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Josiah Martin (23 April 1737 – 13 April 1786) was a British Army officer and colonial official who served as the ninth and last British governor of North Carolina from 1771 to 1776.
Josiah Martin, the last royal governor of North Carolina, was born in Ireland in 1737. Due to his family’s connection to the British crown, Martin replaced Governor Tryon in 1771 as royal governor of North Carolina.
A short biography of Josiah Martin, last royal governor of North Carolina, who tried to quash the rebellion throughout the American Revolutionary War.
Josiah Martin was born the son of Josiah Martin (1699-1778), appointed a member of Antigua’s royal council in 1735. After the elder Josiah Martin served as president of this council from 1748 to 1750, he moved his family to Rock Hall on Long Island, where he served on New York’s royal council and as a member of the first board of trustees ...
Governor Josiah Martin, after the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, left for Charles Town, South Carolina. He was at the Battle of Guilford. Soon afterwards he went to England, but returned to New York and died at Rockaway. He was the last of the Royal Governors in the colony of North Carolina.
See also: Josiah Martin, Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History. Josiah Martin, last royal governor of North Carolina, was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Colonel Samuel and Sarah Wyke Irish Martin of Greencastle, Antigua, West Indies. He was a scion of the eminent Anglo-Irish branch of the Martin family that was forced to flee ...
Josiah Martin (1737-1786), the last royal governor of North Carolina, aroused sentiment for independence in North Carolina through his inflexible loyalty to the crown. He was born in April 1737 in Dublin, Ireland, to Colonel Samuel and Sarah Wyke Irish Martin of Greencastle, Antigua.
