thaniel, baptized March 3. 1671. married Eliz-
beth .Spencer. 3. Joseph, baptized March 3,
i()7i. married. 1720. Hannah . 4. Sarah,
baptized February 17. 1673. married John Mer-
rill. 3. Elizabeth, baptized June 27. 1673. 6.
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Hannah, baptized December 3. 1677, died
young. 7. li^benezer, baptized February 23,
1679. 8. Hannah, baptized April 10. 1681,
married Deacon Olmsted, baptized January 13,
1684. 10. Hepzibali, baptized June 6, 1686,
married Jonathan Wadsworth. 11. Jonathan,
baptized Augtist 7, 1688. married (first) Eliz-
abeth Wadsworth; (second) Elizabeth Loomis.
Ciiild of second wife: 12. Susannali, born
February 5, 1710-11.
(III) Captain John (3), son of John (2)
Marsh, was born in Hadley or Northampton.
in 1668, and removed when young with his
parents to Hartford. He was selectman there
in 1704-10-14. He was chosen to explore the
land for the new plantation which became
Litchfield. He was commissioned lieutenant
May 17, 1717, and in May, 1722, captain and
justice of the peace for Litchfield. He was
the first on the list of proprietors there, and
had the second choice of lots. He chose next
to Rantam river, where he was appointed to
erect a grist mill. He had command of a
garrison of thirty men for defense against the
Indians. He returned to Hartford again and
was selectman in 1730 and 1735. He was
also deputy to the general court, associate
judge of the county court, justice of the peace,
member of the council of war. He was order-
ed in 1732 by the general court to build a
church for the second society of Farmington,
and was appointed by Hartford to lay out two
Connecticut towns. He died at Hartford,
October i, 1744, and was buried by the side
of his second wife in the old burying ground
by Centre church, where their gravestones
may still be seen. He married (first) Decem-
ber 12, 1695, Mabel Pratt, who died June 6,
i6g6. He married (second) January fi, 1698,
Elizabeth I'itkin. who died December i, 1748.
Children: i. John, born January 31, 1699-
1700. aged thirteen. 2. Ebenczer, born No-
vember 3. 1701, married Deborah Ruell. 3.
Elizabeth, born November 20, 1703, married
(first) John Bird: (second) Cook. 4.
William, baptized July i, 1706, married Sus-
anna Webster. 5. George, baptized February
29, 1708, married Lydia Bird. 6. Isaac, born
November 8, 1709, married Susanna Pratt. 7.
John, born October 20, 1712, married Sarah
Webster. 8. Timothy, born October i. 17 14.
married Sarah Nott. 9. Hezekiah. mentioned
below.
(IV) Captain Hezekiah, son of Captain
John (3) Marsh, was born .April 26, and bap-
tized May I, 1720, in Hartford. He went
with his parents to Litchfield, where his boy-
ii-6
hood was spent. He settled in Hartford and
became a prominent man there. He succeeded
to his fatlier"s business and the account book
kept by them both is still in existence, and was
owned at last accounts by his great-grandson,
John E. Marsh, of Hartford. In his will he
freed his negro slave girl, when she became
twenly-six years of age. He died in 1791,
aged seventy-one. He married (first) De-
cember I. 1744, Christian Edwards, born 1727,
died June 16, 1 770, daughter of John Edwards.
He married (second) Elizabeth Jones, who
(lied October 26, 1788. widow of Levi Jones,
of Hartford. He married (third) Hannah
Tilcy, who died 1789, widow of Samuel Tiley.
Children, all by first wife: i. Jerusha, born
.\ugust 28, 174 — , married Joseph Wadsworth.
2. John, born November 6, 1749. died young.
3. Abigail, born November 29, 1750, married
Theodore Skinner; died 1808. 4. John, born
October 4, 1753. mentioned below. 5. Chris-
tian, born August 8, 1755, married Captain
Charles Merrill. 6. Son, born and died 1759.
7. Anne, born June 10, 1761, married
Bunce. 8. Hezekiah, born Alarch 2, 1763,
married Sarah Burnham.
(V) John (4), son of Captain Hezekiah
Marsh, was born in Hartford, October 4, 1753,
died in 1817. He served in the revolution
under Colonel Swift from June 24 to Decem-
ber 13, 1780, in North Hartford, and in the
Third Regiment from .-\ugust 27 to December
24. 1 781. He married, in 1783, Susan Bunce.
born 1765. died 1827, daughter of Timothy
I'.unce, of Hartford. Children: i. John, born
April 24, 1784, died December 13, 1862; mar-
ried. 1829, Chlora Mills. 2. Su.san, born Au-
gust 12, 1786, died 1812; married, 1810, Sam-
uel Beckwith. 3. Edwards, born June 15, 1788,
married Mary .Ann Egglcston. 4. Michael,
born .March 27, 1790. mentioned below. 5.
-Abigail, born March 9, 1792, died 1866: mar-
ried, 1817, Palmer Clark. 6. Ferderick, born
January 3, 1794, married Harriet Hills. 7.
Ciuy C, born August 4, 1796, married Lamira
Way. 8. Timothy B., born October 13, 1799,
married Abby Hubbard. 9. James E.. born
December 23. 1801, married Eliza Capcn.
(\T) Michael, son of John (4) Marsh, was
born in Hartford, March 22, 1790. He was a
leading merchant in Hartford of the firm of
.Mlyn & Marsh. .About 1840 he removed to
West .Springfield, where he kept a country
store and w-as postmaster. He also served as
town clerk and treasurer there until his death,
July 21, 1847. Interred in churchyarrl in W'est
i^pringfield. He married, in 1828, Catherine
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Allyn, bom July 8, 1793. died 1849, daughter
of Colonel Job and Abigail (Mather) Allyn.
(See Allyn and Mather families). Children:
I. Jane C, bom December 11, 1829, married
(first) George \V. Rice: (second) Rev. C. L.
Eastman. 2. Charles, born April 13, 1832,
mentioned below. 3. Oliver, born February
27. i''^35- married Ella C. Ricker. 4. Daniel
|a\. born July 2~ . 1837, mentioned elsewhere.
(\ II) Charles, ehiest son of Michael and
Catherine (.Allyn) Marsh, was born in Hart-
ford. Connecticut, April 13, 1832, and died in
Springfield, Massachusetts, November 27,
1891. (The following sketch of him is taken
with slight change from the "IJiographical Re-
view," of Hampden County, published in
1895). 1"^^ began to learn business at an early
age in his father's store and postotfice, where
he soon mastered the routine work of the latter
institution, and at tifteen years of age was vir-
tually i)ostmaster. The death of his father ind
mother brought early responsibilities upon his
shoulders, antl as a lad of seventeen he found
himself face to face with the serious problems
t)f life, and though still a boy he was the head
of a family, liy a diligent use of time, shared
between hard work and study, he began to
prepare for college. He attended the West-
field -Academy, and in 1851 was ready to enter
Williams College. Though his preparation had
been meagre his natural scholarship and his
determination to succeed enabled him not only
to take a creditable i)lace in his studies, but
soon to become the recognized leader of his
class. He proved his scholarly ability by leav-
ing college and working throughout his junior
year and still retaining the lead in his class,
graduating valedictorian of the class of 1855,
with John J. Ingalls, late United States senator
of Kansas, as his foremost rival for the first
honor. The associations of his college life he
always cherished, and William College and all
its interests were ever dear to him. There
was an uncommon bond between him and his
beloved president, and the death of Mark
Hopkins in later years came to him with
l)eculiar meaning. Leaving college with a rec-
ord which could hardly have been more full of
jiromise, Charles Marsh took up his residence
in Springfield, and, after a short time spent in
teaching, entered upon a business career. In
1857 he was chosen treasurer of the Five Cents
Savings liank. and two years later he was
given the position of secretary of the Hamp-
den i-'ire Insurance Company. He served that
organization until dissolution at the time of
the great Portland fire, and then as associated
with Dr. J. C. I'ynchon in a general insurance
business. In 1866 he was elected cashier of
the I'ynchon National Bank, and continued as
an officer in that institution to the time of his
death. The responsibility of the bank soon
fell upon him, owing to the advancing years
of the president. Colonel H. X. Case: and for
twenty-five \'ears he directed its affairs. At
the death of Colonel Case, Mr. Marsh was
made i)resident of the bank. That Mr. Marsh
should not have followed a profession, in which
with his exceptional mental endowments and
scholarly tastes he could not have failed to
have won wide reputation and distinction, was
a suprise and a disapjjointment to many of
his friends, and in later years was a source of
regret to himself; but in engaging in business
he never lost his love for books, and through-
out his life he was a scholar in the truest sense.
Charles Marsh has been called the ideal college
man in business. The same trained mind
which made him prominent as a scholar he
ajiplied to the problems of the business W'orld,
and the widely diversified interests which
looked to him for guidance in matters of
finance, attest his success as a man of business.
His usefulness in the community was proved
by the almost unlimited demands made upon
his time. Few' men in the city in which he
lived had a w'ider influence ; and no project,
whether in the social, civic, or religious world,
which looked to the betterment of the condi-
ti(Mi of his fellowmen failed to enli.st his sym-
pathy, and no worth)' cause ever appealed to
him without receiving generous encourage-
ment. He was a man tlioroughly abreast of
the times, and was ([uickly responsive to mod-
ern thought. He had a wonderful amount of
general knowledge, and in constantly adding
to it he was but satisfying the demands of an
intensely active mind. He belonged to a family
of Democrats, but in relation to politics he was
entirely independent. He had no love for
politics as i)eriains to the manipidation of
offices, but in the principles underlying the
greatest parties he was keenly interested. He
held a position of jirominence and respect in
local politics, but was seldom persuaded to be
a candidate for office. He served one year in
the common council, and was a candidate for
mavor in 187'): and in 1882 and in 1883 his
name was on the state ticket for secretary of
state. Probalily no man in S])ringfield was
activelv identified with so many institutions
as Charles Marsh, and he stood as the rcjire-
sentative of nearly all the charitable organiza-
tions of Hampden county. The financial re-
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sponsibilities which he carried in adihlion to
those of the Pynchon Bank were ahiiost with-
out number. He was often chided by his
friends for undertaking too wilhngly the
burdens which were so continually put upon
him : but the generous impulse of his nature
would not allow him to turn aside an 0])p(3r-
tunity for doing good, even though it over-
taxed his time and strength.
His first marked benevolent work was in
establishing the Soldiers' Rest Fund, at the close
of the war of the rebellion, and from that time
on he never ceased to work for the suffering.
He was for many years, uj) to the time of his
death, treasurer of the Springfield Hospital,
and was untiring in his devotion to the work
of building u]) that institution to the highest
degree of usefulness. He was treasurer of
the School for Christian Workers from its
organization in 1885. and to this work he gave
most generously of his time. He was also
treasurer of Hampden County Benevolent
Association, as well as of the Hampden Con-
ference of Congregational Churches. He was
a member of the finance committee of the
.American Missionary .\ssociation and his re-
port for that committee, delivered at North-
ampton, the year before he died, was one of
the inspiring features of the meeting. He had
served as treasurer of the Connecticut \ alley
Congregational Club, and one year as its presi-
dent. He was a corporator in the Clark Insti-
tution for Deaf Mute.s at .Xorthampton ; and
was one of the most active members of the
board, never failing to be in attendance at the
annual meetings. He was secretary and treas-
urer of the Springfield Cemetery .Vssociation,
and auditor for the Springfield Home for the
I-'riendless. He was also vice-president of
the Springfield Institution for Savings, presi-
dent of the Springfield clearing-house, trustee
and member of the finance committee of the
Five Cents Savings Bank, treasurer of the
old Springfield & Xcw London Road, commis-
sioner of the city sinking fund, and auditor of
the old Springfield Fire Assurance Com])any.
Aside from these business and philanthroijic
associations Mr. Marsh had been the direct-
ing hand in the settlement of some of the
largest estates in the city. He joined the church
while a student at the W'estfield .Xcademy, and
during his course at Williamstown he was an
active worker in the religious life of the col-
lege. Immediately after graduation he be-
came a member of the South Congregational
Church, where he grew to be a pillar of
strength ; and it was in his church associations
that the richest side of his character was shown.
He had held almost every office in the ciun'ch
and [jarish. and in him the pastors had found
a true and helpful friend. He was always
deeply interested in the work of the Sunday
sch<M)l. partly out of hi.<; love of studying the
I'.ible ; and he is remembered by many who
had not the privilege of an intimate acquaint-
ance by his work in his famous Sunday school
class. Here the personality and character of
the man found ample ])lay. His love of the
truth was his inspiration, and nothing gave
him more genuine delight than in studying his
Greek Testament to find for himself an inter-
pretation which seemed to throw new light on
a passage in (]uestion. In this way he turned
his scholarly research to practical use, and his
Sunday school expositions to a class of a hun-
dred or more, were full of originality. He
was a careful student of modern theology, and
he met the progressive thought of the day with
a frankness that won deep respect even among
those whose narrower views were at variance
with his. Charles Marsh was married in Spring-
field, October 22, 1857, to Helen Penniman.
who was born December 31, 1836, and died in
Springfield, Xovember 20, 1894. Iler parents
were Henry Harding and Lucy Ann (Bond)
Penniman, of S])ringfield, Massachusetts. Four
children were horn of this marriage: I. Lucy
Penniman. horn July 8. 1858. 2. William
Charles, mentioned at length below. 3. /vuna
I'.ond. Xovember 26. 1865. 4. F.dward Hard-
ing. December 9, 1869.
\III) William Charles, elder of the two
sons of Charles and Helen (Penniman ) Marsh,
was born in Springfield, I'ebruary 13, 1862.
He graduated from the high school in the
class of 1881. and before a clerk in the Chico-
pee Bank at Springfield. .After two years in
that institution he was bookkeeper and teller
successively for ten years in the Pynchon Na-
tional Bank, his experience there affording
him valuable training for the position of county
treasurer, to which he was elected in the fall
of 1891. .\s a matter of fact his candidacy was
suggested by his successful career in the bank-
ing. He filled the oflfice of treasurer three
years, successfully, and was especially service-
able in negotiating economically the county
liians during the panicky times of that period
— 1892-95. While the nominee of the Demo-
cratic party, Mr. Marsh had hundreds of sup-
porters in th Republican ranks; and in 1895
the strongest .speech was by a leading politician
of that political faith, urging his nomination
by that ccinvention. In 1892 Mr. Marsh's first
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(.Ifction was aidud by ilic general dissatisfac-
tion with previous official record. His own
management was not only eminently satisfac-
tory, but lie instituted certain long needed re-
forms. -As a candidate for re-election he had
the enthusiastic supptjrt of his party, the
cordial approval of the press, the principal
bankers in the county, and the leading mem-
bers of the bar. The time was unfavorable,
however : and, owing to the strong Republican
.sentiment prevailing. -Mr. Marsh w^as defeated
by a small majority at the polls. During Cleve-
land's first administration he was disbursmg
agent for the L'nited States government for
tbe new postoffice building in Springfield.
.After his service as county treasurer Mr.
Marsh held an important position in the
I uited States customs department from 1895
to 1899. being deputy surveyor. In 1901 he
was in New York City, cashier for X'ernam &
Company, brokers, and in 1902 he was ap-
pointed city auditor of Springfield, Massa-
cbusetts. aiid has since held that position.
I'ollowing the death of his father he was made
clerk and treasurer of the Springfield Ceme-
terv .Association, and trustee of the Soldiers'
Rest .Association. He has also been treasurer
of the South Church, the Springfield Canoe
Club, and the Springfield Bicycle Club. The
only social club of which he is now a member
is the Xayasset. May 4. 1898, he was elected
auditor of the Springfield Institution for Sav-
ings. This office was abolished by a law
enacted in 1908: the duties of the above office
are now transacted by the trustees.
William C. .Marsh married, June 24, 1902,
Clara Louise (Hall) Hicks, born in Brooklyn.
New ^â– ork. December 14. 1871, widow of
Francis .Allen Hicks, and daughter of Dr.
Charles William and lunma Potter (Redfield)
Hall, of Xew London. Connecticut. They
have one child. Charles Hall, born February
9- '907-
The .\llen or .Allyn families were
ALLICX very lumierous in Xew England,
even in the first years of the
settlenunt of the colonies. They were of
h'nglish )>loo(l for the most part, and the name
has always been numerous in England from
the beginning <'f the use of surnames.
There came to ancient W'indsitr, Connecti-
cut, no less than three .Mien families, one of
Scotch ancestry and two of iMiglish. b(nh
spellings being in use. Thomas, Samuel and
Matthew .Allyn. all immigrants, were brothers.
Tiieir parents appear to have come al.so, but
little is known of them. "Ould Mr. .Allyn"
died at Windsor, September 12, 1675; "Old
Mrs Allyn" died there .August 5, 1649. One
or both of these records doubtless pertain to
the parents of the Allyns. Samuel Allen, as
most of his descendants spell the name, re-
moved to Windsor before 1644; held offices
there ; was buried .April 28, 1646, aged si.xty ;
widow removed to Xorthampton and married
(second) William Hurlburt ; she died .\ovem-
ber 13, 1(187. Deacon Thomas .Allyn, bap-
tized. It is believed, at Chelmsford, England,
Xovember 22, 1604, came to Cambridge, Mass-
achusetts, in 1632; removed to Hartford in
1635: married (first) Lsabella ; (sec-
ond) .Martha Gibson, widow of Roger; he re-
moved to -Middletown where he was deacon
in 1670; deputy to the general court; select-
man : adopted his nephew Obadiah, son of
Samuel: died C)ctol>er 16, 1688. .Matthew,
the third brother, mentioned below.
(I) Hon. Matthew Allyn. brother of Sam-
uel and Thomas, son of Samuel Allyn, of
I'.ramton, county Devon, England, was bap-
tized at Chelmsford, county Esse.x, .April 16,
1604. He came to Xew England with the
original I'raintree company in 1632 to Charles-
town. .Massachusetts, where in 1633 he re-
ceived a forty-five acre allotment of land, the
largest of any of the settlers. From time to
time he had grants of other lands at Charles-
town and in 1635 he owned five houses on
Trinity plot of Cambridge. He lived in Cam-
bridge near the meeting house and was the
largest landholder of that town. He was ad-
mitted a freeman March 4, 1635; was deputy
to the general court in i('36. In 1637 he went
to Hartford, Connecticut, of which he was
one of the original jiroprietors, having a house-
lot on the road to the Neck, now Windsor
street. He had a hundred and ten acres in
that and adjoining lots. He owned the first
mill at Hartford at the foot of what is now
West Pearl street. In May. 163S, he was
lodging with Roger Williams, a jiroprietor of
Windsor, and in i()40 was a large land-owner
in Killingworth and Simsbury, Coimccticut.
He was a member of Rev. Mr. Hooker's
church, but for some doctrinal difference w-as
excommunicated June 3, 1644. This differ-
ence doubtless was the cause of his removal
to Windsor where as early as 1638 he had
bought all the lands, houses, servants, goods
and chattels of the Xew Plymouth Company,
thus extinguishing the last vestige of the
Plymouth right and title on the Coimecticut
river. His W'indsor homestead stood close to
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the old trading house. He as deputy to the
general court from 1648 to 1658, except 1653;
magistrate 1657 to 1667. and was much em-
ployed in the public service ; committee for the
I'nited Colonies of Xew England. 1^)60-64.
and was associated with his son on a commis-
sion to deal with the Indians : moderator ; on
the committee to i)etition Charles I. for the
new charter: chairman of the committee to
treat with Xew Haven for a union of the
colonies, 1662-63 : chairman of the committee
to treat with the Dutch envoys from New
Amsterdam : on a committee with Air. Welles
to settle the government of the English towns
on the west end of Long Island in i(/)3-64:
on the committee to settle the boundary w itli
Massachusetts. Rhode Island and the South.
He and his son John were assistants under
the union of Connecticut and Xew Haven
colonies in 1665-67, and was a patentee and
custodian with W'yllis and Talcott of the Con-
necticut charter. He was active and public-
spirited, energetic, useful, just, persistent, and
was rightly called one of the pro])s of the
colony. He died February i, 1670-71. His
will was dated January 30. 1670-1. His wife
Margaret was sole executri.x. Children: i.
Hon. John, magistrate, lieutenant colonel, one
of the foremost men in both civil and military
life in his day; married, Xovember 19, 1651,
Ann Smith; (second) 1675. Hannah Welles,
widow of Samuel Welles. 2. Captain Thomas,
mentioned below. 3. Mary, married. Jime 11,
1646. Cai)tain Benjamin Xewberry ; she died
December 14, 1703.
(H) Captain Thomas, son of Hon. Matthew
Allyn, was born in England, died February 14,
1695-96. He resided in Windsor; was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1658; was listed as a
trooper. In 165 1 he was the accidental cause
of the death of Henry Stiles. He married,
October 21, 1658, .\bigai! W'arham. daughter
of Rev. John Warham. Children, born at
W'indsor: i. John, born August 17, 1659, died
October 4, 1659. 2. Hon. Matthew, born June
5, 1660. 3. Tliomas, born March 11, 1662-63.
mentioned below. 4. John, born June 23, 1665.
5. Samuel, born Xovember 3, 1667. 6. Jane,
born July 22. 1670. married Wolcott.
7. Abigail, born C Jctober 17. 1672. married
I'.issell. 8. Sarah, born July 13. 1674.
9. Hester, born October 29. 1679.
(IH) Lieutenant Thomas (2), .son of Cap-
tain Thomas d) Allyn, was born in Windsor,
March 11. 1662-63. died there April 6, 1709.
He married (first) January 6. 1686. Martha
Wolcott, daughter of Simon Wolcott. She
\\a>< I)orn in 16^)4 and died September 8, 11)87.
He niarried (second) Joanna . Chil-
dren of first wife, born at Windsor: i. Ben-
jamin, born October 14, 1686, mentioned
below. 2. Martha, born September i, 1687,
died September 3. 1687. Child of second wife:
3. Joanna, born Xovember 22, 1703.
(I\') l')enjamin. son of Lieutenant Thomas
(2) .Mlyn, was born in Windsor, October 14.
1686. died there December 14. 1713. He mar-
ried there. December 18. 1707. Ann Wat-~nn.
Children, born at W'indsor: I. .Vnn, born
December 13, 1708. died September 10, 1717.
2. Benjamin, born April 8, 171 1, mentioned
below. 3. John, born July 4, 171 3.
( \' I Captain I*>enjamin (2), son of I'enja-
min ( I ) Allyn. was born in Windsor, April 8,
1711. He married there. .August 9, 1733, Abi-
gail Loomis, who died May 29, 1795, aged
seventy-four years. He died March 18, 1776.
Children, born at Windsor: i. Abigail, born
October 30. 1734, died September 12, 1737.
2. Benjamin, born Se])tember 13, 1736, died
August 9, 1789; married Sarah ; (sec-
ond) .Abigail , who died May 29, 1795,
3. Abigail, born October 26, 1738. 4. John,
lnorn May 26. 1740. married. May 2, 1761,
Elizabeth Mather. 5. Samuel, born April 17,
1742, married, Jamiary 5, 1764, Lucy Gillett.
6. Eunice, born July 30, 1743. 7. Ann, born
lulv 21, 1745. 8. Job. born .September 15,
1747 ; died young. 9. Dorothy, born February
12. 1749-50. 10. Job. mentioned beiow.
(VI) (i'olonel job. son of P.enjamin (2)
Allyn, was born in Windsor. November 24,