Matthew MARVIN

1754 - 1846  (92 years)

• Name	Matthew MARVIN  [1]
  	"Descendants of Reinhold and Matthew Marvin": After his father's death he lived in Sharon, Ct., with his sister Mehitable; when the Revolution began he enlisted under his brother-in-law, Capt. Benjamin Marvin, serving for a time on Long Island; 16 Aug. 1777, he enlisted as a corporal in Capt. Comstock's company, 8th Ct. Line, Col. John Chandler, and was made sergeant 2 April, 1780, in the same company; 1 Jan. 1781, he was first sergeant in Capt. Douglass' company, 5th reg't, made up from the 8th and 1st, under col. Isaac Sherman, and served a year in that command. He fought in many battles, among them those of Brandywine, Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, Red Bank, and Mud Fort, and passed the terrible winter at Valley Forge, with Washington. He served under Lafayette in Virginia, and was one of the sixty-eight men selected by that officer from the light infantry, to storm the works of Cornwallis at Yorktown, October, 1781. In 178, when the 5th was consolidated with the 2d Ct. Line, he was a sergeant in Capt. Chapman's company, and was stationed at West Point when the army was disbanded; his discharge, signed by Gen. Washington, is till preserved by a descendant. About 1787 he went to Hoosick, Rensselaer co., NY, where his sister Elizabeth was living; later he resided in Cambridge, Argyle, and Rome, New York, but in 1799 settled in Walton, where he built a house at the base of "Mount Holley." [1]
  Birth	7 Jun 1754	Simsbury, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Sep 1846	Walton, Delaware County, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I70365	Main Tree
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas MARVIN,   b. 4 Mar 1703/4, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut d. abt. 1763 (Age 58 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mehitable GOODRICH,   b. 6 Mar 1716   d. abt. 1775, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 58 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Abt 1733  [1]
  Family ID	F28461	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary WEED,   b. 21 Nov 1758, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 25 Feb 1846, Walton, Delaware County, New York (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	6 Jun 1784  [1]
  Children	+ 1. William Weed MARVIN,   b. 26 Sep 1793, Argyle, Washington Co., New York d. 28 Oct 1868, Unadilla, Otsego Co., New York (Age 75 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F28460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S5154] George Franklin Marvin of New York, and William T.R. Marvin of Boston, "Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin" of Hartford, CT., 1638 and 1635; Sons of Edward Marvin, of Great Bentley, England, (T.R. Marvin & Sons, Publishers - 1904).