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996 Descendants of John & Judith MARBLE of Charleston, Massachuetts (m.1643) - 15 Generations

Generation No. 2

2. SAMUEL² MARBLE (MARBLE¹) was born in England.

Children of SAMUEL MARBLE are:

MARY³ MARBLE, b. Abt. 1661; d. March 20, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Masschusetts.

ii.

SAMUEL MARBLE, b. 1666, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; d. Abt. 1706.

3. WILLIAM² MARBLE (MARBLE¹) was born in England. He married ELIZABETH (Source: Torrey: "New England Marriages prior to 1700").

More About WILLIAM MARBLE:
Fact 4: William Marble returned to England.

Child of WILLIAM MARBLE and ELIZABETH is:

MARY³ MARBLE, b. April 10, 1642, Charleston, Suffolk County, Mass..

4. JOHN² MARBLE (MARBLE¹) was born Abt. 1605 in County Essex?, England, and died Abt. October 1695 in Charlestown, Massachusetts (Source: Wyman: "Charlestown Genealogies and Estates" Pg. 653). He married JUDITH 1643 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Notes for JOHN MARBLE:
THE ARRIVAL OF THE MARBLES IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
By Lynn R. Marble,Marble Surname Genealogist, Lynn.Marble@moa.net

These three are not at all "Facts", but loose speculation at best.
Fact 1: April 12, 1639, The Marble brother: John, Samuel, Nicholas, and William
sailed from London.
Fact 2: The Marbles sailed aboard the ship "Jonathan" & arrived in Boston, MA.
Fact 3: The Marbles arrived during the "Great Migration" (1630-1642).
The whole idea that John, Samuel,Nicholas, and William are brothers
is based purely on the fact that records indicate they all show up or
appear in Massachusetts in the 1640's. Scant records hint that at least
maybe John and Samuel were brothers, but there is no known written records
to really indicate that any of the four were siblings or even related at
all or even arrived at the same time. This and some other speculation have
sometimes been repeated as "facts" due some speculative guesses printed by
some earlier authors of previous genealogy documents and books that has
been removed from their context by others and stated as fact. No trace has
been found of the passenger list for that 1639 passage of the "Jonathan" to
Boston. We know of some of the passengers only due to a lawsuit that later
took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years following the
passage. During that lawsuit some people, including many passengers of the
"Jonathan", gave written statements or testified and these remained as part
of the court records. It is assumed by many that all those who gave
statements in the case were passengers aboard the Jonathan, but that is not
the fact.

Since no record of the passage or arrival of these early Marbles seems to remain
we can not know if they even arrived in the "Great Migration" of 1639 to 1642,
or if some of them may have arrived sooner or slightly later than that time frame.
There have also been speculation that some Marbles may have actually arrived
in the late 1620's or early 1630's in the port of Salem. I get concerned when so
many people state as "fact" what is at best a guess.

A little about John and Judith and their children:
Some genealogies list John and Judith as being married in Charlestown in
1643, but I have yet to find any vital record, church, or court records to
indicate this location and year. John was listed as a resident of Boston
in 1646 when John Jr. was born. The only child for which there is
verifiable documentation is John Jr., the other five are designated as
children of John and Judith by many sources, but no known documented birth
or baptism records exist. There are many early local histories of New
England towns that list these six as the children of John and Judith, but
with no reference as to their source of the information.

It is thought by Victor Roman (a professional genealogist in Florida) and the late
Forest W. Marble of Solon, Ohio, that John (1605) came to America from County Essex, England with a brother, Samuel, in the 1630's. It is thought that John's
brother, Samuel, lived for a while in Concord, Ma. (1666) and at some
time had a son, Samuel, who married Rebecca Williams in 1686 at Haverhill,
Ma. and started the Haverhill line of the Marbles. (This Samuel should not
be confused with Samuel (1648), the son of John, who married Rebecca
Andrews and resided in Andover) There was also a William and Nicholas
Marble, who were thought by some to also have been brothers to John and
the elder Samuel. William, age about 40 in 1652, lived in Charlestown,
Ma. and Middlesex court records state that he returned to England.

More About JOHN MARBLE:
Fact 4: April 12, 1639
Fact 5: William Marble returned to England.
Fact 6: Charlestown, Mass is now Cambridge Mass.

Children of JOHN MARBLE and JUDITH are:

RUHAMAH³ MARBLE, b. Abt. 1644, Boston, Massachusetts; m. JOHN WIGGINS, Lynn, Massachusetts.

ii.

JOHN MARBLE, b. November 10, 1646, Charleston, Suffolk Co., Mass; d. June 02, 1730, Malden, Middlesex Co., Mass.

iii.

SAMUEL MARBLE, b. Abt. 1648, Andover, Essex Co., Mass; d. 1720, Salem, Essex Co., Mass.

iv.

JOSEPH MARBLE, b. Abt. 1650, Andover, Essex Co., Massachusetts; d. August 02, 1728, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Masschusetts.

JACOB MARBLE, b. Abt. 1654, Massachusetts.

10.

vi.

GERSHOM MARBLE, b. Abt. 1660, Charleston, Suffolk Co., Mass; d. August 06, 1725, Hingham, Plymouth Co., Mass.

11.

vii.

THOMAS MARBLE, b. Abt. 1662, Massachusetts; d. 1712.

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