(He is not the same as the Mr. Richard Martin (1570--1618) who was the recorder of London, counsel for the Virginia Company and organizer of The Society of Martin's Hundred, whose subsidiary ``particular plantation'' development circa 1618-1619 was known as Martin's Hundred). Martin commanded the Benjamin under Sir Francis Drake in the 1585--86 expedition to harass the Spanish ports in the New World. On his return, Captain Martin married Mary, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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