John Balch

Abt 1605 - 1648  (~ 43 years)

• Name	John Balch
  Birth	Abt 1605  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	May 1648  [2]
  Death	Between 15 May 1648 and 28 Jun 1648	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I17192	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TD
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Margery
  Marriage	Abt 1629  [1]
  Children	1. John Balch   d. 16 Jan 1662 + 2. Benjamin Balch,   b. Abt 1629   d. Aft 31 Jan 1715 (Age ~ 86 years)
  Family ID	F10543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived at Cape Ann in 1624. "Balch was certainly one of the men sent over by the Dorchester Company in the early 1620s to settle a fishing colony in New England, and so he is properly known as one of the Old Planters." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, citation details below.] "His house on the Bass River in Beverly, Ma. is probably the oldest house in New England still standing today." [Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, citation details below]

  
  

• 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. [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897. [S1574] Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630, Volume 14: West Country Planters to New England, 1620-1643 by Burton W. Spear. Toledo, Ohio, 1990., year only.