Marshall, Abraham

Marshall, Abraham a pioneer Baptist minister, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, April 23, 1748. He was converted in South Carolina at the age of twenty-two; soon began to preach in Georgia; was licensed in 1771, and ordained in 1775. In 1784 he became pastor at Kiokee, Georgia, and labored there and in all the adjoining region as a flaming evangelist until his death, August 15, 1819. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.