Joseph Balch

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Served as drummer boy in Revolution. ³

• Apprenticed about 1773 to Ebenezer Balch in Hartford CT ¹

• He worked after 1780 as a silversmith in Wethersfield CT ³

• He was a partner c 1785 with John W. Fryer in Albany NY as BALCH & FRYER. ¹⁵

• He worked after 1794 as a silversmith in Williamstown MA ³

• He worked after 1810 as a silversmith in Johnstown NY ³

Joseph married Mary Watson in 1786 in Wethersfield CT. (Mary Watson was born on 6 Mar 1765 in Leicester MA and died on 11 Feb 1844.)