1791 On 2 June, Joseph was born to parents Joseph and Elizabeth Balsely. He was baptized on August 14, with witnesses John and Elizabeth Hamm, at the Abbottstown Reformed Church, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [1]
1812 Joseph Baltzley was in Captain Zollinger's Company, York County, Pennsylvania. [2]
[1] F. Edward Wright, Adams County Church Records of the 18th Century (2000), 96, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 2 (Muster Rolls Washington) (1906), 706, left column, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].