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Cornell University ml Library ^ The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924079745968 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 924 079 745 968 Family-Histories AND Genealogies IN THREE VOLUMES— VOLUME THIRD Press of Tutttey Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven. Family-Histories AND Genealogies Volume Third CONTAINING ©eueatofltcal antr Sfografjijital iWouofltapi)© ON THE FAMILIES OF LEE AND MARVIN AND CLARKE (OR CLARK) NOTES WITH TWENTY-NINE PEDIGREE-CHARTS AND TWO CHARTS OF COMBINED DESCENTS IN A SUPPLEMENT SEPARATELY BOUND BY ?It»toavti Eifctrftrfle Saltetmrg AND 1892 PRIVATELY PRINTED ^w 1 11 W4'< *iM COPYRIGHT, 1892 BV EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY AND EVELYN McCURDY SALISBURY — " ®l)c time is coming r»l)en tlje sociologist ano tl)e Ijistorian mill make an e£tensi»e nse of ttje facts so laborionslg anb sgstematicalls classified bg genealogists" Prof. G. B. Goode. : " CONTENTS Title of Third Volume ....... On the Scientific Value of Genealogical Facts, by Prof. Goode iii %U (pp. 1-76) Various forms of the name ; several families of immigrants not known to be related ...... 1 One or more of them believed by Col. Chester to have come from Cheshire, Eng., where the first of the name dates from the 12th century ...... 2 Notice of some English branches of the family ... 2 Several Lee families of the United States ... 4 This monograph devoted to the family of Thomas Lee of Saybrook and Lyme ...... 6 Copy of an old unprinted record of the family ... 7 The first Thomas Lee's wife was a daughter of a Mr. Brown, who was the ancestor of the benefactors of Brown Univer- sity ....... • Extract from " The Chad Browne Memorial Saybrook in colonial times ..... Descendants of Thomas and Phoebe (Brown) Lee Mrs. Elizabeth (Hyde) Lord ...... Mrs. Phoebe (Hyde) Griswold ..... The substance of Chancellor Walworth's account of the first genera- tion of Hydes in New England ..... CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE Pres. Grover Cleveland ...... 70 The family of David Lee of Ridgefield, Conn., supposed, but not proved, to belong to the Lee family of Saybrook 72 Letter from the Countess von Waldersee to Mrs. Hoppin 75 JHarbfn (pp. 77-213): Introduction by the author, Mr. W. T. R. Marvin 77 Original name spelled, indifferently, Marvin, Marvyn and Mervyn ........ 79 Result of the search for the ancestral home and family of the New England Marvins ..... 80 The first Marvins in Connecticut were Reginold, Matthew and Hannah ........ 87 Children of Francis and Hannah (Marvin) Barnard 88 Matthew Marvin ...... 89 His descendants ....... 9i PAGE Mrs. Mary (Marvin) Bushnell and her family, showing one line of descent of the author of this monograph ... 92 Names of a few of the eminent men among her descendants . 93 Mrs. Sarah (Marvin) Goodridge-Curtis and her family . 94 Mrs. Hannah (Marvin) Seymour and her family ... 95 Mrs. Abigail (Marvin) Bouton and her family .... 96 Mrs. Rachel (Marvin) Smith and her family ... 96 Matthew Marvin the second ...... 97 His descendants ....... 98 Reginold Marvin ....... 104 His Will 109 His children : Mrs. Mary (Marvin) Waller, Lieut. Reinold Marvin 112 V11-3 CONTENTS CONTENTS : CONTENTS Pedigree-charts (I.-XXIX.) Griswold ....... XIV. XV. DeWolf XVI. XVII. Wolcott ....... XVIII. Pitkin ........ XIX. Text Drake ; with Descent of Amye (or Ann) Grenville, of Sir Thomas in Grenville, of Elizabeth Prideaux and of Philip (or Phillippa) Volume Dennis ....... XX. Second Ogden XXI. XXII. Johnson XXIII. Diodati ........ XXIV. Lee XXV. Text in Volume Third Marvin XXVI.-XXIX. Two Charts of Combined Descents. ; Cee HIS family-name, even in cases of known affinity of descent, appears in several different forms. Lee, Lea, Leigh, Laigh Legh and Ley are only varieties of name borne by different branches of one common family. The name Lay is, doubtless, originally the same ; but the family it designates has been so long distinct that no 1 common origin with others similarly called is discoverable. The geneal- ogist finds, also, several families— at least in New England—between which, though bearing one or the other of the names recognized as belonging to all of them, and believed to be akin to one another, no relationship has been as yet traced. In the order of their emigration, as presented by Mr. William Henry Lee of New York, at a gathering of the descendants of John Lee of Farmington, Conn., in 1884, they are the families of " 1 st, John Lee (Leigh), who settled in Agawam (now Ipswich) in 1632 ; Lee, who settled in Hartford ; and Farmington "2d, John 1635 1641 ; " 3d, Thomas Lee, who died on his passage to this country, leaving a, wife and children, and through the male line perpetuated the name, they having settled in Saybrook in 1641 ; "4th, Richard Lee, who settled upon the James River in Virginia in the ancestor of those of the name in that State 1 64 1, and was ; " 5th, Thomas Lee, of whom the earliest records seem to be about 1700, and whose descendants are known, variously, as the Boston, Brain- tree or Salem Lees." " 1 In Notes and Queries for April 21, 1888, we read of Sir James Ley that the name is pronounced St. Lee ;" and in the same for May 26, 1888 : "as to the pronunciation, the registers of Mar)' Aldermary (Hart. Soc.) show Ley and Lay as interchangeable forms. — im But, although these several families have not been yet brought together into a common line of ancestry, there is a belief prevalent in some of them, whether or not derived from any distinct tradition or record, that their original English home, from which they scattered widely, was in the county of Chester. Great weight belongs to the opinion expressed on this point by the late Col. Chester of London, himself a descendant of Thomas Lee of Saybrook and Lyme, Conn., who wrote, the year before he died, to one of the family of John Lee of Farmington, Conn., as follows : ". is of a Shropshire . in my opinion it will be found that our ancestor " branch of the name, which dates back to the 14th century, in the time of Edward III the Lord of the Manor of that time being described as " e e of ' Sir Walter at Lee of y Mannor of Lee of Lee Hall, there in y Parish e e e Wibenbury in y County Palatine of Chester y 36 of King Edward y 3, whose " ancestors had been there seated for ages.' For farther explanation, we make a few notes on the family spoken of by Col. Chester, and by a writer in " The Critic " presently to be are condensed from English authorities. referred to ; which The first ancestor mentioned by name was " Hamon Lord of the Mediety of Ffigh Legh, temp. Henry II. [1 154-1189]." His great grandson Richard de Legh had a daughter Agnes de Legh who married Richard de Lymm, 2 and had a son Thomas who took the name of Legh and half the Mediety of High Leigh. His son Thomas Legh was progen- 3 itor of the Leighs of West Hall, High Leigh. John, another son of this Agnes by another husband, taking the name of Legh, was progenitor of 2 " Old and honourable as is the descent of the Leighs of the West Hall, the Lymmes from whom they sprang were even still more ancient"—Burke's Landed Gentry, ii. 946. 3 The Lee family of Hartwell, co. Bucks, "an offshoot of Lee or Legh of High Legh and Lyme, . estates about 1268 co. Chester . has held its present from through an uninterrupted succes- " sion — Id., ii. 940. ; &ee the Leghs of Adlington, Annesley, Lyme, Ridge, Stoneleigh, Stockwell, Isall, Beckton, Booths, etc." John Gough Nichols, in "The Herald and Genealogist," 5 speaks of the " At Lees " (of Wibenbury) as " a gentle, knightly, and noble family of considerable renown, and formerly of high position." He found in possession of W. J. Legh Esq., M. P., of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, arms which connected the Leghs of Lyme with the Leghs or Lees of Wibenbury. One branch of the Wibenbury family were the Lees of Quarrendon, and the Lees of Ditchly; one member of which was Sir Henry Lee the celebrated Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth's time another, Sir Henry Lee of Ditchly, co. Oxon, was created a Baronet by King James I. in 1611. His great grandson Sir Edward Henry Lee was by King Charles II. raised to the peerage as Earl of Litchfield, Viscount Quarrendon, and Baron Lee, in 1674. Many representatives of the family are mentioned by Nichols. Different branches had given to them different arms, used different modes of spelling their name, and were established in many counties. One branch of the old family of Cheshire has borne the distinctive title of " the Leghs of Lyme " down to the present time. From the Stoneleigh branch descended Sir Thomas Leigh Knt. of Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth, who was created a Baronet in 161 1. The present (1887) head of the family is Baron William Henry Leigh of Stone- leigh, LL.D., Lord- Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of co. Warwick, Col. 3d Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt. and a Governor and Trustee of Rugby School, etc. He married Lady Caroline Amelia daughter of the second Marquis of Westminster, and has had several children. He is seated at Stoneleigh Abbey. Another line which descended from the Stoneleigh Abbey branch were the Earls of Chichester, which title became extinct in 1667. They 4 Id., ii. 943-44 "The ancestors of this noble family assume their surname from the township of High Leigh, co.