Birth:
1726
James City County
Virginia, USA
Death:
1805
Harbour Island, Bahamas
Martin Weatherford was born in James City, VA in 1726. Son of Richard and Susanah Weatherford. Martin married Mary Halfblood who was of Creek Indian ancestry, in 1747. She moved with her family from Virginia to Augusta, Georgia around 1757. They had 5 children; Charles, William, James, John and Catharine. Martins son Charles b. 1752 in Lunenburg, was father of Creek Indian Chief William "Red Eagle" Weatherford, b. 1780 in Alabama and died there in 1824. Source: Description Bio Date 28 Dec. 2006 Location: United Empire Loyalist, Part I-II, pg Item 93 attached to Martin Weatherford (1726-1805) Originally shared by Annjenette 25 May 2007 on Ancestry.com.About 1757, Martin. William and Charles Weatherford headed to Augusta, Georgia. John supposedly stayed in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War, they formed the Augusta Loyalist Militia, which had about 1100 Tories. When Augusta fell in the 1780's, 250 persons from various counties, including Charles, Martin, James and John Weatherford and others were put on trial and ordered out of Augusta, Ga. An act of Confiscation and Banishment in Augusta on 4 May 1782 from the State Archives Ref: cancler, Revolutionary Records of Ga. Vol 1 (1769-1782) page 386. "Be, and they are hereby declared to be banished from this State forever" 60 days in which to go, otherwise, jail or expedition "beyond the Seas to some of the British Kings dominion." Martin went to Florida, then to the Bahamas, where there are a number of Weatherford's. William went to Florida Keys and Charles went to Alabama and then to St. Augustine, FL. John was the odd duck, he was in the War but was in the Continental Army. Martin married, before 1775,Isabella Archer, in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. She also went to the Bahamas.
Burial:
Sir George WK Roberts Memorial Library or Dunmore Town
Harbour Island, Bahamas
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William Dixon Moniac also had a union with Sehoy III, Alexander's half sister, when she was very young and a child was born of that union, Hannah Moniac. William later married Polly Colbert a mixed Choctaw.