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Author: Timothy F Bassett
Thomas Marshall was born August 24, 1738, in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He was the son of Thomas Marshall and Elizabeth Tudor a farming family in the area. In 1761, his father gave him a farm in the town of Newfield adjoining the Winchester line. Thomas settled on the farm and established the first large dairy in the area.
On January 30, 1764, he married Desire Tuttle who was born May 16,1743 and together they produced nine children. His children were: Raphael (b 1765), Reuben (b 1766), Harvey (b 1768), Sarah (b 1770), Levi (b 1772), Roswell (b 1773), Seth (b 1775), Rachel (b 1781) and Susannah (b 1783).
In 1774, there were two military companies organized in Torrington for the colony of Connecticut; Captain Amos Wilson’s 5th Company of the 17th Regiment and Captain John Strong’s 9th Company of the same Regiment. When the Battle of Concord began that same year these companies were not immediately sent to Boston but were held as reserves that could be called at a moments notice for service. In the October 1774 session of the Connecticut Assembly, an act was passed to pay every member of the military companies who would train in half-day intervals during the spring of the next year in order to maintain their readiness. It is in these pay rolls that Thomas Marshall is listed as a private in Captain Amos’s, 5th Company and that he had trained 10 half days. He received his pay for this training in Hartford in July of 1775.
Thomas became a man of great influence in the county and in his Account Book for his farm he wrote: “In 1799, I made 78 barrels of cider; in 1803, 80; in 1807, 120.” “In 1805, I sold my new milk cheese at 10 cents a pound.”
After his wife Desiree died on August 14, 1808, he married his second wife the widow Sarah Butler of Harwinton. Thomas died instantly on May 5, 1810 of dropsy of the heart.
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