Rev William Presbytery of Pennsylvania Marshall

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    BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
    SERMONS.
    BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE REV. WILLIAM MARSHALL.
    WILLIAM MARSHALL was born about the year 1740, near
    Abernethy, in the county of Fife, in Scotland. His father was
    a respectable farmer ; and for many years an elder in the Associate
    congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev. Alexander
    Moncrief, one of the four ministers who first seceded
    from the Church of Scotland.
    Mr. Marshall having gone through the preparatory studies,
    was admitted into the divinity hall, under the inspection of
    Mr. Moncrief, of whom he always spoke with affection.
    After attending the usual course of lectures, he was taken
    on trials by the Associate Presbytery of Perth, with a view to
    his being licensed to preach the gospel, and with the particular
    design of sending him to America. Mr. Pierie, also, was
    taken on trials at the same time, and with the same view.
    The texts given them by the Presbytery, to preach from, were
    suited to the occasion. That of Mr. Pierie was, (Isaiah vi. 8,) "
    Whom shall 1 send, and who will %ofor us ?" Mr. Marshall
    was to preach from the last clause, " Here am 1, send me."
    Mr. Pierie did not fulfill his mission ; and soon afterward joined
    another religious denomination. The several discourses
    delivered by Mr. Marshall before the Presbytery were approved ;
    he was licensed to preach, and immediately sent on
    a mission to Pennsylvania. ward. These three calls were presented to the Presbytery that
    He landed at Philadelphia in August, 1763. In October,
    1764, the congregation at Deep Run, Bucks county, gave him
    a call to be their minister. The congregations of Octorara
    and Muddy Creek, also drew up calls for him soon after-