Ebenezer MARSH

John married Sarah LYMAN on 28 Nov 1666 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Richard LYMAN and Hepzibah FORD) was born about 1648; died between 1688 and 1 Jan 1707/8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Was one of the first settlers of Hadley
• Residence: Removed first to Northampton, and then to Hartford, Connecticut

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He was an original proprietor of Hartford,CT in 1636, and also lived in Hadley and Northampton,MA.

Son of John Marsh and Grace (Baldwin) Marsh. [The American Genealogist Volume 58, in which it states the parentage is proven by the will of Grace (Baldwin) Marsh where she mentions her son John 'now in New England'.]

His first wife was Anne Webster Marsh.

His second wife was Hepzibah Ford Lyman Marsh, the widow of Richard Lyman Jr, and the daughter of Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde Ford.

He had a brother Joseph Marsh of Braintree, Co.Essex, England whose 1676 will was contested and whose estate was distributed to John Marsh's children, and a sister Lydia Marsh Martin, whose daughter Grace he and his second wife adopted.

Children(by first marriage): John Marsh Jr, Samuel Marsh, Joseph Marsh, Joseph Marsh, Jonathan Marsh, Daniel Marsh, Hannah Marsh Loomis, amd Grace Marsh Baker.

Children(by second marriage): Lydia Marsh.

John married Anne WEBSTER in 1642 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Anne (daughter of Gov. John WEBSTER and Agnes ?) was born on 29 Jul 1621 in Cossington, Leicestershire, England; died on 09 Jun 1662 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Gov. John Webster

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Anne was the daughter of Gov. John Webster (of Connecticut) and his wife, Agnes Smith Webster.

The family first settled in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. John then moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636, as one of the original landowners in Hartford.

Anne married John Marsh about 1642 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children: John, Joseph (died in infancy), Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah and Grace.

The family attended the First Congregational Church of Hartford. After a religious dispute, in 1659 John took a group of dissenters to Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. It appears that Anne was with them.

After Anne's death, her husband married Hepzibah Ford Lyman in 1664.

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• Fact: Son of Richard Lyman and Sarah Osborne
• Baptism: 24 Feb 1618

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Migrated to New England on the 'Lyon' arriving at Nantasket 23 August 1631 at age 13 with his parents and siblings Phillips, 20, Sarah 11, John, 8, and Robert, 2. Settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Hartford, Connecticut and Northampton, Massachusetts.

Richard married Hepzibah FORD before 1644 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Hepzibah was born on 15 May 1625 in Dorchester, Dorset, England; was christened on 15 May 1625 in Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorset, England; died on 11 Apr 1683 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Ford and Elizabeth (Charde) Cooke

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He came to Hartford in 1636, but from what part of Massachusetts is not known. He was an original proprietor at Hartford and his home lot in 1639 was on the east side of the present Governor Street. He was appointed one of the committee which, for the first time, sat with the Court of Magistrates May 1st, 1637, and served also the following year; was one of the committee which framed the code of criminal laws for the Colony, 1642; Magistrate, 1639 to 1655; Commissioner for the United Colonies 1654; Deputy Governor, 1655; and Governor in 1656. In the great contest about church government, he took sides with the Rev. Mr. Russell of Wethersfield, which caused his removal up the river in 1659 to found the town of Hadley, where he died two years later. He was admitted Freeman by the General Court of Mass., and 31 May, 1660, "Mr. John Webster, Senior, of the new towne at Norwottock is by this Court commissionated with Magistrattical power for the yeare ensuing, to ast in all civill & criminall cases, as any one magistrate ma doe and that he youne with the commissioners in keeping the Courts at Springfield." (Rec. of Mass. Bay 4, p. 420.) He was an influential member of the church in Hartford and a leader of the Hadley Company. By family tradition, he was from Warwickshire, England. He was the fifth Governor of Connecticut.

John married Agnes ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Henry and Phyllis Lyman

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Born and bapt. at High Ongar, Co. Kent, son of Henry Lyman and his wife Phillis - this Henry was buried at Nairstoke in Essex April 15, 1587. Richard Lyman sold in 1629 to John Gower two messuages (?), a garden, orchard and divers lands arable, also a meadow and pasture at Norton, Mandeville, in the parish of Ongar. Came with Eliot in the "Lion" 1631; settled at Roxbury; freeman Mass June 11, 1633; the Church record at Roxbury tells how he went to Conn 'when the great removal was made' and suffered greatly in the loss of his cattle. He was one of the original proprietors of Hartford and in 1639 his home lot was on the south side of the 'road from George Steele's to the South Meadow'. Will dated April 22, 1640; inv. Sept. 6, 1641; will mentions his wife but she died before Jane 27, 1642/3.

An entry in the first volume of the records of Eliot's church in Roxbury, made probably by Eliot himself, speaks of him as "an ancient Christian but weake, yet after some time of tryal and quickening he joyned the church." This "time of tryal" delayed his admission as freeman until June 11, 1633, for none but church membrs wee entitled to this privilege. In 1636, near the beginning of June, in the company fo Revs. Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, though one account speaks of his not going until "towards winter," he made the journey from Boston to Hartford, more than one hundred miles through a trackless wilderness. Richard Butler, another ancestor, was of the company. With no guide but the compass, and no cover but the trees, liable at any moment to attack from hostile Indians, they made their way over mountains and across rivers, through swamps and thickets, passable only with the greatest difficulty, driving with them one hundred and sixty head of cattle and subsisting by the way on the milk of the cows. They were but two weeks upon the journey, so that they must have travelled from eight to ten miles a day, a speed quite incredible except on the supposition that the forests were far more open than we find them today. This was probably the case, for the Indian practice of burning the fallen leaves every autumn must in a great degree have kept down the underbrush and destroyed the lower limbs of the trees, leaving the woods as in some old English park or the oak openings of the West. Through such woods it might have been possible to have made the journey in this brief space, but it would have taken Hooker and his company with all their impediments twice two weeks to have penetrated the tickets and tangles which are growing up today over much of their route. It is true there was an Indian trail known as the old Connecticut road, which started from Cambridge, ran to Marlborough, thence to Grafton and Woodstock and so on to Springfield and Albany, which possibly Hooker may have followed for some portion of the way, but even then, narrow as such trails were, he could not have made very rapid progress. Both Lyman and Butler were original proprietors of Hartford and owned land there in 1639. The Indians had called the home of the new colony "Suckiage," but the Colonists soon dropped it for the less suggestive and more euphonious name of Hartford. The first winter was one of unusual severity, against which the settlers were poorly provided, particularly Lyman, whose health soon gave way under the hardships of a new country, and he died in 1640. His wife did not long survive him.

Richard married Sarah OSBORNE. Sarah was born in England; died before 27 Jan 1642/3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Roger Osborne of Halstead, Co. Kent, England