Sarah Martin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Feb 1741 - Martha's Vineyard 1
Baptism:
Death: 4 Oct 1767 - Edgartown, Massachusetts 2
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Eddy Coffin (6 Oct 1739 - )
Marriage: 17 Feb 1763 - Edgartown, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Peter Coffin (1765-1835)
Notes
General:
Sarah (Martin) [w. Capt. Eddy], Feb. 29 [sic], 1741.
Sarah Martin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Feb 1685 - Piscataway, New Jersey
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Martin (Est 1663- )
Mother: Rebecca Higgins (Cir 1666-1715)
Thankful Martin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1750 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Alexander Martin (Est 1713- )
Mother: Thankful Rich (1716- ) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Solomon Newcomb (Cir 1742 - )
Marriage:
Status: apparent broken engagement - 22 Oct 1767
Notes
General:
21 Oct 1767, Intentions at Eastham, Solomon Newcomb of Wellfleet with Thankful Martin of Eastham
22 Oct "The above named Solomon Newcomb in writing under his hand forbid his publishment being set up."
5
Thomas Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1663 - (Piscataway, New Jersey)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Higgins (Cir 1666 - 1715)
Marriage: 28 Apr 1683 - Piscataway, New Jersey
Status:
Children:
1. John Martin (1683-1761) 6
2. Sarah Martin (1685- )
3. Samuel Martin (Cir 1687- )
4. Isaac Martin (Cir 1689- )
5. Gershom Martin (1691-1755)
6. Jacob Martin (1698- )
7. Rebecca Martin (1700- )
8. Zechariah Martin (1702- )
9. Anne Martin (1705- )
10. Jeremiah Martin (1711- )
Wahnetta Estelle Martin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1930
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Joseph Geno (Est 1930 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Victor Earl Geno (1956- ) 7
William Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1814 - of Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
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Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Louisa A Palmer (20 Sep 1830 - ) 8
Marriage: 18 Dec 1853 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 9
Status:
Notes
General:
1853 mariner, Provincetown
birthplace and parents unknown
Captain William Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Jul 1830 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1907 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Burial: in Chappaquiddick Island
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Brown (Est 1835 - After 1907)
Marriage: 1857 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Sarah Brown)
Whaling captain's story illustrates hardship, success
Cape Cod Times
By ERICH LUENING
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
February 22, 2008
DGARTOWN \emdash When William Martin decided to make his life on the sea more than 100 years ago, he set sail toward history.
In the 1880s, as the nation enjoyed an enduring time of peace after a costly civil war ended some 20 years before, Martin established himself as one of just a handful of black whaling captains in America.
Martin's tale is one of early poverty and unlikely success. It also illustrates the hardships of a whaling industry that could mangle men or kill them, but also offered opportunities to black men not found in other occupations of the time.
Capt. William Martin was born in Edgartown on July 17, 1830, just one generation away from slavery. His mom and his grandmother, a former slave, raised him in Edgartown, where he found his way into the vibrant maritime work force based there, according to research by the African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard.
"According to Dukes County Jailhouse records, his mother was in and out of jail for small infractions," said Elaine Weintraub, a Martha's Vineyard Regional High School history teacher and author of "Lighting the Trail: The African American Heritage of Martha's Vineyard."
In her research on Martin, she also found that his grandmother Nancy was considered a witch by many in town and she would sell trinkets and other things to sailors in Edgartown.
"If they (the sailors) didn't buy her gifts and charms, she would curse them and their voyages," Weintraub said.
The early years
A young William Martin was known in town because of the dubious behavior of his mother and grandmother.
"They would have known him. He did go to school in Edgartown and became a skilled writer," Weintraub said. "In those days, there were classes for girls on how to sew sails and for boys on maritime navigation."
Martin was accepted early on in the community because of his natural abilities on the ocean and his writing skills.
"You see, Edgartown then wasn't the Edgartown of today," she said. "It was a raucous town of sailors from all over the country and Europe."
After Martin began finding some early success in the maritime industry as a ship's log keeper, he also found love. An American Indian woman named Sarah Brown caught his eye. She had been a live-in maid in Edgartown.
In 1857, Martin returned from a successful voyage aboard the Edgartown vessel Europa and he and Sarah married. Between voyages, Martin lived with Sarah and her family on Chappaquiddick on land designated for American Indians called the Chappaquiddick Plantation.
Life was hard in the small ethnically mixed community on the small island that now adjoins Edgartown by ferry and an occasional strip of beach.
In her book, Weintraub cites an 1861 Report to the Governor on the Condition of Indians in the Commonwealth.
One of the reasons for the high mortality rate in the small American Indian community, according to the report, was that the "destitution, want and suffering" in which many of the residents lived was caused by the abject poverty of the residents.
"He walked between two worlds really," Weintraub said. "It was a balancing act. Both Sarah and William Martin would work and live for sometime away from home on Chappaquiddick. He would be on voyages and she would work for families in Edgartown."
They had no children, but owned a relatively simple two-story home on Chappaquiddick, indicating his successes in the Edgartown maritime industry.
They never moved to Edgartown despite his later success as a captain.
Stuart Frank, senior curator at the Whaling Museum of New Bedford, describes the regional whaling industry as one of promise and success for American Indians and black Americans.
"The strength of the Quaker religion on Nantucket and, to a lesser extent Martha's Vineyard, made it more likely for African-Americans to take part in the industry," Frank said.
A life remembered
In 1907, Sarah and William Martin celebrated their 50-year anniversary, which was recorded cordially in the Vineyard Gazette of July 11, 1907, Weintraub said.
In the article, Captain Martin's whaling skills are praised and all of the ships he captained over the years out of Edgartown harbor are noted. It also states that Martin was, at the time of the article, a paralytic and had been so for the previous seven years.
He died later that year, according to Weintraub's research of town and county records. He is buried in the Chappaquiddick Cemetery under a large grave stone.
Over the past 100 years, Captain Martin's story faded away like the whaling industry itself which was replaced by yachts and high-end sail boats in Edgartown harbor.
But in the last several years, after Weintraub discovered Martin's story as part of her research for the African-American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard's only black whaling captain has become the source of many high school student projects.
"He got my attention on the trail," said Andrew Silva, a student in Weintraub's history class. "It's important to recognize the African-Americans who have made great changes in the world."
Black whaling/merchant captains
In Nantucket, Captain Absalom Boston sailed ships in the early 1800s.
In New Bedford, Pardon Cook, and Paul Cuffe, sailed and owned ships between the 18th and 19th centuries.
In San Francisco, Captain William T. Shorey sailed whaling ships out of this West Coast port in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sources: The Whaling Museum of New Bedford and The African American Registry
To learn more about the African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard, go to www.mvheritagetrail.org/
Willis H Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1869 - Sebago, Maine
Baptism:
Death: After 1930 - Braintree, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Minerva Purvere Witherell (19 Jan 1875 - After 1930) 10
Marriage: 24 Aug 1904 - Braintree, Massachusetts 11
Status:
Notes
General:
1904 undertaker, Braintree
s/o James S Martin & Mary B Coburn
Zechariah Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Nov 1702 - Piscataway, New Jersey
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Martin (Est 1663- )
Mother: Rebecca Higgins (Cir 1666-1715)
Isabell Martine
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1570 - Kent
Baptism:
Death:
Burial: 14 Oct 1641 - Horsmonden, Kent
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Doggett (2 Jan 1573 - 1621) 12
Marriage: 21 Sep 1595 - Goudhurst, Kent
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Doggett (1600-After 1676) 13
Notes
General:
identity tentative
Albert A Martines
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1873 - St. Eustatius
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1920 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Jane Ghen (Jan 1871 - Cir 1916)
Marriage: 19 Nov 1905 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Isabel D'Entremont (1914-2003)
2. Constance Martines (1865 - 25 Jul 1925)
Marriage: 24 Dec 1917 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Notes
General:
Father: John MARTINESMarriage Notes (Constance Martines)
Mother: Felicana
m2? Albert Martines of Provincetown to Constance Martines of New York, 24 Dec 1917, in Provincetown
Constane Martines, widow of late Albert Martines, d 15 Jul 1925 Provincetown, age 60
m2? Albert Martines of Provincetown to Constance Martines of New York, 24 Dec 1917, in Provincetown
Beatrice Martines
Sex: F
AKA: Beatrice Hancock
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1880 - St. Eustatius
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Orelle D'Entremont (Cir 1884 - )
Marriage: 31 Aug 1917 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 15
Status:
Notes
General:
1957 sister Miss Johanna Hancock of NYCMarriage Notes (Orelle D'Entremont)
bought land of James McGuire in 1926 Provincetown (as Orville D'Entremont)
niece Isabel Martines/D'Entremont
1920 US census Provincetown
Commercial St
Orelle Dentremont, 44, boat fisherman, b Canada French
Beatrice Dentremont, 40, b West Indies English
Constance Martines
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1865
Baptism:
Death: 25 Jul 1925 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 16
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Albert A Martines (Cir 1873 - Cir 1920)
Marriage: 24 Dec 1917 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Albert A Martines)
m2? Albert Martines of Provincetown to Constance Martines of New York, 24 Dec 1917, in Provincetown
Jedidah Martins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1835 - Pico, Azores 17
Baptism:
Death: 1922 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Truro Congregational cemetery 18
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Corey (1825 - 1919)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. John Corey (1865-1875)
2. Manuel F Corey (1869-1943)
Dr Reuben J Marvel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1876
Baptism:
Death:
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Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Robert Marvel (Est 1920- )
Notes
General:
practiced in Orleans 1908-1923
1943 of Bartlett, NH
successor to Dr Clarence Bell of Wellfleet in 1943
to live in home of Mrs Nellie Lombard in Wellfleet
children Mrs Bertha Hatch of North Andover
Robert, an Air Force pilot
Reuben, in Navy 19
Robert Marvel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1920 - (Orleans, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Dr Reuben J Marvel (Cir 1876- )
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rosemary Dorothy Martin (Est 1920 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Robert Martin Marvel (1945- ) 20
Notes
General:
1943 Air Force pilot
Robert Martin Marvel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Dec 1945 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Marvel (Est 1920- )
Mother: Rosemary Dorothy Martin (Est 1920- )
Dennis Maskell Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1943
Baptism:
Death:
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Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
Orleans District Court
October 28, 2012
In court Oct. 16:
MASKELL, Dennis Jr., 69, 111 Portanimicut Road, Orleans; guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol (OUI), March 16 in Orleans, two years in Barnstable County Correctional Facility with 59 days to serve, five years probation, one year license loss, $300 fees; not guilty of negligent driving.
Cape Cod Times
Abigail Mason
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1662
Baptism:
Death: 1752 - Boston, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Benjamin Gillam (1663 - 1706) 21
Marriage: 1684 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay 21
Status:
Children:
1. Anne Gillam (1693-After 1720) 22
Clara Mason
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1829 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Baptism:
Death: 1908 - Somerville, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ebenezer Lombard Atwood (14 Oct 1820 - 29 May 1906) 23
Marriage: 5 Sep 1854 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Clara I Atwood (1865-Bef 1902)
2. Frederick W Atwood (1866-1933) 24
3. Arthur Jesse Atwood (1873-1929) 25
Notes
Marriage Notes (Ebenezer Lombard Atwood)
Children
Henry L Atwood b: 9 FEB 1856 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
George Wilbur Atwood b: 15 SEP 1858 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
Rufus E Atwood b: 10 OCT 1860 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
Clara Atwood b: 3 NOV 1862 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
Annie M Atwood b: 15 FEB 1864 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
Frederick W Atwood b: 13 JAN 1866 in Chelsea (Suffolk), Massachusetts
Herbert W Atwood b: NOV 1869 in Massachusetts
Grace M Atwood b: 10 AUG 1870 in Somerville (Middlesex), Massachusetts
Arthur J Atwood b: 23 JAN 1873 in Somerville (Middlesex), Massachusetts
(atwood)
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