This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Balch, Hoyt Classification: Deed Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2AC.2ACI/1582.1 Message Board Post: Hi Lucille, A plan of Guilford, Vermont, drawn by Nathan Dwight, surveyor, in 1765, shows the original 100-acre lot number 59 owned by Samuel Balch per OFFICIAL HISTORY OF GUILFORD, VERMONT 1678-1961, ©1961. Sorry, I do not know if this BALCH is related to your family nor do I have any further information on the HOYT family. Have a blessed New Year, Jan