Mareen Duvall

Mareen Duvall
Coat of arms of Mareen Duvall
Born	Marin Duval 1625 Nantes, Kingdom of France
Died	1699 (aged 74) Province of Maryland
Nationality	French
Spouse(s)	Mary Stanton
Children	"Maruis" (Mareen the Elder), John, Eleanor, Samuel, Susannah, Lewis, Mareen (the younger), Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth Roberts, Johanna Poole, Benjamin

Mareen Duvall (1625–1699) was a French Huguenot and an early American settler.

He was born Marin Duval, at Nantes, France in 1625 and arrived in the Province of Maryland on August 28, 1650. He received a patent from the first proprietors of the Maryland Colony, the Calvert family on that day for La Val, named after his family's estate in the County of Laval, an independent county created in the 15th century in the County of Maine, on the south side the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

He became quite prosperous and his Middle Plantation in Davidsonville, Maryland and La Val were "as luxurious and courtly as any of the manors of the English gentry."

He died in 1699 and his third and final wife, Mary Stanton, administered his substantial estate. Duvall had purchased sizeable tracts of land, including Catton, later known as Belair as well as owning Middle Plantation in Davidsonville, Maryland. Combined, he owned several thousand acres in Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties. It is believed that the original house called Middle Plantation was located somewhere along Rutland Road.

In 1705, his son, John Duvall and his wife Mary deeded land to Queen Anne Parish to construct St. Barnabas Church. Mareen Duvall's widow, Mary went on to marry Colonel Henry Ridgley (1635-1710) and later after his death, Reverend Jacob Henderson.