In brief

He married in Providence, Rhode Island. He died May 4, 1711.

Family

Spouse
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Spouse
Jane Holbrook

Children

Other parent not named in the records

  • Katherine Balcom · in this line
    b. Abt. 1661 near Providence, Rhode Island
    d. 1729
  • Alexander Balcom
    b. Providence, Rhode Island
    m. Sarah Woodcock
    d. January 31, 1727

With Elizabeth Holbrook

  • John Balcom
    b. 1678
    m. Sarah Bartlett
    d. January 30, 1739
  • Freegift Balcom
  • Joseph Balcom
    b. Providence, Rhode Island
    m. Phebe Mendon
    d. 1733
  • Hannah Balcom
    m. Ebenezer Haywood, February 22, 1715, in Providence, Rhode Island
    m. John Arnold, October 3, 1742
  • Samuel Balcom
    d. Mendon, Massachusetts
  • Deborah Balcom
    m. M___ Arnold
  • Lydia Balcom
    m. Daniel Hix, February 14, 1701, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Life story

A Providence Landholder

Alexander Balcom settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, by 1664 and later purchased land called Wesquodomsett north of Providence in 1686, receiving a further fifty-acre grant near Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1691. He died around 1711; his estate was appraised at just over 35 pounds.

Sources (1)
  1. Frank W. Balcomb, A First Book of the Balcombe Family (Peabody, Massachusetts: The Fraedy Press, 1942); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/firstbookofbalco00balc : accessed 27 August 2026).