- Martin the Armenian
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Martin the Armenian Born New Julfa, Isfahan, Persian Empire Nationality Armenian Other names Martin an Armeanean, Martin Armenean, Martin ye Armenia, John Martin Occupation raising of silk worms Known for The first Armenian to come to North America. Martin the Armenian was a settler in the Jamestown Colony in Virginia.[1] He is the first known individual of Armenian ancestry to have come to North America, arriving in either 1618 or 1619. Martin was invited to the colony to raise silk worms. Other Armenians were also brought to the colony but they returned to Eastern Europe and Caucasia. Armenians were among the first Transcaucasians to come to America. Later, to help with the raising of silkworms two more were invited to the colony. One of them, "George the Armenian" was offered 4,000 pounds of tobacco to persuade him to remain and continue his work.[2]
References
- ^ Papazian, Dennis R. (2000), "Armenians in America", Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 52 (3-4): 311–347, doi:10.2143/JECS.52.3.565605, http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/papazian/america.html
- ^ R. Mirak, Torn Between Two Lands: Armenians in America 1890 to World War I (Cambridge, MA, 1983), p. 36. (Mirak's book is the most dependable and thoroughly researched history of the Armenians in America up to World War I.)
Categories:- People from Isfahan
- Persian Armenians
- American people of Armenian descent
- American colonial people
- Virginia colonial people
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