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

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The English Ancestry of
married daughters ; from this I infer that their mother was
a daughter (possibly no longer living), especially as one of
the children bore her grandmother's name. These children
were (i) Ann h
;
(2) Angnys [Agnes].
31 vii. Ellen, b. ; unmarried in 1550 when her father died,
and hence I suppose the youngest child, but her name does
not appear in her mother's Will ; whether she deceased be-
fore her mother or is one of the daughters whose husbands'
names are given, we do not know ; if the former be the case,
she was perhaps the wife of Rycheman.
WILL OF THOMAS MARVYN.*
3Jn tlje name of ptJ amen the xviij th Day of novembre in the
yere of our Lord god 1550 I Thomas Marvyn of this towne of
Harwiche &c make this my testament &c. ffirst I bequeth my
soule to god &c and my body to be buried &c [sic] In the churche
of Harwiche to the w ch I give and bequeth xx h'
of Lawfull money
of englaund in maner and forme under wryten Item I will the said
xx 1 ' shall remayne in iiij of the moste Credeble and substancial per-
sons of the said towne from tyme to tyme to the intent that they
shall provid and by yere and yerly for the space of xx ti yeres as
moche corne as shall or commeth [sic] to the some of xx s and the
same corne to be geven to the pore ympotent Lame and nedy w*in
the said towne of Harwiche aforesaid yere and yerly unto the said
xx 11 be fully bestowed accordinge to this my Laste will
Item I give to the Reparations of the said churche iij 1 ' Item I
give to Sir Robert the curet of the said church x s
Item to every one of my godchildren xij d apeece
Item I give and bequeth to Elen my doughter xl h" and
the money
to be paid in thre yeres that is to say at the day of her mariage
* The original is at Somerset House, London, — Commissary London, Essex and
Herts. November, 1550. That has no divisions into paragraphs, which are made
here for convenience of reference.