Person:John Marcy (1)

John first appeared in Roxbury, MA. He was an original settler of Woodstock along with 13 others from Roxbury, MA in Jun 1686. The area was originally called New Roxbury. At the time, John was about 23, married, and had one daughter, Anna. He drew town lot 9 and farm lot 36.

There are three memorials to John in the Woodstock Cemetery. The oldest reads: “In memory of Mr. John Marcy, Dec’d Dec 23 1724, aged 62 years.”^[5]

Text References

1. ↑ Charles Edney Marcy; Charles Edney Marcy; Pauline (Pauline Grace Thompson) Marcy; and Herman A. (Herman Alvin) Marcy. History and Genealogy of John Marcy, 1662-1724, Woodstock, Conn: and many of his descendants; eleven generations. (United States: C.E. Marcy, c1980).
2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Granberry Family and Allied Families: including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry. (Hartford, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1945).
3. ↑ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, and Newton Case Brainard. Vital Records of Woodstock, 1686-1854. (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1914)
   p.31.

   "John Marcy Dyed December 23. 1724 in Woodstock (Senex.)"

4. ↑ Thwing, Walter Eliot. History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1991).

   Note in History of Roxbury 1st Church says “Son of the high Sheriff of Limerick, b. abt 1662, m. Sarah Hadlock. In Apr 1686, he moved to Quatosett (Woodstock), CT.” dated 7 Jun 1685. <ref>History of 1st Church of Roxbury by Walter Eliot Thwing, Boston, 1908</ref>

5. ↑ Source:Marcy, Charles Edney. History and Genealogy of John Marcy, 1662-1724, Woodstock, Conn.