Capt. Thomas Marshall

1618 - 1689  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Thomas Marshall  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Between 1613 and 1618	England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Death	23 Dec 1689	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I33764	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Rebecca   d. Aug 1693, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Marshall   d. 15 May 1699 + 2. Joanna Marshall,   b. 14 Sep 1657, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts d. Aft 27 Oct 1707 (Age > 50 years)
  Family ID	F19896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Not to be confused with the carpenter Thomas Marshall (d. 1709) who overlapped with him for many years at Reading. (In fact, in 1660, the carpenter sued this Thomas Marshall for withholding a heifer and a calf.) Nor should be be confused with Thomas Marshall (d. 1664), cordwainer of Boston and supporter of Anne Hutchinson. His long career in New England, in which he played a variety of roles as a military man and, later, an inkeeper, is set forth in detail in Marcia Wiswall Lindberg's "3 Thomas Marshalls" (citation details below). The most colorful piece is this, from late in his life: 1686: John Dunton, a London bookseller, traveled through Lynn, where he stayed at the Blue Anchor Inn and later wrote an account of Capt. Thomas Marshall: "We rid up to Captain Marshall's House, and there alighted. This Captain Marshal is a hearty old Gentleman, formerly one of Oliver [Cromwell]'s Soldiers, upon which he very much values himself: He keeps an Inn upon the Road between Boston and Marble-Head: His House was well-furnished, and we had very good Accommodation. I enquir'd of the Captain what memorable Actions he had been in under Oliver, and I found I cou'd not have pleas'd him better; he was not long in Resolving me of the Civil Wars at his Fingers' Ends; and if we may believe him, Oliver did hardly anything that was considerable without his Assistance; For his good Service at the Fatal Battel of Naseby (which gave such a Turn to the King's affairs, that he Cou'd never after come to a pitch'd Battel), he was made a Captain; from thence he went to Leisester, and besig'd that; then went to York, and afterwards to Marston-Moor, and in short, Rambled so far in his Discourse, that if I wou'd have stay'd s long as he'd have talk'd, he would have quite spoiled my Ramble to Plymouth." It is notable that the four English Civil War battles mentioned here actually took place in exactly the opposite order from the way Dunton has Marshall telling the tale, something Dunton almost certainly knew perfectly well. It is not impossible that Marshall was present at at least some of these, but he would have had to return to New England remarkably quickly in order to participate in the diplomatic expedition to Quebec that he is known to have been part of in the latter half of 1645.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1919] Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. 2 volumes. Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1905. [S7423] Marion A. MacDonald, "The Richard Mower Family of Lynn." The Essex Genealogist 16:195, 1996; 17:40, 1997. [S5304] Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, "3 Thomas Marshalls." The Essex Genealogist 16:158, 1996. [S5392] Mower Family History: A Genealogical History of the Maine Branch of This Family by Walter L. Mower. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923.