Background note – Early Balch Immigrants

The earliest recorded Balches in America date to the seventeenth century when three Balches arrived in America are three different time periods. John Balch came to America in 1623 and settled in Massachusetts; another Balch family member established himself in the colony of Virginia; and the third Balch, also named John, left Somerset England for Maryland in 1658.

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