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State of Service: NY
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Author: Nils Eric Danielsson
Gen Seth Marvin, son of Gen. Elihu and Abigail (Yelverton) Marvin
SAR: P-242195 DAR #: A074700
Service: New York Rank: Captain, Lieutenant
Birth: 2 Feb 1745 Birthplace: Oxford, Cornwall, Orange, N.Y.
Death: 25 Aug 1815 Buried: Marvin Farm Cemetery, Chester, Orange, New York
Spouse: Mary Little
Children: 1. Seth 2. Julianna 3. Sarah 4. Abigail 5. Jeffry 6. Archibald 7. Anthony
Gen Seth Marvin, son of Gen. Elihu and Abigail (Yelverton) Marvin, born 15 Feb., 1745/6, in Oxford, Cornwall township, Orange co., N.Y.; died 25 Aug., 1815; his will is dated 3 Jan’y, 1815, and with a codicil, dated 24 Aug., 1815, was proved 9 Sept., 1815; married Mary [Polly], daughter of Archibald and Sarah Little, of Oxford.
Archibald was a member of the provincial Congress from orange co., in 1775 and ’76; he was a captain in the Oxford Company of the Cornwall reg’t, succeeding Elihu Marvin when the latter was promoted to be lieut.-colonel. Seth was actively engaged in the Revolution; in 1775 he signed the “Association Pledge” in Orange co., in 1775-6 he was first lieutenant of the “Cornwall minute-men,” of which Thomas Moffatt was captain; later he was captain and lieut.-colonel; his commission as colonel in the militia is preserved by his grand-daughter, Mrs. Moses Smith, of Chicago, Ill.; he held this office until he was promoted, 29 March, 1806, to be a brigadier-general. He resided in Chester, then a part of Cornwall, holding office there between 1765 and 1775. He was a school commissioner in 1798 and 1800….He was a member of the New York Assembly from Orange co., for ten terms between 1789 and 1812. Often entrusted with important public duties, he was a commissioner with George Clinton on the boundary line between New York and Pennsylvania.
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. 373 - 374.
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