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John Lithgow

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Benjamin Balch

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1330 
  • Father:
  • John Balch 
  • Mother:
  • Margery -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1629 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 31 Jan 1714/1715 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Mallett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Mar 1691/1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Deborah Balch (Ahnentafel No:665 )

  Lydia Balch

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Balch

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1650

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1688/1689
  • Marriage Location:
  • Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Benjamin Balch

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1902, Vol. 6, p. 1.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Beverly, Vol. 1, p. 33, Birth record for daughter Debora Balch.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2021, Vol. 175, p. 210.
  • ⁴ The Essex Genealogist, 2002, Vol. 22, p. 58.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 85.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 734.
  • ⁷ Balch, Galusha B., Genealogy of the Balch Families in America, Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, Publisher (1897), 6, 9-11.
  • ⁸ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, Wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine, Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press (1930), 14.

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