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

158 The English Ancestry of
The troubles lasted during the period which followed the
departure of our ancestors. Nicholas Lewes was the next
Vicar, 15 April, 1642, but his vicarage was "sequestered for
that he hath been often drunke and useth to sit tipling in
ale-houses seven or eight houres together, even on the Lord's
dayes ;
and affirmed that he hoped to see them all hanged that
had set their hands against bishops and papists ; and by his
example the people spend the greatest part of the Lord's
day in pastimes and drinking at the ale-house ; and hath ex-
pressed great malignancy against Parliament."* Those who
followed him do not interest us.
60 Matthew, 6 (Edzvard, 5 Reinold, 4 John,* John* Roger, 1
)
brother of Reinold and the youngest son of Edward and
Margaret Marvin, was baptized at St. Mary's Church, Great
Bentley, 26 March, 1600. He received by his father's Will
the property in that Parish occupied by the latter at the
time of his death, " called Edons alles [alias] Dreybrockes,
and ij Croftes of Land called Hartles and Brocken Heddes,"
conditionally that he paid to his mother during her life " the
fulle sume of Sexe Poundes," in default of which the estate
was to pass to his elder brother Reinold, with a like con-
dition.
He married as his first wife, about 1623, Elizabeth ,
who was born in 1604, for her age is given as 31 in the
record in the "Augmentation Office," London, when she em-
barked with her husband and five children for New England,
in 1635. This marriage and the births of the two older
* From an old record quoted by Davids.