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

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86 i. William, 7 bap. 4 Nov., 1618.
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ii. Elizabeth, bap. 19 April, 1621.
88 iii. Sara, bap. 22 July, 1629.
89 iv. Reinold, " son of Reynold and Marie Marvin, was christened
20 Dec, 163 1." (Language of Parish record.) He
came to New England with his father and was "Lieutenant
Reinold," of the "Train-band " of Lyme, Conn., and a mem-
ber of the Colonial Legislature.*
90 v. Mary, " daughter of Reynold and Mary Marvin, was
christened 23 Oct., 1636." (Ibid.) She married, about 1656,
William Waller, who had previously resided at Salem, Mass.,
but was then of Saybrook, Conn. They had issue : (i) Will-
iam ; (ii) John; (iii) Samuel, who d. in 1742, "very aged;"
(iv) Matthew. She survived her father, but the date of her
death is unknown. There were families of this name in
Ipswich, Suffolk, but no attempt has been made to connect
them with the husband of Mary.
The lands which Reinold received from his father near
Moyse Hall were in Ramsey Parish, and if there were chil-
dren between Elizabeth and Sarah, they would have been
recorded on St. Michael's registers ; these, as we have seen,
are too late to help us. We do not know whether either of
the three older children ever came to New England ; as only
Reinold and Mary are mentioned in their father's Will, it
seems probable that the others died early.
The Parish of Great Bentley, or Bentley Magna, is in Ten-
dring Hundred, ten miles south-west of Ramsey, and having
* The descendants of Reinold " are given in the Marvin Monograph in " Family
Histories and Genealogies," published by Professor Edward E. Salisbury, of Yale Uni-
versity, and Mrs. [Evelyn MeCurdy] Salisbury, who is a descendant of Reinold Mar-
vin. The Will of Reinold B is printed in that work, Vol. Ill, p. 109.