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Thomas immigrated to the colonies in 1634 and resided in Boston where he worked as a shoemaker and ferryman. He was called a "widower" upon his admitance to the church on 31 Aug 1634 and was made a freeman (citizen) on 4 Mar 1635. In November 1637 he was asked to surrender his arms as the result of an antinomian quarrel in the church in which Thomas played an active role in support of Rev. Wheelwright. For this in November 1637 he was required to surrender his arms. As time passed he, like most of the others abused and disgraced by the Church for their beliefs, regained high esteem. On 11 July 1663 he gave his homestead to his son Samuel of Windsor, CT and made a will on 24 May 1664 in which he deeds his effects to his daughters Sarah Pemberton and Frances Howe; also mentioning therein Samuel as his elder son and two other sons Thomas and Eliakim. He died that year.
The birth place of his children as the genealogical record presents them is disputed by genealogist Savage who contends Thomas brought from England all four of his children by his first wife, and had only one child here, Eliakim, on 1 Mar 1637 by his second wife. This child not being baptised until 15 Apr 1638 on account of the antinomian quarrel in the church.
Genealogist Charles Henry Pope indicates that he had two wives, the first being Alice whom he suggests was the mother of son Samuel and not the second wife as the record shows. However, there seems no way to justify this based upon the other dates and places associated with Thomas Marshall and wife Alva.Thomas Marshall has two Ancestral File Numbers: 1LV0-L2, S5DG-C7
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Gideon was recorded in the 1860 census living in the town of Jefferson, NY (Two residences away from a Lucinda Dingman of whom it is thought was the Lucinda Dingman, born 7 Feb 1834, who married an Isaac Patchin and died in 1869 in the town of Day outside Stanton, MI.). Gideon was listed as a "Blacksmith" and living with his wife Diana, age 43, and two children, Jemima, age 4, and Sylvia, age 11 months. The family was again listed in 1870 in the village of Stanton, Montcalm County, Michigan. In 1880 Gideon and Diana are listed there with a new child William H., age 6. Gideon is recorded in the Montcalm County records as having arrived there in 1867 and dying on 21 Nov 1884. He was in the Civil War, a private in the 91st Infantry, NY.
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The gravestone really does imply to us that this child was born nine months before the recorded marriage date of the parents.