Il est marié avec Anna Margaret Steininger.
Ils se sont mariés à Longswamp, Berks Co. Pennsylvania.
Enfant(s):
WORKED AS A TAX COLLECTOR AND AN INN KEEPER IN 1750 MARTIN PURCHASED A 7 OR 8 HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND IN WHAT WAS NOW SALISBURY TWN. HE ALSO RAN A HOTEL ON THE ROAD BETWEEN BETHLEHEM AND EMMAUS . THE ROAD IS NOW CALLED EMMAUS AVE. AND THE HOTEL STILL STANDS. THE HOTEL WAS THE START OF THE FRIES REBELLION IN 1798 . A GERMAN WHISKEY REBELLION IN PA. LED BY JOHN FRIES , REVOLTED A TAX BEING PLACED ON THE WINDOWS IN THEIR HOMES. THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS WERE KNOWN FOR THEIR LARGE STONE HOMES WITH MULTIPLE WINDOWS IN THEM. THE GERMANS HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE REV. WAR AND WERE STILL WEARY OF ANY TAXES, WITH OR WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. THEY POURED WATER ON THE TAX ASESSORS WHEN THEY CAME AROUND . THE LOCAL ARMY ARRESTED A FEW OF THE LOCAL MEN WHO HAD HARRASSED THE TAX COLLECTORS AND PLACED THEM AT A LOCAL HOTEL CALLED THE SUN INN IN BETHLEHEM, PA. WHILE THE MILITIA WENT OUT TO GATHER MORE OF THE REBELLIOUS FARMERS , A GROUP OF FARMERS MET ALONG WITH FRIES AT THE MARTIN'S HOTEL GOT DRUNK AND PROCEEDED TO THE SUN INN. HITTING HOTEL AFTER HOTEL ALONG THE WAY, TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE PRISIONERS . THE MOB GOT THEIR PRISIONERS RELEASED AND THEN SCATTERED . LATER JOHN FRIES AND A NUMBER OF OTHER FARMERS WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TREASON AND SENTENCED TO HANG. EVENTUALLY PRESIDENT ADAMS PARDONED THE OFFENDERS. THE HOTEL WAS KNOWN AS THE COMMIX HOTEL FAMILY WAS JERUSALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH AT SALISBURY.. WE HAVE PICTURES OF CHURCH
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