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: Benjamin TOWNE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 18 Apr 1779 in Plainfield, Massachusetts b


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Benjamin TOWNE Birth: 17 Jun 1745 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts Death: Plainfield, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Martha HITCHCOCK Death: Plainfield, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Eliza TOWNE Birth: 21 Jan 1807
  2. Diantha TOWNE Birth: 22 Aug 1808
  3. Zenis TOWNE Birth: 17 May 1810
  4. Horace TOWNE Birth: 2 Mar 1814
  5. Martha TOWNE Birth: 13 Oct 1821

Marriage: Children:
  1. Benjamin F TOWNE Birth: 26 Apr 1830 in Plainfield, Massachusetts
  2. Marquis de Lafayette TOWNE Birth: 25 Sep 1832 in Plainfield, 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 p56],
place:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p99],
parents:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p56]
Sources with Information about marriage to Annis REED
date:
first marriage of Benjamin [Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p99],
child:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p99]
Sources with Information about marriage to Electa NASH
date:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p99],
child:
[Ref: TowneEE TOWNE p99]
Research Notes:



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



Descendants of Benjamin TOWNE
1. Benjamin TOWNE m1. Annis REED m2. Electa NASH
m. Annis REED
m. Electa NASH

2nd generation

8. Marquis de Lafayette TOWNE m. Francenah A MORSE
m. Francenah A MORSE