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Note: Neil McCallum in "It's an old Scottish Custum" writes, "The hills of the Borders rise in high lithe curves to a lonely communion with air and sky. In Galloway, "Gwey Galloway as it is called , the slopes of the Merrick above Lech Enoch lead to country that is wilder than any other part south of the Highland line. Here is desolation that teaches the senses a new regard for those fearful remnants of superstition which from the security of an arm chair are tossed away as old wives' tales. There is more of this foreboding atmosphere in Galloway between Loch Enoch and Loch Neldricken and in the mountains of the Rhinus of Kells than anywhere else. They lived in Wigton".
Perhaps this "foreboding atmosphere" had something to do with seven brothers coming from Scotland to the Galloway District, County Antrim, Ireland. They were Samuel, John, William, James, Peter, Thomas and George. Charles Galoway came to this county in 1634. Thomas Galloway age 20, came to Maryland in March 1718. It is from Maryland that the Galloways who settled in Sullivan County, Tennessee came.
Marshall Galloway was born in 1760 according to his pension papers and he enlisted on June 27 1777 in the Maryland Continnental Army during the Revolutionary War and served five years and nine months as a private in Captain Brice's Company in the 3rd Maryland Regiment. (The 3rd Maryland Regiment was in Valley Forge with General George Washington). He was in the Battle of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, first Battle of Camden, Battle of Cowpens, Guilford Court House, Eutaw Springs and a number of other skirmishes. He was discharged in April of 1783 at Annapolis Maryland. His grandson described him as "a man who loved his county to the very core but cultivated no love for the tories". His dispositions were lively and active according to his grandson.
Marshall married Hannah Watlin in Baltimore Maryland on September 2 1786 and soon removed to Botetourt County Virginia. Before the turn of the century, Marshall and Hannah removed to Sullivan County Tennessee. He was there as early as 1796, as there is a record of his having bought 105 acres. On November 24 1803, Marshall bought 71 acres on Fall Creek for $300.00 from Richard Shipley in Sullivan county Tennessee. On July 17 1804 he bought 17 additional acres from the Shipleys and in 1818 bought another 37 acres from the Shipleys. The land was about 5 or 6 miles west of Blountsville. Hannah was born in 1765 and died about 1825 when she was killed by being thrown from a horse against a tree. She was found with her neck broken. Marshall died December 17 1827.
According to Marshall's statement in the Revolutionary War Pension records (S-38718), he and Hannah had 10 children but only 8 were named in the settlement of the 1832 property deed (Deed Bk Vol 11, page 352 & 353), but each of the heirs received 1/10 of a share, except Thomas who received 2/10 of a share. Elizabeth, the nineth child, daughter of Marshall and Hannah Galloway married Caleb Shiply (Deed Bk # 11 page 243 & 244)
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