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 John Marshall. their piety that the saying went, " as pious she being so young and bashful that she said as an Ambler." She was a daughter of Col. ' no ' when she meant to say ' yes.' The Jaquelin Ambler, a descendant of the mistake however was corrected, some time Huguenot Jaquelin who fled from France after, by the kind offices of a cousin, a Mr. when the persecution of the Protestants be Ambler. Seeing how things were, he sent gan. Her mother was Rebecca Burwell, a to the disappointed lover a lock of her hair, famous beauty who discarded Thomas Jeffer cut without her knowledge. My father, sup son to marry Col. Ambler. Miss Susan posing she had sent it, renewed his suit and Randolph gave this account of Jefferson's they were married. They were a most decourtship: " He is a boy, and is indisputably voted couple, living together forty-eight years. My mother in love in this good died in 1831. My year 1763, and he father, surviving her courts and sighs and fouryears, and feeling tries to capture his her loss severely, pretty little sweet proposed, to move heart, but like his from Richmond to friend, George Wash Fauquier, where his ington, fails, the children and brother young lady will not be captured." It is a resided; with that purpose he was build somewhat notable fact that Miss Cary, ing an addition to his who refused George son James' (your grandfather) house, Washington, married Leeds Manor, expect Edward Ambler, ing his new residence brother of the man to be ready for him preferred to Jefferson. that summer, from The story goes in the which he was cut off family that Washing JOHN MARSHALL. (At the age of 46. From a miniature.) by his death in the ton, a very short time year 1835, Ju'y 6th. before his marriage to Mrs. Custis, wrote to Miss Cary, telling her it It was an interesting exhibition of father's was not even then too late for her to change devotion to my mother's memory, who was her mind, he would break off his engagement buried near Richmond, Virginia, that he habitually walked to her grave every Sun with the widow, but she again refused him. Some years ago I wrote to my great-uncle, day afternoon, a distance of one and a half the late Hon. Edward C. Marshall, and asked miles. Upon one Sunday afternoon, suffer him to write me some things of his father ing with the malady which led to his death, and mother. He was their youngest son. he was taking his accustomed walk, when he fell from exhaustion on the common He replied as follows : — outside the city and was unable to proceed. "In the year 1783, after leaving the Revo He was fortunately seen by two negro men lutionary army, having served from the be ginning to near the end of the war, father (everybody knew him) and was carried courted Miss Mary Ambler, a beautiful girl in their arms to his home, whence he went of Yorktown, Virginia, who was very young, to Philadelphia and placed himself under being only fifteen years of age. This court the care of the celebrated doctors Phyship upon the first trial, was unsuccessful, sick and Chapman. Without avail, how