Benjamin Balch

Abt 1629 - Aft 1715  (~ 86 years)

• Name	Benjamin Balch
  Birth	Abt 1629  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef Apr 1629	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	Aft 31 Jan 1715  [2, 3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. John Balch   d. 16 Jan 1662 ▻ Mary Conant + 2. Benjamin Balch ,   b. Abt 1629   d. Aft 31 Jan 1715  (Age ~ 86 years) ▻ Sarah Gardner ,  m. Abt 1650 ;  Abigail Maverick ,  m. 5 Feb 1689
  Person ID	I17191	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TD, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	2 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Balch,   b. Abt 1605   d. Between 15 May 1648 and 28 Jun 1648, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 43 years)
  Mother	Margery
  Marriage	Abt 1629  [1]
  Family ID	F10543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Gardner   d. 5 Apr 1686, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1650  [1, 2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Deacon Samuel Balch,   b. May 1651, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 14 Oct 1723, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 72 years)
  Family ID	F10529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Abigail Maverick,   b. 10 Aug 1637   d. 1 Jan 1690, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1689  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F21570	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  One of several individuals with a plausible claim to have been the first born male child in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. "His independence of the rigid puritanical notions of the times appears in several instances. For entertaining and giving a night's lodging to a stranger on foot, he was arrested and fined, and he left the baptism of his children to their own desires." [Genealogy of the Balch Families in America]

  
  

• 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. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., year only. [S221] The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda, and John Warner by Frederick C. Warner. 5 volumes. Boston: F. C. Warner, 1949. (Cover title: The Warner-Harrington Ancestry.).