Joseph Martin (general)
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Joseph Martin was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. Martin was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, and later had an estate called Scuffle Hill near the Smith River in Henry County, Virginia, not from the 10,000-acre Leatherwood plantation of his friend Patrick Henry. Raised in a proper Virginia household in Albemarle County, Martin soon gave up the life of a gentleman planter for the rigors of the frontier, where he dressed in buckskin and was an early real estate speculator and trader with the Indians. The city of Martinsville, Virginia is named after him.
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