Background
Thomas was born to Stephen Bloomer Balch and Elizabeth Balch on February 28, 1793 at Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States. Foreign several years he assisted his father in the church at Georgetown, Virginia.
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Thomas Balch
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Princeton University. Princeton Theological Seminary.
Career
Hampden-Sydney College conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity on him in 1860. Daniel Webster is supposed to have described him as the most learned man he had ever known. Baltimore Presbytery ordained Thomas on October 31, 1816.
He accepted a call to Snow Hill, Rehoboth and Pitts Creek, Maryland July 19, 1820.
Thomas Balch was listed as a missionary in Fairfax County, Virginia from 1829 to 1836. This connection may have led to Thomas becoming the stated supply at Warrenton and Greenwich, Virginia 1836-1838 and again 1874-1878.
He also supplied in Prince William and Nokesville. Just after he accepted the call to the churches in Maryland, Thomas Balch married Susan Carter of Fairfax, Virginia.
(8/21/22) Susan was the daughter of Charles Beal Carter of Shirley.
Charles Beale Carter was an uncle of General Robert East. Lee. Number doubt the marriage into the prominent and wealthy family helped Thomas financially. When Thomas and Susan moved to Prince William and Fauquier Counties, they bought a place between Auburn and Greenwich.
He called the property Ringwood.
He along with Jane Alexander Milligan ran a boarding school for girls there. Participant of the structure was later remodeled.
Thomas wrote of their personal experiences in My Manse During the War. He died February 14, 1878 at his home, Ringwood.
Membership
Thomas was a graduate of the College of New Jersey in 1813 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1817, where he was a member of the American Whig Society.
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Religion
Christian