Martin – Martin County, NCGenWeb

Will Abstract: William Wallace

September 19, 1774. February 13, 1775.

Son: William (plantation & six negroes).
Daughters: Keziah, Dinah, Quotina, Agness, Alba (one negro to each).
Wife and Executrix: Martha.
Witnesses: James Rawlins, William Lewelling, David Taylor, William Bowers.

Proven before Jo. Martin.

Source: Grimes, J. Bryan. Abstract of North Carolina Wills Compiled from Original and Recorded Wills in the Office of the Secretary of State. Raleigh: E.M. Uzzell, 1910. http://books.google.com/books?id=f6I4AAAAIAAJ

Historical Marker of Josiah Martin

Martin County was named after Josiah Martin and recently in a Flickr group for posting pictures of historical markers, someone posted Josiah’s.

The marker is located in Brunswick County. Seeing this reminded me that I’d wanted to do a post about Historical Markers as they can add context to your family genealogy work. The Flickr group that this was posted in is called NC Historical Markers Pool and can be monitored via RSS feed.

Other good sources include:

NC Highway Historical Marker Database maintained by the NC Department of Cultural Resources. On their site, you can search by text words and by county to find what you need.
Waymarker has a listing of markers throughout the state. According to their Google Map interface for browsing, there are not any yet listed for Martin County, but you may be interested in some of the others. An easy way to stay up to date is to subscribe to the RSS feed.

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

According to an index created by the Olivia Raney Local History Library in Raleigh, NC, the following individuals of Martin County are included in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Bryan, Henry H. (d. 1835)
Hassell, Cushing Biggs (1809-1880)
Hassell, Sylvester (1842-1928)
Martin, Joseph John (1833-1900)
Ross, James (1801-1878)
Ross, Reuben (1776-1860)
Roulhac, Joseph Blount Gregoire (1795-1856)
Spruill, Frank (Franklin) Shepherd (1862-1937)
Whittlesey, Sarah Johnson Cogswell (1824 -1896)
Wilson, James Lewis (ca. 1760 – 1802)
Yellowley, Edward Clement (1821 – 1885)
Cherry, Annie Moore (1891 – 1976)
Armstrong, Frank Alton, Jr. (1902 – 1969)
Everett, Reuben Oscar (1879-1971)
Chance, William Claudius, Sr. (1880-1970)
Biggs, Asa (1811-1878)

I’ve already started pages for a few of these on the Biographical Profiles page of the site. You can use WorldCat.org to find this book in a library near you.