Note 7 — Chapter I · HIS LIFE BEFORE BECOMING CHIEF JUSTICE; HIS PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
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Only six of his children grew to full age. See his touching letter to Judge Story of June 26, 1831: “You ask me if Mrs. Marshall and myself have ever lost a child. We have lost four,” etc.—Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (2d series) xiii. 345.