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

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The English Ancestry of
Ramsey [ ? grandson of Roger], had grandchildren Thomas
and Anne ;
Ann, his sister, had grandsons Thomas and
Robert ; and the first Reynold a brother Thomas and a
nephew Roger, and John is of very frequent occurrence ; but
whether these are merely coincidences, or point to some
relationship between the Ipswich families, cannot be deter-
mined with our present knowledge.
SECOND GENERATION.
2 John 2 {Roger) was apparently living in Ipswich when
his father died. As he was made executor of his father's
Will jointly with his mother, in 1475, he must have been
of legal age at that time to assume the duty. We there-
fore place his birth about 1453. The date of his death
is unknown. So far as we have been able to discover,
he left no Will, and we know nothing further of him
with certainty ; but there are some grounds for supposing
that he may have been the grandfather of Reynold of Ram-
sey and his brothers. If the Marvins of Harwich and Ram-
sey were descended from the Ipswich families, they of course
came from one of the sons of Robert 1 or from the John under
notice. Either of these, by their ages, might have been the
grandfather of Christian and her brothers of Ramsey, whose
father's name has not been discovered ; Thomas
of Harwich,
and Robert of Ramsey and his sister Ann (mentioned later),
were clearly of the third generation, reckoning Roger and
Robert as of the first; while the brothers and sister of the
first Reynold known to us, were as clearly of the fourth.