Frances Marsh
Wife, and by 1695 widow, of Lt. Isaac Buck, blacksmith and town clerk of Scituate, Massachusetts, and probably the mother of Mehitable (Buck) Chittenden and so grandmother of Sarah (Chittenden) Holbrook. Probably a daughter of John Marsh of Charlestown, whose will of 1665/6 left his daughter Buck a common there. Her birth and death have not been found.
Family
- Father
- John Marsh (or March) of Charlestown (d. 1 Jan 1665/6)
Wyman lists his children as Edward (d. 1638), John (d. 1641), "Frances, m. Isaac Buck" and Theophilus (Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown 2:654-655).
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- Isaac Buck
Wyman lists John Marsh's daughter "Frances, m. Isaac Buck"; she was his widow at the division of his estate.
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Pedigree
Notes
Wife, and by 1695 widow, of Lt. Isaac Buck of Scituate.
Her father, John Marsh (or March), was an inhabitant of Charlestown by 1638. He died on 1 Jan 1665/6; his will of that day left “to dau. Buck, 1 common” in Charlestown (Wyman’s abstract, 2:655). Byron Buck says she sold it to William Johnson, leaving her stepmother Anna the use of it (compiled).
She was a widow at the division of her husband’s estate (Deane). In the 1697 division she received for her dower the use of the house, half the barn, two and a half acres next to her son Thomas’s, and an acre of salt marsh. The administrators’ account lists “Cloaths for apparral taken up by the widow since her husbands decease” at £3 17s (Plymouth County Probate, transcribed in Byron Buck’s genealogy).
Open questions
- Her birth and death have not been found.
- Was she the mother of all Isaac Buck’s children, including Mehitable (m. 1679)?