Ancestry of
Alice Martin

(c1624 - c1648)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

Alice Martin

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1624 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 4 Oct 1648 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • First woman hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1648. She murdered her four year old daughter Martha Clarke by slitting her throat.

    The parentage of Alice Martin is unknown. No evidence has been found to support the claim that she was the daughter of Francis and Prudence (Deacon) Martin.

• Marriages for Alice Martin

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  • Spouse:
  • George Clark
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jan 1638/1639
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Bishop
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Dec 1644
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Alice Martin

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 653, Marriage record for George Clarke and Alis Martin.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1937, Vol. 91, p. 67.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 220.
  • ⁴ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 1, 1633-1640, Boston: The Press of William White (1855), 108.
  • ⁵ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 2, 1641-1651, Boston: The Press of William White (1855), 79, 132-134.
  • ⁶ Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing (1986), 159-160.