I've been on this Marshall newslist for months. I've also got one of those bizarre Marshalls who I'm trying to track down. I read everything everybody has to say about Marshalls and I realize I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just put my guy out there. PJSTON's last posting to this list finally got me rolling. My Marshall moved to Ohio too, from PA. Here he his: John Marshall, b. abt 1762 , d. 27 Jul 1806, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. was the second husband of Catherine Truby. b. 1764, Northampton Co, Towamensing, PA, d. 9 Aug 1806, OH, Fairfield County, Lancaster. Catherine and John were married about 1798 in Westmoreland County, PA. Catherine's family I can trace from the day they immigrated to this country (maternal and paternal sides of the family - 1720's). I have an enormous data base on all their descendants. They are my great-great-great- grandparents. John pops up in Westmoreland County, PA, all of a sudden, married to Catherine (whose family moved there, to Greensburg, about 1772). I have done a considerable amount of work tracing all the other Marshalls in Westmoreland and Armstrong Counties. There is a large, very established Marshall family in these counties, all descended from William Marshall, b. 1722 in Ireland, married to Elizabeth Armstrong, born in Scotlland. who all immigrated from to America in 1748, first settled around Baltimore (Conecocheague), then spread out to Indiana County, PA, Armstrong Co., PA, Westmoreland County, PA and other PA counties. I got their history from Oscar Marshall's book and county histories. And MY JOHN MARSHALL IS NOT ONE OF THEIRS. What confuses me is that my John Marshall had his kids baptized in a German church in Westmoreland County. His wife, Catherine, who was the descendant of French Hugenots and German Moravians, would have attended this church, but I can't figure out how this Anglo guy got mixed up with these German-speaking folks, who were a pretty tight group. The Trubys were very prominent in Greensburg (Catherine's father, Christopher Truby, with William/Matthew Jack donated the land - for a buck or something in exchange - to build the original courthouse and was a Justice of the Peace and all that good stuff.) I don't think Catherine would have married some loose screw off the street, so to speak. Maybe his name was anglicized and he is a Marshel or something like that. HE IS NOT A MARCHAND, because I also did a pretty complete genealogy on that family and he is not one of theirs. So, what I find in the tax lists, is John Marshall suddenly owning Catherine's first husband's (Frederick Rohrer's) building in Greensburg just about the time he married her, but nothing conclusive in the tax lists before that. I can't make enough sense of the 1790 Census to tell if my John Marshall was in Westmoreland County by that date. I think all the John Marshalls in the tax lists and census before before 1796 were the William Marshall descendants. Now, there is a strong family tradition that our John Marshall was related to the family of John Marshall, the first Chief Justice. I'm working on that angle now, by following all the work of the people I've found on the Marshall list and online who have been tracing the family of the Chief Justice. If anybody has a clue what to do next, please help me. I guess I don't want to spend 20 years like PJSTON who has been looking for her Joshua Marshall that long. Thanks for any help. Jane