Samuel Martin (planter)

Samuel Martin (1694, Greencastle Estate – 1776) was a prominent planter in Antigua.[1]

Samuel Martin was born on the Greencastle Estate, Antigua, the son of Major Samuel Martin, who, in 1701, was murdered during a slave revolt after having demanded the enslaved Africans on his estate work on Christmas Day. The seven year old Samuel escaped a similar fate, being hidden in nearby fields by his nanny. She was herself enslaved and was subsequently freed in recognition of this act.[1] Samuel was sent to live in Ireland while his mother remarried Edward Byam.[2]

He wrote Essay upon Plantership (1754), a treatise on managing a sugar plantation.[3][4]

Martin fathered 21 children, at least sixteen of whom died during his lifetime.[5] The eldest of his sons, Samuel, became a British member of parliament and secretary to the Treasury; Henry became comptroller of the Navy, a member of parliament, and a baronet; Josiah was governor of North Carolina.[6]

References
  1. Jeppesen, Chris. "Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds: Uncovering connections between the East India Company and the British Caribbean colonies through the British Library's Collections" (PDF). Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  2. Kalamaula Maioho, Miller. "Lydia Thomas". Geni. Geni.com. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  3. "Samuel Martin the elder of Antigua". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. UCL Department of History. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  4. Foy, Anna M. (2016). "The Convention of Georgic Circumlocution and the Proper Use of Human Dung in Samuel Martin's Essay upon Plantership". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 49 (4): 475–506. doi:10.1353/ecs.2016.0032.
  5. Sheridan, Richard B. (1994). Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. Canoe Press. pp. 200–207. ISBN 978-976-8125-13-2.
  6. Sheridan, Richard B. (1960). "Samuel Martin, Innovating Sugar Planter of Antigua 1750-1776". Agricultural History. 34 (3): 126–139. JSTOR 3740144.
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