George Marshall, Esquire was a member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica. He was elected in first 1816 and again in July of 1820. It is likely that he served in the assembly sometime before 1816, too.
Career Marshall represented the parish of Saint Thomas in the Vale. The parish had two representatives in the assembly. St. Thomas has since been merged with the parish of Saint Catherine.
Marshall was one of 45 members of the assembly, not counting speaker of the house or the assembly’s clerk, sergeant at arms, chaplain, printer, or librarian.Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
In his 1816 term, the speaker of the house was the Honorable James Lewis. In 1820, it was the Honorable David Finlayson.
Personal life Little is known of Marshall’s personal life. A Kingston newspaper from 1794 reports a George Marshall from Spanish Town marrying a Miss Jesse Orr; it is possible that this is the same George Marshall.
Marshall appears in St. Thomas in the Vale property records beginning in 1811 and going through 1833. He does not appear in the property records of the following almanac (1838). Records show that Marshall had a property called Golden Grove, on which he had around 70-100 slaves at any given time.
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