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

Reinold and Matthetv Marvin 73
FOURTH GENERATION.
15 John 4 (?John, z John, 2 Roger 1
), born about 1510. His
father's name is not known, but the reasons for the line of
descent proposed will be found on page 30, and need not be
repeated here. As all the knowledge we have of him is
derived from the Wills of his two brothers, Reinold and
Thomas, there is nothing to show when he died, except that
he certainly survived Reinold, and apparently was living in
October, 1561, when Thomas made his Will. He was evi-
dently older than Thomas, but may have been younger than
Reinold. I have no doubt that he was the John of Ramsey,
taxed there in 1540, "on his movables 12s., 6d." That he
married (? Margaret ) and had issue is evident from the
Wills of his brothers, but these do not give us their names.
These are obtained from the Will of John (36), the first son
assigned him below. In that Will the maker speaks of his
"cousin Barbara:" Reinold, the brother of John (15), had
a daughter Barbara Marvin, who of course would have been
own cousin to the children of her father's brothers ; it is
clear from the Will of Thomas (17), one of these brothers,
that he had but one son, Matthew, and as the only other
brother of Reinold was John, so far as known, the conjec-
tural assignment seems justified. We therefore conclude
that the "cousin" of "Barbara" and the brpther and sister
named in John's (36) Will were the children of John (15), and
these we assign him. The order of birth is unknown ; if