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George, his wife Elizabeth, with their four children, in company with twenty other families, including their pastor Rev. Peter Hobart, most of whom were from Hingham, Norfolk Co., England, left their homes in the Spring of 1635 to make for themselves a home in this New World, where they could enjoy freedom to worship God according to their own conscience more fully than they were allowed to do in England. They landed at Charlestown June 8th but Rev. Peter Hobart says in his journal that they arrived in the harbor on the 4th. From Charlestown they proceeded to Hingham, about fourteen miles southeast of Boston, so named from the town from which most of them came. On the 18th of September 1635 they cast lots for house lots and the following is the record of George's deed:
"Given unto George Marsh, for a houselot, five acres of land, bounded with the land of Richard Osborn eastward, and with the highway leading to Squirrell Hill westward, butting upon the Common northward, and upon the Town Street southward." The following year, March 3, 1636, he made freeman. On 2 July, 1647, he died leaving a wife and four children, as appears from his will made the same day.
George's will is as follows (edited for clarity):
2nd July 1647 Unto wife Elizabeth four pound & ten shillings a year;
One feather bed, one pair of sheets & c(overs). After her decease to return to my son Thomas.
To son Onesefers on yearling steer one yearling heffer, one heffer calf one ewe;
Daughter Elizabeth Turner one yearling heffer;
Daughter Mary Padge (Page) to Ewe goats;
Son Thomas Marsh my house & all my land in Hingham.
Witness | ROLFE WOODARD
| WILLIAM HERSEE
The following year, Nov. 1648, Elizabeth Marsh, his widow, was married to Richard Bowen of Weymouth. Her further history I have been unable to learn.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
Abt 1593 - 1647 (~ 54 years)