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	Joseph William Martin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin, Joseph William 1884-1968, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1947-49, 1953-55), b.
		A staunch conservative, Martin became minority leader of the House in 1939, a position he held until 1959, except for those periods when he was Speaker.
		Statement by William Martin and Joseph Hayden, Attorneys for Jayson Williams.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-martinjw.html (327 words)

	Memoirs of a Revolutionary War Soldier -- by the Half Moon Press
		Martin's last assignment was hauling in and putting out the West Point iron chain across the Hudson River in 1783.
		Joseph Martin was discharged as a soldier at age 23.
		Martin returned to the Hudson Valley during the British assault to the forts of Stony Point and Verplanck's Point in 1779.
	www.hudsonriver.com /halfmoonpress/stories/0498plum.htm (788 words)

	"Laying Close Siege to the Enemy": Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781
		Joseph Plumb Martin, born in western Massachusetts, joined the militia in 1776 before his 16th birthday and served in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1783.
		In this excerpt, Plumb described the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.
		Source: Joseph Plumb Martin, A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers and sufferings of a revolutionary soldier; interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation (Hallowell, ME.: Glazier, Masters & Co., 1830), 165–75.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6597 (3723 words)

	Why Britain Lost -- Friday, Apr. 13, 1962 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		One such colonial dogface was Joseph Plumb Martin, whose Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents That Occurred Within His Own Observation is the most complete surviving account of day-to-day life in the tents and trenches of the ragtag citizen army.
		Martin was discharged as a sergeant, settled in Prospect, Me., eked out support for a large family as a part-time laborer and town clerk.
		Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,827304-1,00.html (618 words)

	Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin
		Joseph Plumb Martin was born in western Massachusetts in 1760.
		Many of Martin's friends had enlisted and Martin was quite susceptible to their peer pressure.
		The British had erected five batteries with six heavy guns in each and a bomb battery with three long mortars in it on the opposite side of the water, which separated the island from the main on the west, and which was but a short distance across.
	www.ushistory.org /march/other/martindiary.htm (3219 words)

	CreatorsWorkshop.com Cartooning Contest
		Martin along with so many American war veterans should be remembered for their courage and sacrifice, but what makes him stand out is he kept a diary and at the age of 70, published a memoir of his war experiences.
		From a simple foot soldier, Martin rose to the rank of sergeant, and his diary and autobiography present the war from the view of the soldier on the ground, rather than from the view of generals or historians.
		Martin provides an eyewitness account of the terrible winters and how the enemy was able to track the soldiers by the bloody footprints in the snow.
	www.creatorsworkshop.com /JPMcontest.htm (1007 words)

	University of Houston History
		Martin is a nationally recognized scholar of Early American history, especially the era of the American Revolution, and he is also well known for his writings on various aspects of American military and social history.
		Martin helped found the Papers of Thomas Edison project and for a few years served on its board of advisers.
		Martin's teaching interests include Early American history through the Revolution, American military history through the Civil War, and Medicine and Health in the American Experience, especially in relation to the history of drinking, smoking, and hard drugs.
	vi.uh.edu /faculty/profiles/martin.html (630 words)

	Joseph Plumb Martin "Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Mart, Peninsula Bay Water Lodge
		Joseph Plumb Martin joined the militia in 1776 at 16 years old and served in the Continental Army.
		Martin tries to show all the hardships of the war from the point of view of an average soldier who combatted in that particular war, and gives his own opinion of the officers, of their ethnicity, geographical location or gender.
		Martin shows the acts of ordinary men who combatted for freedom of their motherland and did everything that was in their power to protect their families from the enemies.
	www.baywater.co.za /indiana-matt-B1o2L2B3X2e233s2S2De3ys3-gazebo.htm (610 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Private Yankee Doodle
		Following his enlistment, Joseph Martin went home to his grandfather’s, where he had lived since he was seven, was outfitted by the old gentleman with musket, bayonet, blanket, cartouche box, knapsack, and pocket Bible, and with several others of his company sailed by sloop down Long Island Sound to the wharves of Manhattan.
		Martin remarked that “cold weather and snow were plenty, but beef and bread were extremely scarce in the army.” This was the “hard winter,” remembered as the most bitter and prolonged of the eighteenth century.
		(Martin asserts he was nominated as reward for neatly lettering the major’s name on his field chest.) The corps, “instructed in the manual and mechanical aspects of field-works” derived its name from its principal duties: to work with mines and with saps, the approach trenches to enemy works.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1962/3/1962_3_33_print.shtml (11853 words)

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		In this extract Joseph Plumb Martin of Connecticut describes several incidents from his life as a soldier in the Continental Army.
		The reading is excerpted from Martin's Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, published in Maine in 1830.
		Joseph Martin was born in western Massachusetts in 1760 and became a soldier in the Revolution before his sixteenth birthday.
	www.richmond.edu /~aholton/121readings_html/martin.html (5676 words)

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		"Joseph P[lumb] Martin was one of the original settlers.
		Martin scraped out an existence from his veteran's pension of ninety-six dollars a year and from whatever else he could earn as a town official and an occasional laborer."
		Joseph Plumb Martin, Private Yankee Doodle: Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, ed.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mewaldo/martin.htm (312 words)

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		Martin, who enlisted as a militiaman in 1776, and served that year in the defense of New York, enlisted the following year in the Connecticut Line for the duration of the war, and was finally discharged in late 1783.
		Martin also describes here some of the debate on soldiers pensions, created under President Monroe, who fought and was wounded at the battle of Trenton.
		Martin's account, written in his old age, is the most complete account of the life of a Revolutionary soldier.
	www.doublegv.com /ggv/battles/Contl.html (2414 words)

	University of Houston History
		Dr. Martin is a nationally recognized scholar of early American history.
		Professor Martin has been the advisor on numerous thesis and dissertation committees and general editor for a book series on the American Social Experience (NYU Press) and the consulting editor for a book series titled Conversations With The Presses (Brandywine Press).
		Dr. Martin's teaching interests include early American history through the Revolution, American military history through the Civil War, and medicine and health in the American experience, especially in relation to the history of drinking, smoking, and illegal drugs.
	www.uh.edu /uhdistance/louis/faculty/profiles/martin.html (460 words)

	Joseph Plumb Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Plumb Martin wrote A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier.
		Martin's inclination to relate a good yarn, however, compromised the historical merits of the work.
		In June 1778, Martin was a 17-year old private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, an element of Varnum's Brigade.
	home.comcast.net /~fredra/Martin.html (102 words)

	How to Speak 19th Century
		It is the memoirs of Joseph Plumb Martin, who fought in the Revolution as an enlisted man. I used Martin's memoirs because he has a natural writing style that breaks through the formalism so pervasive in authors of this period.
		Martin referred to a former schoolmate as a "quondam schoolmate".
		Martin writing about a friend who deserted--"...sometime before this, had deserted to the enemy, having been coaxed off by an old harridan, to whose daughter he had taken a fancy.
	celticfringe.net /history/vocab.htm (2314 words)

	Joseph William Martin — Infoplease.com
		Martin, Joseph William, 1884–1968, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1947–49, 1953–55), b.
		Theft and counter-theft: Joseph Plumb Martin's revolutionary war.(Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of......
		Diary of Joseph Plumb Martin, a Revolutionary War Soldier.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0832007.html (268 words)

	Amazon.com: A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Books: Joseph Plumb Martin,Thomas Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Plumb Martin (1760-1850) served as an enlisted soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and published a memoir of his war experiences in 1830.
		Martin is eventually transferred to the Corps of Miners, and I was especially interested by the descriptions of his corps' duties: blasting rocks, dismantling enemy fortifications with axes, etc. He gives insights into how the miners' corps worked together with the infantry.
		Plumb is revealed to be an everyday person, who was willing to undergo the worst of conditions, because he believed in America.
	www.amazon.com /Narrative-Revolutionary-Soldier-Joseph-Martin/dp/0451528115 (1730 words)

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		Martin was “picked” from his regiment and assigned to Colonel Joseph Cilley’s battalion, one of four that marched from Hopewell under Brigadier-General Charles Scott on June 24th.
		Martin’s account describes marching through Princeton at the end of a platoon, embarrassed by his rags, but admiring the beautiful young women who gathered to watch the army pass.
		Looking at it with apparent unconcern, she observed that it was lucky it did not pass a little higher, for in that case it might have carried away something else, and continued her occupation.
	www.monmouthbattlefield.com /interpretation.html (2321 words)

	LIBERTY! . Joseph Plumb Martin \| PBS
		A teenage private in the 8th Connecticut regiment and then in Washington’s Continental army, Plumb Martin kept a diary of his experiences for 7 years.
		Later published as “A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier,” the memoir is a vivid first-person account of the Revolutionary War and is the most complete text available for understanding the life of a continental soldier.
		Plumb Martin had a gift for exaggeration and often embellished his tales – witnessing events he could not possibly have seen and improving the outcomes of certain happenings.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/popup_plumbmartin.html (464 words)

	The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Articles: Undisturbed 1778-1779 Patriot Encampment ...
		The officer's huts of each regiment must be built in a regular line at about 16 feet distance from the rear of the line of the soldiers...
		In Joseph Plumb Martin's narrative "Private Yankee Doodle" - he was encamped at this site under Col. Wyllys' regiment - we gain great insight into the deprivations endured by the soldiers.
		Martin states that the conditions that winter were more severe than those he had suffered the previous Winter at Valley Forge.
	www.ctssar.org /articles/redding_site.htm (1867 words)

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		Kauffman, J. Boone; Martin, R. A preliminary investigation on the feasibility of preharvest prescribed burning for shrub control.
		Kauffman, J. Boone; Martin, Robert E. Shrub and hardwood response to prescribed burning with varying season, weather, and fuel moisture.
		Martin, Robert E. Fire history and its role in succession.
	www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/tree/litden/references.html (1434 words)

	Plumb Joesph Martin Kraus ~ Awakening Martin Joeseph Edgar - Jospeh Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Martin was also present during the climatic Siege of Yorktown.Martin's narrative was originally published anonymously in 1830, at Hallowell, Maine, as A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of a Revolutionary soldier, interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation.
		It has been republished in many forms, most notably by Little, Brown in 1962, in an edition edited by George F. Scheer (ISBN 0-915992-10-8); as well as appearing as a volume in Series I of The New York Times' Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution in 1968.
	www.newschamp.net /job/joseph-martin.htm (209 words)

	Document Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Plumb Martin was born November 21, 1760, and he lived with his grandparents on a farm in Connecticut.
		Martin joined the Continental Army at a young age.
		I do solemnly declare that I did not put a single morsel of victuals into my mouth for four days and as many nights, except a little fl birch bark which I gnawed off a stick of wood, if that could be called victuals.
	student.plattsburgh.edu /cros1069/EDU580Website/martinlesson.htm (1539 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Something to think about: Joseph Plumb Martin, born in western Massachusetts, joined the militia in 1776 -- before his 16th birthday -- and served in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1783.
		Important to know: In the war for independence, the life of a common soldier was a rough one.
		-- Joseph Plumb Martin passed through Delaware both on his way to south and on his return, after the victory at Yorktown.
	www.w3r-us.org /martin.htm (372 words)

	Plumb - Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The key to the plumb bob is that the point at the end of the bob is directly For example, when building a brick wall, one mounts the plumb bob above the
		This leads to Sean ringing up Cindy Plumb (Kathleen Turner), a phone sex operator that Sean recently gave a "voice-lift" to.
		Not a direct relation, but Jason Plumb shares the name, is a fellow Canadian and DO NOT send e-mail to tincan@plumb.org, or you will be considered spam.
	www.iseeklinks.com /q/plumb.htm (234 words)

	A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin ...
		he diary of Joseph Plumb Martin is an excellent account of the Revolutionary War told from the soldier's view.
		Martin campaigned almost continuously from the beginning of the War through Yorktown (with the exception of the first winter after his initial three month service).
		He was at the Battles of Brooklyn, Harlem Heights and White Plains, endured Valley Forge (though for most of that winter stationed away from the camp as a forager), Monmouth, the other terrible winter encampments and Yorktown to name a few.
	www.juntosociety.com /bookreview/ws_nrs_020603.html (252 words)

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	Joseph Plumb Martin - 19thhole.com Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joseph Plumb Martin experienced many major moments of the Revolutionary War - he spent time at Valley Forge, met George Washington, was at many battles, etc - and he...
		Martin's tales were greatly simplied and lost there meaning.
		Even a book written for grade school students needs to show the hardships these men occurred during their fight for our independence.
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