James Martin Sr (1758 - aft. 1824)

Born 1758 in Virginia

Husband of Mildred (Unknown) Martin — married 1782 in District 96, South Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died after 1824 after age 66 in Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Elder James Martin's movements in his early life mirrored those of his older brother, Simon. In 1775 they enlisted in different companies of the same South Carolina Militia regiment. After the Revolutionary War, they settled on grants in Lower Ninety-Six District, in an area that soon after became part of Edgefield County, South Carolina. They sold those properties in the mid-1790s and moved to new, larger grants a short distance to the south in Barnwell District, South Carolina, where Simon Martin died in early 1800. In 1802, James and his wife Milly sold out and started their migration westward. The first stop was somewhere in Tennessee, where their daughter Sarah was married. Next was near Halfway, Warren County, (present day Allen County) Kentucky, from about 1805 to 1809 or so. From there they moved to an area that would become Gibson County, indiana, and about a decade later James moved to Armstrong Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The last record of him there is in 1824. One source of family lore has him moving south away from family. A more likely scenario is that he died before the 1830 Census and was buried next door on the farm of Patrick Calvert, the husband of his daughter Sarah.

Sources

• Colonel James Martin of Edgefield County, South Caroina: Disproving an indiana Connection (2020)

• Elder James Martin of the Districts of Orangeburg, Lower Ninety-Six, Edgefield and Barnwell, South Carolina; Warren County, Kentucky; and Knox, Gibson, Posey and Vanderburgh Counties, Indiana Territory/Indiana, and his brother, Simon Martin of the Same Districts in South Carolina (2019)

• The Pioneer Williams Families of Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana, Volumes 1 & 2 (2014)

• The Cater-Davis Connection: John, Israel and George Davis and their relationships to Sarah (Cater) Virden and James Cater of Union and Newberry Counties, South Carolina, Warren County, Kentucky, Posey and Vanderburgh Counties, Indiana and Bond County, Fayette and Montgomery Counties, Illinois (2022)

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GHQK-98C which includes 25 mostly primary record sources.