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(Probable Ellis ancestors, although their relationship to Elizabeth (Marsh?) Turner is not considered by Charles Anderson to be absolutely established, nor is it likely that it can be.)
A Genealogy of the Family of George Marsh written in 1887 says:
"In 1635 Reverend Peter Hobart brought about 20 families from Hingham, Norfolk, England to America in search of religious freedom. They settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts but then moved about 14 miles southwest of Boston and founded a place they called Hingham after their old home." 1
George Marsh, his wife Elizabeth (the 1887 record gives her maiden name as "Key", but without documentation) and their four children, are assumed to have been part of this group, based on land grants he received in Hingham. When they cast lots for Hingham house lots, the record for 18 September 1635 shows, "Given unto George Marsh for a house lot, 5 acres of land, bounded with the land of Richard Osborn eastward, and with the highway leading to Squirrel Hill westward, butting upon the common northward and unto the Town Street southward." 2
In the following years, George Marsh received "for a planting lot three acres of land lying upon Pleasant Hill" (1635); "one acre of salt marsh lying in Broad Cove Meadow" (1635); ""for a Great Lot fourteen acres of land, twelve acres of it lying by Weymouth River" (4 June 1636); "two acres of land lying upon Squirrel Hill … which two acres of land belongs to his Great Lot" (4 June 1636); "one acre and half of fresh meadow lying in Bear Swamp Meadow" (12 June 1637); "for a small planting lot one acre and half of land lying by the fresh river in the Plaine Neck" (20 November 1637); "one acre of fresh meadow in Turkey Meadow … which acre of meadow the aforesaid George Marsh in a public town meeting did resign and give up all his right and title thereunto unto Thomas Cooper" (5 March 1637/8?); "two parcels of land containing five acres upon Baker’s Hill … and this five acres was given him for satisfaction of a highway that was taken out of his homelot, the other three acres of it was given to make up his proportion of planting land which he should have had upon the south side of the great neck at Conyhassett, it is the seventh lot of the third division" (1647).2
The children of George and Elizabeth Marsh were Thomas, Elizabeth (probably Julia's ancestor), Onesiphorus, and Mary. 1, 2
George Marsh was made a freeman of Hingham on 3 March 1635/36. This implies that he was a member of the Hingham Church before this date. 2 He was chosen to be a Hingham selectman on 30 February 1645/6. He lived there until his death on 2 July 1647. 2
In his will, dated 2 July 1647, "George Marsh of Hingham" bequeathed
"Unto Wife Elizabeth fower pound & tenn shillings a yeare; on fether bed, on payer of sheets and after her desese to return to my sonne Thomas. To sonne Onesefers on yerling stere on yerling hefer on hefer calf on Ewe Dau. Elizabeth Turner on yerling hefer; Dau. Mary Padge to Ewe gotes. Sonne Thomas Marsh my house & all my land in Hingham.
Witnesses Rolfe Woodward
William Hersee" 1
Elizabeth Marsh was married to Richard Bowen in November 1648, in Weymouth.1, 2
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Genealogy of the Family of George Marsh, 1887, Press of FN Boutwell
Great Migration 1634-1635 M-P p. 23-24
In his will, George Marsh names "my daughter Elizebeth Turner" and "my daughter Mary Padge," without identifying the husband of either. The husband of "Mary Padge" is easily identified, as John Page named his second son, baptized at Hingham on 6 November 1643, "Onesephris." John Page later joined his brother-in-law Onesiphorus Marsh in the migration to Salisbury.
The identification of the husband of "Elizebeth Turner" is more difficult and less certain. Torrey shows that there have been at least two proposals for who this man may have been: John Turner of Roxbury and Robert Turner of Boston. No other Turner male with a wife named Elizabeth as early as 1647 appears in Torrey. The second of these suggestions is easily disposed of, as George McCracken has shown that the wife of Robert Turner was Elizabeth Freestone.
John Turner of Roxbury very likely did marry the daughter of George Marsh. On 27 September 1647, Elizabeth Turner, daughter of John Turner, was born at Roxbury. On 7 October 1647, "Goodwife Turner died in child bed, a Godly young woman, though not yet admitted [to Roxbury church], yet should had not her travail prevented." Her given name is not provided by this record, but the name of her only child hints that that may have been the name of the mother as well. George Marsh made his will on 2 July 1647, at a time when the wife of John Turner of Roxbury would have been at least six months pregnant. 2