John Balch House
Beverly MA
John Balch was born in Bridgewater, England
in 1579. He and his wife, Margaret, came to America as part of a fishing group sent to
New England.
When the company had to return to England, the Balches stayed in Massachusetts and moved to Salem. On November 11th, 1635 John Balch got his house through the Thousand Acre Grant. The ancestral home remained in the family
until 1916. Hundreds of other homes from the same era have decayed.in 1932 the house was turned over to the Beverly Historic Society. The Balch house is one of the oldest wood framed houses in the United Sates.
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