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Joseph Balch

Male 1680 - 1732  (52 years)


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  • Name Joseph Balch 
    Birth 26 Apr 1680  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 9 Dec 1732  near Antigua Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1723, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Mother Martha Newmarch,   b. Abt 1653, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jul 1720, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Marriage 27 Oct 1675  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Family ID F10528  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Osgood,   b. 11 Feb 1690   d. 22 Oct 1752, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 23 Oct 1712  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Ebenezer Balch,   b. 14 May 1723, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1808, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Family ID F10527  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2017 

  • 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."

  • Sources 
    1. [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897.

    2. [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.

    3. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.

    4. [S2193] The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield by Benjamin Apthorp Gould. Lynn, Massachusetts: Thos. P. Nichols, 1895., date only.