Joseph Birchard

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Joseph Birchard

|office=Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk{{cite book|title=An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Ct., in 1651: Delivered in the First Congregational Church in Norwalk, July 9, 1851|author=Bouton, N.|date=1851|publisher=S.W. Benedict|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YCgBAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YCgBAAAAYAAJ/page/n82 78]|accessdate=2015-02-10}}

|term_start=May 1730

|term_end=October 1730

|predecessor=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock

|alongside=Thomas Fitch

|successor=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock

|term_start2=May 1734

|term_end2=October 1734

|predecessor2=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Hanford

|alongside2=John Marvin

|successor2=Joseph Platt,
Daniel Hoyt

|birth_date=February 1673"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9WYY-44R : accessed 2014-05-27), entry for Joseph BIRCHARD, submitted by gfarley2714300.

|birth_place=Norwich, Connecticut Colony

|death_date=March 9, 1755

|death_place=Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|restingplace=

|residence=Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|occupation=

|spouse=Elizabeth Lambert (m. June 29, 1710, First Congregational Church in Wilton)

|children=Grace Birchard Eglestone, Joseph Birchard, Elizabeth Birchard Keeler, John Birchard, Jesse Birchard, James Birchard, Daniel Birchard, Abigail Birchard Betts, Isaiah Birchard, Zebulon Birchard, Deborah Birchard Doolittle

}}

Joseph Birchard (February 1673 – March 9, 1755) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the sessions of May 1730 and May 1734.

He was the son of John Birchard, a founding settler and town clerk of Norwich and Christian Andrews.

On December 15, 1709, he, along with Thomas Betts, John Betts, and John Gregory, Jr., was authorized by a town meeting to dam a creek for the purposes of building a grist mill.{{cite book|title=The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut: With a Plan of the Ancient Settlement, and of the Town in 1847|author=Hall, E.|date=1847|publisher=J. Mallory & Company|url=https://archive.org/details/ancienthistoric00hallgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/ancienthistoric00hallgoog/page/n112 103]|accessdate=2014-10-24}}