James M. Marshall

James Markham Marshall was born 12 March 1764 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the fourth child of Thomas and Mary Randolph Keith Marshall and a younger brother of John Marshall, later Chief Justice of the United States. Like his brother he studied law, and in 1795 he married Hester Morris, daughter of the Philadelphia merchant and Revolutionary financier Robert Morris. With his brother John and their brother-in-law Rawleigh Colston he was the principal investor in the 1796 “Fairfax Purchase,” a five-county Northern Neck tract that the Marshalls bought from the Fairfax heirs and that became one of the largest real-estate transactions in Federal-era Virginia ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, James Markham Marshall Website .

In 1801 President John Adams appointed Marshall as one of the sixteen “Midnight Judges” of the new Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. He served as Assistant Judge of the D.C. Circuit Court from March 1801 until the court was reorganised by the Jefferson administration in 1803. From the 1810s through the 1820s he lived at the 220 North Washington Street Place 220 North Washington Street Late-Georgian 1797 townhouse at the corner of North Washington and Queen built by merchant John Wise. Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General and brother of Light-Horse Harry, lived … on North Washington Street in Alexandria, then one of the city’s most prominent Federal-period townhouses. He died on his Fauquier County estate “Leeds Manor” in 1848.