Zaccheus Ballard (Ballord)
Our Revolutionary War Ancestor

Reprinted from the 1996 Ballard History
Our Ancestor's services in assisting in the establishment of American Independence during the War of the Revolution were as follows:
Appears with rank of Private on Muster and pay roll of Capt. Jeramiah Kingsberrys Co. and Colonel Jonathan Helmans Regiment roll dated Jan. 20 1777. Time of service 1 mo., 13 days . He also appears with rank of private on Continental Army Pay accounts of Capt. Moore's Co. and Colonel Shepards regimetn for service from Mar. 5, 1777 to Apr. 20, 1780.
He was dismissed from service for disability too soon to be at Yorktown with his regiment and witness the surrender of Cornwallace.
Given below are references, by volume and page, to the authority for above claimed service:
Commonwealth of Mass. Office of the Secretary of Revolutionary War Service
Vol. 20, p. 142; Vol. 4, p. 130, p1, p2, p44.
Zaccheus Ballard record has been researched and is on file at the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution #194834.
Approved Sept. 19, 1923 - Dec. 3, 1923

Zaccheus, our Revolutionary War ancestor, married in Hopkinton, Mass. 1758 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Gooch) Valentine.
She was born in Thompson, Conn. May 18, 1739. She survived him and married for second husband, Jonathan Ellis of Thompson. She died March 26, 1807 and is buried in West Thompson cemetery.
After about 10 years residence in Framingham, where his farm was adjacent Shepards Mills, Zaccheus moved to Leicester, Mass. In 1775 he bought the Crafts Davis farm in Oxford, Mass. This farm was the original homestead lot No. 40 of Oxford's first town plot.
In April 1785 he moved his family to Thompson, Windham County, Conn. where he died in April, 1800. He is our Revolutionary ancestor and served thirty-nine months in the Revolutionary War. He went from Oxford to Boston at the call of Lexington and later enlisted in the 4th Mass. from Oxford. His name is third in the list of the Published Records in Boston. He was with Washington at Valley Forge, (as we are told). He is buried in the Bates Cemetery near Bates Grove. A boulder marks his resting place erected there by his great grand son, Esek Steere Ballard, of Davenport, Iowa.