78 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



England, born in the year 1669, came to Pennsylvania 

 about the year 1697, and settled near Darby, where, on the 

 17th of January, 1702-3, he married Mary, the daughter of 

 James Hunt, of Kingsessing, also an emigrant from Eng- 

 land, and one of the companions of William Penn. Some 

 time after their marriage, viz., in the year 1707, Abraham 

 Marshall removed to the forks of the Brandywine, near the 

 western branch of that stream, where he purchased large 

 tracts of land among the Indians, and continued to reside 

 there until his death, which took place December 17, 1767, 

 at the age of about ninety -eight years. His wife died in the 

 spring of 1769, aged eighty-seven years. They were both 

 interred in the Friends' burying ground at Bradford Meet- 

 ing-house. Of their nine children, Humphry was the eighth. 

 In those primitive times, the opportunities for schooling 

 were scanty and limited. Humphry Marshall used often 

 to state that he never went to school a day after he was 

 twelve years of age ; and consequently was only instructed 

 in the rudiments of the plainest English education. Being 

 constitutionally robust and active, he was employed in 

 agricultural labors until he was old enough to be appren- 

 ticed to a stone-mason. This trade he learned, and followed 

 for a few years, during the summer season, extending his 

 engagements, occasionally into the county and town of 

 Lancaster, and also into the neighboring province of New 

 Jersey. The winters were passed at the residence of his 

 father. 



That-^he was an excellent workman is still evident 

 from the walls of his residence at Marshallton, which he 

 built with his own hands, in the year 1773. 



On the 16th of September, 1748, Humphry Marshall 



