Person:Abram Martin (3)

Research Notes

• Note: Research is in progress. Source records are being gathered and analyzed.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Chapman, John Abney. History of Edgefield County from the earliest settlements to 1897: biographical and anecdotical, with sketches of the Seminole War, nullification, secession, reconstruction, churches and literature, wtih rolls of all the companies from Edgefield in the war of secession, war with Mexico and with the Seminole Indians. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958).

   pp 392-393
   THE MARTINS OF MARTINTOWN.
   The Martin family, of Martintown, in Edgefield County, were prominent, brave, active, and engergetic Whigs during the Revolution, but as Martintown has long since gone to decay, and as the family, from whom the name was derived, is almost or quite extinct in Edgefield, it might please the reader of this book to find here a few items of the family history.
   
   I am indebted to the Honorable John Martin, United States Senator from Kansas, for the following information:
   
   The Martin family was of Scotch-Irish origin. The family emigrated from the North of Ireland somewhere towards the close of the sixteenth century (should be I think seventeenth) and settled originally in Caroline County, Virginia. The family was a large one, there being seven sons and one daughter. The names of the sons were: Abram, John, George, William, Matthew, Barclay, and Edmund. The daughter's name was Letty.
   
   They resided in Virginia for many years, and finally scattered to Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina.
   
   The head of the South Carolina branch of the family, Abram Martin, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in the year 1708, and there grew to manhood and married Miss Elizabeth Marshall, of Caroline County, who was said to be a niece of the father of John Marshall, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Soon after his marriage he moved to South Carolina and located in Edgefield District and there lived and died.
   
   He had eight sons, as follows: William Martin, James Martin, John Martin, George Martin, Barclay Martin, Edmund Martin, Marshall Martin, Matt Martin, and one daughter, Letty Martin. ...

2. ↑ Family Recorded, in Horton, Lucy Henderson. Family history: including Hughes, Dalton, Martin, Henderson, all originals of Virginia and many kindred branches. (Franklin, Tennessee: Press of the News, 1922)
   192-193.

   ... John Martin, son of Abraham Martin, had the following children:
   ... Abram Martin, Jr.; born Feb. 7, 1716.
   ... Abram Martin, Jr., married Elizabeth Marshall, who was born in Westmoreland county, Va., March 1, 1727. She was an aunt of Chief Justice John Marshall, as proved by old letters found in the families of Abram Martin. After the war of 1776, Abram was killed by the Indians while looking for land in Georgia. ...
   ... Abram Martin had moved from Virginia to Edgefield District, S.C. ...
   ... Children of Abram Martin, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth Marshall: William, Barcley, James, John, Marshall, Matthew, George. There was one daughter, whose name we do not know. ...