An Account of Some of the Later Generations of the Martin Family in America

This volume serves as a genealogical record compiled by Richard Allen Martin, detailing the lineage and historical documentation of the Martin family in America. Originally published during the early 20th century, such works were common products of the era's growing fascination with ancestry and the establishment of family heritage among middle-class Americans, often intended to preserve oral histories and scattered records for future descendants.

The text is representative of privately printed or limited-run genealogical surveys, which prioritize factual enumeration of births, marriages, and deaths over narrative flair. These volumes were typically compiled using archival research and correspondence with surviving relatives, reflecting a meticulous, utilitarian design aesthetic characteristic of turn-of-the-century reference books, and they remain valued today by genealogists as primary source material for tracking demographic shifts and familial migration patterns.