1775.

Marion is returned for the Provincial Congress from St.John's, Berkeley--Made Captain in the Second Regiment -- Fort Johnson taken--Battle of Fort Moultrie.
Engaged in rural and domestic occupations we hear no more of Marion, except as a citizen and farmer, until the beginning of the year 1775.

In the latter capacity he is reputed to have been successful; and between the labors and sports of the field, the more violent humors of youth seem to have been dissipated in exercises which are seldom followed by reproach.

He was very fond of angling and hunting, and with rod or gun, his leisure was employed in a way that would not have displeased the gentle Isaak Walton.

These constituted his chief pastimes for the fourteen years that had elapsed since his Cherokee campaigns.