Tombstone of Martha Martin: Wm and Mary Coll Qtly, Vol. 11, No.2 (October, 1902) 
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TOMBSTONE OF MARTHA MARTIN.

Major Lewis Burwell had two daughters Martha, one by Abigail Smith, who married 
Henry Armistead, and was the young lady who so infatuated Governor Nicholson, 
and the other Martha called "Martha, Junior," by his second wife, Martha Lear, 
daughter of Col. John Lear, of Nansemond county. It is seen from this tombstone 
that she married Col. John Martin, of Caroline county. This inscription was 
communicated by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. DeJarnette, of Norfolk. The stone lies at 
Clifton, Caroline county, seven miles from Bowling Green:

Interred beneath this stone lyes the Body 
of Mrs. Martha Martin, Wife of Col. John Martin, 
of Caroline County, and daughter of Lewis Burwel Esq., 
of Gloffter County, who departed this Life the 
27th of May 1738 in the 36 year of her Age 
& left three sons & four daughters.