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: Joseph GRELE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 17 Feb 1697/8 in Haverhill, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 19 Apr 1759 in Haverhill, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Joseph GRELE Birth: 5 Feb 1651/2 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: 7 Mar 1745 in Hudson, New Hampshire
    • Mother:
  • Martha WILFORD Birth: 18 Jan 1669/70 in Bradford, Massachusetts Death: 21 Feb 1757 in Hudson, New Hampshire

Family:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Greeley, George Hiram, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family. Boston, MA: George Hiram Greeley, 1908. M-LH #G108. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=cm0ZAQAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p[0-9]*].
  2. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910. M-LH #PS86. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofha02have Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HaverhillMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  3. 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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22, HaverhillMA vitals p144]
17 Feb 1697 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500],
place:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22, HaverhillMA vitals p144, Holman PILLSBURY p500],
parents:
[Ref: HaverhillMA vitals p144, Holman PILLSBURY p500],
father:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
mother:
Martha CORLIS dau John CORLIS & Mary WILFORD [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary SMITH
date:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p39, Holman PILLSBURY p500],
place:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p39]
Research Notes:
May 1 1692: bought from father, for 30 pound in good merchantable corn, all his saltmarsh in Salisbury [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Nov 28 1732: bought land in Haverhill from father [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Apr 21 1741: bought from father, for fifty pounds, four acres of upland and meadow [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

will dated 22 Jun 1758, gave to cousin Samuel Greele of Nottingham West, Joseph Greele Swan (son of James Swan of Salem, NH), to sister Martha Peaslee wife of nathaniel Peaslee, to sister Mary Honeyford, to brother Moses Greele, to cosin (i.e. niece) Ruth Honeyford the dau of james Hutchins, to children of sister Hannah Bradbury, to Mary wife of james Swan, to three brothers Samuel Benjamin and Moses, to Ezediel son of Brother Benjamin, to Joseph son of Brother Benjamin; wife Mary Grele, and cousin Samuel Grele executors [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

------ Ipswich Co Deed 5:547, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Andrew Grele senior of ... Salisbury ... for ... thirty pound in good merchantable corne ... doe ... sell ... unto my Son Joseph Grele all my ... saltmarsh Lyine within ... Salisbury. 1 May 1692 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Essex Co Deed 68:7, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
Joseph Greeley of Haverhill sells to Joseph Greeley jr of Haverhill, land there, 28 Nov 1732 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Essex Co Deed 82:282, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Joseph Greely of Haverhill ... yeoman ... for ... fifty pounds ... paid by my son Joseph Greely of Haverhill ... convey ... unto him ... Certain tracts ... of Land ... in ... Haverhill four acres of Accomodation with all the Divisions & additions of Upland & meadow land laid out or to be laid out to the abovesaid four acres ... that were Entered to my Father Andrew Greely at a Town meeting in haverhill abovesaid in 1667/8 on the third day of March. 21 Apr 1741 [Holman: see also Ipswich Deed 5:545, 546] [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]



Pedigree of Joseph GRELE
          /-----Andrew GRELE
 /-----Joseph GRELE
|        |         /-----Joseph MOYSE
|         \-----Mary MOYSE
|                  \-----Hannah (MOYSE)
Joseph GRELE
|         /-----Gilbert WILFORD
 \-----Martha WILFORD
         |         /-----Thomas DOW
          \-----Mary DOW
                   \-----Phebe (DOW)



Descendants of Joseph GRELE
1. Joseph GRELE m. Mary SMITH
m. Mary SMITH