Three of the Marable name served in the House of Burgesses in the Capitol at Williamsburg.
At the site of the old Capitol today stands a monument commemorating events with transpired there leading up to the Revolutionary War. On the back of the monument is the following inscription:
Members of the House of Burgesses who, at the Raleigh Tavern, May 18, 1769, and May 27, 1774, and August, 1774, entered into associations against the importation or purchase of British manufactures: Peyton Randolph, Speaker; Robert Carter Nicholas, Treasurer; Philip Ludwell Grymes, Nathaniel Edwards, Jr., William Cabell, Jr., George Washington, Wilson Miles Cary, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Rutherford, Patrick Henry, Thomas Nelson, Jr., William Macon, Jr., Josesph Hutchings, Thomas Parramore, Cornelius Thomas, Thomas Claiborne, Richard Anderson, Thomas Jefferson, James Scott, Jr., Nathaniel Terry, Nurwell Bassett, William Clayton, Thomas Glascock, Benjamin Howard, Alexander Trent, Paul Carrington, Southey Simpson, Peter Poythress, James Hamilton, Willis Riddick, Foushee Tebbs, Edward Osborne, Frances Peyton, Robert Munford, Bolling Starke, Robert Bolling, Thomas Barbar, William Acrill, Hartwell Cocke, John Harmanson, Archibald Carey, Charles Carter, Carter Braxton, Peter Johnson, Thomas Whiting, John Alexander, John Blair, Jr., Thomas Johnson, Richard Starke, John Lewis, Jr., Charles Lynch, Thomas Bayley, Lewis Burwell, Richard Baker, Joseph Cabell, Thomas Walker, William Roane, John Donelson, James Bridger, Gabriel Jones, Richard Bland, Edward Hacke Mosely, Jr., Thomson Mason, James Walker, Thomas Scott, John Woodson, Abraham Hite, Henry Taylor, Severn Eyre, George Ball, John Wilson, David Mason, Hugh Inness, John Talbot, Richard Lee, John Ackiss, John Green, Isaac Read, James Wood, Edwin Gray, David Meade, Henry Lee, John Mayo, Robert Wormeley Carter, Bartholomew Dandridge, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Nicholas Faulcon, Jr., Benjamin Harrison, Francis Slaughter, William Langhorne, Thomas Newton, Jr., Richard Mitchell, Worlich Westwood, James Taylor, Jr., Benjamin Watkins, Edmund Pendleton, William Harwood, Henry Pendleton, William Fleming, Samuel McDowell, James Edmundson, Mathew Marable, Edmund Berkeley, James Montague, John Hite, Jr., John Banister, Mann Page, Jr., Lewis Burwell (Gloucester), Richard Adams, Rodham Kenner, Thomas Pettus, Richard Hardy, Peter Le Grand, William Aylett, John Bowdoin, Joseph Nevil, Samuel Duval, John Burt, John Bowyer, Charles Coles, Henry Field, John Walker, James Holt, Isaac Zane, Henry Bell, Henry King, John West, John Lynn, John Winn, George Stubblefield, Christopher Wright, Thomas Mann Randolph, William Fitzhugh, Thomas Marshall, James Mercer, George Brooke, Allen Cocke, Peter Presley Thornton, Samuel Riddick, Dudley Digges.