Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

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.

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


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Philip GRELE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 21 Sep 1644 in Salisbury, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 17 Mar 1717/8 in Salisbury, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Andrew GRELE Birth: Abt 1617 in England Death: 30 Jun 1697 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Mary MOYSE Birth: Abt 1622 in England Death: 24 Dec 1703 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • Sarah ISLEY on 17 Feb 1669/70 at Salisbury, Massachusetts .m1
  • Sarah ISLEY Birth: 30 Jun 1644 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: 19 Jul 1710 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. John GRELE Birth: 16 Jan 1670/1 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: 10 Feb 1722/3 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
  2. Jonathan GRELE Birth: 15 Feb 1672/3 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: 25 Oct 1750 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
  3. Sarah GRELE Birth: 21 Mar 1675/6 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1718
  4. Mary GRELE Birth: 5 Jun 1679 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1718
  5. Philip GRELE Birth: 25 Dec 1681 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1718
  6. Ruth GRELE Birth: 3 Oct 1684 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. 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]*].
  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]*].
  4. 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]*].
  5. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Topsfield, MA:Topsfield Historical Society, 1915. M-LH #PS163. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsa00salisb Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  6. 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: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181, Sav-age GRELE Andrew]
21;7m;1644 [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p125],
place:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181, SalisburyMA vitals p125, Sav-age GRELE Andrew],
parents:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181]
Andrew GRELE & Mary ___ [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p125, Sav-age GRELE Andrew]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p16, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181],
place:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p16, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah ISLEY
date:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, Holman PILLSBURY p499]
17 Feb 1670 [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p16, Hoyt S&A p181],
place:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p16],
names:
Philip GREELE & Hannah ILSLEY [Ref: Hoyt S&A p181, Sav-age GRELE Joseph]
Philip GREELE & Sarah ISLEY [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p16],
child:
[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p16, Hoyt S&A p181]
Research Notes:
Apr 30 1654: received (with brother Andrew) as gift from grandfather, Joseph Moys, his sweepage lot of saltmarsh in Salisbury. Phillip sold his share of this land to his brother Andrew in 1673 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p494]

Dec 1677: oath of allegiance and fidelity [Ref: Cutter NE p442, Hoyt S&A p181]

1690: freeman [Ref: Cutter NE p442, Hoyt S&A p181]

will dated Mar 14, 1717/8; pro. Apr 9 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p181]

1733-39: Thomas Sever of Roxbury, MA, and Elizabeth his wife, with Thomas Webster of Kingston, NH, and Mary his wife, the only daughters and heirs-at-law of Benjamin Greely, late of Haverhill, deceased, petition for an accounting of the estate of their grandfather, Andrew Greely, late of Salisbury, deceased, who dying intestate, left behind him three sons and one daughter and the applicants, Elizabeth and Mary, the only children of one other son, the said Benjamin Greely, who died in his said father's lifetime. He left behind property, his eldest son Philip Greely, since deceased, was appointed administrator, "that ye sd Intestate in his lifetime fully advanced by way of settlement in Executing Deeds of Gift to Joseph Greely, Andrew Greely & ye sd Philip and as to what Estate ye Intestate died Seized & possessed of there was no Settlemt thereof made in ye Lifetime of ye sd Admr nor Since his Death wherefore ye sd appt" petitioned for a division. They state also in a postscript to the petition that "The Agreemt p'tendind to have ye Sacttion of ye Judge of Probate" was not legal as Elizabeth and Mary were infants and not represented. The paper was filed in Court 9 Aug 1734.
Haverhill Septr 12 1733: Joseph Greeley aged Eaighty years Testifieth and Saith That about fourty years Agoe I the deponent with my father Andrew Greeley was Bound to Somond Wainwright of Havirill for a Certain Sum of Money which my Brother Benjamin Greele owed him ye sd Wainwright which after my Brothers Decease the sd Wainwright came upon my father and myselfe for the payment of the aforsd debt and my father could not pay the debt but was forced to sell his house which was a doble house and corn mill and about four acres of land in haverill to the said wainwright for to discharge my Brothers debts. Joseph Grele.
Ephraim Roberdes of Haverhill being in his seventy fourth year of his age Deposeth that aboute forty years ago Benjamin Greeley of Haverhill was sued by Capt Simon Wainwright for a Certain Depts which he owed ye said Wainwright: & which I the Deponent understood his father Andrew Greeley With his Brother Joseph became Siretys for: and sometime after the Death of the said Benjamin Greeley: the sd Capt Wainwright Sued the Said Andrew Greeley and Joseph Greeley for the Said Debt: and the Said Andrew Greeley was forced to Sell his Dwelling House and land and Corn mill in haverhill to Capt Wainwright to Discharge the said Debt, Dated Haverhill Sep 18 1733.
Another deposition to the same effect by William White shows that the sale took place in 1690-91, while Joseph Peasley of Haverhill, aged eighty-seven years, deposed to the above facts.
On 23 Jul 1733 the Court cited Andrew Greeley and Joseph Greeley to appear in Court to answer to the complaint of the children of their brother Benjamin.
"Capt Henry True aged 86 testifyeth and Saith yt Andrew Grele after he came down from haverhill lived some considerable time at his Son Andrew Greles in Salisbery and then dyed between 30 and 40 years agoe. Robert Smith of full age testifyeth to al above" 17 Sep 1733
"The Deposition of Lt Jeremiah Allin aged 75 years and Elizabeth moodey aged 66 - Who testify & say yt about ye year 1692 Andrew Grele and his Wife Came down from haverhill to their Son philip Greles in Salisbury and lived with him Some Considerable time all wch time they were unable to do anything and were very troublesom and chargeable to their son and yt his Wife dyed there," Sworn 17 Sep 1733.
Andrew Greele filed a statement of the support of his mother and father amounting to 29 pounds 5 shillings, stating that this "maintenance in their old age was adjusted among ye brethren."
Thomas Webster filed a bond in Court to cover the cost of division, and losing the case in the lower court appealed it. The decree of the Judge of Probate was repealed in so far as to allow a division. The case had dragged for five years and evidently Thomas Sever was afraid that he would not receive all that he should for he wrote the Judge the following letter:
"Roxbury Sept the 13 1738
To the honnerabell John Appeltom Esqr and Judg of probate may it pleas your onner I have bin informed that a Considerabell part of my Grandfathers Land that was given away by deed of gift has not as yet bin meshered and I think that will not anser the Order which the Governer and Counsell gave out and I think it would be very propper that those Jentellmen who are the pryzers should see it done before there be any Settellment made. Nothing more. From your obedient frend, Thomas Sever."
In the appraisement it was found that there was real estate not given away by Andrew Greeley amounting to 487 pounds 16s 8d, while the value of the property given by the deeds of gift was, to Philip 436 pounds 10 s; to Andrew 410 pounds 13s 4d, while Joseph received the Haverhill land valued at 378 pounds.
The division finally made, 6 Feb 1739-40, gave to Philip Greeley's heirs 25 pounds 11s 8d, in real estate so they should have their father's proper double share, then a portion to the children of Benjamin Greele dec'd and to the children of Mary, a daughter of Andrew Greely, deceased, etc. [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

----- Old Norfolk Co Deed 3:281, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Joseph Moys of ... Salisbury ... Joyner ... for ... yt ... love ... I have ... unto my loveing Grandchildren Phillip Grele and Andrew Grele booth of ... same town ... do give ... them ... my sweepage lot of saltmarsh ... wthin Salisbury ... this thirtyeth day of Aprill ... one thousand six hundred fifty four. Joseph (X) Moys [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p494]

Old Norfolk Co Deed 2:328, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
Andrew Grele sen of ... Salisbury ... Cordwinder & Mary my wyfe for ... yt naturall affection wch we have & doe bare unto or dearly & well beloved sone Phillip Grele, soe ... confirm unto ye sd Phillip Grele all yt oer Dwelling house & house lott wth ye Barne yoards ... Allwayes provided ... yt wee ... do reserve unto oer selves yt use of ye dwelling house ... & one full ... halfe of all ye houselott ... provided also ye premises (except reservations to my selfe & wyfe) as her Joynture duering her Natural life: And in wittness ... Wee ye sd Andrew Grele & Mary my wyfe have hereunto sett oer hands & seales... 7 May 1674 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p494]



Pedigree of Philip GRELE
 /-----Andrew GRELE
Philip GRELE
|         /-----Joseph MOYSE
 \-----Mary MOYSE
          \-----Hannah (MOYSE)



Descendants of Philip GRELE
1. Philip GRELE m. Sarah ISLEY
m. Sarah ISLEY father: John ISLEY mother: Sarah (ISLEY)

2nd generation

2. John GRELE m. Ann HADLOCK
m. Ann HADLOCK
3. Jonathan GRELE m. Jane WALKER
m. Jane WALKER
5. Mary GRELE m. Benjamin STEVENS
m. Benjamin STEVENS father: Benjamin STEVENS mother: Hannah BARNARD
6. Philip GRELE m. Abigail ABBEY
m. Abigail ABBEY

3rd generation

12. David GREELEY m. Mary STEVENS
m. Mary STEVENS father: Benjamin STEVENS mother: Mary GRELE
21. Mary STEVENS m. David GREELEY
m. David GREELEY father: Jonathan GRELE mother: Jane WALKER

4th generation

23. Shubal GREELEY m. Hannah PETTENGILL
m. Hannah PETTENGILL father: Abraham PETTENGILL mother: Hannah FRENCH
24. Mary GREELEY m. James CARR
m. James CARR father: Richard CARR mother: Sarah (CARR)

5th generation

33. Matthew GREELEY m. Abigail STEVENS
m. Abigail STEVENS
38. James CARR m. Mehitable DODGE
m. Mehitable DODGE
41. Levi CARR m. Mary PULLMAN
m. Mary PULLMAN