Jerry Beddes wrote: > Looking for information on this line...I don't have much other than this > pedigree. Think the early Blanchards appeared in Mass. > > "Surname, Given","Birth Date","Death Date" > "BLANCHARD, Herbert","","" > "BLANCHARD, Thomas","1605","21 May 1654" The parentage of immigrant Thomas is unknown, and so is his date of birth. However, it is virtually certain that he was born before 1600, as his eldest known child was born about 1620, and probably earlier. You can find this lineage down through John Reed Blanchard on-line in the web page of the Blanchard Family discussion group (Blanchard-L). The URL is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blanch-l/blpref.html In particular, look at the file of descendants of Thomas and "Joseph". John Chandler