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| Birth: | 1716 in Montgomery County, PA |
| Death: | 3 Mar 1788 in Loudon County, VA |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Joseph Marks b. About 1690 |
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| Christening: 10 Aug 1740 Montgomery B. Ch. Montogmery County, PA |
| Burial: Ketoctin Cem., , Loudoun Co., VA |
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Individual:
Few Pennsylvania references to John Marks have been found. At age 24, he was baptized (10 Aug 1740) . History of Montgomery Baptist Church in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County Pennsylvania by Edward Mathews
Minutes of the Philadelphia Conference state John Marks was sent out by the Montgomery Church in 1748; that is probably the year he was ordained a Minister. He did not have his own church, but preached at various Baptist Churches in the area when needed.
He witnessed two wills:
1) Will of Jacob Eaton, cordwainer, dated 3 Aug 1750 proved 20 Sep 1750, Philadelphia Co., PA Will Book 1, p 198
2)Will of Jonathan Drake dated 15 Dec 1751, probated 30 Jul 1754. Bucks Co, PA Will Book 2, p 271.
The record of John Marks' marriage to Uriah Ledyard has not been found. Uriah was born in 1720 and she is mentioned as Uriah Marks in her father John Ledyard's will dated 5 April 1748, probated 30 April 1748. Philadelphia County PA Will Book G, p 256. Therefore we know she and John Marks were married before 1748. It is possible John Marks had an earlier wife, as Uriah was not baptized until April 1753, thirteen years after John was baptized and five years after he was ordained. Almost certainly Uriah Ledyard is the mother of John Marks' children starting with the birth of daughter Uriah Marks in 1752.
"Between 1750 and 1755 John Gerrard, a Baptist preacher of Maryland, is said to have gone to Berkely County VA and thence journeyed over the Blue Ridge into the present Loudoun 'where he found the people ready to listen to the proclamation of the gospel.' The first Baptist church in Loudoun (and perhaps in Virginia as well) was built at Ketocton in 1756 or 1757, according to tradition, to be followed by a stone building in 1815 and then, in 1856, by the present brick edifice.
"Until 1765 the Baptist congregations in Virginia were united to the Philadelphia Association but in that year obtained their dismissal and set about the task of building their own association in Virginia. Their first convention was held 'in Ketocton in Loudoun', the OLD CHURCH there thus giving the first Baptist Association in Virginia its name." Delegates John Marks and John Lloyd represented Ketocton at this convention. -- Legends of Loudoun by H. Williams
John and Uriah Marks were dismissed from the Montgomery Baptist Church August 12, 1761, to go to Virginia. Weiss' Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, in naming eighty-six Baptist clergymen from the Upper Northern Neck area, lists: John Marks from Pennsylvania to Loudoun County Virginia, 1756. The same date John Marks and Uriah were dismissed from the above church to go to Virginia, a Joseph Marks was also dismissed to Philadelphia. It is not known whether there is a relationship between John and Joseph, but there is no further record of Joseph Marks in Philadelphia Baptist churches.
"Elder John Marks moved from Pennsylvania into Virginia either with Mr. Garred or about the same time. He was rather at an advanced state of life when he came, but settling in a healthy country and being very temperate and regular in his life, he lived to be very old. He died about the year 1786 [sic] having from first to last maintained a spotless reputation for piety and steadiness. As a preacher he was sound and sensible, yet cold and phlegmatic. Being a poor man and obliged to labor for his support, his ministerial services were confined within a small circle. To this circumstance, added to his cold and dry method, may be ascribed his not being more successful." - Robert B. Semple's History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia, page 302.
John Marks bought land in Loudoun County in 1762 and 1763. He was instrumental in forming the Ketoctin Baptist Association. He worked with the other three churches in the Association, baptizing and ordaining ministers. In 1785 he gave up the ministry due to poor health.
John Marks died in 1788 and is buried in SHORT HILL CEMETERY, Round Hill, Virginia, in Loudoun County. His will was dated 31 January 1787 and probated 4 April 1788.
Loudoun County Will Book C
Loudoun County Deed Book C (Part II)
pages 615-619
Indenture made 1st/2nd June 1763 between John Palmer of county Loudoun of one
part and John MARKS of same county.. Whereas there is a certain tract oor
parcel of land being in county Loudoun on or about the Round Hill and bounded .
. beginning at two black oaks on side of said around hill in a stony Race
being corner to land patented to Harman Cox .. in the given line of John
Warners survey at the head of a glade .. to a line of George Carter ..
containing 200 acres of land being part of a tract granted John Hough by
Patent from Proprietors office and said Hough transferred to John Palmer by
deeds of lease & release bearing date 20th & 21st December 1762 .. Now this
Indenture Witnesseth that John Marks .. by deeds of lease and release .. sold
said 200 acres of land as set forth and described ..
Presence John Hough
William Stewart, Daniel X PJalmer John Palmer At a court
held 14th June 1763 .. Indenture and receipt endorsed proved .. ordered to be
recorded.
!WILL 1763:Loudoun Co. Deed Book C, Part II, pp 549-554: John Marks witnessed
an indenture 10 May 1763 for exchange of land near Round Hill, Loudoun
Co., Va.,1772: Loudoun Co., VA, Book I, page 96/98, 25 Oct 1772,
Indenture
John Marks and his wife Uriah to Elisha Marks five shillings paid to
Elisha Marks, [.. .....] 150 acres for 1 year...into possession of
Elisha Marks be in actual posessission and thereby enable to accept a
Release of Inheritance thereof in Witness whereof said John Marks and
Uriah his Wife hath set their hands and seals day and year above written
in presense of John Marks and Uriaha [her mark] Marks.
1772: Loudoun Co., VA, Book i, page 98/101 26 Oct 1772. This endeture
between John Marks county of Loudoun and Uriah his wife on the one
part and Elisha Marks of same county on other part, Whereas .........
tract of land bought from Ephrim Thomas of County of Bucks of Province
of Pennsylvania and of Mahlon Jenny of County of Loudoun and Ephraim
Thomas transferred to aforesaid John Marks by his deed will fully
appear..........Now this indenture witnesseth that John Marks for sum
of Ten Pounds Virginia money to him in hand paid by these presents
doth bargain and sell unto Elish Marks (in his actual possession by
virtue of one indenture of bargain of sale and virtue of statute for
transfering uses into possession) and his heirs and assigns forever
the said 150 acres of land as above set forth in Witness whereof said
John Marks and Uriah his Wife had hereunto set their hands and seals
the day and year first above written.
John Marks and Uriah [her mark] Marks.
1773:Loudoun Co. Will Book B, pp 34-36, 27 Apr 1773, John Marks
paid money to settle estate of Jonas Potts.
1787: 31 Jan 1787 and proved 4 Apr 1788 in Loudoun Co., VA, lists as
heirs his wife Ureh (Miriah), three sons (Elisha, John, Thomas & Abel), and 3 daughters (Mary wife of Thomas Humphry, Martha wife of William Howell,
Uriah, wife of Jenkin Williams).
The Thursday, July 15, 1954 copy of the "Blue Ridge Herald" contained a
long biographical sketch entitled "The Rev. John Marks Roused the Loudoun
Countryside to Warfare Against the British", by J. V. Nichols. It says he was
probably born in Bucks County, Pa., 1n 1716, and died on the farm now owned by
Mrs. O.L. Williams, near Round Hill in 1788. It says that nothing is known of
his parentage, his education, his training for the ministry or when or where
he was ordained as a minister in the Baptist church.
That same article goes on to say: "In 1761 he removed from Pennsylvania
to the western part of Loudoun county with his family--his wife, five boys and
three girls. Since John Garrard, the second minister to serve Ketoctin
church, had returned to Mill Creek in the Shenandoah Valley, Marks became the
pastor of this church. He served for 24 years or until 1785 when his failing
health forced him to relinquish his ministerial duties.
Our land records show that in 1762 he purchased from Ephriam Thomas,
Bucks County, Pa., for the sum of fifty pounds sterling a farm of 150 acres
here he lived the rest of his life. The house in which he lived is still
standing (1954)"
Another part of the article states: " At this point it may be of interest
to note what Robert B. Semple in his 'History of the Rise and Progress of the
Baptists in Virginia' published in 1810, has to say of the Reverend John
Marks: ---As a preacher he was sound and sensible, yet cold and phlegmatic.
Being a poor man and obliged to labor for his support, his ministerial
services were confined to a small circle. His cold and dry method did not
help him be more successful. He was rather old when he came to Virginia, but
settling in a healthy country and being very temperate and regular in his life
he lived to be very old. He died about the year 1786, having from first to
last maintained a spotless reputation for piety and steadiness"
Nichols goes on to say: "As to Marks's poverty, his will and the
inventory of his personal property recorded in our Clerk's Office do not bear
it out. He left four farms and a considerable amount of personal property
with no debts. This proves that he was a good farmer and business man.
"He was certainly not a hellfire and brimstone kind of a preacher nor did
he attempt to substitute loud declamation and long tiresome harangues for
sound thinking and clear expressions in moderate tones. So his style of
preaching was not popular in his day. However, the steady growth of the
church proves that he was successful pastor."
In another place in that article Nichols stated: "So intense did the
patriotic sentiment become under the festering zeal of Marks that nearly every
man of military age in that section enlisted in the American army. Two of his
sons, Isaiah and John, as well as a son-in-law, William Howell, enlisted in
Morgan's Riflemen and Isaiah was soon promoted to captain. Thomas Humphrey,
another son-in-law, also enlisted and served with distinction throughout the
war.
A plain gray stone in Ketoctin cemetery marks the mortal remains of this
patriotic man of God. The inscription is as follows; Reverend John Marks--dec.
the 3rd day of March, 1788 aged 72 years."
See pages 2,3,4, & 9 of "Marks, Humphrey, Hixson, etc", by Ryland (1949).
See "Marks family in History of Lower Shenendoah Valley, VA (1890), by J.E.
Norris, p. 758. Other data given in Ann Whiteheat Thomas's 25 Oct 1990 letter
from P. O. Box 71, Round Hill, VA 22141.
Another researcher in 1993 was Dorothy Todd, 8550 Yoder St., Manassas, VA
22110 [Prodigy ID KPDV47A]
Another researcher in 1994 was Joseph Marks, 3738 William Flynn Highway,
Slippery Rock, PA 16057-9157.
Another reseacher in 1993 was Jean Marks, Route 8 Box 4A, SALEM WV 26426-9201
Another reseacher in 1994 was Mickey Colombatto, 301120 Briarton Rd.,
FARMINGTON HILLS MI 48331.
Another reseacher in 1993 was Howard Wynn Holmes, 1744 E. 128 Place So.,
Broken Arrow, OK 74011.
!"The Howells of New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Points West", Richard E.
Wallace, Robert W. Cameron, Carmen J. Finley, 1994, Heritage Books, Inc.
Bowie, MD., pp 17, 136.
"Genealogy of John Templeton 1755-1822 of Iredell Co., NC", Jay Norwalk,
1997, Templeton Foundation Press, Radnor, PA, p 375
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