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It would be amiss, if not unjust, to bring this Parker-Ketchum note to a period before referring to the great work accomplished in the ancient Norwalk parish of Canaan through the interest and influence of Dr. Willard Parker, Sr. None knew better than he the potentiality of elevation, and the distinguished physician had by masterly sagacity, enterprise and activity and by liberal decreeing and doing, proven a benefactor to that healthful and desirable and delight- ful summer haunt. It is far from rash to affirm that his memory merits exalted praise.
'Reuben Sherwood, D.D., belonged to the old Sherwood family of Fairfield, and was a Yale man, class of 1813. He was ordained by Bishop Hobart of
*Benj. Adair, brought up by the Ketchums, was a useful and respected in-waiting attache of the family. In due time he married a Modoc Indian from the south of Long Island who also proved a domestic acquisition and was an earnest chris- tian woman. These two were valuable accessories to the
" Hokanum " establishment. Many summers and winters attes- ted to the liveried Benjamin's fidelity and he never grew to be- come an age-disenchanted Westport and Norwalk form. His wife survives him and dwells with a daughter, graduate of the New York Normal School.
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MOSES ROGERS.
Now of Xchemish amt Elizabeth ( Fiteht Renters,
SARAIL ROGERS. Daughter of Benjamin and E-ther (I-ane -; Woolsey, Jr.
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Moses, second son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers, married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Esther (Isaacs) Woolsey of Long Island, and had :
Sarah Elizabeth ; married Hon. Samuel M. Hopkins.' Benjamin Woolsey; married Susan, daughter of William Bayard. Archibald; married Anna, daughter of Judge Nathaniel Pendleton.
Julia Ann ; married Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr.
Susannah, oldest daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers, and named for her
the Diocese of New York, and came, in 1816, to Nor- walk, as rector of St. Paul's Church. Here for four- teen years he was admired and beloved, conducting, in addition to his pastoral obligations, a successful boys' and girls' academy and seminary. His marriage gave him influence and his institution had prominent home and abroad patronage. The professional work was done, mainly, by masters, the building used for the purpose being the academy (now John F. Bennett home) which stood on the northeast corner of the present St. Paul's property and opposite the Heze- kiah Jarvis residence. There were two departments, male and female, the girls occupying the second story and the boys the first floor, and when "school was out" there was a cheery commingling of the students. The Dr.'s bright and manly boys came from sections far and near. The late E. E. Beardsley, D.D., histo- riographer and rector, belonged to the school, as did the Middletown MacDonough (sons of the Commo- dore) brothers. Here were educated Lawrence and John Vaux of Philadelphia; the present Col. LeGrand Cannon of New York; the whilom- Broadway merchant, Albert Journeay ; Ebenezer Tall- man of the city; Frank Perry of Fairfield; the two English Sellons; the admired young James King, and the Winthrop brothers and cousins, including Henry R., whose fine manners and handsome face are to this hour Norwalk mind pictures. Mary Ellis, daughter of Capt. Isaac Bell of New York, was under Dr. Sherwood's care, while her brother, since a metropol- itan figure, here unwittingly left behind himn evidence- testimony to the lad's nice propriety-intuition. He had been down the river and was salt water soiled. Upon landing he hastened to school to re-make his toilet. and chancing to meet, on the way thither, a particular young friend, a compelling courtly convic- tion restrained him, in his plight, from barely a fugi- tive recognition of his acquaintance. Arrived at his student quarters he at once gallantly addressed a note apologetic of his appearance and action, which note, as a Sherwood School reminder, is to-day prized by one of Norwalk's most cherished citizens.
Dr. Sherwood came, a recently ordained presby- ter, to Norwalk, and was consequently in touch with the ardent parish element. He was dignified but cor- dial and approachable. At one of his Christmas-eve services, his junior flock having elaborately pine and
laurel "dressed" the sanctuary, the rector found as he entered the octagonal pulpit to deliver his Christ- mas message that the young people's zeal had to such an extent bough-filled the same as that it was difficult for him therein to speak. At a glance, one of his members, a general favorite, comprehended the situ- ation and promptly mounted the pulpit stairs to re- move what, most likely, her own hands had there planted. This practical maiden, the mother after- ward, of several New York city and state daughters, presided beautifully, and until advanced life, at one of the admirable hearthstones of Troy, N. Y.
The students of Dr. Sherwood's School were privileged with the superintendence of Mrs. Sher- wood, a lady of dignity of presence, and who was greatly esteemed. The household responsibilities were shared with a member of the family of one of the most widely known pilots of Long Island Sound, Capt. Abraham Benson, who built (house standing to- day) on the corner of the ancient Ludlow farm-lot, opposite the Ludlow Fairfield residence.
The situation of the Sherwood School at the head of Norwalk Green and beneath the exceptionally large and spreading elms which, in the Sherwood days, were about twenty-five years old, was truly delightful, while the parsonage grounds enlivened by the sight, here and there, of the Sherwood boys and the driving up the lawn-way of the Stamford Roger relatives, made the spot inviting to townsman and stranger. The St. Paul's elms (fast fading in 1896) were handsome objects down fifty years later than Dr. Sherwood's time, soon after the rectorship of whom the cure fell to Jackson Kemper, D.D., who held it until called in 1835 to the bishopric of the North West. During Dr. Kemper's incumbency, Rev. Wm. A. Muhlenburg, D.D., of New York, was a welcome visitor to Norwalk, and subsequently Rev. Wm. F. Morgan, D.D)., studied beneath the same shade.
Rector and Principal Sherwood resigned the Nor- walk parish in order to assume duty at Washington College. After this he removed to Ulster County, N. Y., accepting, finally, the rectorship of St. James Church, Hyde Park-on-the-Hudson. Here he ended his faithful life on Whitsunday, 1856. His daughter, Catharine, from early days the friend of Miss Julia A. Lockwood of Norwalk, now resides at Hyde Park.
Sarah Elizabeth, who bore her mother Woolsey
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grandmother Fitch, married David 2d., son of David ">". and Laurany Lambert of Norwalk; had :
Elizabeth ; died young. David Rogers; born Dec. 8, 1772.
Laurany ; died young.
Henry B .; Esther ; died young. Sarah S .; married Hon. George Cruikshank of Canada.
Samuel F .;
John J .; died young. Julia Maria ; died young.
The first David Lambert, born 1700, who came to Norwalk, was the son of Jesse and Deborah (Fowler) Lambert of Milford. Deborah, daughter of Capt. William and grand-daughter of Magistrate William Fowler, belonged to one of the chief planter families of Milford. David Lambert Ist. had a sister, Sarah, who married John Dunning of Norwalk, and another sister, Elizabeth, who married John Birchard of this town. Mr. Lambert reached maturer years and married Feb. 1, 1726-7, Laurana, daughter of " Mr. John Bill of Lebanon." These had (see Lambert lineage) David 2d ..
David Lambert2d., married Dec. 27, 1769, Susanna, daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, and had Samuel F., born Dec. 25, 1784, who late in life married a Rockwell, the only issue being the present David R. Lambert4th., who married Eva, daughter of Captain Edw. S. Ogden, formerly of New Canaan, but later of Wilton, Conn., which David R. Lambert 4th. occupies, in 1896, the original Wilton home.
"Church does not commence until the Lambert's come," was a common saying in
and her grandmother Fitch names, oldest child of Moses Rogers, married a Connecticut born lawyer who belonged to the honored Hopkins family of Waterbury, a city the soil of which holds many of the Hopkins dead. Hon. Samuel Miles Hopkins was born May 9, 1772. and the young lawyer, in the autumn (Oct. 5) of 1800, wedded his Rogers bride who was not quite two years younger than himself. These had seven children two of whom are at present known in Norwalk. The elder of the two, Prof. Sam- uel M. Hopkins, D.D , of Auburn, N. Y., was, in his student days, a friend of the late Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk, and the meeting, in this town, of the two a little before Mr. Bissell's death was delightfully cor- dial. Professor Hopkins fills a chair in the same in- stitution with which Rev. Edwin Hall, D.D., a for- mer pastor of the First Congregational Church in Norwalk, was, until his death prominently connected. The professor's brother, Col. Woolsey Rogers Hop- kins, now of Shippan Point, and a thorough gentle- man of the olden school, is held in high admiration
in his grandfather's ( Moses Rogers) birth place. The Colonel's impressive allusion to the Rogers' birth- hearth during his address at the planting in 1895 by the D. A. R., of the " Father's Stone" in East Norwalk (confluence of Fitch Street and Fort Point Avenue) is unforgotten in Norwalk. Two grand army sons, Col. W. R. Hopkins and Gen. I. N. Couch greatly dignified that occasion by their presence.
Julia A. (Mrs. Francis B. Winthrop, Jr.) sister of Sarah E. (Mrs. Samuel M. Hopkins) died at the age of twenty-six, and her husband married, second, Eliza- beth Woolsey, neice of Mrs. Moses Rogers. One of the children by this union, Edward, born Dec. 19, 1811, was the Norwalk school lad who has interesting mention in this town to-day. The Winthrops, who spent happy hours at the head of the Norwalk Green, left pleasing memories behind them. The lad, Ed- ward, occupant as a youth of the primitive pew in St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, became, afterward, the rec- tor of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in Vermont, Oct. 31, 1865.
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the parish in the days of David2d. and Susannah (Fitch) Lambert, and the saying correctly expressed the local conviction Lambert-wards. The family was a power and entertained on a generous scale. Its members and their guests rode around the country in state. The visits of Mrs. Lambert's mother, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers, who occasionally bade adieu to the Gracie city mansion and indulged in a country trip, were rare occasions, and when mother and daughter occupied the vehicle, drawn by handsomely caparisoned horses, and served by a quota of liverymen, people would run to their windows and doors to witness the spectacle. The family members were particularly intimate with the Beldens of Pim- pewaugh Vale. They visited and received visits, and their general "style" was cordiality and hospitality.
The old premises are to-day faded and parts of the same, through age, fallen, nev- ertheless an ancient interest so pervades the once attractive and animated spot that the an- tiquarian reluctantly pronounces "go to sleep" over it.
Henry, son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers, married, first, Catharine Van Raust and had :
Catharine ; died unmarried.
Henry F .; married, first, a cousin, Emily S. Rogers, married, second, a Maxwell.
Mrs. Catharine ( Van Raust) Rogers died Nov. 5, 1792, and Henry Rogers married, second, Frances, daughter of Charles Moore of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and had :
John S., M. D .; married Augusta, daughter of Gov. Thomas L. Winthrop.
Susan ; married Daniel Remsen, and had Simeon Henry Remsen, who married a daughter of Bishop Wainwright of New York.
Emma ; married Rev. Smith Pyne, D.D., graduate of Columbia College, 1823, and rector of Calvary Church, New York, and St. John's, Washington, D. C.
Nehemiah 2d., son of Nehemiah '". and Elizabeth Rogers, married Katharine, daugh- ter of Isaac Bell of Stamford by his second wife, and had :
Samuel ; died unmarried.
Edward N .; died unmarried.
George I .; died unmarried.
Archibald Gracie ; died unmarried.
Henry ;' married Matilda, daughter of John S. Livingston.
Caroline ; married, (2d wife) Rev. John Crathorne Montgomery of Pennsylvania, who was father of Rev. Henry E. Montgomery, D.D., of New York, and grand- father of Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon of Norwalk.
Moses Rogers had a daughter, Esther, born 1778, who died at the age of fifteen.
illenry and Matilda (Livingston) Rogers had two children, Matilda, who married Albert Speyers of
Germany, and Henry L., a member of the New York Stock Exchange and intelligently interested in the Rogers family affinity. He is unmarried, and resides in New York.
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Esther, daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers, married Archibald Gracie of New York, and had :
Margaret ;
William ; married (Ist.) Eliza Wolcott, (2d.) Cornelia Fleming.
Elizabeth ; married President Charles King of Columbia College.
Sarah R .; married Hon. James Gore King.
Mary M. ;
Archibald ;
Robert ; married, (Ist.) Susan Nelson, (2d.) a Fleming.
Esther ; married Hon. William Beach Lawrence.
Esther (Mrs. Archibald Gracie), daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, remembered nothing of her father as she was born in the Norwalk homestead (the rear of which is seen to-day) about the time that her widowed mother and fatherless brothers accompanied their parent's remains to the south end of the pioneers' first burial place where, distinctly marked, his grave is pointed out in 1896. Place was there evi- dently reserved for the widow, but as in the decrees of providence she was long to sur- vive and become, afterward, the devoted care of this same infant, she was laid to rest near her city blood. This child, Esther, underwent education during the trying days of "Sev- enty-Six." The family adhered to the royal cause, and the mother and daughter's Nor- walk interests were thereby greatly imperiled. Peace, however, was about to return when, now arrived at twenty-four years of age, the young Esther's hand in matrimony was asked by one of the most promising young men of the metropolis, Archibald Gracie, born in Scotland five years before her own birth in Norwalk. The union was a truly marked one, and probably no New York home of the era had more graceful superintendence than that of Archibald and Esther Gracie. In this home was born, Dec. 14, 1791, a daughter, Sarah Rogers Gracie, who married Hon. James Gore King, son of Hon. Rufus King. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. King went abroad where was born, July 11, 1821, a son, the late Archibald Gracie King. This son married May 8, 1845, Elizabeth Denning, daughter of President William Alexander and Hannah Maria (Denning) Duer. President Duer, born Sept. 8, 1780, was the son of William and Lady Kittie (Alexander) Duer. His mother was the daughter of "Lord Stirling" and Sarah Livingston, of one branch of which Livingston family Norwalk holds interesting mementoes. Sarah Gracie King, daughter of Archibald Gracie King and great grand-daughter of Esther Rogers, who was a daughter of Nehe- miah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, married on the first day of winter, 1875, Frederick Bronson 2d., son of Frederick Ist., whose Bronson ancestors, influenced by its salubrity-recom- mendation, established themselves at Greenfield Hill, Conn., upon the former President Dwight property, which classic precincts the Bronsons, earlier and later, have converted into a family seat of striking beauty. Its history, its landscape, and its height and health desirability have drawn such as the Baldwin's, Bronson's, Belden's, Murray's, Nichols',
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Rogers', and, more transiently, the Suydam's and Jeffrey's thither. A peculiar interest has from the days of Dr. Dwight invested the celebrated spot.
Elizabeth, daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, and named for her mother, died unmarried.
For the registration of the grand-children of Nehemiah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, the author is largely under obligation to the article by Rev. Dr. Benjamin W. Dwight, as it appeared in different numbers of the New York Genealogical and Biographi- cal Record, Volumes XV. and XVI.
THE ELIZABETH FITCH HOME.
The family of Hon. Samuel and Susanna Fitch, comprising, beside the parents, three sons (Samuel, Daniel and Jonathan), and four daughters (Elizabeth, Ann, Susanna and Sarah), was one of Norwalk's best known households. One of the greatest misfortunes -genealogy-wise-which has befallen Norwalk is that during the brief vacancy caused by Pastor Matthias Burnet's death in 1806, the Congregational records should have been left in that sorry basket in the parsonage (present East Avenue residence of G. WV Hunter) to be rodent-destroyed. There were, it is gleaned, three invaluable folios, one the register of Rev. Thomas Hanford, another that of Rev. Stephen Buckingham, and the third by Rev. Moses Dickinson, packed in that wicker receptacle. Beyond question, probably, Mr. Buckingham's volume held the registration of the marriage of Samuel Fitch, Sr. Up to this time it seems impossible to ascertain the family from which Susanna, his wife, sprang. The late painstaking genealogist, Nath. G. Pond of Milford, suggested that possibly the middle name of the grandson of Samuel Fitch, Sr. (Zachariah Whitman Fitch), might furnish a clue, but as said Samuel's oldest son (brother of Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers) married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph 2d. and Hannah ( Whitman) Platt, the appearance of the Whit- man name in this Fitch family is thus, beyond doubt, accounted for.
Daniel Fitch, second brother of Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers, married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Clark) Marvin, and had the three brothers, Samuel M., Henry and Jonathan, and one sister, Rebecca, the descendants of whom to-day (the Knapp's. Fitch's, Mallory's, Isaacs' and Hanford's) abound in Norwalk. Jonathan, last brother of Mrs. Rogers, was a Yale man. He married (see page 139) Deborah, daughter of Hezekiah Hanford, and had one son, Josiah Hanford Fitch, who was the grandfather of Capt. Samuel Daskam and his sister, Mrs. Theodocia F. Bradley of to-day.
Ann, sister of Elizabeth Fitch (Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers), married (foot note page 143) Col. Stephen, son of Capt. Joseph and Susanna St. John. Col. Stephen's sister, Susanna, married Eliphalet Lockwood, grandfather of Col. Buckingham St. John Lockwood and his brother William B. E. and sister, Miss Julia A. of 1896.
Sarah, sister of Elizabeth and Ann, married into the Ketchum family, and Susanna,
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the third sister, was the first wife of the first Ebenezer Church of Norwalk. Mrs. Susanna Church was married in the beginning of 1746 and died at the ending of 1747. She gave birth to two children, Daniel and Richard, but most of the Church descendants of to-day are by Mr. Church's second and Sears marriage.
Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers survived, for many years, her husband, residing with her daughter Esther, Mrs. Archibald Gracie of New York. She was loyal to her Norwalk relatives and kept up her visits to them. Her brother Samuel's home was on Chestnut Hill, to which she drove from her Wilton children's house. Living before the era of steam navi- gation she probably came, under sail, to Norwalk ; but after reaching here she had the coach and livery attendance of her daughter Susanna, Mrs. David Lambert, Jr. From handed- down mentions it would appear that she was gracious and generous and possessed of the spirit to diffuse an agreeable atmosphere wherever she went. It is compensating to chron- icle the career and connections of such an ancestress.
NEHEMIAH AND ELIZABETH ROGERS VAN RENSSALAER MENTION.
Sarah Rogers, born Oct. 29, 1809, second child of Benjamin W. and Susan B. Rogers (see "Introductory," page 3) of New York, was the grand-daughter of Moses and Sarah Rogers of Shippan Point, and great grand-daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers of Norwalk. Said Sarah Rogers married April 4, 1839, William Patterson, son of "Patroon" Stephen Van Renssalaer of Albany, and the family, for a period, occupied the Wilson estate at Belden Neck, Norwalk.
The tranquil atmosphere of this sylvan and secluded sea-skirted point was tempting to the Van Renssalaers who had slight contact with the Norwalk folk and are here almost exclusively remembered for their attendance-constancy upon public worship. Attached to the First Congregational Church during the time of Rev. Dr. Hall's pastorate, one, on Sunday morning, was almost as sure to see their horses reigned up before the church por- tals on The Green as one was to witness the Thomas Benedict, Thomas Cook Hanford, William Marvin, William St. John and the Westport Scribner and Marvins well filled vehicles standing at the same hour at the same spot.
Col. Van Renssalaer's mother was Cornelia, daughter of Judge William Patterson of New Jersey, and Mrs. Van Renssalaer's mother was the lovely character whose burial in the south of England is alluded to on page third of this work, so that in coming to Belden Neck, the excellent lady was only returning to her ancestral soil. It is one of the glories of Norwalk that such as Mrs. Sarah Rogers Van Renssalaer hence emanated. The stories of many who have risen to fame, many who have swayed society, and many who have been truly religious and found real satisfaction in doing good have here originated, and one might elect a far less compensating task than to sit by the hearth of Elizabeth Fitch and thence trace down her illustrious line. This, said one of her metropolitan sons to his little standing-by daughter, as having dipped his pen too deeply in the fountain it
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caused a drop of ink to blur his signature, this is the only blot that rests upon our name. It was said facetiously perhaps, nevertheless a susceptible Rogers daughter, sensitive, beautiful and beloved, even at ninety years of age, had all her life been helpfully influenced by the remark.
A NEHEMIAH AND ELIZABETH (FITCH) ROGERS BRIEF JOTTING.
After the decease of the widow of James Rogers3d. the old homestead, bought, but seemingly not built, by James Rogers 3d., passed into the hands of Nehemiah Rogers and here, quite possibly, all of his children were born. The house was doubtless burned on the fateful morning of July 11, 1779, and none of the family appear to have afterward re- turned again. There is mention of Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers calling, with her daughter Su- sanna, in the vicinity, but no record that indicates possession of the old spot. A discov- ery has recently been made of what was, in all probability, the original well of her great- great-grandfather Fitch, (Thomas Fitch, Sr.) The same is hidden, but only slight effort is required to find it. It stands upon the site of the Sr. Fitch's home, and the stones with which it is walled are moss grown, but the water is clear and cool. As Thomas Fitch bought the property in 1654 from a previous owner, if not occupant, (Edward Church) it may be possible that the well was not Fitch-dug. In either case, however, it has interesting Fitch association.
At the summit of Chestnut Hill, where is obtained one of the finest water views along the Connecticut shore, lived Mrs. Rogers' brother, Samuel 2d. and nephew. This spot was one of her visiting points when in Norwalk, and here her son Moses made a large pur- chase. This does not, however, seem to have been for his own use, as he had no Norwalk residence. During the Lambert's day, Rogers family intercourse was kept up, but since the decease of the sons of David Lambert 2d. this has gradually ceased.
A ROGERS-SMITH NEW ENGLAND AFFINITY.
The Norwalk born Fitch Rogers (oldest son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth) married (see note page 95) Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Jemima Bell. The Rogers young men early left Norwalk, and Fitch eventually established himself in Stamford. His name, how- ever, long continued a familiar one in his birth-place. His oldest son, Fitch 2d., married Mary Elizabeth, born Oct. 28, 1804, the second child by his second marriage, of Rev. Daniel Smith, long the pastor of the Congregational Church in Stamford. There was no issue by this union, but the family connection is remarkable.
Samuel SmithIst. married Rachel, daughter of Matthew Marvin, Sr. of Norwalk. Here both lived and had born to them, among other children, a son named Nehemiah. This son took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Clapham, of the farm estate lying some- what northerly of the old Christ Church site in Westport. Nehemiah and Elizabeth Smith had eight children, the second of whom bore his grandfather Clapham's name and was
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called Peter. The young Peter, Norwalk and New Canaan's first Peter Smith, was a nephew of Lydia Smith who married James Lockwood and was the mother of Mrs. Dr. Uriah Rogers, Sr. (half brother of Nehemiah, son of James 3d.) of Norwalk. PeterIst. lived to marry and have a large family (see Smith lineage) of at least ten children.
His son PhineasIst. married a Keeler, and had Harriet, who married Dr. Hawley Olmstead of scholar fame. The brother of PhineasIst. (Peter 2d.) removed to Dutchess County and had Daniel (Rev.) born Aug. 3, 1764. This Daniel was the beloved Congre- gational pastor of Stamford, who married, July 9, 1793, Mary, daughter of Rev. Cotton Mather Smith. Two children, Julia Ann and Thomas Mather, were the fruit of this join- ing. The first Mrs. Daniel Smith died and the pastor married, second, June 14, 1801, Catharine, daughter of David Webb of Stamford, a descendant of Richard, the Norwalk Webb settler. To Rev. Daniel and Catharine Smith was born a daughter, Mary Eliza- beth, who married Fitch 2d., son of FitchIst. and grandson of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Rogers of Norwalk.
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