Benjamin MARSTON

1651 - 1719  (68 years)

• Name	Benjamin MARSTON  [1]
  	He was an active and enterprising merchant and carried on for many years an extensive and profitable business with the West Indies, Spain, Nova Scotia, and Southern Colonies. He owned two warehouses and the wharves on which they stood, several vessels, brigantines, kethches, shallops and sloops. In the year 1700 he built a large and handsome brick dwelling house the first brick house in Salem. It was built by George Cabot, a mason from Boston. Its location was afterwards occupied by the Lee mansion on the corner of Essex and Crombie streets. He suffered great losses towards the close of his life. Some of his vessels were lost at sea, some taken by the French and pirates, and others having lost all their crew by disease, or otherwise, "ye voiages were spiled." In June, 1719, he sailed with his son Benjamin, Jr. in 'The good Briganteen Essex' from Salem to Ireland. His son (Benjamin Marston, Jr.) wrote from Dublin, 6 Nov 1719, to his other announcing "the death of his father there, from the Small Pox, and that he was taken ill of the same distemper, the night he died, and that he had recovered and was not much marked." He had a will on 1 May 1719. [1]
  Birth	9 Jan 1650/1	Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts   [1]
  Christening	9 Mar 1650/1	First Church, Salem, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Son of John Marston and Alice Eden of Ornesby, co. Norfolk and Salem   [1]
  Death	19 Sep 1719	Dublin, Ireland   [1]
  	Cause: smallpox
  Person ID	I100668	Main Tree
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 1	Patience ROGERS,   b. 13 May 1676, Ipswich, Massachusetts d. 22 May 1731, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	15 Apr 1696	Ipswich, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. Colonel Benjamin MARSTON,   b. 24 Feb 1696/7, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts d. 22 May 1754, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F41722	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Abigail VEREN
  Marriage	25 Nov 1678  [1]
  Family ID	F41723	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 15 Apr 1696 - Ipswich, Massachusetts Death - Cause: smallpox - 19 Sep 1719 - Dublin, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S03310] Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry: Vol. I Governor Thomas Dudley and Desc. through 5 Generations by Marston Watson.