Colonel Martin Bladen 1680-1746

1680            Yorks                                    Birth at Bolton, Yorks (Source Alumni Cantabridgiensis 1) (Probably Bolton Percy)Yorks
? - 1695                                                      Educated at a private school
1695-7       London                               Westminster School
1697            Cambridge                       Matriculated St Johns College
1698            Inner Temple                 Admitted Inner Temple (Source 15)
?                      Army                                    Low Countries

1699? Marriage 1 To Mary Gibbs (American) (dau of Colonel John Gibbs one time

Gov of Carolina, family returned to England 1690s. No marriage

record found for Martin, Mary died before 1723 (source 33) ref

renewal of lease Rutland. Mary alive in 1709, so died bet 1709-23.
1700 Dau born Approx birth date for Isabella (heir) daughter, no birth record found

1702 Son born George Monk Bladen (son) born – St Martin in the Fields, Westminster,

                                                                         London (Source IGI)
1705            Poetry                                 Wrote a tragic-comedy (printed without consent) (source 12)
1709            Army                                    Appointed Colonel. Wife Mary still alive.1710            Retired Army
1710            Inheritance                     Resolution of legal case (reference George Monck). Substantial inheritance.
1712            Writing                               See 1714
1713            Politics                               Defeated as MP Saltash, Cornwall. Whig (source 58)
1713            Appointment                 MP for Kinsale, Ireland (Source 56)

1713 Letter Referred to In his father’s letter to his sister, i.e. Nathaniel Bladen

to Frances Hammond, pays Frances’ creditors and in March 1713.

Returns from a visit to Lord Gallaway

1714 Writing Translated Caesar’s Commentaries on his Wars in Gaul (Though Suffolk parish/

probate records show a copy of this book in 1712 with Robert Rushbrook,

                                                                       Ickworth, Suffolk–related to Earls of (Source 55) Bristol
1714            Appointment                 Comptroller of the Royal Mint 1714-27
1715            Politics                               Defeated as MP Saltash, Cornwall

1715 Appointment MP for Stockbridge, Hampshire (till 1734) (Cox’s Hampshire shows him still here

                                                                        in 1738)Source 50
1715            Appointment                 MP for Bandon, Irish Parliament (till 1727)
1715            Appointment                 Secretary to the Duke of Grafton, Lord Justice of Ireland
1717            Appointment                 Commissioner of the Board of Trade, Trade & Plantations
1719            Paris                                    Attended Conference (boundaries re UK/French N. America)
1721            Report                                To the King 8 Sep 1721 on condition & government of colonies
1722            approx                                Renewed lease on Ketton in Rutland prior to 1723

1726 Will Wrote his Will, daughter Isabella heir (plus Porters mentioned) (Source 16)
(possibly son and 1^st wife dead by now) Address on Will

St George Hanover Square, London

1728 2^nd Marriage To Frances Foch (d.1747) St Martin in the Fields, Westminster Through Frances,

                                                                        acquires great wealth & land in West Indies
?                      Turned down                  Appointment as Envoy to Spain
1730            House build                    Aldbrough Hatch, rebuilt at great expense (source 37)
1731            Politics                               Defended the sugar bills of 1731-2 in the commons
1732            Antwerp                            Attended conference ref tariffs

1732 Bladen County N. Carolina Assembly in Edenton ordered a county to be named After him –

                                                                        Bladen County. (source 58)
1733            Politics                               Supported the Molasses Act of 1733
1734            Appointment                 MP for Maldon, Essex (till 1741 – source 58)
1737            Royal visit                        Visits William IV of Orange at Breda
1739            Politics                               Produced report ref North America
1741            Appointment                 MP for Portsmouth (till death in 1746)

1746 Death Died 1 Feb 1746, buried St Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney

1746            Inventory                         Heir – Isabella to get Ketton in Rutland
1746            Inventory                         Property at Barmoor Castle, Northumberland
                                                                         Aldbrough Hatch, St George Hanover Square
                                                                        Hackney
Money owed to Martin from several tenants of the manor of Stepney , Barking , island of Nevis in North America                                                                        Dividends due from South Sea Company
Cash due from government ref Commissioner of Trade Treasury ref Commission of Antwerp (Source 5)

Memorial InscriptionSacred to the memory of Martin Bladen esq of Albro Hatch in the county of Essex, one of his majesty’s most honourable privy council in the kingdom of Ireland, lord commissioner for trade and plantations, first commissary and plenipotentiary to the conference at Antwerp and member of parliament. His merit and abilities gained him the esteem of his prince, who employed him in posts of great trust and consequence, in private life he was a Christian philosopher, an indulgent master, a kind relation, a faithful friend, a polite companion, always disinterested and humane, charitable and generous. He fought not for employments, though he was equal to all the crown conferred upon him, for his taste was retreat, but when called from thence to engage in his prince’s service, he supported it with dignity and acquitted himself with reputation. He departed this life the 15^th of February 1746 aged 66 years.