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 1706 - 1784 (78 years)
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| Name |
Daniel Marshall |
| Birth |
24 Aug 1706 |
Windsor, Hartford, CT  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
02 Nov 1784 |
Upper Richmond (now Columbia) County, GA |
| Person ID |
I250 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
17 Dec 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Daniel Marshall, a Baptist pastor and itinerant preacher, is generally considered the first great Baptist leader in Georgia. He founded Kiokee Baptist Church, the oldest continuing Baptist congregation in the state. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, on August 24, 1706, Marshall had no formal education. He began his career as a farmer and served for twenty years as a deacon in the First Church in Windsor, one of the nation's oldest Congregational churches. In 1742 he married Hannah Drake, and they had one child, Daniel Jr. Coming under the influence of the revivalist George Whitefield around 1745, Marshall became a Separate Congregationalist, a group considerably more evangelistic and charismatic than the establishment Standing Order Congregationalist churches of Connecticut. As a layman he preached in New York and Pennsylvania for about three years. During this time his first wife died, and in 1747 he married Martha Stearns, the sister of an evangelical preacher. Together they had ten children: Abraham, John, Zaccheus, Levi, Moses, Solomon, Joseph, Eunice, Mary, and Benjamin. Marshall's wife later became a preacher in her own right, although she was never ordained. From 1754 to 1771 Marshall ministered in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, becoming an ordained Separate Baptist leader second in influence only to Shubal Stearns, his brother-in-law. During these years Marshall was a revivalistic and emotional farmer-preacher who influenced at least fourteen men to enter the ministry and assisted in founding at least eighteen Separate Baptist churches and two district associations. Marshall moved to a portion of Richmond County, Georgia which is now Columbia County, in 1771, and soon thereafter he organized the Kiokee Church, probably about three and a half miles east of the town of Appling. As the Baptist patriarch in the area, he was a mentor to at least sixteen younger preachers. During the Revolutionary War (1775-83) Marshall was an American patriot; after the war he and others fought for legislation favoring religious liberty. Just before his death he acted as moderator of the Georgia Baptist Association, founded in 1784 at Kiokee Church. Of the 104 known Baptist churches organized in Georgia during the eighteenth century, a large number of them trace their origins to Marshall or to one of his junior colleagues. Marshall died in Upper Richmond County (now Columbia County) on November 2, 1784. He was succeeded as pastor of Kiokee by his son Abraham and later by a grandson, Jabez. Thus he founded a sixty-one-year ministerial dynasty, an occurrence rare in Baptist circles. He apparently owned at least 400 acres of land in Georgia (but no slaves) and left an estate "of considerable value." To his contemporaries Marshall was a man of holy zeal, meekness, and patience, but his gifts, in the words of his son Abraham, "were by no means above mediocrity." One honest friend, Morgan Edwards, described him as "a weak man, a stammerer, and no scholar," and admitted that Marshall's success was "surprising when we consider that he is a man of no bright parts, nor eloquence nor learning. Piety, earnestness and honesty are all he can boast of." The Marshall Historical Site, near Appling, was dedicated in 1984.
Sources:
1. "Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers", p. 170 with additional sources listed at end of entry.
2. Gardner, Robert G. "Daniel Marshall (1706-1784)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 09 August 2013. Web. 21 July 2015. (additional sources listed at end of article)
3. "Georgia's First Continuing Baptist Church" by Waldo P. Harris III and James D. Mosteller, Appling, Ga.: Kiokee Baptist Church, 1997.
4. Southern Baptist Beginnings by Robert A. Baker, The Baptist History and Heritage Website, 1979. Web. 23 July 2015. http://www.baptisthistory.org/bhhs/baptistorigins/southernbaptistbeginnings.html
- Wives:
1. Hannah Drake, born 1717 in CT, married 1742, died 1746.
2. Martha Stearns, born 18 Aug 1726 in CT, married 23 Jun 1747, died in GA . Additional info above in bio of Daniel Marshall.
Sources:
a. Martha Stearns Marshall. (2015, May 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:52, July 23, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martha_Stearns_Marshall&oldid=663466501
b. Who Was Martha Stearns Marshall? Retrieved July 23, 2015 from http://bwim.info/who-was-martha-stearns-marshall/
- Daniel Marshall is DAR ancestor A073734 and SAR ancestor P-241787. He served as a chaplain in the Georgia Militia, was arrested and jailed by the British multiple times for refusing to stop preaching the Gospel, and received bounty land in Washington County, GA, for his service.
Source: "Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers", p. 170 with additional sources listed at end of entry.
- Grave marked 03 Oct 2015 by William Few Chapter
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