ELIZABETH MARSHALL MARTIN:
PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION
WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION
Three women bearing the name of Martin deserve to be remembered. The elder, ELIZABETH MARTIN, bore the same relation to the two younger, Grace and Rachel, that Naomi did to Ruth and Orpah. Her sons were in the Revolutionary ranks, seven of them, whom she said as they went, with the spirit of Sparta: "Go, boys, and fight for your country. Fight til death, if you must; but never let your country be dishonored. Were I a man I would go with you."
When a British officer, learning that she had seven sons in the army, sneeringly said she had enough, she replied that she wished she had fifty there.
When another British officer heartlessly told her he saw her son's brains blown out on the field of battle, she calmly replied, "He could not have died in a nobler cause."
"When Charleston was besieged, she had three sons in the place. She heard the report of cannon on the occasion, though nearly a hundred miles west of the besieged city. The wives of the sons were with her, and manifested great uneasiness while listening to the reports; nor could the mother control her feelings any better. While they were indulging in silent and, as we may suppose, painful reflections, the mother suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming, as she raised her hands, 'Thank God! they are the children of the Republic!'"
That there was courage in RACHEL and GRACE MARTIN, was evinced in their capture of important dispatches, when, disguised as two rebels, they assailed the British courier and his guard, took the papers, which they speedily forwarded to Gen. Greene, and released the messenger and the two officers who were his guard on parole, while they had not the least suspicion that their captors were women. Boadicea, rushing in her rude chariot over the battle-field, while her long and yellow hair was streaming in the wind, had not more warlike heroism than those two sisters who risked so much to aid their country's defenders.
From http://colonialancestors.com/revolutionary/women.htm
Colonial Families of the Southern United States by Stella Pickett Hardy describes an engraving entitled "Elizabeth, Grace and Rachel Martin, Capturing a British Dispatch Squad," an account of which is given in Mrs. Elet's "The Women of the Revolution," and Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution." See Hardy, page 368
There is one large marker with 20th century design with inscriptions on two sides.
Side 1: "In Memory of Abram & Elizabeth Marshall Martin and their son."
PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION
WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION
Three women bearing the name of Martin deserve to be remembered. The elder, ELIZABETH MARTIN, bore the same relation to the two younger, Grace and Rachel, that Naomi did to Ruth and Orpah. Her sons were in the Revolutionary ranks, seven of them, whom she said as they went, with the spirit of Sparta: "Go, boys, and fight for your country. Fight til death, if you must; but never let your country be dishonored. Were I a man I would go with you."
When a British officer, learning that she had seven sons in the army, sneeringly said she had enough, she replied that she wished she had fifty there.
When another British officer heartlessly told her he saw her son's brains blown out on the field of battle, she calmly replied, "He could not have died in a nobler cause."
"When Charleston was besieged, she had three sons in the place. She heard the report of cannon on the occasion, though nearly a hundred miles west of the besieged city. The wives of the sons were with her, and manifested great uneasiness while listening to the reports; nor could the mother control her feelings any better. While they were indulging in silent and, as we may suppose, painful reflections, the mother suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming, as she raised her hands, 'Thank God! they are the children of the Republic!'"
That there was courage in RACHEL and GRACE MARTIN, was evinced in their capture of important dispatches, when, disguised as two rebels, they assailed the British courier and his guard, took the papers, which they speedily forwarded to Gen. Greene, and released the messenger and the two officers who were his guard on parole, while they had not the least suspicion that their captors were women. Boadicea, rushing in her rude chariot over the battle-field, while her long and yellow hair was streaming in the wind, had not more warlike heroism than those two sisters who risked so much to aid their country's defenders.
From http://colonialancestors.com/revolutionary/women.htm
Colonial Families of the Southern United States by Stella Pickett Hardy describes an engraving entitled "Elizabeth, Grace and Rachel Martin, Capturing a British Dispatch Squad," an account of which is given in Mrs. Elet's "The Women of the Revolution," and Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution." See Hardy, page 368
There is one large marker with 20th century design with inscriptions on two sides.
Side 1: "In Memory of Abram & Elizabeth Marshall Martin and their son."
ELIZABETH MARSHALL MARTIN:
PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION
WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION
Three women bearing the name of Martin deserve to be remembered. The elder, ELIZABETH MARTIN, bore the same relation to the two younger, Grace and Rachel, that Naomi did to Ruth and Orpah. Her sons were in the Revolutionary ranks, seven of them, whom she said as they went, with the spirit of Sparta: "Go, boys, and fight for your country. Fight til death, if you must; but never let your country be dishonored. Were I a man I would go with you."
When a British officer, learning that she had seven sons in the army, sneeringly said she had enough, she replied that she wished she had fifty there.
When another British officer heartlessly told her he saw her son's brains blown out on the field of battle, she calmly replied, "He could not have died in a nobler cause."
"When Charleston was besieged, she had three sons in the place. She heard the report of cannon on the occasion, though nearly a hundred miles west of the besieged city. The wives of the sons were with her, and manifested great uneasiness while listening to the reports; nor could the mother control her feelings any better. While they were indulging in silent and, as we may suppose, painful reflections, the mother suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming, as she raised her hands, 'Thank God! they are the children of the Republic!'"
That there was courage in RACHEL and GRACE MARTIN, was evinced in their capture of important dispatches, when, disguised as two rebels, they assailed the British courier and his guard, took the papers, which they speedily forwarded to Gen. Greene, and released the messenger and the two officers who were his guard on parole, while they had not the least suspicion that their captors were women. Boadicea, rushing in her rude chariot over the battle-field, while her long and yellow hair was streaming in the wind, had not more warlike heroism than those two sisters who risked so much to aid their country's defenders.
From http://colonialancestors.com/revolutionary/women.htm
Colonial Families of the Southern United States by Stella Pickett Hardy describes an engraving entitled "Elizabeth, Grace and Rachel Martin, Capturing a British Dispatch Squad," an account of which is given in Mrs. Elet's "The Women of the Revolution," and Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution." See Hardy, page 368
There is one large marker with 20th century design with inscriptions on two sides.
Side 1: "In Memory of Abram & Elizabeth Marshall Martin and their son."
PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION
WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION
Three women bearing the name of Martin deserve to be remembered. The elder, ELIZABETH MARTIN, bore the same relation to the two younger, Grace and Rachel, that Naomi did to Ruth and Orpah. Her sons were in the Revolutionary ranks, seven of them, whom she said as they went, with the spirit of Sparta: "Go, boys, and fight for your country. Fight til death, if you must; but never let your country be dishonored. Were I a man I would go with you."
When a British officer, learning that she had seven sons in the army, sneeringly said she had enough, she replied that she wished she had fifty there.
When another British officer heartlessly told her he saw her son's brains blown out on the field of battle, she calmly replied, "He could not have died in a nobler cause."
"When Charleston was besieged, she had three sons in the place. She heard the report of cannon on the occasion, though nearly a hundred miles west of the besieged city. The wives of the sons were with her, and manifested great uneasiness while listening to the reports; nor could the mother control her feelings any better. While they were indulging in silent and, as we may suppose, painful reflections, the mother suddenly broke the silence by exclaiming, as she raised her hands, 'Thank God! they are the children of the Republic!'"
That there was courage in RACHEL and GRACE MARTIN, was evinced in their capture of important dispatches, when, disguised as two rebels, they assailed the British courier and his guard, took the papers, which they speedily forwarded to Gen. Greene, and released the messenger and the two officers who were his guard on parole, while they had not the least suspicion that their captors were women. Boadicea, rushing in her rude chariot over the battle-field, while her long and yellow hair was streaming in the wind, had not more warlike heroism than those two sisters who risked so much to aid their country's defenders.
From http://colonialancestors.com/revolutionary/women.htm
Colonial Families of the Southern United States by Stella Pickett Hardy describes an engraving entitled "Elizabeth, Grace and Rachel Martin, Capturing a British Dispatch Squad," an account of which is given in Mrs. Elet's "The Women of the Revolution," and Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution." See Hardy, page 368
There is one large marker with 20th century design with inscriptions on two sides.
Side 1: "In Memory of Abram & Elizabeth Marshall Martin and their son."
Family Members
Siblings
