Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Joseph Balch
1680 - 1732 (52 years)-
Name Joseph Balch Birth 26 Apr 1680 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts [1] Gender Male Death 9 Dec 1732 near Antigua [1, 2] Person ID I17187 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TD Last Modified 8 Sep 2018
Father Deacon Samuel Balch, b. May 1651, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 14 Oct 1723, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 72 years) Mother Martha Newmarch, b. Abt 1653, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 5 Jul 1720, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 67 years) Marriage 27 Oct 1675 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts [1, 3, 4] Family ID F10528 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Osgood, b. 11 Feb 1690 d. 22 Oct 1752, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 62 years) Marriage 23 Oct 1712 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1] Children + 1. Ebenezer Balch, b. 14 May 1723, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 28 Apr 1808, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 84 years) Family ID F10527 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 19 Apr 2017
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Notes - He was a sea captain based in Boston. From a letter in the Boston News Letter, 25 Jan 1732/3, from Mr. David Linzey, mate of the brigantine Robert, dated 13 Dec 1732:
"Sir, this comes to acquaint you of the dismal misfortune that has happened, Viz., the loss of Captain Balch. He was knocked overboard with the gaft seventeen days after we left Boston, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in lat. 17ยบ 3' N. We reckoned ourselves four leagues to the east'd of the Island of Antigua."
- He was a sea captain based in Boston. From a letter in the Boston News Letter, 25 Jan 1732/3, from Mr. David Linzey, mate of the brigantine Robert, dated 13 Dec 1732:
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Sources - [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897.
- [S2189] The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, From Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time by Sherman W. Adams, ed. Henry R. Stiles. New York: The Grafton Press, 1904., year and place only.
- [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.
- [S2193] The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield by Benjamin Apthorp Gould. Lynn, Massachusetts: Thos. P. Nichols, 1895., date only.
- [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897.