Thomas Marshall King

• General Notes
  • 1.    Thomas Marshall, born say 1723, was fined by the Charles City County court on 6 September 1758 for failing to list his wife as a tithable. He may have been identical to Thomas Marshall, a white planter, who married Anne Perle, a "Mulatto" woman, in Prince George's County, Maryland, before 23 August 1743 when the court ordered that he be sold for seven years. He was ordered to be released from prison so the case could be tried at the Provincial Court [Court Record 1743-4, 17]. He was living in Halifax County, North Carolina, on 1 December 1762 when his deed of bargain and sale was proved in Charles City County [Orders 1758-62, 57, 496]. He purchased 17-1/2 acres in Halifax County on 11 June 1760, 100 acres on 25 September 1760, was granted 640 acres there on 10 December 1760, and purchased 100 acres on Cain Quarter Creek on 18 January 1764. On 10 February 1769 he gave his daughter Martha King 640 acres which had been a Granville grant to him and gave her 100 acres on Cain Quarter Creek, reserving 10 acres for his lifetime. He was married to Winnifred Marshall on 7 May 1774 when he and his wife sold tracts of 17-1/2 acres, 100 acres joining John Marshall, and an 8 acre tract [DB 7:163, 164, 219; 8:369; 10:524; 13:1]. Administration on his Halifax County estate was granted to Willifred Marshall in November 1784. The same November 1784 court called him a "very improper person" when it bound his apprentice Abner Booth, base born child of Sarah Boothe, to someone else [Gammon, Record of Estates, Halifax County, 45 (no.571), 50 (no.652)]. His will was recorded in Will Book 2, page 31, but that page is missing from the microfilm copy of the deed book. His daughter was
    
    i. Martha, married William King. William left a Halifax County will by which he left 100 acres to his son Thomas Marshall King and left 440 acres to his father-in-law Thomas Marshall. They may have been the ancestors of William King who was born before 1776 and head of a Halifax County household of 7 "free colored" in 1830.