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- John Marsh was one of the original proprietors of Hartford; his home-lot in the distribution of 1639 was on what is now Front St., then the road from the Little River to the North Meadow. Chosen chimney-viewer, 1658; removed the next year to Hadley with the "withdrawers," under the lead of his father-in-law, Gov. Webster. He went from there to Northampton, and united with the church there, 18 June 1661. He married in Hartford, about 1640, Anne, daughter of Gov. John Webster; she died in Northampton, 9 June 1662; and he married second 7 October 1664, Hepzibah, widow of Richard Lyman, and daughter of Thomas Ford, of Windsor; she died 11 April 1683, and he died in 1688 in Hartford. He had a brother Joseph, who was a clothier in Braintree, Co. Essex, England, where he made his will, 22 May 1676, in which he mentions several of the children of John Marsh.
188. "The Battle of Bloody Brook," United States Magazine, p. 323-324; March 1856.
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