The genealogy of John Marsh of Salem and his descendants

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John Marsh reached Salem in 1633, and by 1888 his descendants were spread across New England and well beyond it. Colonel Lucius B. Marsh of Boston spent years gathering them — parish registers, deeds, probate files, and letters written to relatives who might know a birth date — and the Reverend Dwight W. Marsh of Amherst edited what he assembled.American family genealogies of this generation were compiled while their subjects’ grandchildren were still alive to be asked, which is what makes them irreplaceable: they preserve marriages, removals and burial places that survive in no public record. The index alone runs to several hundred allied surnames. With a portrait plate and the compiler’s account of how the work came to be undertaken.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1888 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.