Gen. Seth MARVIN

Family/Spouse: Mary LITTLE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jeffrey MARVIN was born on 5 May 1780 in Orange County, New York; died on 30 Mar 1835 in Minisink, New York.

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Name:
"Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin": he resided in Oxford village, in the township of Cornwall, Orange Co., where he was fence viewer and one of the overseers of the poor in 1765; he signed the "Association Pledge" there, dated 29 April 1775, opposing arbitrary acts of Great Britain. In 1775, he was chairman of the Committee of Safety and Observation of Cornwall; in 1777, one of the "Committee men" under whose charge town meetings were held; in 1778, Judge of the Orange county Court of Common Pleas; in 1779, one of the Commissioners who tried and convicted the notorious Claudious B. Smith and others, who had robbed and murdered patriots in Orange Co. He was active in the Revolution, serving as lieut.-colonel of Col. Jesse Woodhull's reg't from Orange co. (commissioned 21 Feb., 1778) and in other capacities. When the people of New York were called on in May, 1780, to loan money to the State, to aid in putting the army in proper condition to co-operate with the French, who were then about to arrive, Elihu and his son Elihu Jr., were among the subscribers. 1 July 1780, he was one of the Orange Co. committee appointed by the Legislature to collect clothing for the troops. He was also one of the Commissioners of Sequestration, to sell the property of "disaffected person" in Orange Co.

25 Dec., 1793, Elihu and John Marvin (perhaps sons of Gen. Elihu), both of Oxford, in the "town of New Cornwall, for the advantage and accommodation of the inhabitants of the people of Oxford, and for the purpose of building a school-house" thereon, deed to the free-holders a piece of land. An obituary published soon after his decease said, that "few have been ore useful to society than he....He served as judge of the court, was a colonel and general in the militia, and deacon in the church. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Crane from Job xix:25". His tombstone bears the following lines:

"Once I was young and well my health was found
But now my limbs lie mouldering under ground.
Be wife prepare for death and follow me.
My bleft Redeemer lives and with his watchfull eyes
Takes conflant care of all my duft, till he shall bid it rife:
As I am now you likely foon will be

Elihu married Abigail YELVERTON about 1744. Abigail was born in 1723 in Goshen, Orange Co., New York; died on 10 May 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Yelverton, of Chester Village, Goshen, Orange Co., New York