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'LeGrand Lockwood (see Lockwood lineage,) of admirable recall and who business-wise was one of the most clever and capable sons of this town, sprang from that branch of the Lockwood family to the an- cestor of which the town proprietors allotted a tract, between the Whitney's and Kellogg's, on what is known to-day as that part of Main Street into which Centre Avenue opens. The ancient designation of the level known years ago as " the Lane," was Sticky Plain. Through this stretching territory a street (the present upper part of Main Street and a genera- tion ago often called Pudding Lane) was laid out and the land (on the north back as far as " the rocks " and on the south to " the river" ) was allotted to different settlers. Joseph Lockwood's apportionment is in 1896, cut in two by Centre Avenue. The Lockwood house may have kept its place during the Tryon visitation as there is evidence that the British moved more to the eastward and having there (France Street) been engaged by the militia and by Gen. Parsons' men were prevented from progress at the north or west. To the old Joseph Lockwood home was brought in 1737, a Long Island bride. Joseph Lockwood 2d. and Rebecca Rogers were pronounced man and wife by a Yale (1718) man, the grandfather of Dr. S. I. Prime of the New York Observer, and a union was then formed the issue of which would include, either by bridal or blood connection, the representatives of four of this country's collossal finance firms of mod-
ern times, viz : LeGrand Lockwood and E. C. Bene- dict of New York, Jay O. Moss of Sandusky and Jay Cooke of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Joseph Lockwood 2d. (Rebecca Rogers), great grandmother of LeGrand Lockwood, was, as far as close investigation to date makes clear, either the great or the great-great-grand-daughter of William and Ann Rogers of Huntington, L. I., which William was unquestionably the son of Thomas Rogers of the May- flower. She came through Jonathan and Rebecca Rog- ers (son and daughter-in-law of William) of which Jonathan she was either daughter or grand-daughter. Were she the grand-daughter of Jonathan she might have been the daughter of David and Jane Rogers (see Huntington, L. I. records, vol. xxi., page 21). Her direct descent from Thomas Rogers the pilgrim, seems fully established, and Norwalk carefully tran- scribed data must be completely nullified to prove anything else. (See page 187.)
THE LEGRAND LOCKWOOD MANSION.
This magnificent granite pile, now with its field and grown-to-be forest-like environments, the subur- ban home of Mrs. Chas. D. Matthews of New York, was erected by the late LeGrand Lockwood for a fam- ily seat, and it is gratifying and an act-loyal to a noble memory to consider its to-day developed natural and contributed artificial beauties as a sort of monument to its builder's prophecy-sense of the mingled spirit of art and poetry which would one day pervade and
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page 186) came to Norwalk not far from the date of his marriage (March 11, 1724) and bought eligible property in the plantation. His son-in-law and daughter, (Elijah Ist. and Phobe Fitch,) had ten children, the third of which number, Stephen,' born on the fifth anniversary of his parents' marriage (Oct. 25. 1757) wedded, Sept. 22, 1779 (not three months after the town was burned) Hannah, sister of the brave leader of the Norwalk Militia (Capt. Stephen Betts) on the day of the conflagration in July, 1779. Hannah Betts, born, March 30, 1762, as her father's family bible, still in good preservation, records, was the fourth of the five children (Stephen, Isaiah, Isaac,2 Hannah and Deborah) of Isaac and
invest his fondly selected Norwalk residence - site. Having elected, during a career of eminent commer- cial success, to plant his home in his native town, Mr. Lockwood's devisings were on a most generous base. For years out of mind there had lain, between the northern and southern sections of the town and in the rear of a few fronting hearthstones, old and newly-sown fields, which had been remarkable only for their annual meadow-produce. This was the spot pitched upon by Mr. Lockwood for his mansion-local- ity, and on Nov. 24, 1863 the virgin purchase of eight acres was made and the future splendid project inaugurated These acres which lay immediately op- posite (on the east side of the street) of the residence of Charles Mallory and which were that day sold by said Mallory to said Lockwood, were bounded north by the old James Benedict and south by the James Seymour 2d. properties. To the rear lay Pine Island burying ground, while West Avenue was their west line. The next day (Nov. 25) Mary Susan Benedict, of the James Benedict home which stood exactly in the rear of the 1896 Matthews carriage entrance (and of the ancient David Marvin stock) parted to Mr. Lockwood with the eight additional acres that north- erly bounded the purchase of the day before. This extended the site (north) to the present hedge divid- ing the Matthews and the Stuart sites.
The next spring, March 9, 1864, saw the pleasant- ly situated James Seymour2d. homestead, with its double maple row, legally wiped out by the deed to Mr. Lockwood on that date, of Sarah, Giles, Ira, George, Harriet and Ann Seymour of Norwalk, and Samuel and Mary Aymar of Brooklyn of the four acre father's hearthstone, which gave to their new propri- etor a frontage from Edward Stuart's home on the north to the James Seymour ist. home-site on the south, which latter property (and its old red house in which the Revolutionary "assemblies" were held) three days afterward (March 12, 1864) became the own- ership of the metropolis banker. The entire Lock- wood frontage was now complete, and when the James Seymourist house was taken down and the James Seymour 2d. house removed to the Westport road (near the late Mary Church place) where it now stands, and the James Benedict whitewashed portals became a thing of the past, Mr. Lockwood's West Avenue lim-
its were of handsome longitude. Purchases of back lands were from time to time made until the whole plot, a grand estate, stood in Mr. Lockwood's name. Here was built Norwalk's master domicile, not a "turreted castle," but a sumptuous and striking ex- ample of architecture-invention.
If the " befores" of Joseph and Rebecca (Rogers) Lockwood of Norwalk were as noticeable as are their "afters" then was the marriage solemnized in Hun- tington, L. I., in 1737, by Rev. Ebenezer Prime, the middle link in a remarkable pedigree chain. Joseph and Rebecca Lockwood were the grand-parents of Mary Betts, born, April 17, 1799 (daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Betts) Lockwood, see page 190) who mar- ried, Sept. 1, 1823, Rev. Henry Benedict, pastor from 1828 to 1832 of the First Congregational Church of Norwalk. Rev. Henry and Mary B. (Lockwood) Ben- edict were the parents of Elias Cornelius Benedict, born Jan. 24, 1834, who is the almost inseparable com- panion of GROVER CLEVELAND, LL.D., ex-president of the United States, whose eminent lady, Frances (Folsom) Cleveland, stands name-associated, to say the least, (see Rogers lineage) with one of the chief families of earlier Norwalk.
'This is the young man who during one of the enemies plundering excursions, from Long Island to Norwalk, spirited away four of the fine horses that the British had here captured. These horse exploits of the English are referred to in foot note page 114.
2Isaac Betts, brother of Mrs. Stephen Fitch, lived in the pleasantly remembered cottage-like structure which stood just east of the Newtown turnpike and where now stands the residence of the widow of the late Stephen Henry Smith. Mr. Smith, one of Nor- walk's honored sons, loved the ancestral spot and took true pride in there returning, after a busy New York and Philadelphia career, and establishing a home in which he passed, in great delight, the ending years of an active life. At the time of the Isaac Betts owner- ship of the spot the house faced the south, and in its coat of pure white paint, with roof overhung and door-front shaded by some of the finest trees in Nor- walk, the whole place was a pleasing picture. Since the Betts and previous to the Smith occupancy of the ancient premises the Niblo family of New York found the same to be an inviting country haunt.
THE PAST.
The James Benedict house, removed about 150g ( see note page ziąs. This house, which gave place to the Le Grand Lockwood improvement, was built around the chimney of a former habitation after the Teyun upp, devastation. James and Susan (Marvin) Benedict were its later occupants. (See fout-mites, page 74.
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THE PRESENT.
The Le Grand Lockwood ( Matthews INS; Mansion Gate-way, This entrance fares the ancient James Benedict portal and occupies its near site.
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Elizabeth (Griffeth) Betts. Her father Isaac, born, July 8, 1730, was the son (see Betts lineage) of Thomas 3d. and Deborah Betts. Thomas Betts 3d. was the son of Thomas 2d. and Sarah (Marvin) Betts. His father, Thomas 2d., was a man of possessions.
"Come," said (so declares tradition) Hannah (Betts) to her husband Stephen Fitch, "I am tired of rye bread, let us go west where we can raise wheat," and "west" the two went. Stephen died July 26, 1829. He survived his wife about a score of years, she hav- ing died March 28, 1809 (18-9 as the Betts bible represents it). They had a daughter. Phoebe, born, April 26, 1803, died, Jan. 20, 1886, who married a Newson, and a son Abi- jah, born, Jan. 1799, who was the father of Nelson Fitch, born in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 1824. Nelson Fitch was the father of the present Mrs. Elmore W. Ross of Springfield, Ohio.
Elijah Fitch, Jr., born, Sept. 2, 1773, son of Elijah'st, and Phoebe (Fitch) Smith, married, May 30, 1793, Mary Olmstead, born, April 2, 1774, and had :
Lydia ; born, Dec. 20, 1793, died, Nov. 10, 1801.
Sarah; born, Aug. 2, 1795, married, first, Daniel M. Smith, married, second, Daniel Dunbar.
Maria ; born, April 8, 1797. died, July 6, 1804.
Amarylla T. ; born, Nov. 16, 1798, married, Abraham Spaulding.
The children of Elijah Fitch, Jr. were all daughters, two of whom died young. Sarah, who married, first, Oct. 3, 1812, Daniel M. Smith of Otsego County, N. Y., had one daughter by the Smith union, viz : Maria (Mrs. L. B. Hyatt) who lived until 1850. By Sarah's Dunbar marriage there were Hannah (married Jan. 8, 1846, William Haythorn); Douglas D. (married, Nov. 24, 1842, Laura Hudson), and Harriet F (married Sept. 4. 1856, Peter Barton). Amarylla T., the youngest child of Elijah Fitch, Jr., married, April 8, 1821, Abraham Spaulding and had eight children, the most of whom resided in Pennsyl- vania.
Elijah Fitch, Jr. died Jan. 4. 1841, and his wife (Mary Olmstead) May 22, 1852. They removed from Norwalk and their descendants are elsewhere found.
A SAMUEL FITCH Ist. DESCENT.
Samuel2d., born, 1727, son of Hon. Samuel ist. and Susanna Fitch, married, July 2, 1750, Elizabeth, born, Sept. 22, 1735, daughter of Joseph 2d. and Hannah (Whitman) Platt. Joseph Platt 2d. was educated at Yale College. He was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Han- ford, and his life, until its end, was spent in Norwalk. He lived in a fine old-fashioned two story house, unlike many of its contemporary dwellings in that it had no " back roof run- ning low," but was more "on the square." It stood near to, if not upon the exact site of, the Thomas Cornwall France Street 1896 property. Here, two years after his college grad- uation, was born his daughter Elizabeth and, in all probability, her five sisters, Mary (Mrs.
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Jedediah Hanford); Esther (Mrs. Timothy Fitch); Ann (Mrs. Stephen Thatcher; Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Hanford), and Hannah (Mrs. Avery). This old France Street Platt house- hearth furnished the warm coals wherewith the foot-stoves of the Chestnut Hill Fitch's were replenished before divine service. On their way to the sanctuary, which in those days was not warmed, the good Chestnut Hill folk found it convenient to stop at the Platts and new- ly fill the little stove's ash-pan, thus furnishing sufficient caloric for their hour or two of church attendance. Mrs. Samuel Fitch 2d. (Elizabeth Platt) lived on Chestnut Hill, the fam- ily, in addition to herself and husband, consisting of the following children :
Susanna 3d .; born, Dec. 6, 1750. Anna; born, Nov. 23, 1766.
Joseph ; born, Jan. 4, 1753. Sarah; born, Nov. 23, 1766.
Samuel 3d .; born, April 21, 1761. Zechariah Whitman ; born, Dec. 25, 1771.
Elizabeth ; born, Jan. 14, 1763. Esther; born, Sept. 23, 1773.
Samuel 3d., son of Samuel 2d. and Elizabeth Fitch, married, March 1, 1783, Olive Stu- art, born, May 28, 1760, and had, Joseph Platt,' born, Nov. 20, 1790. The father and mother of Joseph P. Fitch removed for a period to Cooperstown, New York, during which time their son, Joseph P., was left with his Norwalk relatives. This son married, Jan. 1, 1816, Emma, born, Nov. 7, 1789, daughter of Amos and Mary (Brown) Sherman. These lived in Lower Wilton, and had :
Mary Elizabeth ; married John R. Sturges ;
Sherman Platt;
Harriet A .; married, first, Rev. Abel Ogden2 of Fairfield, and second, Rev. Luther Gregory of Danbury.
The late Sherman Platt Fitch, son of Joseph P. and Emma Fitch, and a gr .- gr .- grandson of Hon. Samuel Fitch">"., and who remained through life in touch with the city
"He had a brother Daniel, who married Lucretia, born June 27, 1786, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth (Raymond) Whitney, and sister of Eben Whitney who lived, universally regarded and to a venerable age, in the old style comfort home now supplanted by the commodious Earle East Avenue summer residence. Daniel and Lucretia Fitch had a son Harvey, born May 27. 1816, who married, May 29, 1838, Rebecca, daughter of Jared and Lydia Betts of Wilton. Har- vey Fitch removed from Wilton to Norwalk in 1848. His children were: John, Mary Jennet, Alice, Agnes and Sarah. John married Sarah Amelia Hodge, and had, Alice Rebecca and Jennie Eliza. Mary Jennet m .. rried John, son of James Cotter, and had, Rebecca Gertrude, Robert Fitch and Helen Jennet.
Miss Emma Fitch, sister of Harvey, is now resid- ing in Norwalk.
2Abel Ogden 1-t. of Fairfield, married a sister of
Rev. Reuben Sherwood, D. D., rector, 1816-1828, of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk. Dr. Sherwood was born on Mill Hill, beyond Mill Plain, in Fairfield. The Ogden family dates back to early Fairfield history. Mr. and Mrs. Abel Ogden, (the latter was a strong character and a woman of great intelligence) had: George, who married Hetty Beers of Fairfield; David, (Rev.) who married Elizabeth Nash of New Canaan; Abbie, who married Judson Sturges of Fairfield; Edward S., who married Hannah Nash (sister of Mrs. Rev. David Ogden) of New Canaan; Abel 2d. (Rev.) who married, Harriet A .. youngest daughter of Joseph Platt Fitch; Elizabeth ( unmarried) and Lucretia (un- married.) Rev. Reuben Sherwood married, first. Catharine Rogers (see page 170) and had two daugh- ters, Catharine and Emily. Dr. Sherwood married, late in life, second, Penelope, daughter of Champlain Harrison. There were no children by this union.
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affinity of his great grand-aunt, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers, was a parent in the memory of whose worth and admirable character-unison children's children may take delight. He married, May 12, 1847, Sarah Maria, born, Aug. 24, 1826, daughter of the excellent Philo Webb and Rebecca (Lobdell) Jones of Westport, and had :
Edward Sherman ; born, Feb. 7, 1848.
Arthur Treat; born, Aug. 6, 1849, resides abroad.
Helen Elizabeth ; born, Feb. 6, 1853, married, Dec. 29, 1870, John B. Sturges. Agnes J .; born, Nov. 10, 1854, married, Oct. 27, 1886, David B. Ogden. Harriet R .; born, Jan. 10, 1857, married, May 2, 1882, Daniel D. Telford. Frances; born, Sept. 5, 1861, married, Oct. 16, 1889, John M. Belden. Richard Henry ; born, June 5, 1866, unmarried.
Sherman Platt Fitch, born, Nov. 26, 1822 ; died Feb. 16, 1894.
Edward S., son of Sherman P. and Sarah Maria Fitch, married, Nov. 16, 1870, Ella L. Chauncey of Brooklyn, L. I., and had : Harry S., Maud and Ethel.
The record, for public service, of the four successive Samuel Fitch generations, down to Edward S. Fitch, is somewhat unique. Samuel. ... was a well known colonial official. His son, Samuel 2d., was a sergeant, in 1775, under Col. Israel Putnam. Joseph Platt Fitch belonged to the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia, and Sherman Platt Fitch received a lieutentant's commission, Aug. 15, 1843.
FITCH-BELDEN DESCENT.
Hannah, born, Sept. 15, 1776, oldest daughter of Timothy and Esther (Platt) Fitch, and grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Fitch, was a widely related young woman. Her home was opposite the 1896 Strawberry Hill residence of the late Walter T. Gray, on the east side of the street. Her aunt Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Hanford) lived next door south of her father's home, in the door-yard which is shown to-day, and which was long occupied by her second cousin, the late Joseph Platt Hanford 2d .. Her aunt Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Fitch 2d.) lived on the fine Chestnut Hill elevation, a home often visited by Mrs. Samuel Fitch's sister-in-law, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers. Her aunt's Mary (Mrs. Jede- diah Hanford) and Ann (Mrs. Stephen Thatcher) and Hannah (Mrs.) Avery, completed the children of her Yale grandfather, Jos. Platt 2d. Hannah Fitch descended directly from John Platt Ist. on her mother's side and from Thomas Fitch Ist. on her father's side. She married, as his second wife, Capt. Azor Belden 2d. of Wilton, and removed from Norwalk to the premises, fair to behold to-day, the handsome valley near Cannons station in the town of Wilton, through which beautifully winds the Norwalk River. Her husband was the son of Azor Belden 1st., who was the son of William'st. and Margaret (Arms) Belden, the first of the Belden name who settled in Wilton. William Belden Ist. was the son of Daniel Belden of Deerfield and the nephew of the brothers, John 'st. and Samuel Belden Ist., who were the ear-
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liest of all the Belden family to come to Norwalk. John Belden ">t. was the grandfather of the John Belden who married Rebecca Bartlett, which Rebecca Belden's daughter, Mary Esther, became the wife of William St. John, who lived on the site of the present north corner of Morgan and East Avenue.' The children of Azor 2d. and Hannah (Fitch) Belden were George F. and Platt Belden. Platt Belden has no Norwalk descent; for children of George F., see " Gov. Fitch Norwalk 1896 Blood " topic.
A MATTHEW FITCH Ist. DESCENT. Gen. I .- Thomas Fitch Ist.
" II .- John 1st. and Rebecca (Lindall) Fitch.
" III .- John 2d. and Lydia (Bushnell) Fitch.
" IV -Matthew Fitch Ist.
Matthew Fitch Ist,, born, May 1708 (died April 16, 1779) was twice married. His first wife was Jemima, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Comstock) St. John. Eben- ezer St. John was the son of Matthias St. John 2d. and the grandson of the pioneer Matthias St. John, Sr. Mrs. Ebenezer St. John was the daughter of Christopher Comstock the settler. The fruit of this St. John-Comstock alliance was three sons and one daughter, which last married Matthew Fitch 1st. To Matthew and Jemima Fitch was born, at Christmas-tide, 1735, a daughter, called for her mother. Jemima. Shortly after Jemima's birth her mother died, and the little one was within a few days of three years old when she became a step- daughter, her father having married, second, Dec. 7, 1738, Lydia, daughter of Nathan, a grandson of Richard Olmsted, Sr. and Norwalk settler. There was a large Fitch family by this second marriage of Matthew Fitch Ist.
Nathan ; born, Oct. 12. 1739. Mercy ; born, Dec. 29, 1740. Hannah ; born, Aug. 24. 1742. Matthew 2 .; born, June 17, 1744.
The children were :
Lydia ; born, April 4. 1746. Rebecca ; born, July 9, 1748. Susanna ; born, Aug. 29, 1750. Abijah.
'In the center of the ancient meadow, now tra- versed from west towards the east by the Morgan Avenue of 1596, stood, before the Revolutionary War, a house that sheltered several of this country's re- markable ancestors and ancestresses. One of that hearthstone s descendants, Grace Ingersoll, had cap- tivated the French court, and even were she the cause, as she most undesignedly was, of an ungracious re- mark on the part of the Emperor Napoleon, yet she possessed bewitching influence at the gay European capital. Grace Babcock was another descendant of the old meadow home alluded to. She was handsome and accomplished and Lord Howe fixed his headquar- ters under the very roof of the Babcock house on the east bank of the lower Hudson. This Norwalk girl was now a widow and because of her fascinations the English Col. Gist urged hi- suit for her hand. Mrs. | in the same lot, further north and nearer the street.
Babcock dismissed him on the very evening of the musketry-discharge announcement that her attractive home was under siege. Another descendant of the home-lot has been a Connecticut governor, while an- other sleeps beneath the church chancel in Branford, east of New Haven. In the particular of notable as- sociation the unpretentious last century structure in the southeast lot at the foot of the Norwalk "Green" had perhaps no rival. The last night of that dwel- ling's occupancy was that of Friday, July 9, 1779. Before the next night's light in the west had died out its final occupants, William and Esther (Belden) St. John, who had been married about eighteen months, had probably hastened away because of the British landing at Calf Pasture. The house was burned on Sunday morning. July 11, 1779, and Mr. St. John built
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Nathan Ist., son of Matthew Ist. and Lydia (Olmsted) Fitch, married, first, Jan. 8. 1760-1, Mehitable, daughter of Benajah and Dinah Hoyt, and had :
Nathan 2d. ; baptized, July 5, 1761.
Jemima ; baptized, March 27, 1763.
Asahel'st .; baptized, Feb. 11, 1765. Presumably sick at time of baptism.
Nathan Fitch Ist., married, second, March 7, 1769, Mary Reed, and had :
Asahel 2d. ; baptized, July 12, 1772, married, Martha Denison.
Rebecca ; baptized. Oct. 7, 1773, married, Hezekiah Middlebrook.
Mercy ; baptized, June 4, 1775, married, Adam Swan.'
William ; baptized, Feb. 2, 1777.
Lydia; baptized, Feb. 2, 1777.
Polly ; baptized, Dec. 12, 1793, married, Amos Denison.
Anne; baptized, May 13, 1795.
Most of the children of Nathan FitchIst. were born in New Canaan, and it is an added credit to that goodly-ancestral and rare-ridged, handsome and healthful old town that its children, largely, have brought no reflection on their birth-place. Asahel Fitch 2., named for a deceased young brother, left New Canaan with his family at the time of its re- moval (see note) to New York state and married, as did his sister Polly, into a household which numbered among its heads, Major John Mason of colonial eminence, and which the pen of Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth has been successfully employed in registering
'In the peaceful "Canaan parish " home of Na- than ist. and Mary Fitch, a daughter, Mercy, was born, at the Bunker Hill period, who was destined to become the mother of a line of illustriously descended children. Nathan ist. was third cousin of Gov. Thos. Fitch. The Governor's son, Ebenezer, born in 1729, had married in Greenwich, and his father, in 1758, gave him a home on Chestnut Hill, in what is now the town of Wilton. In this town Ebenezer Ist. died, in 1762, leaving his widow (nee Lydia Mills of Green- wich) and three sons, Jabez, Ebenezer 2d. and Giles, who were distant cousins of Nathan Fitch Ist. The widow and her son, Ebenezer 2d. from (now) Wilton, and Nathan ist. and his family, from (now) New Ca- naan, emigrated, the same year (1785) to a portion of the Saratoga, N. Y , district, called Greenfield. It was within a short distance (some three miles) of the famed "Congress Spring" which at that time was be- ginning to attract attention. Here, two years after the New Canaan and Wilton Fitch arrival, was born, (Sept. 9, 1787) in the family of the Wilton branch, a child, Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer 2d. who, at the age of twenty-five, was to marry into the Saratoga Bullard family, and be planted in a home on the edge of the Sparkling Saratoga Lake. She was the mother of Gen. Edward Fitch Bullard of the Civil War of
nearly forty years ago. From the New Canaan Fitch branch proceeded Mercy Fitch, (a dozen or so years older than her cousin-remote Hannah) who, some six years after the family's Connecticut departure, mar- ried (Dec. 29, 1791) Adam Swan, who, through the Stonington, Conn., Swan's and Gallup's, was of im- perial descent, several crowned heads (see note, page 104) having been among his ancestors. Adam Swan and Rev. Roswell R. Swan,( 1807) both of Norwalk and both originally of Stonington, may, possibly, have been from this same family. The tomb, on Town House Hill, of Rev. Mr. Swan has, within a few years past, been put in order by an eastern member of the family. Its occupant, who was born in Stonington the year that Norwalk was burned, came hither at twenty-nine years of age and spent his ministerial life of a dozen years with the Norwalk people. He was much beloved and died (in the Geo. W. Hunter East Avenue house) in comparative youth. Adam Swan, who married Mercy Fitch of New Canaan, was a Stonington youth also. His parents were Joshua and Martha (Denison) Swan. Joshua Swan was the son of John Swan, Jr. and Lucy Denison, which John Jr. was a son of John Swan, who was a son of Robert, who was a son of Richard Swan, the Boston 1638 col- onist.
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