Reinold Marvin
Lieut. Reinold Marvin of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, son of Reinold and Marie Marvin, baptized at Great Bentley, Essex, in 1631 and brought to New England as a boy. He commanded the Lyme train-band, sat for the town in the General Court, and was a champion of Lyme in its boundary quarrel with New London. He married Sarah Clark and died at Lyme in 1676; probably the father of Capt. Reinold Marvin.
Life
- 1631Bornbp. 20 Dec 1631, Great Bentley, Essex, England
"Reinald, the sonne of Reynald Meruin and Mary his wyffe was Christned the 20th of December in Anno 1631" (St. Mary's register, as printed in Marvin, 1904, p. 35).
documentedproven - c. 1662Married Sarah Clarkc. 1662compiledprobable
- 1676Died4 Aug 1676, Lyme, Connecticut
His stone: "1676 | LEVET | RENOLD | MARVIN | Aged 42"; he was in fact in his 45th year.
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Family
- Father
- Reinold Marvin
The baptism names his parents, and his father's will of 1662 leaves "my son Renold Marvin" the house and lands.
documentedproven - Mother
- Marie Marvindocumentedproven
- Spouse
- Sarah Clarkcompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Lieut. Reinold Marvin of Saybrook and Lyme, born at Great Bentley, Essex, and brought to New England as a boy when his father came in 1638. He was made a freeman of Saybrook on 20 May 1658, the same day as his father, and “Sergeant to ye Band at Sea Brook” on 3 Oct 1661, when his brother-in-law William Waller was made ensign; he later succeeded Waller as lieutenant and, Lyme being too small for a captain’s company, commanded the train-band of the east side of the river until he died. He sat on the committee of 1666 that divided Saybrook, and his and Waller’s names are two of the six on the “parting covenant” of 13 Feb 1666/7 for Lyme, a “loving parting.” He was one of Lyme’s first town surveyors, townsman, constable, and its deputy to the General Court in October 1670 and from 1672 until his death; in 1671/2 he and Waller contracted to build and keep the town’s grist mill (source).
He was one of “the champions of Lyme” in its boundary quarrel with New London. In March 1671 John Prentice complained of “Reynald Marvin and others, for riotous practices and assaults on New London people,” and the Lyme men indicted their adversaries in return. Miss Caulkins thought the fight “more comic than fearful or sublime. The encounter terminated without any serious injury on either side; the leaders drank a draft of seeming friendship together, and all retired quietly from the field.” In July 1676, three weeks before he died, Andros came to seize the fort at Saybrook and was turned away by the Saybrook train-bands; the Marvin genealogy supposes Lyme’s was there under its lieutenant. After his death his company could not agree on a successor, and in 1678 “Mr. Noyes [Minister at Lyme] was desired to a sermon at the time” of the election (source).
He married, about 1662, Sarah Clark of Milford, who survived him and married Capt. Joseph Sill. Their children, born at Lyme: John (1664/5), Mary (1666), Reinold (1669), Samuel (1671) and Sarah (1673). His grave is in the Duck River burying ground, to the right of Sarah’s and Capt. Sill’s.
Research: research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md.