Brief Life History of Joseph T
When Joseph T Ball was born on 21 February 1804, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph T Ball, was 28 and his mother, Mary Montgomery Drew, was 31. He died on 20 September 1861, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Joseph T. Ball, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
- Joseph T. Ball, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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