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

160 The English Ancestry of
While in Hartford he resided on the corner of Village
[now Pleasant] and Front Streets. Hinman's manuscript
notes in the Library of the N. E. Historic-Genealogical So-
ciety say that " Matthew in 1640 resided in the north-east
part of the village. His lot was bounded north on the road
from Sentinel Hill to North Meadow road ; west on Wm.
Kelsey's lot ; south on Stephen West's lot ; east by road
from Windsor to Wethersfield, by North Meadow." He re-
sided in Hartford for several years, where he was Surveyor
of Highways in 1639 and 1647.*
Apparently he contemplated removing to Farmington,
Conn., where Reinold had built a house, for we find he owned
land and a dwelling housef in that town, as did his brother ;
but in 1650 he went to Norwalk, of which town he and his
eldest son were among the original settlers.
His home-lot in Norwalk, as originally granted, was
"bounded east by Town's Highway, west by Daniel Kel-
logg's home-lot, north by Thomas Fitch's home-lot, and south
by Meeting-house yard and the home-lot of his son Matthew,
Jr." It now forms the north-west corner of East Avenue
and the ancient County road from Stamford to Fairfield. It
is shown on the map in Hall's Norwalk, and can readily be
seen by the traveller over the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, on the north side of the track just after
crossing the bridge coming east from South Norwalk near
* Hall's " History of Norwalk."
t This he sold to Nathaniel Kellogg. See Farmington Town Records, Entry of
Lands, books i and 2.