Britain Fuller

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Saint Andrews, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1820, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

William Devin 731 acres

William Devin Jr 200 acres

James Biggers 100 acres

Arthur Fuller 105 acres

Zachariah Fuller 200 acres

Michael Gilbert 200 acres

Zachariah, his brother Brittain, and their father Arthur all took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America on October 20, 1777 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. They are also on the Muster Roll of the Virginia Militia signed June 10, 1778 serving under Captain Daniel Hankins. This has all been proven thru the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Zachariah married Letitia Pearson in 1777 in Turkeycock Creek, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Letitia was born in 1767 in Turkeycock Creek, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in 1830 in Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , , , USA
• Residence: 1755, , Granville, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1782-1785, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Death date from will in Granville County, NC.
Listed on the Granville County NC List of Tithables of 1749. French Indian War Militia Muster, Granville County, NC, rolltaken 8 October 1754.
On 1755 tax list, Granville County, NC. "Ezekiel Fuller and Some of his Descendants" by Grady P.Fuller, p. 41] 1760 "Lord Granville to...Arthur Fuller March 11, 1760, 422 Acres in Granville County in the Parish of St.John on the Branches of Taylor's Creek joing William McBe,Fuller's line. both sides of Cedar Creek, Bradfords's corner,and Arthur Fuller OR: /s/William Sharrod. Wits: Edward Moore, John Sandlin [who signed with his mark] surveyed December 10, 1755 SCC: James Sandling [?sic], Edward Ballinger, Sherd Haywood D. Sur" P. 149 pg 67 The Granville Dist. of North Carolina 1748-1763 Hofman 1987/929.3755/FF Patent Book 14 December 1989]"Expansion of settlement: 1747 Arthur Fuller on Cedar Creek" in History and Genealogies of Old Granville 1746-1800, p. 214 In1763 he sold his land in Granville County NC. Was living in Halifax County, VA at the time of the last sale. His Children remained in VA. He bought land 28 Aug 1767 and the wife of a descendent of his [Emma Pearl Herndon Fuller [Mrs. Calvert Thomas] still lives there as of 3 Jan 1993. Was living in Pittsylvania County, VA at time of his death ["EzekialFuller...", p 41] ---------------------
"Arthurbought his first Granville land in October 1752 [Gran DB-C 440]. He continued to obtain grants until he owned 1487 acres. In 1760 he began to sell and continued to sell until all was sold in 1763. Family records, furnished by Ellen Fuller Young of Washington, DC, show that this family of Fullers, then living in Pittsylvania County, VA, operated a wagon train as well as one of the first tobaccco factories. They transported tobacco and other goods to the coast. They frequently visited the Granville Fullers while on business trips." ------------
Pittsylvania County,VA, Deeds for 1774-1778 p. 380, July 23, 1777 from Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County To Zachariah Fuller of Pittsylvania County, for 150 pounds, about 200 acres in Pittsylvania County on Turkey Cock Creek, and bounded by Harmon Cook's line below the Mill, thence to Stockton. Recorded July 24, 1777 p. 386, October 28, 1775 from George Jefferson of Lunenburg County, to Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County, for 110 pounds, about 305 acres in Pittsylvania County on Turkey Cock Creek, and bounded by trees. Recorded July 24, 1777 p.389, July 22, 1777 from Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County to Jacob Coolly of Amherst County, for 90 pounds, about 270 acres in Pittsylvania County on the head branches of Sandy River, bounded by Elisha Walling, and is included by the lines called John Warren's part of the same tract given by the said Fuller to the said walling; also, Mr. Daniel Hawkins' lines. Recorded July 24, 1777 ---------- From NSDAR application #551201 - Annie Fuller Robinson - Arthur Fuller's service in the Revolutionary War was while acting in the capacity of a loyal Patriot on Muster Roll, Pittsylvania County, VA - see p 286, 20 Oct 1777. He served as a loyal patriot in Pittsylvania County, VA. He took the Oath of Allegiance on 20 Oct 1777. He was on Captain Hankins' list. This list was signed by Daniel Hankins on 10 June 1778, Pittsylvania County , VA.

p. 380, July 23, 1777 from Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County To Zachariah Fuller of Pittsylvania County, for 150 pounds, about 200 acres in Pittsylvania County on Turkey Cock Creek, and bounded by Harmon Cook's line below the Mill, thence to Stockton. Recorded July 24, 1777
p. 386, October 28, 1775 from George Jefferson of Lunenburg County, to Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County, for 110 pounds, about 305 acres in Pittsylvania County on Turkey Cock Creek, and bounded by trees. Recorded July 24, 1777

p. 389, July 22, 1777 from Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County to Jacob Coolly of Amherst County, for 90 pounds, about 270 acres in Pittsylvania County on the head branches of Sandy River, bounded by Elisha Walling, and is included by the lines called John Warren's part of the same tract given by the said Fuller to the said walling; also, Mr. Daniel Hawkins' lines. Recorded July 24, 1777
Source - Pittsylvania County, VA, Deeds for 1774 - 1778

Note: Some info on Fuller family from family sheets of Donna Weaver[see Ezekiel Fuller]. Death date from will in Granville County,NC. Was on the Granville County NC List of Tithables of 1749.French Indian War Militia Muster, Granville County, NC, rolltaken 8 October 1754. On 1755 tax list, Granville County, NC.[msg GaleFuller@aol.com to EzekielFuller-L 21 Feb 1999 -quoting "Ezekiel Fuller and Some of his Descendants" by Grady P.Fuller, p. 41] 1760 "Lord Granville to...Arthur Fuller March11, 1760, 422 Acres in Granville County in the Parish of St.John on the Branches of Taylor's Creek joing William McBe,Fuller's line. both sides of Cedar Creek, Bradfords's corner,and Arthur Fuller OR: /s/William Sharrod. Wits: EdwardMoore, John Sandlin [who signed with his mark] surveyed December10, 1755 SCC: James Sandling [?sic], Edward Ballinger, SherdHaywood D. Sur" P. 149 pg 67 The Granville Dist. of NorthCarolina 1748-1763 Hofman 1987/929.3755/FF Patent Book 14[from jsbowie@erols.com [Jack and Sharon Bowie] December 1989]"Expansion of settlement: 1747 Arthur Fuller on Cedar Creek" inHistory and Genealogies of Old Granville 1746-1800, p. 214 In1763 he sold his land in Granville County NC. Was living inHalifax County, VA at the time of the last sale. His Childrenremained in VA. He bought land 28 Aug 1767 and the wife of adescendent of his [Emma Pearl Herndon Fuller [Mrs. CalvertThomas] still lives there as of 3 Jan 1993. Was living inPittsylvania County, VA at time of his death ["EzekialFuller...", p 41] --------------------- info posted toEzekielFuller-L by CMitch2534@aol.com 22 Feb 1999: "Arthurbought his first Granville land in October 1752 [Gran DB-C 440].he continued to obtain grants until he owned 1487 acres. In1760 he began to sell and continued to sell until all was soldin 1763. Family records, furnished by Ellen Fuller Young ofWashington, DC, show that this family of Fullers, then livingin Pittsylvania County, VA, operated a wagon train as well asone of the first tobaccco factories. They transported tobaccoand other goods to the coast. They frequently visited theGranville Fullers while on business trips." Info on Fullerchildren in the above message. ------------ Pittsylvania County,VA, Deeds for 1774-1778 p. 380, July 23, 1777 from ArthurFuller of Pittsylvania County To Zachariah Fuller ofPittsylvania County, for 150 pounds, about 200 acres inPittsylvania County on Turkey Cock Creek, and bounded by HarmonCook's line below the Mill, thence to Stockton. Recorded July24, 1777 p. 386, October 28, 1775 from George Jefferson ofLunenburg County, to Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County, for110 pounds, about 305 acres in Pittsylvania County on TurkeyCock Creek, and bounded by trees. Recorded July 24, 1777 p.389, July 22, 1777 from Arthur Fuller of Pittsylvania County toJacob Coolly of Amherst County, for 90 pounds, about 270 acresin Pittsylvania County on the head branches of Sandy River,bounded by Elisha Walling, and is included by the lines calledJohn Warren's part of the same tract given by the said Fuller tothe said walling; also, Mr. Daniel Hawkins' lines. RecordedJuly 24, 1777 ---------- From NSDAR application #551201 - AnnieFuller Robinson - Arthur Fuller's service in the RevolutionaryWar was while acting in the capacity of a loyal Patriot onMuster Roll, Pittsylvania County, VA - see p 286, 20 Oct 1777.He served as a loyal patriot in Pittsylvania County, VA. Hetook the Oath of Allegiance on 20 Oct 1777. He was on CaptainHankins' list. This list was signed by Daniel Hankins on 10 June1778, Pittsylvania County , VASome info on Fuller family from family sheets of Donna Weaver[see Ezekiel Fuller]. Change Date: 22 DEC 2001 at 23:35:01

Arthur Fuller bought his first land in Granville Co NC in Oct 1752. Listed on Oct 8 1754 French & Indian War Militia Muster, Granville Co. Mar 11 1760
Lord Granville granted Arthur 422 acres in Granville Co in St John
Parish on the branches of Taylor's Creek. He continued to get grants
until he owned 1487 acres, by 1763 he had sold all land in Granville
and was living in Halifax Co VA at the time of the last sale which
was 226 acres on Cedar Creek to William Hendly of Halifax Co, Oct 6
1763. In Pittsylvania Co, this Fuller family operated a wagon train
as well as one of the first tobacco factories. Contributor: Judith Arnn-Knight
Email: jknight@boone.net
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deschart/z0001313.html

William Devin 731 acres

William Devin Jr 200 acres

James Biggers 100 acres

Arthur Fuller 105 acres

Zachariah Fuller 200 acres

Michael Gilbert 200 acres

Zachariah, his brother Brittain, and their father Arthur all took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America on October 20, 1777 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. They are also on the Muster Roll of the Virginia Militia signed June 10, 1778 serving under Captain Daniel Hankins. This has all been proven thru the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Arthur married Sarah Littleton, Granville, North Carolina, USA. Sarah was born in 1720 in Bertie, Granville, North Carolina, USA; died in Jan 1779 in Turkeycock Creek, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

EZEKIEL FULLER I, born before 1678, married Deborah Spivey around 1693.
Their children were Ezekiel II (1694), Solomon (1696), Ann (1698), Mary
(1700), Benjamin (1702), John (1704), Joseph (1706), Arthur (1708), Timothy
(1710), Henry (1712), Martha Whitley (1714), and Honor Thomas (1718). The
elder Ezekiel Fuller I left more southern Fuller descendants than any other.
His sixth child, John (1704-1810), was the direct ancestor of Fullers who
eventually settled in Cass County, Texas.

The Ezekiel Fuller Line

1 Ezekiel 1st Fuller and Deborah Spivey
1.1 Henry Fuller 1st and ?
1.1.1 Henry Fuller 2nd and Mary Earl
1.1.2 Sarah FUller and James McDaniel
1.1.3 Shadrack FUller and Lucy Parrish
1.1.4 Joseph Fuller and ?
1.1.5 Meshack Fuller and 1st ?; 2nd Bethany __
1.2 Ezekiel Fuller 2nd and Sarah __
1.2.1 Henry Fuller and Judieth Spivey
1.2.2 Samuel Fuller, Esq. and Fereby Spivey
1.2.3 Ezekiel Fuller 3rd and 1st Fanny Moody; 2nd Sarah Martin
1.2.4 Benjamin Fuller and poss Mary __
1.2.5 Elizabeth Fuller
1.2.6 Mary Fuller and David Vincent
1.3 Solomon Fuller 1st and Mary __
1.3.1 Solomon Fuller 2nd and Ogilvia Avent
1.3.2 "Capt" Jones Fuller and 1st Ann Mann, 2nd Sarah Bradford, 3rd Priscilla Harris
1.3.2.1 Isham Fuller and 1st Elizabeth Roberts, 2nd Sarah Allen
1.3.2.1.5 Israel Fuller and Martha Bonds
1.3.2.1.5.8 Emeline Fuller and Galletin Fuller (double line as are 1st cousins)
1.3.2.1.8 Archibald Fuller and Lucy Young
1.3.2.1.8.3 Gallatin Fuller and Emeline Fuller (double line as are 1st cousins)
1.3.3 Israel FUller
1.3.4 Barneby Fuller
1.3.5 Mary Fuller and Booth Peary
1.4 Ann Fuller and ___ Bass
1.5 Mary Fuller and ___Bailey
1.6 Benjamin Fuller and poss ___Duke
1.7 John Fuller and ___
1.7.1 John Fuller, Jr and Mary Shields
1.8 Joseph Fuller
1.9 Arthur Fuller and Sarah __
1.9.1 Christina Fuller and John Warren
1.9.2 Rachel Fuller and William Lawrence
1.9.3 Sally Fuller and Henry Lawrence
1.9.4 Lamar Fuller and John Smith
1.9.5 Zachariah Fuller and Letitia___
1.9.6 Britain FUller and Nancy Jackson
1.9.7 Joseph Fuller and Susannah Aaron
1.10 Timothy Fuller and Elizabeth__
1.10.1 David Fuller and __
1.11 Mary Fuller and poss George Whitley
1.12 Honor Fuller and James/Thomas Allen
1.13 poss Amy Fuller
1.14 poss Carry Fuller and __ Bailey
1.15 poss Milly Fuller and __Bailey

Ezekiel Fuller 1st of Newpoart Parish, Isle of Wight, Virginia married Deborah Spivey in 1699 at Nansemond County Virginia. He died 24 Jun 1723; Isle of Wight County, Virginia

1711 witnessed the Isle of Wight County, Virginia will of Henry Wiggs.

1711 bought 400 acres of land in Isle of Wight County, Virginia from James and Mary Bragg; recorded 23 Sep 1717.

Will dated 19 Nov 1722; Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

Sons Ezekiel and Solomon (1704-?) sold the 400 acres - recorded 23 Apr 1744. BK II, page 133-will. Deborah's last name is speculated to be Spivey and she is speculated to be the daughter of John Spivey and they possibly married in Nansemond County, Virginia where records were burned so cannot be proven. Margaret Fabiani says that John Fuller of Morganton, Georgia says Ezekiel is definitely NOT the son of Puritan Gov. William Fuller. Gov. Fuller never lived in Isle of Wight although he did visit there. There is a strong possibility that Smauel Fuller who immigrated to Isle of Wight before 25 April 1667 was Ezekiel's father. (b. m. & d of Deborah, plush "Newport Parish" information from Margaret Fabiani disk.)

EZEKIEL FULLER'S WILL - 1722

In the name of God Amen I Ezekiel Fuller of the Isle of Wight county being of perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be to almighty God make this my Last will and Testament in a Manner and for me following Imprimts I Submit my Soul to god. Hoping Through the merrits of my blessed saviour To have pardon of all my Sinns. Item I Give to my Loving wife the use of all my Estate what so ever Dureing her widowhood or Natuall Life and the day of Marriage or Death my will is that this is Item I Give and Bequeth to my son Ezekiel and Sollomon all my Land to be Equaly Divided Between Them and their Heirs forever Item I give to my son Ezekiell all my Carpenters Tools. Item I Give the remainder of my Estate to my Daughter Mary my Sons Sollomon, Benjamin, John, Joseph, Arthur (OUR LINAGE), & Timothy to be equally divided Betweene them. Item I give to my son Henry Twenty Five Shillings to be paid by executrix. Item I give to my Daughter Martha Whitley and my Daughter Honor Allen a half a Pence and I do make my Loving Wife Deborah my Whole and Sole executrix of this my Last will and Testament my hand and seale this 19 Day of November 1722
His Marke
Ezekiel (EF) Fuller


Signed Sealed and Delievered to be the Last Will and Testament in presence of.
Arthur Smith
Matthew Lowry
his
W() W Ward
marke

2nd Court held for Isle of Wight County
The 24 June 1723


The Last will & Testament of Ezekiel Fuller presented unto Court by the Executrix who made oath____
and being proved in Court by the oathes of Matthew Lowry & Wm Ward Witnesses is admittted to record.
____Lightfoot______


Recorded om Deeds and Wills of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Great Book Vol 2 part 2 1715-1726
page 133

Ezekiel married Deborah Spivey in 1699 in Newport, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA. Deborah (daughter of John Spivey, Sr. and Sarah Jane Littleton) was born in 1680 in Newport, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Apr 1744 in Newport, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Captain William Fuller of the Severn. Governor of Maryland In 1654, he repealed the Tole ration Act and became Member of the Great Council and a Proprietor's deputy (assigned land grants). He was the ranking officer in Oliver Cromwell's Roundhead Army, Commander in Chief in Indian Wars and brought settlers to a colony in South Carolina.
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http://www.geni.com/people/Capt-William-Fuller-Colonial-Gov-of- Maryland/6000000001532096436?through=6000000001735727635

The new governor of Maryland, William Fuller, did away with the Toleration Act which gave Catholics the right to practice their religion, and removed Lord Baltimore from authority

From EARLY SOUTHERN FULLERS by Theodore Albert Fuller...

"Capt. William Fuller, ranking officer in Oliver Cromwell's roundhead army and subsequent Governor of Maryland, was one of five Puritans on committee to make a treaty with the Susquehannah Indians on 5Jul1652 for Isle of Wight Co., VA."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_S evern

Battle of the Severn Commanders and leaders: Captain William Fuller - William Stone

Casualties and losses: 2 killed - 17 killed 32 wounded

The Battle of the Severn was a skirmish fought on March 25, 1655, on the Severn River at Horn Point, across Spa Creek from Annapolis, Maryland, in what at that time was referred to as "Providence", in what is now the neighborhood of Eastport. The capital of Maryland was moved from St. Mary's to Ann Arundel Town in 1694,[2] and Ann Arundel Town name was changed to Annapolis in 1695.[3] It was an extension of the conflicts that formed the English Civil War,[4] pitting the forces of Puritan settlers against forces aligned with Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietor of the colony of Maryland at the time. It has been suggested by Radmila May that this was the last battle of the English Civil War.[5]

http://petersheritage.com/uploads/william_fuller_info.pdf

William Fuller, founder of the Fuller family of St. Andrew’s Parish on Ashley River in South Carolina, was born presumably in England about 1625 or earlier. He arrived in Virginia sometime in the late 1640s to 1650. In 1651, he moved into Maryland to join a colony of Puritans, who settled there two years earlier.

In his book, Nicolas Martiau, The Adventurous Huguenot, John Baer Stoudt states that William Fuller had been the surveyor for the Province of Virginia. However, no reference is given for this information, and no records in Virginia have been found to confirm it.


William was a Captain and married Sarah Martiau, youngest daughter of Captain Nicolas Martiau (1592-1657) and his wife, Jane of York County, Virginia. William Fuller married Sarah about 1651 and took her with him to Maryland.


Source: Captain William Fuller of Maryland and South Carolina and his Descendants by Virginia Fripp Shaffer, Southern Historical Press Inc., 2002,


1654 The new governor of Maryland, William Fuller, does away with the Toleration Act which gave Catholics the right to practice their religion and removes Lord Baltimore from authority.

William married Sarah Martiau. Sarah (daughter of Nicholas Martiau and Jane De Berkeley) was born in Nov 1629 in , Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA; died on 14 Mar 1695 in Saint Andrews, Berkeley, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Jane Littleton in 1667 in , Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA. Sarah was born in 1654 in , New Kent, Virginia, USA; died about 1734 in , Nansemond, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Audrey Anne Gylman Giles on 22 Jan 1599 in Harlston, Norfolk, England. Audrey was born in 1577 in Redenhall, Norfolk, England; died on 30 May 1659 in Redenhall, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1620, , , Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1624, , Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Martiau was a French Huguenot refugee, educated as a military engineer. He was in the service of the Earl of Huntingdon, one of the Virginia Company, and was sent to America in 1620 aboard the ship "Francis Bonaventure." He led a raid against the Indians at Falling Creek after the 1622 massacre. He was instrumental in securing the removal of Governor Harvey. Harvey returned to England to plead his case. He later returned briefly to Virginia, bringing with him the young George Reade, who later became Acting Governor of the colony and married Martiau's daughter, Elizabeth. In 1627 Martiau defended the French king in an argument with Thomas Mayhew and this forced him to take a loyalty oath (he had previously been made an English citizen). His grandaughter, Mildred Reade, married Augustin Warner and George Washington was their descendant. His youngest daughter, Sarah, married Capt. William Fuller, who became the Puritan Governor of Maryland.
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There is some controversy about the date of birth of Martiau's daughter, Elizabeth, which also casts some doubt about the identity of her mother. While there is much evidence that Elizabeth was born in Virginia, the daughter of Martiau and Jane Berkeley, who he married in about ***. However, on his arrival in Virginia in 1620, he claimed his daughter Elizabeth as a headright, meaning she would have been born before 1620. It is likely that his first wife was named Elizabeth, and she died before 1620. He married Jane, who was the widow of Lt. Edward Berkeley in 1624 or 1625. On December 12, 1625 Martiau wrote his sponsor, the Earl of Huntingdon, saying "I am now both a husband and a father." Martiau had three daughters, and this was likely the middle one, Mary. His third daughter was Sarah. In 1645 he married Isabella Beech.
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Nicholas Martiau (1597-1657)

A French Huguenot, he lived some period of time in England before being naturalized as an Englishman and sailing for Virginia. He had been born in France according to his own statement in the records of the General Court of Virginia and is believed to have been a protestant as the records of the French Huguenot congregation in London show him to have been a godfather at a baptism there in May 1615. Martiau arrived in Virginia in 1620. The records of the Virginia Company show that by February 1620 the colony had requested that engineers be sent out who were capable of raising fortifications. The Earl of Huntington, who had an interest in lands in the colony, engaged at his own expense two engineers, one a captain from the low countries named Benjamin Blewitt and the other a reputedly skilled French captain who had been long in England, Nicholas Martiau. Huntington specifically engaged them to act as his attorneys in establishing his lands in Virginia. To that end he saw that Martiau was naturalized, a necessary qualification to own land, vote, or hold office in the colony, and he also provided him with a life interest in some lands of the Huntington estate. Martiau arrived on the Francis Bona Ventura in August 1620. After the Indian massacre in March 1622 he commanded a company which sought out and fought the Indians. For a while after that he was at Falling Creek where the colony's iron works had been destroyed and the population devastated in the massacre. From there in 1623 he testified to the exemplary services of Doctor Ed Giften. In 1623 he was a member of the House of Burgesses that signed the completed draft of the First Laws made by the Assembly in Virginia. By the time of the census of 1624, Blewitt was no longer in the Virginia records and Capt Nicholas Martiau of Elizabeth City was the Earl's sole attorney in Virginia. In 1625 he appears in the muster as Captain Martiau, age 33. In March 1623, the Commissioners sent from London to investigate conditions in Virginia questioned where the colony should be fortified, and received from the Assembly the answer that the best defense against Indians would be a 6 mile palisade from Martin's Hundred to Chiskiacke, the future site of Yorktown. In 1630 Governor Harvey and the council voted lands for those who would settle in the first two years in Chiskiacke and upon completion of the palisade Martiau was among those who moved their families to Chiskiacke. In 1632 as a burgess from Chiskiacke and the Isle of Kent, he signed the petition to the crown for confirmation of the title to all of the colonists' lands. Martiau's plantation eventually included 1300 acres among which is the site of Yorktown today. As a prominent public figure Martiau appears frequently in the records thereafter. He was elected burgess from Chiskiacke and the Isle of Kent in 1632 and was a justice of York County from 1633 until his death, often holding meetings of the court in his home. In the prelude to the famous "Thrusting out of Sir John Harvey", a challenge to autocratic rule, Nicholas Martiau was one of three speakers who by their opposition forced the governor to return to London to report to the king. At two other times occasions arose requiring Martiau to prove his loyalty to the crown: in 1627 he was required by the General Court to take the "Oath of Supremacy", and in 1656 it was recorded in Northampton County that "Captain Nicholas Martiau obtained his denizenation in England and could hold any office or employment in Virginia." Little is known about Martiau's wife. In a letter dated December 1625 written in Elizabeth City and addressed to the Earl of Huntington Martiau announces himself as a husband and a father of "little ones". His wife, Jane, of unknown surname had apparently arrived on the Sea Flower in 1621, then been married to Lieutenant Bartley, and widowed by 1625. She in turn appears to have died before 1640. There is some supposition that there had been a first wife before Mrs. Bartley. There was a third marriage before November 1646 to a widow, Isabella Beech, who apparently died before Martiau died about 1657. Nicholas Martiau was survived by three daughters of his second marriage: Elizabeth married to Colonel George Read, Mary married to Colonel John Scasbrook, and Sarah married to Captain William Fuller, the Puritan Governor of Maryland under the Commonwealth.

References: 1. "Nicholas Martiau: The Adventurous Huguenot, The Military Engineer and The Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington", by John Baer Stoudt, Norristown, PA, 1932 http://mediasvc.ancestry.com/image/5153c7b0-cdb3-4a08-8c7d-c81b9dcb3a33.jpg?Client=Trees&NamespaceID=1093

Nicholas Martiau, wives and children.

Nicholas Martiau was a French Huguenot and came to Virginia in the "Francis Bonaventure" as a personal representative of the 5th Earl of Huntington, a member of the Virginia Company, a Capt. A Huguenot was a Calvinist Protestant against the Catholic Church. Military Engineer. His plantation comprised of 1,300 acres and included the site of the Battle of Yorktown. His wife, Jane Berkley, was a widow of Lieutenant Edward Berkley.

He was the first to patent the site of Yorktown, and to represent Kent Island, York and Chiskiack in the House of Burgresses (1632). He was a settler of Elizabeth City, Charles City and York Counties, VA. He was a Justice of York County and also a Burgess there. In Volume IV of "Genealogies of Virginia Families" we read " Nicholas Martian's name is rendered variously in the records, Marlier, Martue, Martin, Martain. In 1621 a large party of French Walloons applied to the London Company
for leave to settle in Virginia. Permission was granted, but as they received more favorable terms from the Dutch, they sailed to New York in 1622 and constituted the first Dutch colony in America. Some few, nevertheless came to Virginia, and amoung them was Nicolas Martain, who received his denization in England. In the list of Walloons presented in 1621 to the London Company, there is entered "Nicholas de la Marlier, his wife and two children;" and in the census of 1625 "Capt. Nicholas Martue" is named as living in Elizabeth City.
(Hotten, List of Emigrants to America, 99,176,249.)

When Chiskiack, on York River, was opened in 1630 for settlement he obtained the land at Yorktown and was the first representative in the Assembly for Chiskiack and Kent Island. He was one of the first justices of York County, and in 1639 obtained a patent for land at Yorktown due him on account of importing himself, Nicholas Marlier, wife, Jane, Nicholas, his son, Elizabeth Marlier, his daughter, and Jane Berkeley her daughter and several others "the first year to Chiskiack." In 1625 Lt. Edward Berkeley had living with him his wife Jane Berkeley, and daughter Jane. It seems that Martian married his widow.

In 1635 he took a leading part in protesting against the tyranny of Governor Sir John Harvey, and the loss of Kent Island to Lord Baltimore, and was arrested and confined. But Sir John Harvey was deposed by the council and Martian and his friend were released. In the records of York he is mentioned in 1645 as married to Puritan governor of Maryland. These daughters were probably by the second wife Jane, the widow of Edward Berkeley, and Col. Scasbrook had a daughter named Jane. Martain's French wife and children probably did not survie the "seasoning period." He was the commom ancestor of George Washington, Robert E. Lee and many eminent Virginians.

Nicholas married Jane De Berkeley. Jane was born in 1593 in , , , France; died on 12 Dec 1686 in Hampton, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]