Came to New England 1635 on the "Increase.” Listed on the passenger list as husbandman Matthew Marvyn, 35, wife Elizabeth 31, Mathew 8, Marie 6, Sara 3, Hanna 1-2.[
[641]] Original proprietor at Hartford. Surveyor of highways. Name on founders monument.[
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He lived at the corner of Village and front streets until the early 1650s. Matthew was also among the original settlers of Norwalk, which town he represented in 1654 in the General Court. (NEHGR 16:36)
Savage’s: MATTHEW, Hartford 1638, an orig. propr. came in the Increase, 1635, from London, aged 35, a husbandman, with w. Elizabeth 31, and ch. Elizabeth in the custom-ho. rec. call. 31, prob. by error for 11; Matthew, 8; Mary, 6; Sarah, 3; and Hannah, 6 mos. He was one of the orig. grantees of Norwalk, and sett. there 1653, rep. next yr. At Hartford he had Abigail, b. bef. 1641; Samuel, bapt. 16 Feb. 1648; and Rachel, 30 Dec. 1649; and d. 1687. Elizabeth m. John Olmstead, surv. him and made her will 15 Oct. 1689; Mary m. 11 Oct. 1648, Richard Bushnell of Saybrook, and in 1680, deac. Thomas Adgate as sec. h. had ch. by ea. and d. 29 Mar. 1713, aged 84; Sarah m. Oct. 1648, William Goodrich of Wethersfield; Hannah m. Jan. 1654, Thomas Seymour; Abigail m. 1 Jan. 1657, John Bouton; and Rachel [[vol. 3, p. 165]] m. Samuel Smith.