Col. James Marshel and [Unk] Marshall

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Husband Col. James Marshel ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 20 Feb 1753 - the north of Ireland 4
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           Died: 17 Mar 1829 - Wellsburg, Brooke Co, WV 3 4
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         Father: [Unk] Marshall (      -      )
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Wife [Unk] Marshall

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         Father: [Unk] Marshall (      -      )
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Children

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1 M John Marshel ^{3 5}

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           Born: Abt 1783
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           Died: 1863 - near Washington, Washington Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Margaret Wilson (      -      ) 2 6

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2 M Robert Marshel ⁴

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3 F [Unk] Marshel

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         Spouse: William McCluney (      -      ) 4

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4 F [Unk] Marshel

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F [Unk] Marshel

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General Notes: Husband - Col. James Marshel

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He was a resident of Cross Creek township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, as early as 1778. On December 26th of that year he purchased of Jacob Frederick "a tract of land situated on the head-waters of Cross Creek, in the counties of Yohogania and Ohio, and State of Virginia," said tract containing four hundred acres with allowance, and the consideration being £419 13s. 9d. "Marshel Hall" was the name given to a tract of four hundred and thirty-two acres which was warranted and surveyed to Col. Marshel in 1785, adjoining the lands of Thomas McKibbin, Robert, John, and Thomas Marshall, and Samuel Johnston. The middle branch of Cross Creek ran through this place. "Mecklenburg" must have been Col. Marshel's next land purchase. This tract he secured from Francis McKinne, to whom it was warranted Feb. 13, 1786, and afterwards surveyed as containing four hundred and one acres, located next other lands of James Marshel and those of David Vance and John Campbell. "The Point" was a tract of three hundred and fifty-eight acres which Col. Marshel warranted in March, 1786, and then deeded part of it to Mr. Johnston, who lived on it.

In 1781 he was appointed by the supreme executive council lieutenant of Washington County, Pennsylvania. From 1781 to 1784 he was recorder of deeds and register of wills for the county, and again from 1791 to 1795. From 1784 to 1787 was sheriff of the county. He was a prominent actor in the "whiskey" insurrection of 1794. In 1796 he advertised thirteen hundred acres of patented and improved land for sale, and shortly afterward moved to Brooke County, Virginia.

He was born in north of Ireland, and obtained rights to about fifteen hundred acres in what is now Cross Creek township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, between 1776 and 1778. From the fact that two cousins, John and Robert, came west near to him from that part of Lancaster County which later became Dauphin County, it is thought he too had come thence. In 1779, when Rev. Joseph Smith was called by the Presbyterian congregations of Buffalo and Cross Creek (Adam and Andrew Poe signing), Col. Marshel, to have Rev. Smith brought out, gave two hundred acres of his land to Capt. Joseph Reed. Marshel became an elder in the Buffalo Church, but it is said that in his later days he was not distinguished for his piety. On Nov. 3, 1784, he resigned his offices of county lieutenant, register, and recorder, and succeeded Van Swearingen as sheriff, and on Jan. 17, 1789, was himself succeeded by Col. David Williamson. He was again recorder and register from 1791 to 1795.
With David Bradford and Rev. David Phillips, he represented Westmoreland County at the Pittsburgh meeting in September, 1791, "to take into consideration" the excise law, and afterwards took a prominent part in the Whiskey Insurrection. In July, 1794, he was present with Bradford when the captured mail was opened at Canonsburg, and two days afterward, with Bradford and others, signed the call for the militia to rendezvous at Braddock's Fields. In the Whiskey Insurrection he seemed to be wholly in the control of Bradford, following, though unwillingly, when the latter led. In 1795 or '96 he sold his lands in Westmoreland County and removed to Wellsburg, West Virginia, where he resided till his death. [HWC 1882, 226]

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226, 728.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1423.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 332.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226, 483.

6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 483.