1750s
George Marsh Diary – aged 38 in 1750
Milbourne Marsh – aged 41 in 1750
1750
George Marsh (born 1683) aged 66/67
Francis Marsh – aged 41/42 – elder brother of Milbourne, Mary and George
Milbourne Marsh – aged 40/41
Elizabeth Marsh (ne Evans)
Eliza Marsh (later Crisp) – aged 14/15
Francis Milbourne Marsh – aged 11/12
John Marsh – aged 3
Mary Duval (ne Marsh) – aged 37/38 – Sister of George and Milbourne
John Duval – husband of Mary Duval
Elizabeth Duval – aged in teens
George Marsh – aged 27/28
Ann Marsh (ne Long) – aged 29/30
George March – aged 0/1
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George Marsh Diary – aged 38 in 1750
July 1756
Admirals . . . ………. 30
Post Captains . . . 231
Masters & Commanders . . . 94
Lieutenants . . . 574 / 929
George Marsh Diary
19 March 1750
I married Miss Ann Long [1720-1784], and Mr Pentecost Barker, a particular acquaintance of my brother who was purser of the Barfleur proposed to me our joining stocks and going into the wine trade and said his father was a wine cooper and the he himself perfectly understood the business, and that he was sure with his connections it would prove more advantageous than being a placeman, the income of which being very small; and as I had been out of employment from June 1740 and experienced many disappointments, and many a weary walk and fruitless long attendance in London in hopes of obtaining some place or employment, and being now more anxious than ever to be settled in some business, I did with my mother Long’s and my wife’s consent, agree to enter into partnership with the said Mr Barker and went with him and my brother to Maidstone in Kent to look for a house, proposing to set up in the Wine Trade there, but there being no house to let suitable for it, we returned to London, and took one in Savage Gardens near Tower Hill; and we also agreed to transact business as Naval Agents, Mr Barker having signified he had great interest and acquaintance with the Admirals Captains and Officers of the Navy, having acted as Admiral Mathew’s secretary.
7th April 1750
Removed from Deptford to my house in Savage Gardens for which I was to pay thirty guineas per annum and he, Mr Barker, was to have two rooms in it, to come to occasionally.
26 May 1750
I advertised to transact Naval business and gave printed bills for that purpose.
9 June 1750
Miss Scott the late Commissioner Whorwood’s niece being very intimate with Mr Mostyn [Rear Admiral Savage Mostyn, 1713c-1757] now Comptroller of the Navy, represented that to oblige the late Comptroller Mr Haddock and the Navy Board, I went from his office to Deptford with Commissioner Compton, and had an account of the Peace been discharged from thence.
26 November 1750
There being a great contest between Mr Mostyn Comptroller of the Navy, and Sir Peter Warren [1703-1752] for the Elder Brothership of the Trinity house, the former put up by the Ministry, and the latter by the public Voice, he being at this time a very popular man. The number of votes for each were equal, when my friend Admiral Mathews called on me in Savage Gardens, and desired I would show him the way to the Trinity house and go with him, which I did accordingly just as the meeting were breaking up, when he gave his vote to Mr Mostyn who was immediately chosen one of the Older Brothers, which made him very happy and thankful to Mr Mathews, and as he Miss Scott and my late Commissioner Davies, all earnestly pressed Mr Mostyn to enter me again in his office when a vacancy might happen, I was this day re-entered the 4th Clerk in his office for Bills and accounts in the room of Mr Wooden deceased, whose desk would have been my right had I continued in this office, and not gone with Commissioner Compton to Deptford. This Mr Mostyn did for the reason before mentioned upon Admiral Mathew’s earnest and repeated applications to him; for he was not moved to do it from justice, humanity or friendship, be being totally void of these feelings.
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