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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: 2nd Lieutenant / Patriotic Service
William Martin- “2nd Lieutenant, Captain James (also given William) Hilton’s 7th (3rd Bristol) Co., Col. William Jones’s (3rd Lincoln Co.) regt. Of Mass. Militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment; ordered in Council May 8, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned May 8, 1776.” (Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 10: 301).
William also took part in the capture of the vessel Sally, whose owners were deemed “unfriendly to the Patriot cause,” at Meduncook (now Friendship, Maine) on July 30, 1775. (John Johnston, A History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine, p. 346)
In the 1750s, William Martin served in the garrison at Fort Halifax (now Winslow, Maine). William Martin moved from Brunswick to Bristol, Maine as an adult. That part of Bristol became Bremen, Maine. His farm was located on the Medomak Road. During the Revolution he also served on the "Committees of Inspection." William also served as Constable of Bristol. His estate was inventoried October 14, 1791.
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