Ellen Weed MARVIN

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• Fact: Daughter of William Weed Marvin and Ella Fanny Cornwall

Ellen married Thomas Haywood KNAPP on 28 Oct 1862. Thomas (son of Alanson B. KNAPP and Harriet HAYWOOD) was born on 22 Jan 1827 in Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York; died on 12 Oct 1914 in Franklin County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Parker Delos KNAPP was born on 10 Dec 1868 in Unadilla, New York; died in Dec 1939.

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]

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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]