Sarah Marvin

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family History: From Descendants of Reinold and Mathew Marvin of Hartford, CT. 1638 and I635, Page 65. 20 SARAH, daughter of Capt. Reinold and Martha (Waterman) Marvin, born 8 March 1715/16, in Lyme, Ct.; died about I792; married 16 March 1742, George, son of Edmund and Mary (Griswold) Dorr, of Lyme, born 4 August 1720, in Hartford, Ct.; died 1 January 1787, in Lyme. She joined the Lyme church in August 1733, and he in October 1741. They settled in Lyme, where he practiced law, and for more than twenty years before the Revolution was King's Attorney for that district; while arguing a case in court he became paralyzed, but lived about twenty years afterwards, an invalid. His father was known as “Sarvant Dorr,” from a satirical remark applied to him during the heat of the religious controversy which followed the “Great Revival " of 1740 [In 1741 about 150 joined the Lyme church.] and ended in the resignation of the Lyme minister. The incident is still a local tradition, but as a similar story is found in other places, it is very likely a myth. George was a nephew of Gov. Griswold, and his sister was the mother of Pres. Griffin of Williams, whose wife was a descendant of Matthew Marvin.

Children (Dorr):

i. Mary, b. 1743, in Lyme; d. 23 Jan'y, 1825, in Truxton, N. Y.; m. 23 Aug., 1760, Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Mary (Ely) Lee, b. 27 Feb., 1740/], in Lyme; d, 2 July, 1826, in Truxton. They had ten chil. (See Hyde Gen., pp. 960, also Ely Ancestry, p. 13, for full account of descendants of Mary and other chil. of this family.) b. in Lyme. They subsequently removed to Bethlehem and Pompey, and finally to Truxton, N. Y.

ii. George, b. 29 Oct., 1746, in Lyme; d. 1o May, 1827, in Sharon, Ct.; m. 31 Dec., 1769, Molly, dau. of Rev. Joseph and Eleanor (Johnson) Lovett, b. 30 Non, 1749, in New London, Ct.; d. 18 March, 1839, in Sharon. He and his wife united with the Lyme church in April, 1771. They had seven chil.

iii. Sarah, b. ; m. 4 Aug., 1785, Elkanah Higgins, of East Haddam, Ct.; they had two chil.

iv. Eunice, b. ; d. 28 Sept., 1824, in Lyme; m. 18 Dec., 1788, Samuel Dudley, son of Thomas and Jemima (Dudley) Sill, b. 4 April, 1745. in Lyme: d. 31 March, 1813; they had five chil. He was a farmer, and res. on or near Grassy Hill, Lyme.

v. Elizabeth, b. ; d. abt. 1825, Lyme, unm.

vi. Lydia, b. ; d. 16 April, 1834, in Cazenovia, N. Y.; m. 13 Jan'y, 1780, Rev. Roswell Beckwith, b. 21 Oct., 1753, in Lyme; d. 2 Feb., 1836. He enlisted in Capt. David F. Sill's company, Col. S. H. Parsons' reg't, in 1775; was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, and confined in the prison ship in New York harbor till exchanged in 1780, when he returned to Lyme, broken in health; his name does not appear in “Connecticut in the Revolution,” but affidavits on record in Washington, establish this statement. He was a Baptist clergyman; in the spring of 1795 they removed to Coeymans, N._Y., and in 1807, to Cazenovia, where he d. They had seven chil. b. in Lyme.

Sarah married George Dorr, son of Edmund Dorr and Mary Griswold, on 16 Mar 1742 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. (George Dorr was born on 4 Aug 1720 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on 1 Jan 1787 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut.)