| HISTORIC TIDBIT | As "Zachariah Marsh and mary his wife", he and Mary signed a petition supporting John & Elizabeth [Bassett] Proctor during the latter's persecution during the Salem Witch Hysteria. A rather brave act, given the times. |
| BIRTH & DEATH | Zachary was born in 1637[1] and died in 1693; he was 56. Zachary was baptized in Salem, Essex co., MA on 30d:2m:1637[20]. Zachary was "the first Marsh born in the New World" and was also referred to as "Zachariah". |
| OCCUPATION & RESIDENCE | He was a farmer and inherited half of his father's farm in 1672. The part of Salem in which he lived first became part of Danvers, and is now part of Peabody, Essex co., MA. |
| MARRIAGE | In 15d:6m(August):1664 when Zachary was 27, he married Mary SILSBEE, daughter of Henry SILSBEE & Dorothy [surname not known], in Salem, Essex co., MA[1,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. |
| CHILDREN | 13. | i. | John MARSH | John was born on 26 September 1665 in Salem, Essex co., MA[33]. |
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14. | ii. | Mary MARSH | Mary was born on 8 December 1666 in Salem, Essex co., MA[33]. At the age of 12, Mary was baptized in Salem, Essex co., MA on 5 October 1679[20]. Either she had a late baptism or there was a second daughter named Mary. Mary married Ebeneezer CUTLER. |
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15. | iii. | Zachariah MARSH | Zachariah was born in [between 1667 and 1672] in Salem, Essex co., MA[33]. |
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16. | iv. | Elizabeth MARSH | Elizabeth was born in 1670 in Salem, Essex co., MA and baptized in Salem, Essex co., MA on 10 July 1670[35]. |
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17. | v. | Jonathon MARSH | Jonathon was born on 14 April 1672 in Salem, Essex co., MA[33]. Jonathan married Mary VERRY. |
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18. | vi. | Ebeneezer MARSH, SR. | Please see his own page. |
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19. | vii. | Ezekiel MARSH | Ezekiel was born in 1676 in Salem, Essex co., MA. |
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20. | viii. | Abigail MARSH | Abigail was born in 1683 in Salem, Essex co., MA and baptized in Salem, Essex co., MA on 5 August 1683[46]. |
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21. | ix. | Benjamin MARSH | Benjamin was born in 1687 in Salem, Essex co., MA and baptized in Salem, Essex co., MA on 20 November 1687[46]. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 984 |
| SOURCES |
1. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700.,
(Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society).
[Torrey]. 2. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], II:422. 3. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 22:122,123. 4. [EssexProb or EPR], II:422-423. 5. Mary & John, vols. 1+, (Toledo, OH: Mary & John Clearinghouse), [MaryJohn], ??:79, citing ³Planters of the Commonealth² by Charles E. Banks (1930). 6. Randall, Frank Alfred, Randall and Allied Families, (Chicago: Raveret-Weber Print. Co., 1943), [Randall Anc], 433, 437. 7. Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 vols., (Hillburn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1939), [Snow-Estes], 2:203, 214. 8. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 13:152; 17:265. 9. Paine, Ruth Felton (Ward), Paine Genealogy and Allied Lines: ancestors of William Alfred Paine, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Pub. Co. Inc., 1936), [Paine Anc. (1936)], 66. 10. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families, (Hartford, Conn.: E. F. Waterman, 1945), [Granberry], 274, 312, 313. 11. Marsh, Lucius B., The Genealogy of John Marsh of Salem and His Descendants 1633-1888, (Amherst, Mass.: C. William, 1888), [J. Marsh (1888)], 7. 12. Cooke, Harriet Ruth, The Driver Family: a Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Allied Families, (New York: J. Wilson & Son, 1889), [Driver], 469. 13. Paul, Edward Joy, The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul, Now Mrs. William J. Young Jr., (Milwaukee: Burdich & Allen, 1914), [Paul Anc.], 193-4. 14. Emmerton, James A., A Genealogical Account of Henry Silsbee and Some of His Descendants, (Salem: Essex Institute, 1880), [Silsbee], 11. 15. The Genealogical Magazine, (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1890+), [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 6:316. 16. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig.], III:1686. 18. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 52:353. 18. Felton, E. C., "Samuel Skelton, M.A., First Minister Minister of the First Church at Salem, Mass.", New England Historic and Genealogy Register, (Boston), [Skelton-Felton], ??:258. 19. [Snow-Estes], 2:207. 20. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR], II:56 [C.R. 1]. 21. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 2:70,383. 22. [Silsbee], 4,11. 23. Cutler, Nahum Sawin, A Cutler Memorial and Genealogical History: Containing the Names of a Large Proportion of the Cutlers in the U.S. and Canada, and a Record of Many Individual Members of the Family, with an Account also of Other Families Allied to the Cutlers by Marriage, (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall & Co., 1889), [Cutler], 324. 24. [Driver], 469. 25. [Paul Anc.], 194,219. 26. [EIHC], 17:258,265. 27. [Snow-Estes], 2:185,208,217. 28. [J. Marsh (1888)], 8,21. 29. [Randall Anc], 433. 30. [SalemVR], IV:64 [Ct. R.]. 31. Ibid. II:55 [Ct. R.]. 32. Ibid. II:55 [C.R. 1]. 33. Ibid. II:56 [Ct. R.]. 34. Ibid. II:56 [C. R. 1]. 35. Ibid. II:55 [Ct. R. and C.R. 1]. 36. Ibid. II:120 and IV:70. 37. [Snow-Estes], 2:209. 38. [Salem], 1:253. 39. [J. Marsh (1888)], 26. 40. [Paul Anc.], 195. 41. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 10:190. 42. [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 6:213. 43. [SalemVR], I:100 [Ct. R.]. 44. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 98. 45. Essex County Archives, Salem Witchcraft, Vol. 2 Page 43. 46. [SalemVR], II:55 [C.R. 1]. 47. Ibid. II:61 [Ct. R.]. 48. Danvers, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [DanversVR], II:406. 49. [SalemVR], III:385 and IV:63. 50. Ibid. I:324 [C.R.1]. 51. Danvers, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [DanversVR], II:362 [G.R.18]. 52. Ibid. II:83 and II:177. 53. Lexington, Meddlesex co., MA Vital Records, [LexVR], p. 21, # 27.
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