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

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The English Ancestry of
He married about 16 17, and in some other Parish (as there
is no record of it on St. Mary's Register), Marie or Mary
(the name is spelled in both ways on the record), who
accompanied him to New England, where she is believed to
have died in the spring or summer of 1661, for in September
of that year Nicholas Jennings, of Saybrook, Conn., was
charged with causing the death of Mary, wife of Reinold
Marvin of Lyme, by witchcraft.* Reinold died at Lyme,
Conn., between 23 May, 1662 (the date of his Will), and 28
October following, the date of the Inventory.
In Hartford, Conn., he had a lot at the north end of the
" West Field ; " he very soon removed to Farmington, where
he owned a " prominent home-lot of five acres, on the west
side of the Main street;" thence he removed to Saybrook
and Lyme, the former town on the west and the latter on
the east side of the mouth of the Connecticut River. In
Lyme, where he was made a Freeman 20 May, 1658,! he
owned a very large landed estate, much of which remains in
the hands of his descendants at the present time, though
considerable portions have passed out of the name by the
marriage of daughters. By the inventory it appears that his
estate was valued at ^800 — a large property for the period
— and included lands on both sides of the river.
The children of Reinold and Mary Marvin, recorded at
Great Bentley, were :
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* For some account of the witchcraft matter see " Family Histories and Genealo-
gies," Vol. Ill, pp. 108, 109.
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Colonial Records of Connecticut, i : 315.