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: Mercy (BRIGHAM)
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: Abt 1613 in England b
  • Death: 22 Dec 1693 in Marlborough, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:

Family:
Marriage:
  • Thomas BRIGHAM on 1637 at Cambridge, Massachusetts .m1
  • Thomas BRIGHAM Birth: 1603 in Holme-On-Spalding Moore, Yorkshire, England Death: 8 Dec 1653 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Mary BRIGHAM Birth: Abt 1638 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 1676 in Watertown, Massachusetts
  2. Thomas BRIGHAM Birth: 19 Sep 1641 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 25 Nov 1717 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  3. John BRIGHAM Birth: 9 Mar 1644/5 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 16 Sep 1728 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  4. Hannah BRIGHAM Birth: 9 Mar 1650/1 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 8 Dec 1719 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  5. Samuel BRIGHAM Birth: 12 Jan 1653/4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Death: 24 Jul 1713 in Marlborough, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Edmond RICE on 1 Mar 1655/6 at Sudbury, Massachusetts .m2
  • Edmond RICE Birth: Abt 1594 in Sudbury, Suffolk Co, England Death: 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Lydia RICE Birth: Abt 1657 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Death: 26 May 1718
  2. Ruth RICE Birth: 29 Sep 1659 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Death: 30 Mar 1742 in Glastonbury, Connecticut

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F Sanborn Jr, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. M-LH 929.174And. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-i-a-b/image, ..volume-ii-c-f, iii-g-h, iv-i-l, v-m-p, vi-r-s, vii-t-y. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v[1-7]p[0-9]*].
  2. Brigham, Emma Elisabeth, The History of the Brigham Family. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co, 1927. UMI #G3444. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham01brig and http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham02inbrig Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p[0-9]*].
  3. Ellis, Ray Lowther, A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants, Compiled by the Edmund Rice Association, 1970. Univ Microfilm G1740. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/45311. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ellis RICE p[0-9]*].
  4. Holman, Mary Lovering, English Notes on Edmund Rice, The American Genealogist, vol 10 no 3, Jan 1934, pp133-137. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008128263 images 234-6. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman RICE p[0-9]*].
  5. Holman, Winifred Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1953. Sutro CS71.S844 1948. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005763135, Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v[12]p[0-9]*].
  6. Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass, 1638-1925, New York, Artemus Ward, 1925, LDS Film#1035525 item#9. Available at http://archive.org/details/williamwardgenea1925mart. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Martyn WARD p[0-9]*].
  7. Moore, Winifred H, Moore Genealogy, Report of the Genealogical Records Commttee District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution, 1948-50. LDS Film#0874739#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831154 images 490-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p[0-9]*].
  8. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  9. Reitwiesner, William Addams, Ancestry of George W Bush, 2/13/2003. Available at http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH].
  10. Edmund Rice Association, Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice (through his grandchildren, a narrative report), http://www.widomaker.com/~gwk/era/era00001.htm, 9/25/2000 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000].
  11. 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]*].
  12. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1903. Available at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  13. Ward, Andrew Henshaw, Genealogical History of The RICE Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from Berkhamstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638 or 1639. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858. Univ Microfilm G-426. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=DKxOAAAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ward RICE p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1613 [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
abt 1618 [Ref: Ellis RICE p1],
place:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p1, MooreWH MOORE p27, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p28, Ellis RICE p1, MooreWH MOORE p27, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p28, Ellis RICE p1, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Thomas BRIGHAM
date:
[Ref: MooreWH MOORE p27]
abt 1637 [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
abt 1639 [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p27]
by abt 1641 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402]
first marriage of Mercy HURD [Ref: Ellis RICE p1]
first marriage of Mercy [Ref: Sav-age HUNT William],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
perhaps Cambridge [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109],
names:
Thomas BRIGHAM & Mercy HURD [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Thomas BRIGHAM & Mercy ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p27, Ellis RICE p1, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p115, Martyn WARD p69, Martyn WARD p73, MooreWH MOORE p27, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH],
child:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p115, Martyn WARD p69, Martyn WARD p73, MooreWH MOORE p27, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Thomas BRIGHAM & Mercy HURD [Ref: Sav-age HUNT William]
Sources with Information about marriage to Edmond RICE
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402]
1 Mar 1655 [Ref: Ellis RICE p1, MooreWH MOORE p28, Pope PioneersMA p383, Rice Association 9/25/2000, Sav-age RICE Edmund, Ward RICE p2]
1655 as second marriage of Mercy [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p27]
second marriage of Mercy [Ref: Sav-age HUNT William],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, Rice Association 9/25/2000, Ward RICE p2],
names:
Edmond RICE & Mercy ___ [Ref: Ellis RICE p1, Holman RICE p137, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p121, MooreWH MOORE p27, MooreWH MOORE p28, Pope PioneersMA p383, Sav-age RICE Edmund, SudburyMA vitals p123, Ward RICE p2]
Edmund RICE & Mercy HURD [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Edmund RICE & Mercy ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402],
child:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p1, Holman RICE p137, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p121, Rice Association 9/25/2000, SudburyMA vitals p123]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
Edmond RICE & Mercy HURD [Ref: Sav-age HUNT William],
child:
Ann RICE (#7351) wife of Thomas RICE [Ref: Sav-age RICE Edmund]
Sources with Information about marriage to William HUNT
date:
1664 [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p27, Sav-age HUNT William]
May 1663 [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Oct or Nov 1664 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p27, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
perhaps Marlborough [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109],
names:
William HUNT & Mercy HURD [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
William HUNT & Mercy ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v1p402, BrighamEE BRIGHAM p27, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p109, MooreWH MOORE p27]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
William HUNT & Mercy HURD [Ref: Sav-age HUNT William]
Research Notes:
surname HURD is only traditional, and the Rice genealogy by Ward is responsible for the tradition. The legend on the illustration of box which faces page 52 of the H.B.F. should read "Mercy Hunt's Cap box" [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p29]



Pedigree of Mercy (BRIGHAM)
Mercy (BRIGHAM)



Descendants of Mercy (BRIGHAM)
1. Mercy (BRIGHAM) m1. Thomas BRIGHAM m2. Edmond RICE m3. William HUNT
m. Thomas BRIGHAM father: John BRIGHAM mother: Constance WATSON
m. Edmond RICE father: Henry RICE mother: (Unk) (RICE)
m. William HUNT

2nd generation

2. Mary BRIGHAM m. John FAY
m. John FAY
3. Thomas BRIGHAM m1. Mary RICE m2. Susannah SHATTUCK
m. Mary RICE father: Henry RICE mother: Elizabeth MOORE
m. Susannah SHATTUCK
4. John BRIGHAM m1. Sarah DAVIS m2. Deborah HAYNES m3. Sarah BOWKER
m. Sarah DAVIS mother: Bridget LOKER
m. Deborah HAYNES
m. Sarah BOWKER
5. Hannah BRIGHAM m1. Gershom EAMES m2. William WARD
m. Gershom EAMES
m. William WARD father: William WARD mother: Elizabeth WELLS
6. Samuel BRIGHAM m. Elizabeth HOWE
m. Elizabeth HOWE father: Abraham HOWE mother: Hannah WARD
7. Lydia RICE m. James HAWKINS
m. James HAWKINS
8. Ruth RICE m. Samuel WELLS
m. Samuel WELLS father: (Unk) WELLS

3rd generation

9. Samuel FAY m. Tabitha WARD
m. Tabitha WARD father: Increase WARD mother: Record WHEELOCK
10. John FAY m. Elizabeth WELLINGTON
m. Elizabeth WELLINGTON father: Benjamin WELLINGTON mother: Elizabeth SWEETMAN
12. Gershom BRIGHAM m. Mehitable WARREN
m. Mehitable WARREN father: Joseph WARREN mother: Experience WHEELOCK
14. John BRIGHAM m. Martha (BRIGHAM)
m. Martha (BRIGHAM)
22. Samuel BRIGHAM m. Abigail MOORE
m. Abigail MOORE father: Richard MOORE mother: Mary COLLINS

4th generation

38. Ebenezer FAY m. Thankful HYDE
m. Thankful HYDE
39. Banjamin FAY m. Martha MILES
m. Martha MILES
40. John FAY m. Hannah CHILD
m. Hannah CHILD father: John CHILD mother: Hannah FRENCH
41. Martha BRIGHAM m. Joseph BIGELOW
m. Joseph BIGELOW
44. Abigail BRIGHAM m. Abel PRESCOTT
m. Abel PRESCOTT father: Jonathan PRESCOTT mother: Rebecca BULKELEY
45. Sybil BRIGHAM m. Ebenezer GODDARD
m. Ebenezer GODDARD

5th generation

46. Jude FAY m. Sally FAIRBANKS
m. Sally FAIRBANKS father: Eleazer FAIRBANKS mother: Prudence CRARY
47. Elizabeth FAY m. Eli WHITNEY
m. Eli WHITNEY father: Nathaniel WHITNEY mother: Mary CHILD
48. Jonathan FAY m. Joanna PHILLIPS
m. Joanna PHILLIPS father: Ebenezer PHILLIPS mother: Mary SMITH
49. Mary BIGELOW m. Isaac MOORE
m. Isaac MOORE father: Isaac MOORE mother: Mary (MOORE)
51. Lucy PRESCOTT m. Jonathan Jr FAY
m. Jonathan Jr FAY father: Jonathan FAY mother: Joanna PHILLIPS
52. Susanna GODDARD m. Phinehas HOWE
m. Phinehas HOWE