MARSHALLS OF NORTHAMPTON CO. VA: Fifth Generation

35. ESME⁵ MARSHALL (THOMAS⁴, JOHN³, THOMAS², JOHN¹) (#296) was born in Northampton Co VA about 1720. ESME died 1784 in Worchester Co MD, at 64 years of age. (Ruth Dryden, Worcester Wills)

He married twice. He married MARY NAIRN about 1750. (MARY NAIRN is #297.) MARY was born before September 22, 1732. Date Mary was named in her grandfather, Robert Nairn's, will. MARY was the daughter of ROBERT NAIRN and JANNET WATTS.

MARY died before April 18, 1767 in Worcester Co., MD, at approximately 34 years of age. Mary was not named in the tri-partie deed along with her siblings in 1767, nor was she named in the will of her brother in 1771. Mary was named in the will of her grandfather in 1732 and by her cousin, Francis Drummond, in 1741. Her father only named two of her children in his 1761 will (Robert Henry Marshall and Elizabeth Marshall). Mary was not named in the Tri-Partie deed by her mother in 1767. In his 1771 will, John Nairn named the children of his sister Mary, but did not name her specifically. A deed for "Hog Quarter" abstracted by Ruth Dryden shows Esme Marshall and his wife Mary and that Mary was under age. It appears Mary Nairn died before September 1, 1764, the date of the deed for "Hog Quarter."

He married MARY BRITTINGHAM in Worcester Co., MD, about 1764. (MARY BRITTINGHAM is #16607.) MARY was the daughter of ELIJAH BRITTINGHAM and SARAH NEWBOLD. She was called Mary Brittingham in her father's will. Esme Marshall and his under age wife, Mary, sold "Hog Quarter" for 5 shillings to George Layfield and John Nairn. Layfield and Nairn would have been relations to Esme's wife, Mary Nairn. Esme's first wife, Mary Nairn, would not have been under age in 1764. Mary Brittingham may have been Esme's second wife. Esme was the eldest son of Thomas Marshall and also called Ishmael. (Northampton Orders 1732-1742, pp. 405, 443; Accomack District Court Orders 1789-1797, p. 300, copied by James Marshall) He was in Worcester Co., MD by 1760. On 1 Sept 1764, Esme and Mary** sold 250A of 'Hog Quarter' to George Layfield and John Nairn for 5 shillings, Mary was under age. In 1767, he sold 269A in Northampton and purchased 'Rudder' at Pitts Creek Hundred. Esme's son, Thomas, bought 'Rudder' from Esme in 1772. 'Rudder,' 'Brittingham's Chance,' and 'Brittingham's Addition,' were all acquired by Esme from the widow of descendants of Elijah Brittingham. (Ruth T. Dryden, Land Records of Worcester Co. MD, pp. 75, 134, 394, 533)

**The land abstract for 'Hog Quarter' shows Esme and wife Mary sold...she was under age. Mary Nairn was named by her grandfather in 1732, so she could not have been under age in 1764. It is suspicious that Mary Nairn died by 1764 and Esme married a second time to a Mary, possibly Mary Brittingham, daughter of Elijah.

Mary Nairn is not named in the tri-partie agreement before the marriage of her mother, Janet Nairn, to Jabez Pitts, nor is she named in the 1771 will of her brother, John.

The 1771 will of John Nairn, Mary's brother, provided the names of Mary and Esme's children, as Esme died without a will. Bonds were posted 5 Oct 1784 for the administration of Esme's estate in Worchester Co, MD by George Marshall, Thomas Marshall and John Marshall rejected the administration. Thomas and John Marshall provided inventory and the next of kin were listed as Levin and Theophilus Marshall.(Ruth Dryden, Worcester Admin. Bonds & Inventories, p. 15)

John Nairn named the children of his sister, Mary: Thomas, John, Robert and William.

NOTE: Unable to place a George Marshall who would administer the estate. Esme may have had a daughter who died prior to 1784, as there appears to be a connection to a Esme Marshall Waller. That ?George and ?Daughter are children of Esme is purely speculation and may have been children by Esme's 2nd marriage.

ESME MARSHALL and MARY NAIRN had the following children:

child + 83 i. THOMAS⁶ MARSHALL.