This source shows George Ball’s (1615-?) ancestry as follows:

Father - Thomas (1580-1641)

Grandfather - Thomas Ball (1540-?)

Great-Grandfather - John Ball (1508-1599)

2nd Great-Grandfather - Unidentified Ball with descendants ten generations to American Explorer John Ledyard (1751-1789); and fourteen generations to Australian Aviation Pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935).