Thomas Marshall (1724-1800)

Your rank as captain in the Boston militia makes you a prominent citizen. You become involved with political brawls, witnessing the Boston Massacre and participating in an attack on a Loyalist publisher. During the siege of Boston you remain in town while most Patriot leaders leave. As a town official you help to negotiate the British evacuation in 1776. After commanding a regiment as a colonel during the Revolutionary War, you finally retire to the small town of Weston where you quietly live out the rest