In a message dated 10/5/2003 5:02:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, BobKamman@aol.com writes: > His original application was returned to him because the paperwork was not > complete. I think the Fauquier County court, which had to certify it, left > off > some signatures and didn't include testimony of the required witnesses. The > clerk of the Fauquier County court, who signed the certification, was > Alexander > J. Marshall -- no doubt a relative of Chief Justice (and Fauquier native) > John > Marshall, but does anyone here know the exact connection? There is also an > Alexander Keith Marshall, who is not the same person, and an Alexander J. > Marshall who was involved in an 1853 case before the Supreme Court, and who > I > believe is a different person. > The Chief Justice had a nephew, Alexander J. Marshall, b. Warrenton, 1803, d. Baltimore, 1882, who was a lawyer in Warrenton until he was elected Clerk of the Fauquier Court where he served for years. During the War Between The States he was in the Confederate Senate. After the war he removed to Baltimore where he died. ("The Marshall Family", by W. M. Paxton, 1885) He would have been in place to process the certification. Bill Stribling