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

Reinold and Matthew Marvin 69
John is called " of Chattisham " in his Will and in that of
his widow ; what property he held there, does not appear.
He owned a 'tenement with lands, both free and copy,' in
Washbrook ; his father had left the sons an equal share in
his lands : these cannot now be identified, but in the final
settlement Robert 3 seems to have obtained the property in
that part of the Parish called Great Belstead, while John
acquired land in the other part, or Washbrook, by inherit-
ance or purchase ; of this estate he gave a half to his brother,
conditionally, and the other half with the tenement he left
to his widow ; after her death, if his daughters died without
issue, it was to "remayne accordyng to my ffather's Will,"
which provided (p. 36 supra), that if his [i. e. John 2
]
children
died without issue, it should be sold and the proceeds applied
for the benefit of his " sowle and all Crysten sowles." This
direction, with the disposition John 3 made of this property,
may indicate that the Washbrook homestead had come to
him after his father's death ;
it, as the Will of Robert 1
and that the latter had purchased
(see p. 26), had ordered its sale.
John also owned another estate in the same Parish, called
" Wallys," which he gave to his widow in life-tenure, and
then to his daughters successively, in case the holder died
without issue. It was to be disposed of at the widow's dis-
cretion, if her daughters died before her without leaving
issue, or by her last surviving daughter, under similar con-
ditions. These daughters must have been quite young when
their father died. The names of the husbands of two are
learned from the Will of their mother.