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Fendrick, Virginia Shannon, comp., AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, c1944.
p. 131: JOHN MARDIS. Served in the Cont. Line from Bedford County, Penna., and was also a pvt., in Company of Capt. Thomas Davies. On March 26, 1787, Anne Mardis was married to Joshua Phillips, by Dr. John King at Mercersburg. They were from that part of Bedford which later became Warren Twp., Franklin County, Penna. A note taken from a book kept by Joshua M. Philips: Old inhabitants, --Grandmother's (Anne Mardis); Grandfather's name is George Cheeks--German; Eleanor Cheeks mar. to John Mardis or T. Mardis. Thomas Mardis, brother of Anne died Dec. 21, 1857 aged 89 years and 5 mos. He was buried on his own land. Cousins of Joshua M. Philips: Samuel L. Mardis, lived at Strongstown, Indiana County, Penna.; Mardis Thomas lived in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1877; John H. Thomas, whose grandmother was a Mardis, died July 9, 1879, buried at St. John's Church. Feb. 10, 1886 Jasper Mardis of Indiana, Penna., paid grandfather a visit. Penna. Arch. 5th Ser. Vol. 4, Page 609. Penna. Arch. 5th Ser. Vol. 5, Page 111, 245.
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HISTORY OF THE LITTLE COVE by Harry E. Foreman, 1967
p. 135: MARTIS - MARDIS: John Martis was in the Little Cove pretty early and lived near the Philipps, Thomas, Cheeks, Williams and Balla families. John Martis was married to Eleanor Cheeks and a daughter Anne Martis was married to Joshua Philipps in 1787. John Martis served in the Continental Line also under Capt. Thomas Davis of the Little Cove in the Bedford County Militia. The name of John Martis is also found on the 1779 tax list. One Martis place is now Michael Cook land against the Tuscarora Mountains.
Like practically all of the early Little Cove names, they intermarried and used the family names as surnames. Thus we have Thomas Mardis and Mardis Thomas, etc.
The Martis land in 1784 was given as 132 plus acres. A John Martis, Jr., was listed as a single freeman at this time.
Thomas Martis purchased 100 acres of land from Thomas Lewis in 1806 which lay behind Flaggy Marsh Ridge and was bounded by William Huston and John Divilbiss. This is some of the present Charles Zimmerman land.
The smaller place where Thomas Mardis lived after 1784 and where he died in 1859 has been known of late years as the Al Weller place.
The old house was in the hollow at the spring of water and was known as "Daughterty's Lick" at one time. David Brown took out warrants on these earlier Shelby, Daugherty, and other owners mainly in the 1760's, and seemed to have lived at this old place. This old site is across the Licking Creek against the Line.
Thomas Martis was buried in the old burial ground along the Mason and Dixon line, slightly in Pennsylvania, on the hill above the house site and spring about 1,000 ft. to the west. This burial ground was destroyed some years ago but the Thomas Mardis Stone was in evidence in 1964 although broken into three parts. The inscription on the stone gives his date of birth as 1767 and his date of death as 1859. The Martis heirs sold this old place to the Wellers.
This burial ground was referred to as the David Brown family plot family plot but tradition claims that it was started before Brown settled here in 1761. People were killed at Daugherty's Lick by Indians in 1755 according to tradition (Read under Shelby, Brown, Daugherty and burial grounds).
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1749 - 1820 (71 years)