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Facts and Events
Source: "Genealogy of James Martin" written by James Martin in the old family Bible, preserved and verified by Julius Martin, son of Augustus H. Martin, son of James Martin.
"James Martin was a Colonel in the Creek and Indian Wars under General Andrew Jackson."
"Colonel James Martin acquired a large farm along the south bank of the Yadkin [river], including that formerly belonging to his father, Benjamin Martin, and his (James') home was erectedin 1806, near the nouth of Brian Creek.
References
- Jmartinfamily.com.
http://www.jmartinfamily.com/jon/gedreporter/ind2097.html#@I05454@
James Martin
Birth: 25 JAN 1777, Fluvanna Co., VA
Death: 25 MAR 1846, Wilkes Co., NC
Will Written: 23 JAN 1840
Will Probated: MAY 1846
Burial: Brier Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Wilkes Co., Old Hwy. 60 Below Delleplains
Title: Col.
Father: Benjamin Martin (b. 8 APR 1746, Albemarle Co., VA; d. 31 OCT 1821, Wilkes Co., NC)
Mother: Diana Harrison (b. 1 OCT 1744, Pittsylvania Co., VA; d. 11 MAY 1817, Wilkes Co., NC)
Family 1: Elvira Bryan (b. 3 OCT 1790, Wilkes Co., NC; d. 15 AUG 1863)
Marriage: 27 AUG 1806, Wilkes Co., NC
Children:
John Bryan Martin (b. 9 NOV 1808, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 4 AUG 1849, )
Diana Adelaide Martin (b. 30 JUL 1810, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 19 APR 1886, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC)
James Columbus Martin (b. 6 JAN 1812, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 25 OCT 1825)
Benjamin Oliver Hazard Perry Martin (b. 30 MAR 1814, Wilkes Co., NC; d. 10 JUN 1882)
Amelia Emaline Martin (b. 1 NOV 1816, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 3 OCT 1861)
Elvira Matilda Martin (b. 7 JUN 1819, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. ABT 1862)
Felix Bryan Martin (b. 9 FEB 1821, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 28 NOV 1879, Madison, Morgan, GA)
Mary Ann Martin (b. 21 AUG 1823, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC)
Leland Martin (b. 16 OCT 1825, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 7 DEC 1907)
Rufus W. Martin (b. 1 OCT 1828, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. ABT 1892, )
James Oscar Martin (b. 5 SEP 1830, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 4 AUG 1900)
Augustus Harrison Martin (b. 29 SEP 1833, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC; d. 6 APR 1865, Killed in action at Sailor's Creek, VA)
Nancy Martin (b. ABT 1841, Roaring River, Wilkes, NC)
Notes for: James Martin
1810 Census Wilkes Co., NC Page 264
1840 Census Mastin's District, Wilkes Co., NC Page 73
James Martin helped establish Wake Forest College and was one of the origi nal trustees. He was the first clerk of Brier Creek Baptist Association f or 25 years. He was also clerk of Brier Creek Church from 1839 until h is death in 1846.
James acquired a large body of land on the south side of the Yadkin Riv er between Ronda and Roaring River. His home built in 1806 near Brier Cre ek Stood until 1975, when vandals burned it.
James Martin's Will
State of North Carolina |
Wilkes County | I James Martin being of perfect mind and
memory and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and Knowing
that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this
my last Will and Testament, that is to say first of all I recommend my
Soul unto the hands of allmighty God that gave it and my body to be buried
in decent Christian Burial and as touching such worldly Estate which
it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give and dispose of the sa me in
the following manner.
1st I desire that all my just debts should be paid out of my money and
property 2nd I give to my beloved Wife Elvira Martin all
the lands I bought of Stephen Shepherd and the Lunsford family
it being the land whereon I now live and all my stock of every kind
household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils and all my
books not otherwise hereafter disposed of, to be hers during her lif e
and at her death the said lands & Books to belong to my Son
Harrison Martin, the other property she may ??? possesed off
to be equaly divided amongst all my children.
3rd I give and bequeath to my Son John B. Martin the negroes
I have put in his possession called Ceasar, Mariah, Wilson
Eliza and other such property I put in his possession.
4th I give to my daughter Amelia Shufford the negroes I have
put in her possession called Henry, Mary ?????? and the five-
hundred Dollars I let her have to buy an other and such other
property as I have put in the possession of her and her hus
band El???? Shufford.
5th I give to my daughter Diana A. Hunt and her husband James
C. Hunt the negroes I have put in their possession called Allen
Nancy, Ell??? and Suckey and such other property as I have
put in their possession.
6th I give to my Son Benjamin Oliver Hazzard Perry Martin the land
I bought of my brother John Martin together with a small addition
all of which I have made a deed for and other such property
as I have put in his possession.
7th I give to my daughter Elvira Matilda Martin the following negroes
Bety, Nelson, Wilson & Joe and other small property to equal to
what my above named children had towards fixing them for
house keeping.
8th I give to my Son Felix B. Martin the tract of land called the
Redding Tract, The Wallace Tract and the tract on the Brushy
mountain I bought of William B Lawyer and the Entry
I made adjoining the Same and Sixteen hundred Dollars to be
raised out of my money and property and to have
such other property as I have put in his possession
and to have such other furniture as will be equal to
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9th I give to my daughter Mary Ann Martin the following negroes
called Jane, Amy, Charles & Columbus and other small property
such as my other children had when they left me and went to
house Keeping.
10th I give to my Son Leland Martin the Balance of my Fathers Tract of
land not given to my Son Benjamin and to have such other small
property as my other childrren had.
11th I give to my Sons Rufus Martin and James Oscar Martin the tract
of land I bought of the Parks family, William Kirby and John Bryan
Esq. it being my upper plantation and the back lands adjoining
thereof which I aquired by Entry to be equally divided between
them and for them to have such other small property as my
other childrren had.
12th I give to my Son Augustus Harrison Martin in addition what
I have above given him my negroboy Larkin and if he should
die before Augustus come of lawful age then for it to be made
up to him.
13. I also give to my Wife Elvira during her life the following
negroes Cate, Sophia, Sam, Lewis, Aaron, George, Jensey and Sarah
to enable her to raise the Children and at her death said negroes
with their increase to be equally divided amongst all my Children
after making up such losses as is herein provided for and further
my Wife is to have the use of the property willed to my children
until they arrive at the age of twenty one or marry and leave her
and if any of the negroes I have willed to Elvira or Mary Ann
should die before they have come into the possession of them then
for my wife to give them other negroes equal to the one that shou ld
die and for its worth or worth of them if more then one should di e
to be paid Elvira or Mary Ann in Money to be raised out of my Est ate
The term used for raising money for my Children out of my propert y
and estate is intended to include what money I may die possessed
of as well as other things and if there should not be property &
money enough to raise it without leaving too little for the
Support of my wife and Children and schooling them, then my other
children must pay back in equal proportions so as to make them eq ual
14th I do hereby constitute and appoint my wife Exequtrix and my Sons John
B. Martin and Benjamin O. H. P. Martin my Executors to this my la st will and
Testament in withness whereof Those hereunto set my hand and Seal
This 23rd day of Jan 1840.
Jam es Martin
- The Pickens Family Archive Martin and Harrison Family.
http://www.ruhamah.com/MartinAndHarrison.htm
Colonel James Martin and Elvira Bryan
Martin, James, b. 26, Jan. 1777, d. March 25, 1846, Wilkes Co. N.C. The will of James Martin was recorded in Wilkes CO, NC, May 1846. WILL BOOK 4, page 120-121. James married 2, Sept. 1806, Wilkes Co. N.C. Elvira Bryan, b. 13, Oct. 1790, dau. of John and Nancy Robbins Bryan. Elvira d. 25, Aug. 1863. Both James and Elvira are buried at Brier Creek Church Cemetery. James Martin was the first Clerk of Brier Creek Baptist Association.
This James Martin, son of Benjamin and Diana Harrison Martin acquired a large boundry of land, situated on the south side of the Yadkin River in Wilkes Co. N.C extending from a point nearly opposite the site of the present location of the town of Ronda, situated on the south side of the Yadkin River to a point about a mile and on-half above the south of Roaring River which enters the Yadkin River on the North side. On this farm James Martin built a residence about 1806, which overlooked the Yadkin Valley, at the mouth of Brier Creek. This house was remodeled and added to by Capt. Augustus Harrison Martin in 1858. He was the youngest of the twelve children of James and Elvira Bryan Martin.
In examining the history of the old house one encounters an unusual gallery of distinguished men. It housed a family who epitomized many of the vices and virtures of "Gentlemen" Colonels of the War of 1812, and the War with the Creek Indians. Captains and Colonels of the Confederacy. The present director 1940 of the bureau of War Risks legations in the U.S. Dept. of Justice. The grand mother of a Rear Admiral, and the father of a late Justice in Texas tramped the broad antebellum halls. The hand painted panels of the once gracious house looked down upon a family of the somewhat house spun and bucolic "Yadkin River Aristocracy," who concorted in vivid nineteenth century life.
This white coloniel house stands atop a high round hill, known as "Cedar Hill" from the many cedars planted by, Colonel James Martin, Capt. Augustus H. Martin and Squire James F. Martin which girded the house. On of the most remarkable features of this house are the hand painted walls of the parlor supposed to represent marble with varigated, opalescent reflections of light and those of the hall like the inside pages of an old book. From the Old Martin Home and Family by Ruth Linney about 1940.
- Find a grave memorial.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37309228
Birth: Jan. 25, 1777
Fluvanna County
Virginia, USA
Death: Mar. 25, 1846
Wilkes County
North Carolina, USA
Family links:
Parents:
Benjamin Martin (1746 - 1821)
Diana Harrison Martin (1744 - 1817)
Spouse:
Elvira Bryan Martin (1790 - 1863)
Children:
James Oscar Martin (1830 - 1900)*
*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Brier Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
Ronda
Wilkes County
North Carolina, USA
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