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Jonathan Blake's History of the Town of Warwick... describes how Amos and Jerusha (Smith Doolittle) were chased down and captured "somewhere in New York" and taken to and tried and convicted of adultery in Northampton, MA (county seat at the time).
That this was the only chase and capture described (as opposed to the several other couples involved in the controversy) may be due to the fact that the wife that Amos Marsh abandoned (Beulah Leonard) came from a large family of brothers, who may have been quite eager to chase down the man who abandoned their sister and her many children.
References
- ↑ Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
p. 171.
MARSH, Amos and Beulah Leonard, Nov. 3, 1757.
- Leonard, Manning. Memorial, Genealogical, Historical and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637 : of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants. (1896)
pp. 92-93.
133. Beulah Leonard5 (Moses4, Moses3, John2, Solomon1) daughter of Moses and Beulah (____) Leonard, b. in Worcester Oct. 28, 1735; m. (published July 16, 1757), Amos Marsh, b. Nov. 15, 1733, son of Samuel and Zerviah (Thomas) Marsh, of Rutland, Mass. They resided for a time in Rutland, and afterwards Warwick, Mass. Amos Marsh is said to have eloped "sometime during the Revolution with Mrs. Amzi Doolittle. It is certain that Beulah remained here (Warwick) some years after that event." The children of Beulah and Amos Marsh were--
332. Samuel Marsh6, b Jul 18, 1758 in Rutland; d. of the small-pox at Chamblee June 7, 1776, aged 17 yrs, 10 mos, 19 days ("a soldier in the expedition against Canada, died on the march.)
333. Mercy Marsh6, bap in Rutland, Oct. 5, 1760; d. May 7, 1790.
334. Jonas Marsh6, b. July 17, 1762; "went to Shoreham."
335. Beulah Marsh6, b. Dec. 30, 1764; m. Feb 5, 1795 James Forbes of Shoreham, Vt.
336. Amos Marsh6, b. Mar. 19, 1770; m. 1 pub. Jan. 7, 1793 Mary Dexter Eaton, 4 children; m 2: 1804 Esther Barber, b. 1776; d. 1856. 8 children.
337. Leonard Marsh6, b. Sept. 17, 1772; "went to Shoreham, Vt."
338. Joseph Marsh6, b. Feb 16, 1775; d. Oct 10, 1779.
- Blake, Jonathan. History of the Town of Warwick, Massachusetts: from its first settlement to 1854. (Boston, Massachusetts: Noyes & Holmes, 1873)
p. 60-61.
"... he ["one Elder Hix an itinerant Baptist minister"] absconded from the town with a young girl, the miserable dupe of his nefarious wiles, and a deluded proselyte to his pretended religion. This girl's name was --- Doolittle. As soon as the rookery was broken up by the arch demon's decamping, Mr. Amos Marsh cleared out with Mrs Doolittle, the girl's mother, and Mr. Amzi Doolittle, the father of the girl, went off with Mr. Thomas Barber's wife."
- ↑ Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass, 1917)
p. 336.
MARSH, Amos and Beulah Lenard of Rutland, int. July 16, 1757.
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