John Marchant

 

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John Marchant                                see FAMILY TREE
Born: Abt. 1625 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA

Married: Abt. 1646 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA

 Died: 1693 Edgartown, Dukes, MA    

WIFE

Unknown

CHILDREN

1. Mary Marchant b. 20 May 1648

2. Abishai Marchant b. 10 Jan 1650/51

3. John Marchant b. Abt.1653

4. Charles Marchant b. Abt. 1655

5. Chirstopher Marchant b. Abt. 1658

6. Sarah Marchant b. 1661

7. Joseph Marchant b. Abt. 1666

History of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., by Charles Edward Banks, M.D., 1911, Vol. 2, pp. 77-79 and Vol. 3, pp. 291-97.
also from RANDALL and ALLIED FAMILIES, page 317.


John II continued to reside in Yarmouth, and is known as Lieutenant John. It is not known whom he married nor the Christian name of his wife, but he had taken a wife before 1648, when children were recorded to him in Yarmouth.

In the "History of Barnstable County", "Annals of Yarmouth", pages 194-195, "...towards the charge of the late war", shows the tax-paying inhabitants at this date, and their comparative wealth.

Lived in Edgartown, Mass. He obtained freeman status in 1652.


Listed in the book, "Society of the Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Mass 1906": page 354
MARCHANT, LIEUTENANT JOHN,(???), Yarmouth, Mass. Ensign of Yarmouth Company,, June 8, 1664. Lieutenant of the Military Company in Yarmouth, August 11, 1670

 

 

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