The Papers of John Marshall: Volume II

Correspondence and Papers, July 1788--December 1795 Account Book, July 1788--December 1795

Charles T. Cullen, Editor
Herbert A. Johnson, Editor
Joanne M. Wood, Assistant Editor
Susan H. Elias, Assistant Editor

Published in 1977 by the University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0-8078-1302-8

Every document that Marshall wrote or signed between July 1788 and 1795 is printed, summarized in a calendar entry, or listed in this volume. All extent letters to Marshall as well as documents called to his attention, such as wills are also printed or calendared here. More than 90 percent of the documents in this volume have never appear in print.

John Marshall was almost thirty-three-years old when the Virginia ratifying convention adjourned and he returned to his law practice and other matters of local and personal concern. He had been married five years to Mary Willis Ambler Marshall, had seen three of his children born, and was about to begin construction of the house that he and his family would occupy for the rest of his life.

Marshall concentrated his professional activities in Richmond, Virginia and its vicinity. As a result of a new system of district courts begun in 1789, Marshall practiced in Fredericksburg, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia; and Richmond, Virginia; and to the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Appeals in Richmond. Concern with law practice dominated Marshall's life during the seven and half years covered in this volume.