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Hannah Marsh

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  • Name Hannah Marsh 
    Born Bef 1626  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I5394  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family John Finch,   b. Abt 1620, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jun 1685, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Married Aft 8 Nov 1652  of, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2347  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "John Finch
      Origin: Unknown
      Migration: 1632
      First Residence: Watertown
      Removes: Stamford 1642
      Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
      Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
      An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
      Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
      Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
      Marriage:
      (1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
      (2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
      Children:
      With first wife:
      i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
      With second wife:
      ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
      iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
      iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
      v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
      Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
      Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
      Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
      The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
      Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

      2. The book "Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society," by Mary Beth Norton, 2011, pp. 232-36, contains a legal case concerning Hannah Marsh as both a spinster and during two marriages who was targeted by libel and gossip. Mentions she came to New Haven from Boston in 1645 after having recently arrived in America as a servant girl. Mentions husbands Lancelot Fuller and John Finch (John being the second husband). The case starts in 1645 and continues until Feb. 1665 when she was known as Hannah Finch. In April 1652 she is known as Goody Fuller.

      3. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
      "1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin)...
      John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
      i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
      John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
      The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
      References:
      As cited.
      Stamford Town Records.
      "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."