Family:Thomas Martin and Jane Unknown (1)

Children

The History of Marlborough provides a list of three children (1) Mary who married Isaac Amsden; (2) Adam who married Mary Church; and (3) Thomas who married Mary Gove.^S3 If the will of Thomas Martin is accurately represented, it names only two children: Thomas and Dorothy, who married Joseph Howe.^S2 Neither Adam, who was alive, was married and had children, nor Mary are named in the will.

The Mary Gove (underage) named in the will is most likely the Mary Gove who married the son, Thomas Martin. It is unclear why she was named in the will, except that the will states "if she doth live and continues with my wife or my __."^S2

Hudson may have erred in the identification of these last named children or they may have already been provided for and were thus not mentioned. More research is needed into Thomas' probate to determine if additional heirs existed.

Based on Thomas' will as viewed at the website referenced, his children were Thomas and Dorothy. Mary and Adam may be additional children. It is not known whether Jane in the 1675 petition to reside in Marlborough is the mother of these children.

1. ↑ Mary Gove, in Gove, William Henry. The Gove Book : History and Genealogy of the American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves. (Salem, Mass.: Sidney Perley, 1922)
   p 52.

   Mary [Gove] married first, Thomas, son of Thomas and Jane Martin of Marlborough, Mass., Jan. 31,
   1710-1. His father was one of the proprietors of the Ockougansett plantation.

2.   Thomas Martin, in Cookie Crumb Ancestry.

   Probate of Thomas Martin
   In Thomas's 1698 will, calling himself of Marlborough, he mentions: his wife (unnamed); son Thomas; son Joseph How and Dorithy his wife; and Mary [qoue] (under age). Wife and son Thomas co-executors.
   Comments: The will needs confirmation from a printed source.

3.   Thomas Martin, in Hudson, Charles. History of the town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861 : with a brief sketch of the town of Northborough, a genealogy of the families in Marlborough to 1800, and an account of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town. (Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862)
   p 412.

   The children of Thomas Martin and wife unnamed: Mary, who m. 1718, Isaac Amsden, and d. Aug. 7, 1716; Adam, who m. Feb. 22, 1708, Mary Church, d. April 25, 1716; Thomas, who m. Jan. 31, 1710, Mary Gove, d. Oct. 4, 1729.