Isaac Martin (abt. 1599 - aft. 1643)

Born about 1599 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England

Died after 1643 after about age 44 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony

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Isaac Martin migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 221) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Isaac Martin of Rehoboth, Massachusetts is a another probable brother of the New England immigrants Andrew Martin, Robert Martin, and Richard Martin who also settled in Rehoboth. Isaac Martin first appeared in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1639 where Abraham first settled. Isaac Martin then received a land grant in Rehoboth in 1643, where Abraham, Robert and Richard all eventually settled.

Isaac is presumed to be the Isaac Martin of Hingham, N.E. who was appointed by Thomas Griggs of Braintree on 2 December 1646 to be his attorney and obtain for him a legacy from William Griggs of "Cavondish" [England] left to Thomas by the will of Thomas Griggs of Sudbury. He is also presumed to be the man appointed in 1646 by Thomas Bayes of Dedham to represent him as attorney to demand of the executors of the will of _____ Wiseman of "Barrow Apton" [Bergh Apton in Norfolk, England] a legacy left him.

He presumably never married and had no children as there is no record of any baptisms or marriages, and he was not named in the wills of his brothers who did leave bequests to their brothers and nephews.

Name

Name: Isaac Martin of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

Birth

Born: Say 1599, presumably at Ottery St. Mary . The date is a rough guess primarily based on the fact that he had brothers born c1589 and c1591, and he does not appear in the Ottery St. Mary parish records which begin in 1601.

Death

Died: After 1643. The last know record of Isaac Martin was in 1643.

Puritan Great Migration

Isaac is listed in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory.^[1] The entry states his origin is unknown, appearance in 1639, Hingham, not seen after 1643. Sources:

Lechford 175; ReTR 1:2; Early Rehoboth 4:4; GM 2:5:60 (clue)

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson: Martin, Isaac

• Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: A Concise Compendium (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Great Migration Study Project, Boston, 2015)

• The Mayflower Quarterly, vol. 49 no. 4 (Nov 1983): pages 170-179, see 175. "The Martins of Swansea and the Martins of Rehoboth," by Hodge, Harriet Woodbury. AmericanAncestors.org link

• Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents. (Baltimore, 1900): page 303. Google Books link