Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

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: Jacob TOWNE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 27 Jul 1768 in Topsfield, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 31 Mar 1836 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Jacob TOWNE Birth: 7 Mar 1728 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: Sep 1807
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth PERKINS Death: 12 May 1800

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jacob Perkins TOWNE Birth: 6 Oct 1803 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 16 Mar 1889
  2. Mary TOWNE Birth: 8 Apr 1806 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 15 Apr 1883
  3. Ezra TOWNE Birth: 17 Oct 1807 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Death: 5 Feb 1882 in Topsfield, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Towne, Edwin Eugene, Descendants of William TOWNE, Newtonville, MA: author, 1901. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/26765. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p36],
place:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57],
parents:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p36]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary PERKINS
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57],
child:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]
Research Notes:
town cler in Topsfield for 26 years [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]

state legislature for 7 years [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]

parish clerk 12 years [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]

selectman, justice of the peace, coroner, and held some offices until his death [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p57]



Pedigree of Jacob TOWNE
                                     /-----William TOWNE
                            /-----Edmund TOWNE
                           |         \-----Joan BLESSING
                   /-----Joseph TOWNE
                  |        |         /-----Thomas BROWNING
                  |         \-----Mary BROWNING
                  |                  \-----Mary (BROWNING)
          /-----Benjamin TOWNE
         |        |         /-----Robert SMITH
         |         \-----Amy SMITH
         |                 |                                    /-----Stephen FRENCH
         |                 |                           /-----Jacob FRENCH
         |                 |                          |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
         |                 |                  /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----William WARREN
         |                 |                 |         \-----Susan WARREN
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
         |                 |         /-----Thomas FRENCH
         |                 |        |        |                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
         |                 |        |        |         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
         |                 |        |        |        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
         |                 |        |         \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
         |                 |        |                  \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)
         |                  \-----Mary FRENCH
         |                          |         /-----William SCUDAMORE
         |                           \-----Mary SCUDMORE
 /-----Jacob TOWNE
|        |                  /-----John WILDE
|        |         /-----Ephraim WILDE
|        |        |        |         /-----William AVERNILL
|        |        |         \-----Sarah AVERILL
|        |        |                  \-----Abigail HYNTON
|         \-----Susanna WILDES
|                 |                  /-----Thomas HOWLETT
|                 |         /-----Samuel HOWLETT
|                 |        |        |                           /-----Stephen FRENCH
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Jacob FRENCH
|                 |        |        |                 |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
|                 |        |        |         /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|                 |        |        |        |        |         /-----William WARREN
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Susan WARREN
|                 |        |        |        |                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
|                 |        |         \-----Alice FRENCH
|                 |        |                 |                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |                 |         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |                 |        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
|                 |        |                  \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
|                 |        |                           \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)
|                  \-----Mary HOWLETT
|                          |         /-----Daniel CLARKE
|                           \-----Sara CLARK
|                                   |                  /-----Thomas BEANE
|                                   |         /-----Thomas BEANE
|                                   |        |         \-----Agnes CORNISH
|                                    \-----Mary BEANE
|                                             \-----Elizabeth (BEANE)
Jacob TOWNE
 \-----Elizabeth PERKINS



Descendants of Jacob TOWNE
1. Jacob TOWNE m. Mary PERKINS
m. Mary PERKINS

2nd generation

4. Ezra TOWNE m. Julia R STONE
m. Julia R STONE

3rd generation

5. William Perkins TOWNE m. Emma JOSEPHSON
m. Emma JOSEPHSON
6. Charles Ezra TOWNE m1. Annette BISSELL m2. Weltha H STONE
m. Annette BISSELL
m. Weltha H STONE
8. Edward Stone TOWNE m. Mary Emma PERKINS
m. Mary Emma PERKINS