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

FOREWORD
EVERAL years ago Mr. William S. Appleton, of Boston,
while in London, found in the Will of John Lucas a
reference to Reynold Marvine, of Ramsey, Essex,
which attracted his attention, for he was aware of my
descent from the early settler at Hartford and Lyme, Conn., who
bore that name, and of my interest in the family history. On his
return, he very kindly informed me of his discovery, and a brief
reference was made to it in an account of the Marvin Family,
which was prepared from material gathered by my father and
myself, and printed in the sumptuous " Family Histories and Gen-
ealogies," published by Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Salisbury, of
New Haven, Conn. It was impossible to delay the publication of
that work — then far advanced — to follow out an uncertain clue.
Letters were written however to correspondents in England, in the
hope of tracing the ancestral line to its English home ; but as the
Ramsey Parish Registers previous to the emigration were destroyed,
further search seemed hopeless, and was finally discontinued.
In the summer of 1897, with the aid of Mrs. Salisbury, of New
Haven, Conn., the late Gen. Selden Marvin, of Albany, N. Y., his
brother Richard P. Marvin, Esq., of Akron, Ohio, and their sister
Mrs. B. F. Goodrich, of Cambridge, Mass., I was enabled to avail
myself of the services of Mr. Watkins, then about to sail for
England ;
he
had found a clue on a previous visit, which he be-