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pounds, and built a home there which he named "Oak Hill". Here the last five children were born. Thomas was appointed by Governor Thomas Jefferson to survey the lands in what is now Kentucky. After the revolution, he moved to Kentucky, continuing there as a land agent. He died in Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, on 22 June 1802. To his son, John, he had given the estate of "Oak Hill". Thomas Marshall's first child was John Marshall, born 24 September 1755 in the small house at Germantown. Educated at home by his father and the Rector of Leeds Parish, the Reverend James Thomson, who also resided with the family, he turned 18 in 1773, when the American Revolution was on the horizon. John, his father, Thomas, his brothers Thomas and James, along with his cousin Humphrey, all served in the war, John attaining the rank of Captain. Following the war, John returned to "Oak Hill". He had met and fallen in love with Mary Willis Ambler (Polly) at Yorktown, where he was stationed and during the time he briefly attended law lectures at the college of William & Mary under George Wythe.
Mont Blanc The original part of Oak Hill, built by Thomas Marshall, John's father. On 3 January 1783, he and Polly were married. While they lived in Richmond all ten of their children were born. They still maintained "Oak Hill" as their home and spent most summers there. In addition, he applied for, and received four thousand acres for his three years service as an officer in the war. he Chief Justice's third son, John, Jr. (sometimes referred to as "Major" and sometimes as "Captain") was born at the Marshall Street home in Richmond on 13 January 1798. John, Jr. was sent to Harvard to finish his education, but was expelled in March 1815 "for engaging in a course of immoral and dissolute conduct." He returned to Virginia to live. On 3 February 1820, John, Jr. married Elizabeth Maria Alexander, the lovely T John Marshall at 43 - From a miniature painted in Paris
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