Old John prob Trader William Marshall Marshall

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    Marshall Mill
    
    Wilson Township. The settlers had their grinding done at Marshall's old mill, on the James. No sawmills were in existence here and all wooden articles or implements used were hewn out with an ax. (H&A, p. 685)
    
    Old John Marshall, who owned the famous mill at the mouth of the Finley, had an old fat squaw for a wife. Marshall did not leave with the Delawares, (October 1831), but went the following spring in 1832. (H&A, p. 722)
    
    A man by the name of Marshall also came with them, (James Wilson), being married to a squaw, with whom he lived until his death, which occurred about the time the Indians were leaving here, and his widow and orphans went to the Territory with their dusky companions. Mr. Marshall had taken the old mill which had formerly been abandoned by Mr. Ingle, and removed it down the river to a point near the mouth of Finley Creek, where he had commenced a plantation. (H&A, p. 131-132)
    
    Mr. Miller too tells us that the first grist was ground at a little wing-dam mill, operated by John Marshall, on James River near the mouth of Finley. This man, Marshall by the way, was a "squaw man" living with the Indians until his death, just before they finally removed from he region. His mill was the same that Ingle had put up on the James, and had been bought by Wilson and moved to the lower location when Ingle was forced to vacate his claim. (F&T)
    
    In those days (early days) neighbors were few and far between, but everybody was friendly and willing to divide the last mouthful. The first grist of corn was ground on a little wing-dam mill that Old John Marshall had on James, near the mouth of the Finley, although Jerry Pearson had a little rattle-trap of a mill some nearer, but it was hardly competent to grind for his own use. (H&A, p. 153)
    
    Prior to mill building, corn had to be beaten in wooden mortars with a pestle, and these were used to some extent for a long time in preference to the little "one-horse" mills of the new county. (H&A, p. 153)
    
    Franklin Township. The first mill visited was at the mouth of the James, or near where Ozark now is, in Christian County. Marshall's old mill, on Finley, was also visited, while very often the old mortar and pestle were resorted to for corn meal. The first grist mill built in the township was a steam mill, put up in 1858 on Section 16, T30. On the same section, on Sac River, Dysart and Headlee built and operated a saw mill, in 1848. The mill stood near the southwest corner of the section. (H&A, p. 897)
    
    
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