Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 12-10-2023.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John FRENCH
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1635 in England b
  • Baptism: 1635 in Cambridge, Massachusetts c
  • Death: Oct 1712 in Billerica, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William FRENCH Birth: Abt 1604 in Halstead, Essex Co, England Death: 20 Nov 1681 in Billerica, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth GODFREY Birth: Abt 1605 Death: 31 Mar 1668 in Billerica, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • Abigail COGGAN on 21 Jun 1659 at Barnstable, Massachusetts .m1
  • Abigail COGGAN Birth: Abt 1637 in Dorchester, Massachusetts Death: 5 Apr 1662 in Billerica, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Hannah BURRAGE on 3 Jul 1662 at Billerica, Massachusetts .m2
  • Hannah BURRAGE Birth: 14 Dec 1643 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Death: 7 Jul 1667 in Billerica, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Hannah FRENCH Birth: 20 Jan 1663/4 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 9 Oct 1745
  2. Abigail FRENCH Birth: 6 Dec 1665 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 13 Mar 1722/3 in Billerica, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Mary ROGERS on 14 Jan 1667/8 at Billerica, Massachusetts .m3
  • Mary ROGERS Birth: 26 Oct 1643 in Watertown, Massachusetts Death: 16 Jun 1677 in Billerica, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Mary FRENCH Birth: 4 Mar 1669/70 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 21 Aug 1740

Marriage: Children:
  1. John FRENCH Birth: 15 May 1679 in Billerica, Massachusetts
  2. Elizabeth FRENCH Birth: 24 Jul 1681 in Billerica, Massachusetts
  3. William FRENCH Birth: 26 Nov 1683 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 21 Apr 1685
  4. Sarah FRENCH Birth: 15 Sep 1685 in Billerica, Massachusetts
  5. William FRENCH Birth: 8 Aug 1687 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 25 Feb 1745/6
  6. Hannah FRENCH Birth: 18 Feb 1692/3 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 12 Sep 1769

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F Sanborn Jr, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. M-LH 929.174And. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-i-a-b/image, ..volume-ii-c-f, iii-g-h, iv-i-l, v-m-p, vi-r-s, vii-t-y. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v[1-7]p[0-9]*].
  2. Banks, Charles Edward, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, Philadelphia, PA: Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, 1937. LDS Film#0874196#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/283805. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Topo p[0-9]*].
  3. Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908. M-LH PS19, 974.4-VR-Bill. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofbi00biller Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BillericaMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  4. Burrage, Alvah A., The Burrage Memorial, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of John Burrage. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1877. M-LH #G942. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=xZktAAAAYAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BurrageAA BURRAGE p[0-9]*].
  5. Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913. M-LH 974 Cut. NYPL APR (New England) (Cutter) (NYPL has both 1913 and 1915 editions). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/272367. Two editions of this work were published in 1913, but contents and page numbering is different; the other is available at (vol 1) http://books.google.com/?id=KvUsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 2) http://books.google.com/?id=_c4UAAAAYAAJ, (vol 3) http://books.google.com/?id=7_UsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 4) http://books.google.com/?id=NegUAAAAYAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Cutter NE p[0-9]*].
  6. French, John M, Lieut. William French and his Descendants, NEHGR v44 (Oct 1890), pp367-372. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  7. French, Mara T, French and Related Farmily Genealogy. San Jose, CA: author, 1984. LDS Film#1421648#2. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT FRENCH p[IVX]*-[0-9]*].
  8. Hartwell, John F, The Hartwells of America. Saginaw, Michigan: Hartwell-Lorenzen, 1956. UMI G4088. LDS Film#1597552#13. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009184804 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HartwellJF HARTWELL [a-z]*[0-2]p[0-9]*].
  9. Hazen, Henry A, History of Billerica, with Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: A Williams, 1883. LDS Film#0901880#2. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hazen Billerica p[0-9]*].
  10. Marshall, Grace Merle, The Marshall Family Tree: Rufus Marshall and Suzanna George Branch. Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951. LDS Film#015526#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008128748 images 77-101. Also available (poorer copy) at https://archive.org/details/marshallfamilytr00mars. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MarshallGM MARSHALL-GEORGE p[0-9]*].
  11. McCracken, George E, Early Cogans English and American, NEHGR v111 (July 1957) pp168-187. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: McCracken COGAN p[0-9]*].
  12. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  13. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of MA, 1629-1818. Boston: David Clapp and Son, 1879. M-LH 974.44 CHAR, fragile. Available (vol 1) at https://archive.org/details/genealogiesestat01wyma and (vol 2) at https://archive.org/details/genealogiesestat02wyma Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wyman Charlestown v[12]p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4]
abt 1635 [Ref: Cutter NE p969, Hazen Billerica p56]
abt Feb 1635 [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p367]
age 5 months in 1635 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591]
emig 1635 age 5 months [Ref: Sav-age FRENCH William],
place:
[Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p367, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4],
parents:
[Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p367, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56]
William FRENCH & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, Cutter NE p969],
father:
[Ref: Sav-age FRENCH John]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, Sav-age FRENCH William]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56],
place:
[Ref: Cutter NE p969]
of Billerica [Ref: BurrageAA BURRAGE p158]
Sources with Information about marriage to Abigail COGGAN
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, BillericaMA vitals p258, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56, McCracken COGAN p177, Sav-age FRENCH John],
place:
in Barnstable, recorded in Billerica [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p591, BillericaMA vitals p258, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Sav-age FRENCH John],
names:
[Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p367]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
place:
Billerica, Massachusetts [Ref: McCracken COGAN p177]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah BURRAGE
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, BillericaMA vitals p258, Cutter NE p969, FrenchMT FRENCH pII-4, Hazen Billerica p56]
1662 [Ref: Sav-age BURRAGE John, Sav-age FRENCH John],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, BillericaMA vitals p258, Cutter NE p969],
names:
[Ref: BurrageAA BURRAGE p158, Wyman Charlestown v1p157]
John FRENCH & Hannah ___ [Ref: BillericaMA vitals p80, BillericaMA vitals p82],
child:
[Ref: BillericaMA vitals p80, BillericaMA vitals p82, BurrageAA BURRAGE p159, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, HartwellJF HARTWELL v1p2, Hazen Billerica p56]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
3 Jul 1663 [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p368]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary ROGERS
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, Cutter NE p969],
names:
[Ref: Hazen Billerica p122],
child:
[Ref: Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary LITTLEFIELD
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56]
18 Jan 1678 [Ref: Cutter NE p969],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p592, Cutter NE p969],
names:
[Ref: MarshallGM MARSHALL-GEORGE p25]
John FRENCH & Mary widow of John KITTREDGE [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56],
child:
[Ref: Cutter NE p969, FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56]
Research Notes:
1635: emigrated on Defence with parents, at age 5 months [Ref: Sav-age FRENCH William]

William FRENCH emigrated from Halstead, Essex, ship Francis, to Cambridge [Ref: Banks Topo p47]

baptised in Cambridge, after arrival in New England, by Hooker, a fellow passenger on Defence [Ref: Sav-age FRENCH William]

moved to Dunstable after marriage to Hannah BURRAGE [Ref: Sav-age FRENCH John]

1675: wounded by the Indians in the assault at Quaboag. Petitioned for relief, "a poor, wounded man" harrassed by the constable soon after [Ref: FrenchJM FRENCH p368, Hazen Billerica p56]



Pedigree of John FRENCH
          /-----(Unk) FRENCH
 /-----William FRENCH
John FRENCH
 \-----Elizabeth GODFREY



Descendants of John FRENCH
1. John FRENCH m1. Abigail COGGAN m2. Hannah BURRAGE m3. Mary ROGERS m4. Mary LITTLEFIELD
m. Abigail COGGAN father: Henry COGGAN mother: Abigail BISHOP
m. Hannah BURRAGE father: John BURRAGE mother: Mary (BURRAGE)
m. Mary ROGERS father: John ROGERS mother: Priscilla DAWES
m. Mary LITTLEFIELD father: Frances LITTLEFIELD mother: Jane HILL

2nd generation

2. Hannah FRENCH m. John Dr KITTRIDGE
m. John Dr KITTRIDGE father: John KITTRIDGE mother: Mary LITTLEFIELD
3. Abigail FRENCH m. Benjamin PARKER
m. Benjamin PARKER father: Benjamin PARKER mother: Sarah HARTWELL
4. Mary FRENCH m. Nathan SHED
m. Nathan SHED father: Daniel SHED mother: Elizabeth (SHED)
5. John FRENCH m. Ruth RICHARDSON
m. Ruth RICHARDSON father: Thomas RICHARDSON
9. William FRENCH m. Mehitable PATTEN
m. Mehitable PATTEN father: Thomas PATTEN

3rd generation

11. John KITTRIDGE m.
12. James KITTRIDGE m. Sarah FOWLE
m. Sarah FOWLE father: Samuel FOWLE mother: Susannah BLANEY
23. Abigail PARKER m. John MARSHALL
m. John MARSHALL father: John Jr MARSHALL mother: Unis (Eunice) ROGERS
24. John PARKER m. Mary CROSBY
m. Mary CROSBY father: Nathaniel CROSBY mother: Sarah SHED
27. Nathan SHED m. Hannah SHED
m. Hannah SHED father: John SHED mother: Sarah CHAMBERLAIN
29. John SHED m. Elizabeth FARLEY
m. Elizabeth FARLEY father: Ebenezer FARLEY
33. William SHED m. Mary FARMER
m. Mary FARMER father: Edward FARMER
37. John FRENCH m. Mary KITTREDGE
m. Mary KITTREDGE father: John KITTREDGE
38. Thomas FRENCH m. Ruth (FRENCH)
m. Ruth (FRENCH)
44. William FRENCH m. Tabitha (FRENCH)
m. Tabitha (FRENCH)
47. Nathaniel FRENCH m. Elizabeth FROST
m. Elizabeth FROST father: William FROST
51. John FRENCH m1. Mary FRENCH m2. Priscilla MACE
m. Mary FRENCH father: Jacob FRENCH mother: Elizabeth DAVIS
m. Priscilla MACE

4th generation

56. James KITTRIDGE m. Marah BAILEY
m. Marah BAILEY father: Samuel BAILEY mother: Mary ROLFE
62. John MARSHALL m. Deborah REED
m. Deborah REED
63. Daniel MARSHALL m. Rachel GREELY
m. Rachel GREELY father: Samuel GRELE mother: Rachel ROBINSON
72. Jacob SHED m. Rebecca LEVISTON
m. Rebecca LEVISTON
82. John SHED m. Martha HOSLEY
m. Martha HOSLEY father: Thomas HOSLEY
87. William SHED m1. Susanna JOHNSON m2. Elizabeth (SHED)
m. Susanna JOHNSON father: Josiah JOHNSON
m. Elizabeth (SHED)
89. Thomas SHED m. Hannah WILSON
m. Hannah WILSON father: Jacob WILSON
91. Sarah FRENCH m. Samuel MARSHALL
m. Samuel MARSHALL father: Isaac MARSHALL mother: Phebe RICHARDSON
94. David FRENCH m.
108. Jonathan FRENCH m. Abigail HOSLEY
m. Abigail HOSLEY father: Thomas HOSLEY

5th generation

131. Samuel KITTRIDGE m. Sarah KIDDER
m. Sarah KIDDER father: Jeremiah KIDDER mother: Sarah BARNARD
139. John MARSHALL m1. Suzanna (MARSHALL) m2. Elizabeth ADAMS m3. Ann CLYDE
m. Suzanna (MARSHALL)
m. Elizabeth ADAMS
m. Ann CLYDE
145. Richard MARSHALL m. Esther PIERCE
m. Esther PIERCE father: Joshua PIERCE mother: Esther RICHARDSON
146. Samuel MARSHALL m. Lydia (MARSHALL)
m. Lydia (MARSHALL)
147. David MARSHALL m. Abigail COOLEGE
m. Abigail COOLEGE father: Nathaniel COOLEGE mother: Sarah PARKER
148. Abigail Parker MARSHALL m. Thomas BARRETT
m. Thomas BARRETT
153. Daniel MARSHALL m. Mary PEABODY
m. Mary PEABODY father: Jedediah PEABODY mother: Alice HOWLET
158. Joel SHED m. Dolly FARMER
m. Dolly FARMER
164. John SHED m1. Sarah SPRAKE m2. Rachel DANFORTH
m. Sarah SPRAKE father: Nicholas SPRAKE
m. Rachel DANFORTH father: David DANFORTH
166. Rhoda SHED m. John ROGERS
m. John ROGERS father: Zebediah ROGERS mother: Bette FARMER
167. Zaccheus SHED m. Miriam WRIGHT
m. Miriam WRIGHT
182. Samuel MARSHALL m. Betsy WHITNEY
m. Betsy WHITNEY
183. David MARSHALL m. Sarah HASKELL
m. Sarah HASKELL father: Abraham Dr HASKELL mother: Sarah GREEN