Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 18

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

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Jonathan Fitch, the father-in-law of Stephen, son of Merwine and Phoebe Raymond, was the son of Daniel who was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Fitch. This Daniel Fitch had three sons, Jonathan, Samuel M. and Henry, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married Henry Betts and was the mother of Daniel Fitch Betts and his sisters Rebecca (Mrs. Charles Isaacs.) Susan (Mrs. Thomas Benedict, ) Harriet ( Mrs. Thomas C Ilanford,) Henrietta, (Mrs. Charles Mallory.

*A Norwalk school lad, afterward a Wall street New York City banker, and subsequently an Italian author, Charles Fiske Bound, cousin of the historian and Harvard professor. John Fiske, made his way, by being let through the floor of the old convent in the province of La Touraine, France, to the tomb

of the renowned "Abbe,"Agent general,"Bishop of Autumn" and "Prince" Talleyrand, who, three years before his visit, in 1704, to the United States, declined nomination for the Arch- bishopric of Paris. The province in which the remains of Tal- leyrand repose is distinguished for the purity of its dialert.

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the social comfort that therein reigned and especially at the close of the father and mother's lives, when the N. Y and N. H. Railroad contractors or their coadjutors were there wel- comed at the time of the construction of said road and after the diligent efforts in its inter- ests on the part of Dea. Algernon E. Beard, who had more or less to do in the matter of the Norwalk "right of way" thoroughfare purchase.'

ASCENDANTS OF HON. HENRY J. RAYMOND. Founder of the New York Times. Gen. I .- Richard Raymond the settler.

.. II .- John and Mary (Betts) Raymond.

" III .- Samuel and Judith (Palmer) Raymond.

" IV .- Joshua and Elizabeth (Fitch) Raymond.

" V-Uriah and Sarah (Paddock ) Raymond.

" VI .- Jonathan P. and Hannah (Jarvis) Raymond.

" VII .- Jarvis and Lavinia ( Brockway) Raymond.

" VIII .- Hon. Henry Jarvis Raymond.

Henry J. Raymond, of generation VIII, as above, and born Jan. 24, 1820, was one of the typically talented men of the middle nineteenth century. He was also a man of indomitable industry and a writer and editor of great distinction. His Norwalk great- grandfather, Uriah, was born after the decease of said Uriah's father, Joshua. Joshua Ray- mond's wife, Elizabeth Fitch, was the only sister of Gov. Thomas Fitch. After she had given birth to Uriah Raymond (great-grandfather of Henry J.) she married, as his second wife, Rev. Elisha Kent, the grandfather of Chancellor James Kent. H. J. Raymond's Betts foremother (generation II) was the daughter of Thomas Betts of Guilford and Nor- walk.

The Palmer blood, introduced in the third Henry J. Raymond generation, is that of Ephraim Palmer of Greenwich.

RAYMOND AND HOYT PEDIGREE OF THE

SENATOR AND SOLDIER JOHN AND WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.

John 's., son of Richard and Judith Raymond, married, Dec. 10, 1664, Mary, daughter of Thomas Betts""., and had Samuel, born July 7, 1673, who married April 1, 1695. Judith daughter of Ephraim Palmer of Greenwich. The oldest son, Samuel 2d., born

'People in the days when the N. Y and N. H. Railroad was first projected were but imperfectly developed railway wise. The late Morris Ketchum made, at that time, an appointment to meet the citi- zens of Norwalk with reference to the route, through

this town, of the contemplated thoroughfare, but was greeted by a very small representation. A. E. Beard of South Norwalk, however, was one of the number who foresaw the future of the new enterprise.

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May 7. 1699. of Samuel " and Judith Raymond, married about 1719. Elizabeth, second daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hoyt. Samuel """ and Elizabeth Raymond had born Feb. 20. 1720, a son. Eliakim, who married. Nov. 27. 1740, Hannah, born Sep. 5. 1722. daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Raymondi Street. Eliakim and Hannah Raymond had a daughter Mary, born May 13, 1755, who married June 30, 1776, Isaac, born 1754. son of James and Hannah (Gould) Hoyt. Isaac and Mary Hoyt lived in a house that stood a little west of the new Congregational Church in South Norwalk. These had a daughter, Mary, born Dec. 28, 1787. who married in May 1810, Charles Robert. born Sep. 26. 1788. son of Taylor (and Elizabeth) Sherman, the Norwalk lawyer. Charles R. and Mary Sher- man, the one from upper and the other from lower mnow South Norwalk, moved to Ohio and were the parents of Hon. John and Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman.

Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, the parents of Mrs. Isaac Hoyt, of "Old Well." were remarkable progenitors. Their daughter was, as has been seen, the grandmother of the two distinguished Shermans. Their daughter Esther, born Feb. 11. 1757. married Hezekiah Rogers, who belonged to a family of note. A portion of his later life was spent in Washington, D. C., where he died in 1812. His Norwalk home adjoined the Shermans.

THE SHERMAN HOUSES

on the present Main Street. The tea parties given in that house are referred to in a foot note, page 42. Mr. Rogers was of the Norwalk branch of the Rogers family repre-

The Sherman house, still in existence, on Main street, had two fac-similes within the hounds of earlier Norwalk. The present "Gibbs" house (before it was altered) in Knight street and the Marvin house near C'aimons station in Wilton, were of like pattern of Taylor and afterward Charles R. Sherman's home shown in the above engraving. When Charles R. Sherman left for the west a concourse of people gath-

ered to witness the departure from the old place. The father had been a genial social figure and the mother was from a highly regarded "Old Well"" family. A few rods from Mr. Sherman's stood, as is seen to-day, the house on the N. W. corner of the present North avenue and Camp street. Samuel Jarvis Camp there taught the Norwalk youth of the period music, and his room- were the scene. rvery

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sented by the Moses Rogers brothers, (see Rogers lineage) old-time merchantmen of New York.

Elizabeth, born Dec. 20, 1743, an older daughter of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, married Uriah Rogers, Jr., M. D., son of the renowned Uriah, Sr., M. D., whose home-lot was the site of the residence of the late Mrs. James Mallory, and who was grandfather of Chancellor James Kent. Elizabeth and her accomplished partner, Dr. Rogers, Jr., sleep side by side in two of the graves on Town House Hill. The marble which marks her own mound is fast becoming inscription-obliterated, but the memory of her family will last.

Still another daughter of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, Hannah, born Dec. 1745, married Sept. 19, 1764. Lemuel Brooks, who lived in what was anciently called " The Village," a hamlet not a great distance from "Stuart's Landing," and between " Old Well" and "Belden's Point." Anna, daughter of Lemuel Brooks, married Dec. 29, 1796, Dr. Phineas Miller of (North Avenue 1896) Norwalk. These had Charles, born Aug. 27, 1797. and Mary Ann, born Feb. 23, 1802. The last child, Mary Ann, never married. She was a resident of New Haven, but in later years, and until her death some few years since, has been a visitor at the home of Mrs. Mary (Bissell) Betts on The Green.

Sands Raymond, brother of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, removed, as did the Browns and Isaacs before him, to that part of The Oblong, known as Lower Salem. His son Asa, born Feb. 20, 1770. there married Sally Northrup, and was the father of Asa N. Raymond, born May 31, 1801, who married, Oct. 19, 1826, Lucy Ann Abbott, born April 11, 1807. These good people, who were intimately identified with the interests of St. John's Church, Salem, now rest within a few rods of the stone church in South Salem. Mrs. Asa N. Raymond long survived her husband. She was a woman of unusual energy, and after a life of purpose comfortably ended her days in the commodious home of her daughter. Mrs. Stephen E. Keeler of Smith's Ridge, New Canaan. Another daughter of Amos N. Raymond married Thomas Cole of Troy, N. Y., and another, William Lock- wood of New Canaan, whose widow resides in the fine lawn-skirting home on the New Canaan and Bedford highway A fourth Asa N. Raymond daughter is the present widow of Seeley Brown of N. Y, and the youngest is Mrs. Gardner Kellogg of South Salem. These five sisters had four brothers, Ward, who married Melissa Jane Austin; Charles Asa, who married Mary Denman ; Amos, who was A. T Stewart-associated and who died whilst making a tour of Switzerland and Seth who lives in Stamford.

Samuel O. Raymond, another son of Sands, married Deborah, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca (Dann) Canfield, and had Ebenezer Wilson, born July 14, 1822, who married Betsey I. Tuttle, who now survives him. E. W. Raymond was for many years the staunch

now and then, of evening "practising." Ilither Mr. Sherman, accompanied by his less than six months younger companion, Thaddeus (United States Sena- tor) Betts would occasionally repair for a little "sing- ing school" enlivenment. The Sherman's-father

and son-were valued Norwalk adopted citizens, and when the parent of the future soldier son, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, came to "break up and pack up" for Ohio the Sherman "prairie schooner" with its honored burden received from far and near a regretful adiet.

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supporter and faithful senior warden of St. John's Church, Salem, and its Chapel, St. Paul's Lewisboro. His decease, (the week before Easter) 1894, was a great loss to the parish.

Eliakim Raymond, the grandfather of Gen. Sherman's mother, had a brother, Samuel, four years younger than himself. This Samuel married Abigail, daughter of David' and Abigail Bates of Stamford, who had a son, Samuel, Jr., born on New Years day, 1752. Capt Samuel Raymond lived, as did his second cousin, an active patriot. James Raymond,2 in Bedford, N. Y., and had a son, Munson G., born Sept. 26, 1777. This son married Sally Smith of Stamford, and was the father of the late widely-respected Charles F Raymond of Knight Street.

Mr. C. F Raymond married, May 16, 1826, Charlotte, daughter of Jeremiah and Charlotte (Benedict) Camp.

Jeremiah Camp, born Sept. 16, 1781, was a son of Richard and Anna (Coe) Camp and a grandson of Jonathan and Ann (Platt) Camp. He was of direct descent, through his great grandmother Esther, from Thomas Buckingham, the American ancestor of that name, and his wife, through her grandmother Fitch, was of the lineage of Wm. Haynes of Haynes Ridge. The children of C. F. and Charlotte Raymond were :

Charlotte.

Harriet N.

Munson J .; died young. Cornelia Isabelle : mar. D. Seymour Curtis.

Frances A., mar. Walter B. Hoyt. Charles. M.

Emily Augusta, mar. A. H. Keith.

Eliakim Raymond of the preceeding paragraphs, had two brothers, Samuel and Sands, and three sisters, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Ann. After the birth of the last child, Ann, the mother died, and the father, Samuel, married, second, Mary Kitto. There was now a daughter Ruth, born in 1732, who married, in 1751, Nathaniel Sears. Mr. Sears lived only about two years and his widow married, Nov. 1755. second, Ebenezer Church 1st, the parent by his first wife (Susanna Fitch) of Daniel, born March 1, 1746, and Richard, born Oct. 1747 ; and by his second wife ( Widow Sears) of ten children.3 See Church lineage.

'David Bates, born May 23, 1702, appears to have I been the son of John and Elizabeth Bates, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bates to have been the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Lockwood of Stamford.

James Raymond of Bedford was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Fitch Raymond, and conse- quently a nephew of Gov. Thos. Fitch. He married Susannah, daughter of Moses and Mercy St. John of Norwalk. Mrs. Raymond's brothers, James and Moses St. John, were Bedford residents, also.

3Ebenezer Church ist. built and occupied the house, on the Westport Road, which still bears his name. He was a hatter, and his shop was at the east end of his premises on the " North Brook." It is said that after the burning of the town by Tryon, Mrs. Gov. Fitch, who was aunt to the first Mrs.

Ebenezer Church, found temporary shelter in this shop. The Ebenezer Church premises were set on fire by the British soldiers, but said men being in haste, left the spot as soon as the torch was applied, and the house was saved.

The second Mrs. Ebenezer Church Ist. (Mrs. Ruth Sears) had a son Thatcher Sears, who went finally to reside in the province of New Brunswick. There he had three sons, the oldest of whom, Robert, was the publisher of "Sears' Illustrated Bible." Robert Sears took pleasure in visiting his Norwalk relatives and in corresponding with, particularly, the late Miss Mary Church of the Westport Road.

In the old home that stood a few rods directly east of the Ebenezer Church place lived, years ago, " Billy Button," an honest, hard working, saving man

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ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF ELBIRT A. RAYMOND.

Upon the first preserved record made, it is probable in 1672, of the youth of Nor- walk. John Raymond is registered as having one child. This child, John 2d., and at that date about seven years old, had, up to this time, probably been educated by his mother, Mary, the daughter of settler Thomas Betts. The lad ranged the homestead grounds near the East Norwalk school of to-day and grew to be a citizen of consequence. His name is affixed to many an old record and he acquired large possessions. At the age of twenty- five he married into the St. John family, and in the beginning of the eighteenth century his wife bore him a son who was named Lemuel. At the age of twenty-eight, Lemuel Ray- mond married Sarah Squires, and made New Canaan his home. The first child born to this pair became the owner of large tracts upon the sightly heights known to Norwalk's first settlers under the name of "Canaan Ridge," but familiar to us as the high ground next north of Haynes Ridge, the seat of the Brinkerhoff, Abbot and contemplated Harlingworth resi- dences. This son's name was Luke, and the forest between Lewisboro and New Canaan, now known as Luke's Woods, perpetuates the name. In 1765. Luke Raymond married a sister of the Revolutionary veteran, Capt. Stephen Betts, and had a son called for his grandfather Squire. This son, born six years before Norwalk was burned, was the father of the late Elbirt A. Raymond of Norwalk. Squire Raymond brought up his family in the Raymond home some two miles northwest of New Canaan village. His son Elbirt A. removed, in 1845, to Norwalk and his grandson, George H., is a merchant in this town. The family genealogy stands :

Gen. I .- Richard Raymond.

II .- John and Mary ( Betts) Raymond.

III .- John and Elizabeth (St. John) Raymond.

.. IV -- Lemuel and Sarah (Squires) Raymond.

\' -Luke and Lydia (Betts) Raymond.

.. VI .- Squire and Sarah (Seeley) Raymond.

.. VII .- Elbirt A. and Mary (Pryer) Raymond.'

Elbirt A. Raymond married Mary Pryer, Oct. 21. 1838, and had :

Marcellus, born Aug. 6, 1839; died in infancy. George H. Elbirt H.

Cornelia. Mary E.

who afterward died in Witton. " Billy " kept his earnings, which eventually amounted to a handsome sum, in a chimney oven belonging to this ancient building, and when the old State Banks were merged into National Banks, the owner of the hoarded treas- urer was with difficulty prevailed upon to so exchange his funds. These were afterward deposited in the Savings Bank.

'Elbirt A. Raymond's grandmother, Lydia, was a sister of Capt. Stephen Betts of militia fame in Gen. Tryon's day. Lydia was married when her soldier brother was only nine years old. This brother afterward resided on Canaan Ridge, in the now re- constructed house occupied by the Sellecks, on the east side of said height and not far from the summer residence of Dr. Chas. R. Abbott. Mr. Raymond's

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George H., son of Elbirt A. and Mary Raymond, married April 20, 1864. Mar- garet, daughter of David and Mary (King) Whitehead, and had :

LeGrand ;

Cornelia M. ; David Whitehead.

Mary E., daughter of Elbirt and Mary Raymond, married, Dec. 16, 1884, Charles E., son of George and Sarah Jane Barrett, and had : Raymond D .; Ralph ; an infant.

Elbirt H., son of Elbirt A. and Mary Raymond, married July 22, 1890, Minnie, daughter of Franklin and Jeanette (Fillow) Gregory.

LeGrand, son of George H. and Margaret Raymond, married, Feb. 7. 1895, Sally Nelson, daughter of James Hezron and Mary (Nelson) Ayres.

David W. son of Geo. H. and Margaret Raymond, married. Nov. 11. 1896, Alice G., daughter of Jacob M. and Mary Augusta (Gardner) Layton.

SHERMAN SEQUEL-STORY OF A NORWALK TOMB-STONE.

At the time of the Ludlow-Mahackemo treaty, several remarkable pilgrims plodded through this town's wilderness and made their tangled way over the thickly bramble-strown hill now known as West Street, South Norwalk. Two of the adventurers, one scheduled and the other actual, hailed from Wethersfield and were bound for Stamford. One, John Nott. was the progenitor of the later Dr. Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College and grand- father of Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., D. C. L., the Bishop of New York, and the other, Samuel Sherman, was the ancestor of the subject of this mention.

Samuel Sherman, a Dedham youth of twenty-four, when, in 1640-1, he made his way up the future Norwalk rise, was well connected, and his English wife was the sister of a Harvard scholar who kept his college diary in Latin, Jonathan Mitchell, minister of Cam- bridge. Mass. During the winter in which the settlers were clearing the Norwalk woods, there was born in Stamford, to Hon. Samuel and Sarah Sherman, a son to whom was given the name of the lad's uncle, Rev. John Sherman. This boy, John 21., born Feb. 8, 1650-1, went to Woodbury, Conn., where at length his name was " Hon." prefixed. He lived to pass eighty winters of life and left at his death, Dec. 13, 1730, a son, John 3d., who had been baptized in June, 1687. John 3d. married, July 22, 1714, Emma Preston, sister of

earliest Betts foremother was born in 1646 in Guilford, and was the daughter of Thos. Betts, the first of the name in Norwalk. Mrs. Elbirt A. Raymond, born June 12, 1817, was a daughter of Marcellus and Mary (Inglis) Pryer. The Pryers came from Holland in 1674 and went, first, to Bergen Co., N. J. Thos. and Marguerite P'ryer were the fore-parents. These had 1

Andreas, who had Casparus ist., who had Casparus 2d., who had Marcellus, who was the father of Mrs. E. A. Raymond. Mrs. Raymond's sister, Hannah, married Alonzo Nickerson, a well-known Norwalk artizan, whose son. Jasper P., was of the 1896 grocery firm of Nickerson & Betts. Jasper Pryer, born March 23.

1826, a younger brother of Mrs. E. A. Raymond, married, Jan. 28, 1849, Ann Elizabeth, born Feb. 9, 1832, daughter of the late Henry Kellogg of Belden Avenue, whose wife (Currence Bundy) was a minis- tering daughter of mercy. Henry Kellogg was of Long Island Kellogg stock. The children of Jasper and Ann Elizabeth (Kellogg) Pryer were: Henry Marcellus, born March 19, 1850, died 1855; William Augustus, born March 9, 1852, married Mabel LaDue ; Emma Josephine, born March 17, 1854, married Frank Sutherland Fancher; Jessie Amelia, born Jan. 15, 1858, married Frank A. Camp; Hattie B., born Ang. 30, 1864, married Edgar Fremont Fancher.

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Mrs. Josiah Gregory of Danbury, of the old Gregory family of Norwalk. John =d and Emma Sherman had a son. Daniel, born Aug. 14, 1721, who was a barrister and rose to the Judge's bench. He had married Mindwell Taylor, whom the wife of President Porter of Vale College, (herself a Taylor) inclines to claim as a Norwalk Taylor. The sixth child of Judge Daniel and Mindwell Sherman was Hon. Taylor Sherman, (father of Hon. Charles R., and grandfather of U. S. Senator, the Hon. John Sherman.) the Norwalk lawyer and the occupant of the grave marked by the granite, standing in 1896, in the Town House Hill Cemetery. Judge Taylor Sherman was, in his day, one of the strong, legal lights of Fairfield County.

THE ISLA HOTT HOME-SITE IS IT APPEARS IN 18H.

"This orchard home-site. with the old Isaac Hovt well. (covered) stands to-day, as depicted above, on West Street, South Norwalk, a few rods beyond the new Congregational Church, and forming a part of the present extensive A. E. Beard estate, The house, now entirely disappeared, faced the east, and its west roof anted quite toward the ground. The well was in the rear, between the house and the garden. It is supposed to have been a Tryun saved building. Ax Garth's incendiaries before passing it, had just been repulsed and were consequently brokenly hastening to reach Main Street and take up their march to

"The Bridge." ( at which point it had been pre- arranged to join the Garth and Tryon forces) the premises might in the moment's disaster-dilemma, have been overlooked. This was the olden - time residence of Isaac and Mary (Raymond) Hoyt and the child and maiden-hood home of their daughter, Mary, the mother of two of this nation's renowned sons, the living Hon, john Sherman, U. S. Senate, and the deceased Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman, U. S. Army. Mary Hoyt (Mrs. Charles R. Sherman.) born Dec. 28, 1787. transmitted to at least one of her children, William T., the strong facial

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HOME-LOT VIII

Rev. Thomas Hanford, of Home Lot, No. 8, was Norwalk's pastor-primus, and one of the notable divines of his day. He was born in England in 1621, and belonged to a family of ancient and honorable name. The following extract from Breton's "Beauties of England and Wales," dated London, 1811, will give some idea of the British Hanford House :

" Wollas-Hall, the seat of the Hanford family since 1536, stands on the north side of Bredon Hill at about one third of its ascent from the vale of Eversham, and the whole estate, with the part of Breedon Hill, upon which it is situated, is called Wooler's Hill, a name given to it about the time of the Conquest from the great number of wolves that infested the country at that time. It is at present the seat of Charles Hanford, Esq., the first of whose ancestors in possession of it was a son of Sir John Hanford, K'nt., who purchased it from the great Lord Burleigh in the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, since which time it has come in an unbroken line of descent to its present possessor. The porch has the family motto, "Memorare Novissima," cut in the stone over the entrance door with the date 1611 answering to the early part of the reign of James the First, but the greater part of the building is of much older date. The mansion is built of an excellent hard stone, harder than Portland and darker in color, but what is curious to observe that none like it is found in the neighborhood. This is a great subject of regret, for time has no other effect upon it than to give it a venerable appearance, while the protruberances and edges of the stone are as sharp as when first cut. The great hall, which has a screen and music-gallery, like that

Hoyt resemblance. Quiet countenance, firmness as well as perfect demeanor-poise were characteristics of Mary's brother (Charles) who was a central figure in a beautiful Norwalk ceremony, viz., his bridal, by Bishop MeIlvaine of Ohio, to a daughter of Eben- ezer D. Hoyt of Main Street. The Raymond aunts of Mrs. Charles R. Sherman were the maternal heads of Norwalk remark-families of days past. One of these aunts, Esther (Mrs. Hezekiah Rogers, ) a social spirit, lived next door neighbor to the Shermans. Another, Elizabeth, was the wife of the notable Dr. Uriah Rogers, Jr., and another, Hannah, married Lemuel Brooks, M. D., of Norwalk. These three sisters were the grand-daughters of Nathaniel Street, who was the grandson of Rev. Samuel and Anna (daughter of Hon. Richard Miles of New Haven) Street. The interesting claim* is made that the mother of Rev. Samuel Street, and consequently the foremother of all the Norwalk Streets and many of the Norwalk Raymonds, was a sister of the New England pioneeress, Miss Elizabeth Pool, whose memorial at the entrance of Mount Pleasant Ceme- tery, Taunton, Mass., reads thus :

The females of Taunton have erected this monument in honor of ELIZABETH POOL,

Foundress of the Town of Taunton in 1637, Born before the settlement of America in England 1589,

Died at Taunton, May 21, 1654.

Miss Mary Hoyt, afterward Mrs. Charles R. Sherman, delightfully received her friends at the lloyt hill-side home. Among her guests, at one gathering, was her school-mate, a grand-daughter of the Lord of the Manor of Philipsburgh. These young ladies attended together the noted llarlem Seminary, kept by the three English Sketchley sis- ters, of which institution Miss Charlotte Dickinson | (later the wife of Dr. Thomas Church Brownell, third bishop of Connecticut) was also a member. The pupils of this school (removed later to Pough- keepsie) were interested in the movements of the elegant Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore and her young suitor, Jerome Bonaparte, which two were, at that period, socially conspicuous. Nearly forty years

*The author has not investigated this claim. It is borrowed from carefully prepared Street family data.

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of the Middle Temple is lighted by two large windows on the right of the porch. From its dimensions a tolerable idea may be formed of the size of the house, it (the hall) being in length thirty-four feet, in width twenty-two feet and in height eighteen feet, presenting a most noble and imposing effect throughout. Among the pictures in the venerable mansion are a portrait of Sir George Wynder, by Van Dyck, another of Lady Wynder, by Sir Peter Lely, together with a portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, the unhappy consort of King Charles, by Van Dyck, all of which are undoubted originals.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 18

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