| Captain Nicholas Martiau was born on 2 Apr 1591 in Nantes, Loire Atlantique,
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Captain Nicholas Martiau married Jane Boykin. died on 16 Apr 1657 in Chiskiack, York County, Virginia Born: Married: Died: |
The earliest American ancestors of George Washington Virginia, Prominent Families, Vol. 1-4
Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666
Elizabeth Martiau was born before 1620 in England and died in 1686 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Elizabeth Martiau married Col. George Read, son of Robert Reade, Esq. and Mildred Windebank, in 1641 in Virginia. Col. George Read was born on 25 Oct 1608 in Linkenholt Manor, Hamptonshire, England and died on 20 Oct 1671 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Nicholas Martian's name was variously recorded Malier, Marlier, Martn, Martian, Martain, etc. In 1621 a large number of the French Walloons applied to the London Company for leave to settle in Virginia. Permission was granted, but they secured more favorable terms from the Dutch. Therefore they sailed for New York in 1622, and constituted the first Dutch colony in America.Some few came to Virginia according to their first intention, and among them Nicholas Martian who secured his denization in England. In 1645 Nicholas Martian married Isabella Beach, as shown by the records of York. His will was dated March 1, 1657 or '67, and was proved April 4, 1657. He named his oldest daughter Elizabeth, who had crossed the ocean with him and became the wife of George Reade, Mary, his second daughter, wife of John Scarbrook, of York Co.; Sarah, his third daughter, wife of Capt. William Fuller, the Puritan Governor of Maryland. Nicholas Martian (Martue) was a French Walloon, who obtained his denization in England before coming to Virginia; born in 1591; arrived before 1620; first burgess for the first settlement on the York river, 1632; took a leading part in 1635 at the meeting at William Warren's house, near the present Yorktown, in protesting against Sir John Harvey's tyranny. His will, dated March 1, 1656, was proved April 24, 1657, and in it he names his three daughters--Elizabeth, wife of Colonel George Reade; Mary, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel John Scasbrook, and Sarah, wife of Captain William Fuller, sometime governor of Maryland. |
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