Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 16

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

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His sister, Mary, married Samuel, the oldest son of Ralph Isaacs, and their son, Samuel Brown Isases, fell heir to a large slice of his uncle James Brown's property.

Rev. James Brown of The Oblong, and of a more modern date than James the barrister, was the grand- father of the present "Selleck Brothers," the great grandmother of whom was eminently patriotic. While Tryon had command of Long Island he sent agents to this side of the Sound to purchase cattle and horses, and The Oblong was a field for such stock transactions. The British employed a middle man, whose duty it wa- to secure the live stock from the first owner, and see the same driven to the Darien shore, from whence transportation was had to Long Island. Sally Selleck's husband embarked in this enterprise but the wife put an effectual stop to it, and the Salem " Horse Hollow" (near East Woods) was broken up. Mr -. Selleck stood, (once gun in hand,) so eagerly intent upon the performance of loyalty- missions, that the Continental men were accustomed, when they met her, to pass along the line " Hurrah for Sally." She was thoroughly successful in turning her husband from toryism to patriotism.

Eber and Hannah Brown of the same vicinity were heavy land owners and held title to hundreds of Oblong acres. Their daughter married Daniel Stevens and had Danielzd. who was the father of James Stevens, the proprietor for years of the Connecticut Hotel in Norwalk. Eber Brown, the great-grandfather of landlord James Stevens, owned a large portion of the territory about Trinity Lake. Ile was remarkable for

physical strength. It is said that he had been known to cut ten acres of rye in a day. Ilis wife Hannah, was an Arnold, an English woman.

'Thomas, son of John and Elizabeth ( Weed ) Rock- well of Stamford, married, Dec. 9, 1703, Sarah, daughter of John Ruscoist. of Norwalk. Thomas and Sarah Rockwell had three sons, Thomas 2d., John and Jabez. Thomaszd., born Dec. 13, 1708, married Ruth, daughter of Dea. James and Sarah (Ilyatt) Benedict. These had a son, Lieut. James Rockwell, born June 9, 1750, who married Abigail. daughter of Thomas Hawley (son of Rev. Thomas) of Ridgefield. Their daughter, Anna, became the mother of Capt. D. K. Nash of South Norwalk, and their son, Gould ist., born Dec. 18, 1778, married Polly, born July 23, 1779. daughter of Nathan and Mary (Smith) Dauchy, and was the father of the late Gould Rockwellzd., born March 6, 1808, who married, first, Mary Caroline Bradley, and second, Mary Louisa Denman. Gould Rockwell2d., a man of sterling principle and honor, was, formerly, a Troy, N. Y., citizen and churchman. He spent the latter part of his life in his native Ridgefield, and died, while absent for the winter, in New York City, March 10, 1892.

Thos. Hawley Rockwell, born May 21, 1776, son of Lieut. Jas. and Abigail, and brother of Anna (Mrs. Jacob Nash) and Gould Rockwellist., married Polly Smith of Ridgefield. These were the parents of David Smith Rockwell, a New Canaan resident of enterprise and excellence, and for many years princi- pal of the "Church Will Institute" of that town. Mr. D. S. Rockwell married Betsey, daughter of

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Vista, in the State of New York. In front of John Rusco's house,' as will be seen to-day, began the undulating swell of land called, later, for the Rusco family, and which extended south, in the early days, quite towards Upper Smith's Ridge. It .embraced, possibly, before its Comstock-occupancy, the fine stretch of property opposite to, and quite south of, on the east side of the highway, the present extensive Vista home-hearth of Mrs. Samuel Comstock.

The sightly crest of this height was the hearthstone, during the American Revolu- tion, of John Rusco, son, as before hinted, of Thomas3d. and of the blood of the sturdy John Rusco, the Norwalk pioneer of that worthy name. The family circle consisted thus :

Samuel, mar. Esther Hayes ;

Jemima, mar. Jared Adams ;

Elizabeth, mar. Abram Hayes ;

John ; no trace after majority.

James, mar. Anna Hoyt ;

David, mar. Susannah Hoyt ;

Joanna, mar. Michael Lockwood, Jr .;

Esther, mar. Daniel Reed ;

Rachel, mar. Benjamin Pinney.

Samuel, the oldest son, married into the Hayes family and built him a home about one-half mile to the east of his father, on the same Bald Hill road. His daughter, Esther, married as his third wife, Nathan S. Comstock of New Canaan.

Elizabeth, Mrs. Abram Hayes, and sister-in-law of Esther (Mrs. Samuel Rusco), lived

Nathan S. Comstock. Mrs. D. S. Rockwell was bap- tized in the old still occupied Silver Mine south- facing, historic house, a picture of the past, and which played an important part in the doings of the memorable Saturday night preceding the burning of Norwalk. At a no great distance from this Comstock (now Wardwell structure) stood the Hayden home. It was in or near the woods, and at the gloomy period just spoken of, detained for a short time, one of the enemies' captured men. His meals were sent the prisoner, and at one time, by a little girl who, as she approached his apartment, caused him to burst into tears. Hle mentioned, afterwards, that he had a child of the same age at home, the thought of whom and of the changed condition of his case, for the moment overcame him. Mrs. Betsey Comstock Rockwell, who had been a valuable help-meet to her husband, sur- vived him for a number of years, and recently fell peacefully asleep. The children of David S. and Betsey Rockwell were Wilbur Fisk; James Vincent; Alphonse D) .; Theron C .; Ransom W .; Arthur L.

'A short distance west of this residence was the locality named by The Oblong settlers " Wild Cat Rocks"; while somewhat to the north-east of the Rusco house and at the extreme head of Rusco Ridge, is seen to-day the prostrate " Balance Rock" of the last century. The late E. W. Raymond, born in 1822, repeatedly stated that he was wont to visit the spot in his youth when the now fallen boulder was in

position. The same was thrown out of place by a company of rolicksome men from across the State line, who, by means of bars and rails, succeeded in pre- cipitating the bulky mass to the ground. From the base of the ancient balanced granite, a most charming view of Connecticut lands is had.

Notwithstanding Col. Sheldon's Salem vigilance, it would seem that King George's officers sometimes entered our lines within The Oblong. John Rusco had fat cattle and a full cellar, and it is a well certified mention that his Majesty's men knew the way to Rusco Ridge. Two of the family, if no more, dis- couraged these visits, viz., his daughters Elizabeth and Joanna, who made it convenient to be away from home when the military gentlemen put in an appear- ance.

Upon the return of the British, in 1777. from Danbury, they, after the encounter at Ridgefield, appear to have divided for a distance, below the latter town, coming together again not far above Wilton Centre and thence proceeding to Compo. The point of separation was probably in the vicinity of " Flat Rock." There seems to have been a strolling party who diverged, at about that point, to the south-west, towards Winnipauk or Rusco's Ridge. A ridge to the east, and separated from the John Rusco height by the old Michael Lockwood mill stream, is Rusco occupied to-day. This ridge runs along the finally decided upon separation line between N. Y. and Conn.

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west from the present Lewisboro post-office. Among Abraham and Elizabeth Hayes' children was Mary, who married Hezekiah Raymond, the grandfather of the present Mrs. Gould Rockwell and Mrs. Charles A. Raymond, of Ridgefield, Conn., and Lewisboro, N.Y.

James, the second son of John and Joanna Rusco, lived between his father's house and Vista, and was the father of Stephen Rusco (a shoe manufacturer of Vista), and of James2d. (who married Electa, daughter of Silas Brown) whose son, Floyd T., is a member of the mercantile house of The Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Company, of Norwalk ; and of Eliza, who married Rumsey Fancher, whose son, Eleazer Lockwood Fancher, is head of the present Fancher & Sons shoe firm of New Canaan.

Joanna, daughter of John and Joanna Rusco, married Michael, son of Michael Lock- wood, Sr. Michael Lockwood, Sr., was the son of John Lockwood, who was the grandson of Joseph, brother of Ephraim Lockwood, the Norwalk settler. He lived on the upland between Wilton and The Oblong and carried on milling, making use of the water supplied by the upper stream of the " west branch" of Norwalk river. This interest fell to his son, Michaelad. who married Joanna Rusco. Michaelad, enlarged his father's plant, and selecting for a home site, a point (to this day distinctly marked) at which the embasoned water could be made to wheel-fall with the greatest force, established a large grinding and sawing industry. He also built a forge further down the stream (not far from the present Grupe reservoir) where he manufactured wrought iron. Here himself and sons built, in addition, a brick-kiln. He was a man of energy and carried on a large business. His children were : Sally, born 1790: died in infancy.

Sally Jane,' born 1792 ; mar. Stephen, son of Joseph Fayerweather.

Michaeld., born 1794 ; mar. Celina, daughter of Aaron Nash.

Alvah, born 1795 : died unmarried.

Eleazer2, born 1798 : mar. first, Sarah, daughter of Asa Raymond, and second, Mary, daughter of Lewis Coe of Greenbush, N. Y.

"Sally Jane, daughter of Michael Lockwood, Jr., married Stephen, son of Joseph and Catharine ( Jarvis) Faverweather. Mr -. Joseph Fayerweather was a niece of Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis, second bishop of Connecticut. Jos. Faverweather bought quite largely of land then looked upon as belonging in Norwalk, but which was afterward set off as a part of New York. His house still stands in Vista, on the north- eastern corner of the Vista and Bald Hill road. Here lived his son Stephen, who had several children, one of whom, Amelia C., has for many years been well- known in Troy, N. Y, and Norwalk, and was a woman of signal strength of mind, an extensive reader and an intelligent and interesting conversation- alist. She was formerly associated, as a lay helper, with Rev. Dr. J. Ireland Tucker, Rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, Troy, where she rendered excellent service. She died in the summer of 1896,

and is buried not far from her childhood home in Lewisboro, N. Y A store was built on the Jos. Fayerweather Salem grounds, which was kept at one time by Isaac Betts, son of Capt. Stephen Betts of Revolutionary Militia fame. The Salem store was at another time kept by Abigail Comstock, who owned the fine old structure, now the home in Vista of his --- descendants, Mrs. Samuel Comstock and her children. Josiah Thatcher, from ten miles distant Norwalk, had dealings with Mr. Comstock, as did John Cannon and Lemuel Rogers.

Eleazer Lockwood was for years a Southern merchant and railroad contractor. He was South at the time that the two New Canaan St. John brothers, Isaac and David, were there engaged as brokers. After a career of prosperity in that section of the country, he made purchase of a fine property in the suburbs of the city of Troy, N. Y., where he spent

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Runa, born 1800: died young and unmarried.

Carmi.

Clarina, married David Dickens' of New Canaan.

Smith, died young.

ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF CARMI LOCKWOOD.

Rusco LINE.

Gen. I .- John and Rebecca (Beebe) Rusco.

" II .- Thomas'-t. and Abigail Rusco.

" III .- Thomas -d. and Elizabeth (Campfield) Rusco. (so believed.)

" IV .- John and Joanna (Arnold) Rusco.

" V .- Michael 2d. and Joanna (Rusco) Lockwood.

Carmi, son of Michaelad. and Joanna Lockwood was a mere youth when he lost his father. He entered upon industrious life with Samuel Davenport, a woolen manufacturer of Norwalk, and anon engaged in operations on a large scale in Hackensack, N. J. He married the youngest daughter of Aaron Keeler" of Norwalk, and sister of the Rev. James Keeler. After this he was connected with the Winnipauk Mills and established, later, the Mercantile House headed, of late years, by his son, Edward Keeler Lockwood. He died in 1869, his wife surviving him for seven years. His children were :

Edward; died in infancy.

· Edward Keeler. George Carmi " died Apr. 11, 1866 ;

Charles ; died young. Joanna ;

Maria ;

the remainder of his days, and died leaving a hand- some property to his children. His trips to the south and afterward to Troy were sometimes made, over- land, by gig or carriage. The Troy drive was also indulged in by the Kelloggs and Streets of Norwalk.

The following was Mr. Lockwood's " rule" for a long trip by wheel : An early breakfast for man and beast; pace-moderation until noon with the exception of a trot-spur at the foot of hills; rest at mid-day ; during the afternoon urge the beast until supper, after which rest for the night. The Troy route was divided into some three or four stretches. By his first wife, Mr. Lockwood had Georgiana; Mary Jane ; Runa; Maria L .; Eliza Augusta, died early. By his second wife he had Augusta, Josephine and Hattie.

Georgiana, the oldest daughter, married Thaddeus Dusenbury, and had Augusta, Jennie and Mary L. Augusta died in Norwalk, Jan. 23, 1897. Jennie re- sides in Troy, N. Y., and Mary L. with her mother's cousin, E. K. Lockwood of Norwalk.

Mary Jane, sister of Georgiana Lockwood, mar- ried George Chapman of Troy, and her sister, Maria 1 .. , married Gardner Barker of Pittsfield, Mass. By second marriage Eleazer Lockwood had Eliza Augus-

ta; Josephine (Mr -. Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Baldwin of Troy) ; Albert Francis; Hattie F. (Mrs. Irving John- son of Troy).

The children of Mrs. George Chapman were : Edward II., died young; Sarah Frances, mar. Frank HI. Knox.

Gardner and Maria L. Barker's children were: Frances, died young; Charles, a Norwalk school lad ; Mary and Edith.

'The children of David and Clarina Dickens were Polly, died young; Alva L., married Delia Sherwood ; Anna M., who married, as his third wife, Rev. C. M. Williams.

Mrs. Carmi Lockwood, nce Laura Keeler, was a daughter of Aaron and Mercy (James) Keeler, who lived in Upper Winnipauk. Her mother was a daughter of Peter and Mercy James, and a sister of Capt. Daniel James ( father of the late Wm. K. James of Wall St., Norwalk.) Capt. Daniel James was a ship-master. Hle traded with the Southern ports and "berthed " his vessel in Norwalk. He for some time lived, fronting the harbor, on a little hill that commenced its rise at the rear of the present Boston Store.

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Edward K., son of Carmi and Laura Lockwood, married Harriet S.,' daughter of Orrin and Matilda Warner of East Haddam, Conn.

George Carmi "st., son of Carmi and Laura Lockwood, married Sept. 8. 1864, Anna, daughter of L. H. and Anna Lucretia Moore of South Norwalk, and had :

George Carmi 2d ..

George C. 2d, son of Geo. C'est and Anna Lockwood, married April 28, 1892, Rafaelle, daughter of Charles and Amanda Burroughs.

OF THEOPHILUS RUSCO DESCENT.

Theophilus Rusco's., (son of Thomas'" and grandson of John Rusco, the settler.) and wife Mary, seem to have had a son Theophilus 2., baptized in New Canaan, Sept. 25, 1743, who married, March 30, 1763. Abigail, born 1742, daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail Bouton of The Oblong. These were the two worthies alluded to in Bolton's History of Westchester County, Vol. I, page 437. Their children were :

Sarah ;

Louis, mar. Andrew Bishop ; Mary :

Theophilus 3d., b. Nov. 28, 1769 ; Nancy ;

Gamaliel, b. 1779, soldier of war of 1812; John ;

Dorcas :

Hezekiah, b. July 21, 1782.

Theophilus Rusco3d. married, Jan. 1. 1793, Sarah Dean of Ridgefield, who was born April 3, 1763. These had only one child, Ezra, born Oct. 17. 1793, who died April II. 1809, from the effects of a fall while skating with his father on Lake Kitchawan.

Gamaliel, son of Theophilus Rusco2d., had daughters Betsey and Abigail. Abigail married Henry, son of Peter Hoyt of Vista.

Nancy, daughter of Theophilusd. married Simeon Rusco. The two removed to Lake Champlain, and had son John B.

Hezekiah Rusco, son of Theophilus 24., married his cousin, Sally Dean. He was the Rusco lad who shot the last panther seen in that once deer and panther frequented portion of The Oblong. His children were Mary Esther, born Sept. 11, 1821, a devoted

iShe was named for the first wife of the late James Finney, who was a schoolmate of her mother. Mrs. E. K. Lockwood was a gentle but firm and unalterably faithful woman and a leader in the auxilliary enter- prises of the parish (St. Paul's, Norwalk,) of which her husband has, since 1884. been junior warden.

-Hezekiah and Sally Rusco lived in their forest home on the street west of the Lewisboro and South Salem road. Over a half century ago they sent two of their young children, Harrison and Jeremiah B., to the Vista store to make purchase of family goods. The boys mistook the road and walked some eleven miles to Norwalk. They had not before been far from

home and the little fellows were probably bewildered. Night had overtaken them and they sought refuge in, the lumber yard of Win. K. James. The wearied wanderers fell asleep, and one, Harrison, unbeknown to his brother, fell into the river. Jeremiah awoke and missing his brother gave vent to his grief. The lonely lad was overheard by a passer-by and taken to the home of the benevolent Charles Isaacs. The family in Salem, becoming alarmed at the children's non return. went in search. The boys were traced over Bald Hill and through Wilton to Norwalk. Jeremiah was found in State, now Wall street, and little Ilarrison's body was taken from the water and

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member, until recently, of St. John's Church, Stamford; Silas B., born March 21, 1823, a vestryman of St. John's parish, Lewisboro, who died unmarried, in 1894; Abigail Ann, born July 28, 1825 ; Cyrus F., born April 11, 1828 ; Jeremiah B .; Harrison D .; Nancy N .. born 1842, died unmarried.

OF RUSCO MENTION IN GENERAL.

David, fourth son of John and Joanna Rusco, found his wife in the Rice Hoyt home which stood on the New Canaan and Ridgefield road about one-half mile south of "The Thatcher Hayes corner." The children by this union were :

Harvey : died unmarried.

Orilla ; mar. David, son of Eliud and Isabel ( Hoyt) DeForest.

Anna : mar. William, son of Silas Brown.

Harriet ; mar. Alanson, son of Isaac and Anna Hoyt.

Esther ; died unmarried.

Michael ; mar. Mary, daughter of Rev. James Brown.

Matilda : mar. Mills Crissey, brother of the late Newton Crissey of Norwalk.

Esther, daughter of John and Joanna Rusco, who married David Weed, lived in Stamford, and had three daughters.

Rachel, daughter of John and Joanna Rusco, who married Benj. Pinney, lived east of Vista, and had David. Caroline and Cordelia.

James Rusco, son of Thomas24, resided with his wife, Jerusha, in New Canaan. Three of his daughters, Jerusha, Jemima and Rebecca are named.

John Rusco, son of Thomas 2d., has New Canaan registration.

Josiah Rusco, son of Thomas'" and grandson of John Rusco, the settler, married Susannah, daughter of Matthew Seymour . (See Seymour Lineage).

Samuel Rusco, son of Thomas't., left a widow, Mary His estate is noted in 1758.

borne to Westchester County for burial. Jeremiah to-day lives at Branchville. He married, June 6, 1869, Julia Ann Cogswell of Pound Ridge, and losing a little one in infancy, adopted a child, William, who married, June 24, 1896, Minerva Alberti, daughter of William A. and Celste Tucker of Bald Hill, Wilton.

Cyrus F. Rusco, son of Hezekiah, married, first, Olive, daughter of Jeremiah Knapp of Pound Ridge, and had: Charles H .; Marjorie V. ; George V., died unmarried: Mary E .; Frank; Jeremiah, died un- married.

Cyrus F. Rusco married, second, the widow : Helen Sparks of New York City. There are no Rusco children by this union. Harry Sparks, son, by her first husband, of Mrs. Cyrus Ruscozd., married a daughter of the late Ward Raymond of Lewisboro.

He is at present in the employ of the Consolidated Railroad.

Abigail A., daughter of Hezekiah Rusco, married, first, Sylvester Scofield of Darien, and had Levi, Henry, Sarah, Henry and Hezekiah. She married, second, Chauncey Raymond of The Oblong, and third, Sherman Buttery of Silver Mine.

Chas. H., son of Cyrus F. Rusco, married Emma Rich of New York. He is an engineer on the Con- solidated Road, and has no children. His sister, Mary Emily, married Thomas Evans of Winnipauk, who has Bertha; Floyd; Arthur and Olive V.

Frank Rusco and his sister Marjorie V., children of Cyrus, are unmarried. Their home is in Lewis- boro, N. Y. The two brothers, Charles H. and Frank, reside at no great distance from each other.

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Stephen Rusco married, Sept. 29, 1763, Ruth, daughter of Eleazer and Elizabeth Bouton. Mrs. Elizabeth Bouton was a Seymour.

Thos. Rusco, supposed to be son of Thomas 3d., married Anna Dibble, Feb. 26, 1756. Possibly this is the same Thomas who married, a little later, Elizabeth, daughter of Lemuel and Sarah Raymond.

The late Michael Rusco of Norwalk, son of David, and grandson of John and Joanna Rusco of Rusco Ridge, married Mary, daughter of Rev. James Brown of Salem, and sister of Lucy (Mrs. Isaac Selleck). He had Samuel and Joseph. Joseph married Emma, daughter of Lewis and Anna Fancher and had Frank Rusco, the 1896 Business College principal.

John and Rebecca, the Norwalk Rusco fore-father and mother, were honored ancestors. The old house-lot and home, No. 6, continued for about fifty-five years in the family. The father died without having made a will and the estate was court-inventoried on Nov. 20, 1702. On Feb. 19, 1705, the original home was sold by the heirs to Samuel, the youngest son of Rev. Thos. Hanford, to whom fell his late father's adjoining home property This extended the Hanford acreage. The Hanford front yard and well are shown to-day, but every vestige of the Hanford Rusco-annex has disappeared by the Con- solidated road's changes.

HOME-LOT VIL.

RALPH KEELER, SR., of Home-Lot No. 7. was born in 1613. He was one of the settlers, in 1639, of Hartford, and appeared in Fairfield in 1645, from whence we find him in Norwalk in 1655. He was twice married. His second wife was Sarah, widow of Henry Whelpley of Fairfield, who had at least two Whelpley children. He had assigned to him the four-and-a-half acre home-lot, the south-west corner of which is occupied to-day by W S. Hanford of East Norwalk. He retained his original premises until Oct. 21, 1662, when he parted with them, and Richard Raymond became their proprietor. On Sept. 1, 1665, was executed a deed whereby was made over to him the dwelling house, barn and lot that had belonged (see page 39) to Thos. Ward, now the garden land of Wm. H. Earle. Ralph Keeler, Sr., who died in 1672, left four sons, viz.,

JOHN :

SAMUEL; JONAS; died unmarried.

Mr. Keeler had, also, four daughters, one of whom married, Nov. 16, 1671, Benj. Turney of Fairfield ; another, Rebecca, who married, July 17, 1673, James Pickett; and another, Isabel, who married Thos. Morehouse of Fairfield.

Norwalk and Ridgefield are widely Keeler-spread, and the family's lineal and col- lateral branches are numerous. The discovery, if ever made, of the first Keeler mother

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will be an interesting disclosure. The after generations documentary-attested maternal descent, however, is something of an equivalent for information-loss concerning the senior Mrs. Ralph Keeler.

OF RALPH KEELER, SR., DESCENT THROUGH RALPH KEELER, JR.

Rev. John Davenport, the first minister of the New Haven colony, baptized in the spring (Apr. 5) of 1656, Grace, daughter of Henry Lindall, one of his deacons. Deacon Lindall had a family of seven daughters, four of whom, Mary, Rebecca, Grace and Mercy came. after their father's decease and their mother's second marriage to Nathaniel Richards of Norwalk, with their mother and step-father, to this town and, being young, were a delightful addition to Norwalk society. Mary here became Mrs. John Hoyt, Rebecca, Mrs. John Fitch, Mercy, Mrs. Joseph Ketchum and Grace, Mrs. Ralph Keeler, Jr.

Ralph Jr. and Grace Keeler had a daughter, Sarah, named, probably, for her grandfather Keeler's second wife, who, Dec. 2, 1702, married, for his first wife, Nathan, son of James and Phoebe Barlow Olmsted and grandson of Richard, the Norwalk Olmsted settler. Nathan Olmsted married, second, Mercie, daughter of Christopher Comstock, and had a daughter Mercy, who, by her marriage to her cousin Moses, (see page 83) son of James and Mary Comstock St. John, became the foremother of a numerous Norwalk offspring, and transmitted the oldest of Norwalk blood to the Chichesters, Cunninghams, Merrills and Stevens of the present day, as well as to several of the Betts and Gregory families.

OF RALPH KEELER, SR., DESCENT THROUGH HIS SON JOHN.

John Keeler1st. married June 18, 1679, Mehitable, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Weed) Rockwell, and had Daniel, who married Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Hoyt) Whitney, and a sister of Hezekiah Whitney, the first elected vestryman of the Norwalk St. Paul's parish.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 16

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