Thomas Marshall (U.S. politician)

Thomas Marshall (Washington parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 2 April 1730 – Mason County, Kentucky, 22 June 1802) was a United States soldier and politician, best known as the father of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Marshall.
Biography
Marshall was the son of “John of the Forest,” so called from the estate that he owned, and was educated in Rev. Archibald Campbell's school, and subsequently assisted George Washington in his surveying excursions for Lord Fairfax and others, for which he received several thousand acres of land in West Virginia. He was a lieutenant of Virginians in the French and Indian War, and participated in the Braddock Expedition against Fort Duquesne, but, having been detailed as one of the garrison at Fort Necessity, was not at the defeat.
In 1753 he accepted the agency of Lord Fairfax to superintend a portion of his estate in the “Northern neck,” and in 1754 married Mary Randolph, daughter...