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1600 Mathew Marvin, son of Edward Marvin, was baptized on 26 March at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bentley, Essex. "Anno Dni 1600 March Mathew Marvin sonn of Edward Marvin bapt the 26th day." [1]

1622 "Elizabeth ye daughter of Mathew and Elizabeth Maruine his wife was baptised 1622, Sept. 15" at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bentley, Essex. [2]

1626 Mathew, son of Mathew and Elisabeth Marvin, was baptized on November 8 at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bentley, Essex. "Mathew Meruine the son of [Mathew Meruine] and of Elisabeth his wyfe baptized ye 8 of Nou…" [3]

1628 [Marie] Meruen the daughter of Mathew Meruen and Elisabeth his wyfe baptized the 16 Dec" at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bentley, Essex. [4]

1631 During the Easter term, "Matthew Marvin of Great Bentley" was presented in the Session Rolls "for not scouring his ditch leading from Great Bentley towards Weeley parish (20 rods for 6 months). ... The same Matthew Marvin for "disannulling" the ordinary ancient and usual (market and church) footpath from Great Bentley to Weeley (for 6 months with a hedge). His brother Reynold was presented for a similar offence in the same session. [5]

1631 During the Michaelmas term, "Matthew Marvyn of Great Bentley (husbandman)" was presented in the Session Rolls "for suffering 40 rods of the breck agaisnt the Hall meadow there to be unscoured for four months last past to the annoyance of the church path there lying in Hall meadow, also for annoying the highway here to weeley by laying 40 loads of muck therein for three months last past, also for not accouring 20 rods of his ditch next the highway there called the 'Moore Lane' for six moths last past, also for shooting in hand gun and killing four tame dovos in the churchyard, 20 May last." His brother Reynold was presented for similar offences in the same session. [6]

1631 "Sarah the daughter of Mathew and Elisabeth Meruin was Christned the 27th of December 1631" at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bentley, Essex. [7]

Research Notes:

"Matthew, and his family, came over from England in 1635, as will be seen from the following statement: During the summer months of 1842, James Savage, Esq. of Boston, Mass., who was on a visit to England, was chiefly occupied with searching for materials to illustrate the early annals of New Engand. He was richly compensated for his toil. The result of his investigations was published in the 8th Vol. Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, p. 243, and onward, under the title of 'Gleanings for New England History.' From this article I extract the following items: 'Perhaps the acquistion most valuable, in the opinion of our local antiquaries, is my copious extracts from a MS. volume in folio, at the Augmentation Office, where the Rev. Joseph Hunter, one of the Record Commissioners, presides, in Rolls Court, Westminster Hall. It contains the names of persons, permitted to embark, at the port of London, after Christmas1634, to the same period in the following year, kept generally in regular succession. This was found a few months since, and may not have been seen by more than two or three persons for two hundred years.' Under date of 15 April, 1635, is the following entry: 'These parties hereafter expressed, are to be transported to New England, imbarqued in the Increase, Robert Lea, master, having taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy, as also being conformable, etc. whereof they brought testimony per certif. from the Justices and ministers where there abodes have lately been.' The following names are included in the list above referred to: 'Husbandman Matthew Marvyn, age 35 yrs, uxor Elizabeth Marvyn, 31, Elizabeth Marvin, 11, Matthew Marvyn, 8, Marie Marvyn, 6, Sara Marvyn, 3, Hanna Marvyn, 1/2.'" [8]

The brothers Mathew and Reinold were among the original settlers of Hartford, CT ... Mathew resided on the corner of Village and Front streets, Hartford, for some years. He was among the pioneers in the settlement of Norwalk, which town he represented in the General Court in 1654. [9]

A biosketch reports [10]:

[Matthew Marvin] was a surveyor of highways at Hartford, in 1639 and '47--was an original propritor and settler in Hartford before '39. He came from England in the ship Increase, R. Lea, master. He removed to Norwalk, and was freed from training and watching there in '59, and was a deputy to the General Court from Norwalk in '54.

Matthew's brother Reinold is an ancestor of Clara Barton who was known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" during the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Clara had worked as a teacher for 10 years (a career she began in an attempt to overcome her shyness) and established one of the first free public schools in New Jersey. Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton, daughter of Stephen Barton and Sarah Stone, was born in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts 21 Dec 1821. Clarissa died 12 Apr 1912 in Glen Echo, Montgomery, MD, at 90 years of age. Her body was interred in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Matthew Marvin reportedly married Elizabeth and then Alice, widow of John Bouton. [11]


Footnotes:

[1] Great Bentley, St Mary the Virgin, Register of Baptisms (1558-1677), Marriages (1558-1688), Burials (1558-1677), D/P 171/1/1, Essex Record Office, image 18, [Essex Archives].

[2] George Franklin Marvin and William T. R. Marvin, Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635 (Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son, 1904), 297, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Great Bentley, St Mary the Virgin, Register of Baptisms (1558-1677), Marriages (1558-1688), Burials (1558-1677), D/P 171/1/1, Essex Record Office, image 32, [Essex Archives].

[4] Great Bentley, St Mary the Virgin, Register of Baptisms (1558-1677), Marriages (1558-1688), Burials (1558-1677), D/P 171/1/1, Essex Record Office, image 32, [Essex Archives].

[5] Essex Record Office, Presentments by Hundreds of Lexdon, Tendring, Winstree and Thurstable, [Essex Archives].

[6] Essex Record Office, Q/SR 276/13, Presentment by Hundreds of Lexden, Tendring, Winstree and Thurstable, Session Rolls, Michaelmas 1631, [Essex Archives].

[7] Great Bentley, St Mary the Virgin, Register of Baptisms (1558-1677), Marriages (1558-1688), Burials (1558-1677), D/P 171/1/1, Essex Record Office, image 35, [Essex Archives].

[8] T.R. Marvin, "Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin, who came to New England in 1635," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16 (1862), 235-254, at 235-36, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [InternetArchive].

[9] T.R. Marvin, "Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin, who came to New England in 1635," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16 (1862), 235-254, at 236, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [InternetArchive].

[10] Royal Ralph Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, collected from the state and town records, Vol. 1 (Hartford: E. Gleason, 1846), 52, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[11] George Franklin Marvin and William T. R. Marvin, Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635 (Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son, 1904), 287, [GoogleBooks].