Susannah GRAHAM

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• Fact: Daughter of Henry and Mary Graham of Hartford Ct.

Susannah married Deacon Samuel MARVIN on 5 May 1699. Samuel (son of Lieut. Reinold MARVIN and Sarah CLARK) was born in 1671 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut; died on 15 May 1743 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Descendants of Reinhold and Matthew Marvin": He was admitted a freeman 14 Sept. 1731; elected lister in 1729, and again 27 June 1743; grand-juryman, 24 Dec. 1733, 10 Dec 1739, 30 Dec 1748; fence-viewer, 29 Dec 1736, 18 Dec 1746; treasurer, Dec. 1742, and annually for many years after, with hardly an exception; his last election was 11 Dec. 1777; the following year John Lay, 2d, was "appointed" to that position. Zachariah and his wife united with the Lyme church in August, 1731; he was chosen deacon in January, 1741, at the same time with his cousin, Dea. Reinold. In October, 1772, he presented a petition to the Legislature, claiming "that for twenty years he had had a fishery in a brook leading to Black Hall Pond," but his rights had been obstructed by weirs, etc., and asking for redress. In response, the Legislature passed a law by which he was allowed to fish "in said brook on his own land (!) from Monday morning until sun-rising on Friday, every week." Matthew Marvin might fish on his own land from Thursday morning until sun=rising Friday, every week; one other person was given a similar privilege from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning, and all others forbidden to fish there.

Zechariah married Abigail LORD on 29 Mar 1732. Abigail was born in 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin": How long Thomas remained in Lyme in uncertain; he witnessed a deed there 5 Oct., 1724; he joined with his brother Samuel in a conveyance to Edmund Dorr, in 1727 (Lyme rec., IV: 153, 281), and was admitted a freeman 24 April, 1733, and then disappears from Lyme; a Thomas marvin is found in the records of Goshen, Ct., 27 Dec., 1738, as one of the original proprietors, but has not been identified as this son of Samuel; when the town ands there were divided, he drew lot 50, and was appointed town collector at a meeting held in Litchfield. He was also on several other committees when the town of Goshen was organized. When his father's will was made, 19 Aug., 1741, Thomas had "already received his portion." We judge that he moved away fromLyme about the time of his marriage.

In 1756, and probably earlier, he was living in Simsbury, CT.; in May of that year the Legislature gave him "liberty for a ferry" over the Farmington river, for ten years, after the bridge there had been destroyed; this bridge, which had been built about 1750, crossed the river from that part of Simsbury known as "Hopmeadow," the business centre. When this ferry was established he was authorized to charge "for man, horse, and load, one penny: single man or single horse, one half-penny: sheep and swine per head, one farthing." Two years later he concluded that a ferry across the Connecticut river, where he could get better prices, was more desirable, and in October, 1758, he carried on that business between Suffield and Enfield, on the route known for more than half a century as "Gillis's ferry." He found the boat and wharf there in bad condition, and in a memorial to the Legislature agreed to repair them at his own expense, if he could have a monopoly of all ferry privileges north of what was known as "the falls." In May, 1759, he was permitted to raise the fares.

Thomas married Mehitable GOODRICH about 1733. Mehitable (daughter of Joseph GOODRICH and Mehitable GOODWIN) was born on 6 Mar 1716; died in abt. 1775 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Zechariah married Anna LEE on 23 Jul 1761. Anna was born on 1 Aug 1739; died on 1 Mar 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Zechariah married Hannah LAY on 15 Apr 1779 in Lyme, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of John LAY, Esq. and Hannah LEE) was born on 18 Feb 1740 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Zechariah and Abigail (Lord) Marvin of Lyme, Connecticut

Susannah married Nathaniel ROGERS on 23 Apr 1778. Nathaniel (son of William ROGERS and Elizabeth HARRIS) was born in 1725 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died in 1801 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah LAY on 23 May 1784 in Lyme, Connecticut. Sarah was born on 16 Mar 1755 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut; died about 1793. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah LAY on 25 May 1794. Sarah (daughter of William LAY and Phebe SILL) was born on 2 Mar 1766 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"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."

Matthew married Mary WEED on 6 Jun 1784. Mary (daughter of Josiah WEED and Abigail BOUTON) was born on 21 Nov 1758 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 25 Feb 1846 in Walton, Delaware County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Frances CROMWELL on 23 Nov 1839. Frances was born on 1 Apr 1801 in Delhi, Delaware Co., New York; died on 22 Jun 1893 in Kortwright, Delaware Co., New York . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]