Col. Thomas Charles Martin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1715 2
Christening:
Death: Abt 1805 - Fort Martin, Monongalia County, Virginia 2
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Martin ( - ) 2
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. Mary Bell ( - ) 2
Marriage:
Children:
1. John V. Martin (1793-1859) 3
2. *Elizabeth Burrows ( - After 1778)
Marriage:
Notes
General:
West Virginia Estate Settlements; Inventory 4/15/1800 s.b. 5-1800, settled 11
May 1811. Will dated l Nov l798. Will Book l, pg 304 Monongalia, County, WV.
We have copy. Col Charles (sometimes used name Thomas Charles Martin) came to Monongalia County from Berkley County, VA via Pleasants County, spending some time in Wetzel County at what is now New Martinsville, WV. Sometime between 1769 and 1773 he built and owned Fort Martin on 400 acres of land grant near Ft. Marion on the Monongahalia, River.
Fort Martin: One of the nation's most modern power stations and one of the
earliest churches still surviving west of the mountains today grace the land on
which Fort Martin and its satelite homesteads stood. Col. Charles Martin
settled here in 1769, and built his fort sometime between then and 1773. The
fort was located on Crooked Run, about one mile east (or towards the river)
from the present church. The fort's worst year was 1779, when a particularly
bloody raid hit it. (DeHass, Indian Wars p. 251 and Withers Chronicles, p.
282). Roadside Historical Marker reads "Fort Martin was built in 1769 by
Colonel Charles Martin. Three settlers were killed and seven captured near the
fort in 1779. At the Methodist Episcopal Church here Bishop Francis Asbury
preached in 1784". From the Monongalia Story by Core.
>From West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors by Anne Reddy Gen. Pub. Co.,1979:
"Order that a note given by Colonel William Crawford to Colonel Charles Martin
be settled agreeable to the scale of depreciation. Monongalia County
Revolutionary Warrant."
Birth: James W. Greathouse, Moundsville, WV descendant. Thomas was a delegate
to the Virginia Legislature in 1782, 1787 and 1788. During his lifetime he was
a surveyor, sheriff, justice, a member of a land commission and after the war
in 1776 was a restitution commissioner.
Wiley, in his History of Monongalia County, says he was over six feet tall, of
dark complexion, with keen piercing black eyes.
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Notes: Obit book 1840-1940 Wetzel County, WV Genealogy Society. Charles
Clinton Family Records by Jack S. Anderson. The Monongalia Story by Earl Core p
l56, Vol II; John M. McEldowney's History of Wetzel County. James W.
Greathouse, Moundsville, WV. copied from newspaper clippings gives listing of
children. Removed to a farm in present Wetzel County, WV and became one of the
founders of New Martinsville. 2,5