Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 12

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne.
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: The author,
Number of Pages: 553

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Dr. Pinneo was one of the pioneers in the great work of writing the best school books. He was the author of Pinneo's Grammars, McGuffey's Readers, and other works. He was a man of distinguished abilities, being a brilliant scholar, but of extreme

modesty. He was noted for his piety, and benefited every community in which he lived by his learning and goodness.

"The Farmington, Conn., town records read thus : Nov. 17, 1737, Matthew Seymour of Ridgefield, Sam- uel Seymour and Thomas Seymour of Norwalk to John Belden of Norwalk, a piece of land in Farming- ton that had been the property of their honored gr. grandfather, Mr. Isaac More (or Moore) and also a purchase made by their grandfather, Mr. Samuel Hayes of Norwalk, of their great-grandfather, Mr. Isaac More.

On the Farmington Church register appears :

Ruth Moore, born Farmington, Jan. 5, 1656, bap. at Norwalk.

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rally, telling it was better and more honorable to die in the field fighting for their King and their country, than to fly and afterwards be killed by the merciless Danes ; by thus upbraid- ing their cowardness they were prevailed upon to stop.

The father and his sons having only such arms as their ploughs furnished them with, led back their countrymen, who returned to the charge. They renewed the fight, fell upon the Danes and made a most furious onset, crying aloud, " Help is at hand." The Danes believing that a fresh army had fallen on them, soon gave way, whereby the Scots obtained a complete victory and effectively freed their country from servitude. The battle being over. the old man (afterwards known by the name of Hay) was brought to the King, who gave him and his sons, as just reward of their valour and merit, so much land on the side of the river Tay in the carse of Goneril, as a falcon, set off a man's hand, should fly over before she settled. She flew over about six miles of ground in length which was afterwards called Erroll (and the property remained in the family until 1633 when it was sold in consequence of the extravigance of the tenth Earl.) The King further promoted the old man and his sons to the order of the nobility, and assigned them a coat of arms, viz., argent, three scut- cheons, gules, to imitate that the father and the two sons had been the three fortunate shields of Scotland.

Supporters : two men in country habits, each holding an ox-yoke over his shoulder. Crest : on a wreath, a falcon proper.

The property in Aberdeenshire now in the family was given by Robert Bruce about the year 1 306.

. While the mistletoe bats on Erroll's aik,' And that aik stands fast- The Hays' shall flourish-and their good gray hawk Shall not flinch before the blast ;

But when the root of the aik decays, And the mistletoe dwines- on its withered breast,

The grass shall grow on Gerroll's hearthstane, And the Corbie3 roup+ on the Falcon's nest."" (1) Oak. (2) Fades. (3) Crow or Raven. (4) Croak.

The Mistletoe is the badge of the Hays'. Formerly there grew a large ancient oak in the neighborhood of Erroll, which was full of this plant.

A spray of this Mistletoe, cut by a Hay, had certain charms ; and it was affirmed,

Sarah Moore, born Feb. 12, 1661, bap. Farming- ton, etc.

Here, beyond doubt, we find the Hayes maternity of all of Samuel's line. The Farmington deed regis- tration and the similarity of names-Ruth, Sarah and Isaac being MORE family names, and aferward bes- towed by Samuel Hayes upon his own children- clearly point in such direction. That Nathaniel and

Samuel Hayes were brothers is believed from the fact that the latter speaks of the former as "brother." Samuel Hayes also refers to Nathaniel Richards as " father Richards." It is possible that said Samuel married, for a second wife, a daughter of Nathaniel Richards by his first wife. It also seems that one of the Hayes' married the widow of James Pickett, Ist. of Danbury.

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· when the root of the oak had perished, the grass should grow on the Hearth of Erroll, and a Raven sit on the Falcon's nest.' The oak is gone, and the estate lost to the famlly."

The life-current that finds its source in the arteries of the Earl of Erroll's heroic "Hay " courses the life-channels of a large Norwalk Betts, Belden, Cannon, Seymour and St. John company, and like the vital sap of his Lordship's hardy " aik," it is a fructifying tide. The family's genealogy is an interesting Norwalk study, aside from the legend.

OF HAYES' DESCENT.

After Richard Seymour, of Home-lot II, had been carried from the now Mrs. Theo- docia Bradley house site for burial, his widow, having married a well-known official at the colony's capital, thither removed, taking with her (see note 2, page 40) the three young Seymour children, and leaving behind the oldest child of the family. He, Thomas, had married a daughter of Matthew Marvin'st. and had settled down in life. His son Matthew. named for the lad's grandfather Marvin, married one of the three daughters of Samuel Hayes, Sarah, sister to Ruth, who married John Belden, Sr., and to Ann, who appears to have married a Greenwich Bush. Mrs. Matthew Seymour was evidently a considerate and conscientious woman. The Norwalk pastor, Rev. Thos. Hanford, had now (1694) died, and from the fact that the two Hayes sisters, Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Belden, made a journey to Fairfield to have their two children baptized,' and one-Mrs. Belden-and the

"The brief life story of one ( Ruth Belden) of the little one's taken through the piety of Christian par- ents to Fairfield, and there, that day. (Oct. 7, 1694) baptized, is not destitute of pathos. Little Ruth's mother (Mrs. John Beiden, Sr.) was the daughter of Samuel Haves, whose first wife was, as has been ob- served, from Farmington. We have record of the birth-place of this early New England mother, (Mrs. Samuel Hayes) but we do not know the place of her burial. She probably rests somewhere in the ancient burial ground in the lower part of the town, while her grand-daughter fills the oldest inscribed grave in the bounds of Norwalk, beside which, as one stands and recalls the Fairfield pilgrimage, when its young occu- pant was dedicated to the Lord, and then was brought back to her Norwalk hill - slant home, nigh to the sparkling Strawberry Hill stream, there soon to blanch and fade, these well-known lines seem apposite :

By cool Siloam's shady rill How fair the lily grows; How sweet the breath beneath the hill, Of Sharon's dewy rose.

Lo such the child whose early feet The path- of peace have trud; Whose secret heart with influence - weet 1- upward drawn to God. Be cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay : The rose that blooms beneath the hill Must shortly fade away.

The fitting counterpart of this young sleeper's East Norwalk memorial, reading :

" RUTH BELDEN, Daughter of Lieut. T John and Ruth Belden, aged 14 years, Died Fan'y r' 21, 1:04-5:"

is a slab in the peaceful Greenfield Hill burial ground, on which is thus traced :

"In Memory of WILLIAM JORDAN, who died July 26. 1794. aged 15 years 2 months and 11 days."

Wille Jordan, "alike to friends and strangers dear," was a bright South Carolina lad who was under the parental care of the daughter (Mrs. Presi- dent Timothy Dwight) of a Norwalk mother who, in girlhood, ranged the meadows that constitute the Morgan Avenue of 1896; and the Norwalk application of " Cool Siloam " to little Ruth Belden's short his- tory reminds of the Norwalk association of another gem of Christian hymnology, beginning :

I love Thy kingdom. Lord. The house of Thine abode: The Church our blest Redeemer saved With His own precious blood-

which words flowed from the pen of a son-in-law (Dr. Timothy Dwight) of the same Norwalk Morgan Ave- nue maiden ( Esther Isaacs) referred to in this para- graph.

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husband of the other-Matthew Seymour-to make profession of their faith, is inferred that Mr. Hanford's place was at that time entirely vacant.

To one of these good women, Mrs. Matthew Seymour, was born Thos. Seymour, 3d. (Thomas Seymour 2., son of Thomas ">t., it is supposed died young) who grew to become the progenitor of the Seymour's of " White Oak Shade," New Canaan. Thomas Seymour founded his pleasant home near the bend of the present New Canaan and Darien road, a short distance south of the 1896 Mead corner, at the intersection of the Norwalk and before-mentioned New Canaan highways. Capt. Thomas Seymour had a large family to his namesake son, of which he gave, in 1764, his home. Another son, Ezra Ist, married on Nov. 23. 1769, Abigail Waterbury of Stamford, and had Ezra 2., born Dec. 16, 1771, who remained through life unmarried. He was a faithful attendant at St. Mark's Church, New Canaan, being found, late in life, regularly in his pew on the east side of the chancel, before the same was remodelled. His sister Rebecca, twelve years his junior, married Frederick "". son of Jonathan and Deborah Ayres.' These had a son, Frederick 2d., who sought his bride in one of the old families of Westchester County. She was the daughter of Asa and Sally Raymond of Salem. Like his father and his Ayres uncles, Frederick Seymour Ayres, (Frederick 2d. ) was alert and ambitious, and after a transient New Canaan business career, established himself in the near vicinity of one of the Nation's important and imposing establishments-the Watervliet U. S. Arsenal, in Albany County, N. Y - where he prospered. He finally removed from the Empire State to the West, and there now resides. His daughter Carrie married Col. Frederick St. John Lockwood of Norwalk. Another son of Frederick "t. and Rebecca Seymour Ayres, is Chauncey Ayres, M. D., now of Stamford, while a daughter is the relict of the late Rev. John Purvis, who was an inti- mate of Sir Walter Scott, and a highly esteemed presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

'These two New Canaan foreparents (Deborah was a Scofield) married July 21, 1771, and founded the Ayres home that stood some distance west of the "Platt Farm," on Haynes' Ridge, now the elegant Child estate, " WSIGAUNONTA." Nine children were brought up in this home. The sons became prom- inent business men, while the daughters were actively occupied in household duties during the secular week and seen on Sunday in the sanctuary, to which, cross- ing the Stamford perambulation path and adown

Haynes Ridge, they regularly rode. Fred'k ist. mar- ried Rebecca Seymour, as has been noted, and lived in the central New Canaan abode, now supplanted by the Rogers Clothing establishment. Minot and Jared selected the sightly Clapboard Ilill for residences. Ebenezer chose the sundown slope of Brushy Ridge, and Amos the busy site of the present Benedict & Co. manufactory. Minot was thrice married, his last wife, Lucretia Raymond, having been aunt to Nor- walk's late first Selectman, Oscar W. Raymond. Ebe-

nezer, Amos and Jared married three sisters, the daughters of Samuel Lockwood, whose farm took in grand meadow acres then and now skirting west from the lower end of Canaan Ridge. as far as the Bedford road. Ebenezer was the father of Julia Ann, who married Judge Mason Carter of Norwalk, and the grandfather, through his son Hezron, of Emma, who married William T. Comstock of Norwalk, and whose niece, (Sally ) daughter of her brother, a younger son of Hezron Ayres, married February 7, 1895, Le Grand, oldest son of George HI. Raymond of Nor- walk, whose grandfather, as per Haynes Ridge article, took especial delight in walking along those splendid heights, particularly when the electric clouds were preparing, from behind the odoriferous Bedford .\s- petong (grape growing ) Mountains, for their majestic exhibition o'er William Haynes' broad plateau. The memory of said vicinity's thunder and lightning sublimity in former times has not entirely faded to-day.

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ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF ALLEN HAYES BETTS. HAYES LINE. Gen. I -SAMUEL AND RUTH HAVES. N.

" II .- ISAAC AND ELIZABETH (SHERWOOD) HAVES.

. III .- ISAAC 2nd. AND MARGARET HAVES.

As Isaac Hayes 2d., born March 23, 1703, and his second cousin, Thomas Hayes Ist. James 1.t., Nathaniel ">".) born Jan. 31, 1714, were the two early Hayes known to have gone to the Oblong, and as Thomas'st. did not marry until later,' it follows that Ruth Hayes, born Oct. 18, 1739, "daughter of Col. Hayes of Salem," was possibly and prob- ably a daughter of Isaac Hayes 2. and the same who married Josiah Betts ( Matthew, Thomas 2d., ThomasIst.) born Feb. 5, 1735, of Norwalk. To this pair was born, on the very day (July 21, 1776) that armed men entered the Hayes' old Salem parish Church and stopped a service that was not for a generation resumed, ALLEN HAYES BETTS, a younger child of Josiah and Ruth (Hayes) Betts.

Allen Hayes Betts married, first, Susanna, born Apr. 17. 1776, widow of Lewis Gruman, and daughter of Stephen Gregory, and had :

Antoinette,2 born Apr. 19, 1806 ; Carmi, 1st. born May 24, 1808 ; Allen, born July 6, 1817.

Polly Delia,3 born Dec. 24, 1813 :

Carmi, 't. oldest son of Allen Hayes Betts and wife Susanna, married Oct. 6, 1834, Julia, born July 11, 1814, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah+ (Davenport) Bates of Darien, and had :

Julia, born March 8, 1836 :

Allen Gregory, born March 12, 1841 ;

Mary Eleanor, born Dec. 29, 1837 ; Nelson, born July 14, 1843, died young. Ann, born Jan. 19, 1840 ;

Carmi Frederick, born Sept. 13, 1846.

'It is possible for Thos. Ilaves ist. to have been married earlier than his Elizabeth Benedict union, consequently to have been the father of Ruth Hayes, (Mrs. Josiah Betts). This, however, is quite improb- able. Ruth was an Isaac Hayes family name, albeit the name given to her son (Allen) belonged to the Thos. Hayes branch.

-Married William Burwell St. John. William St. John and his brother David lived for many years on " Seer" hill. Their mother was Mary, daughter of Jonathan Camp. David lived on Seer hill, but Wil- liam, in the latter part of his life, removed to the Jo- seph St. John corner, ( Newtown Avenue and Cannon Street, 1896) where himself and wife died. Neither of the brothers had issue.

3Married Nelson Wilcox, who was son of Mat- thewest. and Susanna (Hoyt) Wilcox. Mrs. Matthew Wilcox ist. was the daughter of John and Ruth (Gre- gory ) Hoyt, which Mrs. John Hoyt, born Feb. 3d, 1764. was the second daughter of Stephen and Mary (Benedict) Gregory. The Wilcox or Wilcoxon fam-

ily is of Welsh origin. Gideon Wilcox was the father of Matthew ist. of Norwalk. The children of Nelson and Polly Delia (Betts) Wilcox were; Agnes Amelia, died young ; Ophelia Susan ; Amanda Malvina ; Antoi- nette Betts ; Mary Delia ; Elvira Louisa; Emma Fran- ces. Ophelia Susan, daughter of Nelson and Polly Delia Wilcox, married Fred'k R. Wasley of Norwich, Conn. Her sister, Elvira Louisa, married Phineas St. John. Her sister Emma Frances married Samuel Wixon Hoyt. Fred'k R. and Ophelia Susan Wasley had no children. Phineas and Elvira Louisa St. John had Delia E., Nelson W., Arthur Fred'k W. and William. Samuel Wixon and Emma Frances Hoyt had Maud Emma Frances and Samuel W. Hoyt, Jr.

4Mrs. Jonathan Bates was a daughter of Dea. John Davenport of Davenport Ridge, near North Stamford. Dea. Davenport, (son of John, who was son of Rev. John 2d., who was son of Rev. John Ist., of New Haven, ) married Prudence, daughter of James Bell of Stam- ford. Prudence Bell was a sister, probably, of Isaac Bell, referred to in Home-Lot III, foot notes.

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Carmi Betts, Ist. died Oct. 28, 1846.

Allen Hayes Betts married, second, Betsey. daughter of Seth Marvin, and had no issue.

Allen, son of Allen Hayes and Susanna Betts, married May 24, 1852, Anna Maria, born Sept. 26, 1828, daughter of Lewis' and Ann (Hoyt) St. John, and had :

Alice, born June 14, 1853 ; Albert Allen, born Mar. 14, 1862 ;

Ansel Carmi, born Oct. 29, 1854 ; Ada St. John, born Mar. 1, 1864.

Arthur Lewis, born Oct. 12, 1856; Alfred William, born Oct. 11, 1869. Anna Bell, born Feb. 2, 1859:

Allen Gregory, son of Carmi ">t. and Julia Betts, married Oct. 22, 1861, Mary Eliza- beth, daughter of Geo. W. and Mary Esther (Bouton) Jennings, and had :

Ella, born June 22, 1862 ;

Frederick C., born Dec. 30, 1867 ;

Charles Jennings, born Dec. 22, 1864 ; Mary Florence, b. Aug. 22, 1869, d. young.

Alice, daughter of Allen and Ann Maria Betts. married June 11, 1878, St. John, son of Thomas B. and Sally Ann (St. John) Merrill.

Ansel Carmi, son of Allen and Ann Maria Betts, married Dec. 16, 1886, Jessie Ran- dle, daughter of Stephen Henry and Sarah (Randle) Smith, and had :

Florence Elizabeth, born Sept. 14, 1887, died Oct. 21, 1896: Adele Randle, born April 7, 1890 ; Mary Frances, born July 18, 1893.

Arthur Lewis, son of Allen and Ann Maria Betts, married Feb. 22, 1886, Ella B., daughter of Caleb Strong and Jane (Vallette) Clay of Kingston, N. Y. Mr. Betts died Mar. 8, 1891, leaving no children.

Anna Bell, daughter of Allen and Ann Maria Betts, married June 17. 1884, Charles Anson, son of Frank and Jane (Fillow) Smith. Mr. Smith died Jan. 27, 1894. No issue.

Lewis St. John, born 1800, was son of Phineas 2d. and Sally (Abbot) St. John. Ilis father, Phineas 2d., born 1778, was son of Phineas ist., born Dec. 15, 1748, and Esther (Whitney) St. John. Mrs. Phineas St. John Ist,, born Feb. 3, 1751, was a daughter of Capt. David and Elizabeth ( Hyatt) Whitney. Iler father, Capt. David, acted an important part on the morning of the burning of Norwalk, in 1779. The services of his vessel and himself were offered his suffering towns- people. Lewis St. John's mother, Sally Abbot, born June 13, 1780, was a daughter of Judd and Sarah (Weed) Abbot. Judd Abbot, born July 7. 1760, was a son of John and Elizabeth (St. John) Abbot, and a grandson of John and Eunice (Judd) \bbot, and a great-grandson of John Abbot. the early wheelwright,

who was a son of George Abbot, the first of the name in Norwalk. Lewis St. John married Anna, born - Oct. 18, 1804, youngest daughter of John and Ruth (Gregory) Hoyt. John Hoyt, who was the son of John and Sarah (Pickett) Hoyt, (Danielv, Zerubba- beliv, Johniii, Walter ii, Simoni, ) owned largely in what is now known as "Whistleville," a little south- west of South Norwalk, and there resided. His daugh- ter, Ann Maria, married, as is noted in the text, Allen Betts, the present proprietor of the steam sawing establishment on Cannon Street, a representative from Norwalk in the Connecticut Legislature during the years 1877-78, a Vestryman of St. Paul's parish from 1857 to 1871, and for twenty-five years past a Warden of that ancient ecclesiastical society.

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Albert Allen, son of Allen and Ann Maria Betts, married July 28, 1886, Lila Jane, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Raymond) Malkin, and had :

Clifford Allen, born Sept. 12, 1889;

Albert Raymond, born Dec. 24, 1891.

Alfred William, son of Allen and Ann Maria Betts, married Oct. 30, 1895, Bertha Maria, b. May 21, 1874, daughter of William S. and Clara (Gould) Stout.

OF HAYES CONNECTION.

Lewis Gruman, "". whose widow was the first wife of Allen Hayes Betts, was the son of Jeremiah Gruman. Lewis Fitch, only son of Lewis Gruman, 'st. married Oct. 21, 1820, Eliza, born July 24, 1802, daughter of John and Anna (Adams) Hurlburt,' and had :

Harriet Louise," born Feb. 19, 1822 ; Carmi Betts, born May 22, 1830 ;

Horace Lewis, born July 24, 1823 ; Eliza, born Feb. 24, 1832, die young ;

Susan Ann, born Mar. 25, 1825 ; Eliza Jane, born Apr. 17. 1834 : Adeline, born Dec. 19, 1827 ; died Feb. 11, 1896.

Horace Lewis, oldest son of Lewis F. and Eliza Gruman, married Anna, daughter of Joseph Coles of Glen Cove, L. I., and had no issue. His sister, Susan Ann, married Abel Whitlock of Wilton.

Adeline, third daughter of Lewis F, and Eliza Gruman, married Dec. 29, 1850, Hiram,3 born June 15, 1823, died Aug. 31, 1892, son of William zd. and Eunice (Barnum ) Green, and had :

Annie Maria, born Oct. 27, 1851, diel Apr. 6, 1887 ; mar. Dec. 31, 1878, Frank N. Hastings+ of Meriden.

Eliza Jane, born Oct. 30, 1856, unmarried ; Louis Chadwick, b. Oct. 23, 1861.

Carmi Betts, second son of Lewis F. and Eliza Gruman, married Charlotte Crandall of New Baltimore, N. Y No issue.

Eliza Jane, youngest daughter of Lewis F and Eliza Gruman, married June 5, 1855, Lewis, born March 10, 1830, son of David S. and Laura (Gregory) Hubbell, and had :

Horace Lewis, b. June 2, 1856; Harriet Louise :

Carmi Gruman, b. Nov. 9. 1859 :

James Edward, b. Aug. 4, 1865.

John Hurlbutt, who married Anna, daughter of Nathaniel Adams, was bap. Ang. 23, 1767, and a son of Gideon and Hannah ( Taylor) Hurlbutt of what is now Westport. Mrs. Gideon Hurlbutt was Hannah, born June 1, 1731, daughter of Capt. John Taylor, who was born 1695, and died May 3, 1774. The Rev. James E. Coley of Westport. and Mrs. Mary Taylor Porter, widow of President Noah Porter, of Yale College, both of whom are Taylor descendants, have

made valuable contribution to the old family history. -Married W. T. Downs.

3Hiram Green was one of eleven children. His younger brother Robert, who married a Chestnut Hill maiden. Cynthia, daughter of Giles and Cynthia (Scribner) Gregory, is a resident of Norwalk.

+The children of Frank N. and Annie M. Hastings are Adeline Louisa, born Oct. 25, 1879, and Ida May, born Apr. 5, 1887, who died young.

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Louis Chadwick,1 son of Hiram and Adeline Green, married Sept. 2, 1885, Lulu, b. March 5, 1862, daughter of Lucius and Sarah (Waters) Monroe of New Canaan, and had :

Harold Mortimer, b. Oct. 25, 1887.

Horace Lewis, son of Lewis and Eliza Jane Hubbell, married Oct. 25, 1887, Anna, daughter of Abijah W and Abigail (Bryant) Barnum, and had :

Marguerite Barnum, b. Aug. 29, 1892.

Carmi Gruman, son of Lewis and Eliza Jane Hubbell, married Oct. 24, 1888, Min- nie Frances, daughter of Rev. John C. and Mary E. Emery, and had :

Marion Louise, b. Mar. 7, 1890; Charlotte May, b. Nov. 20, 1892, d. Jan. 14, 1893 ; Howard Emery, b. Aug. 30, 1896.

HOME-LOT III.

Gen. I .- MATTHIAS ST. JOHN, SR.

" II .- MARK ST. JOHN.

MARK ST. JOHN, of Home-Lot III, as well as, at one time, of Home-Lots Nos. 5 and 16, was the son of the proprietor of Lot No. 22, Matthias St. John, Sr., and settler.

The son, in this instance, receives mention in advance of his father, in order that numerical irregularity may be avoided. The "plan" of this work is to introduce the fathers before proceeding to consider their transactions, while the "anticipated " insertions alluded to at the bottom of page 82, will not only print-preserve collected data concerning themselves and their children, but serve, it is hoped, to gratifyingly link the present with the past.

Mark St. John was an active man in the plantation. He bought (see page 40) Joseph Fitch completely out, and on March 9, 1660, sold the same original Fitch property (south of 1896 East Norwalk School) to Edward Nash. Mr. St. John became the owner of the Isaac More estate (Lot No. 16) also.

He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy Stanley of Hartford, and had :

Elizabeth, (Mrs. Samuel Galpin ;2) Sarah, (Mrs. Samuel Keeler :) Joseph, born April 6, 1664 ; Rhoda, born Aug. 12, 1666, (Mrs. Matthias Marvin 3d. ; )

'Was elected Feb. 14, 1889, Cashier of the Fair- field County National Bank, of Norwalk.

2Samuel Galpin, (born 1650, died 1701) son of Philip of New Haven, removed to Stratford, where he married, first, Mar. 2, 1676-7, Esther, daughter of John Thompson. She died at the birth of her daugh- ter Esther 2d., Aug. 19, 1678, and her husband, Sam'l. Galpin, married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of Mark

St. John. Esther 2d., married Jonathan Booth. The children of Samuel and Elizabeth (St. John) Galpin were Samuel 2d .; Elizabeth ( Mrs. Isaac Norton) ; Abi- gail; Caleb and Mary (Mrs. Elnathan Peat). The first Mrs. Samuel Galpin (Esther Thompson) was a sister of Sarah, the second wife of Thomas Barnum, the Norwalk Barnum settler. The first wife of said Barnum does not seem to have Norwalk record.

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Rachel, born June 1671. (Mrs. John Judd :) Lois, married Jan. 25. 1705-6, Samuel Carter ; Anna, born Aug. 18, 1684 ; married John Benedict.

For Sension or St. John, English descent, see Home-Lot No. 22.

It will be observed that Mark St. John had only one son, Joseph 't. It is through Joseph -4. (son of Joseph'st.) who married into one of the strongest families of New Eng- land, that the Norwalk Buckingham Lockwoods, Buckingham St. Johns, Sherrys and Skiddys derive their Hooker blood, and it is through Sarah, sister of Joseph "st., who mar- ried Samuel Keeler, that the Seymour's and Van Buren's of this town, and the New York Chancellor, John Ray' affinity, derive their St. John blood. All of Mark St. John's child- ren were by his first wife. He married, second, the widow, Dorothy Hall, of Stratford. The widow Hall was a daughter of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield, Conn. She had previously married, as his second wife, Francis Hall, one of a company of " select young men," who came in 1639, from Kent County, England, to Guilford, Conn. Mr. Hall made his way eventually to Fairfield, where he founded " Hall's Farm." Here his first wife, Elizabeth, died, and here he married Dorothy nce Smith. Orcutt's History of Stratford mentions that Dorothy Smith married, before the Hall union, John, son of Rev. Adam Blakeman of Stratford. If so, she was three times wedded, as after Mark St. John's death, in 1693, she married Isaac More, once of Norwalk, but now of Farmington, the same from whom Mr. St. John bought his Home-Lot No. 16. She herself deceased in 1706.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 12

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne. Publication date: 1896 Publisher: The author, Number of Pages: 553

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne.
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: The author,
Number of Pages: 553