NOTE: Correct year is 1673.
John Ballard Patent, Nansemond 1658 (June 2, 1673)
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Vol. I
Ballard Family, Albemarle County Records

The information shown above in The Valentine Papers has an incorrect date/year transcription of the patent granted to John BALLARD. The correct date is June 2, 1673 as reflected in the official Virginia Patent records. John BALLARD transported his wife Pasheba and two sons John and Joseph along with others for 300 acres.

John BALLARD was the grantee in a land patent dated 2 June 1673 covering 300 acres of land in Nansemond County, VA. See the following information in Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys:

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=469&last=&g_p=P6&collection=LO Patent
Author Link Ballard, John. grantee.
Title Link Land grant 2 June 1673.
Summary Location: Nansemond County.
Description: 300 acres only the courses and distances recited in the patent.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 6, 1666-1679 (pt.1 & 2 p.1-692), p. 469 (Reel 6).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Subject - Personal Link Ballard, John. grantee.

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Fourteen years after arriving in Virginia, John Ballard obtained his own land grant dated 2 June 1673, for 300 acres in Nansemond County.13 Available to read online on the website the Library of Virginia, this grant is extremely difficult to decipher; perhaps it is easier if one were to examine the original. The abstract in Cavaliers and Pioneers 14 notes that he obtained the grant for the transport of six persons: “His owne person, & Besheba his wife, Jno. and Joseph, his sons, Wm. Freeman & Jno. Napp.”

The fact that he paid his own transport indicates that he returned to England at least once and perhaps retrieved his wife and children to join him in the New World after securing his place there. Some researchers claim that Besheba was born in Nansemond County; we have found no evidence of this; nor does it make much sense for his wife and children to make the voyage from Virginia to England and back, given the trouble and expense of it.

John Ballard’s patent is mentioned in another granted to John Taylor, for 200 acres int he Upper Parish of Nansemond county, “adjacent Thomas Cowting; & John Ballard, 21 September 1674.”15 It is mentioned again in a patent of William Speight on 24 February 1675/6, who acquired 137 acres in “Nanzemond Co., joining on N. side of his father’s land, in the upper parish, now called Tho. Spright’s land; beg. by a muddy br. deviding this &c; and of Jno. Ballard; to his father’s als. Brother’s line; to line of John Battle, Junr; &c … Trans. of: Osman Crabb, 3 times.”16 Curiously (and incidentally), this Wm. Speight claimed an additional 117 acres adjacent to his own land on 24 February 1675/6 for the transfer of Osman Babb, twice.17