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Thomas Martin (?–?)

Thomas Martin was a marine in the 7th (Chatham) Company when he arrived at Sydney aboard the Alexander in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. He served in Captain James Meredith's Company at Port Jackson and probably returned to England on the Atlantic in December 1792.

* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p

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