Deacon John Blanchard

- 1693

• Name	John Blanchard  [1]
  Prefix	Deacon
  Gender	Male
  Died	1693	Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I34385	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK
  Last Modified	7 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph Blanchard,   d. Dec 1637, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Mother	Ann,   d. 24 Jun 1662, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F20231	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Brackett,   b. Bef 4 Jan 1635,   d. 3 Jul 1706, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age > 71 years)
  Married	Bef 1665  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Blanchard,   b. Abt 1668, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 9 Mar 1727, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Last Modified	7 May 2021
  Family ID	F20230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Admitted a freeman of Salem 2 May 1643. Next at Charlestown, where he is listed as owner of lot 99 as of 1 Mar 1658. About 1664 he moved to Chelmsford. On 27 Dec 1680 he and his wife Hannah sold their Chelmsford homestead to Capt. Thomas Henchman and moved shortly thereafter to Dunstable, where he was selectman in 1683, 1685, and 1689, one of the six male members that organized the church there, and one its first deacons.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S5487] J. Crawford Hartman, "Joseph Blanchard of Boston, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 93: 162, 93:229, 1939. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.