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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Staff Officer
Birth: 03 Jul 1752 / Albemarle / VA Death: 28 Nov 1830 prob / Nelson / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Ensign then 2nd Lieutenant under Captain Thomas Walker 9TH Virginia Regiment
Paymaster at the Albemarle Barracks
Additional References:
Heitman, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, 1775-1783, pg 381
Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, Volume 1, pg 405, 554 and 564
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 2, pg 254
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 15, pg 32-33
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 20, pg 364
The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 10, pg 315-322
Louise Minor, The Merriwethers and Their Connections, pg 10-12
American Archives - 5th Series, Volume 2, pg 320-322
Pension # *W7394
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Spouse: Jane Walker Lewis Children: Hudson; John Massie; Mary/Molly Walker; Jane Lewis; Nicholas Lewis; Henry Buck; George Washington; Mildred Hornsley;
Author: Robert L. Knott, Jr.
Hudson Martin was born on July 3, 1752 in Albemarle, Virginia.
He enlisted as an ensign under Capt. James Alexander on March 11, 1776 and was promoted to Lieutenant on March 26, 1776. Lt. Martin was wagon master at Lancaster, Pa. in 1778 but resigned in April of the same year. He was appointed by Gov. Patrick Henry, Paymaster to the Regiment of Guards, commanded by Col. Francis Taylor from January 1779 to August 1781, at which time the regiment was disbanded. They were stationed at Albemarle to guard the prisoners captured October 1777, at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, at Saratoga. According to his pension papers, Hudson Martin was drafted in Fluvanna County, as a militiaman in 1781 when he took the place of his brother William who was sick.
Hudson Martin married Jane Walker Lewis on December 2, 1778 in Albemarle Co., Virginia. Jane was the daughter of Col. Nicholas Lewis and Mary Walker mentioned in the last edition of the Husker Patriot. The family settled southwest of Charlottesville, Virginia in the counties of Albemarle and Nelson, near Rockfish Gap & River. They had eight children.
The family settled southwest of Charlottesville, Virginia in the counties of Albemarle and Nelson, near Rockfish Gap & River. They had eight children.
Hudson Martin died on November 28, 1830 in Rockfish, Nelson Co., Virginia/Fabers Mills, Amherst Co., Virginia , at 78 years of age.
His will was executed June 23,1828, and is on record in Nelson Co. Va., and a copy of it is on file in the Pension Office at Washington, D.C. Judging from the bequests of real estate, slaves and money to the several members of his family, he must have been a man of considerable wealth and influence in the county in which he resided. The executors to his estate gave bonds to the amount of 20,000 pounds.
Jane died August 15, 1838 in Albermarle County, Virginia, at 81 years of age.
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