Excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families Elizabeth, daughter of Charles A. Jarvis, of Port land, Connecticut, and granddaughter of Dr. George O. Jarvis, and of Sylvester Gildersleeve. She is a descendant of John Jarvis, elder brother of the second bishop of Connecticut, and, through him, of William Jarvis, one of the first settlers of Hunting ton, Long Island. Through her grandmother, Mrs. George O. Jarvis, whose maiden name was Phila mela Marshall, she traces her descent from Capt. Samuel Marshall, of Windsor, who was killed in the Swamp Fight, in 1675, during King Philip's war; while other lines of her ancestry connect her with early Windsor settlers, including the Grant, Porter and Gibbs families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.