Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 29

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

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put at some school in Yankee land. Remaining in New York at Mr. St. John's home two weeks, I was shipped off alone to Norwalk, Conn., where I was met by Enoch St. John, who drove me in a two-horse wagon to a little village by the euphonious name of New Canaan. After I had been there about a twelve month, my father thought it wise to send my brother William to the same school." In alluding to his fel- low pupils Mr. Pope mentions the names of " Bene- dict and Noyes," (New Canaan boys at that time). Grant Thorburn was a Church Hill student soon after the Popes' day.

3The aborigines drove their game from the north to within five miles of Haynes' Ridge and by there supplementing the natural hill and pond barriers with brush thickets were enabled at that point to impound the prey. Hence the designation of that section, viz : Pound Ridge. It is a highly romantic portion of the ancient Oblong.

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but he has not been able to verify it. Gov. John Haynes had a representative in what was once Norwalk, and whose home was but a few rods from Haynes' Ridge (Samuel S. Noyes, M. D. of New Canaan)', but it does not appear that he was kin in any degree to the pro- prietor of the Ridge, upon the skirts of which he in more modern times dwelt.

William Haynes came, most probably, from the neighborhood of Albany, N. Y., to Norwalk. His first wife would seem to have been Elizabeth Hussey, of Hussey Hill, northern New York, and his two daughters by that marriage were Isabella and Elizabeth. His daughter Isabella married Samuel, youngest son of Rev. Thomas Hanford, and her sister Elizabeth married John Bartlett. Samuel Hanford ">". occupied his father's homestead, but his oldest son, Samuel 2d., built in White Oak Shade, about one mile south of the ex- isting business center of New Canaan, on the northeast corner, at the intersection of the main street with the Norwalk road. John Bartlett, a lawyer, or one who acted as such, was the possessor of broad acres on Bartlett Ridge, a height west of the west branch of Nor- walk river. Mr. Haynes' second wife was Marcy, daughter of Matthew Marvin, Jr., whose home stood just southwest of the homestead to- day of H. M. Prowitt in East Norwalk. The fruit of this union was Mary Haynes, later Mrs. Jedediah Buckingham, and later still, Mrs. James Fitch, sister-in-law of Gov. Thomas Fitch. On May 15, 1705, the town allot- ted him ninety-three acres in New Canaan (Haynes Ridge), but previously, on Oct. 28, 1699, he had purchased the property at the lower end of the town. Here he evidently lived and died in the earlier part of April, 1712. The entire property in lower Norwalk was bequeathed to his youngest child, Mary, should she arrive at the age of eighteen. The Haynes Ridge estate fell to his different heirs, and because of the provisions of Mr. Haynes' will, it was a long time ere it passed finally out of the family. Elizabeth and Isa- bella were well settled in the world at the time of their father's death, the former being the foreparent of many of New Canaan's best known earlier and later sons and daughters, and

'The descent of Samuel S. Noyes, M. D., is as follows : John Haynes Ist., Colonial governor of Con- necticut, born in Essex, England, married Mabel Har- lakenden of Kent County, England, came to America 1633, governor of Massachusetts 1635, governor of Connecticut 1639, had two sons, Rev. Joseph and Hon. John Haynes, and two daughters, Ruth and Mabel. Sarah, daughter of Rev. Joseph Haynes, married Rev. James Pierpont of New Haven, born 1661, died 1714. Their daughter Abigail married Rev. Joseph Noyes of New Haven, born 1689, died 1761. Joseph and Abigail Noyes had a son, Rev. John Noyes, who was father of Rev. John Noyes of Weston, born 1762, died 1846, who was father of Samuel Noyes, M. D., of New C'anaan.

As Mrs. Rev. Joseph Noyes (Abigail Pierpont) was a grand-daughter of Mrs. Gov. Haynes ( Mabel llarlakenden), who was (see Browning's Americans of Royal Descent) a daughter of Richard Harlaken- den, who was a son of Roger Harlakenden, who was

a son of Thomas Harlakenden, whose mother was Catharine, a daughter of Thomas Fienes, who was son of Sir Thomas Fienes, whose wife was Lady Alice Fitz-Hugh, daughter of Baron Henry Fitz-Hugh, who was a son of Richard, Earl of Salisbury, who was a son of Baron Ralph De Neville, who was son of Prince john of Gaunt, who was son of Edward III., King of England, it follows that Dr. Samuel S. Noyes was of kingly line. Rev. John Noyes of Weston (Father Noyes) was a Yale student at the time of the temporary breaking up of college because of Tryon's burning of New Haven. He immediately repaired to Weston and resumed his studies under the tuition of Rev. Samuel Sherwood, then pastor of Weston, and the father of Mrs. Gov. Bissell of Norwalk. Rev. Mr. Noyes here became acquainted with Mr. Sher- wood's daughter whom he afterward married. This son, Samuel Sherwood Noyes, was the valued New Canaan physician.

Ilis home, remarkably unchanged in its appear-

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the latter of many of the Norwalk Belden's, Lockwood's and St. John's. Mary Haynes was fifteen when she was bereft of her parent. She made choice of her uncle Samuel Marvin as guardian, the Court demanding on June 4, 1712, security to the amount of £500. Two years after the execution of this bond, there graduated at Yale College a youth of twenty, whose mother was a New London Griswold and his father a Saybrook Buckingham. This young man of family fame had three years of theological study yet before him, at the close of which period, having made the acquaintance of Mary Haynes while visiting his uncle. Rev. Stephen Buckingham, second pastor of Norwalk, the two were wedded. They were immediately settled in West Newark-now Orange-where a son, William Buckingham, was born to them, Oct. 14, 1719. This son was barely six months old when his father, who chanced at the time to be visiting his uncle in Norwalk, was taken suddenly ill and died, leaving a widow scarcely twenty-one years of age. The widow returned to Norwalk, and afterwards married James, the youngest brother of Gov. Thomas Fitch. She died about nine months before the decease of her second husband, frosted by the snows of ninety win- ters, and several of our citizens to-day are honored by direct descent from her. Her first husband's tomb stone, in the East Norwalk cemetery, is thus inscribed : " Here lyeth the body of the Rev. Jedediah Buckingham, late preacher of the gospel at the west part of Newark in East Jersey, who departed this life, March 28, 1720, etatis 24." Her second husband died Feb. 2, 1790, aged 88 years. She died May 13, 1789, aged 90 years. Her Buckingham son, William, married May 22, 1746, Rebecca Clark, and resided at Lebanon, Conn. He died Jan. 28, 1827, leaving five children.

GOVERNOR THOMAS FITCHI FAMILY.

Gen. I .- Thomas Fitch, Senior.

" II .- Thomas 2d. and Ruth Fitch.

" III .- Thomas 3d. and Sarah Fitch.

Gen. IV.

Thomas4th .; Samuel ist .; Elizabeth ; James 'st.

Thomas Fitch4th. (Gov.), born, 1700, married, Sept. 4, 1724, Hannah, born, 1702, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Miles) Hall of New Haven. The mother of Governor

ance to-day, bears emphatic testimony to the air of true refinement which once invested it. There were homes in earlier Canaan, not indeed as outwardly grand as are the beautiful abodes which to-day adorn its noble elevations, but which were, nevertheless, no common-place homes. Many of those who there re- sided and of those who were there received are now gone, but fragrant memories cluster around the old place. The aged father of Dr. Samuel S. Noyes was one of those genuine characters that a true man ven- erates; and not only his ability, but his pure goodness impressed and conciliated even such as might differ,

upon some points, in opinion from him. Being often in Norwalk, where he was greatly regarded, he was on one occasion cordially invited to dine at the Epis- copal parsonage, which invitation he as cordially ac- cepted. Meeting, later in the day, one of his partic- ular Congregational friends, the latter, good humor- edly, remarked, " How is this Mr. Noyes." " Well," was the characteristic response of the modest and faithful Weston pastor, " the rector asked me and if he was disappointed in his guest he had the worst of it." Mr. Noyes' "Norfield Church" is still seen from far and near.

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Fitch has not yet been ascertained. His father married three times, but the children were by his first wife. The descent of Mrs. Gov. Fitch, on both sides, is clean cut. Her father belonged in Middletown but removed to New Haven in 1702, where he died two years after the marriage of his oldest daughter to Thomas Fitch4th. or Gov. Her mother was the daughter of Capt. John and Mary (Alsop) Miles. (A coveted record.) The descendants of Richard Miles-a highly respectable name-are found in three distinct Norwalk families, viz : Fitch, Gregory and Street'; one common ancestor of which trio of households is Hon. Richard Miles Ist. of Milford and New Haven.

The children of Gov. Thomas and Hannah Fitch were probably all born in the house on the present East Avenue, which stood near the tree depicted on page 193. These child- ren were as here appears :

Thomas5th (Col.); born, Aug. 12, 1725, mar., Sarah (St. John) Hill of Fairfield. Jonathan ; born, April 12, 1727, married a daughter of Samuel Mix of New Haven, and lived elsewhere than in Norwalk.

Ebenezer2; born, Feb. 25, 1729, married, Lydia, daughter of Samuel Mills, Jr., of Greenwich.

Hannah; born, April 10, 1731, died young.

Mary; born, Sept. 20, 1733, married a Thatcher.

Timothy; born, 1735, married Esther, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Whit- man) Platt.

Hezekiah ; married, Sept. 21, 1767. Jerusha Burr of Fairfield and there resided. Elizabeth ; born, 1739, married Andrew Rowland of Fairfield.

Esther ; died unmarried.

Two sons only (Col. Thomas and Timothy) of Gov. Fitch, resided in Norwalk. The governor, on July 18, 1758, bought of Benjamin Keeler, for {150, five acres of land, the same being now known as the Hendricks property on East Avenue. His eldest son, Col. Thomas, was, at the date of said purchase, unmarried and away from home, and fast "winning his spurs" military wise, a fact which perhaps spurred the Governor to buy the five or so acres, as it was at this very time that the Colonel was distinguishing himself in the French and Indian troubles at the north. The soldier son returned from war to Nor-

1Captain John Miles, the grandfather of Mrs. Gov. Fitch, was, evidently, the grandson of Rich- ard ist. and Catharine Miles who are commemorated by a memorial block in the Milford bridge, while Elizabeth Pardee who married Thomas Gregory of Norwalk, was a grand-child (see page 83) of the same Richard Miles Ist, as was also Lieut. Samuel Street whose son Nathaniel married Mary Raymond of " Old Well" and founded the Norwalk Street family.

2He died in Wilton, at the age of thirty-three, leaving three sons, viz. Jabez, Ebenezer 2d. and Giles.

Ebenezer 2d. removed from Wilton, in 1785, to the town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, N. Y. He had married Sarah, daughter of Col. David Hobby of North Castle, Westchester County, N. Y. To Eben- ezer2d. and Sarah Fitch was born, Sept. 9, 1787, Hannah, who married, Jan, 5, 1812, Alpheus Bullard of Schuylerville, N. Y. Mrs. Alpheus Bullard died in Schuylerville, March 4, 1879, leaving several chil- dren, among them Gen. Edward Fitch Bullard of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., who was present at the Founders' Day celebration, in 1894, in Norwalk.

THE JAMES FETCH &L. DWELLING.

The alowe, taken in (A, represent- the home of Jame- pland Esther (Camp, Fitch. Hustand- on Fitch siceet, and was built rome-half's by Ja .. Fitch Al. www of Jas at. amt Aun i Hanford, Fitch and grand-om of Jos,cet. and Mary ( Harue-, Flich. Tas, Fitch al, lived in the Daniel Hanford

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walk, and on April 28, 1763, was married, by Rev. Noah Hobart, pastor of the Fairfield Church, to Sarah, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Hannah Hill of Fairfield. Within less than two months (June 21, 1763) the lot referred to was made over (a wedding present pos- sibly) from the governor to this son, whose family was as follows :

Thomasoth .; born, March 20, 1764, married, Dec. 20, 1790, Amitia Lewis of Hunt- ington, L. I., and had Mary Esther, born, June 22, 1796.

Sarah ; born, Jan. 12, 1766, married, Stephen, son of Col. Stephen St. John. Andrew ; born, April 18, 1768.

Richard Hall (Capt.) ; born, Nov. 5, 1770, married, Theodocia Conklin ; see note page 141.

Mary Esther ; born, June 16, 1773, married, Edward Fitch ; see note page 141. Thaddeus Hill ; born, Nov. 19, 1775, died, Oct. 21, 1776.

Timothy, fourth son of Gov. Thomas and Hannah Fitch, married, June 8, 1764, Esther, daughter of Joseph " and Hannah (Whitman) Platt. Mrs. Timothy Fitch was a grand-daughter of Hon. Joseph and Hannah (Hanford) Platt, and a great grand-daughter of Deacon John and Hannah (Clark) Platt, which Deacon John Platt was a son of Richard Platt the settler. Timothy and Esther Platt resided in primitive style on Strawberry Hill (opposite Gray's Mineral Works 1896). Their family was large and has representatives in different parts of Norwalk to-day. The children were :

Timothy 2d .; born, Dec. 22, 1775, died young.

Hannah ; born, Sept. 15, 1776, married, second wife, Capt. Azor Belden of Wilton. William; born, Feb. 13, 1768, married, a Hanford, and went west.

Timothy 3d. ; born, Oct 29, 1769, married, Esther, daughter of Obadiah Wright. Edward; born, May 1, 1772, married, Mary Esther, daughter of Col. Thomas Fitch. See note page 141.

Esther E. ; born, Oct. 30, 1773, married, Samuel Marvin Fitch Ist.

Mary ; born, Dec. 8, 1775, died young.

Joseph ; born, 1777.

Nancy ; born, Aug. 29, 1781, married, Thomas H. Taylor of Westport.

Sally ; born, Feb. 12, 1784, married, Jabez Raymond.

Thomas ; born, Sept. 7, 1785.

Charles; born, Sept. 10, 1790, married, Anna Nash.

Samuel Fitch, son of Thos. 3d. and Sarah Fitch, has mention on page 175 of this work.

James 'st., youngest son of Thomas 3d. and Sarah Fitch, married Mary, widow of Jed- dediah Buckingham and daughter of William and Mary (Marvin) Haynes, and had :

James 2d. ; married, Ann Hanford.

Haynes ; married, Anna Cooke.

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Elijah ; married Phoebe Smith.

Mary ;

Elizabeth ;

Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 3d. and Sarah Fitch, married, May 17, 1721, Joshua, son of Samuel and Judith (Palmer) Raymond, and had :

Elizabeth ; born, March 21, 1721-2.

Stephen ; born, Jan. 1, 1724-5.

Sarah; born, July 6, 1727.

James ; born, Oct. 2, 1729. Susannah ; born, Aug. 28, 1732.

Martha ; born, Jan. 5, 1734-5.

Joshua ; born, Sept. 12, 1738. Uriah.

This last son, Uriah, was born after his father's decease. He may have accompanied his mother from Norwalk after her second marriage to Rev. Elisha Kent of Putnam County, N. Y. Uriah, son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Fitch) Raymond, was the great-grandfather (see page 128) of Hon. Henry J. Raymond who established the New York Times.

HIAYNES-MARVIN-FITCH-BENEDICT DESCENT.

"Mr. William Haynes," the first planters-deed proprietor of Haynes' Ridge, mar- ried, second, Marcie, born 1660, daughter of Matthew 2d. and Mary Marvin. His bride was one of several children and her brothers and sisters headed some of the solid homes of the Norwalk of that day. This new Haynes union was blest by the birth of only one child, to whom was given the name of Mary, whose half sisters were Isabella (Mrs. Samuel Han- ford) and Elizabeth (Mrs. John Bartlett). The three seem to have had no brother, at least in Norwalk. Young Mary Haynes grew to become quite a maiden and had probably watched many a drill of the Norwalk planters sons on the colonial parade ground which edged her home. Across the street from her home dwelt, when he was living, the first minister of the new settlement. He, however, was now dead, and the new "minister's house" was just around the corner from her father's, where stop in 1896 (for East Norwalk) the Consolidated trains. The Rev. Stephen Buckingham, a Harvard College man, but one whose diploma may be seen and read at " Yale," tenanted the parsonage, which was pre- sided over by one of the fairest of New England daughters, Mrs. Buckingham, who be- longed to the Hartford Hooker family. There came, on occasional visits, to the parsonage a youth (nephew of the minister) who was born in old Saybrook, Oct. 2, 1696. The young man's father was an eastern Connecticut Buckingham and his mother a Griswold from the same section-two noted family names-and he was welcomed at his relatives. He here made the acquaintance of Mary Haynes of the neighborhood, and finally married her. At

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the age of twenty this promise-man, Rev. Jedediah Buckingham, received a call to a parish in New Jersey, the old first church of Newark. A little one was there born (William) to Jedediah and Mary, whom the parents named after his Norwalk grandfather, William (Haynes). Soon after the Newark birth of this son the father made a visit to his uncle, the second pastor of the Norwalk church, in whose home he sickened and shortly died. His grave, elsewhere alluded to, is in the present East Norwalk cemetery. Mary, his wife, re- mained for a time a widow and then married, for her second husband, the youngest brother of Gov. Thomas Fitch, James, son of Thomas 3d. and Sarah Fitch. It was young Fitch's first marriage and he had several children : James 2d., Haynes, Elijah, Mary and Elizabeth. James 2d. married, in Oct. 1746, Ann, daughter of Elnathan Hanford. This Elnathan was the son of Thomas Hanford 2d., (whose wife was the widow Burwell), which Thomas 2d. was the son of Rev. Thomas Hanford. Thomas Hanford ad. purchased the property now cover- ing and adjoining the Selleck School property. This was the branch of the Hanford house- hold from which the Ebenezer Hoyt-Hanford descendants sprang. James 2d. and Ann had a daughter Nancy, born April 11, 1758 (one of a twin birth), who married Feb. 20, 1782, William, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Lockwood) Benedict. Here was a union of two old time families, viz : Fitch and Benedict. William Benedict owned quite a Norwalk territory- slice (now bisected by Knight Street). "Federal Hollow" was the ancient name of the depression east of the upper part of Knight Street and southeast of the William B. E. Lockwood home estate of 1896. From this "Hollow" on the west, a street, "two rods wide," and running north and south, was, in 1764, laid out. At that date the "stumps of the old planks" of Henry Whitney's mill of a hundred years before, were still standing and formed a sort of surveyor's "point," from which the (now Knight)' Street took a northerly

'Named for Dr. Jonathan Knight Ist., a physician. Dr. Knight was born in Norwich, Jan. 10, 1758, and settled at twenty-three years of age in Norwalk. When he came, in 1781, to this town, the new lane, now Knight Street, was sparsely settled. At its upper end, west-side, were the Benedict-Camp premises. William and Nancy (Fitch) Benedict (son and daugh- ter-in-law of Nathaniel Benedict), had, after Captain Josiah Thatcher's death, bought of his estate and owned somewhat along this new lane. On Aug. 15, 1785, a month and one half before their daughter Charlotte's marriage to Jeremiah Camp, they sold for £25 the two acre lot (now Lyon's) directly opposite their home. Dr. Knight, the purchaser, had been married since Oct. 11, 1781, and he here erected a dwelling similar in architecture to the existing Oscar Raymond house, in which, it is probable, were born these children :

Jonathan 2d .; born Sept. 4, 1789, Yale professor. James Gale; born June 3, 1800, a young physi- cian of Stamford who died early.

Abigail Ann; born July 24, 1805, married Chas, E. Disbrow, and had James and Emily.

Dr. Jonathan Knight ist. was a skilled medical practitioner who continued active in his work until his death in March, 1829. His next neighbor south was Stephen St. John, son of Col. Stephen and brother of Mrs. Dr. John Cannon and of Mrs. Isaac Scudder Isaacs. Mr. St. John was an apothecary whose store was in the old Cannon building just east of the Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Co. business house of to- day. Ilis mother was a Fitch (Ann, daughter of Samuel) and his wife was a daughter of Col. Thomas Fitch and grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas Fitch. He had two daughters, Julia Ann and Henrietta, the first of whom married Horace Gibbs (first wife) to whom the property finally fell, and the second, John Hall of Troy, N. Y. Immediately below the Stephen St. John place was what was formerly called the "brook lot," (three acres) and covered in part to-day by Gregory's livery establishment. This lot was sold Feb. 1787, by William Benedict to Benjamin Bost- wick for Exo To the south of this lay the Cannon property in the lower end of which stood the Cannon well.

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course, ending at what was then denominated the "Upper Highway," but now "North Avenue." This was, largely, the ownership of William Benedict. William and Nancy Benedict's family gave to the Norwalk of to-day well known households. Their second daughter, Charlotte, married Jeremiah, a grandson of Jonathan Ist and Ann Camp. Ann Camp, who sleeps quietly in St. Paul's Church yard, was an ancestress of the blood of whom any New Englander might be proud. In the blush of the young summer that im- mediately followed the purchase of Norwalk by Ludlow there was baptized, in "Old Mil- ford," the second son of Thomas, the ancestor of the stout Buckingham family of America, and one of the rich company that founded New Haven, and also the first of the Bucking- ham name to be born in the New World. This Milford infant grew and aged to become, through his daughter Hester, the grandfather, on Nov. 10, 1710, of Ann, who married a young man, eight years older than herself, Jonathan Camp's". of Norwalk, the grandfather of Jeremiah who married Charlotte, daughter of William Benedict, which Jeremiah and Charlotte lived in the old fashioned dwelling, supplanted many years ago by the generous sized modern Charles F. Raymond home of 1896. Susan, the sister of Mrs. Jeremiah Camp, married James Isaac, son of Isaac and Mary Hoyt, the home grounds of whom are depicted on page 134 and their old (fac-simile) hearthstone at the head of the Hoyt lineage. James I. and Susan Hoyt were the parents of the late James A. Hoyt of East Avenue. Another daughter of William and Nancy Benedict, Esther, born, May 10, 1793, married in New York city, May 22, 1811, (by the Rev. Mr. Howe of Trinity Church, ) Edward Smith of Norwalk, who had :

William Duff; born, March 11, 1812, father of William H. Smith of 1896. Edward James; born, Sept. 16, 1814. Alexander; born, March 7, 1817. Jane Gordon ; born, July 29, 1819. Henry; born, July 24, 1821.

Fanny R., daughter of William and Nancy Benedict, married Seth Williston, only son of Nathaniel and Esther (Bouton) Benedict, and once proprietor of the Norwalk Gasette

Jeremiah Camp home. Mr. Camp was the grandson of Jonathan Camp, Sr., and his wife was a daughter of William Benedict and sister of the wives of James I. Hoyt, Edward Smith and S. Williston Benedict. Below this home, as far as the Arnold Inn (Street R'y station to-day) was an unbroken bank-side. The Ar- nold House (northwest corner 1896 of Wall and Knight Streets) was an old-fashioned structure with second story gallery running across its entire south front. This gallery commanded something of a har- bor view and was occasionally used as a band-stand. The square in front was a scene of bustle on market days and especially at the time of the arrival of the steamboat from New York, which in early days had its

Norwalk berth at the head of the harbor. The "com- ing-in" and "going-out" of the boat created a stir.

An accustomed summer evening walk for the young bridge-people in days seventy or eighty years agone was from Main Street, or across the bridge, through Arnold Square down the river side to " Aunt Jennie Metrash's," where root beer, cake, etc., were served. At that time ices were here unknown. Ice cream, pure cream flavored and frozen, was, it is said, first introduced in Norwalk at the table of the Main Street Hoyt's. Few of the olden inhabitants had ice houses. Cream and butter were kept in the well, and in some cases, notably the case of Mrs. Jabez Greg- ory, in a "milk house." See page 190.

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also, afterward, the publisher of the New York Evangelist. S. W. Benedict is well remem- "bered to-day for his high integrity and great enterprise. His countenance and his conduct evidenced both. He was the father of the late Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood,' of the Norwalk LeGrand Lockwood estate, who for several years survived a husband of most magnan- imous remembrance.

A FITCH-SMITH-BETTS-NEWSON-ROSS DESCENT.

One of the fierce snow storms that broke, in olden times, over Norwalk, occurred in the first part of February, 1790. On the second day of that month there passed from these mortal to the thither shores the last one of four remarkable children, JamesIst., who had for some years overlived his brothers, Gov. Thomas and Hon. Samuel, and, probably, his sister Elizabeth, (first, Mrs. Joshua Raymond, and second, Mrs. Elisha Kent.) On the day set for the burial of this good man, a "devout christian, and respected by all who knew him," the storm had reached its height and the interment was postponed. The deceased, who had less than a twelve-month survived his faithful wife (Mary Haynes) had been cared for, in his last days, by his son Haynes, at whose house he died. He left several sons and daughters, and among them, Elijah Ist., who, at the date of his father's decease, had himself been nearly forty years married. Elijah FitchIst. married, Oct. 25, 1752, Phoebe, born, Dec. 20, 1731, daughter of Robert and Judith (Fountain) Smith. Robert Smith (see note

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 29

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