"Clay, Coles, Witcher, Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall"......still haven't figured that one out yet, have you? Four names, only one -"Chief Justice"- with distinguishing title. Why not just John Marshall, or just Marshall, like the other four? I'm stunned you great researchers of local lore failed to make the connections, (actually I'm not) so let me help you out.
As curious as it might seem for a supreme court justice, at one time Marshall was also the president of the ACS, the same organization that these other men belonged to.
The "Jacksons" are even referenced in regards to some of those people who made the land available for Jackson Ward.
In his notes regarding the colonization of Africans Jefferson is very specific as to the concerns of any attempt to colonize those Africans
within the state without first conducting
scientific investigation.
And then, in yet another “completely blind” attempt to derail the direction of this most accurate thread, ECS post a link to the following information:
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In 1769 William Byrd III, owner of much of what is now Richmond, subdivided the area encompassing present-day Jackson Ward into 100-acre “out lots” to award as prizes in a lottery of his real estate holdings. The property that sold at lottery stood outside of the corporate and developed areas of Richmond proper. Richmond grew toward this area in the early 19th century, and this growth encouraged the families who owned much of the property (the Jacksons, Foushees, Duvals, and Coutts) to subdivide and sell their land. A diverse group of “Free Persons of Color,” European immigrants, American-born white artisans, and Richmond businessmen bought lots and built homes in these outlying subdivisions.”
Anyone feeling like Homer Simpson, “Dhu!”
Thomas J. Beale, the only TJB of record during the period, residing in Jackson Ward, Richmond, where our author had "important business affairs". And Homer goes "Dhu!" yet again.
And there is much more, most of those leads already having been posted in this thread......some even unknowingly supported by ECS himself!