John Marsh

1618 - 1688  (70 years)

• Name	John Marsh  [1, 2]
  Birth	1618  [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Sep 1688	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [4, 5]
  Alternate death	4 Dec 1688	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. John Marsh ,   b. 1618   d. 28 Sep 1688, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 70 years) ▻ Anne Webster ,  m. Abt 1642 ;  Hepzibah Ford ,  m. 7 Oct 1644 + 2. Lydia Marsh ,   b. Abt 1624, Braintree, Essex, England d. Aft 1658  (Age ~ 35 years) ▻ William Martin ,  m. 17 Nov 1645
  Person ID	I19551	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Marsh,   b. Abt 1586, Braintree, Essex, England d. Between 15 Apr 1627 and 29 May 1627, Braintree, Essex, England (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Grace Baldwin   d. Between 29 Jan 1657 and 22 May 1667, England
  Family ID	F1425	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne Webster,   b. Bef 29 Jul 1621   d. 9 Jun 1662, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age > 40 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1642  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Sgt. John Marsh,   b. Between 1642 and 1643   d. Bef 1 Aug 1727, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 85 years)
  Family ID	F11854	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Hepzibah Ford,   b. Bef 15 May 1625   d. 11 Apr 1683, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age > 57 years)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1644	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 4, 6]
  Family ID	F11856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  First seen in 1639, at Hartford. He appears to have been an original Hartford proprietor; his name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. Moore and Allied Families (citation details below) says "it is generally believed" that he arrived at Hartford in 1636 with the Rev. Hooker's party, but while this is plausible there exists no known evidence to confirm it. The Hartford land distribution of Feb 1640 shows that he was given several parcels of land by the Rev. Samuel Stone, so it is notable that later, in 1659, he was one of those who protested Stone's appointment as Hartford minister and who removed to Hadley as a result. In 1661 he removed to Northampton. He may or may not have been a personal friend of the Rev. Stone, but he was the son-in-law of former Connecticut governor John Webster, a leading figure in the protests against the Rev. Stone, and blood is often thicker than water. Moore and Allied Families says that he died in Windsor, Connecticut, "where he was probably visiting his daughter, Hannah Loomis." His page at the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford says that he died in Hartford.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S2545] Marsh Genealogy: Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895 by Dwight Whitney Marsh. Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1895. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938. [S681] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "Grace Martin, Wife of Nathaniel Phelps." The American Genealogist 58:223, 1982., date only. [S2545] Marsh Genealogy: Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895 by Dwight Whitney Marsh. Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1895., year only.