Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marshal, Ebenezer
MARSHAL, EBENEZER (d. 1813), historian, was licensed as a preacher by the presbytery of Edinburgh on 30 Oct. 1776, and ordained on 3 April 1782 as chaplain to the Scottish regiment in the Dutch service. On 22 Nov. 1782 he was presented to the living of Cockpen, in the presbytery of Dalkeith, where he died on 19 May 1813 (Scots Mag. 1813, p. 479). He married, on 29 Dec. 1784, Christian Goodsman (who died on 13 Aug. 1824), and had issue Archibald, an accountant of Edinburgh, and Susan Gloag.
Marshal was author of: 1. 'The History of the Union of Scotland and England,' 8vo, Edinburgh, 1799. 2. 'Abridgment of the Acts of Parliament relating to the Church of Scotland,' 8vo, Edinburgh, 1799. 3. 'On the British Constitution,' 8vo, Edinburgh, 1812. He also contributed an account of Cockpen to the first edition of Sir John Sinclair's 'Statistical Account of Scotland' (8vo, 1791-9).
[Hew Scott's Fasti Eccles. Scotic. vol. i. pt. i. p. 273; Cat. of Advocates' Library.]