When Gen Seth Marvin was born on 15 February 1745, in Oxford, Orange, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Gen Elihu Marvin, was 25 and his mother, Abigail Yelverton, was 23. He married Mary Julia Polly Little about 1764, in Oxford, Blooming Grove, Orange, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 August 1815, in Blooming Grove, Orange, New York, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Chester, Chester, Orange, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English (mainly Leicestershire and Lincolnshire): from the Middle English personal name Merefin, Merevin, Old English Merefin. This is probably formed with Old English mere ‘sea’ + Finn (a personal name derived from the ethnic name). Alternatively, it may be a borrowing of an unrecorded Old Norse name Møra-Finnr.
Slovenian: nickname from marvin, the name of a tart light red wine.
French: unexplained.
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