Note to Information Above:  In 2025 a deed was found that changes the 1774 sale of land from John Chenault of Caroline County, VA to John Martin of Caroline Co. VA. 100 acres in Essex Co.  It was stated that the DNA for the sale to this John Martin does not match Martin's Group 13 DNA but that statement must be in error.  The actual copy of the 2 deeds states that:

Essex CO.,VA Deed book 31 pg 228 15 September 1774.

John Chenault of Caroline o.,VA  to John Martin of Caroline CO.,Va.

for 32 pounds, 100 acres in Essex CO.,VA that joins Samuel Colquett & Baston.  This is the tract that John Chenault bought of James Martin. Only reserving unto Mary Martin a life estate in the part that is already laid off for her.

Witnesses were: James Upshaw, Thomas Samuel, John Parlane, Martin Gaunt and John Layfon

Essex Co., VA Deed Book 36 1802-1805 pg 408, 409 1804

This Indenture made this third day of November in the year One Thousand Eight hundred and four Between John Martin & Nancy his wife of the County of Caroline in the Colony of Virginia of the one part & John Spindle of the County of Essex of the other part, Witnesseth that they the said John Martin & his wife for and in consideration of the just sum of Eighty pounds current money of Virginia by him the said John Spindle unto them in hand paid ......one hundred acres of land, the graveyard Excepted situate lying & being in the County of Essex.....adj. John Bastin, James Samuel...the land the said Samuel purchased of Tobias Ingram,..."the same being the land the said John Martin's father purchased of the said James Samuel containing one hundred acres the graveyard excepted as before" .....Signed by John Martin and Nancy Martin

The above deed document indicates to me that John Martin and his wife Nancy (assumed to be nee. Tod) Martin owned this land and he is the son of John Martin '41 and that John Martin/Tod was born earlier than stated in the Book:  "The Tod(d)'s of Caroline County, Virginia and the Kin" which says on page 242 that he was born circa 1760.  So if he is the son of John and Mary Samuel, then he had to have been born between 1740-1741:  after John 41 wrote his will in January 1740 and his death in 1741.