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NORWALK.
 

" beloved brother ", John Gregory, Sr., administrator of her estate. Richard Webb, Jr.,
of Stamford, left ;Margery (probably second wife) and children Richard, William, Joshua,
Joseph, John, Samuel, Caleb, Sarah and Jonathan.    The youngest was born April 12, 1675.
 

HO ME-L O T   X.
 

Matthew- Marvin, Sr., of Home-lot No. x, was one of the most distinguished of the
Norwalk fathers. He was born in England in 1600, and died in Norwalk in 1680. With
his wife Elizabeth and five children, Matthew, Jr., Elizabeth, Maria, Sarah and Hannah,
he embarked in 1635 for the New- World, and after a residence in Main Street, Hartford,
where were born Abigail, Samuel and Rachel, he came, accompanied by several of his
children, to Norwalk. Here be was assigned the New- England home-lot of honor, the lot
viz., nearest to the sanctuary, (H. M. Prowitt 1896). He was "assistant" magistrate and
an influential citizen. His daughters Elizabeth, Maria and Sarah had elsewhere married,
and did not, consequently, accornpany their parents hither. Elizabeth had married Dr. John
Olmsted of Hartford,' Maria, Richard Bushnell of Saybrook,^ and Sarah, William Good-
rich3 of Wethersfield, and were non-Norwalk located. Matthew, Jr., the oldest child, had
set out to him the home-lot that adjoined his father's on the rear, and extended south to
the present Fort Point Street. The children of Matthew, Sr., became at once identified
with the new settlement. Hannah, who was an infant of twelve months when her father
and mother stepped from Capt. Lea's ship "Increase" upon American soil, and who was
a miss of about sixteen when the family reached Norwalk. married Thomas, son of Richard
Seymour. As every one of the early Seymours, except Thomas, left the new Norwalk
colony, Hannah Marvin, wife of Thomas Seymour, became ancestress of the town's Sey¬
mour constituency. Abigail, sister of Hannah ^larvin, married in Norwalk, on the first
day of Jan., 1656. the supposed Huguenot, John Bouton, and was an American progeni¬
tress of that numerous and notable family. Rachel, youngest of Matthew :\Iarvin, Sr's.
children, and who was two or so )ears old when the Marvins located in Norwalk, grew
to marry Samuel Smith of Norwalk. These were all of Matthew, Sr's. girls, and they con¬
stituted a " ho,st "      Of the tw-o boys, ALattheu-, Jr. and Samuel, the second probably filled a
 

'Dr. John Olmsted is supposed to have been ow-n
brother to Richard Olmsted, the Norwalk settler.
Dr. Olmsted was a Hartford settler, but he removed
to Norwich, where he died.    His w-ife, Elizabeth Mar-
 

Adgate of Saybrook.    She survived her last husband
five yetiis and died at tbe age of eighty-four.

3From this union sprang a goodly portion of the
large Goodrich  family.     Sarah Marvin w-as inarried
 

Ill, sur\ived him, and at death let two thousand Nor-       in.f k^p        1        .-    ,                                     ,,       ,,

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wich acres to her two Norwalk nephews, Lieuts. |ames
and John Olmsted, the founders of so many of this
town's families to-day.

^.Maria  Marvin was twice married.    On Oct. ii,
 

Davitl'st., h„rn May 4, 1667, married Hannah Wright.
Their son, David^'l-, born Dec. 8, 1694, married Hepzi-
bah Boardman, who had Elizur, born Oct. 18, 1734,
w-ho married  Katharine Chauncey, who had Samuel,
 

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1044, ^"e mairieO   Kichard   Bushne      anH   UaH  <•,.,,_       1           ■

ehildren.    She was nineteen veats old at    e. firs'l7   !   ^°'-"'''^"-   -'  '763, who marned  Elizabeth Ely, and

ria-.e      In tfifin sl„. nv.r,.;„^ "             >   ,1        ^"^^ '""'^'       'w^'  Samuel  G., born  August  19, 1790, who was the

r'a„.       In ,660 she tnar, led, second. Deacon Thomas       noted Pktick Paklkv.