John was the child of Edward Martin and Judith Upham. John was married to Joanna Esten on April 26, 1671 in Swansea, Massachusetts. John and Joanna had the following children. Jemima Salisbury, Melatiah Martin, John Martin, Ephraim Martin, Ann Round, Robert Martin, Manasseh Martin, Joanna Short, Ebenezer Martin, and Judith Luther.

John was christened at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England. His mother, Judith Upham, daughter of Richard and Maria Upham, died in Dec 1635, and Maria died in July 1634.

John Upham, son of Richard and Maria and brother to Judith, at the age of thirty-five, along with his wife Joan, and his sister Joan who had married Robert Martin (both forty-four years old), and his sister Sarah, came under the Puritan influence and joined a group of twenty families called by Reverend Joseph Hull and sailed for New England March of 1634/1635. Judith Upham married Edward Martin at Bicton, England on June 14, 1632. They did not come to New England. Richard Upham’s will mentions John Martin and wife Joan(na) as having five shillings if they will come for it.

John Martin is the...

+great-great-grandfather of:
-Simeon Martin, Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1808-1810, 1811-1816)

+great-great-great-grandfather of:
-Captain Albert Martin, a Republic of Texas militiaman who died at the Alamo
-James Bowen, U.S. Civil War (Brevet) Major General, Railroad Executive, President of the New York Board of Police Commissioners (1857-1862) (once through his son, Ebenezer)

+great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-Alexander Hamilton Bullock, Governor of Massachusetts (1866-1869)
-John William Davis, Governor of Rhode Island (1887-1888, 1890-1891) (once through son, Melatiah, and once through son, John)
-Christopher Columbus Bowen, U.S. Congressman from South Carolina (1868-1871)
-George T. Anthony, Governor of Kansas (1877-1879) (once through son, Melatiah)

+great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-Alonzo Cornell, Governor of New York (1880-1882) (once through his son, Melatiah and then his daughter, Keziah)
-Cornelius Newton Bliss, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1897-1899)
-Jack Chapman, Major League baseball player (1874-1876) and manager (1876-1878, 1882-1885, 1889-1892)
-Fanny Bullock Workman, Himalayan Mountaineer & Women's Rights Advocate
-Jonathan Ross, U.S. Senator from Vermont (1899-1900) and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
-Vice Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen Sr., Director of the Naval Research Laboratory (1939-1942)
-Harry Salisbury, Major League baseball player (1879, 1882)

+great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-Nelson Ackerman Eddy, singer, motion picture actor
-Prescott Sheldon Bush, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1952-1963)
-James Grover Thurber, author, cartoonist and celebrated wit
-Vice Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen Jr.,Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

+great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President (1989-1993), 43rd Vice President (1981-1989), U.S. Congressman from Texas (1967-1971)
-Gene Roddenberry, science fiction screenwriter and producer (through daughter, Jemima)
-Perkins Bass, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire (1955-1963)
-Spalding Rockwell Gray, actor, screenwriter, performance artist, and playwright (once through son, Melatiah, and once through son, Ephraim)
-William Standish Knowles, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry (2001)
-William Manchester, author, biographer, and historian

+great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-George Walker Bush, 43rd President (2001-2009) & Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
-John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, Governor of Florida (1999-2007)
-Bobby Darin, singer-songwriter and actor
-Gene Roddenberry, science fiction screenwriter and producer (through son, Meletiah)
-Charles Foster Bass, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire (1995-2007, 2011-2013)
-Marshall Field V, newspaper publisher (Chicago Sun-Times)
-Nat Faxon, actor

+great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-John James "Jimmy" Duncan Jr., U.S. Congressman from Tennessee (1988-Present)
-Andie MacDowell, actress
-Summer Glau, actress

+great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of:
-Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers