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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Author: Frank Wayne Peters
His ancestry started in Laurens Co. South Carolina with a Petition for three hundred acres which was granted to Shadrack Martin, 7 February 1773. Shadrack lived there with his wife Jean McNees Martin near her father John McNees who lived in the Little River Area. They had five children one of which was Martin Martin, a Revolutionary War Patriot. Martin Martin was born about 1755 in Virginia. He moved to South Carolina with his parents some time before 1776. He served in the Revolutionary War where he was an enlisted soldier in two regiments. The Sixth and First South Carolina under Captain Doggett and Colonel Williams Henderson. He fought in the battles at Stono, the Siege of Savannah and the Battle of Brandywine where he was wounded. He was also captured and held prisoner after the Battle of Charleston by the British for some time after which he escaped and made his way home. After the war Martin and his wife moved to Spartanburg County, South Carolina. They settled in an area around the Cowpens Battleground with most of their family in the area. Martin made application for his Revolutionary War pension 1 March 1819 in Spartanburg Co. His recorded pension certificate No. 17446 for $8.00 a month was paid by The United States Government starting on 9 March 1824. Martin Martin died at about 85 years of age on 24 February 1837. Dicey Hicks Martin filed for the continuation of his pension under the Widow's provision passed in Congress 1838. Martin Martin and his wife are both buried in the New Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery which once was known as the Martin Family Cemetery in Cherokee Co. South Carolina. His obituary stated: “The departed entered the regular service in the early part of the War of the Revolution and fought valiantly in several battles under the banner of his country until the close of the same, in one of which he received a deep wound from a British bayonet – not in the back, but in the face, the marks thereof attended him to his grave”.
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