Person:James Ballou (5)

Name	James Ballou
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	25 Apr 1761	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage	5 Nov 1786	Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United Statesto Mehitable Ingalls
Death^[1]	30 Apr 1808	Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009)
p. 66.

Grandfather of James Garfield. James Ballou (IV), Cumberland, R.I. 25 Apr. 1761-Richmond, N.H. 30 Apr. 1808, Richmond 5 Nov. 1786 [m] Mehitable Ingalls.
↑ Cumberland Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
76.

BALLOU, James, of James, Jr., and Tamasin, [born] April 25, 1761.
The Ballou Family, in Ellis, F. O. Millwood, a Family Tree: A Partial History of the Descendants of John Ellis of Rehoboth, Mass. : mainly comprising that of his grandson, Benjamin Ellis, Jr. of Millwood, O., and his descendants : allied names, Ellis, Ingalls, Ballou. (Swampscott, Massachusetts: Higginson, 1909)
Page 13., 1909.

"A cousin to Hosea, James Ballou (28), a young man, followed his uncle to New Hampshire and settled in Richmond in 1782. Here he married Mehitabel Ingalls (7) in 1784; and here he died in 1808."

According to the family trees here, the last common ancester between Hosea and James was Maturin Ballou, born 1610, the Great Great Grandfather, making the relationship third cousins.