"Jonathan2 Marsh b. at Hartford, Ct., Sept., 1649, son of John1 and Anne Webster, dau. of Gov. Webster, removed with his father's family to Hadley, Mass., in 1660 and there spent his life. He was freeman 1690 and representative to the Massachusetts general court in 1701, in which year he placed his only son living, in Harvard college to graduate in 1705. Gov. Hopkins seven times governor of Hartford colony, dying in 1657, left property which eventually helped New Haven and Hartford schools, and Harvard college and Cambridge grammar school, and was also the foundation of Hopkins academy at Hadley in 1666 and 7. There Jonathan Marsh had his son fit for Harvard and saw him after graduating in 1705, return to be the academy teacher 1706-7. … He d. July 3, 1730, æ. 80 years and 10 months."