... By 1780, Joseph's brother John (also known as Jack) was serving as a trader in the Cherokee country and living in the Overhill Towns.[97]
According to Lockwood, Susannah and John married in either 1781 or 1782,[22] and settled in Coyotee town (also Coyatee), located twenty miles below Chota.[98]
Her children from her prior marriage to Fields lived with the couple at Coyatee.[83]
Lockwood believed the family moved to the Tugaloo region, along the Unicoi Trail which ran west from the Tugaloo River to the head of the Chattahoochee River, and settled in the Nacoochee Valley, now in White County, Georgia, around 1789.[83]
Fields thinks the family lived in the Nacoochee Valley when John Jr. was born based on a letter from Samuel Wales to Governor Gilmer, dated August 30, 1831, stating that John Jr. was born in Habersham County, Georgia,[99] which at the time it was written included White County.[45]
The couple had three children: Nancy, John Jr., and Rachel.[83]
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22. Lockwood, Patricia W. (Summer 2002). "Judge John Martin: His Origins, His Paternity" (PDF). The Chronicles of Oklahoma. 80 (2). Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Historical Society: 142–157. ISSN 0009-6024. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2024. p 149.
45. Fields, Elizabeth Arnett; Smith, Steven D. (June 1995). John Martin's Home?: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Site 9Mu56, Murray County, Georgia (PDF) (Report). Champaign, Illinois: U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. Report #SR 95/05. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 5, 2024. p. 185.
83. Lockwood 2002, p. 151.
97. Lockwood 2002, pp. 146–147.
98. Lockwood 2002, p. 150.
99. Fields & Smith 1995, p. 22.
