Col Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) - Find a Grave Memorial

Col Thomas Marshall Veteran

Birth

2 Apr 1730

Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA

Death

22 Jun 1802 (aged 72)

Old Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, USA

Burial

Marshall Cemetery

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Colonel Thomas Marshall was born in 1730 at Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Captain John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham. He married Mary Randolph Keith, daughter of Reverend James Keith and Mary Isham Randolph. They had fifteen children; their eldest son is U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall.

He was a land surveyor, served as High Sheriff of Fauquier County, Virginia in 1767 and was superintendent of Lord Fairfax's Estate.

A lieutenant during the French & Indian War, he was a member of the 1776 Virginia Convention that declared independence in Virginia. He was an organizer of the Culpepper Minute Men during the Revolutionary War and served at Valley Forge under General George Washington. He succeeded to General Hugh Mercer's command when Mercer was killed at the Battle of Germantown. He fought at the Battle of Brandywine where he commanded the third Virginia Regiment, having a horse shot out from under him during battle.

Thomas moved to Kentucky before it became a state; he was a prominent land owner and was a member of the Virginia Legislature representing what is now Kentucky in 1787. He died at Federal Hill, the estate of his son Thomas, Jr., at Washington, Mason County, Kentucky in 1802.

Inscription

Now illegible, Col. Thomas Marshall's inscription was transcribed many years ago by W.M. Paxton: ""Thomas Marshall, to whom this memorial is inscribed, was born the 2nd of April, 1730, intermarried with Mary Keith, in her 17th year, by whom he had fifteen children, who attained maturity; and after distinguishing himself by the performance of his duties as a husband, father, citizen and soldier, died on the 22d of June, 1802, aged 72 years, 2 months and 20 days."