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Elizabeth Markham and her planter husband, John Marshall. His father was sometimes nicknamed "John of the Forest," from the estate that he owned. His name honored his Virginia-born planter grandfather, Thomas Marshall (1655–1704). His great-grandfather, another John Marshall, a captain
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