Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 20

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

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ICapt. Alanson P. St. John, of Norwalk, took a position on the North River at the dawn of its pas- senger-popularity period, and by his admirable com- mand of the "Rochester" was one of the inaugurators of the propitious era. Tourists, artists, students and statesmen were contributors to the river's growing patronage, and albeit the days were primitive and the boats of plain model, yet management-elegance was discernible even before the advent of the superb DREW OF ST. JOHN. The grace with which at that earlier era a colored official bore, upon the salver, a complimentary passage-proffer and tendered it to the subject of the courtesy, or the cabin-conduct to the captain's table and honor-place at his right hand of some guest or friend of the company or the command- er, were noticeable civilities.

River traffic probably reached high water mark just before the completion of the Iludson River Rail- road, at which time it was worth one's while to go, at nightfall on a summer evening, to the Broadway, Albany, landing. The trains from the west and north are in, the pier is packed with vehicles and crowds throng the steamer's gangway. The hour is up, the last bell has rung, and one who, barring his height, somewhat resembles Theodore Cook, commodore of the Cunard fleet, emerges from the pilot quarter aloft and stand- for a moment at its little guard rail. It is Capt. St. John, who, after a quiet but searching look fore and aft, touches a small -pring and mid strains of

stirring music sends his thronged palace of blaze and beauty out into the channel to proudly steam, while its living burden safely sleep, adown the one peerless American stream of which the poet long ago enthusi- astically wrote that it had "too much of Heaven on earth to last." A trip up or down the Hudson, at that day was an event. The late Capt L. H. Tupper, long a favorite contemporary of Capt. St. John, took comfort in recent times, and whilst visiting in Nor- walk, in reciting his North River experiences. It is declared, upon good authority, that the "People's Line" was conceived in Norwalk, but whether so or no, this town's Cannon's, Fitch's, Hanford's, St. John's, Warren's and, by connection, Peck's, form an imposing Hudson galaxy.

2Mrs. Thomas Goodman, who passed the ending years of her life with her daughter, Mrs. Levi. C. Hanford, of Norwalk, was cousin of the late veteran Maj .- Gen. John E. Wool of the United States Army. Gen. Wool, a hero in the Mexican War and a soldier of national reputation, spent his term of retired service in the city of Troy, where he was held in high honor. His mother died while he was young, and the future soldier shared the home of his uncle, James Wool, the father of Mrs. Thomas Goodman before referred to. At the age of sixteen young Wool left his uncle's and took a clerk's position in Troy. He went into business for himself in Troy, but having been burned out, sought and obtained a captain's commission in the army. His first battle was at Queenstown Heights. He married Sarah Moulton of Troy, but had no child- ren. His wife's sister married the father of Hon. John A. Griswold, who holds the general's sword and other trophies of war. A large estate was divided, after the soldier's decease, among his widow and the Wool family affinity.

Beside the Norwalk Hanford- Wool relationship is that of the Norwalk Betts - Wool connection. The step-mother of the celebrated Gen. Wool married, for her second husband, one whose home was in the pres- ent town of Wilton. David Betts (Samuel 2d., Sam- uel ist., Thomas ist.) born April 4, 1730, had a son, Jared, who was baptized in Wilton, March 23, 1755. Jared's father died some years later and his mother, Betty, married, second, Nov. 13, 1770, Capt. Caleb

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ASCENDANTS OF DANIEL, CHARLES, WINFIELD SCOTT, SR., AND JOSEPH PLATT HANFORD) 2d.

Gen. I .- REV. THOMAS AND MARY (Miles) HANFORD. Gen. I .- REV. THOMAS AND MARY (Miles ) HANFORD.

" II .- SAMUEL AND ISABEL ( Haynes) HANFORD.

" III .- HEZEKIAH AND DEBORAH (Hoyt) HANFORD.

" IV .- DANIEL AND SUSANNAH ( Platt) HANFORD.

" V .- JOSEPH PLATTISL. AND CHARLOTTE (St. John ) HANFORD.

" IV .- DANIEL, CHARLES AND WINFIELD SCOTT HANFORD, SR.

" II .- SAMUEL AND ISABEL ( Haynes) HANFORD.

" III .- HEZEKIAH AND DEBORAH ( Hoyt ) HANFORD.

" IV .- DANIEL AND SUSANNAH (Platt) HANFORD.

" V -JOSEPH PLATT IST. AND PHERE (Northrop) HANFORD.

" VI .- JOSEPH PLATT HANFORD, SR.

Joseph Platt Hanford"", born April 17, 1782, died Aug. 10, 1870, was twice mar- ried. His first wife was Charlotte, daughter of William' and Hannah (Marvin) St. John. William St. John's mother was reared in the meadow home close by the residence to-day of Oscar W Raymond in East Norwalk. She was a sister of one (Mrs. Nehemiah Rog- ers) of ancestress-renown, and her father was distinguished in public life. Mr. St. John's grandmother on his father's side (Mrs. Joseph St. John Ist.), was the grand-child of Mr. Wil- liam Hooker, who was the grandson of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Cam- bridge, Mass., and a founder of the Connecticut colony. The mother of Joseph P. Han- ford ". (Susannah Platt), was a grand-daughter of Hannah, (Mrs. Joseph Platt ", "ye wor- shipful"), a daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford. She was a great grand-daughter of John

Baldwin of Newtown, Fairfield County, As the young Jared reached young manhood at this time he desired his share of his father's estate, but his step-father, who had the property in charge, declined to act in the matter. The young man was so indignant that (probably in opposition to his step-father) he at once went into the British army and assisted the enemy in its operations against Danbury in 1777. For this course he was banished the country, and as his brother Nathan had been killed in battle, the boy's mother died from grief the next year. While Jared was at St. John's, Nova Scotia, he sold out his share of the Norwalk estate to William Burwell of Newtown, Conn., and also his interest in his deceased brother Nathan's property. After Jared's return from the provinces at the war's close, he located at Schenec- tady, N. Y. and subsequently in Troy, where he married the second Mrs. Wool. Gen. Wool main- tained very handsome quarters in First Street, Troy. After his decease the property, for the larger part fell to llon. John A. Griswold, and his children. The Griswold's belonged in Troy, N. Y

'Col. Stephen St. John, son of Joseph and Susannah (Selleck-Hooker) St. John, was one of colonial Nor- walk's elegant military men. He married Ann, daughter of Hon. Samuel and niece of Gov. Thomas Fitch. The issue by this union was one of strong New England blood. William, second son of Col. Stephen, married Hannah, born Oct 8, 1760, daughter

of Matthew and Deborah (Burnet) Marvin. Hannah's brother, born Jan. 3, 1764, was the eminently excellent Hon. Matthew Marvin of Wilton, who married, April 7, 1792, Nancy, a sister of said Hannah's husband, William St. John. The children of William and Hannah St. John were : Stephen W., Charlotte, Maria, Matthew C., Delia, Charles and Betsey. The second of these children, Charlotte, was the first wife of Joseph P. Hanford ist., and the mother of his first three sons, Daniel, Charles and Winfield Scott. After the decease of his first wife Charlotte, Joseph P. Hanford, married, second, the widow of Erie Northrop, Phoebe, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Raymond. By this marriage there was the 1896 Joseph Platt Hanford of East Norwalk. The Han- ford home at "Bush Pasture," on the ancient "Fair- field Path," now Strawberry Hill, was one of old-time satisfaction and of marine-view beauty. Its head, Joseph P. Hanford Ist., a faithful chief town official, there brought up. during his years of strength, his active sons. Of these Daniel, who married a daughter of Ebenezer Smith, established a home in his native town. Charles went south, and Winfield S. who, marrying in Philadelphia and conducting business elsewhere, remained for a long period away, but finally returned and spent the balance of his days in ener- getic efforts city wise and church wise in South Nor- walk. He was one of the most diligent and liberal founders of Trinity Church in that city.

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Platt">L., the Norwalk Platt settler, who was a son of Richard Platt, Sr. and settler. The second wife of Joseph P. Hanford Ist. was the widow Northrop, a sister of Mrs. James Sey- mour of Norwalk, and of Mrs. Daniel Aymar of New York. The widow Northrop, now the second Mrs. Joseph P. Hanford ">t., was a great grand-daughter of Elizabeth Belden, of the Wm. Belden, Deerfield, Mass. branch. By her Cole marriage, Elizabeth Belden scat- tered Foote-Deming blood profusely over Norwalk. Mr. Joseph Platt Hanford 2d., only son of Joseph P. Hanford ">". by his second marriage, is to-day, at almost eighty, a splendid example of mental and physical vigor. The story of his own as well as of many of the down-town (East Norwalk) homes abounds in instructive genealogy passages.

DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH PLATT HANFORD, SR.

Daniel,' born November 19, 1803, son of Joseph P. and Charlotte (St. John) Han- ford, married June 27, 1827, Caroline, daughter of Ebenezer H. and Susanna (Wright) Smith, and had :

Charles E., b. Nov. 17. 1830; mar. Nov. 1859, Mary Elizabeth Banker. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. June 20, 1833 ; mar. July 2, 1853, Edwin H. Baldwin. George Smith 'st., b. Feb. 20, 1836; died March 16, 1836.

Sarah Catherine, b. April 30, 1837 ; mar. June 4, 1871, Daniel F Whitlock. George Smith 2d., b. July 20, 1838; died Nov. 12, 1849.2

Caroline Louisa, b. April 20, 1841 ; mar. Dec. 20, 1865, Stephen Merrill. Winfield Scott, born Sep. 5, 1843 ; mar. April 9, 1867. Ella Amelia Osborn.

Daniel Hanford died Sep. 25. 1857 and his wife Caroline, March 23, 1888.

Charles Hanford, born 1809, died April 23, 1847, son of Joseph P. and Charlotte (St. John) Hanford, married first, 1830, Elizabeth, daughter of David Hanford ( Hezekiah 24) .. Hezekiah '>., Samuel, Rev. Thomas).3 She died Feb. 20, 1831, aged eighteen. He mar- ried, second, Arminta Holmes. He married third, 1840, Jane Wilson, and had :

"Named for his Hanford grandfather, Daniel ist., who had served for two terms during the Revolution- ary War. Norwalk was harrassed during said period by plundering parties from the enemy's Long Island quarters. \ night visit was paid the Hanford premi- ses, and after laying hands upon the family stores, the head of the household (Danielist.) was taken to the Sugar House Prison in New York city. His home was destroyed on the morning of the Tryon invasion. One of his sons, Andrew, who was born during the terrible winter that succeeded this invasion, was after- ward well known in the Ohio " Fireland " district. Distribution of these western lands was made to east- ren sufferers as an offset to Tryon-incurred losses. On the night in 1779 of the landing of the enemy in Nor- walk, Thomas Comstock of Silvermine opened his

still standing ( Wardwell) house as a shelter for Nor- walkers. Among these seemed to be the heads of two families, "Gold Hoyt and Simeon Raymond" (see Huron County, Ohio, record) who made over to Thomas Seymour their claim to this Ohio bounty. The result was that Mr. Comstock (great grandfather of Stephen and Albert of 1896) became the proprie- tor of Sections II and III (now the site of the city of Norwalk, Ohio) of the "Fireland" district. Andrew Hanford became interested in this matter.

2This engaging youth was one of the earliest Norwalk railway-disaster victims. He was killed, soon after the New York and New Haven railroad was opened for traffic, by a passenger train from New Haven, at the now East Avenue crossing of the road. 3The Hezekiah llanford ist., named within the

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Emily Jane,' b. Aug. 21, 1841 ; mar. Sep. 25, 1861, Henry Albert Smith.

Charles St. John,2 b. March 1, 1845 ; mar. Nov. 26, 1873, Mary A. Clemons.

Winfield Scott Hanford, born Oct. 3, 1814, (died May 10, 1884,) son of Joseph P. and Charlotte (St. John) Hanford, married March 16, 1848, Priscilla Thomas Snell of Philadelphia, and had :

Wm. Augustus Sale Ist., born Dec. 17, 1848 ; died Aug. 2, 1849. Wm. Augustus Sale 2d., born Nov. 6, 1850; died May 1, 1878.

Charles St. John, born Sep. 29, 1852 ; died Feb. 1, 1872.

Mary Currier, born (Dec. 1856.)

Martin Bioley, born Aug. 12, 1858 ; died Feb. 2, 1861.

Charlotte Cecilia, born July 16, 1860; died Jan. 20, 1866.

Annie Tamzen, born May 9, 1864 ; died July 14, 1865.

Joseph Platt, born May 9, 1864; died Feb. 11, 1866.

Wm. Augustus Sale 2d., son of Winfield S. and Priscilla T. Hanford, married, Oct. 20, 1875, Isabella, daughter of Wm. C. and Elizabeth (Wilcoxson) Street, and had :

Edna, born Sept. 27, 1876; died Dec. 16, 1877.

Mrs. Wm. A. S. Hanford 2d., married second, Charles, son of James K. and Sa- manthe (Bontecou) Selleck.

Mary Currier, daughter of Winfield S. and Priscilla T. Hanford, married Apr. 21, 1881, Elbirt A. Woodward, and had, Lottie Hanford, born Feb. 25, 1882.

Joseph Platt Hanford2d., son of Joseph P. Ist. and Phoebe Hanford, born March 8, 1818, married, Oct. 6, 1840, Jane, daughter of Cyprian Collins, and had :

Franklin, b. July 12, 1841 ; died Dec. 31, 1843.

Jeanette Hanford, mar. Sep. 29, 1869, Augustus C. Golding.

Mary Scott. Anna, mar. Oct. 6, 1871, John C. Turrell.

Emma ; Franklin.

parenthesis, born 1721, died May, 2, 1812, inherited Samuel, his father's, homestead (S. W. corner East Avenue and Fort Point Street, 1896.) Samuel Han- ford was the son of Rev. Thomas, and succeeded to his parents' occupancy of the original Hanford home- lot. Hezekiah was one of the chief men of his day and served in the American Revolution. He lived in comfort and died on his reverend grandfather's home property. He located his son, Daniel Ist., on the

Strawberry Hill estate, which was so long the home of the son of Daniel Ist., the late Joseph P. Hanford Ist.

1Her children are Fannie Albertine,* born Aug. 2, 1862; Charles Wilson, born May 16, 1864; George A.,t born Oct. 7, 1866; Henry O., born Oct. 23, 1868; Bertha H., born Jan. 31, 1872; Emily Jane, born June 19, 1875.

2Had Bertha Augusta, born Sept. 25, 1874; died Sept. 1I, 1875.

*Married, Nov. 30, 18So, Albert Geib, who died, Aug. 12, 1887. Had Bertha L., born July 7, 1881; Henry A., born Oct. 4, 1883. +Married, Oct. 14, 1891, Edelena, daughter of Edwin J. and

Esther (Olmstead) Beers. Had George A., born Oct. 24, 1894, died next day; Reginald S., born Sept. 25, 1896. The parents' present home is in East Norwalk.

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THOMAS COOK HANFORD ASCENT AND DESCENT.

Gen. I .- Rev. Thomas and Mary ( Miles) Hanford.

II .- Eleazer and Hannah (Frisbie) Hanford.'

" III .- Phineas and Hannah (Comstock) Hanford .?

" IV .- Stephen and Phoebe (Fitch) Hanford.3

" V-Abijah and Hannah (Warren) Hanford.

" VI .- Thomas Cook Hanford.

In the days when Isaac Belden was wont to yoke his team and drive at early morn out of his bar-way (opposite St. Mary's Church, 1896) destined to harvest at Belden's Point, no portion of his long route, from "The Bridge" to "The Neck," was more farmer- inviting than the generous green meadow stretch that opened from the site of the present Mahackemo Hotel and extended southwest to the Hoyt's acres ( Whistleville), and still fur- ther south in the direction of " The Village." This was the " Old Well " Plain, denominated by the settlers "the great meadow," and upon its ancient northern edge Thomas C. Hanford

1About three and eighty years before Thomas C. Hanford was born, in viz., 1722, there was a con- vening, in person or by proxy, of several Fairfield County family principals. Eleazer, great-great grand- father of Mr. Hanford, was one of the party and the Platts, Comstocks, Hills, Burrs and Bulkleys were others of the company. The occasion was that of the distribution of the estate of Norwalk's first min- ister. Eleazer Hanford, who was then fifty-two years of age, was second named in this transaction. Ilis son, well known in his day, Capt. Phineas, of Old Hill, had a son Stephen who married, in 1771, Phoebe Fitch, and had \bijah, born Aug. 27, 1774, who married May 19, 1796, Hannah Warren, and had : Thos. Cook Hanford, born Feb. 24, 1805.

2Moses, son of Christopher and Hannah (Platt) Comstock, the Norwalk settlers, married, Feb. 23, 1709-10, Abigail, born 1691, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade. Mrs. Daniel Brinsmade was a daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, the Norwalk Kellogg settlers. She was also a sister of Rachel (daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg), who married, Dec. 3, 1684, Abraham Nichols, son of C'aleb and Annie ( Ward) Nichols of Woodbury, which Caleb was the son of Francis Nichols, the an- cestor of the Nichols family in America. Daniel Kellogg, of Norwalk, through the Nichols and Brins- made marriages of his daughters thus became a noted progenitor. Moses and Abigail Comstock's daughter Hannah, married Phineas, son of Eleazer and Hannah (Frisbie) Hanford. Phineas Hanford's brothers and sisters were Sarah (Mrs. John Darrow), Hannah, ( Mrs. John Reed), Eleazer, Mary and Eunice (Mrs. Josiah Whitney).

3Mrs. Stephen Hanford (Phoebe Fitch) born Sep. 3, 1753, was the daughter of Elijah and Phoebe

(Smith) Fitch. Her father was the son of James and Mary (Haynes-Buckingham) Fitch, and her mother was the daughter of Robert and Judith (Fountain) Smith. Her ancestry-annals would fill a small volume. Her Fitch grandfather was a brother of Gov. Thomas Fitch, and her Smith grandfather was husband of the Long Island Smith mother in relation to whom the citizens of Jamaica passed a "public vote," the nature and history of which have, of late years, been the sub- jects of considerable investigation. Fitch, son of Ste- phen and Phoebe Hanford, mar. Lucretia Chapman. The long-time East Saugatuck debatable ground, the disputed territory, that is to say, between Fairfield and Norwalk, formed, in early times, part of an ec- clesiastical parish. A society organized thereat, in 1714, chose Rev. Daniel Chapman of Saybrook, who had married Grace Lovell or Lovewell of the prov- inces, as its first pastor. These had a number of chil- dren, one of whom, Phineas (Capt.) married Sarah, the widow (2d wife) of Joseph Ketchum ist. formerly of Norwalk. Phineas and Sarah built for themselves a home a little to the east of "Hokanum" Plain (near what is now known as Cross Highway.) This home is to-day in the family. Capt. Phineas Chapman earned his title by his services in the Revolutionary War. His son, Joseph, one of the earliest physicians in Westport, had built for him by his father, the house still in existence, which stands at the upper end of the road leading from Westport to Chestnut Hill and just north of the Poplar Plains burial yard. This physician, born Aug. 17, 1745, erected the double dwelling known for the past fifty years, in East Pop- lar Plains, as the Chapman house. Hle designed it for one of his daughters and it faces the road leading southerly from King Street, which, winding into the Newtown turnpike at Cranbury Plains, conducts to

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established his family seat. Diagonally across from the Hanfords stood, in their day, the Chichester house, the old time two benched "stoop" of which was quite likely, in the sum- mer morning or evening, to be occupied by the finely formed father of the family. Before the New Haven R. R. was opened, the Hanford-Chichester corner was, at the hour of the New York steamer's arrival and departure, a scene of animation. Almadurus Brower's New Canaan "Diligence,"' Gray's Westport stage and Charles Partrick's noted Norwalk

Norwalk. Dr. Joseph Chapman's daughter, Lydia, born Feb. 12, 1776, married, as his third wife, Col. Enoch St. John of New Canaan, and had one son who lived to be about five years of age. Another daughter mar. Samuel Noyes, M.D., of New Canaan. Another daughter, Polly, born Aug. 29, 1780, married Cornelius Brinckerhoff of New York. These last had two chil- dren, one of whom, William, born August, 1803, married Lucretia Hanford, born 1810, daughter of Fitch and Lucretia (Chapman) Hanford. Fitch Han- ford, who was three months old when Norwalk was burned, was the son, as before appears, of Stephen and Phœbe (Fitch) Hanford, grand-parents of Thomas Cook Hanford, whose South Norwalk home has been supplanted by the Mahackemo Hotel. Mrs. Wm. Brinckerhoff succeeded to an estate which, through the Indians' assistance,* was finally determined to belong to Norwalk. She lived to be the last West- port heir of said estate's first proprietor and as she had no children the property fell to the issue of her cousin, Thos. C. Hanford of Norwalk, one of whose grand - daughters, Louisa Brinckerhoff Woodward, bears her name.

Phineas Chapman 2d., married Ruth, dau. of Thos. and Ruth ( Bradley) Treadwell. Charles, born Jan. 26, 1814, the youngest son of Phineas and Ruth (Treadwell) Chapman, married Martha, daughter of the well-known Bela St. John of North Wilton. Bela St. John, born 1773, son of John who was the grand- son of Matthias St. John, was of the fifth generation from Matthias St. John, Sr., and settler. His great grandfather Matthias lived in his meadow (now Earle) home in Norwalk, but of his sons, one built on the summit of the Ferris Hill of 1895, and another at the foot of said hill and not far from the father's poet- ically denominated "Comstock's Park."+ Bela St. John married, Jan. 15, 1812, Esther, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Marvin) Keeler of the exten- sive Bald Hillt Keeler proprietors' family, the veins of the children by which union held the blood of several of the principal founder families of the plan- tation. Charles and Martha (St. John) Chapman lived on the old Phineas Chapman estate, now in the north-east part of Westport, a home which their

daughters take just pride in keeping up. The chil- dren of Charles and Martha Chapman are: Esther St. John, born Aug. 10, 1850, died 1896; Laura E. A., born Aug. 24, 1853; Charles Phineas, born Nov. 9, 1858, married 1882, Laura, daughter of Ebenezer Gil- bert, Jr. She died 1884, leaving one son. He mar- ried again and lost his second wife.

'This designation was neatly lettered over the door of the New Canaan stage, which Beardsley, brother-in-law of the proprietor, usually drove. With the smack of the whip he rounded into Haynes Ridge or spirited along Church Ilill, collecting his early morning complement of New York passengers who, when the " Old Well landing" was reached, and the steamboat boarded, always found the brass rail which fronted the "Captain's office" polished like unto gold and the "Ladies' Saloon," where Margaret Holmes presided, a model of neatness. Capt. Peck had a pleasant greeting for these men who, hailing from as great a distance even as The Oblong, were "feeders" of the line. After the New Haven road was opened, Linus Benedict built up quite a little business traffic between New Canaan and Norwalk.

Almadurus Brower came from Westport to Nor- walk and was here employed by Charles Partrick. At this time there was no stage communication with New Canaan, but Mr. Partrick had the contract for a horseback mail thither. As Brower was occasionally solicited by the New Canaan manufacturers to take small packages to Norwalk, it occurred to him to purchase a horse and " run" a sort of " express " once every week-day to and from the former town. From this beginning he gradually built up a livery business, and established a line to the Norwalk steamboat. The business finally assumed no mean proportions and one Hickox entered the arena. Wm. E. Dann of High Ridge, (1896, Norwalk) also founded a New Canaan livery establishment somewhat later. Mr. Dann operated the New Canaan and Darien route and was responsible for the transportation of the U. S. mail between these two points. So influential were the efforts of Samuel St. John, of New Canaan, that the mail was now taken from the train at Stamford, rather than Darien. This broke up the Darien stage

** Norwalk James " was called upon to assist in locating the ancient boundary between Fairfield and Norwalk. There is dis- tinct record to this effect.

+This name (see N. T. R.) was early given to a diversified

land-stretch lying to the east of Canoe Hill. It would have been called in England a " wold."

[A portion of this sightly domain, nine miles north of " Whitney's Mill," is to-day held by the Keeler descendants.

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coach,1 preceeded and followed by a line of private conveyances, contributed, at morn and eve, to a bustle-exhibition thereat. Mr. Hanford here built a commodious but neat appearing home establishment. His wife was one of the four daughters of Henry and Rebecca (Fitch) Betts. Henry Betts, son of Peter, and grandson of John, who was son of John, son of Thomas Ist. and Mary Betts, the settlers, married Feb. 12, 1794, Rebecca, born Jan. 31, 1771, only daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Marvin) Fitch, and the sister of Sam- uel M., Jonathan and Henry Fitch. Henry2 and Rebecca Betts daughter Harrriet (Mrs. Thomas C. Hanford), was the youngest of the children. Her brother was Daniel F. Betts, and her sisters were Rebecca (Mrs. Charles Isaacs), Susan (Mrs. Thomas Benedict), Hen- rietta ( Mrs. Charles Mallory) and Sarah Esther,3 who was unmarried. Thomas C. and Har- riet B. Hanford had :

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 20

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