Benjamin of Southampton Marshall

• General Notes
  • Page 313. — In the name of God, Amen, I BENJAMIN
    MARSHALL, of the town of Southampton, cordwainer,
    being not well in body. I leave to my son John, 20
    shillings. To my daughter, Esther Bleakly, 20s. I
    leave to my wife Elizabeth all my movable estate, and
    the use of all lands and houses during her widowhood.
    I leave to my son, Joseph Marshall, all my
    lands, buildings, and tenements. I make my wife executor.
    Dated December 8, 1736. Witnesses, Joseph How-
    ell, Alexander Ford ham, John Mackie. Proved, June
    11, 1753. Joseph Howell and Alexander Fordham
    were then dead.
    A Codicil, dated August 16, 1752, leaves to his son
    Joseph £ of a £50 right in Lot No. 3t>, Great South
    Division. (
    NOTE. — The homestead of Benjamin Marshall was
    in the village of Southampton, on the west side of
    the road to North Sea, and owned in recent years by
    James McCorkle, now owned by George Wines, and
    opposite " Bowden Square." The family is now extinct
    in Southampton, the last representative being
    
    James Marshall, a man who well deserves kind remembrance.
    He died about 1870.— W. 8. P.]