Reinold Marvin
Lyme's Captain, probably a son of Lieut. Reinold Marvin and Sarah Clark: one of the first deacons of the Lyme church, captain of its train-band from 1718, and its deputy to the General Court most years from 1711 to 1728. By family tradition he nailed his banns, in rhyme, to the meeting-house door. By his second wife, Martha Waterman, he was probably the father of Capt. Elisha Marvin; he died at Lyme, Connecticut, in 1737.
Life
- 1669BornLyme, Connecticutcompiledprobable
- c. 1696Married Phebe Leec. 1696compiledprobable
- 1709Married Martha Waterman30 June 1709compiledprobable
- 1737Died
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Family
- Father
- Reinold Marvincompiledprobable
- Mother
- Sarah Clarkcompiledprobable
- Spouse 1
- Phebe Lee
Daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Mary (DeWolf) Lee, born 14 Aug 1677 at Lyme, died 27 Oct 1707. Mother of his first five children; not in the family's line.
- Spouse 2
- Martha Watermancompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Capt. Reinold Marvin, “Lyme’s Captain,” son of Lieut. Reinold Marvin and Sarah Clark. When the First Congregational Church of Lyme was gathered on 27 March 1693 he was chosen one of its first two deacons, but the town records call him by his military title: sergeant of the train-band by 1702, ensign in 1712, and on 8 May 1718 “established and confirmed” by the Legislature “to be Captain of the First Train-band or Company” in Lyme. He was townsman (selectman) in many years between 1697 and 1732, moderator, grand juror and lister; in 1728 he met the New London men to “Renew the Town Bounds”; and he represented Lyme in the General Court “most of the time from 1711 to 1728 inclusive.” An old family note-book calls him “remarkable for his excentricities, yet esteemed as a very useful and godly man” (source).
The one tradition the family ties to him is his banns. “When he ‘published’ his Intention of Marriage, he wrote it in rhyme, and nailed it to the meeting-house door”:
Reinold Marvin and Phebe Lee Do intend to marry: And though her dad opposed be, We can no longer tarry.
Phebe died in 1707, leaving five children, and in 1709 he married Martha Waterman, the mother of Elisha. Eleven years after Phebe’s death he made over to her brothers his right in her father’s large real estate, which “confirms the tradition that it was the remarkable beauty of the maiden, and not her father’s wealth, which attracted him.” He lies between his two wives in the Duck River burying ground, in a grave “noticeable for its length, which may show that the old warrior had the tall stature characteristic of the family” (source).
Children by Phebe Lee: Phebe (1696), Dea. Reinold (1698/9), Daniel (1701/2), Lydia (1703/4) and Hester (1707). By Martha Waterman: Martha (1710), Elisha (1711, died an infant), James (1713), Sarah (1715/16), Capt. Elisha (1717/18) and Miriam (1719/20). Through Phebe Lee’s son Dea. Reinold he is the ancestor of Judge William Marvin, provisional governor of Florida in 1865, his brother Richard Pratt Marvin, and Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith; the Hatten line comes down from the second marriage.
Research: research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md.
Connections
- Notable ancestor
- Captain of Lyme's first train-band and its deputy to the General Court, who published his banns in rhyme
Reinold Marvin is the 7x great-grandfather of Patricia Hatten. Captains and soldiers.
- Famous kin
- William Marvin
Provisional Governor of Florida in 1865 and U.S. District Judge at Key West, an authority on admiralty and salvage law
William Marvin is the half third cousin, five times removed, of Patricia Hatten. - Richard Pratt Marvin
U.S. Representative from New York, 1837-1841, and a justice of the New York Supreme Court
Richard Pratt Marvin is the half third cousin, five times removed, of Patricia Hatten. - Edmund Kirby Smith
Confederate general, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, which he surrendered in June 1865
Edmund Kirby Smith is the half fourth cousin, four times removed, of Patricia Hatten.
- William Marvin