MOSES MARSHALL 



1758-1813 

 Marshallia /rmerafl— SCHREBER 



The fame of this expert medical botanist has 

 been somewhat eclipsed by that of his uncle 

 Humphry (not a doctor), of whom Darlington 

 left studious and loving record in his Memorials 

 of Bartram and Marshall, but Moses made sev- 

 eral long exploring journeys through the wilds 

 of the West and rendered valuable assistance to 

 his uncle in preparing the Arbustum Ameri- 

 canum (1785). 



He was the son of James and Sarah Marshall 

 and the grandson of Abraham Marshall, who 

 came from Gratton, Derbyshire, England, to 

 Delaware, in 1697. West Bradford, Chester 

 County, Pennsylvania, was his birthplace; when 

 he was twenty. Dr. Nicholas Way, of Wilming- 

 ton, New Castle County, undertook (1776) " to 

 instruct Moses Marshall, son of the said James, 

 in the art of physick, according to the best of his 

 understanding, for the space of two years, which 

 time the said Marshall is to abide with him and 

 his wife," £75 being the sum paid. Moses did 

 not trouble himself about a medical degree — 



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