York County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Martiau cemetery, 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Old Cemetery Held Remains Of Noted Early Americans Skeletons of eighteen persons which had lain for nearly 250 years in the old Martiau burial grounds have been re-interred by the Sons of the American Revolution in Colonial Grace Episcopal Cemetery at Yorktown. The old burial plot had been neglected for years, part of it having become a street. The bones were found by the National Park Service. Research by Colonel the Rev. A.A. Pruden, former rector of Grace Church, revealed that among the remains of those of Captain Nicholas Martiau and members of his family, as well as members of the Read family into which Capt. Martiau's daughter married. Captain Martiau was the earliest ancestor of George Washington, of General Thomas Nelson, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of many other prominent American families, including that of the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church. MARTIAU/READE family cemetery, Yorktown, remains moved to Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Yorktown, 1941, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 23, No. 27, Oct. 2, 1941, p. 1, col. 3 Additional information: York County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries, Grace Episcopal list, contributed by Kenneth D. Williams (kd3bt@cox.net), gives 12 names: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/york/cemeteries/grace.txt Nicholas MARTIAU came to VA in 1620, as an agent of the Earl of Huntington. He died in 1657. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/york/news/19411002st.txt