Member of the Tennessee House: 13th General Assembly, 2nd session only, 1819-21; replaced William Kelley; 14th General Assembly, 2nd session only, 1821-23, replaced Valentine Sevier; 15th and 16th General assemblies, 1823-27; representing Greene County in all sessions; SENATE, 22nd and 23rd General Assemblies, 1837-41; representing Greene and Hawkins counties; Democrat. Born in November 1760 at Deer Creek, Baltimore County, Maryland; son of the Rev. Hezekiah and Hannah (Lewis) Balch. Said to have been well educated; also described as “rough, wild, dissipated, cared neither for God or man.” Served in the American Revolution and lived for a time thereafter in North Carolina; probably removed to Tennessee at the same time as did his father, in 1785. Married to Barbara Patton\u2019 children — Ann, Rachel (Mrs. William Motes), Betsy, Catherine, James Patton, Barbara T., and John Tenant Balch, Jr. Died on May 27, 1849, near Dandridge, Jefferson County.<\/p>\n
Sources: D.A.R. Lineage Book<\/em>, 87, p.45; D.A.R. Rosters and Soldiers<\/em>, 224. Balch, Balch Genealogy<\/em>, 375, 377,383,402-403. Temple, Notable Men of Tennessee<\/em>, 369-71. Acklen, Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts<\/em>, 132.<\/p>\n Transcribed by Mildred Collins from published biographies of Tennessee Legislators, compiled and printed by the TN State Library & Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of the Tennessee House: 13th General Assembly, 2nd session only, 1819-21; replaced William Kelley; 14th General Assembly, 2nd session only, 1821-23, replaced Valentine Sevier; 15th and 16th General assemblies, 1823-27; representing Greene County in all sessions; SENATE, 22nd and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}