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: Abel MARSHALL
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 17 Dec 1788 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 14 May 1882 in Columbia, New Hampshire d
  • Burial: East Columbia, New Hampshire u


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Abel MARSHALL Birth: 9 Sep 1764 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Death: 22 Jan 1855 in Columbia, New Hampshire
    • Mother:
  • Polly (Patty) FLINT Birth: 23 Sep 1771 in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts Death: 21 Dec 1843 in Columbia, New Hampshire

Family:
Marriage:
  • Martha PIERCE on 13 Jun 1810 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts .m1
  • Martha PIERCE Birth: 21 Jan 1788 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Death: 12 May 1878 in Columbia, New Hampshire
Children:
  1. Abel Cummings MARSHALL Birth: Abt 1811 in Vermont
  2. Moody Pierce MARSHALL Birth: 2 Mar 1812 in Alexandria, New Hampshire Death: 4 May 1902
  3. Marsha M MARSHALL Birth: 24 Feb 1814
  4. Rufus Warren MARSHALL Birth: 21 Dec 1815 in Columbia, New Hampshire Death: 7 Apr 1890 in Colebrook, New Hampshire
  5. Horace A MARSHALL Birth: 14 Mar 1817 in Rutland, Vermont
  6. Lorusa Jane MARSHALL Birth: 7 Jan 1819 Death: 5 Mar 1819
  7. Lucena F MARSHALL Birth: 14 Dec 1819 Death: 3 May 1860
  8. Marcus W MARSHALL Birth: 14 Mar 1822 Death: 27 Aug 1822
  9. Gilbert Walker MARSHALL Birth: 10 Nov 1823 Death: 17 Apr 1840
  10. George Fayette MARSHALL Birth: 10 Jun 1825 in Rutland, Vermont Death: 1 Aug 1913
  11. Charles MARSHALL Birth: 21 Dec 1826 Death: 1 Jan 1827
  12. Joseph C MARSHALL Birth: 4 Mar 1828 Death: 26 Oct 1900

Bibliography
  1. Census 1850, New Hampshire, Coos Co, Columbia, p02. M432-429. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/004200585 image 146. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02].
  2. 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]*].
  3. 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].
  4. 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].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p98, DAR MARSHALL]
age 61 in 1850 [Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02],
place:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p98]
Massachusetts [Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02],
parents:
[Ref: DAR MARSHALL]
Abel MARSHALL & Polly ___ [Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p98]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005],
place:
[Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]
Sources with Information about marriage to Martha PIERCE
date:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p272, DAR MARSHALL, Frank Marshall 6/26/2005],
place:
[Ref: ChelmsfordMA vitals p272, Frank Marshall 6/26/2005],
names:
Abel MARSHALL & Martha ___ [Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02],
child:
[Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02, Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]
Research Notes:
1821: listed in town of Columbia, with one Poll [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1824-29: listed every year in Columbia, with no land [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

Mar 9 1824: voted Highway Surveyor [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1850: Farmer, living in Columbia, Coos Co, New Hampshire [Ref: 1850 NH Coos Columbia 02]

1850: living in Columbia, Coos Co, New Hampshire, with son George age 25 [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

1860: living in Columbia, Coos Co, New Hampshire. Abel age 71, real estate 2500, born MA; Martha age 72 [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]

Jan 3 1879: article appeared in Northern Sentinel, Colebrook, "Mr. Abel Marshall of East Columbia celebrated his 90th birthday, Dec 18th by a social gathering of his children and children's children, down to the fourth generation" [Ref: Frank Marshall 6/26/2005]



Pedigree of Abel MARSHALL
                                     /-----John MARSHALL
                            /-----John Jr MARSHALL
                           |        |                           /-----Richard 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 SHED
                  |                 |                  /-----Daniel SHED
                  |                 |                 |         \-----Katherine (SHED)
                  |                 |         /-----Daniel SHED
                  |                 |        |         \-----Sarah (SHED)
                  |                  \-----Mary SHED
                  |                          |         /-----John GURNEY
                  |                           \-----Mary GURNEY
                  |                                    \-----(Unk) (GURNEY)
          /-----Samuel MARSHALL
         |         \-----Ruth PHELPS
 /-----Abel MARSHALL
|        |         /-----William FROST
|         \-----Esther FROST
|                  \-----Elizabeth WILSON
Abel MARSHALL
|         /-----John Lt FLINT
 \-----Polly (Patty) FLINT
          \-----Molly WORCESTER



Descendants of Abel MARSHALL
1. Abel MARSHALL m. Martha PIERCE
m. Martha PIERCE father: Stephen PIERCE mother: Hannah MARSHALL

2nd generation

2. Abel Cummings MARSHALL m. Lucinda HAWKINS
m. Lucinda HAWKINS
5. Rufus Warren MARSHALL m. Mary WESTON
m. Mary WESTON

3rd generation

20. Warren Rufus MARSHALL m. Ellen R TITUS
m. Ellen R TITUS father: J B TITUS mother: Zilphia A SMITH
21. Mary E MARSHALL m. George Frederick MARTIN
m. George Frederick MARTIN