Person:Elizabeth Ballard (18)

The parents of Elizabeth Ballard have not been positively identified. Since she arrived in New England in about 1633 and married in 1634, she must have been at least 18 in 1634, indicating a birth year of 1616 or earlier.

Several online databases indicate that she was the daughter of Hugh and Maria (Prosser) Ballard, who married in 1622 in St. Martin-in-the-Field in London, England. They did have a daughter Elizabeth, who was christened in 1628. The LDS Ancestral File ascribes a birth year of 1613 to this Elizabeth, which means that Hugh Ballard was about 16 years old and Maria Prosser about 12 years old. It is evident that the Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and Maria (Prosser) Ballard, is NOT the Elizabeth who married Robert Seaver in Roxbury MA in 1634.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Elizabeth Ballard, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1:86.

   "'Elizabeth Ballard, a maid servant, she came in the year 1633 & was soon after her coming joined to the [Roxbury] church; she was afterwards married to Robert Sever of this church, where she had a godly conversation' [RChR p. 78]."

2. ↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   2:635.

   "Sever, … Elizabeth [Seaver. (church record, First Religious Society (Unitarian.))], w. Robart, [died] June 6, 1657."