William Marston, Sr., patriarch of the Hampton, NH branch, was born in England (tradition says Yorkshire county), about A.D. 1592, and came to Salem, Massachusetts, but soon afterward went to Newbury for a short time, thence in October 1638 to Winnecumet, where he and fifty-five others settled on lands granted by the General Court of Massachusetts, and they called the place Hampton (Norfolk County), after the English home of a part of the settlers, and by this name it was incorporated. It is quite probable that his first wife lived until about 1660. Then about 1662, when about 70 years old, he married second, Sabrina Page, aged 18 or 20 years, a daughter of Robert and Lucia Page, of Ormesby (Yarmouth), Norfolk County, England, by whom he had one daughter, Tryphena. He was a kind hearted, benevolent, and godly man, and was a member of the Quaker, or Friends, church, and suffered persecutions for his religious tenets. He often harbored and aided his distressed and persecuted brethren, for which Christian deeds he was robbed by exorbitent fines by the zealous and bigoted courts. In Felt's Annals of New England I find this record:
"Oct. 14, 1657, William Marston petitioned the court at Hampton, that the fine of L15 may be remitted that had been imposed on him for keeping a paper and two books which inculated Quaker doctrines."
He died in Hampton, June, 30, 1672, aged about eighty years. See his will. He had five children by the records. Sabrina PAIGE and William MARSTON had the following children:
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Triphena MARSTON.
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