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John Martin
(26 Feb 1619 - 5 Jul 1687)
John Martin was one of the four original founders of Piscataway, New Jersey, after leaving Dover, New Hampshire because of the religious intolerance of the Puritans. John and the others named the new town for the Piscataqua River at Dover, New Hampshire.
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
John Martin was one of the four original founders of Piscataway, New Jersey, after leaving Dover, New Hampshire because of the religious intolerance of the Puritans. John and the others named the new town for the Piscataqua River at Dover, New Hampshire.
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
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John Martin was one of the four original founders of Piscataway, New Jersey, after leaving Dover, New Hampshire because of the religious intolerance of the Puritans. John and the others named the new town for the Piscataqua River at Dover, New Hampshire.
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
John Martin was one of the four original founders of Piscataway, New Jersey, after leaving Dover, New Hampshire because of the religious intolerance of the Puritans. John and the others named the new town for the Piscataqua River at Dover, New Hampshire.
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
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John Martin was one of the four original founders of Piscataway, New Jersey, after leaving Dover, New Hampshire because of the religious intolerance of the Puritans. John and the others named the new town for the Piscataqua River at Dover, New Hampshire.
John Martin is listed in First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey as one of the first settlers of Piscataway at page 74.
"Contributions to East Jersey History"
by William A. Whitehead,1856.
(Page 401).
"Piscataway.
Piscataway was settled under a grant, dated December 18th, 1666, the grantees being John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun and Hopewell Hull; and on the 30th of May, 1668, Robert Dennis, John Smith, John Gilman and Benjamin Hull, were announced as associates. They came principally from Piscataqua in New England, but were originally from Britain. They conferred upon their township the name of the place whence they came; it being known as Piscataqua for some time after the settlement. ?
In a 1914 series of biographies or genealogies of the First Settlers of Piscataway, the Newark Evening News chose John Martin, Sr. as the first in the series (Jun 1914):
June 20, 1914. No. 4785. (O.C.F.P.). First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J. JOHN MARTIN, SR., who lived and received grants of land in both Piscataway and Woodbridge, was one of the four original grantees of Piscataway. Beyond doubt John Martin came from the Piscataqua region in New England. In 1648 he was taxed as being then of Dover, as appears by the following: "List of the Inhabitants by Record October 19th, 1648: Richard Yorke, Hate Evil Nutter, Mr. Roberts, Henry Langstaff, William Roberts, John Martin."
All of the above names are included because of their relationship to the Piscataway settlers. In 1655 John Martin was still in Dover, as he signed a loyalty oath in that year, but 1661 to 1671 he was credited to Oyster River. Several items concerning him appear in the early New Hampshire and Massachusetts records. In 1673 John Martin's name is mentioned in the will of former Governor Thomas Roberts of New Hampshire, who makes a bequest to his daughter Hester (wife of John Martin) and as being in New Jersey. In connection with the will of William Pierse, whose widow was Esther Pierse, Suffolk Co., Mass., 1661, John Martin's name appears. It is suggestive that one of the early sailing vessels from Ipswich, Eng., called "The Dilligent," brought immigrants to New England in 1638 and the master of the vessel was John Martin.
There is some support to the statement of the celebrated Luther Martin of Baltimore (see Whitehead), that his ancestor, who was this John Martin, came to East Jersey with his brother. There was a James Martin of Burlington called "Meal Man" who left a will dated 1687, proved 1693, who mentions brothers Thomas and John Martin et al. This Thomas Martin was of Lymehouse, Parish of Stepney, alias Stebonheath, County of Middlesex, meat man, who in 1684 gave a power of attorney to his brother, James Martin, planter, now bound for West Jersey, to act as land agent. James Martin was in Burlington as early as 1686 by deed record. His mother was Martha Greenhill, or Grinnell. Further, Hatfield in his History of Elizabeth, N. J., notes a Henry Martin, who was one of the Associates of 1695, and while he wrongfully credits him with having been a son of John Martin of Piscataway, above, he does claim that Henry had a son, James Martin, in Elizabeth in 1726. It is also worth while to know that John Martin of Piscataway also had a son James, and while it is not at this time attempted to show any connection necessarily between Henry Martin of Elizabeth and John Martin of Piscataway and James Martin of Burlington, yet the compiler believes that when the English origin of John Martin of Piscataway is discovered some relation will appear.
Further, John Martin, while at Dover, had a law suit brought against him and his wife Hester in 1647, which was decided in their favor. He was proprietor there in 1648 and served on the grand jury in 1650, all of which will go to show that he was born at least before 1626, and his wife Hester is credited generally as having been born in 1628.
Pope, in his "Pioneers in Maine and New Hampshire," wrongfully confuses John Martin of Dover and Piscataway with a John Martin of New Hampshire, who died and left a will in 1664, wife Sarah and several children. There is a close connection between all the New Hampshire Martins and one Richard Martin of Dover, proprietor there, and at Portsmouth, before 1660. The Hulls and Yorkes lived at Dover and Portsmouth and several references are made to John Martin having land near "Lamprey River Falls."
Coming now to the genealogy. JOHN MARTIN, SR. of PISCATAWAY was born before 1626 and died at Piscataway July 5, 1687. He was of Dover, New Hampshire, 1648-1666; Woodbridge, N. J., 1668-1676; and Piscataway, N. J., 1676-1687. He married Hester (or Esther), born in 1628, died at Piscataway, December 12, 1687, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, very early, and was chosen President of the colony in opposition to John Underhill, in 1641. John Martin and Esther his wife, both left wills of record, which give their children by name and in the Piscataway and Woodbridge records substantiating the following issue:
I. Mary, alleged to have been born in 1645; married (1) Hopewell Hull, who died April 3, 1693. Their first child was born in 1670. She married (2) April 9, 1696, Justinian Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1684 "indentured for four years," but who received confirmation of deed for land on the Raritan, near Piscataway, in 1697-8.
II. John Jr., born in 1650, died at Piscataway in 1703, married (1) June 26, 1677, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Smith of Woodbridge, (2) January 19, 1698-99, Ann Brown, who survived him.
III. Joseph, born in 1652, married November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and Catharine Trotter, of Elizabethtown.
IV. Lydia, born in 1654, married October 18, 1676, John Smalley.
V. Benjamin, born in 1656, married (1) October 24, 1680, Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Reynolds; married (2) November 10, 1688, Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone, (Alston).
VI. Martha, born before 1660, died November 13, 1694, married about 1674, John Langstaff. Their first child was born in 1675.
VII. Thomas, born about 1659, married April 28, 1683, Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Mary Higgins.
VIII. James, born in 1669, died March 21, 1676. The latter is the only birth recorded in Piscataway and undoubtedly the other children were all born at Dover, N. H., although the birth dates above given are more or less uncertain.
The sons, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Thomas, all settled in Piscataway and Woodbridge and had families of children born and registered there. (Source: First Settlers, Part 5, p. 740)
"John Martin took an active interest in the affairs of the (Piscataway) colony and his activity was still apparent two years before his death, when the bounds between Woodbridge and Beaver Dam were laid out in 1685, he and his son-in-law, Hopewell Hull, ran the lines." (Martin Family History, Vol. 1, p. 30)
Abbrev: Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Title: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Author: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.
Note:
From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved.
The Wills are arranged in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names.
Repository:
Name: Ancestry
Page: p. 308
Quality: 3
Text: Page: 308
Name: John Martin
Date: 17 Mar 1687
Location: Piscataway Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I
1670-1730
yeoman; will of. Wife Easter heiress and executrix of real and personal estate with sons John and Benjamin Martin, Hopfull Hulle and John Langstaff as overseers. Witnesses--Thomas Killingworth, Will: Button, Benjamin Martin, Thomas Martin and Daniel Lippington. Proved 20th 1687 (?) Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 107, and Middlesex Wills Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730
Events
| Birth | 26 Feb 1619 | Norten, Morell, Warwick, England | |||
| Marriage | 1646 | New Hampshire - Esther (Hester) Roberts | |||
| Death | 5 Jul 1687 |
Families
| Spouse | Esther (Hester) Roberts (1626 - 1687) |
| Child | Mary Martin (1646 - 1694) |
| Father | John Martin or Martyn (1572 - ) |
| Mother | Suzann Hemertin (1602 - ) |