Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Hester Ballard

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 793 
  • Father:
  • William Ballard 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Jenckes Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 30 Nov 1652 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Jenckes (Ahnentafel No:396 )

  Nathaniel Jenckes

  Joanna Jenckes

  Elizabeth Jenckes

  • Notes: 

  • Hester Ballard's given name is also seen as Esther.

• Sources for Hester Ballard

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1902, Vol. 6, p. 39.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 148.
  • ³ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 112.
  • ⁴ Browne, William B., Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1952), 3-9.
  • ⁵ Tifft, Maria E. (Maxon), A Partial Record of the Descendants of John Tefft, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and the Nearly Complete Record of . . ., Buffalo, New York: The Peter Paul Book Company and Publishers (1896), 14.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 21.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Joseph Jenckes (governor)", (accessed 09/06/2013).

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