MARSHALL, JOSEPH, jp, judge, militia officer, politician, and
farmer; b. c. 1755 in Glenkeen (Northern Ireland), fourth child
of Joseph Marshall and Mary (Hagan?); m. Margaret —, probably in
Georgia before 1783, and they had three sons; d. 3 June 1847 at
his home in Guysborough, N.S. Joseph Marshall was a boy of 13 in
1769 when his family immigrated to Georgia. They settled on the
Ogeechee River, west of Savannah. Family tradition recounts that
the Marshalls moved to British-controlled territory in West
Florida at the outbreak of the American revolution. Along with
several of his brothers, Marshall joined the loyalist forces,
and in April 1779 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of a
Georgia militia regiment. In May 1780 he was commissioned
captain in the Carolina King’s Rangers, a loyalist corps raised
in the Floridas but composed principally of Georgians. The
Rangers fought through the bitter southern campaign and were
finally withdrawn to St Augustine (Fla), the last British
foothold in the south. Most of