George# Martin

  Notes:

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/family/bunburyfamily_related/bunbury_family_related_martin.html says On 30 Sep 1645, Samuel's father, George Martin of Whitehouse, near Belfast, was elected a Burgess of Belfast. In June 1647, he was appointed Sovereign of Belfast (the term then applied to Mayor) but, when he refused to billet Ireton's soldiers in 1649, he was evicted from his house with his wife, seven sons and one daughter.


http://svgancestry.com/index.php/martin-of-antigua-st-vincent ; Col. George MARTIN of Whitehouse (near Belfast), was elected mayor or the Sovereign of Belfast, Ireland, in September, 1649. He was known to be a royalist, and his property was confiscated by Cromwells Roundheads, most likely in the 1650?s. He fled Cromwellswrath and settled in Surinam, where he died before 1667. He is said to have had eight sons, including Samuel MARTIN, Robert MARTIN and John MARTIN. No other information known.

Excerpt from "Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth Century" from here;
http://genforum.com/adair/messages/5799.html
p 238 George Martin, merchant of Belfast
Career: trading from Lisburn in 1637; free stapler 1638, paid 3 pounds; fled from Ulster 'for fear of the the High Commission', 1638-39; burgess 1645; sovereign 1649-50; property plundered on refusal to quarter parliamentary troops 1649; on list of proposed deportees 1653; issued tokens, 1657, 1666; in poll tax return of 1660 as George Martin, gent.; dead by 25 July 1678 when he was replaced as burgess; Connor will 1678, left 5 pounds to poor of Belfast.'
religion: presbyterian
place of origin: unknown, England or Scotland
property outside Belfast: house in Lisburn,property at Whitehouse, Listilliard and Clough Castle, County Antrim
sons: eight, including: John, merchant and shipowner, James freeman in 1677 or 1678 (will dated 1705 mentions son Robert and cousin John White).
Robert, merchant stapler 1661, owned gabart pressed in Jacobite wars; had government debentures for advance of money to Williamite forces which were never paid.
son Samuel
daughter: Elizabeth = (1 William Anderson, merchant of Belfast, (died 1676), and = (2 Patrick Adair, presbyterian minister of Belfast (died 1694).
nephew or cousin: James Martin, merchant of Dublin, a leading presbyterian, will proved 9 May 1727, related to the Smiths and Whites of Belfast and Dublin.
grandson: Captain Samuel Martin of Greencastle, Antigua, died 27 Dec. 1701

George# married.