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Birth — 1725 21 June 1725 West Springfield, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Name: Charles Ball Gender: Male Burial Date: Burial Place: Death Date: 16 Oct 1795 Death Place: West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Age: 70 Birth Date: 1725 Birth Place: Occupation: Race: Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Father's Name: Father's BirthPlace: Mother's Name: Mother's BirthPlace: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B39208-2 System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy GS Film Number: 186172 Reference ID: Book 2, P 118
'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FCMW-YYQ : 10 December 2014), Charles Ball, 16 Oct 1795; citing West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference Book 2, P 118; FHL microfilm 186,172.'
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Elmwood Cemetery Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)
1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England 1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England 1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay 1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state
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