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John Lynch Martin was born on July 26,1840 in Laurens County to John Lynch Martin of Ireland and Mary Ann Martin of Georgia. His parents moved to Savannah while he was an infant. His father bought and worked Modena, a plantation of about 1800 acres on Skidaway Island. On September 21, 1841 John Lynch Martin and his sister, Nancy Lynch Martin, were baptized into the Catholic Church. On September 26 their parents marriage was reaffi med in a church ceremony preformed by Father John Barry, the impediment of "Cultus Disparitus" having been removed by Mary Ann becoming a Catholic.
Publication Date
3-1-1977
Recommended Citation
Taylor, J., "John Lynch Martin: General Commission Merchant, Cotton Agent and Planter" (1977). Savannah Biographies. 178.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/178
