Capt
Albert
Martin
Born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph S Martin Sr
and Abigail B Martin
Brother of
Amey (Martin) Dexter
Died
at age 28
in The Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
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Biography
Albert Martin was born January 6, 1808 in Providence, Rhode Island to parents Joseph S. Martin and Abbey B Martin. [1] His family moved to Texas for a better place to apply for a land grant, He traveled across the states from Rhode Island via Tennessee and even New Orleans with family (father and older brothers).[2][3] One of the older brothers was Joseph M Martin, Gonzales merchant and a mill owner. Albert applied for his single man's land grant, resided in Gonzales and opened his business, a general store, DeWitt Colony.[4]
On 24 Feb 1836, Capt. Martin was the courier who carried Travis’ appeal from the Alamo to Gonzales and the world for aid and delivered it to Launcelot Smither.[5]
Being patriotic, he joined the Gonzales Rangers, battle/skirmish regarding the "Come and Take It" cannon. ( one of the first "Old Eighteen" defenders). [6] Old Eighteen defenders of the Gonzales cannon would not release the cannon that Mexico wanted back. By this time Albert had joined the Texas military. His position was an officer in the Alamo garrison following this Gonzales altercation. Capt. Albert Martin also participated in the Siege of Bexar in Oct.-Dec., 1835.[7]Albert was a courier as well.
Capt. Albert Martin was off for a while, recovering in Gonzales Colony as he hurt his foot with an ax Dec 19, 1835. [3] Once healed, he returned to the Alamo garrison in February, 1836.
Then the Mexican army arrived in San Antonio and began the siege on Alamo, February 23, 1836.. Col. Travis sent him out to meet with Gen. Antonio Santa Anna's adjutant, Col. Juan N. Almonte) who was rather nasty in his rejection to Captain Martin's invitation for Santa Anna to come to the Alamo to speak directly with Col. Travis. Back inside the Alamo most likely the men were in a dither. Travis wrote his famous letter "To the People of Texas." [4]
Capt. Albert Martin left the Alamo as courier, and carried the famous Feb. 24 letter to Gonzales where he passed the message to Lancelot Smithers in Gonzales, asking that he forward it first to to all other colonies, posthaste. On Feb 25, Smithers who then carried a copy of the message to San Saba and other colonies. [8][9]
Capt. Albert Martin accompanied and guided the Gonzales Rangers back to San Antonio (the Immortal 32 ) to the Alamo. [10] They entered the Alamo on March 1, 1836. Capt. Albert Martin was killed in the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. A memorial is in San Fernando Cathedral. [11] The following is shown for memorial for Capt. Albert Martin In Gonzales colony.
- BIRTH DATE: 6 Jan 1808
- BIRTH PLACE: Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
- DEATH DATE: 6 Mar 1836
- DEATH PLACE: San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
- CEMETERY: The Old Eighteen at Gonzales Memorial
- Memorial: Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas, USA
Another Cenotaph memorial for Albert Martin was dedicated by the state where Albert was born.
This fellow defied death more than once. He was present at the farm where the Revolution began, survived encounters at the Guadalupe River with the Mexican armies in September, October, and throughout the siege of Bexar. His presence at the Alamo caught up with him.
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| Land Bounty 640 Acres, GLO. |
The following Land bounty is listed for heirs of Capt. Albert Martin: [14]Capt Albert Martin heirs were awarded Bexar donation 640 Acres in Comal co., Bexar Preemption 160 acres in Hale co., Fannin 1st in Cooke co., 1476.13 Acres in Cooke co., and Nacogdoches Preemption of 160 Acre in Nacogdoches county Albert Martin 1476 Acres Bounty
- "Heirs were also awarded $227.23 for his service 640 Acres Bounty land in 1838"
Sources
- ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/bexar/military/alamo/alamo.txt
- ↑ http://varnumcontinentals.org/2015/04/rhode-islands-albert-martin-a-hero-of-the-alamo/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.thealamo.org/remember/history/defenders/index.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ancestry.com. De Witt's colony [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, Original data: Rather, Ethel Zivley., De Witt's colony. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas, 1905.
- ↑ https://varnumcontinentals.org/2015/04/rhode-islands-albert-martin-a-hero-of-the-alamo/
- ↑ Ancestry.com, The Quarterly II, pg 314
- ↑ http://siegeofbexar.org/martin-albert/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alamo_defenders
- ↑ https://varnumcontinentals.org/2015/04/rhode-islands-albert-martin-a-hero-of-the-alamo/
- ↑ Ancestry.com. "A history of Texas : from wilderness to commonwealth" [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, by Wortham, Louis J..
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVH-3ZHK : accessed 19 April 2015), Albert Martin, 1836; Burial, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States of America, The Alamo; citing record ID 8871611, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Web: Rhode Island, Find A Grave Index, 1663-2013 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
- ↑ https://portsmouthhistorynotes.com/2019/12/03/a-rhode-islander-at-the-alamo-albert-martin/
- ↑ http://www.Ancestry.com, Texas, Land Title Abstracts,1700-2008 (database on-line), Original data: Texas General Land Office. Abstracts of all original Texas Land Titles of:
See Also:
- Groneman, Bill (1996), Eyewitness to the Alamo, Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, ISBN 1-55622-502-4
- Hardin, Stephen L. (1999), Texan Illiad, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73086-1
- Ancestry.com. San Antonio Express (San Antonio, Texas) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007, microfilm copies of the newspaper,a 1936 article on Gonzales.
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Father: Joseph S. Martin (1773-1836)(KCCD-RCR) Mother:Abby Brown Martin (1775-1864)(MGT6-WVS) 8 Siblings: Charles F., Joseph S., Albert (1805-1806), Edwin (1806-1807), Abby B., Edwin (1813-1813), Mary J., Cornelia J. Father's father: Joseph Martin (1725-1828) Father's mother: Abigail Butler (1729-) Mother's father: Sylvanus Martin (1748-1818) Mother's mother: Amey Dexter Brown (1749-1833) and so on up to Albert's four times great grandfather, William Brown (1593-1650). My interest is William Brown is also one of my great grandfathers (ten times great, in my case).