William Marshall

• General Notes
  • 1784 -“William Marshall a young man 17 years of age, a
    native of Ireland, was murdered at a Coweta village about
    10 miles above the town, by an Indian of the Cowetas;
    Thomas Marshall his brother applied to the chief of the
    town for satisfaction . . . . The chiefs after
    consultation in the square, determined that the murdered
    should suffer death.” Two natives shot the murderer with
    the rifle of the deceased. Hawkins reported in 1796 that
    “The family of Mr. Marshall have been so unfortunate,
    most of them, as to meet an untimely end: during the late
    war a party of Indians said to be Chehaws attacked the
    house of Mrs. Marshall the mother, and of her son-in-law
    Capt. David Stewart about one mile above Old Town on
    Ogeechee and killed Mrs. Marshall, Capt. Stewart, his
    wife and two children, the two brothers William and Henry
    were in the house with their mother, and defended
    themselves with their guns until their mother was killed,
    and then they retreated; Henry was afterwards killed at
    Sappalo; a lad at school by Capt. Baker and his company,
    after he had surrendered himself wounded a prisoner. This
    action is mentioned as having been done in a manner
    shocking to humanity.”