Samuel Marvin Explained

Samuel Marvin
Office:Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk[1]
Term Start:May 1718
Term End:October 1718
Predecessor:Samuel Hanford,
John Read
Alongside:John Bartlett
Successor:Joseph Platt,
John Copp
Birth Date:1664[2]
Birth Place:Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Death Date:1754
Death Place:Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Residence:Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Spouse:Hannah Platt (daughter of John Platt m. ca. 1701)[3]
Children:Matthew Marvin, Samuel Marvin, Abigail Marvin DeForest, Josiah Marvin, Isaac Marvin, Lewis Marvin, Joseph Marvin[4]
Rank:Lieutenant (October 19, 1719)
Unit:South Company of the Norwalk Trainband

Samuel Marvin (1664–1754) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the May 1718 session. He served as a townsman in 1702, 1707, 1710, 1712, 1714, 1717, 1724, and 1727.

He was the son of Matthew Marvin, Jr., one of the founding settlers of Norwalk and Mary Brush Marvin.[4]

On June 3, 1723 he was appointed by a town meeting to a committee to seat the new meeting-house, of which his brother-in-law, Joseph Platt, was chairman.

From February 1732, until his death, he lived in Wilton parish, which, at the time was part of Norwalk. His house in Norwalk was still standing in 1902.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Samuel+Marvin&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=5xYVpaBmRnEC&q=marvin&pg=PA404 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield
  3. http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/wp-docs/Norwalk.pdf Norwalk
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=NfksAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Marvin&pg=PA2002 New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial