[Ancestor] Marsh

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Husband [Ancestor] Marsh

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1 M Lt. Alexander Marsh ¹

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         Spouse: Mary Belcher (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 19 Oct 1655 1

         Spouse: Bathsheba Letterup (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Marsh

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The Marshes have helped to make history, and the name is honored for its men of character and renown, its heroes and its pioneers. There was the martyr, George Marsh, burned at the stake during Mary's reign. The list of members of the family who have been arch-bishops, bishops and priests is an imposing one. One of the foremost men of letters of his day was Herbert Marsh, bishop of Peterborough. Francis Marsh was archbishop of Dublin in the reign of William III., and Narcissus Marsh was archbishop of Armagh.
The Marsh arms: Gules, a horse's head coupled between three crosses bottome, fitchee argent. Crest: Out of a mural crown gules, a horse's head argent, ducally gorged or.
In the New World the Marshes were men of affairs. John Marshe was one of the first settlers. Jonathan Marsh, another Pilgrim father, lived in Hartford, of which he was one of the founders. The family was represented in the colonial wars, and those of 1776 and 1812. Nathaniel Marsh had charge of the company which escorted Burgoyne to Cambridge after the surrender at Saratoga.
Sylvester Marsh, called "Crazy Marsh," was not so crazy after all. It was he who built the railroad up Mt. Washington. When the legislature granted him a charter willingness was also expressed to give him a charter to the moon if he wished, so impossible a feat was the building of a "Jacob's Ladder" considered. ³

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 242.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 236.