Balch Family

Folder Listing:

1. Correspondence
2. Manuscripts
3. Legal Documents
4. Materials about the Balch Family
5. Photographs

I. Correspondence

BOX 1

f.1	Rebecca Battle (d. 1820), wife of Wesley P. Balch, and her brother Hezekiah Battelle, 1815-1821 (11 letters).
f.2	Wesley P. Balch (1794-1856) and Elizabeth Ann Picard Jones Brackett Balch (1815-1892), his third wife, with various family members, 1847-1856 (8 letters).
f.3	Elizabeth Arabella Balch (1851-1934), daughter of Wesley & Elizabeth, with various family members (mainly concerning genealogy), 1902-1932 (10 letters).
f.4	Sarah Battelle to Rebecca Battle, 1815; William Henry Balch to Mary Elizabeth Balch, 1849 (2 letters).
f.5	Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly regarding Balch family genealogy, 1897-1935 (4 letters).
f.6	Miscellaneous correspondence, includes: Oliver Wendell Holmes & Ezra Stearns (N.H. Secretary of State), 1852, 1891, & 1898 (9 pieces).

II. Manuscripts

f.7	Poems: Hezekiah Battelle, Rebecca Battle, and C.L. Dalend, 1913 & n.d.
f.8	Poems: E.A. Balch, n.d.
f.9	Accounts: Wesley P. Balch, account book, 1833-1852; Balch House Trust account, 1922-1923.
f.10	Miscellaneous poetry and prose by various authors, n.d.

III. Legal Documents

f.11	Wills: W.P. Balch (1854, 1855, & 1857 inventory of estate); E. Balch (1888); and E.A. Balch (1933).
f.12	Survey plan of house lot, 1818.
f.13	Land deeds and agreements: Seigniory of Perthuis in Montreal, Quebec, 1841-1930.
f.14	Contact agreement between Thomas Brackett/Charles Kendall and William Varney to build a house, n.d.

IV. Materials About the Balch family

f.15	Genealogical notes.
f.16	Genealogical notes: Morse, Jones, Drew, Balch, and Gleason families.
f.17	Genealogical notes: Jones, Gleason, Balch, and Baker families.
f.18	Genealogical notes: Balch family.
f.19	Newspaper clippings, etc., 1894-1937.

V. Photographs

BOX 1

f.20
e.1	Ella Adelaide Brackett Richardson (1840-1880), her daughter (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.2	Ella A. Richardson (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.3	Ella, with a baby (daguerreotype, 2 x 3).
e.4	Franklin Richardson (1835-1880), Ella’s husband, with sons (daguerreotype, 2 x 3).
e.5	David Thomas Richardson (b.1873), son of Franklin and Ella (sepia, 4 x 5).
e.6	William Henry Balch (1849-1911), son of Elizabeth and Wesley Balch, as a boy (oval, sepia, 2 x 4).
e.7	William Henry Balch as a man (oval, sepia, 3 x 5).

Elizabeth Arabella Balch (1851-1934), daughter of Wesley and Elizabeth Balch

e.8	Baby Elizabeth (oval, b/w 4 x 5).
e.9	Elizabeth Arabella Balch, aged 17 in 1868 (sepia, 1 x 2).
e.10	Elizabeth Arabella Balch, feathered hat, N.Y. postcard (sepia, 3×5).
e.11	Elizabeth Arabella Balch, with parasol (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.12	Elizabeth Arabella Balch, with group in hayrack (bluetoned, 3 x 3).
e.13	Elizabeth Arabella BalchB, with group, reading, by Washburn, Lowell, Massachusetts (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.14	Elizabeth Arabella Balch, with snowy background (sepia, 3 x 3).
e.15	Elizabeth Arabella Balch in boat (includes negative)(sepia, 4 x 5).
e.16	Elizabeth Arabella Balch with book, outdoors (b/w, 2 x 4).
e.17	Elizabeth Arabella Balch with book, outdoors (b/w, 2 x 4).
e.18	Elizabeth Arabella Balch in long dress, shawl (sepia, 3 x 3).
e.19	Elizabeth Arabella Balch in long dress, shawl (sepia, 3 x 3).

Jamaica Trip in 1902

e.20	Kingston Market, March 25, 1902 (sepia, 3.5 x 3.5).
e.21	Gateway, foliage, house (sepia, 3 x 3).
e.22	Brick building, native (sepia, 3 x 3).
e.23	Young native with sugar cane (sepia, 3 x 4).
e.24	Mr. Baxter with fish, on boat (sepia, 4 x 4).

Other People/Places

e.25	Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886) (sepia, 3 x 4).
e.26	Andrews, John Albion (1818-1867) (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.27	Douglas, Stephen A. (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.28	Seward, William (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.29	House in Medfield, Mass. Birthplace of EAB (sepia, 3 x 5).
e.30	Home of Sophia (Gleeson) and Benjamin Jones (b/w, 3 x 4).
e.31	House (b/w, 3 x 4).
e.32	House (b/w, 3 x 4).
e.33	Unknown man, dressed in Civil War uniform (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.34	Unknown man, dressed in Civil War uniform (sepia, 2 x 4).
e.35	Unknown man, with horses (sepia, 3 x 3).
e.36	Elizabeth Ann Pickard Jones Brackett Balch (1815-1892) (sepia, 4 x 6).
e.37	William Henry Richardson (1868-1886), son of Franklin and Ella, by Morrill, Lowell, Massachusetts (sepia, 4 x 6)
e.38	Jamaica, 1902: Group by thatched hut (sepia, 5 x 6).
e.39	Tree in H.C. Morse yard, Nashua, NH (sepia, 4 x 5).
e.40	William Henry Balch (4 x 7) and Julia Elliott Balch, his wife (4 x 7).
e.41	Sketch of “Ye Olde Homestead on South Hill” in pen and ink (sepia, 4 x 8).

Item

e.42	Oil painting on board of above building by G.N. Faught.
e.43	Archival inkjet print of above (negatives available).