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AARON

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Descendants

Generation 5

AARON5 MARTIN (MANASSAH4, MANASSAH3, JOHN2 MARTYN/MARTIN, EDWARD1 MARTYN) was born October 7, 1762 in MA, and died March 7, 1810 in NY. He married MERCY HORTON

Notes for AARON MARTIN:

Service: Served at Valley Forge 1777 & 17781                                                                        Personal ID: MA19716   Last Name:  MARTIN      First Name: AARON                       Rank: Private           Rank Type:  Rank and File    State:    MA                                      Regiment: 13A  Division:  4th Division    Brigade: 2nd MA Brigade                      Company: Captain Aaron Haynes                                                                                December 1777:  Name on Roll without comment.                                                              May 1778::  Name on Roll without comment.

 

 

Aaron was possibly in Albany in 1800.

 

This is from a book History of Chaut Co by Obed Edson,1894

"Aaron Martin settled in Busti in 1811 on lot 44 on the Stillwater where his grandson now lives. He was born on Quaker Hill, Dutchess county Aug 14 , 1763 and was the son of Manassah and Sarah Martin who settled there in 1747. Aaron was in some of the later campaigns of the Rev in Vermont. He was a tanner, and established a tannery in Busti but soon abandoned it. He married Mary Eggleston. Their children were: Sally, William(see Kiantone), Issac (he was a sergeant in the war of 1812), George, James, Anna, Maria, Jane. Aaron Marin died Feb. 18, 1824, his wife, April 13, 1837. George Marin , son of Aaron was a justice of the peace many years. He married first, Miss Hatch, second Lucy Spaulding and died Jan 1871. His children were; Philo, Mary, Lousia, Julia, Jane. Lorenzo Martin, son of Captain William Martin of Kiantone, lives on the Aaron Martin place. His children were Melissa who married Warren Frank of Busti and died some years since; Hannah married Mr. Knapp of Busti; Ophelia died unmarried; Alice, married William Spencer of Kiantone. Dewey the youngest is a Baptist minister located in Castile."

Endnotes

1.  Muster Roll Data Sheet from Valley Forge

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