The Genealogy of one Vermonter, Darrell A. Martin

He was early at Plymouth. In 1643 he was "of Wellingsly", probably in Plymouth, as he sold land to Stephen Wood. In 1647 he was a freeman in Woburn; in 1649 he was a selectman. He was one of the earliest settlers of "Shawshin" in Billerica. In April 1663 he gave the town one-half acre of land for a "buring place," and when he died on the 29th his body was mas most likely the first to be laid in "the old 'south' burying ground." Ralph was born say 1600. He married ? (--?--) say 1625. He married Margaret (--?--) in 1638. Ralph died on 29 April 1663 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried in Billerica, Mass..