Thomas Blanchard was born on the family estates in Normanday, France in 1590. He and his four sons left England for America in 1639. He died at Charleston, Mass., on March 2, 1654. His will was probated April 20, 1654.

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Martin Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanchard and Eleanor Middleton, was born in 1761 in Hampshire County, England. He married Jane Williams, daughter of John Williams and Mary, in 1782 in Blandford, Dorsetshire, England. They had four known children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, California.