Matthew Marvin

1600 - 1680  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Matthew Marvin  [1]
  Birth	of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Alternate birth	Bef 26 Mar 1600  [3, 4]
  Baptism	26 Mar 1600	Great Bentley, Essex, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 22 Jan 1678 and 13 Jul 1680	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Reinold Marvin ,   b. Bef 25 Oct 1594   d. 1662, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age > 67 years) ▻ Mary ,  m. Between 1617 and 1618 + 2. Matthew Marvin ,   c. 26 Mar 1600, Great Bentley, Essex, England d. Between 22 Jan 1678 and 13 Jul 1680, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age ~ 77 years) ▻ Elizabeth ;  Alice ,  m. Bef 1647
  Person ID	I14486	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward Mervyn,   b. of Ramsey, Essex, England d. 13 Nov 1615, Great Bentley, Essex, England
  Mother	Margaret   d. Bef 28 May 1633
  Family ID	F9033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1604   d. Abt 1642 (Age ~ 38 years)
  Children	+ 1. Mary Marvin,   b. Bef 16 Dec 1628   d. 26 Mar 1713, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age > 84 years) + 2. Sarah Marvin,   b. Bef 27 Dec 1631   d. Bef 16 Jan 1702, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age < 70 years)
  Family ID	F9032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Alice   d. Between 1 Dec 1680 and 31 Jan 1681, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Marriage	Bef 1647  [3]
  Family ID	F23376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Came in 1635 with his wife and family on the Increase. Described variously as a husbandman, yeoman, and wheelwright. He was a "sydeman" of the parish of Great Bentley in 1621, overseer in 1627, and senior warden in 1628. He was among the "Adventurers Party" of twenty-five men led by John Steele who scouted area that would become Hartford in October 1635, before the Rev. Hooker's party departed Cambridge in May 1636, and he was one of sixteen founders living in Hartford in 1635 prior to the arrival of Hooker's party. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. He removed to Norwalk in 1651, where he was deputy to the general court in 1654.

  
  

• Sources

  [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64. [S1993] The Benjamin Families from Columbia County, New York by R. M. Benjamin. Bloomington, Illinois: Pantagraph, 1911. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1994] John Insley Coddington, "Notes on the Ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin." The American Genealogist 18:1, July 1941.