The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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by careless clerks is found on numerous records, and in nearly the same
form on the grave-stone of the wife of Capt. Reinold Marvin, Duck River
Burying-ground, Lyme, Conn. By an entry dated 3 March, 165 1/2, where
he is called " Rob't Merwin," it appears that he was noted, like Thomas
of Newbury, Mass., for killing wolves. ' Robard Marvine was chosen,
17 March, 1657, Stylo nova,' one of the first Townsmen of Hempstead.
(" Early Long Island," p. 141.)
Robert 7 and Mary (Browne) Marvin had (1) Mary, s who mar. Will-
iam Lee, who came from Nottingham, England, in 1675 (Bolton's History
of Westchester County, Vol. ii : 743) ; William died in 1724, leaving three
sons, Thomas, d. s. p., Joseph (whose descendants are given by Bolton),
and Richard, d. s. p., and seven daughters ; (2) John, probably the one
of that name who witnessed a deed 23 August, 1698 ; he died 1708. (Long
Island Genealogies, p. 249.)
The last named is believed to be the John Marvin who married Han-
nah, daughter of John and Anna (Gildersleeve) Smith, by whom he had
(1) Robert, 9 mar. Phebe Smith and had issue; (2) Hannah, mar.
Whitman ;
(3) Ruth, mar. Richard, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Wicks)
Townsend; (4) Jemima. (L. I. Gens., ut sup.)
Robert, 9 the son of John and husband of Phebe, was of Herrick's,
in the township of Hempstead. Phebe must have been the daughter of
" Micha" and Phebe Smith, of Hempstead, as in his Will, dated 1 April,
1747, he makes his widow Phebe and Robert Marvin executors, and names
daughters Elizabeth and Phebe to whom he leaves ,£200 each. (" Smith
Wills, of New York and L. I.," p. 28.) 11 October, 1733, Robert was
a subscriber towards a new edifice for St. George's Church, and served
on its building committee. In 1735 he was one of those who asked for
a charter for the Parish ; in 1753 he subscribed £5 towards the construction
of a new gallery; in 1763 he was one of the petitioners to Hempstead
to enlarge the Church-yard of St. George's, and he was a Warden
or Vestryman of that Parish from 1739 to *774- The children of Robert
and Phebe Marvin were (1) John, 10 b. 26 Sept., 1725, d. young; (2)
Phebe, b. 3 Sept., 1727, d. young; (3) Robert, bap. 8 April, 1732; (4)
John, bap. 30 Sept., 1733; "Long Island Genealogies," p. 249, says he
was "born 1722, mar. 1755, Mary Smith, sister of Sylvanus and Timothy."
The year of birth is an error, as shown by the Parish Register of St.