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(VI) Nathan, second son and third child of Dr. Isaac (4) and Susannah ( Pierce ) Chen- ery, was born in Holden, Massachusetts, in February, 1774. died in Montague, Massachu- setts, February 25, 1826. He early removed to Montague from his native town. Married, May 4, 1807, Sophia, born in 1785, died No- vember 9, 1828, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Gunn, of . Montague. Children: I. Harriet, born December 6, 1807, died May 28, 1835. 2. Sophia, July 10, 1810, died December 12, 1828. 3. Leonard, February 18, 1812, died January 10, 1842. 4. Juliann, March 7, 1814. died April 8, 1814. 5. Hollis, June 12, 1815, died March 30, 1850. 6. Richard, see forward. 7. James Gunn, April 12, 1819, died in Rich- mond, Virginia, November 3, 1866.
(VII) Richard, third son and sixth child of Nathan and Sophia (Gunn) Chenery, was born June 20, 1817, died in Belfast, Maine, July 27, 1890. He received his education in academic and private schools at Amherst, Greenfield and Northfield, Massachusetts, after which he resided three years in New York City, then seven years in Wisconsin and four years in Northampton, Massachusetts. He went to California in 1849 and from thence to Belfast, Maine, in 1879. His career has been a varied one. Was merchant, farmer, owner and manager of steamboats, builder of railroads, government official and member of the California legislature. He was one of the earliest settlers in California, reaching there in August, 1849, was a citizen of the state for more than thirty years, during which time he was prominent in many ways. He was presi- dent of the California Steam Navigation Com- pany and interested in incorporating and build-
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ing some of the earlier railroads. He took a leading part in the vigilance committee of 1856 that did so much toward purifying the condi- tion of the state, taking its government from the hands of the roughs and placing it in that of the better class. He was a member of the state legislature when it was of the utmost importance that honest and upright men should frame the laws for the rapidly growing state. Under President Lincoln's administration, 1861-65, he occupied the position of navy agent and disbursed many millions of dollars for the navy of the national government. His later years were spent on the eastern part of the continent, summering in Maine, and wintering in Florida. He married (first) in Sunderland, Massachu- setts, August 15, 1839, Sarah Ann, born in Milford, Massachusetts, August 29, 1819. died in San Francisco, California, November 23, 1864, daughter of Dr. Gustavus P. and Sallie P. Peck, of Milford. Children: I. Charles Eugene, born in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, June 16, 1841, died in San Francisco, Decem- ber 17, 1870. 2. James Perry, born in Sunder- land, Massachusetts, May 9, 1843, died in Northampton, the same state, March 2, 1863. 3. Leonard, born in Northampton, March II, 1846, died in New York, March 10, 1901. 4. Richard, born in San Francisco, November 17, 1864. died in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, No- vember 6, 1876, where he was at school at St. Albans College, and was drowned while swim- ming. Richard Chenery married (second) at Boston, Massachusetts, May 18, 1873, Mrs. Anne Maria Johnson, born July 2, 1832, widow of Alfred Johnson, of Belfast, Maine, and daughter of Hon. W. G. Crosby, the last Whig governor of Maine. Child: Horace, see for- ward.
(VIII) Horace, only child of Richard and Anne Maria (Crosby) Chenery, was born in San Francisco, California, September 29, 1874, and now resides in Belfast, Maine. He mar- ried (first) Grace, daughter of George A. and Ellen Fuller ; a son, Fuller Chenery, born March 7, 1899. Married (second) Julia H., daughter of Hon. H. A. and C. P. Lloyd; children : Margaret, born November II, 1902 ; Richard, August 3, 1909.
DANIELS Robert Daniels, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England, about 1590, as on June 26, 1652, he deposed that he was about sixty years old. He was an early settler at Watertown, and was a property owner there as early as 1636. He was a farmer. In 1636 he removed
to Cambridge, but latter returned to Water- town. He was admitted a freeman March 14, 1638-9. On October 7, 1651, he sold to Edward Garfield six acres of land on the Hither Plain in Watertown. In December of the same year he sold six acres more in the same location to John Whitney. He was in Cambridge again in 1652. He married (first) Elizabeth -, died October 2, 1643; (sec- ond ) May 2, 1654, Reana, widow of William Andrew. His will, dated July 3, 1655, proved October 2, 1656, bequeathed to widow Reana the property she had when she married him, besides other property ; to his five children and his cousin Anna Newcomen. His widow mar- ried (third) Edmund Frost. Children : I. Elizabeth, married Thomas Fanning. 2. Sam- uel, married Marie (or Mercy) Grant. 3. Joseph, born 1640; mentioned below. 4. Sarah, married William Cheney. 5. Mary, born Sep- tember 2, 1642 ; married, 1660, Sampson Frary, who was slain at Deerfield by the Indians. 6. Thomas, buried September 6, 1644.
(II) Joseph, son of Robert Daniels, was born in Watertown, in 1640, and died June 23, 1715. He settled in that part of. Medfield which is now Millis. He married (first) No- vember 16, 1665, Mary Fairbanks, born Sep- tember 10, 1647, in Dedham, died June 9, 1682, daughter of George and Mary ( Adams) Fair- banks; (second) Rachel Sheffield, born in Braintree, March 24, 1660, died May 3, 1687, daughter of William and Mary Sheffield. He married (third) Mrs. Lydia (Adams) Allen, born 1653, died December 26, 1731, daughter of Edward and Lydia Adams, widow of James Allen. Children: 1. Joseph, born September 23, 1666; mentioned below. 2. Mary, July 14. 1669. 3. Samuel, October 30, 1671 ; married. 1694, Deborah Ford. 4. Mehitable, July 10, 1674; died June 3, 1686. 5. Ebenezer, April 24, 1677. 6. Elizabeth, March 9, 1679; mar- ried Joseph Mason. 7. Jeremiah, March 17, 1680; died June 16, 1680. 8. Eleazer, March 9, 1681 ; resided in Mendon. 9. Jeremiah, No- vember 3, 1684. 10. Rachel, October 17, 1686. II. Zachariah, April 9, 1689 ; died May 2, 1689.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Dan- iels, was born September 23, 1666, in Medfield, and died there January 14, 1739. He married (first) Rachel Partridge, born 1669, daughter of John and Magdalen ( Bullard) Partridge ; (second) Methia Breck, born December 20. 1673, in Sherborn, died February 3, 1754, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hill) Breck. Children : 1. Samuel, born December 25, 1693 : mentioned below. 2. Joseph, December 15,
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1695. 3. David, February 21, 1698-9. 4. Hannah, September 30, 1701 ; married, Octo- ber 27, 1725, Eleazer Thompson. 5. Ezra, March 10, 1704. 6. Sarah, May 1, 1707 ; mar- ried, February 20, 1733, John Bullard. 7. Abigail, March 15, 1715, died December 14, 1718. 8. Tamar, March 17, 1717; married, December, 1733, John Metcalf.
(IV) Samuel, son of Joseph (2) Daniels, was born in Medfield, December 25, 1693, and died in 1789. He settled in that part of Med- field which became Medway, and married (first) December 6, 1718, Experience Adams, born 1696, died March 29, 1731, daughter of Deacon Peter and Experience (Cook) Adams; (second) February 20, 1733, Sarah Phipps, born in Wrentham, daughter of John Phipps, who was a nephew and adopted son of Sir William Phipps, of London, England. Chil- dren : 1. Samuel, born June 8, 1720; married, January 7, 1743, Hannah Hill, lived in Keene, New Hampshire. 2. Timothy, September 6, 1722 ; married, February 6, 1754, Ruth Leland ; lived in Sherborn. 3. Nathan, August 20, 1727; mentioned below. 4. John, August 18, 1728. 5. Simeon, March 8, 1730-1 ; married, April 9, 1754, Lydia Adams ; lived in Franklin. Children of second wife: 6. Reuben, born November 25, 1733; died February 26, 1734. 7. Sarah, January 10, 1734-5; married, March 2, 1758, Timothy Force. 8. Mary, April 23, 1736 ; married, July 5, 1764, Jonathan Wiswell. 9. Japheth, February 17, 1738; married Mela- tiah Hayward ; lived in Holliston ; died March 3. 1805. 10. Abijah. July 27. 1740; married, 1774, Hannah Dix; lived in Milford.
(V) Nathan, son of Samuel Daniels, was born in East Medway, August 20, 1727, and died August 20, 1791. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Thomas Bacon's company, on the Lexington alarm ; also matross in Captain Perez Cushing's company, Colonel Thomas Crafts's artillery regiment, 1776-77. He settled in Franklin in his later years. He married, March 17, 1746, Mary Adams, born May 6, 1722, died November 10, 1772, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Dorcas Adams. Children, born in Medway: 1. Napthali, born June 21, 1747. 2. Nathan, July 12, 1748. 3. Zephenialı, May 6, 1750; died March 8, 1754. 4. Silas, January 11, 1752; died September 10, 1755. 5. Benoni, November 5, 1754. 6. Adams, Sep- tember 4, 1757 ; married Mary Smith ; lived in Medfield; died 1804. 7. Seth, July 3, 1760; died July 5, 1760. 8. Mary Daniels, December 18, 1761. 9. Joel (?), died August 24, 1837;
married, November 29, 1785, Mary Daniels. IO. Silence, August 28, 1766.
(VI) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) Dan- iels, was born July 12, 1748, in East Medway, and died November 25, 1841, at Franklin. He inherited his father's homestead. He fol- lowed farming all his active life, and was cap- able, industrious and successful. He had a large herd of cattle and raised wool and flax, which were spun and wove into cloth for the use of the family. His farm was in what is now Franklin, and he built a new house just before his marriage, leaving it unfinished to shoulder his musket and join the minute-men in the revolution. He (or his father) was a private in Captain Thomas Bacon's company ( First Wrentham) which marched on the Lex- ington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was clerk of Captain Elijah Pond's company, which marched on the same alarm ; also clerk of Cap- tain John Metcalf's company ( Fourth Suffolk) county regiment, Colonel ( Major) Seth Bul- lard, on the Rhode Island alarm, July and Au- gust, 1780; also in Captain Ebenezer Pond's company, Major Metcalf's regiment, on Rhode Island alarm, December 8, 1776. He was a veritable Puritan in his religion and daily life, strict in his home and business, a devout and prominent member of the orthodox church, in which he held various offices of trust .and responsibility. In politics he was a Democrat. He was town clerk of Franklin, 1786, 1791 and 1804 ; selectman, 1783 ; justice of the peace, and by virtue of this office the local magistrate many years. He held many positions of private trusts, and was much occupied in probate busi- ness and the settlement of the estates of his neighbors.
He married (first) June 22, 1775, Elizabeth Partridge, born October, 1753, died January 7, 1783, of a well known family of Medway, Franklin, Sherborn and vicinity. He married (second) January 23, 1786, Sarah Smith, born October 17, 1758, died March 5, 1838, daugh- ter of Seth and Ann ( Hartshorn) Smith. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Elizabeth, born April 19, 1776: died September 24, 1778. 2. Cyrus, February 9, 1778; married Polly Sawyer. 3. Dorcas, October 14, 1779; married Samuel Cushing. 4. David, January 12, 1782: died August 8, 1782. Children of second wife: 5. Ezra, born November II, 1786; died August 27, 1869 ; married Abigail Woodward. 6. Luke, January 28, 1788; married (first) Jemima Fiske ; (second) April 12, 1857, Amelia T. Hubbard. 7. Sally, July 1, 1789; died January,
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1890: married, June 19, 1817, Samuel Ware, Jr. 8. Nathan, August 13, 1791 ; mentioned below. 9. Olive, September 13, 1793; died August 24, 1882. 10. Betsey, October 19, 1795 ; died January 3, 1797.
(VII) Nathan (3), son of Nathan (2) Dan- iels, was born at Franklin, on the old home- stead, August 13, 1791, and died there March 16, 1872. He attended the old "Latic" district school. During his boyhood he worked with his father on the farm, and continued there after he came of age, succeeding to the home- stead upon his father's death. He was an energetic and well-to-do farmer. From his wood lots he cut much timber, and he had a cider mill to which the farms of the vicinity brought their apples. He was of a quiet and domestic disposition, seldom going from home, but devoted to his family and highly esteemed by his friends. He was a member of the Con- gregational church. In early life he was a Democrat, but after 1860 was a Republican. He held the office of highway surveyor of Franklin for a time. In early life he served in the state militia. He married, January 13, 1823. Roxanna Thayer, born November 15, 1801, died June 12, 1887, daughter of Nahum and Polly ( Pierce) Thayer, of Medway. Her father was a blacksmith. Children, born at Franklin : 1. Son, born and died August 28, 1824. 2. Thomas Jefferson, born April 10, 1826; mentioned below. 3. Lucy Gilbert, Feb- ruary 2, 1829 ; married, October 3, 1850, Will- iam Henry Baldwin, who died in Anderson- ville prison, during the civil war. 4. Harriet Adeline, September 29, 1834; died March I, 1909; married, May 4, 1854, William Amos Bartlett : children: i. Harriet Almina Bart- lett, born January 26, 1855, died April 26, 1855 ; ii. William Albert Bartlett, born Septem- ber 14. 1856, married Josephine Davidson, and had William Amos Bartlett, married Ruth E. Bean, and had Dorothy Eleanor Bartlett; iii. Herbert Eugene Bartlett, born March 8, 1859, married Sarah Evans, and had Florence Ade- line Bartlett, married Robert Ware; iv. Lucy Rachel Bartlett, born August 31, 1861.
(VIII) Thomas Jefferson, son of Nathan (3) Daniels, was born at Franklin, in that sec- tion formerly part of Wrentham called Popo- latic, April 10. 1826, and died there February 8. 1905. He attended the district school at "Latic," about half a mile from his father's house. He remained on the farm until he came of age, then worked for a few months in a shoe factory in Sherborn, in a machine shop in West Medway, and in a cotton mill at Caryville.
While here he had a severe illness and returned home. When he recovered he assisted his father on the homestead and engaged at the same time in the lumber business. About 1853 he purchased the Partridge Adams farm, or Filo Fisher place, and conducted it until 1858, when he sold it to Peter Ford, conducting a small place at Grantville, Massachusetts, where he lived six years. In 1865 he bought the Willard Pond farm in the "Latic" district ; here he built a large barn, still standing. He also purchased his father's farm there, and became one of the most substantial farmers of the town, owning some three hundred acres of land, also purchased large tracts of timber land and cut off and sold the wood and timber. He also had an extensive business in timber and wood cut from his farm and at one time operated a steam saw mill on his place. He attended the Congregational church. In poli- tics he was a Democrat, and he took a lively interest in town affairs. For a period of thirty years he was highway surveyor of Franklin, and for ten years was fire warden. He was highly respected by his townsmen and beloved by his family and friends.
He married (first ) October, 1853. Celia Ann Hicks, died September 7, 1858, daughter of Jacob Hicks. He married ( second) November 12, 1860, Mary Elizabeth Billings, born August 22, 1838, daughter of Dudley and Achsah (Thayer ) Billings. Her father was a stone mason and butcher. Child of first wife: I. Nathan Anson, born May 7, 1855; married, March 9, 1879, Emma Melvina Ackley: chil- dren : i. Emery Nathan, born February 3, 1884; ii. Frank Jefferson, November 6, 1886; iii. Bertha Elizabeth, June 15, 1889, married. June 16, 1907. Robert Henry Evans; iv. Eva Celia Ann, October 28, 1895; v. Emma Jane, October 7. 1900. Children of second wife: 2. Nahum Ellsworth, born October 20, 1861 : was a railroad conductor twenty-seven years ; died April 9, 1909 ; married, May 12, 1892, Almira Roberts : children: i. Mabel Elizabeth, born April 12, 1823; ii. Ella May, March 24, 1895 ; iii. Warren Ellsworth, February 18, 1897; iv. Amy Louise, April 25, 1899 : v. Oscar Lincoln. July II, 1901 : vi. Ida Estelle, August 22, 1903 : vii. Frank Edward, December 27, 1905. 3. Oscar Jefferson, born November 4. 1867 ; mar- ried Ethel May Hill; children: i. Marjorie Louise, born December 25, 1906; ii. Dorothy May, November 25, 1908. 4. Cyrus Weston, born February 6, 1873 ; died September 6, 1875. 5. Caroline Alice. born January 29, 1876. 6. Dora Elizabeth, born August 27. 1878; died
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September 2, 1880. 7. Ella Ruhama, born February 7, 1883; married, August 20, 1902, Walter Oscar Nordstrom; children: i. Mar- ion Daniels Nordstrom, born January 5, 1903; ii. Gladys Charlotte Nordstrom, June 26, 1905.
CAMPBELL
The Campbell family has for many centuries been among the most prominent in Scot-
land and is common both in the Highlands and Lowlands, and in the Scotch province of Ulster in Ireland, especially in the counties Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Doncgal. The family was seated at Argyle- shire, Perthshire, Banffshire, etc., before 1 300. The family possesses the dukedom of Argyle, marquisates of Lorne and Kintyre; earldoms of Athol, Breadalbane, Caithness, Campbell, Cowal, Irwin, Isla or Ilay, and Loudoun ; vis- countcics of Lochowm Glenisla, Glenorchy and Taymouth ; lordships of Arrois, Benedoraloch, Denoon, Inverary, Lundie, Mauchline, Mor- vern, Mull, Ormlie, Oronsay, Paintland, Tyrie and Wick. The family is reputed of Anglo- Norman origin. Eight Campbells registered on the Famous Ragman's Roll in 1296. A large number of Campbells came to the colonies early in the eighteenth century from Ulster and Scot- land.
(I) Robert Campbell, first settler, came to Southwick, Massachusetts, about 1750. He was doubtless related to the other Campbells of Worcester and Hampshire county, coming from Scotland and Ulster about this time. John Campbell was another carly settler, possi- bly a son. John, James and Thomas Campbell were heads of families in Southwick, in 1781. According to the federal census of 1790, James, William, Joseph, Captain Thomas, Captain John and Samuel Campbell lived in Southwick. They were sons or nephews of Robert Camp- bell. As shown by the ages of their children, Thomas, John and James were the elder chil- dren.
(11) Captain Thomas, son of Robert and Mary Campbell, was born December 25, 1747. in Southwick, probably, but he may have come there in early childhood. He settled there and was a prominent citizen and well-to-do farmer. Hle was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Silas Fowler's company ( First Southwick ) of minute-men on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and marched to Roxbury. Hle was also a corporal in Captain James Drury's company, in the sixteenth regiment in 1776. Later he held a captain's commission, probably after the war. He married (first)
(intention dated November 6, 1771) Eunice Noble, born 1752, daughter of John Noble. Her father was born December 21, 1706, died March 3, 1776, and was one of the first settlers from Westfield in that part of the town set off as Southwick. He became a preacher in the Separate Baptist Church. He married (first) July 10, 1735, Lydia Bush, born March 5, 1711, daughter of Ebenezer Bush, of Westfield; (second ) August 28, 1746, Elizabeth Reming- ton, who was born in Suffield, August 22, 1718, daughter of Joseph Remington. Mark Noble, father of John Noble, was born at Westfield about 1670, died April 16, 1741 ; was a farmer and town officer ; married, 1698, Mary Mar- shall, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca ( New- bury) Marshall, of Northampton. Mark Noble was son of the immigrant, Thomas Noble. Captain Thomas Campbell married (second) Keziah Owen. Children of first wife: I. Eliz- abeth, born September 20, 1772, at Southwick, married, 1802, David Fowler, and died at Southwick, March 20. 1845, aged seventy-two; he was a farmer and cattle-dealer. 2. Lucy,
born October 29, 1774, married, January, 1798, Walter Fowler ; she died at Trenton, New York, August 11, 1871. 3. Thomas, born October 18, 1776, died at Truxton, October 20, 1844, aged sixty-eight years ; married, Octo- ber. 1855, Mrs. Dolly (Gates) Wait. 4. Noble, born March 27 or 29, 1779; mentioned below. 5. Horace, born April 24, 1781, married, No- vember 25. 1807, Lucretia Waller. 6. Justin, born September 7. 1783, died July 19, 1828; married. April 18, 1813, Almira - -; he was a merchant. 7. Asa, born September 23, 1785, married Sally Strickland: he died at Utica, June. 1838. 8. Child, born and died December 20, 1787. 9. Eunice, born May, 1789, died June 1, 1789.
(111) Noble, son of Captain Thomas Camp- bell, was born at Southwick, March 27 or 29, 1779, died at Westfield, March 28, 1853, aged seventy-three years. He married, April 9, 1809. Lucy Miller, daughter of Lieutenant Asa Miller, of what is now Tattam. Children : 1. Noble Andrew Jackson, born 1826, men- tioned below. 2. Caroline, married John Sim- mons. 3. Emma. 4. Lucy. 5. Hosca, died in Indiana. 6. Lorain.
(1\') Noble Andrew Jackson, son of Noble Campbell, was born at Southwick in 1826. He was educated in the public schools. He was a cigar manufacturer in Westfield for many years. He died there in 1858. He married Lydia Elvira Bush, born Westfield, 1827. died March 20, 1906, daughter of Leonard Bush.
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Children : I. Sumner Bush, born July 25, 1852, mentioned below. 2. Emma L.
(V) Sumner Bush, son of Noble Andrew Jackson Campbell, was born in Westfield, July 25, 1852, and was educated there in the public schools. He began his career as clerk for the Boston & Albany railroad and continued for thirteen years as clerk and ticket agent at West- field. In 1882 he became connected as clerk with the Textile Manufacturing Company, manufacturing hardware and casket trimmings and metal goods, remaining in that position until 1891, when he was elected treasurer and general manager, made vacant by the death of that official; this position he has filled up to the present time. He is treasurer of the West- field Power Company. He attends the Meth- odist Episcopal church ; member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of Mount Moriah Lodge of Free Masons. In politics he is a Republican.
MARSHALL Captain Samuel Marshall, immigrant ancestor of this family, was born in Eng- land. He settled in Windsor, Connecticut, where he had a lot in the Palizado, as early as 1637. He was a man of education and early became prominent ; was magistrate in 1638; deputy to the general assembly in 1637; juror several times. In 1663 he was licensed to retail liquors and doubtless kept a tavern. He bought of Thomas Marshfield, January, 1652, his farm on the east side of Broad street, but sold it the same year and probably did not live there. He bought of John Newton, February. 1653, a farm on what is now Silver street and also the Captain Mason place on the southeast corner of the Palizado. With Joseph Fitch and Jacob Drake he petitioned the general court to enlarge the boundaries of Windsor. In 1673 he was called quartermaster on the record of a grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land. He was ensign in Major Treat's com- mand in the King Philip's war, and was one of the five Connecticut captains who led the colonial forces in the attack on the Narragan- sett fort, December 19, 1675. He fell in battle at the head of his troops. Windsor lost in him an active, honored and useful citizen and brave soldier. His residence, according to tradition. was on the bank of the rivulet near the point that juts into the meadow below the present site of the bridge. Captain Marshall was one of those who "stayed by consent of the town and enlarged their gardens in the Palizado." His home was on the site, it is
thought, of the Elihu Marshall place. He mar- ried Mary Wilton, daughter of Lieutenant David Wilton, May 6, 1652. His widow, Mary, died August 25, 1683. She contributed to the Con- necticut fund for the relief of the poor of the other colonies in 1676. She owned the half- way covenant January 31, 1657. Children, born at Windsor: I. Samuel, born May 27, 1653; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born Feb- ruary 18, 1655. 3. Lydia, born February 3, 1657, married Joseph Hawley. 4. Thomas, born April 23, 1659. 5. David, born July 24, 1661. 6. Thomas, born February 18, 1663. 7. Mary, born May 8, 1667. 8. Eliakim, born July 10, 1669. 9. John, born April 10, 1672. IO. Elizabeth, born September 2, 1674.
(II) Deacon Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Marshall, was born at Windsor, Connecti- cut, May 27, 1653. Married (first) Rebecca Newbury. He married (second) Elizabeth Holcomb, who married (first) Case,
( second) - Slater and (third) Deacon Marshall, and she survived him, dying at Sims- bury, Connecticut, February 26, 1762, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. She was born at Simsbury. April 4, 1670, third daugh- ter of Joshua and Ruth (Sherwood) Holcomb. This was the only Marshall family at Simsbury.
(III) Perez, son of Deacon Samuel (2) Marshall, of Windsor and Simsbury, was born about 1710-20. According to the history of Granville, Massachusetts, he removed to that town as early as 1750. He lived in that part set off as Tolland, Massachusetts, in 1810. Some of his sons were living in Simsbury dur- ing the revolution and he perhaps returned to his native town. ( Page 1106, Connecticut Valley History, vol. II). The name was some- times spelled Pierce ( for Perez). According to the account of the family he sold his prop- erty at Simsbury in 1782 and bought five hun- dred acres in what is now Tolland. Massachu- setts. He married Mary Woodford, of Avon, Connecticut. According to the census of 1790 Perez Marshall was living at Granville and had four males over sixteen, none under, and three females in his family; his son Perez had a wife but no children and his son Joel a wife, daughter, and two sons under sixteen. Chil- dren : 1. Perez, Jr., settled in Granville ; soldier in the revolution from Simsbury, Connecticut, in Captain William Stanton's company, Eighth Connecticut Regiment, in 1780. 2. Joel, born about 1760, was in the revolution in Captain Adonijah Burr's company, Colonel Moseley's regiment in 1778: settled in Granville and in 1790 had in his family two sons under sixteen
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