Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 12-10-2023.

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: Jonas MARSHALL
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 14 Feb 1738 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 13 Nov 1825 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas MARSHALL Birth: 28 Mar 1706 in Billerica, Massachusetts Death: 8 Sep 1778 in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Ruth PHELPS Death: 5 Jul 1741 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • Mary PARKER on 10 Feb 1768 at Groton, Massachusetts .m1
  • Mary PARKER Birth: Abt Feb 1738 in Groton, Massachusetts Death: 17 Dec 1776 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Jonas MARSHALL Birth: 21 Nov 1768 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  2. Ruth MARSHALL Birth: 24 Mar 1770 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  3. Benjamin Capt MARSHALL Birth: 26 Dec 1771 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  4. Mary MARSHALL Birth: 30 May 1773 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Death: 17 Dec 1776 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  5. Sibyl MARSHALL Birth: 29 Sep 1775 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Death: 16 Dec 1776 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  6. John MARSHALL Birth: 13 Dec 1776 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Death: 25 Dec 1776 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. Joseph Adams MARSHALL Birth: 29 Jan 1781 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
  2. Simon MARSHALL Birth: 14 Jan 1784

Bibliography
  1. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1914. PS41. Available at https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Chelmsford/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  2. DAR Lexington Chapter Genealogical Records Committee, Descendants of John Marshall of Billerica, Massachusetts, 1951. DAR Libary Families:Marshall: GRC:S1V301. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DAR MARSHALL].
  3. Marshall, Frank, Marshall-Brownlee Ancestry, WorldConnect db=fmarshal, version of 6/26/2005. Author address: fmarshal at bellsouth dot net. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005].
  4. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the year 1849. Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1926. PS79. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GrotonMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  5. Hazen, Henry A, History of Billerica, with Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: A Williams, 1883. LDS Film#0901880#2. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hazen Billerica p[0-9]*].
  6. Marshall, Grace Merle, The Marshalls in Memoriam: Descendants of John Marshall of Billerica. Manuscript dated November 1943. Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951. LDS Film#015526#3. Available at https://archive.org/details/marshallsdescend00mars. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MarshallGM MARSHALL p[0-9]*].
  7. Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1912. PS184. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofte00tewk Information from this source tagged as [Ref: TewksburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: DAR MARSHALL, Hazen Billerica p96, MarshallGM MARSHALL p15, TewksburyMA vitals p38],
place:
[Ref: TewksburyMA vitals p38],
parents:
Thomas MARSHALL & Ruth ___ [Ref: DAR MARSHALL, Hazen Billerica p96, TewksburyMA vitals p38],
father:
[Ref: MarshallGM MARSHALL p15]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: DAR MARSHALL],
place:
[Ref: DAR MARSHALL]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary PARKER
date:
[Ref: GrotonMA vitals p115]
first marriage of Jonas [Ref: DAR MARSHALL],
place:
[Ref: GrotonMA vitals p115],
names:
Dr. Jonas MARSHALL & Mary ___ [Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p100 Sibyl, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 John, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Ruth]
Jonas MARSHALL & Mary ___ [Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p98 Benjamin, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Jonas, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Mary],
child:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p100 Sibyl, ChelmsfordMA vitals p98 Benjamin, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 John, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Jonas, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Mary, ChelmsfordMA vitals p99 Ruth, DAR MARSHALL]
Sources with Information about marriage to Abigail ADAMS
date:
[Ref: DAR MARSHALL],
names:
Dr. Jonas MARSHALL & Abigail ___ [Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p99],
child:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p99, DAR MARSHALL]
Research Notes:
became a doctor and settled in Fitchburg, MA [Ref: MarshallGM MARSHALL p17]

1765: commenced practice of medicine [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1775: as a member of the provincial congress, chosen to be Instpector whose duty was "to prevent the purchase and sale of any goods, wares and merchandize imported from Great Britain, ireland and the provinces thereunto belonging." [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1776: a soldier returning from the Army and gave his family smallpox; wife and two children died [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1783: moved to Fitchburg [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]



Pedigree of Jonas MARSHALL
                   /-----John MARSHALL
          /-----John Jr MARSHALL
         |        |                                    /-----Robert BURRAGE
         |        |                           /-----Richard BURRAGE
         |        |                          |         \-----Rose (BURRAGE)
         |        |                  /-----Thomas BURRAGE
         |        |         /-----John BURRAGE
         |        |        |         \-----Frances DEY
         |         \-----Mary BURRAGE
         |                  \-----Mary (BURRAGE)
 /-----Thomas MARSHALL
|        |                                    /-----John ROGERS
|        |                           /-----Thomas ROGERS
|        |                          |         \-----Mary (ROGERS)
|        |                  /-----John ROGERS
|        |                 |        |         /-----Richard WELLS
|        |                 |         \-----Mary WELLS
|        |         /-----John ROGERS
|        |        |         \-----Priscilla DAWES
|         \-----Unis (Eunice) ROGERS
|                 |                                             /-----Thomas SHEDD
|                 |                                    /-----Thomas SHEDD
|                 |                           /-----Thomas SHED
|                 |                          |         \-----Ursula RICHARDSON
|                 |                  /-----Daniel SHED
|                 |                 |         \-----Katherine (SHED)
|                 |         /-----Daniel SHED
|                 |        |         \-----Sarah (SHED)
|                  \-----Mary SHED
|                          |         /-----John GURNEY
|                           \-----Mary GURNEY
|                                    \-----(Unk) (GURNEY)
Jonas MARSHALL
 \-----Ruth PHELPS



Descendants of Jonas MARSHALL
1. Jonas MARSHALL m1. Mary PARKER m2. Abigail ADAMS
m. Mary PARKER
m. Abigail ADAMS father: Israel ADAMS mother: Deborah SARL

2nd generation

2. Jonas MARSHALL m1. Experience COWDEN m2. Abigail WHITMAN
m. Experience COWDEN
m. Abigail WHITMAN
9. Simon MARSHALL m. Ruth BACHELDOR
m. Ruth BACHELDOR

3rd generation

12. Jonas Augustus MARSHALL m. Mary Caroline EDWARDS
m. Mary Caroline EDWARDS