The old record of laying out the Post Road, 1723, shows him to have been living on the west side of the road at what is now Tarrytown. After lb - death a part of his farm was laid off in lots, and so became the nucleus of the present village. From 1742 to 1749, inclusive, Abraham Martliughs, senior, as he signed himself, was Town Clerk of the Manor. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a blacksmith. The following is the first entry in the old Manor book under the head of ear marks :

1742, 16 day of August- -- Em red the car-mark of Abraham Martlinghs. His earmark is a floivar the luas ait the ofe ear.

The ear mark of Hendrick -Martlinghs of same date follows. The name of Lieut. Peter Martling appears as an officer in the French war, 1761, and Isaac Martling, as a private soldier. Daniel Martling was a Lieutenant under Capt. Wm. Dutcher until 1778, when he became Captain of the Company, and served with distinction. Was the ow ner of what vras then known as the Martling Landing, afterwards the Requa Dock, and lived near there in a house still standing on the east side of Water Street. His brother, Sergt. Isaac Martling, lived near by. Also a brother Abraham, who was a soldier in the Revolution and wounded in the galley fight off Tarrytown.

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Ail Abraham Martling lived on Beaver Hill, near the Saw Mill River Valley. In his application for a pension, dated April 17, 181S, says he was aged 55; that he enlisted some time in October, 1779, in Captain Shaffer's Company, in Col. Armand's Regiment of horse and foot, N. Y. Bine, and so continued in the service until May, 1783, when he was discharged at Charleston, South Carolina.