SYLVESTER⁶ MARTIN (SETH⁵, SETH⁴, EPHRAIM³, JOHN² MARTYN/MARTIN, EDWARD¹ MARTYN)^1,2 was born October 4, 1765 in MA or NH, and died October 12, 1856 in Grafton, NH³. He married (1) ELIZABETH FORD 1786. He married (2) MARY/POLLY HOYT July 12, 1827 in Grafton, NH.

Children of SYLVESTER MARTIN and ELIZABETH FORD:

1.  MARY⁷ MARTIN, b. September 10, 1787, Grafton, NH; d. January 18, 1865, Grafton, NH; m. HEZEKIAH BULLOCK, October 8, 1807, Grafton, NH.

2.  ELEAZAR MARTIN, b. August 16, 1789, Grafton, NH; d. May 27, 1865, Manchester, NH; m. (1) CANDACE VARNEY; m. (2) POLLY KIMBAL, February 8, 1815, Grafton, NH.  He was a farmer.

3.   NANCY MARTIN, b. February 21, 1792, Grafton, NH; d. June 18, 1875, Grafton, NH; m. JOHN BARNEY, February 25, 1813, Grafton, NH.

4.  SETH MARTIN, b. August 8, 1796, Grafton, NH; d. February 13, 1801, Grafton, NH.

Two different birth references one says August the other April. Both say the 8th of 1796.

5.   BETSY MARTIN, b. May 8, 1799, Grafton, NH; d. November 15, 1806, Grafton, NH.

6.  HANNAH MARTIN, b. June 13, 1800, Grafton, NH.

7.  ASA MARTIN, b. March 14, 1803, Grafton, NH; d. April 11, 1876, Grafton, NH; m. AMY FLAGG, July 27, 1823, Grafton, NH.

                     He was the sheriff of Grafton County for fourteen years. He removed to Bristol with   his family in 1849. He was a painter in Bristol till about 1853, when he removed to Haverhill, and in 1860, returned to  Grafton, where he d. Apr. 11, 1876, ae. 73-0-27.

8.  JESSE MARTIN, b. July 2, 1805, Grafton, NH; d. June 5, 1869; m. EMILY A. GREEN.

9.  NELSON MARTIN, b. September 3, 1808, Grafton, NH; d. April 11, 1889, Grafton, NH.

     Cause of Death: Bronchial Pneumonia

     Occupation: Farmer

1. New Hampshire Vital Records.

2. Seth Martin's (Sylvester's dad) Will.

3. Razor Hill Cemetery Records in Grafton, NH.