Have a copy of letter from him in 1840 from Skye to his brother
Donald on P.E.I. it mintions son Sandy and other sons and
Daughters and a sister Nancy.Remained in Skye, and had numerous descendants. Tacksman of
Shulishadder, now part of Portree.
got this record in Edinbourouh library birth records.
Descendant of the Martins of Bealach, in Trotternish, Skye, in
1733 held a written tack for certain lands in Glenmore, in the
Parish of Portree.
Supposedly the one that by oral family history was born on a
raft coming down the Columbia river. This according to the
date of departure from P.E.I. given in James Ebenezers
'Autobiography' would mean that it took them about two months
to get on the Columbia River.
Father b. NJ Mother Missouri
50 years of working. He worked for Oregon Engraving, Portland
Electrotype, and The Oregonian.