Talk:Thomas Marshall (Virginia politician, born 1730)

more work needed
Over Memorial Day weekend, I cleaned up this article, which seemed cribbed from the Appleton's Cyclopedia entry. I added materials from the entry in Lyon Gardiner Tyler's encyclopedia, but have other obligations and so cannot today devote a great deal of time to this to parse out his slaveholdings. in the 1787 Virginia tax census, men named "Thomas Marshall" owned slaves in several Virginia counties. Thomas Marshall Sr. who lived in Culpeper County owned one adult and one child slave and lived in Culpeper County, whose militia this men had led early in the Revolutionary War, but that entry probably relates to a later generation Thomas Marshall. I have only included the listing from Fayette County as probably his, although he also may have owned slaves in other counties.Jweaver28 (talk) 18:37, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the Schreiner-Yentis book has a dozen separate page entries for men named "Thomas Marshall". Clearly, it's not only a relatively common name among English families, this particular family recycled it often (if not several times in a generation). Some of the relevant entries seem for: Thomas Marshall Sr. in Culpeper County (who owned one adult slave and one enslaved child or youth), two related entries in Fauquier County (one for Thomas Marshall, another for Thomas Jr.--the former not living in the county but owning two enslaved youths there and the other possibly this man (also a nonresident with two enslaved youths between 16 and 21 years old). The next entry, probably a close relation, is the famous John Marshall, who had one adult and two enslaved youth in the county, as well as (if my memory serves) a son named Thomas. Nearby Loudoun County had a resident Thomas Marshall who owned seven adult slaves and four enslaved children, as well as seven horses and twenty livestock. Probably unrelated men of the same name were resident Thomas Marshall of Campbell County in the far southwest (with one adult and one youthful slave), three non-resident, non-slaveowning Thomas Marshalls of Montgomery, Hardy and Essex Counties, white servants or overseers whose tithes were paid by Philip Lightfoot in Caroline County or Thomas Barbour of Orange County, and a Nansemond County landowner (in the far southeastern section).Jweaver28 (talk) 23:54, 1 June 2022 (UTC)