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I haven't found out why Martha was called "Matchless" either, but I did look up the word 'match' in the dictionary and found this: "match is a wick or cord prepared to burn at a uniform rate, as for firing a charge of powder." We know Martha fed the troops grain which she had stored expecting a long siege, she contributed to the "war effort" by that means instead of firing off the cannons, so therefore her efforts were "matchless." If someone knows the real answer to this, I would like to know, too!
Martha is the great great grandmother of my great great grandmother Eleanor/Elinor McDuffie, who was a "red-headed Scotch wife"---wonder if our Martha was red haired?
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