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: Mary DOW
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 26 Apr 1644 in Newbury, Massachusetts b
  • Death: After 1695 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas DOW Birth: Abt 1615 in England Death: 31 May 1654 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Phebe (DOW) Death: 3 Nov 1672 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary WILFORD Birth: 18 Nov 1667 in Bradford, Massachusetts
  2. Martha WILFORD Birth: 18 Jan 1669/70 in Bradford, Massachusetts Death: 21 Feb 1757 in Hudson, New Hampshire
  3. Ruth WILFORD Birth: 15 May 1672 in Bradford, Massachusetts
  4. Nathaniel WILFORD Birth: 20 May 1675 in Bradford, Massachusetts Death: Oct 1706 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. John CLARKE Birth: 30 Mar 1680
  2. Dorcas CLARKE Birth: 25 Jan 1681
  3. Matthew CLARKE Birth: 20 Feb 1683 Death: 22 Feb 1683
  4. Sarah CLARKE Birth: 4 Apr 1685
  5. Ebenezer CLARKE Birth: 25 Jul 1688

Bibliography
  1. Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1907. M-LH #PS25. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofbr00brad Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BradfordMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  2. 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]*].
  3. Dow, Robert Piercy, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs of the Descendants of Henry Dow of 1637, Thomas Dow 1639, and others. Claremont, NH: Robert P Dow, 1929. UMI #G1279. LDS Film #1321446#1 (vol 1), #1321126#1-3 (vol 2-4), Fiche #6060589. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2364454. Also available at https://archive.org/details/bookofdowgenealo00dowr. Also available at http://dowlink.net/pdffiles/bookofdowmodi.pdf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DowRP DOW p[0-9]*].
  4. Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ipswich: Antiquarian Papers, 1880. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/253245. Also available at http://archive.org/details/earlyinhabitants13hamm. Reprinted Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p[0-9]*].
  5. Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].
  6. Hoyt, David W, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1982. Available at http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt, http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt, and http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal03hoyt. Volume 1 also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoyt S&A p[0-9]*].
  7. 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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Holman PILLSBURY p511, Hoyt S&A p136, Sav-age DOW Thomas],
place:
[Ref: DowRP DOW p550, Holman PILLSBURY p258, Holman PILLSBURY p511, Hoyt S&A p136],
parents:
Thomas DOW & Phebe ___ [Ref: Cutter NE p79, DowRP DOW p550, Hammatt Ipswich p80, Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p136, Sav-age DOW Thomas]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
16 Apr 1644 [Ref: DowRP DOW p550]
Sources for death Information
date:
after 1688 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
living 1695 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p136],
place:
prob Haverhill [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
Sources with Information about marriage to Gilbert WILFORD
date:
abt 1666 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
first marriage of Mary [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p1024],
place:
in New England [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511],
names:
Gilbert WILFORD & Mary ___ [Ref: BradfordMA vitals p167],
child:
[Ref: BradfordMA vitals p167, DowRP DOW p746, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Holman PILLSBURY p512, Hoyt S&A p1024]
Sources with Information about marriage to Matthew CLARKE
date:
[Ref: DowRP DOW p746, Holman PILLSBURY p511, Hoyt S&A p1024]
second marriage of Mary [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258],
place:
[Ref: DowRP DOW p746, Holman PILLSBURY p511, Hoyt S&A p1024],
child:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p512]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Mary DOW
 /-----Thomas DOW
Mary DOW
 \-----Phebe (DOW)



Descendants of Mary DOW
1. Mary DOW m1. Gilbert WILFORD m2. Matthew CLARKE
m. Gilbert WILFORD
m. Matthew CLARKE

2nd generation

2. Mary WILFORD m1. John CORLISS m2. William WHITTAKER
m. John CORLISS
m. William WHITTAKER
3. Martha WILFORD m. Joseph GRELE
m. Joseph GRELE father: Andrew GRELE mother: Mary MOYSE

3rd generation

12. Samuel GRELE m1. Rachel ROBINSON m2. Jane (GRELE)
m. Rachel ROBINSON father: David ROBINSON mother: Sarah TAYLOR
m. Jane (GRELE)
14. Benjamin GREELE m1. Ruth WHITTIER m2. Hannah POOR
m. Ruth WHITTIER father: Joseph WHITTIER mother: Mary PEASLEY
m. Hannah POOR
15. Hannah GREELE m. John BRADBURY
m. John BRADBURY father: William BRADBURY mother: Sarah COTTON
18. Martha GREELE m1. Richard HUTCHINS m2. Nathaniel Col PEASLEE
m. Richard HUTCHINS father: John HUTCHINS mother: Sarah PAGE
m. Nathaniel Col PEASLEE father: Joseph PEASLEE mother: Ruth BERNARD
19. Ruth GREELE m. James HUTCHINS
m. James HUTCHINS father: John HUTCHINS mother: Sarah PAGE
20. Moses GREELE m1. Mehitable PAGE m2. (Unk) (CHURCH)
m. Mehitable PAGE
m. (Unk) (CHURCH)
21. Mary GRELE m. Zachariah HANAFORD
m. Zachariah HANAFORD

4th generation

22. Samuel GREELY m. Abigail BLODGETT
m. Abigail BLODGETT father: Joseph BLODGETT mother: Dorothy (BLODGETT)
24. Mehitable GREELY m. Hezekiah HAMBLET
m. Hezekiah HAMBLET
26. Rachel GREELY m. Daniel MARSHALL
m. Daniel MARSHALL father: John MARSHALL mother: Abigail PARKER
27. Jonathan GREELY m1. Ruth (GREELY) m2. Phebe (PARKER)
m. Ruth (GREELY)
m. Phebe (PARKER)
31. Ann GREELE m. Thomas MARSH
m. Thomas MARSH father: John MARSH mother: Sarah SEVERANCE
35. Joseph GREELEY m. Prudence CLEMENT
m. Prudence CLEMENT father: Jonathan CLEMENTS mother: Mary GREENLEAF

5th generation

90. Hezekiah HAMBLET m.
96. Richard MARSHALL m. Esther PIERCE
m. Esther PIERCE father: Joshua PIERCE mother: Esther RICHARDSON
97. Samuel MARSHALL m. Lydia (MARSHALL)
m. Lydia (MARSHALL)
98. David MARSHALL m. Abigail COOLEGE
m. Abigail COOLEGE father: Nathaniel COOLEGE mother: Sarah PARKER
99. Abigail Parker MARSHALL m. Thomas BARRETT
m. Thomas BARRETT
104. Daniel MARSHALL m. Mary PEABODY
m. Mary PEABODY father: Jedediah PEABODY mother: Alice HOWLET
132. Joseph GREELEY m. Dorothy SARGENT
m. Dorothy SARGENT father: Christopher SARGENT mother: Anna SARGENT
135. Stephen GREELEY m. Betsey BALCH
m. Betsey BALCH father: Nathaniel BALCH mother: Joanna DAY