Page:History of Delaware County (1856).djvu/396

 372 HISTORY OF of an honored parent^ and borne anotlier of our Revolutionary fathers to the tomb. At Davenport Centre, on the 28th October, Abijaii Paine, Esq., aged about eighty years, formerly of Meredith, In New York City, on the 12th ult., at his residence, after a short illness, Samuel Sherwood Davenport, in the 43rd year of his age. His wife, Martha Davenport, survived him only five days. Their remains were interred in the Masonic grounds, at Cypress Hill Cemetery. The deceased formerly re- sided in Delhi, and will still be remembered by numerous ac- quaintances. In Hobart, on the 28th February, 1854, Mrs, Abioail Marvine, relict of Anthony Marvine, E-sq., in the 80th year of her age. Though not the oldest inhabitant of Hobart, yet it is not known, that any person has resided in this region so many years, or that any one came earlier, she having removed hither in 1784, with her father's family, then a child of ten years. For many years, there was neither school-house nor place of public worship. The early settlers were subject to many pri- vations and hardships, but they were gradually surmounted, and a number of Episcopal families having removed hither from Connecticut, they were enabled to erect the church edi- fice now standing in Hobart, on the 4th of July, 1801. Mrs. Marvine was then 27 yeai^ old. It was the only place of pub- lic worship in the town of Stamford for some time, and is believed to be the oldest Episcopal church within a circuit of fifty miles. In 1810, Mrs, Marvine lost her husband, a lawyer of large practice for those times, and living as he died, among a rural and scattered population, leaving his widow with eight children, the eldest being only seventeen yeai^s, and the youngest about four months old. The care of providing for, and educat- ing so large a family, together with the responsibility of closing