Samuel Marsh

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Marsh was born on 19 April 1721, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Job Marsh, was 31 and his mother, Mehitabel Porter, was 26. He married Phebe Porter on 5 December 1745. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 2 October 1760, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Marsh
1721–1760
Phebe Porter
1719–1779
Marriage: 5 December 1745
Rebecca Marsh
1746–1746
Rebecca Marsh
1750–1798
Samuel Marsh
1752–1798
Phebe Marsh
1753–1835

Sources (5)

  • Samuel <Marsh>, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Samuel Marsh, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sam'll Marsh in entry for Child Marsh, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.

Americanized form of German Marsch .

Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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