Robert Martin


Born:1591Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire, England
Died:Bef. August 19, 1660Rehoboth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts
Married:Joane UphamNovember 16, 1618
Ottery, St. Mary, Co. Devonshire, England
Father:Richard Martyn
Mother:Katherine Lyde
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Children by: Joane Upham

1.John MartinOttery, St. Mary, Co. Devonshire, England
Abt. 1620


NEHGR Vol 3 Page 187 lists Rob't Marten as a Freeman of the Plymouth Colony on May 13, 1640.
NEHGR Vol 6 Page 93 Abstracts of the Earliest Wills

Robert MARTIN. (Reboth.)

Will dated 6 3mo 1660. Names his wife Joan, and his brother Richd Martin in Old England, and his children. Gives also to his Elder brother Abraham "if his need calleth for it." Appoints Tho Cooper sen, Wm Sabin of Rehoboth and "cozen" Robt Clapp of Dorchester overseers; and Rev Saml Newman and Nathl Paine, Executors, Witnessed by Stephen Paine Senr and George Robinson.

Inventory, "19 5mo, June 1660." Am't, £193 1s. 6d.
A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692
Volume #3 Page 162
By James Savage

ROBERT, freem. of Mass. 13 May 1640, was, perhaps, of Weymouth then, soon rem. to Rehoboth 1643, and Swansey.
New England Marriages Prior to 1700
By Clarence Almon Torrey

MARTIN, Robert (1591-1660) (called Robert/Roger CLAPP "cousin") & Joane UPHAM (1591-1669?) (sis John); prob bef 1620, bef 1635, 16 Nov 1618; Weymouth/Rehoboth/Swansea {MD 17:111-12, 160; Reg. 6:93, 7:178, 23:33; Pope's Pioneers 503; Weymouth 3:414-5; Upham 30, 34; Snow-Estes 2:267, 279}

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