Marvin, Rachel (b. BEF 30 DEC 1649)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: Rachel

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: John

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: Mary

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: William

Death: BEF 14 NOV 1676 Wethersfield, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: William

Death: 21 DEC 1702 Stratford, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: Thomas

Death: BEF 15 OCT 1712 Norwalk, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: John

Death: BEF 27 JAN 1706/7 Norwalk, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: John

Death: 22 NOV 1712 Farmington, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hale, House
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the C
onnecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78)
onnecticut River Valley
onnecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishiong Company, 19
78.

Given Name: Samuel

Death: BEF 18 NOV 1745 Norwalk, Connecticut

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The D
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996)
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996.

Given Name: William

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The D
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996)
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996.

Given Name: William

Death: 1 SEP 1414 Belvoir

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The D
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996)
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996.

Given Name: Elizabeth

Death: MAR 1424

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The D
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996)
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996.

Given Name: John

Death: 13 MAR 1422 Meaux, France

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Given Name: Unknown Mistress

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Given Name: Samuel

Death: 18 AUG 1623

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Sir Edwin Sandys is a highly significant figure in the history of both Britain and, although he never came here, of America as well.

Sandys was born in Worcestershire and studied at the Merchant Taylors' School and then Corpus Christi College, Oxford, matriculating in 1577. At Corpus Christi he earned a B.A., M.A., and, B.C.L. degrees. In 1589 he was admitted as a student at the Middle Temple.

At Corpus Christi, he studied under the Reverend Richard Hooker, the noted theologian and close friend of his father, Archbishop Sandys. Sandys gave Hooker much help and advice on the latter's great work, Ecclesiastical Polity.

Sandys entered Parliament in 1589. In 1593 he and his friend George Cranmer began a three- year-long tour of Europe. He stayed abroad after Cranmer returned to England and wrote his Europae Speculum, an examination of the various religious creeds of the western world. Published without the author's authorization in 1605 as A Relation of the State of Religion, Sandys was able to have it suppressed. With his approval, it was published in The Hague in 1629, and subsequently went into many editions and was widely translated. For an age of deep religious divisions, it was an extraordinarily tolerant work.

Sandys returned to England in 1599 and in 1603, on the death of Queen Elizabeth I, he journeyed to Scotland and accompanied King James I on his progress to London. He was knighted by the King at Charterhouse on May 11, 1603. Elected to James's first Parliament, he had a leadership position in it from the start. Politically, Sandys was consistently what today we would call a reformer. He advocated the abolition of many obsolete feudal obligations and privileges, and the ending of the trading monopolies of the great trading companies, policies that were, of course, fiercely resisted by the benificiaries of the status quo. In 1608 he advocated extending the right of counsel to all prisoners and that same year convinced Parliament to keep and publish regular journals of its proceedings, a crucial step in the concept of responsible government.

In 1614, he delivered a speech in Parliament that cost him the friendship of King James, but proved over the ensuing decades to be one of he most influential ever made in that body. The ideas echo to this day in both the British and American Constitutions. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, "he maintained that the origin of every monarchy lay in election; that the people gave its consent to the king's authority upon the express understanding that there were certain reciprocal conditions which neither king nor people might violate with impunity; and that a King who pretended to rule by any other title, such as that of conquest, might be dethroned whenever there was force sufficient to overthrow him."

After the dissolution of this Parliament, Sandys turned his attention to colonial affairs, where he made equally significant contributions. He was a member of the East India Company, serving on its governing committee from 1619 to 1623 and again from 1625 to 1629, and the Somers Islands Company. But his chief efforts were devoted to the Virginia Company. He had been appointed a member of the Council of Virginia in 1607, the year the colony was established and in 1617 was chosen to assist the treasurer, Sir Thomas Symthe, in the management of the company.

He was the principle force behind the granting of a patent to the Pilgrims, allowing them to establish a colony in northern Virginia, which then included New England. In 1619 he was elected to the Treasurership of the Virginia Company, the chief executive position. He immediately began a thorough examination of the company's affairs that resulted in numerous reforms in the finances and governance of the company and the colony in the New World that was still, twelve years after its founding, on shaky ground. A new governor was sent out to Virginia and, acting on the company's instructions that were largely the work of Sandys, he summoned an assembly of Burgesses, modeled on the English House of Commons. The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere. Sandys also secured a monopoly for Virginia tobacco in England, assuring the colony's economic success.

Sandys would have been reelected to the treasurership of the Virginia Company overwhelmingly, but King James sent the company a message forbidding it to elect Sandys and telling it to select from among four names he submitted. The company remonstrated with the king, but he declared that it was "a seminary of seditious parliament, and that Sandys was his greatest enemy." He concluded by telling the Virginia Company, "Choose the devil if you will, but not Sir Edwin Sandys."

On Jun 16 1621, the King had Sandys imprisoned in the Tower, but Parliament raised such an uproar that he soon released him to house arrest. The King took the government of Virginia into his own hands in 1623, and Sandys thereafter devoted most of his energies to the East India Company, although he served in Parliament for most of the rest of his life.

He is buried in Northbourne Church. There is a monument there to him, but no inscription. A plaque, with Latin text, was added to his tomb in the early 19th century by a descendant.

Biographical Note: There are articles on Sir Edwin Sandys in EB, DNB, and other standard sources. A biography of him, Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629, by Theodore K. Rabb, professor of history at Princeton, was published in 1998.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DNB

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: EB
Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1967 edition

Given Name: Edwin

Death: OCT 1629

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Given Name: Myles

Death: 1644

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Given Name: William

Death: young

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Given Name: Margaret

Change: Date: 1 May 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: VHM
Title: Virginia Historical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The Lovelace Family and Its Connections: Sandys of Furnace Fells, Lancashire."

Given Name: Thomas

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003