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WINNEPAUKE-HANFORD DEED
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The text to above is found on page 28. As Mr. Hanford had died during the deed's execution and acknowledgment-interval, its certification may perhaps be construed as an act of memory-respect to the dead and of loyalty to the living. The witnesses were a younger Hanford son and a neighboring Gregory son.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT-TRANSLATION.
Winnipauk, Indian, subscriber doe acknowledge ye above instrument to be his free act and deed before me, in Norwalk, December 28, 1698: Nathan Gold, Asst.
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NORWALK MALE DOCUMENTARY CENSUS.
1650-1700. ENGLISH. " Ludlow Agreement" Settlers-1650.
Church, Edward. Keeler, Ralph, Sr. Ruscoe, Nathaniel.
Ely, Nathaniel.
Marvin, Matthew, Sr. Seymour, Richard.
Graves, Isaac.'
Olmstead, Richard.
Spencer, Thomas.'
Hales, Thomas,
Richards, Nathaniel.
Webb, Richard.
Holloway, John.'
Ruscoe, John. "And some others."
Additional - Runckingheage" Deed Settlers-1651.
Beckwith, Stephen.
Fitch, Joseph.
Marvin, Matthew, Jr.
Ely, Samuel.2
Haies, Nathaniel.
More, Isaac.
Fitch, Thomas, Sr.
Lumes, Samuel.“
.Additional " List of Accounts" Settlers-1654.
Bryant, 3 Nash, Edward.
Raiment, Richard. Whiting, Giles.
Additional " Table of Estates" Settlers-1655.4
Abbott, George, Sr.
Hanford, Thomas, Rev.
Marsh, Jonathan.
Beacham, Robert.
Homes, Richard.
Sension, Matthias, Sr.
Bouton, John, Sr.
Hoyt, Walter.
Sension, Matthias, Jr.
Campfield, Matthew.
Keeler, Walter.
Sension, Matthew.
Gregory, John, Sr.
Kellogg, Daniel.
Seymour, Thomas.
Hales, Samuel.
Lupton, Thomas.
Additional - 1656" Settlers.
Morgan, Owen.
Reid, William.
.Additional " Table of Home Lots " Settlers.
Benedict, Thomas, Sr. Fenn, Joseph.
Benedict, Thomas, Jr. Fitch, Thomas, Jr.
Pickett, James. Platt, Joseph.
Benedict. John.
Gregory, John. Jr.
Sension, Mark.
Betts, Thomas.
Gregory, Jakin.
Smith, Samuel.
'Tentatively. if at all, in Norwalk.
2Uncertain as to any Norwalk connection other than witness to deed.
SAlexander Bryan. A Milford real estate agent, who operated in Norwalk. +Widow Morgan appears also in this list.
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Bushnell, Richard.'
Haies, Samuel.
Campfield, Samuel. Keeler, John.
Comstock, Christopher.
Ketchum, Joseph.
Crampton, John.
Lockwood, Ephraim.
Stewart, Robert. Taylor, Thomas. Ward, Thomas.
Additional " Hinman Catalogue " Settlers.
Belden, John.
Hyatt, Thomas.
Raymond, John.
Barnum, Thomas.
Messenger, Andrew. Reed, John.
Belden, Samuel.
Perkins, Jonathan.
Betts, Thomas, Jr.
Platt, John.
Smith, Joseph. Smith, Thomas.
Additional "Grantees" Settlers.
Beebe, James.
Gregory, Judah.
Nash, John.
Benedict, Samuel.
Hoyt, John. Rusco, William.
Betts, Samuel.
Jupp, James.
Sention, Ebenezer.
Buckingham, Stephen, Rev.
Ketchum, Edward.
Sention, Joseph.
Campfield, Nathaniel. Miller, James.
The underneath roll, dated March 20th, 1656, " of the names of inhabitants that are to attend at Town Meetings" is valuable in that it is the documentary census of the male residents, of lawful age, of Norwalk up to that time.
Abbott, George. Hoyt, Walter.
Olmsted, Richard.
Beckwith, Stephen.
Jupp, James.
Reed, William.
Betts, Thomas.
Keeler. Ralph.
Ruscoe, John.
Bouton, John. Keeler, Walter.
Richards, Nathaniel.
Campfield, Matthew. Kellogg, Daniel.
St. John, Matthew, Sr.
Ely, Nathaniel. Lupton, Thomas.
St. John, Matthew, Jr.
Fitch, Thomas. Marsh, Jonathan.
St. John, Mark.
Gregory, John. Marvin, Matthew, Sr.
Seymour, Thomas.
Hales, Thomas.
Marvin, Matthew, Jr.
Ward, Thomas.
Hanford, Thomas.
Moore, Isaac.
Webb, Richard.
Hayes, Nathaniel. Morgan, Owen.
Holmes, Richard. Nash, Edward.
iWas of Saybrook. Ile had four children-Jo- seph, Richard, Mary and Mona. Hle died, and his widew ( Maria Marvin, daughter of Matthew, Sr.)
married in 1680, Thos. Adgate of Norwich, and had Abigail, Sarah, Rebecca and Thomas. She died Mar. 29. 1713.
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Register of Additional Male Settlers who came to, or who attained majority in, Vortcalk, from 1656 to 1700.
Abbott, George, Jr.
Daniel.
Jonathan.
John.
Cornish, --.
Fenn, Benjamin.
.. Edward.
Applegate, John.
Barnum, Thos. Jr.
John.
Bartlett, John.
Belden, William.
Betts, John.
James.
.. Daniel.
Joseph.
Jonathan. Lyon, Andrew.
.. Thos. (son of John, jr) Lupton, Peter.
.. Samuel, Jr. John. (son of Jakin.) Marvin, Thomas.
James.
Goldsmith, Joseph.
Miller, Samuel.
Blackleach, John.
.. Benoni.
Boult, John.
Bouton, John, Jr.
.. Matthew.
.. Joseph.
Brown, James, Sr. ". Jr.
Hayes, James.
Haynes, William.
Hoyt, John, Sr.
Pickett, James, Jr. .. John.
Butler, John.
.. Zerubbabel.
Platt, John, Jr.
Campfield, Ebenezer.
Samuel.
Joseph.
Churchill, Robert.
" Thomas.
" Josiah.
Clapham, Peter.
Keeler, Ralph, Jr.
" Samuel.
1 IHe married Oct. 12, 1675, Hannah, born Dec. 12, 1654, daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Marvin) Sey- mour, and had no sons, but seven daughters. He re- moved from Norwalk to Danbury. The children were Hannah ( Mrs. Samuel Knapp) ; Mary ( Mrs. John Taylor) : Abigail (wife of Rev, Seth Shove, the
Comstock, Daniel.
Keeler, John. .. Samuel.
Samuel.
.. Jonas.
Copp, John.
Corsair, Richard.
Kellogg, Benjamin.
Daniel, Jr.
Allen, Henry.
Fitch, John, Sr.
John, Jr.
Gregory, Samuel. (son of Jakin) Ketchum, Nathaniel.
.. Josiah. Lees, William.
". John. (son of Judah.) Lockwood, Daniel.
Joseph. .. Eliphalet.
John.
Benedict, Daniel.
.. John, Jr.
Hanford, Thos. Jr.
Monroe, David. Olmsted, John.
James, Sr.
Eliezur.
Elnathan.
" Jr.
Joseph.
Nathan.
Ovitt, Thomas.
Bushnell, Richard. Francis.1 .. Jr.
Theophilus.
Samuel.
". Thos. Messenger, Daniel.
Joseph.
Samuel.
first minister of Danbury) ; Lydia (Mrs. John Fitch3d. (son of John 2d., son of John Ist., son of Thomas Ist.); Mercy (Mrs. John Bostwick, Jr., of New Milford); Rebecca and Judith, who were unmarried, in 1712; Francis Bushnell's Norwalk house was on the Fair- field Path (Strawberry Hill Road.)
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Platt, Joseph. (son of John.) St. John, James.
Taylor, Thos. Jr.
Raymond, John, Jr.
..
Samuel.
.. John.
..
Samuel. Thomas.
.. Joseph.
Thomas.
Seymour, Matthew.
Tuttle, David.
Reed, John.
Seymour, John.
Warner, Ralph.
" Jr.
Sherwood, Isaac.
Warren, Edmond.
.. Thomas.
Smith, Richard.
Webb, Ebenezer.
Roach, John.
Stephenson, Jonathan.
Whitney, Henry.
Rockwell, Joseph. Stewart, James.
.. Henry. Jr.
.. Jonathan.
" Jonathan.
.. John, Sr.
.. Thomas. John.
Rusco, Nathaniel.
Stone, Rev. Mr.
Williams, James.
.. Thomas.
Wood, Richard.
Schrivener, Benjamin.
Sturdevant, William. John.(son of Wm.)
The foregoing is a copy from the ancient records of the male inhabitants of age, both "Indian and English," of Norwalk, during the town's first fifty years story. The English named inhabitants may justly be denominated the Norwalk "proprietors," the earliest laid out home-lots of whom are indicated on page 39, and reference to which, as well as to their occupants ascent and descent, has here logical place.
LINEAGE PREFACE.
In regard to this work's "genealogy," its author assumes no statement-responsibility beyond that of his clients American ancestry and affinity. Of the right and reasonableness of introduced foreign family data the reader must be the judge.
HOME-LOT 1.
JOHN GREGORY, SR., of Lot I, was the occupant of the southmost Towne Street home (see diagram, page 35) in earliest Norwalk. Eight acres were recorded to him (in- clusive of the four acres purchased from his adjoining neighbor, Stephen Beckwith). Of this plot he gave one acre and four rods to his son John, Jr. The " Towne Street" began at the S. E. corner of his door-yard, S. and S. W. of which premises was a lane-way (now lower East Avenue) leading to the water's edge. The Towne Street (East Avenue of 1896) was first staked out, (by Richard Olmsted probably) as far north as the crest of Earle's hill, the north limit, in 1650, of the habitation settlement.
John Gregory, Sr. executed his will Aug. 15, 1689, and his wife is represented at Court (Fairfield) as a widow on Oct. 9th, following, on which date she placed her property in the hands of Rev. Thomas Hanford and Sergt. John Platt. Mrs. Gregory died during that same month, and on Nov. I following, the heirs came to an agreement in regard to her estate. The brothers John and James Benedict, who had married the sisters Phoebe
.. John, Jr.
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and Sarah Gregory, accepted their wives' portions, of which Gregory's Point was a part,' and the remainder of the widow's effects was divided among the five Gregory brothers, the oldest of whom, John, Jr., took the homestead.
ORIGIN.
In an ancient New England record "began, June 21 day, A. D. 1648 " occurs as as follows : The Court ordered June 19, 1665, "the eldest son of Henry Gregory, being John Gregory, to administer upon his estate." The order is destitute of locality affixment, but it is to be found in the Probate archives of Fairfield County, where Norwalk testament- ary registries, prior to 1800, are preserved. This first named Henry Gregory is supposed (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 304) to have been the "Henry Gregory of Boston, 1633, and later of Springfield," who was son (see Turner's Grentham) of John and Alicia Gregory, who were son and daughter-in-law of Thomas Gregory, who was son of Hugo and Maria Gregory, who were children of William, son of Adam Gregory of Highhurst, who is assumed in American Ancestry, vol. 1, page 33, to be son of Charles, son of John Gregory, Lord of the Manors of Fresely and Asfordby, whose wife was Maud, daughter of Sir Roger Motan, Knight of Peckletan, County Leicester.
John Greggoire or Gregory, of Norwalk, may possibly have been the son of the afore-mentioned Henry Gregory of Boston. Humphrey Hyde2 of Fairfield, who, Schenck says, was of the best blood of England, appointed his "friend John Gregory of Norwalk," to be overseer of his will .- Fairfield Probate Records.
The children of John "" and Sarah Gregory were :
GENERATION II.
JOHN, JR. JACHIN.
JUDAH ; removed to Danbury.
JOSEPH : bap. July 26, 1646.
THOMAS ; bap. March 19, 1648.
PHOEBE; married John Benedict.
SARAH ; born Dec. 3, 1652, married James Benedict.
The second generation of the Gregory and other ancient home-lots proprietors will be elsewhere followed down. Such genealogy, nevertheless, is "anticipated," and topic- order pardonably broken by occasional insertion like to that which here appears.
'Recorded to John Benedict and James Benedict by order of the overseers and administrators, three parcels of land noted in the inventory of the estate of the deceased Sarah Gregory, by her willed to them according to the will of her husband expressed in his deed of gift to her; one parcel of the said land lying on the poynt commonly called Gregory'> Point, the said parcel containing seven acres and a half, more or
less. Bounded on the east with a creek, commonly called Charles Creek; west and south with the har- bor; north with the land of Samuel Smith .- Norwalk Town Records, vol. I, fol. 95.
-Claimed to have been of same family as Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor of Eng- land during the reign of Charles II, whose daughter was wife of the Duke of York. afterwards James II.
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ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. JABEZ GREGORY.
Gen. I .- JOHN AND SARAH GREGORY.
" II .- THOMAS AND ELIZABETH (PARDEE) GREGORY.
One day-it was Sunday, Oct. 20, 1650-in the same autumn that the Founders were vigorously felling the trees in the Norwalk wilds wherefrom to form their transient cabins, there stood in the town of New Haven and before a colonial magistrate, a young Englishman, whom the Governor was then and there marrying to a daughter of one of his most noted subjects. The groom was a parentless Huguenot, George Pardee by name, and his bride was Martha, daughter of "Judge of Civil Affairs" Hon. Richard Miles. The man did " well" in his selection of a partner, and had five children born to him by Martha, his first wife, one of whom, Elizabeth, was to become an ancestress of a long line of Norwalk children. Elizabeth Pardee was just past nineteen years and six months when, on Christmas day, 1679, she wedded a Norwalk son, Thomas Gregory, baptized in New Haven by Rev. John Davenport. Mr. Gregory was almost twelve years his wife's senior. In younger life he had been engaged in " winning his spurs" in the Indian wars.
Thomas and Elizabeth Gregory,' (see foot note p. 466) son and daughter-in-law of John Gregory'st., had several children. Ebenezer, born Oct. 26, 1683, died May 30, 1761, married Dec. 11, 1711, Mary, daughter of John and Rebecca2 (Lindall) Fitch, grand- daughter of Thomas Fitch, the settler. These had a large family-nine children-of which Jabez, born Jan. 1738, was one of the youngest members. His father gave him, Apr. 8, 1760, one-half of his home-lot on " Pudden Lane," (upper Main Street, 1896), which lot at that time extended to the river. He also gave Jabez and his brother Elijah, one-half of the rural township of Sharon, in Conn., minus one hundred and twenty Sharon acres already given by him to his son Joseph.3
On Jan. 20, 1762, Capt. Jabez (son of Ebenezer) Gregory, married Mercy, daughter of Moses and Mercy (Olmsted) St. John. Moses St. John was a son of James and Mary (Comstock) St. John. He married Mercy. daughter of Nathan and Mercy (Comstock)
'After Thomas Gregory's decease, his widow, Elizabeth (Pardee) Gregory married2d., Lieut. John Olmsted, son of Richard the settler.
2A "Rebecca" Fitch Bible, 1740, is preserved in Norwalk.
3Joseph, son of Ebenezer and Mary Gregory, re- moved in 1759 to Sharon, thence to Greenbush, N. Y., and thence to Catskill in the same State. He had six sons, Stephen, Justus, Elias, Ebenezer, Uriah M. and Daniel. His two daughters were Mary and Hannah. Stephen, son of Joseph, and nephew of Captain Jabez, became a wealthy merchantman. His son, Daniel E., was the founder of the Gregory crockery
house of Albany. Justus, brother of Stephen, was a minister in the Methodist Church. Clarissa, daugh- ter of Justus, married Rev. Dr. Orton of the Presby- terian body, whose son, Edward Orton, LL. I)., was President of the Ohio State University.
Elias, another son of Joseph Gregory, was the grandfather of George F. Gregory of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the principal members of the Standard Oil Co.
Ebenezer, fourth son of Joseph, was the grand- father of Dr. John Gregory, of Washington, D. C. Dr. Uriah M. and Daniel M., the two youngest sons of Joseph, left several children. Two of this Eben- ezer Gregory's daughters married Beldens.
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Olmsted,' (second marriage) and had Mercy,2 born 1739, who, at the age of twenty-three, wedded Captain Gregory. The children of Jabez and Merey Gregory were :
LUCRETIA, born Apr. 10, 1763 ; married William Maltby Betts. MOSES, born Feb. 13, 1776.
Capt. Moses, son of Capt. Jabez Gregory, married Feb. 22, 1789, Esther, born Nov. 9, 1769, daughter of Asa and Ruth3 (Kellogg) Hoyt, and had :
Francis H., born Oct. 9, 1789, Rear-Admiral U. S. N. No Norwalk issue.
Edward, born Dec. 5, 1791 ; died May 20, 1792.
Esther Antoinette,4 born Oct. 5, 1795 ; married Ralph Lockwood.
Frances Augusta, born 1810: married Ira Gregory, M.D.5
'Nathan Olmsted's first wife was Sarah daughter of Ralph2d. and Grace (Lindall) Keeler.
2On Oct. 28, 1839, this remarkable woman died, at the age of one hundred years, in the Jabez Gregory home at " The Spring," in lower Main Street, (site in 1896 of the J. F. Bennett and adjoining store pro- perties). This commodious edifice and its generous grounds somewhat resembled the "Isaacs House," on the other side of "The Bridge." The river bank in the rear was bough - overhung and with the tree growth in other parts of the large yard, the spot was inviting notwithstanding the changes that business surroundings were gradually bringing about. The house-interior had much in common with the fine old-time taste that reigned within a number of the Norwalk homes of the period. The "Spring" was a particular feature of the place. It issued from Harry's (afterward "Mullen) Hill, and was, possibly, first appropriated by Henry Whitney, Sr., the founder of the "mill at the bridge." It was noted for the clarity and coldness of its water, which was taken away in pitchers and buckets by neighboring residents, and in jugs and small casks by the farmers and frolickers who came from the back country to cut salt hay or to clam and fish down the harbor. The spring's over- flow created a silvery stream that crossed the Gregory vard and emptied into the Norwalk river. After Capt. Jabez Gregory's day, this overflow was made to form a basin, which was enclosed, and caused to subserve a sort of refrigerator-purpose for the benefit of lessees of the lower part of the old building, for restaurant use. Mrs. Gregory had three sisters, Susanna, (Mrs. James Raymond of Bedford,) Lydia, (Mrs. William Seymour,) and Sarah, (Mrs. Gershom Hubbell of Greenfield Hill). Her brother Stephen was the grand- father of the late Mrs. Henry Chichester of Brook- lyn, and of the two surviving children of Stephen St. John4th. Mrs. Lawrence M. Stevens and Mrs. Goold Jennings, both of Norwalk.
get (Bouton) Kellogg, the Norwalk Kellogg settlers. One of Mrs. Ruth Hoyt's sisters was Elizabeth, wife of Matthew Reed, (p. 455,) who was the father of Esther, (Mrs. Isaac Belden). Matthew Reed was the son of William and Rachel (Kellogg) Reed. His mother was a daughter of Sam'l. Kellogg. His name- sake-nephew, was the N. Y. City bank president, whose Persian snow-white parlor carpets, banded with crimson, are a Norwalk mention to-day. He was great-grandfather of the Wilson sons, of Belden Neck, of whom the youngest, Victor, is now the only sur- vivor. Another sister of Mrs. Asa. Hoyt (see Kellogg lineage) and aunt of Mrs. Moses Gregory, was Mary, wife of Blackleach Jessup, who was brother of Dr. Ebenezer Jessup, the great-grandfather of Morris K. Jessup, of New York City.
Asa Hoyt, born Aug. 23, 1744, was son of Nathan and Elizabeth Hoyt. His sister Eunice was the wife of Noah Smith, who was the grandfather of the late Stephen and Henry Smith of Newtown Avenue.
4Was social and of old-time nice sense of conven- tional propriety. The old-fashioned Gregory " after- noon tea" invitations were thus language-couched :
"Miss Gregory's compliments to.
and requests the pleasure of your companyat her home, etc."
5Dr. Ira Gregory, born Jan. 31, 1804, who belonged to the school of pathology of which the skillful Drs. David H. Nash of Bridgeport, David Richmond of Westport, Nehemiah Perry of Ridgefield, Samuel S. Noyes of New Canaan, Nathaniel D). Haight of Stam- ford and Uriah Rogers (Sr. and Jr.) Jonathan Knight, John A. McLean, Emery Bissell and Samuel Lynes of Norwalk were members, was a sage, safe and sym- pathetic physician of this latter town. Himself and brethren named represented talent, and were profes- sionally successful. He was the great-grandson of Matthew Gregory, Ist. (son of Jachin, son of John Gregory Sr.,) who owned the eligible sites to-day of the Norwalk Baptist Church and its neighboring Bel-
3She was the daughter of Samuel Kellogg, zd. born Dec. 23. 1706, who was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Platt) Kellogg, who was the son of Daniel and Brid- den and Betts proeprties. Matthew GregoryIst. was
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Frances Augusta, daughter of Capt. Moses and Frances Esther Gregory, married July 26, 1842, Ira (M.D.) son of Moses and Abigail Gregory of Wilton, and had :
James G., born May 12, 1843.
Julia Augusta, born May 12, 1843 ; died March 19, 1859.
Esther Abby, born April 19, 1847 ; married Albert Ernst Barclay.
Virginia Antoinette ; married G. Willis White, Jan. 10, 1872.
James G. Gregory, M.D., son of Ira and Frances Augusta Gregory, married Dec. 5, 1877, Jeanette Lindsley, daughter of Rev. Timothy (M.D.) and Jeanette L. Pinneo,' and had :
Edward Slauson ; (Ward), born April 2, 1879.
Jeanette Lindsley, born Dec. 31, 1881.
Alyse Earle, born July 19, 1882.
HOME-LOT II
NATHANIEL HAYES, SR., of Lot II, and concerning whom Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., orator in 1851, at the two hundredth celebration of the founding of Norwalk, declares "nothing certain is known of his origin," was in Norwalk as early as 1655. He came hither, it would appear, with a junior brother, Samuel,'st. born 1640. Nathaniel had a large family. He reported, in 1672, seven children, of whom three, possibly, died young, as at the drawing of his will, Apr. 7. 1705, and its inventory, Mar. 12, 1706-7, these children only are mentioned :
SAMUEL, 2d. NATHANIEL, 2d.
RACHEL ; (Mrs. Alexander Messenger.) JAMES.
the father of Ezra Gregory, Ist. the patriot, whose daughter Sarah married Jesse Sterling, who was the father-in-law of the late P. C. Calhoun, President of the Fourth National Bank, N. Y. City. President Calhoun's grandson, the late Harry W. Latham of Los Angeles, Cal., one of the pnrest and most prom- ising of Norwalk school youth, and one of the rarest of his rising generation, died this year, greatly be- loved and deeply lamented.
The parent of Ezra Gregory, Ist. selected for a home for two of his sons, Ezra and Matthew, 2d., the site in the green Wilton field, and beneath its blue sky, to-day the ownership of Julian Gregory. The old house, out of the portals of which passed the valorous Ezra Ist., who lives in the veneration of " children's children " of the third generation, exists to this hour. From thence emanated Benjamin, the youngest of the family of Ezra, Ist. and who was the father of the more recent Dudley S. Gregory, the New Jersey capitalist, and of New York and Jersey City ferry fame. Mary, the sister of Dudley S., be-
came the wife of one of this nation's artists, CATLIN, the Indian painter, of whose high name time and change cannot rob him. Hisworks adorn the Smith- sonian Institute, Washington, D. C.
Matthew, 2d. brother of Ezra, Ist. occupied the still standing structure on the hill, the first to the west of the Wilton Congregational Church. At the time of Tryon's Danbury raid, the troops as they approached Matthew Gregory's dwelling, struck up a drum air. The men at once drove the horses and cattle to the woods. Upon reaching the house a shot - volley was discharged, but with no harmful effect. Mrs. Gregory at that time was praying with and protecting her children in the cellar.
Dr. Ira Gregory of Norwalk, was the son of Mo- ses, who was the son of Ezra Gregory.
'Timothy Stone Pinneo, born at Milford, Conn., Feb. 18, 1804. Graduated from Yale College, 1824, and from Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, as a phy- sician, in 1826. Practiced medicine in the South for several years, when his health gave way. He was of a
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SAMUEL HAYES, SR., brother of Nathaniel, Sr., who was probably in his teens when he arrived in Norwalk, married first, a daughter of Isaac More or Moore of Farm- ington,' Conn., and afterward of " home-lot" 16 of Norwalk.
The children of Samuel Hayes, Sr., by his first wife, were :
SARAH, b. Sep. 19, 1673, (Mrs. Matthew Seymour.)
RUTH, (Mrs. John Belden, Sr.) ANN, (Mrs. Justus Bush, ) of Greenwich. ISAAC, born Aug. 27. 1682.
The Norwalk Hayes' (see Hayes lineage) have descended from the two brothers, Nathaniel ". and Samuel ist.
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The here presented Hayes family legend was sent to this country last spring by the Earl of Erroll, of Great Britain.
Legend of the Battle of Loncartie, or the origin of the "bays."
"In the reign of Renneth III. the Danes having invaded Scotland, about the year 980, with a great and numerous army, were opposed by the King Renneth, who gave them bat- tle near Loncartie in Perthshire, where the Scots were worsted and fled.
In their flight through a narrow pass, they were met by a brave Scotsman and his two sons who were labouring their ground near by ; they stopt them, encouraged them to
decided literary turn, and became Professor of Mathe- matics in Marietta College, Ohio, where he met Miss Jeannette Lindsley, daughter of Joel Harvey Linds- ley, President of the institution. Married her June 1, 1848. Five children were born to them, two of whom died in early childhood; three survived, Jean- nette Lindsley, Dotha Stone and James Arthur. Dr. Pinneo died Aug. 2, 1893, at the residence of his daughter. Mrs. James Glynn Gregory, Norwalk, Conn. Mrs. Pinneo died Jan, 23, 1889, in Norwalk.
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