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

1 62 The English Ancestry of
Matthew died in Norwalk between 20 December, 1678, the
date of his Will,* and 12 July, 1680, the date of his Inven-
ventory.f His widow Alice made oath to it 17 December,
1680, and it was finally approved 25 January, 1680/1. Her
Will:): is dated 1 December, 1680, and the Inventory of her
estate was taken "this last of January, 1680/1." The rec-
ords show that previous to his death Matthew had given a
large part of his landed estates to his children ; notwith-
standing which, his remaining property was valued at ^393
12s. 8d, and the lists of the town show that he was one of
its wealthiest citizens.
The children of Matthew and Elizabeth were :
91 i. Elizabeth, 7 b. about 1624; she is called 31 on the Aug-
mentation Record, doubtless a clerical error for 11. She
mar., before her father left Hartford, Dr. John Olmstead,
who d. in Norwich, Conn., 2 Aug., 1686. Her Will is dated
15 Oct., 1689 ; she d. in 1708. § She left no issue.
92 ii. Matthew, b. about 1627 (Augmentation Record); he
mar. Mary , probably in Hartford, and settled in Nor-
walk with his father, where he d. in 17 12, leaving issue.
Like his father, he held many important offices in the Town
and the Colony.
thew Marvin's daughter Abigail, was of an Ipswich [England] family; he had a brother
Richard, and the Register of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, has the baptism there, 10 March,
1572/3, of a " John Boughton, son of Richard ;
" other references to the name appear
there, at St. Peter's, Ipswich, in David's Annals, and in Strype as early as 1527.
* Recorded at Fairfield, Conn., Probate Records, iii, p. 58. I have a copy.
t This immediately follows the Will in the volume of Records cited.
X Ibid., p. 61, and printed in the Register, as cited.
$ Savage, in his Errata to p. 312 of Vol. Ill, printed in Vol. IV. Miss Calkins, in
her History of Norwich, p. 193, gives further information of this family.