John Blanchard's name is given in the pensioneer's list of 1840, his residence is mentioned as White Lake, and his age as seventy-seven. The county records show that a John Blanchard of Farmington in 1834 deeded land to his daughter, Sophia Laqui, which in 1852 was sold by Sophia and Abraham Lakey to Ira F. Gage. In 1835 John Blanchard deeded eighty acres of land to his son David, whose wife was Sally. David owned the west 1/2 NE 1/4 of section 17 and deeded the same to Benjamin Sage in 1839. John Blanchard's former residence was Meredith, Delaware County, New York.