Thomas Marshfield^[1]

Abt 1601 - 1649  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Thomas Marshfield  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1601	England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 1644 and 1649  [3]
  Person ID	I2021	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2020

  
  

  Family	Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) [?],   b. Abt 1605, Exeter, Devonshire, England bur. 30 Sep 1654, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age ~ 49 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1632	England   [2]
  Children	1. Samuel Marshfield,   b. Abt 1626, Exeter, Devonshire, England d. 8 May 1692, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 66 years)   2. Mercy Marshfield,   b. Abt 1627, Exeter, Devonshire, England d. 4 Jul 1704, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 77 years)   3. Sarah Marshfield,   c. 25 Aug 1633, St Mary Arches, Exeter, Devonshire, England d. 9 Mar 1708/09, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 75 years)   4. Priscilla Marshfield   d. 20 Oct 1639, Windsor, Connecticut Colony
  Family ID	F760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Marshfield has been the subject of many books and articles largely due to his being a disreputable merchant who caused an uproar in the Towne of Windsor for the entire decade of the 1640s. To top it all off, he disappeared leaving his family destitute and his wife the subject of witchcraft rumors that eventually drove her out of town. He emigrated from Exeter, Devonshire, England to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 on the Regard of Barnstaple. He was accompanied by his unnamed wife, daughters Sara and Mercy, and son Samuel. He became a freeman 6 May 1635. He was a co-founder of Windsor Connecticut Colony, probably settling in that area of the Connecticut River Valley by 1636, about a year after, the Valley's first settlement, Wethersfield, was founded in 1635. At some point Marshfield, then of Windsor, became a partner with Henry Wolcott and Samuel Wakeman when they chartered two vessels, the Charles of Bristol and the Hopewell of London to be bound for New England. Marshfield borrowed [1, 3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S516] American Genealogist, "Thomas Maarshfield's Wife Mercy; Did Their Daughter Mercy Marry John Dumbleton?" Douglas Richardson. Vol. 67 (1992) pp. 11 - 14 (Reliability: 3). [S516] American Genealogist, "The English Origin of Thomas Marshfield of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn.; New Light on His Wife and Children." Douglas Richardson. Vol. 63 (1988) pp. 161 - 163 (Reliability: 3). [S672] Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, Great Migration 1634-5, (Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2007 ), Vol V, M-P (Reliability: 3).