Homes of American statesmen: . MARSHALL. JOHN MARSHALL, son of Colonel Thomas Marshall, aplanter of moderate fortune, was born in Germantown,Fauquier County, Virginia, on the twenty-fourth of Septem-ber, 1755. When twenty-one years of age, he was commis-sioned as a lieutenant in the continental service, and marchingwith his regiment to the north, was appointed captain in thespring of 1777, and in that capacity served in the battles ofBrandywine, Garmantown, and Monmouth; was at Valley 264 HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN. Forge during the winter of 1778, and was one of the coveringparty at the assa
Homes of American statesmen: . MARSHALL. JOHN MARSHALL, son of Colonel Thomas Marshall, aplanter of moderate fortune, was born in Germantown,Fauquier County, Virginia, on the twenty-fourth of Septem-ber, 1755. When twenty-one years of age, he was commis-sioned as a lieutenant in the continental service, and marchingwith his regiment to the north, was appointed captain in thespring of 1777, and in that capacity served in the battles ofBrandywine, Garmantown, and Monmouth; was at Valley 264 HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN. Forge during the winter of 1778, and was one of the coveringparty at the assault of Stoney Point, in June, 1779. Havingreturned to his native State at the expiration of the enlist-ment of the Virginia troops, in 1780 he received a license forthe practice of the law, and rapidly rose to distinction in thatprofession. In 1782 he was chosen a representative to thelegislature, and afterward a member of the executive January, 1783, he married Mary Willis Ambler, of York,in Virginia, with whom he
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