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Amos Marsh
b.15 Nov 1733 Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 3 Nov 1757
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[edit] Early HistoryA previous version of this profile claimed he was born 15 Nov 1733 in Rutland, Massachusetts, but there is no such birth listed in its vital records. There is a birth on that date for an Amos Marsh in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, son of Samuel Marsh and his wife Zerviah.
subscriber link See this free link to same information. Amos Marsh married first (in Rutland, Massachusetts) Beulah Leonard and had a few children before moving the family to Warwick, Massachusetts, where he was one of the earliest residents and active in the town's politics. He was listed as owner of lot #24 in 1761 (Source #2, p. 184). He served on many influential committees including one that drafted the “instructions to the town representative” in 1776. These instructions included the following language that sheds some light on the religious tolerance of the town:
Marsh served as selectman and town clerk several times before running off at the age of 45 with 36-year-old Jerusha (SMITH) DOOLITTLE, wife of Amzi. But what happened to him and Jerusha after the controversy? Blake writes that they were apprehended somewhere in New York, tried and convicted in Northampton [county seat at the time]. They were fined and punished and Marsh was to wear a large “A” on his outer clothing from that day forward. But there is conflicting information about the fate of Amos Marsh after the "Elder Hix" controversy of 1778 in Warwick, and subsequent records suggest he married Jerusha: Charles A. Moore, in _Warwick Massachusetts: Biography of a Town_, indicates that Amos Marsh, after the controversy, returned to Warwick where he lived a rather "pitiful" existence until desperate in his old age, friends collected enough money to send him to live with his son. This was from the diary entry of William Cobb, dated August 19, 1819. Amos would have been 86 in 1819. But researcher Jillaine Smith researched transcripts of this diary in December 2007 and came away believing this reference was to Amos Marsh, Jr., not the father. In addition, Warwick census records from 1790 through 1810 list no Amos Marsh of the right age. Census records, in fact, shed conflicting light:
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