Person:Mary Marquis (6)

In 1720 William Marquis and Margaret, his wife, together with their son Thomas and daughter Mary, emigrated to this country from Ireland, and settled in Frederick county, Va., near to Winchester. It is believed that some of the children of this family remained in Ireland. Some years after their parents came to America, Thomas Marquis married Miss Mary Colvile, and Mary Marquis married John Wilson, and died shortly after. Thomas was the father of seven children - four sons and three daughters - named as follows: William, James, John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Sarah and Anne. Thomas Marquis, the father of these children, was killed by the falling of a limb of a tree, whilst gathering corn. His children were brought up under the direction of his brother-in-law, John Wilson, who was a school teacher, and a religious man, consequently they were carefully educated, both secularly and religiously. ^S1

1. ↑ Commemorative biographical record of Washington County, Pennsylvania: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families. ( Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers, 1893.)
   P. 182.

   Source: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Bobbi Steele of Indianapolis, IN as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.