Volume IV Part 11 (1/2)

[203] Thomas, born July 21, 1784; Jacquelin Ambler, born December 3, 1787; Mary, born September 17, 1795; John, born January 15, 1798; James Keith, born February 13, 1800; Edward Carrington, born January 13, 1805.

(Paxton: _Marshall Family_, Genealogical Chart.)

[204] Edward Carrington was the only son to receive the degree of A.B.

from Harvard (1826).

[205] Paxton, 100.

[206] Marshall to Story, June 26, 1831, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 344-46.

[207] See vol. I, 55-56, of this work.

[208] Howe (Charleston, S.C., ed. of 1845), 266.

[209] Meade, II, 222.

[210] Tyler: _Tyler_, I, 220; and see vol. II, 182-83, of this work.

[211] White: _A Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist_, 195-96.

[212] _Lippincott's Magazine_, II, 624. Paulding makes this comment on Marshall: ”In his hours of relaxation he was as full of fun and as natural as a child. He entered into the spirit of athletic exercises with the ardor of youth; and at sixty-odd years of age was one of the best quoit-players in Virginia.” (_Ib._ 626.)

[213] _American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine_ (1829), I, 41-42; and see Mordecai, 188-89.

[214] Recipe for the Quoit Club punch, _Green Bag_, VIII, 482. This recipe was used for many years by the Richmond Light Infantry Blues.

[215] See vol. II, 183, of this work.

[216] On these occasions Mrs. Marshall spent the nights at the house of her daughter or sister.

[217] For an extended description of Marshall's ”lawyer dinners” see Terhune, 85-87.

[218] See vol. I, 44-45, 153-54, of this work.

[219] Marshall to Story, Nov. 26, 1826, Story, I, 506.

[220] Story to his wife, Feb. 26, 1832, _ib._ II, 84.

[221] Marshall to Story, Sept. 30, 1829, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 341.

[222] Statement of Miss Elizabeth Marshall of Leeds Manor to the author.

[223] Meade, I, footnote to 99.

[224] _World's Work_, I, 395.

[225] Gustavus Schmidt in _Louisiana Law Journal_ (1841), I, No. 1, 85-86. Mr. Schmidt's description is of Marshall in the court-room at Richmond when holding the United States Circuit Court at that place.

Ticknor, Story, and others show that the same was true in Was.h.i.+ngton.

[226] Quincy: _Figures of the Past_, 242-43.