GEORGIA BIOGRAPHIES: DANIEL MARSHALL
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SOURCE: GEORGIA BAPTIST: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse 
H. Campbell, (1847) 1993, published by Oldbuck Press, Inc., PO Box 1623, Conway,
Arkansas 72034, pp. 15-20.           A copy of this book can be purchased for $21.00 
postage paid from the publisher.

Daniel Marshall was born in 1706, in Windsor, a town in
Connecticut.  He was brought up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord, by respectable and pious parents,
and being hopefully converted at about twenty years of age,
joined the then standing order of Presbyterians in his
native place...   During this period, he married his first
wife, who soon died, leaving one son...  Daniel Marshall was
among those who became missionaries to the Mohawk
Indians...With a wife and three children, he lived among the
Indians for eighteen months...   War among the savage tribes
occasioned his reluctant removal from among them.  He
pitched his tent a short time in Pennsylvania, and removed
thence to Winchester, Va... 

He made his first visit to Georgia, and preached the Gospel
in Saint Paul's parish. This parish extended from Bean's
creek on the south to Broad River on the north, and to the
Ogechee on the west... [Part of this became Wilkes County,
Georgia.]

On one occasion, when a party of tories demanded of him
where he had concealed his horses, he sullenly refused to
utter a word, although repeatedly threatened with death.
This scene continued, until his wife could bear the suspense
no longer, and undertook herself to make the disclosure...





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