Note 25 — INTRODUCTION

For sketch of Gen. Martin see Williams, Lost State of Franklin, 212, 323, and Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 251, 465; also Weeks, General Joseph Martin, passim. He was among the Overhill Cherokees nearly ten years (1777-1787). Judge Samuel Martin Young, of Dixon Springs, Tennessee, a descendant of Col. Wm. Martin, son of General Martin, and who has in possession papers of both, writes the editor: “I do not doubt that Gen. Martin and James Adair were personally acquainted, for I think they were in the same section of country for some time, several years, perhaps; but that they were ever in any joint work or enterprise, I could not say.” (Jan. 25, 1930.)