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Forbes, Martin Leslie, 1843-1919
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Martin Leslie Forbes was born in 1843 in Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia, to William Forbes and Margaret Malone. In 1865 he married Maria Doane Kendrick, with whom he had at least one son. Forbes was a Master Mariner who captained the barques Aspototgan and Nellie Moody out of Shelburne County. He died in Barrington Passage in 1919.