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- !MARRIAGE: "Lewis of Warner Hall" page 33. "Nothing is known of theancestry
of Nicolas Martiau's wife, who was the widow Jane Berkely at the time ofher
marriage to him. Her first husband, Liest. Edward Berkely, was a memberof the
Berkely family which founded the first iron works in the colony at Falling
Creek; and he was living at the time of the Muster of 1624 (Feb. 16,1623/4)
(Hotten, P. 184); but no record of his marriage exists, and there is noother
evidence of Jane Martiau's maiden name or origin. She came to Virginia inthe
ship "Seaflower" ("Seafloure"), as shown by the Muster of 1624, arrivingin
February, 1621'2. It has been said that she may have been one on the"Doves"
who were imported to Virginia to become wives to the colonists; a thorough
survey of the facts shows this to have been an impossibility (VirginiaMagazine
of History and Biography, Vol. 42, P. 145). The minutes of the Council and
General Court of Virginia for July 5, 1627 relate that 'At this courtMrs. Jane
Martiau delivered in an Inventory of the Estate of Lsft. Edward Bartley,
deceased, upon her oath'."
Submitted by Caroline W.Chapman McGowan, CMS 894, and others. Updated Oct. 2000.
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