Job MARSH

Job married Mehitable PORTER on 24 Sep 1713. Mehitable (daughter of Samuel PORTER, Jr. and Joannah COOKE) was born on 12 Sep 1694 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1739. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Perez MARSH was born on 25 Oct 1729.

Job married Rebecca PRATT in 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Anne FISKE before 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

Name:
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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Gov. John Webster

Notes:

Name:
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.

Notes:

Name:
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]