| 799John 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. |