Silas Marsh

The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York : Showing Connections Never Before Published with the Winthrop, Underhill, Feke, Bowne and Wickes Families, Josephine C. Frost, F.H. Hitchcock, 1912

Silas Marsh, born Lebanon Connecticut, 26 May, 1764. He died 23 February 1848 Duanesburg, New York. Married at Chatham New York 18 January, 1787 Mary Hare. Daughter of Silas Hare, a gentleman from Holland.

Silas was son of the Silas of the "Boston Tea Party" and a lawyer, Revolutionary soldier and a pensioner at the time of his death.

Their daughter, Mary Marsh, married James Frost, son of Lott and Susan Seaman Frost of Mariaville, new York. James was a surveyor who projected a plank road from Albany to Fort Hunter. drafted an early map of Schenectady county. in 1833-4 he surveyed the new line between Canada and New York State. He surveyed the second railroad in the U.S. between Albany and Schenectady. He was a staunch Whig and raised a Quaker.