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Thomas Marshall (1784–1835)

Role

Bushrod Washington was a Supreme Court associate of Thomas Marshall's father.

Description

Thomas Marshall, the eldest son of John Marshall and Mary Willis "Polly" Ambler Marshall, was born in Richmond. A Princeton graduate, he practiced law, served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1827–28, 1830–35), and farmed (using slave labor) at Oak Hill, his home in Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia. He married Margaret Wardrop Lewis (1792–1829) in 1809; they would have seven children. Marshall died on 29 June 1835 in Baltimore, struck by a loose brick that fell from a courthouse.

Citations

Marshall Family Bible entry, 24 July 1784, in Charles Hobson, ed., The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2014).

Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Martha Cary Jaquelin, and Edward Jaquelin, Some Prominent Virginia Families (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, c. 1907), Volume I, 81–83.

Thomas Marshall at Find a Grave.

Thomas Marshall at FamilySearch.