Edward Marcy (1695 - 1774)

Born 28 Jun 1695 in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Haskins) Marcy — married 22 Jan 1729 in W. Parish (Franklin), Norwich County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1774 at age 78 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Edward Marcy was born 28 June 1695 in Woodstock, then still a part of Massachusetts, but later Connecticut to parents John Marcy and Sarah Hadlock.^[1][2]

Edward married "Rebackah [sic] Haskins, Jan[uary] 22, 1729, by Rev. Mr. Wills."^[3]

Their children names (spelled as in source), all born in Ashford, were: ^[4]

• Edward, born 3 March 1730/31. (page 111)
• R[e]uben, born 28 November 1732. (page 112)
• Simeon, born 7 April 1735; died 18 July [1742] (page 112)
• Rebackah, born 24 May 1737. (page 112)
• Jerusha, born 21 September 1739; died July [ ] 1742 (page 112)
• Unnamed Infant, stillborn 13 September 1741 (page 113)
• Simeon, born 5 February 1742/3; died 1 March "next after" (page 112)
• Sarah, born 11 June 1744 (page 112)
• Unnamed Infant, born 20 January 1747/8, died same day. (page 113)

Edward's wife, Rebecca, died 14 December 1748.^[5]

Edward served in the French and Indian War, rising in rank from sergeant, to lieutenant, to captain.

• 1755 Campaign: Second Regiment, Third Company, under command of Major Isaac Foote. Edward Marcy, serj^t April 30 to October 2
• 1756 Campaign: Fourth Regiment, Sixth Company, under command of Captain Eliphalet Whittlesey. Edward Marcy (of Ashford), first lieutenant March 26 to September 16.^[6]

"...Windham County took hold of the matter of frontier defense with no laggard or indifferent spirit. Among the Windham County names, the following were honored with the rank of captain: ...Edward Marcy, of Ashford..."^[7]

One wonders, since his youngest child, Sarah, was only 11 when her father left in 1755 for five months to serve in the military. Perhaps his daughter, Rebecca, 17 at the time, took care of Sarah for that length of time, and again in 1756, when Edward was gone for another five months.

Captain Edward Marcy died 8 July 1774 in Ashford^[8] He was buried in Old Ashford Cemetery in Ashford. His gravestone reads "Here lies ye Body of Capt Edward Marcy he Departed This Life Jan 8 1774."^[9] FindAGrave

Edward died intestate; his estate was probated in Hartford County beginning in 1774. His executor was his son, Reuben.^[10]

Research Note

Record of Marcy Family, the source of Edward's birth data, also names his children as Dolly, Mary, Martha, Miriam, and Mehitabel. However, by comparing those names with the names of his brother Moses's children, they are the same (except for Dolly, who is not mentioned as a daughter of Moses. It may be concluded that Oliver Marcy, in error, duplicated Moses's children in the family of Edward. It also may be noted that none of the children of Edward listed herein were listed in the cited source.

Sources

1. ↑ Marcy, Oliver; Record of the Marcy Family (Evanston, Illinois, 1889), page 2. Available through Internet Archive: (https://archive.org/details/recordofmarcyfam00marc)
2. ↑ "Vital Records of Woodstock 1686-1854." Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1914 p. 3
3. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870(Barbour Collection) (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume Ashford, page 111. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13186/111/0.
4. ↑ Ibid.; page numbers follow each child
5. ↑ Ibid., page 112
6. ↑ Bates, Albert C, Editor; Rolls of the Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755 – 1762; Volume 1, 1755 – 1757 (Collections of the Connecticut Genealogical Society, Volume IX (Hartford, Connecticut Genealogical Society, 1903)). Available through Internet Archive: (https://archive.org/details/collectionsofcon09conn)
7. ↑ Bayles, Richard Mather; History of Windham County, Volume 1, Part 1 (New York, Preston, 1889), page 56. Available through Internet Archive: (https://archive.org/details/historyofwindham11bayl)
8. ↑ Barbour Collection, page 111.
9. ↑ Find A Grave (online database accessed 26 May 2017 https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=45492488/ Find A Grave Memorial 45492488]
10. ↑ Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880; Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut; ncestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line, accessed May 27 2017.] [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9049/007628966_00468?pid=2417212/ See documentation at subscription site.

Acknowledgements

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