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Doug Norman [email protected] 2000-10-07 17:47:34 You may be interestedin the following that I received. I have changed my George Martin b. 1648to reflect it. And I so enjoyed having a witch for an ancestor. Darn!Source: Kathleen Martin ([email protected]) Your line ofMartins is believed to derive from the immigrant George Martin and wifewho arrived on the Hannah and Elizabeth in 1679. All his 6 children wereby this first wife, name unknown. Their last child was born 1697. Helater married Elizabeth Durkee in 1712-13. His birth date, judging fromhis stone in 1734, was 1648 - the same year as the son of George andSusanna (North) Martin, though they were a few months apart. For thatsole reason Elliot Burnham Watson and Alven Martyn Smith developed a MSgenealogy which erroneously linked the George Martin of Ipswich familywith that of George Martin of Amesbury. Edith Harrison of Ontario,Canada and her brother in Amesbury spent many years in the 1990''sstudying this line. She came to the conclusion that it was far morelikely that George of Ipswich was the son of Joseph and Mary Martin ofPreshute, Wiltshire, England, christened in 1648. This was a clan ofFlemish weavers who had immigrated there from Belgium; and as you mayknow, George of Ipswich was a weaver. Also, George of Ipswich named twoof his children Joseph and Mary.