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

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on the Record; mar. 28 Jan., 1779, Ichabod Smith, "Lieut, of De Lan-
sey's Brigade," and who was b. at Huntington, L. I., 2 Dec, 1754; (4)
Phebe, bap. 20 May, 1763, mar. 31 May, 1783, Daniel Willis; (5) Mary,
bap. 21 July, 1771, mar. in 1795 John Searing, who may have been son
of John and Martha (Smith) Searing, b. 8 Sept., 1769, but more prob-
ably of John and Mary (Prior) Searing, b. 1766, for "Long Island Gen-
ealogies," p. 290, has the "Will of John Searing the elder," dated 1795,
which mentions wife Mary (? Prior), Susannah Smith and Sarah Willis,
called daughters of John Marvin deceased, two daughters, not named, of
Jecamiah Marvin, of whom I know nothing, and Timothy and Sylvanus
Smith, the latter of whom married Sarah Searing, 30 June, 1752, — thus
showing a family connection. It is said that there was also a son John,
b. after Phebe, and who mar. Mary Searing; I have found no evidence of
this, and do not know the authority for the statement.
I am informed that descendants of this family of Marvins were living
near the old homestead of the first Robert, not many years ago, and it
may be that some are still residing there. The data here given of Robert's
descendants, brought together now for the first time so far as I am aware,
have been gathered from the authorities cited ; generation numbers are
added merely for convenience in distinguishing them. It must be left for
some future student to establish the connection, if any exists, between
Reinold and his brothers, and this Long Island settler, which is here sug-
gested as possible, and to trace the line of descent of the latter.