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===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. 

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