 22, 1707: 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Whereas there are two house lots or home shares of land, each lot 
2 CONC containing about four acres of land be it more or less, the which are 
2 CONC situate lying and being in the town of Providence, in the Colony of Rhode 
2 CONC Island and Providence Plantations, in the Naragansett Bay in New 
2 CONC England--lieing and being in the row of house lots whereon the town is 
2 CONC seated, and towards the northern part of the town--the which said lots of 
2 CONC land, one of them formerly belonged unto Robert Pike formerly of said 
2 CONC Providence but now deceased, the other of them formerly belonged to 
2 CONC Matureene Belloo formerly of said Providence but now deceased--The which 
2 CONC said two house lots or home shares of land do now belong to us, Hannah 
2 CONC Belloo, formerly wife of the sd Matureene Belloo but now his widow, and 
2 CONC Hannah Belloo, daughter of the aforesaid Matureene Belloo, both of ye 
2 CONC aforesaid town of Providence, and are our proper estates, both the said 
2 CONC lots: And whereas we, the sd Hannah Belloo, widdow of the aforesaid 
2 CONC Matureene Belloo, and Hannah Belloo, daughter of the aforesaid Matureen 
2 CONC Belloo, are now fallen into the care and providing for of James Belloo, 
2 CONC of the aforesaid town of Providence, son of the aforesaid deceased 
2 CONC Matureene Belloo and of the said Hannah Belloo, widow of the aforesaid 
2 CONC deceased Matureene Belloo: And whereas it is requisite that the said 
2 CONC James Belloo should be considered as with respect to his care and charges 
2 CONC as to our providing for and maintainance so far as we are capable, and if 
2 CONC it shall so fall out at any time with us or with either of us, that we or 
2 CONC either of us may not be in a capasity to answer the said James Belloo as 
2 CONC to his care, charges and disbursements concerning us or either of us, the 
2 CONC sd two lots of land shall be under such circumstances as to make 
2 CONC restitution unto the said James Belloo or his heirs for what he hath or 
2 CONC may yet expend upon us or on the longest lived of us. And if at any time 
2 CONC that any of us two persons to whom the said two lots of land do belong 
2 CONC shall see cause to make sale of the same, the said James Belloo or his 
2 CONC heirs shall have the first offer and refusal, he or they allowing as much 
2 CONC for the same as any other person will give. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT In witness of the premises we, the said Hannah Belloo widdow and Hannah 
2 CONC Belloo daughter, do hereunto set our hands and seals the twenty and 
2 CONC second day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
2 CONT The mark of 7 Hannah Belloo, widow; Tho. Olney, sen.; Hannah Belloo, 
2 CONC daughter; John Inman, Junr, 
2 CONT Recorded Feb. 10th, 1717-18.  Per me Richard Waterman, Clerk." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT It furthermore appears that the mother and daughter made a deed bearing 
2 CONC this same date of October 22, 1707, whereby they conveyed to James Belloo 
2 CONC all their right, title and interest to lands on the west side of the 
2 CONC seven mile line, as specified in the divisional agreement hereinbefore 
2 CONC copied. This deed, which is still extant in its original form, purports 
2 CONC to have been recorded in "Providence Records," Book II. pp. 195 and 196, 
2 CONC June 13, 1711, by Thomas Olney, Clerk. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Under date of Jan. 28, 1711-12, Hannah Ballou, the widowed mother, 
2 CONC executed a deed whereby she conveyed to her son James "my two six acre 
2 CONC lots situate and being within ye Town of Providence & lying between land 
2 CONC of James Brown on ye south & the land of John Arnold on the North, and 
2 CONC butting on ye Town street on the west--one of which sd lots did formerly 
2 CONC belong unto my well beloved husband, Matureene Belou deceased, the other 
2 CONC did formerly belong to my much honored father, Robert Pike deceased--as 
2 CONC also one half Right of common on ye east side of ye seven mile line. And 
2 CONC also fourteen acres of land laid out unto me adjoining to the lands of my 
2 CONC said son, James Beleu, together with all my household stuf and other 
2 CONC moveable Estate of what kind and nature soever." Providence Records, Book 
2 CONC III. p. 90. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT At this same date James bound himself in the penal sum of ¶40 to his 
2 CONC mother "to find for and allow unto her meat, drink, washing, lodging, 
2 CONC appariel and tendance, with all things else needful and necessary 
2 CONC respecting both her age and times of sickness," during her whole life. 
2 CONC Providence Records, B. III. p. 90. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Thus we find James Ballou in legal possession of all the property that 
2 CONC had belonged to his mother and to his sister Hannah--he giving bonds as 
2 CONC aforesaid. As his sister is not mentioned in either of these two 
2 CONC instruments bearing date Jan. 28, 1711-12, she had undoubtedly deceased. 
2 CONC This determines her death to have taken place some time between Oct. 22, 
2 CONC 1707, and Jan. 28, 1711-12, which is the nearest approximation we are 
2 CONC able to make to the date of that event.(*) 
2 CONT 
2 CONT The foregoing arrangement appears to have been quite unsatisfactory to 
2 CONC John Ballou, the eldest son of Maturin and Hannah (Pike) Ballou. It 
2 CONC seemed to him that his brother James had inveigled himself into an undue 
2 CONC share of his mother's estate, and he complained of it. He died some 
2 CONC little time before his mother, and left his grievance to be cherished by 
2 CONC his eldest son, John Ballou, Jr. When his grandmother had passed away, 
2 CONC this son insisted that his uncle James should hand over to him a share of 
2 CONC the estate, pleading that the three sons and their heirs had all been 
2 CONC bound for the old lady's maintenance, and ought to share her property. 
2 CONC His uncle James contended that he had borne all the care and expense of 
2 CONC her maintenance, and that the entire estate made over to him would hardly 
2 CONC make him whole. But John, Jr., 
2 CONT (*) Aug. 20, 1885. Our friend John O. Austin, an expert Rhode Island 
2 CONC genealogist, has recently 
2 CONT discovered and communicated in part a record of the testimony given on 
2 CONC trial of the case between 
2 CONT John Ballon3 and his uncle, James Ballou2, in 1718, which reports Peter 
2 CONC Ballou2 as declaring that 
2 CONT his sister Hannah "died fore part of January 1712." This seems to settle 
2 CONC the date almost to a day.  
2 CONT 
2 CONT brought suit against his uncle, which was tried before the "General Court 
2 CONC of Trials" at Newport in Sept., 1718. It seems that the plaintiff lost 
2 CONC his case. There are some peculiar and quaint papers extant relating to 
2 CONC this case, which we cannot afford to have buried out of sight. They will 
2 CONC repay preservation, and, as curiosities, if nothing more, demand a place 
2 CONC in these pages. The first of these documents is a Release or discharge 
2 CONC made by James, the uncle, to John, his nephew. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT "Whereas my brother John Ballou did oblige himself and heirs to be at 
2 CONC equal part of the expense of maintaining my mother and sister, now 
2 CONC deceased, with me and my brother Peter, I do now therefore discharge John 
2 CONC Ballou, son and heir of the said John Ballou now deceased, from all costs 
2 CONC and charges which have occurred for the support of my mother & sister. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                James Ballou. 
2 CONT Feb. 7, 1717-18." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT This is only an extract from the instrument, containing the pith of its 
2 CONC substance, but is sufficient for our purpose. It looks as if uncle James 
2 CONC executed it to foreclose any plea on the part of nephew John, that he and 
2 CONC others might be held liable to pay charges for the maintenance of his 
2 CONC grandmother and aunt. But it is chiefly interesting as showing that the 
2 CONC uncle intended to insist on no unjust claims, and more especially to us 
2 CONC of this generation, as indicating proximately the death-dates of his 
2 CONC mother and brother John. Another recorded document, discovered by 
2 CONC Frederick M. Ballou, Esq., after the foregoing was written, shows that 
2 CONC John had deceased previously to "March 4, 1714-15." Hence it is somewhat 
2 CONC probable that the mother and her eldest son died not far apart--he during 
2 CONC the year 1714, she early in 1715. These instruments are our only 
2 CONC dependence for fixing their death dates. We have, however, two much more 
2 CONC curious documents relating to this family controversy. Here is a 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT DEPOSITION BY DEPUTY GOV. JOSEPH JENKS.
2 CONT "I Joseph Jenks, being of Lawful age, Do testify & Say, that Som years 
2 CONC ago I was Desired by James Beleu to write a Deed of Some percils of Land, 
2 CONC which he told me his mother was minded he should have in Satisfaction for 
2 CONC ye Charge which he had already been at for her maintainance, As also for 
2 CONC her further maintainance During her life, he also desired me, that when I 
2 CONC had writ Sd Deed I would bring it up to his house & Se it Executed, & 
2 CONC accordingly when I had writ the Deed I carried it to his house, & when I 
2 CONC came there he Sent for his brother Peter Beleu to come to his house to 
2 CONC See the Executing of Sd Deed, he also Sent for Some persons for 
2 CONC witnesses; & whilst the messengers were gon (which I suppose was about an 
2 CONC hour) I fell into Discourse with the Ancient woman, James Beleu's mother, 
2 CONC & asked her Several questions--& to my thinking She answered very 
2 CONC Rationally to them all, & as Rationally as She could have done at any 
2 CONC time, for many years past: & amongest other discourse, I asked her if She 
2 CONC could Remember her age. She Replied She could not, but told me that 
2 CONC Thomas Olney had kept her age Ever Since She came to Live at Providence: 
2 CONC for, said she, when I first came into this Town, we had discourse about 
2 CONC our ages, & found that we were both born in one year: & he has kept my 
2 CONC age Ever Since. So after Some Time the Messengers Returned; & Thomas 
2 CONC Hopkins & Valentine Inman Came for to be witnesses to Sd Deed; but Peter 
2 CONC Beleu Came not--he having business which Detained him, as was said; but 
2 CONC John Beleu came & Seemed very angery, Saying that he thought he ought to 
2 CONC have part of the Land. James Beleu Replied, I do not Covet the Land, do 
2 CONC you pay me what Charge I have been at, in keeping my mother, & Hannah, & 
2 CONC take my mother & Look after her as Long as She lives, provided She be 
2 CONC willing to goe with you, & Do you take the Land. John Beleu Replied he 
2 CONC would take her; but She made Answer, I won't go with you, John, what will 
2 CONC you do with me? you can't Look after me, or to that Effect. So She 
2 CONC proceeded to Sign the deed, being Dim Sighted She asked where She must 
2 CONC Sign, & I guided her hand to the place & She Signed the Deed, but John 
2 CONC Beleu forbid the witnesses Signing, but they proceeded & Signed as 
2 CONC witnesses: & I heard not one word, neither from him nor them, of the old 
2 CONC woman's being Childish, or Incopassitated for such a business. So I took 
2 CONC her acknowledgement of the Deed, & drew a bond wherein James Beleu became 
2 CONC bound to his mother for her maintainance During her Life, & So Returned 
2 CONC hom: & never heard any more Stir about it untill about Six or Eight 
2 CONC months ago: & then I heard that John Beleu was Intended to Sue for the 
2 CONC Land Contained in the fore Sd Deed, & had procured witnesses to prove 
2 CONC that his grandmother was Childish & not Capeable of making a conveyance 
2 CONC at the time when she sined the afore Sd Deed, & that those men which were 
2 CONC witnesses to the Deed had given Such a Testimony: the which I much 
2 CONC admired at; but I Remembering what discourse I had with the woman about 
2 CONC her age, thought I would ask Mr. Olney about it, & accordingly I did, & 
2 CONC he told me that when She came first to providence, her father, and 
2 CONC mother, her husband and Shee kept Some Time at his father's house, in 
2 CONC which time they had Discourse about their age, & found they were both 
2 CONC born in one year, & he was then Eighteen years of age: So that Mr. Olney 
2 CONC confirming the Truth of what the woman had told me at the time of her 
2 CONC Signing the Deed, was a good Confirmation to me that I was not mistaken 
2 CONC in Judging her to be of sound memory at that Time: & this I declare to be 
2 CONC truth, as witness my hand this 2d of October: 1718. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                                 Joseph Jencks. 
2 CONT   Taken upon Engagent this 27th day of March 1719: before me 
2 CONT                           Richard Browne, Justice of peace."  "
2 CONT 
2 CONT Continued under his wife's notes:  vlww
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2282@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /Pike/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE BET 1714 AND 1715
1 IDNO 2282
1 FAMS @F719@
1 NOTE Parents of Hannah were Robert & Catherine Pike.  vlww
2 CONT 
2 CONT Sunday, August 18, 2002   Obtained at Genealogy.com
2 CONT Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous
2 CONT Author: Adin Ballou
2 CONT ARIEL BALLOU, M. D., AND LATIMER W. BALLOU, LL.D., PROPRIETARY 
2 CONC PUBLISHERS.
2 CONT Call Number: R929.2 B34
2 CONT This book contains histories and records of the Ballou family in America. 
2 CONT Bibliographic Information: Ballou, Adin. An Elaborate and Genealogy of 
2 CONC the Ballous. Press of E.L. Freeman and Son, State Printers. Providence, 
2 CONC R.I. 1888. 
2 CONT Pages 14 - 17 (this is a continuation of notes under her husbands note 
2 CONC section - vlww)
2 CONT "The foregoing has been copied literally from a time-yellowed but well 
2 CONC preserved original paper, handed down among other valuable documents to 
2 CONC the descendants of James Ballou inheriting the ancient homestead. It 
2 CONC appears to be in the hand writing of Richard Browne, Esq., who swore the 
2 CONC deponent, excepting only the signature, Joseph Jencks, which is probably 
2 CONC his own, as it is spelled with a c in it before the k, unlike "Jenks" at 
2 CONC the beginning, and shows a lighter use of the pen. Joseph Jenks was a 
2 CONC distinguished man and official functionary among the early Rhode 
2 CONC Islanders. The deed and bond to which he refers, as having assisted to 
2 CONC execute, bear date January 28, 1711-12; which has been shown on a 
2 CONC preceding page. The deponent is understood to refer first to "John 
2 CONC Beleu," the elder brother of James, and last to "John Beleu," the nephew. 
2 CONC He makes neither of these Johns appear to very good advantage in 
2 CONC comparison with James, who seems to have been a high minded, fair and 
2 CONC just person. Hannah Ballou, the aged widow of Maturin, is shown to have 
2 CONC been a discriminating, shrewd woman, with downright common sense and a 
2 CONC positive will. She was not to be trifled with. This deposition gives us 
2 CONC our best indications concerning Hannah (Pike) Ballou's age, yet is not 
2 CONC desirably definite. Mr. Olney and she were born the same year. They were 
2 CONC eighteen years of age when she first came to Providence. But when was 
2 CONC that? Her parents, she and her husband dwelt for a time with Mr. Olney's 
2 CONC father. Was she then already married to Maturin Ballou at the age of 
2 CONC eighteen? Or is it only meant that he who became her husband lived in 
2 CONC Pike's family? There is constructive room for conjecture; and it is a 
2 CONC reasonable conjecture, that the Pike family, with Maturin Ballou, may 
2 CONC have come to Providence as early as 1644, though their land grant is 
2 CONC dated in Jan., 1646. We have no means of settling these points. We shall 
2 CONC assume, however, that they were living at Mr. Olney's in 1644, that 
2 CONC Hannah Pike had not then been married, was at that time eighteen years 
2 CONC old, and was probably married two or three years later. If so, she was 
2 CONC eighty-five years of age or thereabouts in 1712, when she executed the 
2 CONC deed to her son James, which Joseph Jencks wrote and took her 
2 CONC acknowledgment of. And if so, she must have been eighty-seven or over at 
2 CONC her death, which probably took place not far from 1714. If we have not 
2 CONC mistaken facts in assuming that the deponent spoke first of John Ballou, 
2 CONC Sen., and afterwards of John Ballou, Jr., then it would seem that John 
2 CONC Ballou, Sen., must have died perhaps before his mother: i. e. during 
2 CONC 1714, and she early in 1715, as already conjectured. This point must be 
2 CONC left in some obscurity and uncertainty, for want of requisite explicit 
2 CONC data. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT ANOTHER KINDRED DOCUMENT
2 CONT now demands consideration. It explains itself, and is literally as 
2 CONC follows:--"Whereas there hath been: and yet is a Contention betwixt John 
2 CONC Ballou, and his uncle James Ballou, both of Providence in the Colony of 
2 CONC Rhode Island &c: Concerning certain Lands lying within the Township of 
2 CONC Providence aforesaid, the which said Lands the said James Ballou 
2 CONC purchased of his mother, Hannah Ballou, as by two deeds of Sale under her 
2 CONC hand & seal may appear, nevertheless the said John Ballou, sence the 
2 CONC decease of his Grandmother the sd Hannah Ballou, layeth Claim unto said 
2 CONC land as being heir unto it: and their strife about the same is risen to 
2 CONC such a height that they have had one tryal at the last General Court of 
2 CONC tryals held at Newport in September last past, and design to have another 
2 CONC at the next General Court of tryals there; and inasmuch as neither of the 
2 CONC said deeds of sale do so exactly and plainly declare how much money the 
2 CONC sd James Ballou gave for the said Lands, as they might have done, 
2 CONC therefore some persons have taken the groundless advantage as to say the 
2 CONC sd James Ballou obtained the aforesaid Lands of his said mother for a 
2 CONC very small sum, if any thing, or at least nothing near the true worth 
2 CONC thereof: Therefore the said James Ballou Earnestly desired us whose names 
2 CONC are here under written, to give our Judgment as to the true worth of the 
2 CONC said Lands: and also to Examine the books of the accounts of the dealing 
2 CONC between his said mother and himself; that so it may be known for the 
2 CONC future whether there was any wrong done in that affair or not. Now as to 
2 CONC the aforesaid Lands our Judgment is, that at the times when said deeds 
2 CONC were signed, all the Lands that said James Ballou holds by virtue of said 
2 CONC two deeds, was not worth more than one hundred pounds of money: and 
2 CONC having Examined the said books of accounts and according to the account 
2 CONC that the said James Ballou brought and showed to us, it appeared that the 
2 CONC said Hannah Ballou was indebted to the said James Ballou, not long before 
2 CONC her death, one hundred & ten pounds two shillings & three pence, and if 
2 CONC the said accounts which he showed us be really true, which we know 
2 CONC nothing at present to the Contrary, then we reckon that the said James 
2 CONC Ballou gave ten pounds two shillings and three pence more than said Lands 
2 CONC were worth at that time, for he told us he gave all the debt. Signed at 
2 CONC Providence this 26th of March 1719 by us 
2 CONT 
2 CONT                                               William Harris 
2 CONT                                               Richard Browne. 
2 CONT   Providence, March 26th 1719; Then taken upon Engagement 
2 CONT before me                       Joseph Jencks, Dept. Govr." 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Whether this unique document was ever used at any trial of the 
2 CONC controversy to which it relates, we do not know. Its procurement by James 
2 CONC Ballou seems to have been mainly designed to satisfy candid inquirers 
2 CONC into the case, that he had done no wrong in the obtainment of his 
2 CONC mother's lands, nor given any just cause of complaint to his contentious 
2 CONC nephew in the matter. This was creditable to his self respect, as well as 
2 CONC to his sense of justice. He was evidently an upright, prudent and 
2 CONC honorable man. If his nephew was wanting in any of these qualities, for 
2 CONC any reason, he was no exception to multitudes of kindred minds in our 
2 CONC world. And if the Ballous of this generation take no pride in this feud 
2 CONC of their progenitors, they may draw useful lessons from it in avoiding 
2 CONC what is censurable on one side, and imitating what was commendable on the 
2 CONC other. They can see that human nature was active in their ancestors, as 
2 CONC in themselves, and treasure up the admonitions of wisdom. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT Here we may close all that need be said of Maturin Ballou, his widow, 
2 CONC Hannah (Pike) Ballou, and the three of their children who died unmarried. 
2 CONC Maturin Ballou1, our patriarch, died not far from 1661, and was buried 
2 CONC probably in the oldest Providence Grave Yard. No lettered stone marks the 
2 CONC spot. Samuel, his youngest son, was drowned June 10, 1669, a mere lad, 
2 CONC and buried near his father. Nathaniel, next older than Samuel, died and 
2 CONC was buried away from the family home; but where no record yet found 
2 CONC informs us, perhaps about the year 1678. Hannah, the only daughter, was 
2 CONC never married, and spent her last years with her venerable mother at the 
2 CONC residence of her brother James Ballou, on his homestead about half a mile 
2 CONC west of the village called Albion, in then Providence, afterwards 
2 CONC Smithfield, and now Lincoln. She died between 1707 and 1712, the precise 
2 CONC date unascertained. Her remains were undoubtedly buried in that brother's 
2 CONC family cemetery. Hannah, the widow of Maturin1, styled by Deputy Gov. 
2 CONC Jencks "the ancient woman," died, as we have assumed, on the same 
2 CONC premises, aged not far from eighty-eight years, and her ashes repose in 
2 CONC the same humble cemetery. It was located only a short distance from the 
2 CONC original home-site. There rests the dust of James Ballou2, of his wife, 
2 CONC mother, sister, and a portion of his posterity. No sculptured marble 
2 CONC distinguishes the oldest graves from each other. It ought to be a 
2 CONC hallowed depository to the descendants of James2, and may hereafter be 
2 CONC fitly honored with some deserved monument of commemoration. 
2 CONT 
2 CONT 
2 CONT ARRANGEMENT OF THIS GENEALOGY.
2 CONT The proper construction and arrangement of this work has been a subject 
2 CONC of considerable solicitude with the author. At first he was disposed to 
2 CONC present its details in three General Parts, quite distinct from each 
2 CONC other, so as to treat separately of John Ballou2 and his descendants, of 
2 CONC James Ballou2 and his descendants, and of Peter Ballou2 and his 
2 CONC descendants. But on finding that the descendants of Peter2 were so few as 
2 CONC to be very disproportionate in number to those of his two elder brothers, 
2 CONC he concluded to carry the whole along together in the order of their 
2 CONC generations. On the advice of an experienced genealogist, he thought, for 
2 CONC awhile, of placing the female branches of descent, wherever they forked 
2 CONC off from the male lineage, with full family records in a compact series 
2 CONC together from case to case. But after mature reflection, he decided to 
2 CONC avoid such broad blocks of eccentric specification, out of the regular 
2 CONC chronological line as this must occasion, and to let both male and female 
2 CONC branches of descent flow along in their natural order. He has proceeded 
2 CONC accordingly, and the reader will please seek both for male or female 
2 CONC descendants in the regular range of successive generations; care being 
2 CONC taken on his part to guard against obscurity and mistake. So we come next 
2 CONC to Maturin Ballou's descendants of the Second and Third Generations - "
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2283@ INDI
1 NAME James /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1652
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2283
1 FAMS @F805@
1 FAMC @F719@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2284@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1654
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2284
1 FAMS @F806@
1 FAMC @F719@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2285@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /Ballou/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1656
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC "Unmarried in advanced maidenhood."
1 IDNO 2285
1 FAMC @F719@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2286@ INDI
1 NAME Nathaniel /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1658
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
2 PLAC "early manhood."
1 IDNO 2286
1 FAMC @F719@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2287@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Ballou/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Abt 1660
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1669
2 PLAC "drowened"
1 BURI
2 PLAC Probably Providence,Rhode Island
1 IDNO 2287
1 FAMC @F719@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2288@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Whitman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2288
1 FAMS @F805@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @I2289@ INDI
1 NAME Barbary ?? /(Ballou)/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 DEAT
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 IDNO 2289
1 FAMS @F806@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 26 APR 2003
3 TIME 13:37:46
0 @F17@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1649@
1 WIFE @I16@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 9749
0 @F41@ FAM
1 HUSB @I43@
1 WIFE @I41@
1 CHIL @I450@
1 CHIL @I448@
1 CHIL @I305@
1 CHIL @I260@
1 CHIL @I1480@
1 CHIL @I299@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 10609
0 @F43@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1777@
1 WIFE @I1770@
1 CHIL @I43@
1 CHIL @I1769@
1 CHIL @I1768@
1 CHIL @I1767@
1 CHIL @I281@
1 CHIL @I1651@
1 CHIL @I1649@
1 MARR
2 DATE 5 FEB 1713/1714
2 PLAC By Samuel Wilkinson,J. P.
1 NOTE 1  REFN 10695
0 @F151@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1771@
1 WIFE @I260@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 15618
0 @F163@ FAM
1 HUSB @I280@
1 WIFE @I281@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1730
1 NOTE 1  REFN 16078
0 @F164@ FAM
1 HUSB @I299@
1 WIFE @I282@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 16081
0 @F170@ FAM
1 HUSB @I300@
1 WIFE @I305@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 16205
0 @F173@ FAM
1 HUSB @I448@
1 WIFE @I306@
1 MARR
2 DATE 15 APR 1770
1 NOTE 1  REFN 16219
0 @F237@ FAM
1 HUSB @I635@
1 WIFE @I636@
1 CHIL @I1332@
1 CHIL @I1335@
1 CHIL @I1333@
1 CHIL @I437@
1 MARR
2 DATE 27 JUN 1798
2 PLAC Smithfield,Providence County,Rhode IslandI
2 SOUR @S342@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Found At GENDEX by Gene Stark on the web.  12 August 2001 vlww
2 SOUR @S389@
3 PAGE Vol. 1, Page 354
3 DATA
4 TEXT States: "Sprague Hosea, of Nehemiah, and Chloe Streeter, of Rufus; m. by 
5 CONC Joel Aldrich, Justice, June 27, 1798. Smithfield"
1 NOTE 1  REFN 21037
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Officiating 
2 DATE 27 JUN 1798
2 PLAC Joel Aldrich,Justice
2 SOUR @S389@
3 PAGE Vol. 1, Page 354
3 DATA
4 TEXT States: "Sprague Hosea, of Nehemiah, and Chloe Streeter, of Rufus; m. by 
5 CONC Joel Aldrich, Justice, June 27, 1798. Smithfield"
0 @F241@ FAM
1 HUSB @I450@
1 WIFE @I449@
1 MARR
2 DATE UNKNOWN
1 NOTE 1  REFN 21234
0 @F242@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1479@
1 WIFE @I1480@
1 CHIL @I636@
1 CHIL @I457@
1 CHIL @I458@
1 CHIL @I454@
1 MARR
2 DATE Abt 1779
1 NOTE 1  REFN 21280
0 @F243@ FAM
1 HUSB @I456@
1 WIFE @I457@
1 MARR
2 DATE 31 DEC 1800
2 PLAC By Thomas Mann,J. P.
1 NOTE 1  REFN 21313
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1 TITL 1860 US Census Lancaster Post Office, Independence Twp., Schuyler Co., 
2 CONC Missouri
1 PUBL Census Reading by Nancy Guziec, March 26, 2001.
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1 TITL 1870 US Census of Lancaster Post Office, Independence Twp., Schuyler Co., 
2 CONC Missouri
1 PUBL Census Reading by Nancy Guziec, March 26, 2001.
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1 NOTE Source Media Type: Census
1 _MASTER Y
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1 TITL Mattley, William & Phebe Burials
1 PUBL WILLMATHSVILLE UNION CHURCH CEMETERY, Willmathsville, Missouri-Adair Co:  
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2 CONT 
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1 TITL 1850 US Census of Madison Township, Putnam County, Indiana
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1 TITL Indiana Marriages to 1850 - Full Context
1 PUBL Dodd, Jordan. Indiana Marriages to 1850. [database online] Provo, UT: 
2 CONC Ancestry.com, 1997. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by 
2 CONC the individual counties.
1 ABBR Indiana Marriages to 1850 - Full Context
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1 TITL 1820 US Census of Jefferson County, Indiana
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1 TITL Sprague-02-04: Descendants of Lt. Ralph Sprague & William Sprague
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2 CONC (608) 348-4101]  <Host: A. Arnold Sprague>
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1 TITL Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850
1 AUTH James N. Arnold, Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register
1 PUBL 20 Volumens; Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing 
2 CONC Company. 1892
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1 TITL 1800 US Census of Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island
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1 TITL 1860 US Census of Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana; 
2 CONC Enumeration Date 10 July 1860, Enumerator R.B. Ryan
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