Samuel Martin (planter) explained
Samuel Martin (1694 in Greencastle Estate – 1776) was a prominent planter in Antigua.[1]
Samuel Martin was born on the Greencastle Estate, Antigua, the son of Major Samuel Martin, who, in 1701, was murdered during a slave revolt after having demanded the enslaved Africans on his estate work on Christmas Day. The seven year old Samuel escaped a similar fate, being hidden in nearby fields by his nanny. She was herself enslaved and was subsequently freed in recognition of this act.[1] Samuel was sent to live in Ireland while his mother remarried Edward Byam.[2]
He wrote Essay upon Plantership (1754), a treatise on managing a sugar plantation.[3] [4]
Martin fathered 21 children, at least sixteen of whom died during his lifetime.[5] The eldest of his sons, Samuel, became a British member of parliament and secretary to the Treasury; Henry became comptroller of the Navy, a member of parliament, and a baronet; Josiah was governor of North Carolina.[6]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Jeppesen . Chris . Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds: Uncovering connections between the East India Company and the British Caribbean colonies through the British Library's Collections . 12 September 2019.
- Web site: Kalamaula Maioho . Miller . Lydia Thomas . Geni . Geni.com . 12 September 2019.
- Web site: Samuel Martin the elder of Antigua . Legacies of British Slave-ownership . UCL Department of History . 12 September 2019.
- Foy . Anna M. . The Convention of Georgic Circumlocution and the Proper Use of Human Dung in Samuel Martin's Essay upon Plantership . Eighteenth-Century Studies . 2016 . 49 . 4 . 475–506 . 10.1353/ecs.2016.0032. 163277043 .
- Book: Sheridan . Richard B. . Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 . 1994 . Canoe Press . 978-976-8125-13-2 . en. 200–207.
- 3740144. Samuel Martin, Innovating Sugar Planter of Antigua 1750-1776. Sheridan. Richard B.. Agricultural History. 34. 3. 126–139. 1960.
