Any Martins found in Vermont, or any of the other states or territories bordering Canada in the 1700s or 1800s are just as likely to be of French Catholic or French Huguenot ancestry as English. Greater New York (New Rochelle in Westchester County) to Philadelphia or Virginia and North Carolina were areas where the French Huguenots(Protestants) settled. Many prominent French Huguenot families fled France to England after the Catholics attacked in killed thousands of Protestants in France and then emigrated to the then English Colonies in America before the American Revolutionary War and continued to come afterwards. Also remember the Louisiana Territory was a French Territory before America bought it and when the British controlled New Orleans, the French Arcadians were forcibly removed from what is now Nova Scotia and relocated to New Orleans, otherwise known now as Cajuns. So if you hit a brick wall in your genealogy search, it might be you're not looking in the right direction. What may sound very much like an English Martin family tree may suddenly turn French. Ed Hagerty Martins - Clinton County, NY USA & Quebec, CA