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I'm not sure who found John as Elizabeth Markham's father's name, but in the book on Chief Justice John Marshall, it states that he was a wealthy merchant from Alexandria, VA.
"John Marshall's parents were typical of many young couples in colonial America. His paternal ancestors were Welsh artisans who came to Virginia sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. His father was the son of another John Marshall, a small planter who struggled to make a living on two hundred acres of low, marshy land cut from the wilderness along a minor tributary of the Potomac. That John Marshall was known to his prosperous neighbors as "John of the forest," a pejorative term used by tidewater aristocracy to describe someone less affluent who lived in the woods.(9) In In 1722 he married Elizabeth Markham, the younger daughter of a prosperous merchant from Alexandria, Virginia,(10) and together they had six children, Thomas being the eldest. Nothing definite is known about the parents of "John of the forest," and all efforts to chart the chief justice's paternal heritage beyond the second generation have ended in genealogical quicksand. Marshall himself never traced his parentage beyond his grandfather.(11)"
I have another Markham I'm interested in, Martha or Margaret, born abt 1685 and married John MANNNING in 1706 in Virginia. I'm hoping there's a connection between these two somewhere.
Barbara
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