I represent William Marshall, Sr. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. My wife’s name was Helen, and we were the parents of Cornelia and William, Jr. Cornelia was baptized – probably as an infant – on September 29, 1768. William was baptized on October 14, 1770. I was given a grant of 300 acres on Gull Point, on nice, high ground. In Pensacola, I was a magistrate or justice of the peace, handling minor local crimes and legal squabbles. I was elected to represent Pensacola in the House of Commons for the provincial General Assemblies in 1769 and 1771. I appeared on the Spanish list of inhabitants remaining in Pensacola at the time of the capitulation in May 1781. Unless I had managed to get my family to safety, we would have become prisoners of war at that time and probably gone to New York on parole with the rest of the survivors of the siege of Pensacola.
Sources: 3, 5, 7, 12, 6, 75