Divided into the following sub-series: General Records, Account Sheets, Account Books, Bonds, Insurance Policies, and Receipts. Arranged chronologically

General Records- receipted bills for ammunition and supplies for the trip west, and business records regarding clients and friends. Also includes a record pertaining to the costs of building a tavern, and handwritten deeds.

Account Sheets- from Ball’s business clients, Plaster Mill, and Grinnel, Minturn & Company, showing debits and credits. valuable are records showing the cost and the number of acres of land owned by settlers or clients.

Account Books- Provides a listing of lands owned by various people, from September 1848 to August 1852. There is an account book providing statements of cash advanced by Ball to Barnard Courtney to excavate for plaster on land in S34 T7N R12W, 1853, 1857. Moreover, there are account books, 1837-50, regarding Ball accounts with the Grand River Land Office, Ionia Land Office, Ottawa County, Kent County, Village of Grandville, Western Addition, Ionia County, George Campau.

Bonds consisting of school bonds, and bonds of Dennis and Marshall Porter, Deborah Powers, and H.P. Yale.

Insurance policies 1839, 1853

Receipts regarding mortgages and bonds, and taxes on land.