Capt. Joseph Balch

Joseph Balch1 M, #31217, b. 10 February 1738/39, d. 1 September 1826 Father Benjamin Balch1 b. 18 Oct 1702, d. 1753 Mother Nazareth Cushing1 b. 11 Sep 1703 Last Edited 6 Oct 2017

    Joseph Balch was born on 10 February 1738/39 at Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA.1,2 He married Abigail Audebert, daughter of Philip Audebert Jr. and Lydia Palfrey, on 25 August 1760 at Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA.1,3 Joseph Balch died on 1 September 1826 at West Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, at age 87.1,2 He was buried after 1 September 1826 at Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA; from Find A Grave:

    Birth:      Feb. 10, 1738, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

    Death:      Sep. 1, 1826

    Boston births: Joseph Son of Benjamin and Nezer Balch, Born 10 February 1738. 

    Boston marriages: Joseph Balch & Abigail Audebert Married on Aug. 7, 1760.

    Arlington deaths: BALCH, Joseph, Capt., "a native of Boston Mass revolutionary Patriot," Sept. 1, 1826, a. 87 y. 7 m. G.R. 

    Inscription: Erected to the memory of CAPT. JOSEPH BALCH a native of Boston, Mass. and a Revolutionary Patriot who departed this life Sept. 1, 1826 Æt. 87 yrs & 7 mo.

    Burial: Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

    Created by: D K Railsback B

    Record added: Aug 11, 2007 

    Find A Grave Memorial# 20889990.4

    Joseph Balch began military service between January 1776 and December 1777 at Revolutionary War, Massachusetts, USA, Balch [1897:67-8]: "He was a captain of a company in Colonel Thomas Craft's artillery regiment. As such he is referred to in the records of the Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 38, from January, 1776 to December, 1777. The orderly book of the regiment preserved in the Essex Institute also refers to him."5 Family Abigail Audebert b. 30 Dec 1739, d. 7 Jan 1802 Children	 Joseph Balch1 b. 18 Feb 1761, d. 28 Feb 1761 Lydia Balch1 b. 11 Jan 1764, d. 15 Aug 1764 Abigail Balch1 b. 18 Mar 1765, d. 26 Aug 1795 Lydia Balch1 b. 15 Jan 1768, d. 9 Oct 1768 Joseph Balch+1 b. 15 Sep 1769, d. 11 Sep 1798 Benjamin Balch1 b. 13 Mar 1772, d. 2 Aug 1773 Benjamin Balch1 b. 10 Aug 1774, d. 12 Aug 1774 Lydia Jarvis Balch1 b. 24 Mar 1777, d. 23 Nov 1777 Elizabeth Balch+1 b. 9 Apr 1779, d. 29 Jan 1859 Citations [S999] e-mail address, online http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:787822, Todd Hansen (unknown location), downloaded updated 25 Aug 2001. [S1227] M. D. Galusha B. Balch, Genealogy of the Balch Families in America (Salem, MA: Eben Putnam, 1897), p. 67. Hereinafter cited as Galusha Balch, "Balch Families." [S1227] M. D. Galusha B. Balch, Galusha Balch, "Balch Families", p. 68. [S2374] Find a Grave, online http://www.findagrave.com/, Joseph Balch: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20889990&ref.... Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave. [S1227] M. D. Galusha B. Balch, Galusha Balch, "Balch Families", pp. 67-8.