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Marvin's Norwalk arrival, was fond of visiting the Alarvin marine farm, and as the same
was at that day of small acreage the thoughts of the host and guest turned toward the
ample fields of the west. Mr. Marvin, nevertheless, joined graduall)- lot to lot, until he died
possessed of one of the fairest domains in southwestern New England. This typical citi¬
zen inherited and transmitted the solid virtues of an excellent ancestry. His two sons,
Josiah R. and William E., have succeeded to his large landed estate.

A   SARATOGA   NORW^\LK-MARVIN   MENTION.

Lieut. Samuel ]\Iarvin' (son of Matthew^''-who was son of ]\Iatthew-'^'-) was brought
up near the East Norw alk handsome south meadow now belonging to H. 'M. Prowitt. The
composition of the youth's home was somewhat remarkable. Of vSamuel's mother, who
may have been born in England, we onh- know- that her name was Marv, but of his
brothers and sisters we are well informed. Of his sisters, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth and
Alarcy, married respectively, such prominent settlers as Thomas Betts, Jr., Epenetus Platt,
Joseph Platt, and William Haynes (second wife). Samuel,"*'- one of the three sons of Alat-
thew^''- had a son, Josiah'"'- who married, Elizabeth, born June 4th, 1714, daughter of
David'"'-and Martha (Blagge) DeForest and grand-daughter of "Great Burgher" Isaac
DeForest and his wife Sarah DuTrieux, (see Burlock-^Varren-DeForest addendum, page
278). By this wife Josiah Marvin'"'-appears to have had Josiah-''-, Daniel, William, Jared
and John. One or more of his daughters, .Sarah, Lucy and Hannah (Mrs. Stephen Keeler)^
ma)- possibly have been by an after wife, Sarah Sturges.

William, born March 24, 1740, son of Josiah"'- and Elizabeth Marvin, married, Nov.
10, 1767. Susanna Wright, and had William'''-, born Oct. 19, 1768. Said William'''-who
married, March 5, 1793, Mar)- Benedict, was the father of Thomas J, and Hon. James 'M.
Marvin, whose Saratoga Springs United .States Hotel property is of world-wide celebrit)-.

HO ME-I O T NT.

Richard Seymour'"'-, found in Dr. Hawes' Catalogue of Hartford settlers in 1639,
came in the early fifties of the seventeenth centurv to  Norw-alk.     His name is affixed to
 

'Samuel, son of Matthew Marvin^d-, had a brother      name. Nehemiah was the brother of Stephen Greg-
John, who, by his second wife (Rachel, daughter of      ory, who married Mary, daughter of John Benedict,
Matthias St. John) had a son Joseph, born Mtiy 29,      and had Susanna, born April 17, 1776, who married,
1724, who married Catharine, one of the three daugh-      first, Lewis Grumman, and second, Allen Hayes Betts,
ters and only children of Matthias and Elizabeth St.      father of .Mien Betts of Newtown Avenue, 1896. The
John. The other children were Elizabeth (Mrs. John      original Grumn-ians were from Fairfield.
Abbot) and Hannah (Mrs. Lemuel Rogers.) After              -^Hannah Marvin (Mrs. Stephen Keeler) mav
the decease, in 1748-9, of Matthias St. John, his widow      have taken her great-aunt, Hannah Blagge's, name,
married Nehemiah, son of John Gregory.vL, son of - It is possible that Josiah Marvin'st. married, first, the
Jolin2d., son of John'st. This brought the Cranberry      widow Hannah Blagge. The Josiah Marvin sons,
Plains Matthias St. John property into the (iregory      however, were not by this union.