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 GREELEY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 18 Feb 1730/1 in Haverhill, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 26 Nov 1814 in Haverhill, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Benjamin GREELE Birth: 28 Feb 1699/1700 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 22 Feb 1785 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Ruth WHITTIER Birth: 31 Jul 1701 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 4 Dec 1745 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Molly GREELEY Birth: 27 Jun 1753 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 31 Jul 1830 in Hudson, New Hampshire
  2. Reuben GREELEY Birth: 21 Jun 1756 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 10 Nov 1832 in Kingston, New Hampshire
  3. Benjamin GREELEY Birth: 30 Apr 1758 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 15 Feb 1793
  4. Prudence GREELEY Birth: 30 Jul 1760 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
  5. Joseph GREELEY Birth: 30 Sep 1762 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 1 Jun 1843 in Sutton, New Hampshire
  6. Moses GREELEY Birth: 29 Nov 1764 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 15 Aug 1848 in Hudson, New Hampshire
  7. Jonathan GREELEY Birth: 24 Mar 1766 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 5 Dec 1849 in New London, New Hampshire
  8. Stephen GREELEY Birth: 16 Nov 1769 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 16 Apr 1830 in Newburyport, Massachusetts
  9. Clement GREELEY Birth: 28 Jul 1772 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 1 Jan 1840 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

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 p42, HaverhillMA vitals p148, Holman PILLSBURY p502],
place:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p42, HaverhillMA vitals p148, Holman PILLSBURY p502],
parents:
[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p42, HaverhillMA vitals p148, Holman PILLSBURY p502]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503]
Sources with Information about marriage to Prudence CLEMENT
date:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503],
child:
[Ref: HaverhillMA vitals p147, HaverhillMA vitals p148, Holman PILLSBURY p503, Holman PILLSBURY p504]
Research Notes:
served in Revolutionary War, Sergeant, Capt Ebenezer Colby's company of Minute-men, Col Johnson's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge. service six days [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503]

received a gift of land in Nottingham West (Hudson) NH, but never lived there [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503]

Oct 1796: the East Parish of Haverhill called Rev Isaac Thompson to serve them, but some question being raised as to whether it was a properly organised parish, a meeting of the people was held on 11 Jan 1797. In the minutes of this meeting is found "Therefore impressed with the solemnity of the transaction and conceiving ourselves duly authorized, we do constitute and declare Elias Johnson, Ephraim Eliot, Joseph Greeley and Samuel Woodward a regular church of our Lord Jesus Christ" [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503]

----- Will dated 20 Feb 1812, pro 2 Jan 1815:
In the name of God Amen. I Joseph Greely of Haverhill ... Yeoman being in usual health ... tho in advanced age make this my last will & testament ... Imprimis, I give to my daughter Molly Wood ... To my sons Reuben Greely, Moses Greely, Jonathan Greely & Stephen Greely ... I give my son Joseph Greely ...
I give my Granddaughter Sophia Sanders ...
I give my grandson Benjamin Greely, son to Stephen Greely ...
I give to my granddaughter Nancy Greely, daughter to Jona Greely, ...
Item, I give & bequeath to my son Clement Greely ... whatever other property I have ...
Lastly to the full & faithful execution of this my last will & testament I constitute & appoint my son Clement Greely, in testimony of which I hereunto set my hand & seal this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twelve. Joseph Greely
Israel Carlton, Daniel Johnson, Isaac Thompson
Bond of Clement Greely, blacksmith, with sureties, Isaac Thompson, clerk and Daniel Johnson, yeoman, all of Haverhill, was filed in Court 2 Jan 1815 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p503]



Pedigree of Joseph GREELEY
                   /-----Andrew GRELE
          /-----Joseph GRELE
         |        |         /-----Joseph MOYSE
         |         \-----Mary MOYSE
         |                  \-----Hannah (MOYSE)
 /-----Benjamin GREELE
|        |         /-----Gilbert WILFORD
|         \-----Martha WILFORD
|                 |         /-----Thomas DOW
|                  \-----Mary DOW
|                           \-----Phebe (DOW)
Joseph GREELEY
|         /-----Joseph WHITTIER
 \-----Ruth WHITTIER
          \-----Mary PEASLEY



Descendants of Joseph GREELEY
1. Joseph GREELEY m. Prudence CLEMENT
m. Prudence CLEMENT father: Jonathan CLEMENTS mother: Mary GREENLEAF

2nd generation

6. Joseph GREELEY m. Dorothy SARGENT
m. Dorothy SARGENT father: Christopher SARGENT mother: Anna SARGENT
9. Stephen GREELEY m. Betsey BALCH
m. Betsey BALCH father: Nathaniel BALCH mother: Joanna DAY

3rd generation

11. Polly GREELEY m. Henry CARLETON
m. Henry CARLETON father: Moses CARLETON mother: Margaret SPRAKE
17. John Balch GREELEY m1. Clarissa JEWETT m2. Francis Dunn COBB
m. Clarissa JEWETT
m. Francis Dunn COBB

4th generation

18. Margaret Sprague CARLETON m. George Alfred PILLSBURY
m. George Alfred PILLSBURY father: John Captain PILLSBURY mother: Susan WADLEIGH

5th generation

20. Charles Alfred PILLSBURY m. Mary Ann STINSON
m. Mary Ann STINSON