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Introduction
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Backstory and Context
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Martha Green Sanders was born east of the Blue Ridge in Loundon County, VA about 1760. She married William Sanders in 1782 and followed him west across the Virginia frontier. By 1800, Martha, her two children and several slaves had moved into North Carolina and Tennessee with her husband's business deals. Murder, death and business called the family to Kanawha County, VA where her husband William died in 1802. Martha became her husband's administer and acted as guardian to her son, Sampson, until he became of age. She purchased land in her own name, cleared and managed farm land and was a force in early Cabell County.
Sources
Cabell County Deed Books
Kanawha County Deed Books
Eldridge, Carrie: Cabell County's Empire for Freedom, the Manumission of Sampson Sanders Slaves
Eldridge, Carrie: Cabell County Cemeteries, Volume II
Fred Lambert Collection, Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
Federal Census 1830