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

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maiden name of one of these wives, but no attempt has been
made to trace their connection.
Aside from his residence John owned several other houses
and lands, for he names four of his tenants. One of these
estates (not the homestead) he gives conditionally to his
widow during her life, and her issue, should there be a
posthumous child ; if she die childless, all is to revert to his
daughter by his first wife, who was
61 Ann, 6 b. , but evidently not of age when her father died.
Whether there was another child has not been learned.
His original Will is still preserved at Somerset House, the
year being somewhat obscure, and it has no signature ; in
the copy on the records * the year is written out in words,
and the date is further confirmed by the Parish Register at
Little Oakley, as given above. I have transcripts of both
the original and the copy ;
the latter calls the daughter Anne,
and there are variations in the spelling and the capitals, but
otherwise they are identical. The original follows ; it has no
date of probate.
WILL OF JOHN MERVEN OF OKELYE PARVA.f
3fa tl)e name of pfc amen The v th daye of merche in the yere
of our lorde god 1584 I John Merven of Okelye parva in ye countye
of Essex housbandman & of the Dyoces of London beyng of good
& perfect Remembraunce thankes be to god do make and ordayne
thys my last wyll & testament in maner & forme folowyng
* Archdeaconry of Colchester, Roote 295 (fo. 318).
t Archdeaconry of Colchester, Bundle Ward No. 60.
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