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

36 John 5
Reinold and Matthew Marvin 87
FIFTH GENERATION.
(?John* John* John? Roger 1
), of Ramsey, "yeo-
man." The reasons for believing that he was the son of
Reinold's brother John have been given on page 73. If that
inference is correct, he was probably born about 1534, in
Ramsey, where Reinold and his brothers resided. He died
in 1571 (judging from the date of his Will), leaving children
who were evidently young. He directs that these children
shall be sent " to scoole till they can Wright and Read En-
glishe well ;
" they were each to have ten shillings yearly
until they came to the age of fourteen, "to kepe them with
meate, Dryncke and clothes suffycyent," and their guardian
was charged " to bringe them upp in the ffeare of God and
w th learninge." He does not mention his wife, from which
we infer that she was not living.
His home, which had a " newe parlor," and was well sup-
plied with out-buildings, was evidently one of comfort and
well furnished. We are given a glimpse of its contents, —
a "posted bedsteade " with "curteynes of redd and grene
save" '[? silk], a "great cheste in the parlor," a "syde table
in the Hall, and the forme belonging thereto," and various
other articles of convenience or luxury are mentioned in his
Will. Its location was near the "Bridge foot ;" St. Michael's
Church and Michaelstowe Hall were not far away.
We are thus enabled to locate with great exactness the
place where the home of John Marvin must have stood,