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

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Anne, wife of Thomas (10), and we are unable to identify
them with certainty. They may have been and I think were
John (15) and his brother, Reynold (16), who I suppose
were Robert's nephews.
Robert's Will does not name his children, but seems to
indicate that he had three daughters and no sons: the
name of one daughter we learn from the Will of his
widow.
22 i. Daughter, 4 ? b. about 1515, or earlier; mar. Hewit,
and died before her father, leaving (1) James? (2) William*
Our reason for believing Mrs. Hewit to be the eldest daugh-
ter is that Robert gives half his " stuffe " to his wife, and
she is to have his houses and lands in Ramsey during her
life, while the other half goes at once to James Hewit,
who is to take the Ramsey houses and lands on the death
of the widow. James is also to have Boseman's and Bodies
on paying £60 to the estate, of which he is appointed one
of the executors; out of this sum he is to pay the lega-
cies, among them £10 to "his brother William Hewit"
within three years. As so large a portion of the estate is
given to him, and as we know that Robert certainly had one
daughter living, the gift and the trust reposed in him, I be-
lieve, justifies our inference, and shows that James was cer-
tainly, and William nearly or quite of age in 1556. If these
inferences are correct, their mother must have been the
eldest daughter, for the children of the other two ( " Siss-
ely," who was undoubtedly a daughter of Robert, and ,
the wife of Beteryche) are shown to be not of age by the
* A " William Heweyt" is found on the Parish Register of St. Nicholas, Harwich,
who was buried there 18 December, 1571, but whether the same who is named in the
Will is not known.