Display Patriot - P-242154 - Benjamin MARVIN

Benjamin MARVIN

SAR Patriot #: P-242154

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State of Service: NY      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A074639

Birth: 30 Sep 1737 Norwalk / Fairfield / CT
Death: 26 Jun 1822 Alburgh / Grand Isle / VT

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Lieutenant, 3rd Reg't, NY Militia, 1775, no dates
  2. Lieutenant, Capt Daniel Griffing; Col Henry B. Livingston's 2nd Reg't, NY Militia, 01 - 20 Nov 1776
  3. Lieutenant, Capt William Jackson; Col Henry B. Livingston's 2nd Reg't, NY Militia, 1777 - Apr 1778, Saratoga, Valley Forge
  4. Commissioned Captain, 4th Reg't, NY Line, 09 Jan 1778, resgned 23 Apr 1778

Additional References:
  1. Fernow, Berthold. New York in the Revolution. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. 1999, pg 71, 528
  2. U.S, Compiled RevWar Mil Svc Rec, 1775-1783. NY
    • 2nd Reg't. RG: 93; Series: M881; NARA Roll: 686,696
    • 3rd Reg't. RG: 93; Series: M881; NARA Roll: 701
    • 4th Reg't. RG: 93; Series: M881; NARA Roll: 711
  3. Pension S40963
  4. Grave Registry form. National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)
  5. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Mehitable Marvin
Children: Lois; Mary; Sylvia; Clarinda; Esther; Thomas; Anna; Mehitable; Louise; Benjamin;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1942-02-19 NY Unassigned Walter Toine Mott (61101) Clarinda   
1983-11-03 VA Unassigned William Rockwell Griswold (122913) Anne   
1989-02-16 NY 221220 Guy Guyett Milea (132489) Clarinda   
1991-10-03 KS 214971 Walter Ware Birch (137726) Benjamin   
2000-12-18 CT 8237 Lewis Steven Kreger (154949) Mary   
2005-09-29 CT 23767 William Lee Gills III (165753) Thomas   
2006-08-10 VT 26103 David Clesson Arms Sr (167552) Mary   
2013-11-07 NY 55659 David Wade Morton (174980) Esther   
2015-02-20 VT 62719 Robert Chadwick Arms Jr. (193816) Mary   
2015-02-20 VT 62720 Bryant David Arms (193817) Mary   
2015-02-20 VT 62721 Craig Robert Arms (193818) Mary   
2015-02-20 VT 62722 Michael Patrick Arms (193819) Mary   
2015-02-20 VT 62723 Ronald Cummings Arms (193820) Mary   
2015-02-20 VT 62724 Michael James Arms (193815) Mary   
2015-05-18 AZ 63904 Michael Edward Holmes (194655) Lois/Louisa   
2015-05-18 AZ 63905 Sean Michael Holmes (194656) Lois/Louisa   
Burial:
Bush Cemetery (C-0064615)
Location:
Alburgh / Grand Isle / VT / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
103927
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
23189240
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From Burlington, VT: Get on I-89 N in South Burlington. Follow I-89 N to VT-78 W/1st St in Swanton. Take exit 21 from I-89 N.Follow VT-78 W and US-2 W to Town Hwy 55 in Alburgh, turn right



Author: Nils Eric Danielsson
Benjamin Marvin (son of Lieut. John and Abigail (St. John) Marvin)

SAR Ancestor #: P-242154 DAR #: A074639

Service: NY Rank: Captain

Pension Number: *S40963

Service Description: Captain, 4th Regiment

Birth: 30 Sep 1737 Birthplace: Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Death: 26 June 1822 Place: Alburgh, Grand Isle Co., Vermont

Spouse: Mehitable Marvin Married: 1758

Children(The first 6 children were born in Sharon, Connecticut, the next 2 children on Long Island, and Mary was born in Norwalk, Fairfield Co, CT)
1. Mehitable
2. Benjamin
3. Esther
4. Lois
5. Clarinda
6. Anna
7. Thomas
8. Sylvia
9. Mary

Capt. Benjamin, son of Lieut. John and Abigail (St. John) Marvin, born 30 Sept., 1737, in Wilton parish, Norwalk, Ct.; died 22 June, 1822, in Franklin co., Vt.; married 1758, Mehitable, daughter of Thomas and Mehitable (Goodrich) Marvin (see 25, iv, Reinold line), born 19 Nov., 1737; died 25 Sept., 1810.

He was a soldier in the “Old French War”; was commissioned 29 june, 1775, first lieutenant in Capt. Griffin’s company, 3rd N.Y. reg’t (Suffolk co., L.I.); the returns show he recruited 75 men before April, 1776; 21 Nov., 1776, he was captain in the 4th N.Y. reg’t Col. Henry B. Livingston, resigning 23 April, 1778.

He lived for a time in Sharon, Ct., and then settled on the sout side of Long Island and was in command of a militia company there before the Revolution. When Washington was forced to evacuate Long Island, Capt. Marvin sent his company across the Sound to Connecticut and then placing such effects as he could take in a wagon with a single horse, conducted his family through the British lines by night, and arrived in safety at New Canaan, Ct., where they remained until the close of the war. He lost all his property on Long Island, - some six hundred acres of pine lands, with saw and grist mills, etc. Benjamin Marvin was one of the 37 patriots who signed the “Stamford Petition” so-called, remonstrating against allowing the “unprincipled wretches” [Tories who had left their homes in Connecticut to “join the common enemy,” a number of whom “belonged to that infamous banditti Delancey’s corps,”] to return to their former homes and resume their rights and estates as citizens. He settled in Alburgh, Franklin co., Vt., in June, 1787, as appears by his affidavit on matters relating to the British claim of a part of northern Vermont, and was a justice of the peace there in 1792; he was the first town treasurer, representative 1794-7, and a Revolutionary pensioner; he was one of the petitioners for the Masonic Lodge in Burlington, Vt., but being then a Fellow Craft only, his name did not appear in the charter.
Source: Marvin, George Franklin, and William T. R. Marvin. Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct., 1638 and 1635, Sons of Edward Marvin, of Great Bentley, England,. Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin & Son, 1904. 358 - 359.

Valley Forge Muster Roll - The Valley Forge Muster Roll lists Benjamin Marvin as a commissioned Officer, serving as 1st Lieutenant of the 4th New York and promoted to Captain/on Furlough in January 1778. http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/muster.asp

Link to Photo of Marker: Capt. Benjamin Marvin on FindaGrave: Outstanding information supplied by: Chazmanbsr, Herman C. Brown, Vermont Society Sons of the American Revolution. Follow link: Benjamin was commissioned First Lieutenant, November 21, 1776, in Captain William Jackson's Fourth Company, Colonel Henry B. Livingston's Fourth New York Regiment of the Continental Line. Following Captain Jackson's resignation, August 21, 1777, Benjamin commanded the Company during the Battle of Saratoga in both the actions of September 19 and October 7, 1777 against the British forces led by General John Burgoyne. Benjamin was commissioned Captain of his Company, January 9, 1778, while wintering at Camp Valley Forge. Due to fatigues and wounds received on October 7, 1777, Benjamin resigned his commission, April 23, 1778.

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