March Family Line

March

Name origin: A boundary, a limit, the boundary lines between England, Scotland and Wales were called "The Marches." Lords Marches were noblemen who anciently inhabited, guarded and secured these marches.

______ March

    CHILD:
  1. Elizabeth March m.May 12, 1594 Runham, England Henry Dow

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Hugh March

b.1618; parents unknown
d.March 12, 1693
m.(1)ca.1645 Judith _______
d.Dec. 14, 1675
m.(2)May 29, 1676 Dorcas (Bowman) Blackleach; widow of Benjamin Blackleach of Cambridge
b.d/o Nathaniel Bowman of Watertown
d.Nov. 22, 1683
m.(3)Dec. 3, 1685 Sarah (Cutting) Henley; widow of James Browne and widow of William Healey
b.d/o Capt. John Cutting of Charlestown and Newbury
d.Oct. 25, 1699

    CHILDREN of Hugh and Judith included:
  1. George March b.abt.1646 d.1699 m.June 12, 1672 Mary Folsom
  2. Judith March b.Jan. 3, 1652 d.July 11, 1689 Newbury, MA m.Apr. 13, 1670 Newbury, MA Thomas Thurlo
  3. Hugh March, Capt. b.Nov. 3, 1656 d.Feb. 26, 1726/7m.March 29, 1683 Sarah Moody
  4. John March b.June 10, 1658 d.bef.Aug. 25, 1712 m.Oct. 1, 1679 Jemima True
  5. Mary March b.ca.1660 m.March 27, 1691 Woobridge, NJ Isaac Tappan as his second wife
  6. James March, Lt. & Capt.; b.Jan. 11, 1663/4 d.Dec. 12, 1721 m.abt.1689 Mary Walker; d/o Capt. Shubael Walker of Bradford

NOTES: Hugh sailed from Southampton, England on the ship Confidence of London April 1638. He was listed as a servant, aged twenty, of Steph Kent, aged 27, of Nether Wallop, Hampshire.

From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: GEORGE, b. Eng. 1622, came to N.E. 1638 as a servant to Stephen Kent; freeman at Boston, Mass., 1666.
HUGH, carpenter, brother of preceding, b.Eng. 1618; came to N.E. 1638 as servant to Stephen Kent; afterwards settled at Newbury, Mass.

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