William Samuel Marsh, son of Mathias Marsh and Priscilla Brigham, was born 10 Jan 1738 at Coventry, Connecticut. He married Sarah French, daughter of Jeremiah French and Hannah Edwards, about 1760. They had 9 children. William died 9 June 1816 at East Dorset, Vermont, and Sarah died there on 29 Mar 1820. Their descendants have lived in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, other places in the United States, and Canada.

American archives: consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies, of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution and of the constitution of government for the United States to the final ratification thereof, 4th series, From the King's message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of Independence by the United States, published by M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force.

This book has information of all Iowa Civil War Regiment and U.S. Colored Troops that were organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Iowa Regiments and includes the U.S. Colored Troops all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.