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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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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