death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
1758 dunstable , new hampshire -lrb- now nashua -rrb- american 11 february 1704 joseph blanchard
 joseph blanchard judge , cartographer and soldier
joseph blanchard

joseph blanchard -lrb- 1704-1758 -rrb- was born in dunstable , new hampshire -lrb- now nashua -rrb- on february 11 , 1704 to capt. joseph blanchard and his wife abiah hassell .
in 1724 he joined the new hampshire militia as a lieutenant and served in capt. eleazer tyng 's company .
on september 26 , 1728 he married rebecca hubbard of groton , massachusetts .
they would have 12 children , including jonathan blanchard , a new hampshire delegate to the congress of the confederation in 1784 .
joseph blanchard would serve as town selectman , a surveyor for the state of new hampshire , counsellor of the state by mandamus from the crown , and judge of the superior court of new hampshire .
at the start of the french and indian war joseph blanchard was already a colonel in the militia , and in 1754 he ordered capt. john goffe along with a company of men -lrb- robert rogers was part of this company -rrb- to patrol the upper reaches of the merrimack river valley .
in 1755 joseph blanchard was appointed as colonel of the new hampshire provincial regiment sent to serve under sir william johnson in an attack on crown point on lake champlain .
along the march they built fort wentworth at northumberland , new hampshire on the connecticut river .
the regiment was at fort edward and fought at the battle of lake george .
the regiment returned home in december of 1755 .
col. joseph blanchard died on april 7 , 1758 .
in 1761 a new more accurate map of new hampshire that joseph blanchard had prepard in connection with samuel langdon was published .
