The Marsh-Long Family of Kane, Pennsylvania

This contains an extensive genealogy of early ancestors of Abbie Louise that never settled in Pennsylvania. To get to the actual Pennsylvania genealogy scroll to the Marsh Line.

* The Ancestry and Descendants of Abbie Louise Marsh-Long.—I consider it a duty of honor and of love to help in the preservation of the virtues and victories of the “Silent Majority;” they have given their lives that we might live. Let us treasure their memories, and record their history upon the tablets of enduring gratitude and fame. The accompanying genealogy is a condensed copy of certified family records in her possession.

The first ancestor of Abbie Louise Marsh-Long to arrive in America, Boston, Massachusetts, was William Locke, an orphan, six years of age.

From the “Gentlemen’s Magazine,” vol. 62, part 2, page 789, A. D. 1792, we find that tradition considers the name of Locke of Scotch extraction, but if so it must have been in very early times, for when Alfred divided this kingdom into parishes the dwelling of a great man by the name of Locke was called after him Lockstown, where the family at one time became numerous. The Locke family consider themselves descended from a very ancient house, arguing that they gave the name to the parishes where they lived before the conquest, and do not derive their names with a De from the parishes, as is commonly the case.

In 1460 we find John Locke sheriff of London. Thomas, his son, was a merchant in London, who died anno 1507, and by Joan, his wife, left three sons:

1. John Locke, died without issue, and was buried in Mercers chapel in 1519, with his arms in the window, a proof that the family bore arms before those granted by Queen Mary, 1555.
2. William Locke;
3. Michael Locke.

William, the second son (Henry VIII.), undertook to go over to Dunkirk and pull down the “pope’s bull,” which had been there posted up by way of a curse to the king and kingdom. For this exploit the king granted him a freehold of a hundred pounds per annum, dubbed him knight, and made him one of the gentlemen of his privy chamber. “He had alsoe the speciall favor of the kinge to come to him when he would: the kinge dined at his house, he being the kinge’s mercer.”

Sir William lived to be an alderman of London, and was sheriff of the city. He received his arms (Per fesse az, and or, in chief three falcons volant of the second; Crest—A hand p. p. r. holding up a cushion or) in the reign of Henry VIII., having reference to his exploit of going to Dunkirk, in France, and tearing down the Excommunication against the king, a deed which at the present time would not be of much moment, but in the age when the pope claimed such great powers, and was dreaded and feared by the people, it might require as much moral courage as to storm a castle.

Sir William was employed by Henry VIII., having charge of his commercial affairs both at home and abroad. In the Cottonian Library, London, there are several manuscript letters from him to the king and to Secretary Cromwell, dated at Antwerp 1533 to 1538. He was, says Collins, particularly employed by Queen Ann Bullen (Boleyn) privately to gather the Epistles, Gospels and Psalms from beyond sea, in which he ran great hazard, some having been secretly made away with for attempting the same thing. He died in 1550, and by his four wives left issue of twenty or more children, and from his sons are descended the Lockes of Stepney Parish, London. John Locke, commonly called “The Great Philosopher,” was of the same family as Sir William.

Stepney Parish, anciently written Stebunheath, is one of the largest subdivisions of London. In the records of the parish we find the following baptism, 1628: William, son of William Locke, mariner, and Elizabeth, his wife, 20 December, 1628, seven days old—subsequently—Buried, Elizabeth, wife of William Locke, Mariner, 27 June, 1631. The father was lost at sea.

The record relating to William Locke, Jr., is as follows: “22 March, 1634, theis underwritten names are to be embarqued in the Planter, Nic Trarice, Master, bound for New England per certificate from Stepney Parish and attestacon from Tho. Jay and Mr. Simon Muskett, two Justices of the Peace: the men have taken the oath of supremacy and allegiance.

Nicholas Davies 40 yeres C Sarah Davies 48 ” Joseph Davies 13 ” William Locke 6 “

Servants Robert Steven John Moore James Haiward Judith Phippen

In the will of Nicholas Davies, probated March 12, 1669, he makes a bequest to his “cossen” (nephew), William Locke, Woburn. Where or with whom William Locke resided during his minority is not known. On the 25th of December, 1655, he was married to Mary, daughter of William and Margary Clark, of Woburn.

Concerning William, Senior, he was for many years a distinguished citizen, and deacon of the church of Woburn. From the town records it appears that he had a share in managing town affairs. He was frequently on important committees, Selectman for several terms, grand juror to the supreme court. He was possessed of great wealth; his real estate transactions alone cover many pages of court records. To three of his sons he gave homesteads in Lexington, and four others were provided with homes near the Lexington line.

From Bodges “History of King Philip’s Indian War,” 1676, pages 66 and 91, we learn that William Locke was chirurgeon of the Massachusetts forces at Mount Hope, June, 1676. In vol. 69, page 10, is a letter dated Hadley, May 3, or 30, 1676, from William Locke to Secretary Rowson, requesting the government to forward him with the greatest speed a supply of medicine and other things for the “poor wounded.” Attached to it is a long memorandum of the medicines wanted. It is evident he was a man of education.

The following is a partial list of his descendants to the year 1850, who took part in the military duties of their country, and those who followed a professional career.

Soldiers—90, of whom 12 took part in the Lexington fight and 2 at Concord, 6 at Bunker Hill, one of whom, Captain James Bancroft, commanded a company (he was many years in the wars and was one of the original members of “Society of Cincinnati”); 10 were lieutenants, 16 captains, 3 majors, 1 adjutant, 7 colonels, 2 generals. (His female descendants by marriage brought into the family 59 soldiers and 49 officers—1 ensign, 6 lieutenants, 19 captains, 5 majors, 1 adjutant, 12 colonels, 2 generals, 1 commodore and 3 governors). Officers of town and county—50, selectmen 18, deacons of the early church 9, clergymen 20, two of whom were D. Ds., and Rev. Samuel Locke, S. T. D., president of Harvard College. Graduates from College—63. Senators and representatives—26, physicians 29, lawyers 14, judges 3. (Female descendants married 34 clergymen, 15 physicians and 13 lawyers).

Lieutenant Joshua Locke was an ensign in the army under General Winslow at Nova Scotia, May, 1755, and was the Lieutenant Locke who was in the army with General Braddock, and was wounded at the time of “Braddock’s Defeat.” He was also with Colonel Rogers, the famous Ranger, in New York and Canada. And he was distinguished as the only one by the name of Locke who was a Loyalist, or more generally known by the term, “Tory,” and when the British evacuated Boston he left with the army, was in the battle of Staten Island, where he met and recognized his sons in the American army. He eventually went to England and never returned.

Sons of Lieutenant Joshua Locke encountered at Staten Island:

1. Frederick Locke;
2. Henry Locke.

Three of the descendants made unusual marriages. John Fessenden married Abigail Child, of Warren, Rhode Island, the daughter of Colonel Sylvester Child, who married Priscilla Bradford, a lineal descendant of Governor Bradford of Plymouth. Lemuel Pierce married Eliza Mildeberger, whose mother was Mary Magdeline Colon, a descendant of Christopher Columbus. Joseph Lorenzo Locke married Laura J. Bulluck (January 4, 1843), who was born in Savannah, Georgia. Her paternal grandfather was the first colonial governor of Georgia, and her mother was descended from Sir John Allston, of South Carolina.

The Bible which belonged to William Locke is in black letter, and was undoubtedly printed before 1600. His death occurred at Woburn, Massachusetts, June 16, 1720. His wife died in 1716. The “Old Locke Place” is the property of a descendant. A “wing” of the original house is owned by the Historical Society of Woburn.

Children of William and Mary Locke:

1. William Locke, born 1659; married (first) Sarah Whittmore, 1683, (second) Abigail Haywood.
2. John Locke, born 1661; married Elizabeth Plympton.
3. Joseph Locke, born 1664; married (first) Mary ——, died 1707; married (second) Margaret Mead; married (third) Hannah Pierce, 1743.
4. Mary Locke, born 1666; married Samuel Kendall.
5. Samuel Locke, born 1669; married (first) Ruth; married (second) Mary Day.
6. Ebenezer Locke, of whom further.
7. James Locke, born 1677; married Sarah Cutter.
8. Elizabeth Locke, born 1681; married James Markam.

All the above marriages were of Pilgrim or Puritan English. The children of William Locke Sr., were intelligent and educated people of their time. Many of their descendants had greater advantages and evidently embraced them.

Lieutenant Ebenezer (2) Locke, son of William (1) Locke, was born in 1674. He was a prominent man in Woburn. A large estate with the homestead included was given him by his father. He was frequently elected to town offices, and was lieutenant of the Train Band. He married (first) Susannah Walker, 1697, daughter of Israel Walker, of Woburn, who died in 1699.

He married (second) Hannah (3) Meads, 1701, born in 1676, whose father, Daniel (2) Meads, was a soldier in King Philip’s Indian war. Vide “Bodges History.”

Children of Lieutenant Ebenezer Locke: one son by his first wife, Susannah Walker, and five by his second wife, Hannah Meads:

1. Ebenezer Locke, born 1699, married Mary Meriam, and is said to have fired the first shot at the battle of Lexington, where he resided.
2. Samuel Locke, born in 1702; married Rebeckah Richardson in 1730.
3. Josiah Locke, born 1705, died 1727; unmarried, a young man of education with a taste for poetry.
4. Joshua (3) Locke, of whom further.
5. Nathan Locke, born 1713, died 1723.
6. Hannah Locke, born 1716; married, in 1739, Asa Richardson.

Gabriel (1) Meads, Puritan, came over in 1630 with Sir Richard Saltonstall. Resided at Dorchester and Watertown—Freeman 1638. The mother of Hannah (3) Meads Locke was Hannah (3) Warren, daughter of Daniel (2), born in England in 1628, in 1650 married Mary (2) (daughter of Ellis (1) Barron), Watertown—Freeman 1640. Selectman 1680 to 1692. Was in Pequot War and fight at Sudbury.

John (1) Warren, Watertown, married Margaret. Came over in 1630 with Sir Richard Saltonstall. Selectman of Watertown 1636 to 1640. Puritan. Ellis (1) Barron—Freeman, Watertown, 1640. Selectman, 1668. Wife, Grace, thought to be mother of all his children.

Joshua (3), son of Lieutenant Ebenezer Locke, was born August 21, 1709, at Woburn, Massachusetts. He married (first) Hannah (5) Reade, in March, 1732, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas (4) and Sarah (4) (Sawyer) Reade, of Woburn, born 1687, and sister of James Reade who was a military officer of eminence in French and revolutionary war. In May, 1775, he was colonel of the second New Hampshire Regiment and held the rail-fence with John Stark at Bunker Hill. He was, on the recommendation of Washington, the first brigadier-general appointed by the provincial congress. He married (second) Tabitha Bellows, Boston, April, 1744, daughter of Dr. Isaac Bellows, of Southboro. Resided at Woburn, Westboro, Boston and Southboro. He sold land in Southboro in 1753, was on the alarm list in that town in 1757, and died there in 1767. No children by second wife.

His children by Hannah Reade were:

1. Joshua Locke, born 1733; married Abigail Maynard.
2. Josiah Locke, born 1735; married Persis Mathews.
3. Ebenezer Locke, of whom further.

Ebenezer (4), son of Joshua Locke, was born in 1737 at Woburn. He was three years in the French war, and with General Winslow at Nova Scotia in 1755. Resided at Oxford. Rev. Army Records, Washington, D. C. certify: Ebenezer Locke Sr., served in Captain John Wood’s company, Colonel Baldwin’s regiment. Invalid pensions in state of New Hampshire show Ebenezer Locke in Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and wounded in right thigh, and as fit for duty, vol. III., p. 345. He died September 24, 1812. He married, in 1759, Phoebe Mores.

Their children were:

1. Mary Locke, born 1761; married Thomas Laws.
2. Ebenezer Locke, of whom further.
3. Allis Locke, born 1769; married Nathaniel Ford.
4. Collins Locke, born 1771; married Elizabeth Burroughs.
5. Rufus Locke, born 1779; married Lydia Stebbins.
6. Nathan Locke, married Hannah Goodnow.
7. Edward Jewett Locke, born 1778; married Rhoda Laws.

Ebenezer (5), son of Ebenezer Locke, was born 1763, in Ervingshire. After the revolutionary war he purchased land in Rockingham, Vermont, where he lived until his death in 1833. Naturally possessed of a good mind, much practical good sense and good habits, he reared a large family respectably, and accumulated a handsome property, and secured the respect and esteem of all who knew him. His revolutionary service reads: Ebenezer Locke Jr., served in Captain John Wood’s company, Colonel Baldwin’s regiment, 1775-1779, when he re-enlisted for three years—thirty months as private, three months as corporal. He began his soldier life at the age of twelve years. On February 6, 1783, he married (first) Hannah Gustin (Augustine) of Rockingham, Vermont, born in 1764, died in 1833.

He married (second) 1835, Mrs. Susan Campbell. No children.

Children born at Rockingham, Vermont, by his first wife, Hannah Gustin (Augustine):

1. John Locke, born 1784; physician; married Hannah Gordon Clark, 1810.
2. Phoebe Locke, married Fay.
3. Cyrus Locke, of whom further.
4. Asa Locke, born 1792; married Fanny Prentiss, 1815.
5. Albert Locke, born 1795; married Phoebe Chafin, 1823.
6. Randilla Locke, married Nathaniel Walker, 1813.
7. Oren Locke, born 1798; married (first) Catherine Tyler, 1823, married (second) Nancy Williams, 1841.
8. Lewis Locke, born 1802; married Laura Darby, 1828.
9. Henry Locke, born 1804; married Eliza Prentiss, 1827.

Cyrus (6), son of Ebenezer Locke, was born April 14, 1789, at Rockingham, Vermont. He was a man of good principles and assured position; of influence in town and county, selectman and magistrate, president of orphans court eighteen years. Bountifully he was blessed in “basket and store” and being of a genial and hospitable disposition his home in “Old Town” was always filled to overflowing with the ever welcome guests. He married, January 14, 1812, Randilla (7), daughter of Captain William (6) Thayer, whose line was: Lieutenant William (5), William (4), William (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (1), and wife, Susannah (7) Lincoln, whose line was: Elkanah (6), Elkanah (5), Jonathan (4), Thomas (3), Thomas (2), Thomas (1).

Their children were:

1. Lucius Elliot Locke, born November 30, 1812; married Louisa Blake.
2. Cyrus Henry Locke, born 1814; married, 1841, Amelia Bailey.
3. Randilla Locke, born 1816; married, 1836, George Marsh.
4. James Leonard Locke, born 1819; married, 1842, Lavinia Russell.
5. Celina Thayer Locke, born 1822; married, 1842, Charles Pierce Marsh.
6. Eliza Maria Locke, born 1824; married, 1845, Isaac Glynn.
7. Martha Jane Locke, born 1826; married, 1847, Thomas C. Wells.
8. Henry Thayer Locke, born 1829; married, 1863, Jane Peterson.
9. Rollin Mallory Locke, born 1832; married, 1858, Marcia Stone.
10. Albert Emerson Locke, born 1834; married, 1860, Emma Sackett.
11. Abbie Louise Locke, born 1837; married, 1859, Charles Pollard.
12. Rush Sylvester Locke, born 1839; married, 1861, Ellen Davis.

(The Reade Line).

Lieutenant Thomas (4) Reade was a prominent man. He was representative to the general court, and for many years connected with the Train Band of Woburn. Vide “Cutter’s History of Woburn.”

George (3) Reade, born in England in 1629, settled in Dorchester. Married, in 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jamison. See “History of Dorchester.”

William (2) Reade, son of Thomas (1) Reade, of Brocket Hall, Northumberland, England, and wife, Mary, came to New England in the “Defence,” 1635, aged forty-eight years, with wife, Mabel Kendall, aged thirty years. The history of the Reade family has considerable account of him as identified with early history of Dorchester.

The Reades were among the reigning princes of Northumberland, Kent, Wessex and Mercia, and all seem to have been of the same blood and allied politically. Withred was king of Kent in the seventh century. Their seat was at Rede in the hundred of Merdinnie, now Marden. Here many of the kinsfolk by name of Reade resided. Sir Walter Scott in “Rokeby” alludes to a slab in Elsden Church which describes the family as having been seated in Redesdale nine hundred years. The Redes of the Cragg of Redesdale descended from the elder branch of Redes of Troughend Redesdale, and until recent years held lands granted by the crown prior to the conquest.

The original coat-of-arms of the Reades, described in heraldic terms, is “Azure; a griffin sergeant, or rampant, or clowed gules;” this emblem was of great antiquity and was borne by Cerdicus (Cedric), the Saxon, when he landed in Britain. The crest was an eagle sable, with wings extended, beak and claws gold—the heraldic motto, “Avi Numerantur Avorum.” (Translated: “They exhibit a long line of ancestors.”) Two Saxon ealdormen, Cedric and son Cynric, founded in 495 a settlement on the coast of what is now Hampshire. That settlement grew into the kingdom of England. Twenty-four years after their first landing the two Saxon ealdormen deemed their position strong enough and their conquests wide enough for them to assume the kingly title. Thus began the royal line of the West-Saxons, which became the royal line of England.

Joshua (3) Sawyer, born 1655, married, 1678, Sarah Potter. He was a soldier in King Philip’s Indian war. Vide “Bodges History.”

Thomas (2) Sawyer, England, was at Lancaster in 1644; was one of the first six settlers. He had before resided at Rowley. He married Mary, daughter of John Prescott.

Sons of Thomas and Mary Sawyer:

1. Thomas Sawyer, was a captive among the Indians several years;
2. Ephraim Sawyer, was killed by them in 1676.

John (1) Sawyer, born in England in the sixteenth century. He did not come to America.

(The Prescott Line).

The name of Prescott is of very ancient origin, and is composed of two Saxon words “Priest” and “Cottage.” The ancestry has been traced back in the English records to Alfred the Great, and the earliest of the Saxon kings. It is certain that they belonged to the nobility of England. There is preserved by the descendants in this country (America) a family coat-of-arms, which was conferred upon one of the remote ancestors for his bravery, courage and successful enterprise as a man and military officer. This coat-of-arms must have been very old, as it was used by the Prescotts of Theobald Park, Hertfordshire, Barts, and by those of the ancient families of that name in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Among the most marked traits of this race, which have remained the same in each succeeding generation for centuries, are independence and great force of character, executive ability, integrity, tenacity of purpose, and quickness to think and act in emergency.

John Prescott, who sold his lands in Shevington, Lancashire, and wife, Mary Platt, who died in 1683, sailed for the Barbadoes, where he landed in 1638, and became an owner of lands there. In 1640 he came to Boston. He then settled in Watertown, where he had large grants of land allotted him. Like most of the early settlers in New England he left his home to escape the relentless religious persecutions in his native land. How much his coming meant to what was then a wilderness!

John Prescott was a pioneer of Lancaster, one of the most interesting and prominent of the early settlers of New England. (See History of Lancaster for above named). His record as a sturdy pioneer is of greater value than any royal descent. Although the leading citizen of Lancaster he was for a quarter of a century without a vote or any voice in the government, not eligible even to serve on a jury. His brave stand for liberty, against the Puritan despotism should offset any Royal descent. (Boston Transcript).

From him have come ministers, scholars, statesmen, soldiers, and brave men and good women filling honorable places in their respective communities—such men as “Prescott, the Historian” and “Prescott of Bunker Hill” are prominent figures in the line of his descendants.

When the “Prescott Memorial” was ready for press, it was withheld until the soldiers were “mustered out” at the close of the “Civil War.” Three hundred and sixty of the names responded—also many of the Prescott ancestry.

The first American ancestor of the Prescotts was of fine physique, forceful character, and brilliant mind; he was a remarkable personage, and at once became an influential man in his adopted country.

(The Thayer Line).

“Tayer”: Thayer: The origin of the name is, as of all surnames, signified by the occupation followed by the persons, or signified by the locality or some personal peculiarity.

Judge Horace Metcalf, who has examined the English law on the subject of the “Tayer” name spelled in the different ways in those reports (Thayer, Thear, Theyer, etc.) is of German origin, and in that language signifies an ox or a cow, or dealer in such. Consequently it seems probable that our ancestors took their surname from the continent, and it is synonymous with a bullock in the English language. We do also know that England was over run by the Danes and Saxons one thousand years ago, more or less, and the counties of Kent and Essex on the east coast of England passed into the possession of those marauders composed of intruders from the opposite coast. We next find a coat-of-arms conferred on Augustine Thayor, of Thaydone, a small village in the county of Essex, eighteen miles from London.

The Thayers when coming to this country chose their residence in Braintree, Massachusetts. It has been a great pleasure to many of their descendants to trace back their progeniture in an uninterrupted series, to those who first landed on the inhospitable shores of New England, and it is not improbable that the arrival of the Puritan Fathers of New England will form a more memorable epoch in history than the Conquest of England does in that country, (and that posterity, a few centuries hence, will experience as much pleasure in tracing back its ancestry to the New England colonist as some of the English feel who are able to deduce their descent from the Norman).

Thomas (1) Tayer-Thayer was a shoemaker. He was a progenitor of a numerous offspring, by some said to be a distinct race from Richard, but it is not positively known as to the facts. Both families settled in the same town (Braintree, Mass.) about the same time; and as intermarriage took place, it would make them relatives. He brought with him from England his wife, Margery Wheeler,

Three sons of Thomas and Margery (Wheeler) Thayer:

1. Thomas Thayer;
2. Ferdinando Thayer;
3. Shadrack Thayer, of whom further.

Will recorded, 13th of September, 1665. Good Puritan.

Shadrack (2), son of Thomas Thayer, died in 1678. He married (first) Mary Barrett, 1654, and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. She died in 1658.

Married (second) Deliverance (2), daughter of James (1) and Elizabeth Priest, of Boston and Weymouth. Died 1723, aged seventy-nine.

Children of Shadrack Thayer: Rachel by his first wife, Mary Barrett, and the others by his second wife, Deliverance Priest:

1. Rachel Thayer, born 1655.
2. Freelove Thayer, born 1662, died 1662
3. Mary Thayer, born 1663
4. Timothy Thayer, born 1666
5. Samuel Thayer, born 1667
6. Ephraim Thayer
7. Hannah Thayer, born 1672
8. William Thayer, of whom further.

William (3), son of Shadrack Thayer, born in 1675. He married, in 1692, Hannah (3) (Hosmer) Heywood, a widow, daughter of James (2) Hosmer and wife Alice, and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Children of William and Hannah Thayer:

1. Bethiah Thayer, born 1700
2. Jonathan Thayer, born 1703
3. William Thayer, of whom further
4. Martha Thayer, born 1709.

Thomas (1) Hosmer, father of James Hosmer, came from Hawkhurst, county Kent, England, in 1632, to Cambridge, Hartford, Connecticut, 1636. Representative. Died 1687, aged eighty-three. Wife Frances died 1675, age seventy-three.

William (4), son of William Thayer, was born 1705, died 1769. He married Abigail, daughter of John (3) Burt, of Buckley, Massachusetts, 1729, died 1790, aged eighty-two. Resided in Old Taunton, Massachusetts.

Children:

1. Jacob Thayer, born 1730
2. William Thayer, 1732
3. John Thayer, 1734
4. Abigail Thayer, 1737
5. Elijah Thayer, 1740
6. Sally Thayer, 1743.

John (3) Burt, 1671-1767, married Abigail, born 1673, daughter of William (1) Paull and wife Mary (3) Richmond; John (2), John (1), England. “Emery’s History” of Taunton, p. 401, says: “The Press Masters returned under their hands, that they impressed for his Majesties service, July 25, 1697, just as the afternoon meeting was done. (When the King of England and the king of France got mad and wouldn’t play, then they went to war; and the English provinces were brought into the struggle, hence John (3) Burt, paid his fealty to his King.)”

Richard (2) Burt, England, 1629-1685: One of the purchasers of the “North Purchase” of Taunton, 1668, and of the “South Purchase,” 1672. In King Philip’s war, 1675. Married Charity, daughter of George Hall, who died 1711. Surveyor. Took oath of fidelity, 1657. Constable, 1667. Freeman, 1670.

Richard (1) Burt: One of the forty-six “First purchasers” of (Cohannet) Taunton of Massasoit, 1639. Advanced in years; name not in first military company 1643. Died previous to 1647. Date of marriage and name of wife not given. Puritan English.

Lieutenant William (5) Thayer, William (4), William (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (1), 1732-1779. A gentleman of landed estate, Taunton, Massachusetts. Ensign Fourth Taunton Company: Captain James (3) Leonard, Bristol county regiment; Colonel Samuel White, Mass. archives 99:47, State House, Boston. Appointed lieutenant Fourth Taunton Company: Captain James Leonard. Third Regiment Bristol county, 1771. Mass. archives 99:47. “Also assisted in establishing American Independence, while acting in capacity of lieutenant in New York, December, 1776, and at different times until he contracted smallpox and died.” Emery’s “History of Taunton,” p. 452. He married, in 1763, a widow, Mary (5) Leonard (Tisdale) 1729-1814, daughter of Captain James (4) Leonard, of Taunton.

Children:

1. William Thayer, born 1764
2. Wealthy Thayer, 1766
3. Polly Thayer
4. Lydia Thayer.

(The Lenerd, Leonard Line).

James (2), James (3), James (4), Mary (5). Thomas (1) Leonard, Monmouth, England, was the English ancestor who never came to America, but who is enumerated in the Leonard Genealogy. James (2) Leonard, and brother Henry, were the first representatives of the family in this country, coming from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, England.

They were skilled “Iron Masters” and were interested in the first “Bloomerie” erected in New England, situated at Saugus. In 1651-52 they superintended the erection of the first foundry at Braintree, and in the same year they removed to Taunton and erected their own “bloomerie,” which remained in operation in the hands of Leonards and descendants until it was demolished in 1876. James Leonard, Sr., was one of the “Associates” of the North Purchase in 1668 of Philip. The price paid for this tract of land was “the full sume of one hundred pounds.”

In 1695 two hundred acres of land were given the Leonards for another forge on the “Stony Brook” in the “North Division,” and also the liberty to take their next division of one share in the North-Purchase lands “in the best iron-oare that they can find.” They were also allowed the privilege of digging ore in any other man’s land, for the use and benefit of said works, by “paying the owner of such land one shilling a tun for every tun of iron-oare they shall dig.” At one colonial period they coined money for the realm; certain pieces are on exhibition at the present time in Historical Hall, Taunton, Massachusetts.

By his wife, Margaret Martin, he had a large family of children:

1. Thomas (3) Leonard;
2. James (3) Leonard;
3. Abigail (3) Leonard, married John Kingsley, of Milton;
4. Rebecca (3) Leonard, married Isaac Chapman, of Barnstable;
5. Joseph (3) Leonard;
6. Benjamin (3) Leonard;
7. Hannah (3) Leonard, married Isaac Dean;
8. Uriah (3) Leonard.

The two most distinguished were Thomas (3) and James (3).

Captain James (3) Leonard, 1643-1726, was like his father, a “Bloomer.” He was selectman (one of the principal offices) of Taunton for many years; representative to the general court of Massachusetts; first lieutenant in the first Military Company of Taunton, 1705; captain in 1713. Vide Emery’s “History of Taunton.” By his three wives he had thirteen children.

He married (second) in 1675, Lydia, 1658-1705, daughter of Anthony (1) Gulliver, born 1619 in England, died in Milton, 1706, and wife, Eleanor (2), daughter of Stephen (1) Kingsley, England and Dorchester, Massachusetts, representative 1650 to general court; removed to Braintree; ordained “Ruling Elder” of the church, 1639; Representative 1666.

Children of Captain James (3) Leonard:

1. Eunice (4) Leonard, married Richard Burt
2. Prudence (4) Leonard, married Samuel Lewis, of Barnstable
3. Hannah (4) Leonard, married John Crane
4. James (4) Leonard, married Lydia, daughter of Jonathan Gulliver
5. Lydia (4) Leonard, married William Britton
6. Stephen (4) Leonard
7. Abigail (4) Leonard, married Ezra Dean
8. Seth (4) Leonard
9. Sarah (4) Leonard, married Henry Hodges
10. Elizabeth (4) Leonard, married Captain Joseph Hall.

To show the manly and friendly side of James (2) and James (3) Leonard, I will quote from “Abbott’s History:” “It is said that Philip had given orders that the town of Taunton should be spared until all the other towns in the Colony were destroyed.”

“A family by the name of Leonard resided in Taunton, where they had erected the first forge which was established in the English colonies. Philip, though his usual residence was at Mount Hope, had a favorite summer resort at a place called ‘Fowling Pond,’ then within the limits of Taunton. In these excursions he had become acquainted with the Leonards. They had treated him and his followers with uniform kindness, repairing their guns, and supplying them with such tools as the Indians highly prized. Philip had become exceedingly attached to this family, and in gratitude, at the commencement of the war, had given the strictest orders that the Indians should never injure a Leonard. Apprehending that in a general assault upon the town his friends, the Leonards, might be exposed to danger, he spread the shield of his generous protection over the whole place.” …. “His extraordinary kindness to the Leonards, inducing him to avert calamities from a whole settlement, lest they, by some accident, might be injured develops magnanimity which is seldom paralleled.” Francis Baylies “History of Taunton.”

Captain James (4) Leonard, 1677-1764, was also a manufacturer of iron; selectman of the town for many years; representative to general court, 1708-1721, 1726-1733, 1735-1739, 1740. Plymouth and Massachusetts Colonial Records. Ensign, lieutenant, captain of Militia Company, 1736. He married (first) 1699, Hannah (Walley) Stone, of Bristol,

He married (second) Lydia, widow of John Gulliver, of Milton, and daughter of Jonathan (2) Gulliver and wife, Mary Robinson,

His second wife died previous to 1759. He married (third) Mercy ——. “History of Norton,” p. 85.

Children of Captain James (4) Leonard, first by Hannah (Walley) Stone, then by Lydia Gulliver:

1. Lieutenant James (5) Leonard, born 1699, captain and muster-master for Taunton in revolutionary war, died in 1793
2. Eliphalet Leonard, 1702-1786, of Easton
3. Lydia Leonard, married Captain Thomas Cobb and were the parents of David Cobb, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, general and aide to Washington in the revolutionary war, judge and member of congress, 1793-95
4. Sally Leonard, married Robert Treat Paine, “Signer of Declaration of Independence.” The Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter of Taunton is named for “Lydia Cobb.”
5. Jonathan Leonard
6. Mary (5) Leonard, widow of Loved Tisdale, who married (second) Lieutenant William (5) Thayer
7. Elizabeth Leonard, married Joseph Harvey
8. Jerusha Leonard, married Abijah Hodges.

The Leonards claim descent from Lennard Lord Dacre, one of the most distinguished families in the United Kingdom, descended in two lines from Edward III., through two of his sons. There appears to be ground for this claim from the fact that the arms of Lennerd and Lenord families are the same: Or, on a fesse gules (red) three fleur-de-lis of the first or field. Crest: Out of a ducal Coronet or, a Tiger’s head argent. Motto: Pour-Bien-Desirer. To wish well.

Sons of Edward III named in the claimed Lennard descent:

1. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster;
2. Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester.

Near the close of the last century the last Lord Dacre bearing the name of Lennard died, and it is supposed that the late Judge George Lenerd could have claimed the title, but the judge said “He preferred to be lord of acres in America rather than Lord Dacre in England.”

All the foregoing is recorded and part of the History of “Old Taunton.”

The third and fourth editions, “Americans of Royal Descent” have “Leonard” pedigree. Leonard belongs to the class of names that originated from the Christian name. The signification is Lion-hearted, from Leo, or Leon and ard. It seems strange that those who attained the honors of knighthood did not adopt a Lion’s head for their crest instead of a tiger’s! “New England Historical and Genealogical Register,” 1848, vol. II. p. 162.

Captain William (6) Thayer, Lieutenant William (5), William (4), William (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (1), 1764-1830. After the revolutionary war he purchased a thousand-acre estate in Springfield, Vermont, which remained in the family until 1908. “In the spring of 1788 he with his wife removed to their new home; he driving a pair of oxen hitched to a two-wheeled cart, which held their household goods, the wife riding a small horse and carrying their valuables. For seven years they lived in a log house, while the new one was building, which was a fine large mansion, and which is standing today, perfect in every respect. The nails were handmade; the trees were felled, the timbers and material for the entire structure prepared by men employed for the purpose, in the same primitive manner—the shingles were made from the hearts of old pine trees, and lasted for seventy years. He hired the best masons and carpenters at fifty cents per day (or less), and in summer they worked eighteen hours out of the twenty-four. (The night before they left the old house one log rolled out and one rolled in). He was for many years justice of the peace, selectman, captain of militia company, surveyor, and surveyed most of the land in the state of Vermont. The needle of his compass, that is over one hundred and fifty years old, still points to the North pole. His revolutionary war service began in Taunton at the age of sixteen years in Captain Jacobs Hoskins’ company, Colonel Isaac Dean’s regiment.

He married, January 1, 1789, Susannah (7), 1769-1833, daughter of Elkanah (6) Lincoln, and wife Susannah (4) Torrey, of Norton, Massachusetts.

Their children were:

1. Hon. William Thayer, born 1790, married (first) Eunice Field, Surry, New Hampshire, (second) Sarah Joslin, Surry, New Hampshire
2. Susannah Thayer, 1792, married David Brown
3. Randilla (7) Thayer, 1796, married Cyrus (6) Locke, Rockingham, Vermont
4. James Leonard Thayer, 1799, married Sarah Clapham, Madrid, New York
5. Selina Thayer, 1806, married George Putnam, Rockingham, Vermont
6. Eliza Maria Thayer, 1808, married Ichabod Gibson Adams, Springfield, Vermont.

(The Lincoln Line).

Elkanah (6) Lincoln, 1747-1816, was a man of affairs, and a large land-owner. After the death of his father he was styled “Gentleman.” He served in the revolutionary war, first as private, second as corporal, third as sergeant in the Continental Line of Massachusetts. Married, in 1768, at Taunton, Susannah, 1749-1833, daughter of Deacon Samuel (3) Torrey.

Children:

1. Susannah Lincoln, 1769
2. Micah Lincoln, 1771
3. Constant Lincoln, 1773, married Kendall
4. Elkanah Lincoln, 1775
5. Zebina Lincoln, 1777
6. Tisdale Lincoln, 1780
7. Catey Lincoln, 1784, married Abel Gleason
8. William Lincoln, 1787. In 1782 he removed to Westmoreland, New Hampshire, where he and his wife died.

Deacon Samuel (3) Torrey, Micah (2), William (1), 1688-1782, Weymouth, Massachusetts, occupation, cooper. Will made 1782; large estate divided among children. Married, 1732, at Taunton, Constant Linkton (Lincoln), daughter of Nathaniel and Alice (3) (Andrews), John (2), John (1) Andrews, Boston, 1656, from Wales, Puritan.

Children of Deacon Samuel (3) and Constant (Linkton) Torrey. Order of birth unknown; order taken from old deed:

1. Sarah Torrey, married, 1754, Joseph Andrews
2. Daniel Torrey, married, 1761, Keziah Stockbridge
3. Constant Torrey, married, 1761, Abiel Eddy
4. Levi Torrey, married, 1778, Elizabeth Arnold
5. Lois Torrey, married Fisher
6. Rachel Torrey, married, 1764, Nathan Franklin
7. Susannah Torrey, married, 1768, Elkanah Lincoln Jr.

Deacon Micajah (2), 1643-1710, Weymouth, married Susannah ——.

Children:

1. Micajah Torrey, 1673-1722, married Sarah Batt, of “Mayflower” ancestry
2. Margaret Torrey, 1675-1752, married James Humphreys
3. Mary Torrey, 1681-1716
4. Silence Torrey, died 1724, married Samuel French
5. Joshua Torrey, 1686-1752
6. Susannah Torrey, died 1687
7. Susannah Torrey, 1687-1752
8. Samuel Torrey, 1688-1782, married, 1732, Constant Linkton.

England—

(1) Gen’n, d. 1556, William Torrey (2) Gen’n, d. 1604, Philip Torrey (3) Gen’n, d. 1639, William Torrey (4) Gen’n, d. 1621, Philip Torrey, m. Alice Richards.

Immigration, 1640.

William (1) Torrey, son of Philip and Alice Torrey. From Combe St. Nicholas, England, and Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Baptized, December 21, 1608, Combe St. Nicholas, died June 10, 1690, Weymouth, Massachusetts; Freeman, 1642; representative, 1642, and often afterward, having special qualifications for that office. He was lieutenant and captain, clerk of the house of representatives and magistrate. (Savage “Geneal. Dic. Papers Pioneers of Mass,” Hobart’s “History of Abington, Massachusetts”). He married (first) in 1629, at Combe St. Nicholas, Agnes Combe, daughter of Joseph and Winifred (Rossiter) Combe, who died in 1629. He married (second) in 1630, Jane Haviland, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Gyse) Haviland, from Hawksbury, Barnes, England, who died in 1639.

Married (third) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Frye and wife (name not recorded).

Children by second wife:((These children are repeated in the child list of the third wife))

1. Rev. Samuel Torrey, childless
2. Captain William Torrey, 1638-1718, married Deborah Green, the lineal ancestor of Louisa Mariah (Torrey) Taft, the mother of William H. Taft, president of the United States.

Children following the third marriage in the source:

1. Samuel Torrey, 1632-1707, married (first) 1657, Mary P. Rawson, married (second) 1694, Mary Symmes, widow
2. William Torrey, 1638-1718, married Deborah Green
3. Naomi Torrey, born 1641, married Hayward
4. Mary Torrey, born 1642, married William Downs
5. Micajah Torrey, 1643-1710, married Susannah ——
6. Josiah Torrey, 1650-1732, married Sarah Wilson (Batt), widow
7. Judith Torrey, 1655-1693, married Thomas Hunt
8. Angel Torrey, 1657-1725, married Hannah ——.

Elkanah (5) Lincoln, 1718-1783, married, at Norton, 1744, Lydia Pratt, of Norton. Almost nothing is known of him, except what is revealed by the records of his real estate transactions. There are indications that he received a better education than his father. In early life called yeoman, after 1777 he was styled “Gentleman.” He was the first in his ancestral line to take that title, and it indicates quite an advance in public and social life.

Their children were:

1. Lydia Lincoln, born 1745
2. Elkanah Lincoln, born 1747, married Susannah Torrey
3. Enos Lincoln, born 1749
4. Samuel Lincoln, born 1751
5. Prudence Lincoln, born 1754
6. Hannah Lincoln, born 1757
7. Amasa Lincoln, born 1762
8. Luther Lincoln, born 1766.

Jonathan (4) Lincoln, 1687-1773, Taunton. He was more successful than his predecessors, and brought together a large estate, and was the first in his family line who could write his name and spell it correctly. He was generous toward his children. Married, 1712, Hannah, born 1690, daughter of Captain John and Alice (3) (Shaw) Andrews. John (2), Abraham (1) Shaw, in Boston, 1639. Good Puritans.

Children:

1. Jonathan Lincoln, born 1713
2. James Lincoln, born 1715
3. Elkanah Lincoln, born 1718, married Lydia Pratt
4. Abiel Lincoln, born 1720
5. Hannah Lincoln, born 1723
6. George Lincoln, born 1727
7. Job Lincoln, born 1730.

“Captain John Andrews was from Wales. Immigration 1663.”

Thomas (3) Lincoln, born 1656, Taunton. He accumulated considerable property of his own. In one respect he made a distinct advance over his ancestors, for while he signed his name by a rude S, yet his children received an education. He made no will, instead conveyed his property to his children before his death. Married Mary Stacey, of Taunton, daughter of Richard and Abigail Stacey.

Their children were:

1. Thomas Lincoln, born 1680
2. Benjamin Lincoln, born 1681
3. Nathaniel Lincoln, born 1684
4. Jonathan Lincoln, born 1687, married Hannah Andrews
5. William Lincoln, born 1689
6. Lydia Lincoln
7. Hannah Lincoln, born 1692
8. Constant Lincoln, born 1696.

Thomas (2) Lincoln, born in England, 1628. Came to Hingham, Massachusetts, with his father in 1636. He settled in Taunton in 1649, died there in 1695, and was granted a home lot. In 1675, at the breaking out of King Philip’s war, he was one of ninety heads of families. In 1687-88, being then senior, he gave five acres of land toward Taunton’s first minister, Samuel Danforth. In 1689 when money was raised for the expedition under Colonel Benjamin Church he contributed ten shillings, and during King William’s war when money was raised for the expedition to Canada in 1690, he gave two pounds. In 1695 when the Chartley Iron Works were organized and one hundred acres of land was given to it from the North Purchase he was one of those who signed the deed. Member of the Military Company of Taunton in 1682. A large land owner, for in addition to his own rights under the original purchases he also inherited from his father considerable land. In 1658 declared a freeman; in 1677 elected surveyor to set off the common lands. In 1669, 1672, 1677, he with others purchased from King Philip all the land included in the ancient town of Taunton, from which several towns were later carved (except a purchase called the Titicut Purchase). He married, in 1651, Mary Austin, daughter of Jonah (1) Austin Sr. In 1694, instead of making a will he divided his property among his children, only reserving the right to sell a portion for his support.

Names of children:

1. Mary Lincoln, born 1652
2. Sarah Lincoln, born 1654
3. Thomas Lincoln, born 1656, married Mary Austin
4. Samuel Lincoln, born 1658
5. Sarah Lincoln, born 1660
6. Hannah Lincoln, born 1663
7. Mercy Lincoln, born 1665
8. Jonah Lincoln
9. Experience Lincoln, born 1693.

“Jonah (1) Austin was one of the purchasers of the ‘Taunton North Purchase’ of King Philip in 1668.”

Between the years 1635 and 1640 eight men by the name of Lincoln came to Hingham, Massachusetts, from or near Hingham, England. Four of these were named Thomas, designated by their occupation as the weaver, the husbandman, the cooper and the miller. Three of the eight men were brothers, Samuel, Daniel and Thomas. Immigration 1635.

Thomas (1) Lincoln, born 1603, came to Hingham, Massachusetts, from Hingham, Norfolk county, England; on the 3d of July, 1636, was granted house lots of five acres of land. He was called “Thomas the Miller” to distinguish him from three others by the same name. In 1649 he removed to Taunton; “the town voted him accommodations.” He became a large landholder, and died in 1684. The inventory of his estate was two hundred and five pounds and eight shillings. A member of the first train band in 1649.

Iron had been discovered on “Two-Mile River,” and other locations in Taunton, and the enterprising Pilgrim settlers considered the field open for the establishment of a “bloomerie.” A company was organized in 1653-54, and the name of Thomas Lincoln Sr., is among the subscribers. (From “History of Taunton, Mass.” by Samuel Emery Hopkins, D. D.). He was one of “ye associates” of the “South Purchase,” a tract four miles square, for which King Philip was paid two hundred and seventy-three pounds. At the time of King Philip’s war in 1675 he was reckoned the richest of ninety-six heads of families. A man of no education, could not write his own name, and signed all instruments by mark. Married (first) 1627, in England, name of wife unknown. His first three children were born in England, the others in Hingham.

He married (second) in 1665, Elizabeth Street, of Taunton, by whom he had no children.

Children by his first marriage:

1. Thomas Lincoln, born 1628, married Mary Austin
2. John Lincoln
3. Samuel Lincoln, born 1636
4. Mary Lincoln, born 1642
5. Sarah Lincoln, born 1645.

When he first came to Hingham he was called Junior, his father’s name must have been Thomas, and he the eldest son.

The name of Lincoln appears frequently on the records of the sixteenth century in and about Hingham, in the county of Norfolk, and there are many records of baptisms in St. Andrews Church in Hingham with Christian names similar to the names of the Lincolns in this country.

“Fairbairn in his ‘Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland,’ vol. II, plate 67, No. 5,” gives the Crest of “Lincolne” as a Lion Rampant, standing on a wreath facing the left.

Between the years 1635 and 1640 the eight first men in the colony by the name of Lincoln came to Hingham, Massachusetts, from or near Hingham, England. Three of the eight were brothers, and the other five closely related. From Samuel, the weaver, is descended Abraham Lincoln, the president (Lincoln Family Association).

Origin of the Name.

The “Lincolns” have the satisfaction of having a name descended from very ancient times in Britain. When the Romans conquered North Britain about the year A. D. 86 they founded at what is now the city of Lincoln, not a castra or camp, but a colony, naming it Lindum Colonia. The location was a very ancient one, there having been a settlement of the old Britains at this place long before the coming of the Romans. From the abbreviation of the two words—Lindum and Colonia, or Lin-coln—we derive our name of “Lincoln.”

The name “Lincoln” is a hybrid of Celtic and Latin. It appears in some very old records as Lindum Colonia and Lindocolina. The “Lindum” is purely Saxon, and exactly describes the early British settlement as “the hill part of the pool.”

The name Nicol, Nicole is Norman-French for Lincoln. “In modern history times the earliest record of the Lincolns show them to have been people of wealth and station; the name of Wigod de Lincoln appears as a witness to the charter of Edward the Confessor, in 1060. Alured de Lincoln, who came over with William the Conqueror, held a great barony in Lincoln and Bedford in 1086.” “The Doomsday Book,” 1086, mentions several men of the same name, more especially Alfred de Lincoln, who, being a Saxon by birth, could not hold lands until after his marriage with a Norman lady.

The Lincoln Impe.

In Lincoln Cathedral, in what is known as the Angel Choir, so called from the numerous figures of angels among the carving, there are at the spandrils of the arches to the windows in the clear story, numerous carvings, among them this grotesque figure.

Memorial to the President.

In the year 1909, the centennial of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, it was proposed to place in old St. Andrews, Hingham, a memorial to him and his ancestors, for it was in this church that Samuel Lincoln was baptized August 23, 1622, the son of Edward Lincoln, who did not come to this country. “The Lincoln Family Association” responded most generously.

(The Marsh Line)

Charles (6) Pierce Marsh, Joseph (5), Moses (4), Moses (3), John (2), Alexander (1) Marsh, born 1820, Rockingham, Vermont, married, July 5, 1842, at Keene, New Hampshire, Celina (7) Thayer, daughter of Cyrus (6) Locke, Ebenezer (5), Ebenezer (4), Joshua (3), Ebenezer (2), William (1) Locke, and wife, Randilla (7) Thayer, Captain William (6), Lieutenant William (5), William (4), William (3), Shadrack (2), Thomas (1) Thayer.

By this marriage were joined two distinct “Historical” families, originally of Old England, Colonially of New England, and, like Browning’s “Happy Warrior,” marching breast forward to join in the formation of the thirteen original states, and the birth of our American Republic.

After disposing of the “Marsh Homestead” in 1850 he with his mother, wife and two children removed to Allegany county, New York, and purchased a home in Marshall, where three older brothers (Joseph (6), Orlin (6), Otis (6)) and one sister, (Pamelia, who married Benjamin Whipple) had previously located, having purchased their land from the “Holland Land Company” at a period when the Indians were quiet. (Soon after warfare broke out, and for two years they lived in constant fear of their lives; when a treaty was made to the effect that by paying thirty silver dollars to a certain chief—who desired a necklace—future annoyances would cease. After receiving the silver the Indians left that part of the country and never returned).

Of a versatile disposition he interested himself in different lines of business, agriculture, lumbering, surveying and prospecting for coal, principally in McKean county, Pennsylvania. In 1857-58 he took his family with him and located at Howard Hill, now Mt. Jewett, remaining for a few months, when he returned with his family to Allegany county; the “call of the wild” leading him back each winter to join congenial companions in camping and hunting the wild game, which at that time was abundant; a noted “shot,” he rarely failed in a “good bag;” at one time bringing down two deer with one shot. In May, 1864, he removed with his family to Lamont (Kane), Pennsylvania, where, the following September he opened its first hotel, which was the nucleus of the “Old Thomson House.”

Charitable, as well as public-spirited, many of the early settlers of the place remember him with thankful hearts. The township being without school funds, he, with William Carlyle (resident Engineer P. R. R.), organized a select school, engaging Catherine Marsh, of Marshall, New York, as teacher, they paying the greater part of her salary. The school was well attended, as all the little foreign waifs were made welcome.

His wife dying in August, 1864, he sold his hotel interests to a man by the name of Charles Jones, and again returned to Allegany county, where the following year he was one of a company formed to mine for silver and drill for oil in Marshall. The venture was not a financial success.

He married (second) in 1866, Olive, 1840-1910, daughter of Caryl Holden and wife, Randilla Damon, of Marshall, and sister of Judge Lawson C. Holden, of Saginaw and the “Soo,” Michigan, also a cousin of Judge Crittenden Marsh, of Warren county. A few years later he removed to Belfast, same county, where he lived a quiet uneventful life, dying in 1892, loved by his family and kin and respected by his townspeople.

By his two wives he had eight daughters; the first six were by his first wife, Celina Thayer:

1. Abbie Louise (7) Marsh, mentioned below
2. Harriet (7) Marsh, born Rockingham, Vermont, married Thomas Henry Ryan, born Limerick, Ireland, residence, Kane, Pennsylvania
3. Mary (7) Marsh, born Rockingham, Vermont, died Marshall, New York
4. Mary Jane (7) Marsh, born Marshall, married William Griffith, born Ebensburg, residence Kane
5. Flora (7) Marsh, born Marshall, deceased
6. Myra Alda (7) Marsh, born Marshall, married L. Hawes Long, born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, residence Chicago and Belfast, New York.

Children by second wife, Olive Holden:

1. Lucy Holden (7) Marsh, born Marshall
2. Edna Damon (7) Marsh, born Marshall.

Abbie Louise (7) Marsh-Long

Abbie Louise (7), daughter by first wife, compiler of the Family History, married William Calvin Long, born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, journalist, of Chicago, Illinois. Two children survived by this marriage. Suffering from pulmonary trouble, in 1888, she with her daughters took up their residence in Kane, where she remained until 1899, when she accepted the situation as “Instructor of Art” at the State Hospital, Warren, a position she still retains, 1912. Confirmed in 1876 by the Rt. Rev. McLarren S. T. D., Episcopal bishop of Illinois; member of the Cathedral of S. S. Peter and Paul, Chicago; one of the “Founders” of St. Johns Church, 1889, Kane; member of “Old Colony” and other Colonial Societies; member of the “Lincoln” and “Reade” Family Associations, and a “Daughter of the American Revolution;” Charter member of the General Joseph Warren Chapter, Warren, Pennsylvania.

Her education along scholastic and art lines was principally by private instruction; and, as much of the formative period of her life was spent in literary and art circles in Chicago, the advantages derived from such congenial associations were far greater than is received by the average art student. She was also able to gratify her love for travel, which made a desirable prelude to her present “Home Missionary” work among the women of an unfortunate mental condition.

Daughters of Abbie Louise Marsh and William Calvin Long:

1. Maude Long, born Chicago, Illinois, married William Herman Davis, Kane, son of Joshua and wife, Hannah (Howells) Davis, of Ebensburg and Kane. Children:
   1. Dorothea (9) Davis,
   2. Joshua (9) Davis.
2. Mabell Washington (8) Long, born Chicago, Illinois, married (St. Johns, Kane) Benjamin Howard Patterson, M. D., son of John and Priscilla (Focer) Patterson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Children:
   1. John (9) Patterson,
   2. Louisa (9) Patterson,
   3. Thomas (9) Patterson.

One tradition in the family is that Francisco de Marisco, who went over with the Conqueror, was the founder. When anglicized the name became Marsh. Marais, the French word for Marsh, is now a common name in France. The supposition is that the family are of French origin, and came from low marshy lands. In ancient Latin deeds the name appears as De Marisco. The medieval form is Ate-Mershi. If the name started as Saxon, March means a boundary, as the marches of Wales, or a landmark. Other forms are Marche and Marisq, and the most familiar derivations are Marshall and Marshman. One branch of the family claim royal blood through descent from Alfred the Great.

The Marshes have helped to make history, and the name is honored for its men of character and renown, its heroes and its pioneers. There was the martyr, George Marsh, burned at the stake during Mary’s reign. The list of members of the family who have been archbishops, bishops and priests is an imposing one. One of the foremost men of letters of his day was Herbert Marsh, bishop of Peterborough. Francis Marsh was archbishop of Dublin in the reign of William III., and Narcissus Marsh was archbishop of Armagh.

The Marsh arms: Gules, a horse’s head coupled between three crosses bottome, fitchee argent. Crest: Out of a mural crown gules, a horse’s head argent, ducally gorged or.

In the New World the Marshes were men of affairs. John Marshe was one of the first settlers. Jonathan Marsh, another Pilgrim father, lived in Hartford, of which he was one of the founders. The family was represented in the colonial wars, and those of 1776 and 1812. Nathaniel Marsh had charge of the company which escorted Burgoyne to Cambridge after the surrender at Saratoga.

Sylvester Marsh, called “Crazy Marsh,” was not so crazy after all. It was he who built the railroad up Mt. Washington. When the legislature granted him a charter willingness was also expressed to give him a charter to the moon if he wished, so impossible a feat was the building of a “Jacob’s Ladder” considered.

Joseph Owen (5) Marsh, Moses (4), Moses (3), John (2), Alexander (1), born 1769, Braintree, Massachusetts, died 1846, Rockingham, Vermont, was a “gentleman” of landed estate; educated and provided for his large family as the times permitted. He married, May, 1793, at Rockingham, Vermont, Joanna (8) Pierce, born 1776, at Putney, Vermont, daughter of Ebenezer (7) and wife, Elizabeth (4) Gilson. She had many of the old fashioned graces that stamped the gentlewoman of her time; intelligent and active to the last, and greatly beloved by her descendants, who mourned her passing away in 1872, aged ninety-six years.

Their children:

1. Royal Marsh, born 1793, unmarried, service in Mexican war, settled in Louisiana, sugar and rice plantations, large slaveholder, Union man in 1863, slaves freed by the North and property confiscated by the South; he died a poor man before the close of the civil war
2. Joseph Marsh, born 1795, married Polly Bailey
3. Anna Marsh, born 1797
4. Orlin Marsh, born 1799, married Fanny Stoddard
5. Otis Marsh, born 1801, married Rossella Holden
6. Charles Marsh, born 1803
7. George Marsh, born 1805, married Randilla Locke
8. Horace Marsh, born 1807
9. Betsey Marsh, born 1809, married Rossiter Crittenden
10. Sally Marsh, born 1811, married (first) Thomas Stoddard, who died, married (second) Wilson
11. Pamelia Marsh, born 1813, married Benjamin Whipple
12. Horace Marsh, born 1815, married Julia Ann Studley
13. John Marsh, born 1817, married Lucy Studley
14. Polly Marsh, born 1819, married Elijah Pratt
15. Charles Marsh, born 1820, married Celina (7) Locke.

(The Pierce Line).

The English name of “Peirce” is derived from the word “Peter.” When we consider how important has been the position claimed for him we can readily understand the influence that the ecclesiastics of the early days must have had in making it popular.

The Pierce coat-of-arms; Three ravens rising sable: Fesse—hummette. Motto; Dixit et Fecit. (He said and he did). Crest; Dove with olive branch in beak.

Ebenezer (7) Pierce, Anthony (6), John (5), Joseph (4), Joseph (3), Anthony (2), son of John (1). Resided in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and Putney, Vermont. The history of the Pierce Family says: Ebenezer Pierce was shot by British soldiers just before the battle of Bennington; while another account says he was killed by Tories at Bennington. He was one of the Vermont “Minute-Men” and was shot while carrying dispatches. He married, 1763, Elizabeth (4), daughter of Michael (3) Gilson, born 1741, at Groton, Massachusetts.

Their children were:

1. Roswell Pierce, born 1764, married Elizabeth Morton
2. Reuben Pierce, born 1766, married his cousin, Arvilla Gilson
3. Royal Pierce, married Azubula Davenport
4. Elizabeth Pierce, married Samuel Chadwick
5. Millicent Pierce, married (first) Bunday, (second) Crosby
6. Joanna Pierce, 1776, married Joseph (5) Marsh, Rockingham, Vermont.

Michael (3) Gilson, John (2), Joseph (1), 1702-1760. Resided at Groton, Massachusetts. In 1750 he resided above Northfield, Massachusetts, in New Hampshire. He was a soldier in French and Indian war, and was wounded, June 24, 1746. Proprietor in 1752. He married, in Westmoreland, in 1726, Susannah, born 1709, daughter of Zachariah Sawtell and wife Mercy, Groton, Massachusetts.

Names of children:

1. Zachariah Gilson, 1727-1735
2. Rachel Gilson, 1728
3. Michel Gilson, 1730, married Sarah Sessions, a prominent man in Putney, Vermont, captain in revolutionary war
4. Jacob Gilson, 1732-1735
5. Benjamin Gilson, 1735
6. Zachariah Gilson, 1736
7. Susannah Gilson, 1739
8. Elizabeth Gilson, 1741, married, November 24, 1763, Ebenezer Pierce.

Zachariah Sawtell. His will probated November 29, 1737.

In his will he mentioned wife Mercy and these children:

1. Zachariah Sawtell;
2. Mary Blanchard;
3. Susannah Gilson;
4. Sarah Sawtell;
5. Anna Sawtell;
6. Elizabeth Sawtell.

John (2) Gilson, died 1707, slain by Indians. He married, at Groton, in 1697, Sarah ——.

Children:

1. John Gilson, 1698
2. Sarah Gilson, 1700
3. Michael Gilson, 1702, married Susannah Sawtell
4. Susannah Gilson, 1704
5. Ebenezer Gilson, 1707, posthumous.

Joseph (1) Gilson immigrated from North of Ireland previous to 1660. Resided in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Groton. Good Puritan. Married (second) November 18, 1660, Mary Caper.

Children:

1. Joseph Gilson, born in Groton, married, 1667, Hepsibah
2. Sarah Gilson, 1669
3. John Gilson, married, in 1697, Sarah ——.

No data concerning Anthony (6) Pierce, and John (5), of Watertown.

Joseph (4) Pierce, born 1669, Watertown.

Joseph (3) Peirce, Watertown, son of Anthony (2), had wife, Martha, married (second) in 1698, Elizabeth (Kendall) Winship. Freeman in 1690. Joseph (3) Peirce, Watertown, by petition with Daniel Warren, evidences that he was at Sudbury, April 21, 1676, at the fight with the Indians in which Captain Samuel Wadsworth and Broshlesant were slain, together with fifty others. The petition recites their part in the engagement and concerning the burial of the dead. The petition, original, is in Massachusetts Archives, Boston State House, vol. 68, folio 224.

Joseph (3) Peirce, Watertown, appears in company of Watertown men, August 24, 1676, and as receiving for his services. “Bodges History,” p. 376.

Anthony (2) Peirce, Watertown; eldest son of John of Watertown, born in England, freeman, 1634. He had two wives, Sarah and Ann, the first died in 1633, and the second 1682. He died 1678.

Children:

1. John Peirce, “eldest son,” born England
2. Mary Peirce, 1636, married Ralph Reed, of Woburn
3. Jacob Peirce, 1637
4. Daniel Peirce, 1639
5. Martha Peirce, 1641
6. Joseph Peirce
7. Benjamin Peirce, 1649
8. Judith Peirce, 1650, married John Swain, 1667.

Many intermarriages took place in early days between the Peirces and Lockes, and the “Locke Book,” 1850, claims it is from Anthony Peirce that President Franklin Pierce is descended.

John (1) Peirce, of Watertown, came from England. Freeman in 1638. A man of good estate. Projected settlement at Sudbury and Lancaster. Died May 9, 1661. Will probated the October following. In it he provides for wife, Elizabeth, “Eldest Son” Anthony, and other children, whom he does not name;

Children named in his widow’s will:

1. Anthony Peirce;
2. John Peirce;
3. Robert Peirce;
4. Ester Morse, wife of Joseph;
5. Mary Coldham;
6. Judith Peirce, who married Francis Wyman;
7. Elizabeth Peirce, who married John Ball, Jr.

Moses (4) Marsh, Moses (3), John (2), Alexander (1), born 1774, at Braintree, Massachusetts. Removed to Chesterfield, New Hampshire, where he served in revolutionary war, as private in Colonel Samuel Ashley’s company, Chesterfield, New Hampshire. In 1779 he purchased in the town of Rockingham, Vermont, “three ninety acre Lotts, being Lotts Number Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, in the Fourth Range of Ninety Acre Lotts in said Rockingham, said Land being forfeited to this State by James Rogers, by his Treasonable Conduct—in consideration of six hundred pounds Lawful Money.”

He married, in 1764, Jerusha (4), daughter of Joseph Owen, in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was a large landowner, and man of affairs in town, holding different offices. They had numerous offspring. His wife died, and he married (second) Ester Day, of Rockingham. No children.

Children by first wife, Jerusha Owen:

1. Joseph (5) Marsh, born 1769, Braintree, married Joanna Pierce
2. Thomas Marsh
3. Mariah Marsh
4. Jerusha Marsh, married, 1788, Phineas White
5. Sally Marsh
6. Moses Marsh, married, 1790, Betsey Campbell
7. Betsey Marsh, baptized 1779, married Boyington
8. Daniel Marsh, baptized 1779, married Martha Bailey
9. Polly Marsh, baptized 1785, married —— Burt
10. Samuel Marsh, baptized 1785
11. Phebe Marsh, baptized 1787, married, 1802, Christopher Lovell
12. John Marsh.

Joseph (3) Owen, born 1720, Braintree, Massachusetts, Estate probated 1760, died in Provincial service in Boston. He married, in 1742, Elizabeth (5), daughter of John (4) Newcomb and wife, Mary.

Their children:

1. Anne Owen, born 1742-43
2. Betty Owen, born 1744
3. Jerusha Owen, born 1747, married, 1764, Moses Marsh
4. Sarah Owen, 174—, married, 1768, Silas Hollis
5. Elizabeth Owen, born 1750
6. John Owen, born 1753.

(The Newcomb Line).

John (3) and wife, Elizabeth; John (2), Francis (1), came in the “Planter” to Boston at the age of thirty years, with his wife, Rachel, who was twenty years old in 1635; settled first in Boston, then in Braintree. He died at the age of one hundred years. See “Savage’s Genealogy of Newcomb Family.”

Joseph (2) Owen, born 1695, Braintree, married, 1718, Elizabeth, born 1694, daughter of John and Humellis Williams, of Boston.

Their children:

1. Joseph Owen, born 1720, married Elizabeth Newcomb
2. Elizabeth Owen, born 1722
3. John Owen, born 1726.

Nathaniel (1) Owen, died 1733, Braintree, Massachusetts. Married Mary ——. Large estate; gave thirty pounds to Harvard College, after providing for his family and giving them a liberal education.

Their children:

1. Nathaniel Owen, born 1683 or 1684, married, 1714, Deborah Parmenter
2. Benjamin Owen, born 1691
3. Joseph Owen, born 1695, married, in 1718, Elizabeth Williams
4. William Owen, born 1697, died 1702
5. John Owen, born 1699
6. Mary Owen, born 1702, married, 1723, Thomas French
7. Sarah Owen, born 1708, died young.

The Owen family was of rugged and sturdy Puritan stock.

Moses (3) Marsh, John (2), Lieutenant Alexander (1), born 1713, at Braintree, Massachusetts. He was a man of wealth and prominence; was drafted into “His Majesty’s Service,” and regardless of influence was obliged to serve, and died from exposure at Greenbush, New York. He married, in 1739, Sarah (4), daughter of Simon (3) Crosby and Rachel, his wife. She married (second) in 1761, William Hayden, of Boston.

Their children:

1. Mary Marsh, born 1740, died young
2. Sarah Marsh, born 1741, married Samuel Peck
3. Moses Marsh, born 1743-44, married Jerusha Owen
4. Rachel Marsh, born 1746, married Joseph Brackett
5. Anna Marsh, baptized 1749, married —— Thomas
6. Phebe Marsh, baptized 1753, died 1839, unmarried
7. Mary Marsh, born 1750, married, 1777, Jonathan Damon, of Dedham.

(The Crosby Line—Puritan Strain).

Simon (3) Crosby, Joseph (2), Simon (1), 1688-1755, Braintree. Married Rachel ——.

He held property in partnership with his brethren, Joseph, Thomas and Ebenezer. Will proved June 27, 1755.

Children:

1. Samuel Crosby
2. Joseph Crosby
3. Simon Crosby
4. Timothy Crosby
5. Richard Crosby
6. Elizabeth Crosby
7. Sarah Crosby, married Moses Marsh
8. Matthew (?) (Martha) Crosby
9. Mary Crosby
10. Anna Crosby.

Joseph (2) Crosby, 1639-1695, Braintree. He was representative to great and general court in 1689; soldier in King Philip’s Indian war, 1675-1676. Vide Bodges History. He went against “Mount Hope,” also to defence of Marlborough. He married (first) in 1675, Sarah, daughter of Richard Brackett and wife, Alice. Married (second) Elin ——.

Children:

1. Sarah Crosby, born 1677
2. Thomas Crosby, born 1688 or 1689, married
3. Simon Crosby, married Rachel
4. Joseph Crosby, married, 1726, Abigail Adams
5. Ebenezer Crosby, born 1694 (by wife Elin), married Bathsheba Beale.

Richard (1) Brackett, born 1611, in England, was in Boston in 1632; freeman in 1636; member of Artillery Company in 1639. Dismissed, with wife Alice, from Boston church to Braintree, December 5, 1641; ordained deacon in 1642; town clerk for many years; was the third captain of train band of Braintree; he was a magistrate and served the town as deputy to general court. Married Alice ——. Died in 1691.

Children:

1. Hannah Brackett, baptized 1635, married Samuel Kingsley
2. Peter Brackett, baptized 1637, married Elizabeth Bosworth
3. John Brackett, married Hannah French
4. Rachel Brackett, born 1638, married, July 15, 1659, Simon Crosby
5. Mary Brackett, born 1642, married, 1662, Joseph Thompson
6. James Brackett, married Sarah
7. Josiah Brackett, born 1652, settled in Billerica
8. Sarah Brackett, married, in 1675, Joseph Crosby.

Simon (1) Crosby, born 1609, in England, died in 1639, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Came in the “Susan and Ellen,” 1635, freeman in 1636, selectman in 1636, 1637 and 1638. His estate finally passed into the possession of the Brattle family. Brattle House is on a portion of it. He married Anna ——.

Children of Simon and Anna Crosby:

1. Thomas Crosby, “aged six weeks,” born England, or “seaborn;” Harvard College, 1653; clergyman; settled in Eastham, Massachusetts; died in Boston, 1702; had several children
2. Simon Crosby, born 1637, married Rachel Brackett, daughter of Richard Brackett (1)
3. Joseph Crosby, born 1639, married Sarah Brackett, daughter of Richard Brackett (1).

The widow of the emigrant married (second) an early minister in Braintree, which evidences that she was a woman of fine quality. The Bracketts were people of means in Boston and Braintree.

John (2) Marsh, son of Lieutenant Alexander Marsh, 1678-1747, resided at Braintree, “Gentleman” of landed estate, and large business interests bequeathed by his father. His estate was divided among his heirs, June 24, 1747. He married, 1701, Sarah, born at New Haven, 1684, daughter of Dr. John (6) Wilson, and wife, Sarah (2) Newton.

Their children:

1. John Marsh, born 1702, married Submit Woodward, settled in East Haddon, Connecticut
2. Sarah Marsh, born 1704, married, 1748, John Hall, of Hingham
3. Alexander Marsh, born 1705, died 1706
4. Alexander Marsh, baptized 1707, married Hannah Parmenter, settled in Holliston, Massachusetts
5. Ambrose Marsh, baptized 1709
6. Wilson Marsh, born 1711, married a widow, Abigail Allen, daughter of Rev. Experience Mayhew, of Martha’s Vineyard
7. Moses Marsh, born 1713, married Jemima Spear, settled in 1760 in Nova Scotia
8. Edmund Marsh, born in 1720, died 1728
9. Mary Marsh, born 1722, died 1722
10. Ezekiel Marsh, born 1724, died in infancy.

(The Wilson Family of Boston and England)

Dr. John (6) Wilson, Rev. John (5), Rev. John (4), Rev. William, D. D. (3), William (2), gent., William (1)—born in Midfield in 1660. Educated at Harvard College. In 1692 removed to Braintree, settling on land willed to him by his father. Here he resided, cultivated the farm, practicing medicine and performing legal services until his death in 1728. By reason of his education, large estate, and distinguished ministerial family connections, he occupied a leading social position, and was popular and prominent in town affairs from 1695 to 1710, often serving on committees and as moderator at town meetings, and was representative to the general court in 1698. In 1696 he received a commission as captain of one of the local military companies, and on June 7, 1700, was appointed justice of the peace, offices of distinction at that time. He married, in 1683, his cousin Sarah, born 1662, daughter of Rev. Roger (1) and Mary (Hooker) Newton. Mr. Newton came to New England when a youth, and was educated for the ministry by Rev. Thomas Hooker, whose daughter he later married; was minister at Farmington, Connecticut, 1652-1657; went back to England, but returned in 1660, and was settled over the church at Milford, Connecticut, where he died in 1683. His wife died in 1676.

Rev. John (5) Wilson, born in England in 1621; was brought to New England by his father on the latter’s second voyage, 1632. He was graduated in the first class at Harvard College, in 1642, was admitted to his father’s church in Boston in 1644, and was freeman in 1647. After preaching several years he became assistant to Rev. Richard Mather, at Dorchester in 1649, and after two years’ service here removed to Midfield, soon after the settlement of that place, and in December, 1651, he was installed as the first minister of the town, where he was ordained pastor, October 12, 1652, in which service he continued for forty years, until his death, besides performing the duties of physician and schoolmaster. By a contemporary he is referred to as “gracious and godly, a faithful and useful man, well esteemed.” He died in 1691. He married, about 1648, Sarah (2), daughter of Rev. Thomas (1) and Susannah Hooker, of Hartford, Connecticut.

Mr. Hooker, a powerful and distinguished Puritan preacher, was born at Marfield, county Leicester, England, in 1586; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B. A., 1608, M. A., 1611, fellow of the University, 1612-1620; rector of Esher, county Surrey, 1620-1625; preached at Chelmsford, 1625-1629, where he was silenced for non-conformity; being persecuted he went to Holland, where he preached two years at Delfthaven, and a few months at Rotterdam, as assistant to Rev. Dr. Ames; came to New England in 1633, and located first at Cambridge, whence in June, 1636, he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he served as minister until his death in 1647.

Rev. John (4) Wilson—Rev. William (3), D. D., William (2), gent., William (1)—born at Windsor, England, in 1588. After four years’ preparation at Eton School, he was admitted to King’s College, Cambridge, in 1602. While at the University he became deeply interested in the theological discussion of the day, and under the influence of Rev. Richard Rogers, of Wethersfield, and of the celebrated Rev. William Ames, D. D., he soon became converted to the principles of the Puritans. His non-conformity resulted in his being obliged to leave the University for a time, and he entered one of the Inns of Court to study for the legal profession, but, his disposition for the ministry continuing, by the father’s influence, he was returned to the University, where, at Christ College, he obtained the degree of B. A. in 1606 and M. A. in 1609. After preaching in several places and being persecuted and frequently suspended for his non-conformity, he encouraged and supported the colonization of the Massachusetts Bay, and joined the first emigration, coming to New England in the spring of 1630, in the “Arbella,” with Governor Winthrop, leaving his wife and children in England. Soon after the arrival of the company the First Church of Boston was organized, on July 30, 1630, John Wilson being installed as teacher. After laboring for nearly a year, and filling an important part in establishing the colony on a permanently prosperous basis, he went back to England, in 1631, returning to Boston in May, 1632, with his wife and two named children. A few months after his return he was installed as pastor of the church, November 23, 1632, being succeeded as teacher by the celebrated Rev. John Cotton. He continued as pastor until his death in 1652.

Children who returned with Rev. John Wilson to Boston in 1632:

1. John Wilson;
2. Elizabeth Wilson.

Many contemporary writers and records bear witness to the high esteem and veneration in which Rev. John Wilson was held. While not endowed with as brilliant talents as the Rev. John Cotton, he was, nevertheless, a devout, learned, zealous and able man, and his sympathetic nature, kindness of heart and generosity to the needy, greatly endeared him to his parishioners. Of his character Cotton Mather says: “If the picture of this good, and therein great, man were to be exactly given, great zeal with great love would be the two principal strokes, that joined with orthodoxy should make up his portraiture.” The Rev. John (4) Wilson went as chaplain in the expedition against the Pequot Indians. During his ministry he frequently made visits to the Indian settlements with Rev. John Elliot, the “Apostle” and labored as a missionary to the [racial slur omitted].

Hooker and Wilson created much history. They are “Founders” of Commonwealths. Connecticut and Massachusetts are what these men and their associates proposed and carried out.

Thomas Hooker was author of the first written constitution forming a government, which is the government of the United States. The Rev. Samuel Stone was selected as an “assistant unto Mr. Hooker, with something of a disciple also.”

Rev. William (3) Wilson, born 1542, graduated from Merton College, Oxford, B. A., 1564, M. A., 1570, B. D., 1576, D. D., 1607; prebendary of St. Paul’s, London, 1595, 1615, and of Rochester Cathedral, 1591-1614; and about 1580 he became chaplain to Edmund Grindall, archbishop of Canterbury, and in 1583 he became canon of Windsor, holding this position for thirty-two years, until his death, in 1615. He was buried in the chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle, where a monumental brass to his memory states that he was “beloved of all in his life, and much lamented in his death.” He married (first) 1575, Isabel, daughter of John Woodhall, Esq., of Walden, county Essex, by Elizabeth, his wife, sister of Edmund Grindall, the celebrated Puritan archbishop of Canterbury, described by Lord Bacon as “the gravest and greatest prelate of the land.” He married (second) Anne, sister of Rev. Erasmus Webb, canon of Windsor, who died in 1612, without issue.

William (2) Wilson, gent., born 1515, removed from Penrith and settled at Welbourn, county Lincoln. He acquired considerable estate, and on March 24, 1586, had confirmation of the following coat-of-arms, and grant of a crest: Arms, per pale argent and azure three lion’s gambs erased fessways in pale counterchanged; crest, a lion’s head argent guttee de sang. He died at Windsor Castle (where his son William was prebendary) 1587, and was buried in the chapel of St. George, where a monument was erected to his memory. The name of his wife has not been learned.

William (1) Wilson, of Penrith, county Cumberland, born probably within a decade of 1490, is the earliest ancestor yet known to whom an unbroken line can be traced in the family herein treated.

The last male descendant in America, bearing the family name of Rev. John (4) Wilson, the first minister of Boston, is one, Edward Smith Wilson, a musician living in New York City, married Jennie Stone, and has had no children.

The name Wilson being of patronymic origin, it is evident that numerous distinct family lines bearing the name were founded in England at various times, and places by individuals in no degree related; and as hereditary family names did not come in vogue until about the reign of Edward I. (except among the nobility and landed families) it is not likely that any Wilson family was permanently established bearing the name continuously, until toward the close of the reign of the above sovereign (circa A. D., 1300). “New England Historic Genealogical Society,” 1907.

Lieutenant Alexander (1) Marsh, of Braintree, county of Suffolk, within his Majis. Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, yeoman. Left an estate at his death, 1698, valued at £1290,18.04. His parentage has not been found. He was lieutenant of the Braintree train band, and evidently was a man of affairs and good position, as he married (first) in 1655, Mary, daughter of Gregory (1) Belcher, and wife, Catherine, a leading business man, and in company with him ran a “furnace” in Braintree. From his will we gather that he had other financial interests besides that of smelting iron ore. He married (second) Bathsheba, daughter of Rev. John Lettemp, of Barnstable.

Gregory (1) Belcher, born 1605; came into New England before 1637; was a freeman in 1640; was one of the founders of the church in Braintree.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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