Lois Ballard

Variant spellings of Lois include Loes and Lowis.

Lois was part of the heroic, civic-minded Republican Generation. Her parents were part of the idealistic Awakening Generation. Her husband was part of the reactive, nomadic Liberty Generation. Her children were part of the adaptive Compromise Generation.

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*Birth of Lois Ballard*
Born:	19 July 1746
Birthplace:	Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
*Parents*
Father:	Hezekiah Ballard III, b. 1720 (our ancestor)
Mother:	Lydia Chandler, b. 1720 (our ancestor)
*Siblings*
No information on siblings
*Spouse and children*
Husband:	Joshua Phelps II, 1738-1798 (our ancestor), from Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts (son of Samuel Phelps III, 1712-1795 and Priscilla Chandler, 1713-1778 [our ancestors] Married in Andover 17 February 1767 (Joshua and Lois were second cousins, both of them great-grandchildren of John Chandler I, 1655-1721 and Hannah Abbott Chandler, 1650-1741 (who were themselves first cousins); Lois's mother and her mother-in-law were first cousins. This marriage was the second generation of a second-cousin marriage: Joshua's father and mother were also second cousins.)
Daughter:	Lois Phelps b. 26 May 1767, married Isaac Blunt, Jr.
Daughter:	Hannah Phelps b. 10 September 1769, married Nathan Abbott
Son:	Joshua Phelps II, 1774-1807 (our ancestor)
Son:	Samuel Phelps b. 15 August 1777, d. 26 Sep. 1778
*Other information*
Occupation:	Probably housewife
Religion:	No information available
*Death of Lois Ballard Phelps*
Died:	21 December 1836 (age 90 years 5 months 2 days)
Deathplace:	Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
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Sources on Lois Ballard Phelps:

Wendy Edmands Pearson, in her research for membership in the Colonial Dames

Mary Caroline Findley Edmands, 1887-1970, in her research for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution

Mary Anna Hawes Edmands Ashbrook, 1917-1992, in her compilation of Mary Caroline Findley Edmands's research, who cited "Attested Records #7 #8 #9 Andover, Mass. V.R. vol. 1, p. 302; vol. 2, p. 270. See Phelps vol. 2, 524." "Joshua [Phelps I] married Lois Ballard 1767; Children: Lois 5/24/1767 married Isaac Blunt, Jr.; Hannah 9/10/1769 married Nathan Abbott; Joshua 4/8/74 married Mary Gilson; Samuel 8/15/1777 buried Sept. 26 1778."

Mary Ashbrook cited Manuscript Genealogy of Phelps Family by Charlotte Helen Abbott, Mem. Hall Library, Andover, Mass., p. 8, as well as the disputes with the data there:
Samuel Phelps 5 (Samuel 4-3, Edward 2, Henry 1) and wife Priscilla Chandler had Joshua 6 born June 25, 1738 who married Lois Ballard in 1767, daughter of Hezekiah Ballard and wife Lydia Chandler, born July 19, 1746. He died Dec. 23, 1798, and she died Dec. 21, 1836. Children of above recorded on p. 10:

Lois, born May 26, 1767, m. Isaac Blunt, Jr.
Hannah, born 1769, married Nathan Abbott
Joshua(7) born 1774, married Mary Gilson of Pepperell, 1795, daughter of John Gilson; she was born in 1778(?) and died Oct. 24, 1856. Her father was shot [and presumed killed?] at the Battle of White Plains, N.Y. [this was in 1776!, so he could not have begat a daughter born in 1778].
Samuel, born 1779

Included in Miss Abbott's list of children for Joshua(7) and wife Mary (Gilson) Phelps is Mary, born Aug. 21, 1802, married Levi Bean.

"Note: The Phelps genealogy does not have a correct record of this family as the Andover, Mass., Vital Records and the above records prove." --L.W.M. [Mrs. McQueston]

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