Samuel Martin

Samuel Martin was a Cherokee man.

Clan: Ani'-Gilâ'hi = Twisters, Braids, or Long Hair Clan (Mary Grant)

Biography

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Samuel was Cherokee.

Samuel Martin was the son of Mary Emory, Cherokee granddaughter of trader Ludovic Grant and John Martin (brother of Gen. Joseph). He was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) about 1766. [1] Joseph Lynch Martin testified to the Cherokee Citizenship Court in 1888, "I knew Samuel Martin, he was a half-brother to my father, [Judge] John Martin, now dead." [2]

He had children by two or three Cherokee women: by Catherine Hildebrand, Brice, Joseph, Lucinda, Martha, William, John, Elizabeth, James, Ellen, and Suzie, [3] and by Charlotte Wickett, Nellie. Starr lists two other children, George whose mother is uncertain, [4] and Mary Martin, the daughter of Eleanor(Nellie) Morton, a white woman.[5]

Samuel is listed living on Wakoa Creek (now Tennessee) on the 1835 Cherokee Census with a family of seven. His daughter Lucinda and her husband William Dennis are living next to them. [6] According to some accounts he emigrated to Indian Territory and was killed there in 1846.

Research Notes

Researchers John Strange and David Hampton make credible claims that Samuel was the son of John. John fathered children by Mary Emory’s sister, Susannah. Emmett Starr incorrectly listed Joseph as the father of John Martin’s three children by Susannah and listed no father for Samuel. Joseph fathered at least two Cherokee children by other Cherokee women.

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Note:

There is no way of knowing whether Joseph or John Martin was the father of Samuel Martin. John is documented in contemporary records as the father of Susannah Emory's children Nannie, Rachel, and John., but Samuel isn't. Starr incorrectly listed Joseph Martin as the father of Susannah's children and did not list a father for Samuel.

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“The Heritage of Blount County, Alabama” Page 313

"He was the husband to Eleanor Nelly Morton's and others husband too.'

References

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1. Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed Bloods. ARC Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, AR, 2005. p. 49
2. Cherokee Citizenship Records, Microfilm Roll CHN 52, Vol. 468:356
3. National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application # 2739, granddaughter Rebecca Conner. Digitized at Fold3, images begin at Rebecca
4. Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 306
5. Shadburn, Don L. with John D. Strange,III, Upon Our Ruins, A Study in Cherokee History and Genealogy, The Cottonpatch Press, 2012, pp. 183-187.
6. 1835 Cherokee Census. Transcript, Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill Oklahoma, 2002. p. 8
7. "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLX-VRK : accessed 25 September 2017), ?? Buffington, Capt Buffingtons District, Hall, Georgia, United States; citing p. 128, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 175,765}}.
8. GEDCOM Source Database online. Record for Samuel Martin
9. GEDCOM Source Database online. Record for Eleanor Nellie Morton
10. “The Heritage of Blount County, Alabama” Page 313 "He was the husband to Eleanor Nelly Morton's and others husband too.'