HAMMACK; daughter Mary HAMMACK; daughter Sarah BURROS; daughter Martha MARTIN; daughter Ann MARTIN; and daughter Olive MARTIN. Executors were Isaac DAVIS and Thomas BURROS.

<43> Marriage* __ ___ 1762 Sarah LUCAS ( 1782)

Residence: __ ___ 1762 Orange Co., VA, USA.

Anecdote: __ ___ 1762 In the early years Joseph MARTIN gambled away his father's inheritance and went into debt. His restless spirit could not be patient at the plow. His son, William, said he had "no talents for speaking or writing." His recognition was with the military where he was an excellent Indian agent. One of his friends in wild younger days was Benjamin CLEVELAND Joseph finally paid off all his debts and worked for 3 years as overseer for a "rich relation named MINOR."

Anecdote: a __ ___ 1762 He settled down as a farmer there. However, his boisterous way of life continued, and he neglected his farming to indulge a passion he had developed for gambling at cards, he lost his inheritance & fell into debt. Shortly after the French & Indian War he became acquainted with Elisha WALDEN, Will BLEVENS & John COX all `Long Hunters', this chance meeting changed his life. Their accounts of the wild and unexplored country aroused the adventurer in Joseph & their reports of profits to be made in the fur trade offered him a chance to recover from debt. He joined with WALDEN and became a `Long Hunter'. The long hunters, in small groups of three & four men would set out in the fall of the year to their favorite hunting grounds (locations concealed) 100 miles or more beyond the settlements. They took with them packhorses, traps, guns, powder, lead, bulletmolds, tools and afew repair parts for their weapons, and a small supply of flower and parched wheat or `rockahominy'." At the hunting ground they established camps, which they shifted every few weeks as the game became shy, staked out their trap lines, and remained in the wilderness until spring, when they returned to the settlements with theri pack horses loaded with deer skins and fur pelts of beaver, mink, otter, raccoon, bear, and other animals. The Shawnee were to the north and the Cherokee to the south and they did not like the invasion ot their trational neutral hunting grounds.

Settlement: c __ ___ 1767 Powells Valey; He was approached by Dr. Thomas WALKER, who had discovered & named Powell's Valley & the Cumberland Mountains and had secured a large grant of land in the area. He asked Joseph to head a party to establish a `station' (fortified frontier post) in Powell's Valley. Joseph built the station (consisting of five or six strong cabins connected by a loop holed log palisade in a rectangular plan) at what became known as `Martin's Station' (named after him in present Lee Co., VA), on the KY Trace about 20 miles northeast of Cumberland Gap right off the Wilderness Trail. A crop was put in & parts of KY were explored, the post had to be abandoned because of the hostility of the Indians.

Anecdote: __ ___ 1767 Joseph's share of the profits from his Long Hunts was substantial and at the same time his luck at cards (assisted by his bullying tactics at the table) seems to have improved, he succedded in paying off his debts and aquired several tracts of land. In 1767 Joseph & CLEVELAND put in a crop of wheat on Pigg River (now Franklin Co., VA) but were too improvident to fence it in, losing much of the crop to deer. At harvest time they invited in their friends and neighbors to the reaping and provided a fiddler and a plentiful supply of whiskey for their entertainment. In the riotous party all the reapers got drunk and none of the crop was harvested. Joseph continued in this way until SUMPTER & CLEAVELAND moved from the area.

Residence: __ ___ 1773 Pittsylvania Co., VA, USA.

Moved* __ ___ 1773 Pittsylvania Co., VA, USA; Joseph took his family in the fall of 1773 to Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, he bought a tract of land on Smith River and built a home which he named "Scuffle Hill", because of the difficulty with which he scratched a living from his rather rough land. His farm eventuall grew to nearly a thousand acres on the north side of the river extending from Hammack's Branch (near the end of Lanier Rd.) along the river to Rugg Creek (where Rives Rd Extension crossed the river) and north to apoint on a small branch of Mulberry Creek.

War* __ ___ 1774 The Shawnee War erupted and Lord DUNMORE on 25 Augest 1774 commissioned MARTIN a captain in the Pittsylvania militia. He was in charge of the Rangers (scouts) at Culbertson's Bottom on New River, to cover the Shawnee Pass through the mountains, and remained there until after the battle of Point Pleasan.

Marriage: c __ ___ 1775 Elizabeth WARD (17581800); Cherokee Nation East, [now W TN, USA; When Joseph MARTIN was appointed Indian agent of the Cherokees took a young half bread Cherokee to wife c1775, to Elizabeth `Betsy' WARD, 1/2 Cherokee Indian, Cherokee Nation East (now East TN). She was the daughter of Brian WARD & Nancy "Nany'hi"/"GhiGau" WARD Betsy was born c 1758, Cherokee Nation East and was still living ca 1800 on a fine estate at the town of Wakhovee on the south side of the Hiwassee River 50 miles from Tellico Blockhouse [260 miles from Augusta, GA] and was still called Mrs. MARTIN. She lived in a log house fully furnished on a well stocked farm and raised and spun cotton. She and her relatives lived for a time in Chota, a town located where the Tennessee and Holston Rivers meet. Betsy was the most distinguished clan of the whole tribe, and one of the first families of that clan (for there was then, a marked distinction between families among them as in civilized life). "With this woman he lived the greater part of his ling agency mostly at the Lond Island, but sometimes in the Nation. Once in a while he would go home to Virginia, stay a while and return. And strange as it may seem, it never produced any discord between him and my mother; such was her affection for him, and such was his address that he quited all concerned except myself, his son William.

Settlement: bt 17751776 1775 he led a party into Powell's Valley to reestablish "Martin's Station" but was unsuccessful because of the Indian uprisings in 1776.

<44> Residence: __ ___ 1776 Henry Co., VA, USA.

Supplies* __ ___ 1776 Henry Co., VA, USA; Joseph MARTIN £2.7.3 for 18 bushels corn & 15 lbs Bacon for the use of Lieut. Col. Lee's Legion & £2.17.0 for 265 lbs beef, 2 Diets & 4 gals, corn for Hospital at Henry Courthouse.

<45> Witness: __ ___ 1776 History: Henry Co., VA, USA; Henry County, created in 1776, was named in honor of the great orator of the Revolution, Patrick Henry, who did so much to overthrow the royal establishment in Virginia. Before the creation of Henry County, counties were generally named in honor of some one connected with the royal family of England or the royal government of the colonies. Formed from Pittsylvania County, the area of the county is 385 square miles and the county seat is Martinsville. Martinsville was named for Joseph Martin, an early settler and Revolutionary War soldier who represented Henry County in the General Assembly in 1791, when the town was established. Martinsville was incorporated as a town in 1873 and became a city by court order in 1928. Its area is 11.2 square miles. Parishes of the Established Church 1607 1785 When the first English settlers came to Virginia in 1607, they followed the familiar patterns of the Church of England and established parishes that served as local units of ecclesiastical and community organization. The General Assembly established parishes and fixed their boundaries, often at the same time that it created or altered county lines. On January 16, 1786, the General Assembly passed Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, ending stateenforced support for the formerly established church and its parishes Camden, 1776 1778 Patrick, 1778 1785.

Military: __ Aug 1776 Henry Co., VA, USA; As Capt. MARTIN was in charge of a company of fifty militiamen who were sent to the Holston River country, to help build a fort near the Long Island (where Kingsport lies), and took part in several successful campaigns against those of the Cherokee Towns which had shown hostility to the Americans.

Appointed: 03 Nov 1777 Henry Co., VA, USA; was made agent to the Cherokee Indians by Gov. Patrick HENRY of Virginia. he served as agent until 1789. His main base while agent was 2 miles from Long Island on the Holston river (NC) in present Sullivan Co., TN. He traveled back & forth from Henry Co., Virginia to Tennessee during this time.

Residence* __ ___ 1778 Martinsville, Henry Co., VA, USA; Sign in front of courthouse, Martinsville, named for Joseph Martin, pioneer who settled here in 1778, in 1793 the courthouse of Henry County was moved her and the town was established. Patrick Henry for whom the county was named lived near here once..

Marriage: a __ ___ 1780 Susannah EMORY

<46>,<47> Military: __ ___ 1781 Washington Co., VA, USA; served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Washington Co. militia.

Settlement* __ ___ 1783 Powells Valley, KY, USA; he was successful in a third attempt to establish a permanent settlement in Powell's Valley, safeguarding the passage of travellers along the Kentucky Trace & the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.

Appointed: __ May 1783 NC, USA; him its Agent for Indian Affairs among the Cherokee Towns.

Appointed: __ ___ 1784 State of Franklin [TN], USA; August 1784, Col. MARTIN was a member of the convention called to orgaize the State of Franklin from the Tennesse lands ceded by North Carolina to the United States but not yet accepted by the Congress. He opposed this move, and is credited with playing a major part in bringing about the dissolution of the State of Franklin, thereby incurring the lasting enmity of his old friend and Governor of the new state, John SEVIER. SEVIER became very hostile toward him because of the part Joseph played in the disolution of the new state, and is believed to have been the instigator of an attempt by a party of about four frontiersmen to see him out & put him to capture or kill him. Joseph learned of this, armed himself to the teeth, and set out to meet the advanceguard of eight or nine of the main party, and on coming up with them drew his pistol and announced that he would shoot the first one of them who moved his gun. The group protested that they had not plans against him, and accompained him back to this station at the Lond Island, where Joseph set out a supply of whiskey for them. The rest of the party was then sent for, and the whold affair ended in a twoday revel.

Note: 01 Jan 1784 Among the records of the Moravians in North Carolina we find 1 Jan. 1784, people arrived in toquo, but Col. MARTIN forbade them to sell their brandy, he constantly urges the Indians not to sell their skins for brandy, but to exchange them for necessities. Many are enemies of Col. MARTIN, on his journeys he has need to be most careful, the only ground for the hatred is that he secured from the government an act of assembly, securing to the Cherokees the land on which they live, and will not allow other people to settle on their hunting grounds.

Marriage* 24 Feb 1784 Susannah GRAVES (17631837); Henry Co., VA, USA.

<48> Appointed: __ ___ 1785 by the Congress on the Commission to conclude treaties between the United States and the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, which was successfully accomplished.

Appointed: __ ___ 1787 Henry Co., VA, USA; to the North Carolina Assembly from Sullivan Co. and in Dec. commissioned by them as Brigadier General of the North Carolina militia in the Western District, which is now Tennessee. He also traveled to Georgia that year to negotiate a treaty with the Creek Nation.

Grant* 21 Jun 1787 Henry Co., VA, USA; on Rugg Creek adjoining his own land, containing 435 acres.

<49> Appointed* __ Jun 1788 Henry Co., VA, USA; Agent to the Cherokees by the Untied States goverment.

Note: __ ___ 1789 Henry Co., VA, USA; In 1789 he returned to Henry Co. where he lived the remainder of his life. That year he also set up a trading post in Georgia (in which he lost heavily) on a tract of land he had acquired. He was so well though of by the Georgians that they elected him to their legislature. For the remaining 19 years he visited in TN and GA and also helped with a Creek Indian treaty in GA.

Deed: 03 Apr 1789 Henry Co., VA, USA; from William BROWN for £20 124 acres waters of Smith River.

<50> Witness: bt 17901790 Will: William GRAVES Sr.; Henry Co., VA, USA; home place, 22 negroes (appr 5 slaves) Exe. Wife, son Thomas, Joseph Anthony.

Court Rec: __ ___ 1791 Henry Co., VA, USA; Mordiaia HORD'S estate in 1791 had a suit against Jos. MARTIN, Henry Co., Virginia.

<51> Member: bt 17911799 Henry Co., VA, USA; (possibly later years also) as the representative from Henry Co. in the General Assembly of Vriginia.

Deed: 31 Oct 1791 Henry Co., VA, USA; from Stark BROWN for £50, 50 acres on north side of Smith River. On 6 Dec 1791 a power of attorney from Brice MARTIN to Joseph MARTN to sell his lands in Russell Co. Powells Valley and to ttransact all his business in Henry Co. in his absence and to pay a judgment by John Wallen of Caroline Co., VA.

Deed: 28 Jan 1792 Henry Co., VA, USA; from William GRAVES for £25 all of his father, William GRAVES Sr. estate which was willed to the said William GRAVES. Should the courts of or his mother Mary GRAVES rule the will unlawfull then the estate to be equally divided between the heirs of his father.

<52> Military* __ ___ 1793 received title Brig. Gen while serving in 12th VA militia.

Witness: __ ___ 1794 Purchased: James PARBERRY; Henry Co., VA, USA; 2 slaves Lucy & Peter.

<53> Member: __ ___ 1795 VA, USA; on the Commission to define the VirginiaKentucky border.

Sold* 20 Nov 1796 Thomas GRAVES (17691844); Henry Co., VA, USA; to Joseph Martin 296a.

Note* __ ___ 1804 Henry Co., VA, USA; he withdrew from all public service to return to the new home he had built for his family on Leatherwood Creek.

Member* __ ___ 1804 of a commission to define the VirginiaTennessee border.

Deed: __ Jan 1806 Henry Co., VA, USA; to John PAUL, for £46.7., 66 acres. (Joseph purchased of Joseph MULLINGS in Henry Co.) on Leatherwood Cr., line George HARISTON'S, Nicholes ASKIN'S, & Thos EGESTONE'S. Witnessed by Michael ASKIN, John ROBERTS, & Wm. GRAVES.

<54> Deed: __ Mar 1806 Susannah GRAVES (17631837); Henry Co., VA, USA; to Brice MARTIN, for £400, land on 4th fork of Leatherwood Creek, lines of Joseph GRAVELEY'S, old order line, Wm MARTIN'S house. (Joseph had purchased of David M. RANDOLPH Sr. partner of Benjamin dec'd.) 600 acres, houses, orchards, etc. Witnesses were Morgan HAPSON, J. MARTIN Jr., & A. HUGHES.

<55> Deed: __ Jul 1806 Henry Co., VA, USA; Joseph MARTIN Jr. for 5sh & natural affection for son, 111 acres (Joseph purchased from Thos STEWERT).

<56> Deed: __ Mar 1807 Henry Co., VA, USA; March 1807, Henry Co., Virginia Joseph MARTIN Sr to Jesse MARTIN [his son] for 5sh, 97 acres on Leatherwood Cr, lines Lomax Company's. (Joseph purchased from Elizabeth DONALDSON & William TUNSTALL).

<57> Deed: __ Dec 1807 Henry Co., VA, USA; William & Mary SHACKELFORD for £25 fishing fork branch of Letherwood Creek, MAGRUDERS, & WILLIAMS. Spanish Lake, State line, EGLETONS, 100 acres. Witnessed by William WMS, Richard GRIFFIN, & John CONWOWAY.

<58> Note: __ ___ 1808 Henry Co., VA, USA; Joseph was described as clinging tenaciously during the last years of his life to the old customs and style of dress buckled shoes, silk stockings, knee breeches and buckles, frock coat, skirted vest and a ruffled stock or neckpiece. He was large over six feet tall, inclined to be overweight, bald and with a full beard which he plaited into braids and tucked inside his shirt collar. He must have presented a singular appearance, even in those days of personal eccentricity, as he made his way about the County. In the summer of 1808 he made a long & fatiguing trip to the west to revisit the scenes of his young manhood, to look after his western lands, and to renew acquaintances with his friends, white and Indian. He returned to Leatherwood in the fall exhausted and sick, became seriously ill (probably from a stroke).

<59> Deed* bt 18081809 Henry Co., VA, USA; May 1808 Joseph MARTIN Sr to General Joseph MARTIN Sr. to Joseph MARTIN Jr. Home place 14,000 acres in Henry Co., Virginia. Home mill, distillery, stock (100 cattle, 100 hogs, 50 sheep, 20 horses) a 10 year lease 1 Jan 1809 for £70 to go to Joseph MARTIN Jr on his death (death of Joseph MARTIN Sr.). Witness Wm. HALL, James EDWARDS, John EDWARDS. September Joseph MARTIN Sr. of Henry Co. to Joseph MARTIN Jr. for £2,500 negros 30 or more.

<60> Death* 18 Dec 1808 Leatherwood, Henry Co., VA, USA; age 69y of paralysis.

Burial* a 18 Dec 1808 Belmont Monte, Leatherwood Cr., Henry Co., VA, USA; Died on the 18 of December 1808 Brigadier General Joseph Martin the 69 year of his age.

Probate: __ ___ 1809 Henry Co., VA, USA; The estate of Genl. Jos. MARTIN an account by Joseph MARTIN administrator 1809, Henry Co., VA. Among other payments we find, at various times payments to ARMSTEAD, paid widow Susanna MARTIN her part of the estate £750.10.0 + for 3 negros £133.6.8, paid Thomas MARTIN for his part as legatee in the estate £225.0.0., paid Rubin HUGHES his part as legatee by intermarriage with Polly £226.17.9., 1813 paid Patt MARTIN his part as legatee £233.12.0, 1814 paid Lewis MARTIN as his part as lagatee £247.0.0, paid Henry EDWARDS in favour of his wife Sarah (WALLER) on a bond given to Genl. Joseph MARTIN dec'd by Brice MARTIN for the benifit of Elizabeth WALLERS children £19.5.0. Account 1817, paid George KING legacy for his wife Susanna £234.4.8. Account 1820 paid Alexander MARTIN his legacy £390.0.0, 1824 paid John C. MARTIN his legacy $1362.75, 1825 paid Jos C WALLER £27.0.0 & Henry Pritcherd who married Martha WALLER £27.00 on bond benifit of Elizabeth WALLER'S children, 1826 paid George W. MARTIN his legacy £405.16.6.

<61> Deed: __ ___ 1809 Henry Co., VA, USA; Ambrose EDWARDS, 362 acres on Leatherwood Creek, Susannah MARTIN can't convently travel to court so must be examined at home.

<62> Probate: __ ___ 1811 Henry Co., VA, USA; dower allotment to Susannah MARTIN widow and relict of Joseph MARTIN deceased in Henry Co., Virginia. 350 acres land it mentions the order line, Leatherwood Creek, including houses, casle mill & still house, farm sencus.

<63> Appraisal* __ Jan 1812 Henry Co., VA, USA; deceased At the house of Joseph MARTIN administrator, negro Tom $500, negro Cuff $500, negro Sall $333.1/3 made by Joseph JONES, Davis KELLY, & Ambrose EDWARDS.

<64> Witness: __ ___ 1820 Heir: Maj. Alexander MARTIN; Henry Co., VA, USA; from estate of father Ge. Joseph Martin 390 lbs.

Court Rec* __ ___ 1840 Henry Co., VA, USA; In 1840 a chancery suit was brought by Martin & others against Martin & others before the superior court of Henry County Virginia. Where John REDD Sr. testifyed that the hand wrighting on the document (not dated & unsigned) will was that of General Joseph MARTIN. It says "In the name of God amen. I Joseph MARTIN Sr. of Henry County, Tennessee ... I contitute this my last will and testament revoking all others. And as I have already given my 1st wifes children their protions of my estae I dispost of the residue of my estate both real & personal in the following mannor. That is to say I give my loving wife Susanna MARTIN the whole of my estate to raise & educate my children on during her widowhood but if she should marry it is my will that my estate be equally divided among my children namely Joseph, Jesse, Thomas, Sally, Patrick, Lewis, Molly, Susannah, Alexander, John C, & George and in order that these children may be dutiful to their mother I leave it at her ? to give them their part of my estate when they marry or come of age or not or any part they may choose and at the death of my wife my will is that my estate be equally divided among my said children I constitute & appoint my beloved wife ? & my son Joseph MARTIN exeuctor of this my last will and testament.

Father* Joseph MARTIN Sr. (17001760)

Mother* Susannah CHILES (17241754) ________________________________________________________________

Marriage: a __ ___ 1785 his 4th her 2nd. ________________________________________________________________

Spouse* Mary EMORY

NameMarr: FAWLING

NameMarr: BUFFINGTON

Carol (Gehrs) Mitchell, 134 Schnauzer Lane, Beaver Falls, PA 15010 724-847-4473 [using The Master Genealogist 3.5, WP8, Eudora]

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