Mary Marshall

The daughter and only child of DAVID & KATHERINE (HOSKINS) WILTON, the exact year or place of her birth is not known. "The Great Migration Begins" speculates that it is 1632. She married SAMUEL MARSHALL on May 6, 1652 in Windsor, Hartford, Conn. Capt. Marshall died in the Great Swamp Fight of King Philip's War in 1674.

The children of Samuel & Mary (Wilton) Marshall were:

Samuel, LYDIA (MARSHALL) HAWLEY, David, Thomas, Eliakim, John, and Elizabeth.

biographical notes

From Find A Grave Memorial# 28475529

Mary died intestate, so the Court ordered distribution of her estate to the children as follows: to the eldest son, a double portion, & to the six others equal portions, and that the younger children be secure until they come of age.

The History and Genealogies of Ancent Windsor Connecticut: including
East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Lockes, and Ellington. 1635-1891. Volume II. Genealogies and Biographies. By Henry R. Stiles Page 465-466.

A biography of Capt. Samuel Marshall is given and a list of children with his wife Mary (dau. Lieut. David) Wilton who he married on 6 May 1652.

• 1. Samuel, b. 27 May 1653; Bap. 7 Feb, 1657
• 2. Lydia, b. 18 Feb. 1655
• 3. Lydia, b. 3 Feb 1657; Bap. 7 Feb 1657. Married Joseph Hawley.
• 4. Thomas, b 23 Apr. 1659; died before 1674.
• 5. David, b. 24 July 1661; Married Abigail Phelps, 9 Dec. 1686.
• 6. Thomas, b. 18 Feb 1663; Married Mary Drake on 3 March 1685/6 (my ancestor)
• 7. Mary, b. 8 May 1667;
• 8. Eliakim, B. 10 July, 1669; Married Sarah Leet of Guilford, 23 Aug. 1704
• 9. John, b. 10 April, 1672; Married Abigail ________.
• 10. Elizabeth, b. 27 Sept. 1674

History of Torrington, Connecticut, From Its First Settlement in 1737, with Biographies and Genealogies. By Rev. Samuel Orcutt. 1878. Gives a similar list of children omitting 3. Lydia.