Josiah DEWEY 1696
John Marsh of Hartford
Author: Dwight W. Marsh
Call Number: CS71.M365 1895
Page 5
At the threshold of John Marsh's Hadley life he met with two bitter experiences, one the death of his father-in-law, Gov. John Webster, April 5, 1661; a great loss to his children and to Hadley. Noah Webster of spelling book and dictionary fame, was Gov. Webster's most distinguished descendant; but his two Hadley sons were not thrifty and much needed a father's care, so that John Marsh rather than they, came to represent their father. Indeed the widow of one of Webster's sons had the gift of a lot from the town, and suffered severely under charge of witchcraft.
A flock of motherless children was about him, and after two years he married, in 1664, Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman, daughter of Thomas
Go Back