Marshall

Location: the Lower Farm, Alleghany County, Virginia

Marshall was born c. 1835/1836. John Howe Peyton bound Marshall to David Sterrett in January, 1843 for a period to last nine years to learn the trade of tailor. The agreement obligated Sterrett to “…keep him as constantly at the trade as his health and humanity will permit and give him all the instruction in his power both in the cutting out in the old way and making up clothes according to the fashion of the day…to furnish him with good summer and winter clothing and lodging and to pay his taxes and doctor’s bills during the said term and return him at the end of nine years.”

Marshall was appraised in 1847, $475.00. Marshall was sold at public auction at the Lower Farm on November 15, 1847 to John H. Brown, $510.00.

Prescot Moore, Isaac and Madison were also sold to John H. Brown.

John H. Brown was living in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) when he presented a letter signed by his father, William Brown, of Augusta County, Virginia to William Madison Peyton and John Lewis Peyton, executors of John Howe Peyton’s estate. This letter served to guarantee purchases made by John H. Brown at the Alleghany sale on November 15, 1847.

Shortly after the sale, unbeknownst to the Peyton executors and his father, John H. Brown took Marshall, Prescot Moore, Isaac, and Madison into a market (location unknown) and sold them all. William Brown was later required to pay his son’s bond of $2,456.00 plus interest.