 1591 - 1657 (66 years)
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| Name |
MARTIAU Nicolas [1] |
| Prefix |
Capt. |
| Birth |
2 Apr 1591 |
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Immigration |
1620 [1] |
- Citation Information
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Detail Place: Virginia; Year: 1620; Page Number: 127
Strangely the muster of January 1624-25, reveals that Nicholas Martiau came to the colony aboard the "Francis Bona Venture", a 240-ton ship.
Date
Other information
Source Information
Source Title ( view source details ) Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Source Repository ( view repository details ) Ancestry.com
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| Death |
16 Apr 1657 [1] |
| Burial |
Yorktown, VA |
| Notes |
- Birth: Apr. 2, 1591
Île-de-France, France Death: Apr. 24, 1657
Yorktown
York County
Virginia, USA
Legal representative in Virginia of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Married 1st Elizabeth, 2nd Jane widow of Lieut. Edward Berkeley, 3rd Isabella widow of Robert Felgete and George Beech.(Submitted by Daniel Estefano, 9/27/2012)
Martiau appeared in the first Virginia census of 1623 and became a member of the House of Burgesses, the oldest continuous legislative body in the western hemisphere. His marriage to the widow of a prominent settler further established his position, and the prominence of his descendent, George Washington, affirmed his intellect and acumen.(Celebrate Yorktown Committee notes 2/17/2013)
Strangely the muster of January 1624-25, reveals that Nicholas Martiau came to the colony aboard the "Francis Bona Venture", a 240-ton ship. Captain Martiau went to Virginia as the legal representative of the fifth Earl of Huntington. On October 8, 1630, the Virginia Council passed a decree granting 50 acres of land to every person who would settle within a year or two on the York in the Chiskiake (Yorktown) area. Captain Martiau moved onto the York peninsula, settling at the Yorktown on the York River. The Captain had 600 acres confirmed to him for moving to Chiskiake the first year, plus 700 more acres for paying for the adventure of other headrights, in March 1639. This total of 1,300 acres had the chief commodity of tobacco. Years later, Captain Martiau was granted letters-patent for 2,000 acres on the south side of the Potomac River (1654); he gave this tract to his son-in-law, Colonel George Reade, who had patent on it dated March 1657. He would buy and sell other minor properties over the years.
(Ref: Extracted from Jonathan Kennon Smith notes on Captain Nicolas Martiau, Lib of Wm & Mary College)
In 1931, an 11 foot Vermont granite monument, with comemorative bronze plaque was erected near the site of Martiau's home and graveyard on Ballard and Buckner Streets, in the village of Yorktown. The monument was erected by the Huguenot Society of Pennsyvania, in cooperation with the National (Federation of) Huguenot Societies and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission.(Ref: Jonathan K. Smith notes as above.)
The National Park Service (NPS) exhumed his body in May 1936 from the original grave on Buckner Street in the family cemetery. The NPS concluded the body as in grave number 6 was likely at of Nicolas Martiau. (Ref: The Huguenot Publication No. 12, 1943-45)
See Martiau Family Cemetery in FIND A GRAVE for additional details on the original burial site.
Family links:
Spouse:
Elizabeth Jane Page Martiau (1593 - 1640)
Children:
Sarah Martiau Fuller (1625 - 1694) *
Elizabeth Martiau Reade (1625 - 1686) *
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Grace Episcopal Churchyard
Yorktown
York County
Virginia, USA
Plot: E13
GPS (lat/lon): 37.23582, -76.50771
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| Person ID |
I12205 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
17 Feb 2015 |
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