Excerpt from John Marshall: An Address Delivered in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Before the Law School of Harvard University and the Bar Association of the City of Boston on February In 1753, Thomas Marshall was made agent of Lord Fairfax in the management of his estates. In the next year, he married Mary Isham Keith, daughter of a Scotch clergyman, whose wife was a descendant of William Randolph, of Turkey Island, the ancestor of the famous Virginia family of that name. Their son, John Marshall, the oldest of fifteen children, was born on Sep-4 tember 24, 1755, in what was afterwards Fauquier County, at a little settlement then known as Germantown, now Midland, on the Southern Railroad, a few miles south of Manassas. That was the year of Braddock's defeat, and Thomas Marshall, like Washing ton, was in the service, as an officer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.