98 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



medicine with Dr. Nicholas Way in Wilmington, Del., from 

 1776 to 1779. He had an extraordinary opportunity of being 

 initiated into surgery in attending the soldiers who were 

 wounded in the battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777. 

 After practicing medicine a short time, he seems to have 

 become an inmate in the family of his uncle, Humphry, 

 devoting his time and services exclusively as an aid to his 

 uncle in the business of collecting and shipping plants and 

 seeds to Europe. He made several long exploring journeys 

 in that pursuit through the wilds of the West and South- 

 west. He was a good, practical botanist, well acquainted 

 with most of our indigenous plants, and rendered valuable 

 assistance to his uncle in preparing the Arbustum Ameri- 

 canum. On the 6th of April, 1796, Governor Mifflin 

 appointed him a Justice of the Peace, in which office he did 

 excellent service as a peace-maker in the community 

 around him. In all his acts he was a remarkably cautious, 

 upright, conscientious man. Dr. Marshall discontinued the 

 business of sending seeds and plants to Europe soon after 

 his uncle's death, and the garden, in consequence, was 

 almost wholly neglected. Dr. Marshall died on the first of 

 October, 1813, aged fifty-four years and ten months. 



He was the son of James and Sarah Marshall, and 

 the grandson of Abram Marshall, who came from Gratton, 

 in Derbyshire, England, to Darby, Delaware County, 

 about the year 1697. A few years later he bought a large 

 tract of land on the west branch of the Brandywine, 

 near the forks (part of which is now occupied by 

 Abram Marshall, a descendant), where he died in 1767. 

 Abram Marshall married ^lary Hunt, whose sister, 

 Elizabeth Hunt, married William Bartram, so that their 



