John Marsh (1618 - 1688)

Born 16 Apr 1618 in Braintree, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Webster) Marsh — married 1642 (to 9 Jun 1662) in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut

Husband of Hepzibah (Ford) Marsh — married 7 Oct 1664 in Northampton, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 28 Sep 1688 at age 70 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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John Marsh migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 219) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

(Much of the biography is from the Dwight W Marsh book, p. 2 and following)

John Marsh was one of the original proprietors of Hartford ; his home-lot in the distribution of 1639 was on what is now Front St., then the road from the Little River to the North Meadow. Chosen chimney-viewer, 1658; removed the next year to Hadley with the "withdrawers," under the lead of his father-in-law, Gov. Webster. He went from there to Northampton, and united with the church there, June 18, 1661.

He married in Hartford, about 1640, Anne, daughter of Gov. John Webster; she died in Northampton, June 9, 1662 ; and he married second Oct. 7, 1664, Hepzibah, widow of Richard Lyman, and daughter of Thomas Ford, of Windsor. She died April 11, 1683.

He had a brother Joseph, who was a clothier, in Braintree, Cc Essex, England, where he made his will, May 22, 1676, in which he mentions several of the children of John Marsh.

(1) John- b. ab. 1643: married in Northampton, Nov. 28, 1666, Sarah, daughter of Richard and Hepzibah Lyman ; he returned to Hartford ; freeman, 1669 ; lived upon the old homestead ; d. 1727. His eldest Son, John, was much concerned in the settlement of the "western lands," and explored Litchfield, where lie was one of the first settlers. Descendants of this family are still living in Hartford.

(2) Samuel, b. ab. 1645; Hatfield, where lie was made freeman, 1690; m. May 6, 1667, Mary Allison; d. Sept. 7, 1728, c. 83.

(3) Joseph, bapt. Jan. 24, 1647-8; d. young.

(4) Isaac bapt. July 15, 1649.^[1]

(5) Jonathan, b. ab. 1650, Hadley; freeman, 1690; m. 1676, Dorcas, dau. of Azariah Dickinson ; d. July 3, 1730, a. 80 ;

(6) Daniel, b. ab. 1653 Hadley; freeman, 1690; m. Nov. 5, 1676, Hannah, widow of Sammel Crow, of Hadley, and dau. of William Lewis, of Farmington; d. Feb. 24, 1725, c, 72.

(7) Hannah, m. Jan. 28. 1675, Joseph Loomis, of Windsor.

Child of John Marsh and his wife Hepsibah:

(1) Lydia, b. Oct. 9, 1667 ; m. Dec. 8, 1692, David Loomis, of Windsor. See p. 360 of Moore Anc. here:^[1]

(2) Adopted daughter of John Marsh was Grace Marsh, born about 1657, daughter of Lydia (Marsh) Martin who was John Marsh's sister.^[1]

John emigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1635. He was one of 100 people who migrated to Hartford, Connecticut with Hooker, Stone, and Goodwin in 1636. He moved to Indian town of Suekige.

Dissented from church in Hartford about 1660.

Lived in Hartford 1636-1660 Lived in Hadley, MA 1660-1688

Died while visiting his daughter, Hannah Loomis in Windsor in 1688. Burial: Place: Old Burying Ground, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.

There can be no question that John Marsh in 1688 was "of Hadley" and not of Northampton or Hartford, and as to the place of his death, that it was Windsor, Conn, where his daughter Hannah (Marsh) Loomis then lived. Stiles in Hist. Windsor gives the date as " 28, Sept. 1688, CE. 70." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Louis Effingham De Forest. "Moore and Allied Families; the Ancestors of William Henry Moore" The De Forest Publishing Company (1938). pp. 357- 372.see at archive.org
2. ↑ Marsh, Dwight Whitney. Marsh Genealogy. Giving several thousand descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct. 1636-1895. AMHERST, Mass.: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1895. Pg 10. Available at Archive.org

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut. pp.379

• Marsh, Dwight Whitney. Marsh Genealogy. Giving several thousand descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct. 1636-1895. AMHERST, Mass.: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1895. Available at Archive.org

• Webster, William Holcomb and Melville Reuben Webster. History and Genealogy of the Governor John Webster Family of Connecticut. Rochester, NY: E. R. Andrews Printing Company, 1915. Pages 1-19.

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 957

• Jacobs, Timothy Lester, Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford John Marsh, Hartford Founder