Family Card - Person Sheet
NameAnnis _____ 859
Death Datebef 24 Nov 1657
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1605
Will Date15 May 1648
Will PlaceSalem, Massachusetts
Death Date1648
Death PlaceSalem, Massachusetts
Immigr Date1624
Misc. Notes
The immigrant John Balch receives a comprehensive treatment in Anderson’s GMB.
864 According to Anderson (with square brackets in the original): “Various sources give one or another parish in Somersetshire as the place of origin of John Balch, but these are unsupported by evidence and are little more than guesses [EIHC 1:151, 66:319-20]. 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; the best account of this group of men remains Frances Rose-Troup,
John White, the Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and The Founder of Massachusetts... (New York 1930).”
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