| Name |
Jean Martain |
| Birth |
1676 |
France  |
- Also: John (Martain, Mautin) John/Jean was a French Huguenot
|
 Notes |
1700 |
| Indian village, known today as Monakintowne, where they were to settle. Jean Martin, however, and others like Pierre Legrand choose to settle about 5 miles father south along the James River in Henrico Co. By 1704, each male Huguenot had been granted |
| Notes |
1700 |
| 113 acres of land. According to Cabell's "Turf & Twig, French Lands" Jean Martin received more land than any other Huguenot immigrant did, owning more than 1,200 acres. One of this patents "lies in the midst of a golf course in present day Chesterfield Co" |
| Notes |
1700 |
| Recognizing the culture that the French Huguenots could bring to the Colonies, the King of England promised them freedom of religion along with their own land in VA. When the ships landed at the mouth of the James the passengers were guided to a abandoned |
| (Arrival) |
20 September 1700 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| Arrived on the Peter & Anthony, the 2nd of 4 ships carrying French Protestants seeking freedom of religion. Most passengers crossed the ocean from England/Netherlands where they found refuge after fleeing earlier from the oppression of Catholic France. |
| Note |
1703 |
| Marrying in 1697 would put them in the old world & Jean Martin was listed as single on ship list & the inheritance after the death of both her parents & as a belated patent belonging to her dec father would not be a dowry. |
| Tax List |
1703 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| 1 slaved named Francois. |
| Tax List |
1710 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| 1 Slave Jean Powell |
| Tax List |
1711 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| 2 slaves, Jean Poel, Joell |
| Tax List |
1712 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| 4 slaves, Powell, Joell, Jacques, Jean |
| Land Sale |
1715 |
James River |
| Jean Martin sold 180 acres to John Bilbaud on S side of the James River and adjacent to land that already abutted Bilbaud. |
| (Appraiser) |
1720 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| One of the appraisers for the inventory of Elizabeth Ramey, widow of Abraham Ramey. |
| Land Sale |
September 1721 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| Margaret Martin relinquishes her downer in deed for 582 acres which John Martain sells to Madame Hannah Tullit, widow of John Tullit. |
| Real Estate |
1732 |
Virginia |
| the value of improvements on his plantation was 1569.5 poundshe had 60 head of cattle then and owned only patent 900 (bequeathed to James). |
| Will |
2 March 1736 |
Goochland County, Virginia |
| To John Martin, son of my deceased son John, a plantation, with house, and allthereto belonging, next to Mr. Joseph Pleasants, above my dwelling house on James River..... |
| Death |
1738 |
St. James Parish, Goochland, Virginia |
- Jean and Margaret evidently lived north of the James River on land next to the William Randolph land (Tuckahoe plantation) at the time of his death.
|
| Land & Deeds |
 | Martain, Legrand, Robinson Map
|
| Person ID |
P7865 |
Burress | My Ancestors |
| Wife |
Mary Margaret LaCaze
b. 1684, France
d. After 1743, Henrico County, Virginia (Age 60 years) |
| Marriage |
1 November 1703 |
Manakintown, Virginia |
| Children |
3 sons and 2 daughters |
| + | 1. John Martain
b. 1711, Henrico County, Virginia
d. March 1735, Goochland County, Virginia (Age 24 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] | | | 2. Jane Martain [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] | | + | 3. Jacques Martin
b. 1703, Henrico County, Virginia
d. 1751, Virginia (Age 48 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] | | | 4. Judith Martain
b. 1710, Virginia
d. 1786 (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] | | | 5. Pierre (Peter) Martain
b. 1711, Virginia
d. 1742, Goochland County, Virginia (Age 31 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
|
| Family ID |
F2543 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1676 - 1738 (62 years)
