Excerpt from John Marshall: An Address Fauquier county, and on her mother's Side a descendant of William Randolph, of Turkey Island, and cousin of Thomas Jefferson. And so, as he made her country his country, Thomas Marshall and his famous son were lost to the county of the Washingtons and the Lees. He and his bride planted their first roof-tree at German town, in F auquier, but later moved higher up the county near the Blue Ridge, and set up a second on a farm which they named Oakhill. They served their country loyally in the good old Virginia fashion by adding to its sparse population fifteen little Marshalls. Sturdy little Marshals they must have been, for in spite of blissful unconsciousness of the existence of germs, in spite of the hardships of frontier life, all fifteen grew up. 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.