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in due time, the father of Stephen Keeler, a Norwalk native, whose family annals make pertinent the insertion, in this place, of the accompanying :
STODDARD-EDWARDS-BETTS-KEELER HISTORY CHAPTER.
The resuscitation of laudable memories which, by the lapse of time, have fallen into decay, are not a Norwalk annals-stock contribution simply, but local history is thereby turned to beneficent account. Notwithstanding the discomforting, discouraging and de- feating drawbacks of primitive environments, this town's virgin half-century of life was a marked social epoch, among the other gratifying notices of which period is the no mean mention that such a New England matriarch as the widow of Thomas Newberry, of Dor- chester, shared, for a season, the settler's rugged experiences. This remarkable woman, like the barons' ladies of King Egbert's time, believed in and advocated "Spindle Head" rather than "Spear Head " power, and was one of those foremothers of whom it is de- clared that they were " quiet but moved the world." " New England came to him," is af- firmed of one of her near descent, Col. John Stoddard, a "Connecticut River god." She was a St. Hilda in conviction and inviolate truth was her guide. It was she, and such as she, who conceived the grand idea of what may be termed government-matriarchalism, a home, that is, for the people, and she, without doubt, loaned herself to the work of inoc- ulating the Norwalk maiden community with the " germs " of republicanism and patriot- ism. It is an honor that will forever redound to this ancient plantation that the grand- mother of President Jonathan Edwards and great-grandmother of President Timothy Dwight and the foreparent of a household which has, in the language of an antiquarian of universal repute, "few parallels in American History," lived, if only for a brief space, in this town. Quite likely her own strong mind and that of her daughter (the first Mrs. Thomas Hanford) had considerable to do in moulding the forefathers' characters two hundred and forty odd years ago. " The crown must come to me," insisted Anne of Den- mark, and the crown was compelled to acknowledge the edict. "To know what the town should do," all came to Esther, (the daughter of Mrs. Thomas Newberry, of Norwalk.) whose husband was the great-grandson of Sir James Ware, historian of Ireland' and a
ISir James Ware, a member, in 1583, of the Irish Parliment and who was knighted by James I, married Alice Prideaux, daughter of the Lord Mayor of Lon- don. Mary, daughter of Sir James and Alice Ware, married Emmanuel Downing, which Emmanuel and Mary Downing had a daughter, Mary, who married Anthony Stoddard, born 1617, and the parent of the American Stoddard family. Anthony and Mary Stoddard's son, Solomon, born in Boston in 1643. married Esther, a daughter of Jane Newberry (Mrs. Rev. John Warham, of Windsor, and the mother of the first wife of Rev. Thomas Hanford, of Norwalk ). Rev. Solomon and ITester Stoddard had a daughter, Esther, who married Rev. Timothy Edwards, first
minister of East Windsor. Jonathan, born Oct. 5, 1703, son of Rev. Timothy and Esther Edwards, be- came in time President Jonathan Edwards, who mar- ried, in 1727, Sarah, daughter of Rev. James Pier- pont, of New Haven. Jonathan and Sarah Edwards' daughter, Mary, married Timothy Dwight, of North- ampton, Mass. Timothy and Mary Dwight had a son, Timothy, born in 1753, who was president of Y'ale College.
Soloman and Hester Stoddard's daughter, Han- nah, married Rev. Wm. Williams, Jr. Rev. Wm. and Hannah Williams, Jr., had a daughter, Anna, who married Col. Oliver Partridge. Col. Oliver and Mrs. Anna Partridge had a daughter, Elizabeth,
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friend of royal James. " Where is God ?" was asked of one of her blood ; " Where is He not," was the reply. The works of God were her offsprings delight, and with clasped hands and reverent repetitions of "forever and ever," some of her descent were wont to salute even as humble a natural object as a small highland stream. Thomas Newberry deceased in 1635-6, Roger Ludlow, the purchaser of Norwalk, being one of the sub- scribers to his will. His wife survived him in the enjoyment of a comfortable legacy of £200 (marrying for a second husband, Rev. John Warham, the first minister of Wind- sor-see page 138) twenty years, and died at Norwalk, in the parsonage' of the "Prime
who married Dr. Erastus Sargeant, Sr., who was the father of Dr. Erastus Sargeant, Jr., who married Mar- garet, daughter of Stephen and Margaret (Pynchon) Keeler, of Norwalk. The Stoddards include, says one, the best of French, English and Welsh blood. Col. Oliver Partridge was a Harvard graduate and a Colonist of wide reputation. He died in 1782, and his wife died in 1802.
1Old Norwalk's parsonages (before the Revolu- tionary War)-Congregational and Episcopal-were storied structures. Hannah, daughter of Mrs. Thos. Newbury, referred to in the text, was the first wife of Rev. Thos. Hanford, the first minister of Norwalk. This lady whose blood back of, or contemporary with her, were ancestors and ancestresses who pos- sessed genius and power to evolve from surrounding conditions the germs of the grand matters-status of to-day, here wrought and influenced for several years. After her decease her husband married, sec- ond, (see page 138) the widow of Jonathan Ince, of New Haven, and brought, once more, to the Norwalk parsonage family fame. Rev. Stephen Buckingham was the town's second pastor and Mrs. Buckingham was unexcelled. The town had built a new " minis- ter's house," its site being about where now stands the East Norwalk R. R. depot for west bound trains. Here Mrs. Buckingham presided with grace. She was the grand-daughter of the immortal Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, and " is reputed to have been the most accomplished lady that ever came to Nor- | walk." Her sister, Mary, was the wife of Rev. James Pierpont. of New Haven, and she was the aunt of Mrs. President Jonathan Edwards. Her husband and self were, by birth and connection, of New Eng- land's best stock, and the Norwalk parsonage con- unued to be a highly clever and cultured hearthstone. Rev. Moses Dickinson succeeded Mr. Buckingham. Mr. Dickinson was born in Springfield, Dec. 12, 1695, and himself and wife Martha came to Norwalk in June, 1727. Hi- father, Hezekiah Dickinson, was a trader and his mother was Abigail, daughter of Rev. Samuel Blakeman, of Stratford. His brother Jonathan's house was distinguished in that the Col- lege of New Jersey was there opened and his own parsonage in Norwalk had at its head a man of com-
manding presence and esteemed one of the first among his fellows, and was the birthplace of his daughter, Mary, who married, Nov. 4, 1742, Rev. James Lockwood, of Norwalk, who declined the presidencies of Princeton and Yale Colleges, and was the brother of Hannah (Mrs. Dr. Uriah Rogers, Sr.), the grandmother of Chancellor James Kent Mrs. Martha Dickinson died and the second Mrs. Moses Dickinson who ministered at the parsonage was Hannah, daughter of Capt. Joseph Allyn, of Wethersfield. Before Hannah Allyn married Rev. Moses Dickinson she had been the wife of Rev. Ebenezer Wright, of the old Congregational Church in Stamford. Mr. Wright died May 5, 1746, and his widow married (as his second wife) June 24, 1755. Capt. Joseph St. John, of Norwalk. Mr. St. John died Sept. 29, 1756, when his widow married for the third time, July 28. 1757, Rev. Moses Dickinson. Mr. Dickinson died May 1, 1778, leaving his widow, Han- nah, who survived him for twenty-five years, dying at Plymouth, Conn., June 16, 1803, at the great age of ninety-eight.
Rev. Wm. Tennent was for seven years a Col- league Pastor with Rev. Mr. Dickinson. He probably did not occupy the parsonage, as Mr. Dickinson over- lived Mr. Tennent's assistantship by some six years. Mr. Tennent came to Norwalk at the early age of twenty-eight. We have no record of his marriage, but he died at the age of forty. His mother was a Mrs. Noble, to whom his father was introduced in New York City. Both parties were pleased with the introduction, at the close of which Rev. Mr. Tennent remarked that if it met with her approbation he would return to Freehold, N. J., attend to his Sun- day duty and come back on Monday for the wedding. The lady, who knew well of him, acquiesced and the ceremony was duly performed. She became a valu- able wife, and the mother, in 1737, of the Norwalk associate of Rev. Mr. Dickinson. Her great niece, Martha Tennent, a woman of exceptional worth and superb talent, married a young man who was brought up in the meadow now the site of the Manice Lock- wood and Mallory estate homes on Mill Hill, David, son of Dr. Uriah and Hannah (Lockwood) Rogers, afterward the eminent Dr. David Rogers, Sr., of
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Ancient Society," April 23, 1655,' her life-story furnishing the following interesting New England family "item."
"NOT ALONE."
Rev. John Warham, the first minister of Windsor, Conn., married, second, Jane.'
Greenfield Hill, among whose children were Dr. Charles Rogers, of South Carolina, Dr. David, Jr., of New York, Dr. William, of Penn., Dr. Morris, who married a Long Island Willets, Mrs. Dr. Dewes, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Rev. John P. Austin, of New Ha- ven, (grandmother of Justice A. E. Austin, of Nor- walk,) and Samuel Rogers, a New York merchant.
Moses Dickinson died the year before Norwalk was British-burned and the Congregational and Epis- copal parsonages, at that time standing, were ruth- lessly destroyed by Tryon.
As St. Paul's parish was not incorporated until the town had attained nearly ninety years of age, and as its first rectory is supposed to have been built around the frame of the first tentative church, some- where in the neighborhood of 1742, its history up to the conflagation of 1779 is comparatively meagre. Its rectors' families nevertheless were of note. Henry Caner, the first rector, knew possibly but little of Norwalk parsonage life. Himself and wife Anne Mckenzie, to whom he was married Aug. 25, 1728, were, it is probable, away from Norwalk more or less of the time, although he here gathered some 115 com- municants. His half-brother, Richard, succeeded him for a short time. Rev. Richard's wife is not ascer- tained. He died when not quite twenty-nine years old. He left a daughter who is named in Jonathan Cutler's will. The two Caner's were promising men, sons of Henry Caner, a New Haven architect, who erected the first building belonging to Yale College. Neither of them had probably much of a " settled habitation" in Norwalk. There was no rectory until Richard's time, and he spent only three years in Norwalk.
Dr. John Ogilvie seems to have been hardly more than a tentative supply at St. Paul's. He fol- lowed the Caner's but was unmarried when at Nor- walk. His second wife, in later years, however, was known of in Norwalk. She was the widow Philips, of the Philips Manor estate, when she married Dr. Ogilvie. She generously remembered St. Paul's church, of which her step-son, Rev. Geo. Ogilvie, was for some time rector. She survived her hus- band, Rev. John Ogilvie, and had a delightful home not far from West Point. It was upon her grounds that, in more recent years, the popular work entitled, " The Wide, Wide World," was written. The only St. Paul's parsonage occupant, at least for any great extent of time, before the Revolution, was Dr. Jere- miah Leaming. Mr. Leaming was baptized May 12, 1717, and he received his first Communion in the
Episcopal Church on Christmas Day, 1745. For two years from that time he acted as lay-reader in Nor- walk and then was sent to England to obtain orders, old Trinity Church, Newport, bearing his expenses. Only fourteen days intervened between his two or- dinations in 1748. In 1758 he became rector of St. Paul's, Norwalk, and hither brought his wife, nee Elizabeth Peck, of New York City, after whose fam- ily the " Peck Slip" of said city was named. These occupied the Norwalk parsonage until everything they locally possessed was therein burned by the British on July 11, 1779. Dr. Leaming's estate was inventoried, at his death, at £116 but his wife's large property went to her neice, Ann, daughter of Samuel and Hannah-Norwalk records say Christian-(Peck) Farmar, and wife of Bishop Abraham Jarvis.
'Mrs. Jane Newberry (Mrs. John Warham, sec- ond,) had no grandchildren through her daughter, the first Mrs. Thos. Hanford. Her direct Norwalk descendants (through the Keelers) lived in different parts of the town, largely at the lower end of the present Belden avenue. Among her Fairfield Coun- ty affinity-representatives are the descendants of Rev. Thomas Hawley, of Ridgefield. Her grand-daughter Rebecca, married Lieut. Joseph Hawley, a son of Capt. Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, and a broth- er of Rev. Thomas Hawley, the first pastor of Ridge- field, whose Norwalk descent opens up quite a genealogy-field. The Hawleys, station-wise, talent- wise and principle-wise, were notable progenitors. Rev. Thomas, a Harvard, 1709, graduate, belonged to the unimpeachable-character class of men, concern- ing one of whom (a relative of his) a Northampton Indian, on a certain occasion, remarked that he was "Englishman's god." He married a young lady six years younger than himself, Abigail, grand-daughter of Major Nathan Gold, a scholarly and oppulent gen- tleman and a leading man in Colonial times. Mr. Gold was a King Charles Charter petitioner, "which petition was signed by no gentleman unless he had sustained a high reputation in England before he came to New England." He became proprietor of the fine Fairfield estate previously owned by the founder of Norwalk (Ludlow) where he died on the first Sunday of the Spring of 1693-4. His namesake and only son, Nathan, Jr., married a maiden, born Dec. 8, 1663, daughter of Col. John Talcott, of Hart- ford, and whose Wakeman mother was great-aunt to the first Mrs. John Cannon, of Norwalk. Nathan2d. and Hannah Gold's oldest child, Abigail, married Rev. Thos. Hawley, of Ridgefield, and founded the
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widow of Thomas Newberry. of Dorchester, Mass. Jane's daughter, Hannah Newberry,' was the first wife of Rev. Thomas Hanford, of Norwalk, at whose Norwalk home Mrs. Jane Warham died, as before mentioned, April 23, 1655, which distinguished personage probably sleeps beneath the unmarked and prostrate slab (1896) in the middle of the East Norwalk cemetery. This Norwalk sleeper's daughter, Hester, baptized Dec. 8, 1644, married, first, Rev. E. Mather, and second, Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass., and lived to the age of ninety-one or two. Mrs. Hester Stoddard was a remark- able woman. Her husband was one of the early scholar-controversalists of the New World, and her daughter Esther the mother of President Jonathan Edwards. Esther Stoddard, daughter of Rev. Solomon and Hester, was educated, as was also her gifted sis- ter, Hannah, in Boston. Both girls were under tutorage in that Capital during the Har- vard College membership of the renowned Timothy Edwards, of Windsor, and William Williams, Jr., of Weston, Mass. The talented young ladies became acquainted with the
Ilawley family hearthstone in that upland town. The first daughter born to them (New Year's day, 1716, ) was named for her mother, and married, when just under twenty-two. Peter, son of Eliphalet and Mary (Gold) Lockwood, of Norwalk, and grandson of Ephraim Lockwood, the settler. Peter and Abi- gail Lockwood's second child, Eliphalet, born Oct. 17, 1741, married, Jan. 8, 1766, Susannah, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Susannah (Selleck) St. John, and had Buckingham, born, Dec. 23, 1774, who was the father of the present Col. Frederick St. John Lock- wood, of East Avenne.
Thos. Hawley, Jr., born Feb. 22, 1722, son of Rev. Thos., of Ridgefield, married Elizabeth Gould, who was three years his junior. These had a daugh- ter, Abigail, born Oct. 24, 1749, who married James, born June 9, 1750, son of Thos, and Ruth (Benedict) Rockwell, and bad Anna, born March 21, 1774, who married Jacob, son of Jacob and Freelove Nash, and had Capt. Daniel K. Nash, who died in South Nor- walk, Oct. IS, 1864.
'Hannah's sister, Mary, married, June 13, 1644. Capt Daniel Clarke, who came at sixteen years of age from Warwickshire, England, with Rev. Ephraim Huit, Aug. 17, 1639. This was the young Clarke's irst marriage, by which he had ten children, among whom was John, Ist. born Apr. 10, 1656 This John Clarke married, in 1685, Mary, born, Oct 1665, daugh- ter of Christopher and Mary (Burr) Crow. of Hart- ford. Mary Crow's father, Christopher, is conjectur- ed to have been the youngest child of John and Eliza- beth Crow, who settled in 1636. in Charlestown, Mass .. and, in 1639. in Hartford, Conn. Johnist. and Mary Clarke had a son, Daniel, born the last day of 1704. who married, Nov. 11, 1731, Esther Bridges, and had Diniel, born at Goshen, in the town of Lebanon, Apr. 1. 1734. This son married, Nov. 24, 1757, Eliza- beth Abel, and had daughter Betsey, born 1759, who
married Joseph William Bissell, and had sons Clark (Hon. Clark Bissell, of Norwalk), born, Sept. 7, 1782. Emery (Dr. Emery), of Norwalk and Levaret, of New York. Hon. Clark Bissell was married in Greens Farms, April 29, 1811, to Sally, daughter of Hon. S. B. Sherwood, of Westport, and occupied first, in Nor- walk, the Rogers' Main St. house. then the recent Cowles place, until their future home (on the Bis- sell corner at the lower end of the Green) should be completed. Dr. Emery Bissell owned the East Ave- nue premises known, in 1896, as the First Congrega- ional parsonage. Gov. Clark Bissell's children were and are, Rev. Samuel B. S., born Feb. 16, 1812; Ed- ward C., born Aug. 1, 1822; Geo. A .. born Aug. 27, 1825; Mary E., (Mrs. Charles O. C. Betts) born Feb. 22, 1827, Charlotte C., (Mrs. Hon. O. S. Ferry) born Dec. 18, 1828, and Arthur Henry, born May seventh, 1831. The children of Dr. Emery and Mary (Hayes) Bissell were: George, died young; William E .: Henry; Mary; llarriet; Julia. The two brothers, Hon. Clark and Dr. Emery, resided near each other, and were held in high personal and professional es- teem. Their wives were of great character-excel- lence and their children, the cousins, have been ad- mirable members of society. Samuel (Rev. ), oldest son of Hon. Clark and Sally Bissell, gave high thought, excellent preparation and his high reputa- tion to the claims of his sacred calling. His faith- ful and fruitful ministerial life was passed in Vir- ginia and in his native Connecticut. He married,
first, Fanny M , daughter of Renssalaer Havens, of N. Y., and had Ellen A. (Mrs. Brayton Ives) ; Sam- uel S. ; Kate Havens ( Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood, Jr. ; ) Renssalaer; Clark; Fanny (Mrs. C. Cuyler Patter- son) ; Morris J .; Frederick P .; Howard H. He mar- married, second, Fanny, daughter of James Miller, of Newark. N. J., and had James Miller, who died young.
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two named clever young gentlemen who enthusiastically offered to assist the diligent sis- ters in their student-work. The offer was accepted and the result was a development, mind-wise, that so astonished their learned parent as to cause him to at once write to his daughters for an explanation of their remarkable success. "Not alone," was their memor- able reply to their father, "not alone." Esther married Mr. Edwards and her sister mar- ried Mr. Williams. Esther's son, Jonathan, was afterward the Northampton, Mass., di- vine of wide reputation, President Jonathan Edwards, and her grand-daughter Esther married President Aaron Burr, while her next younger grand-daughter, Mary, married Col. Timothy Dwight, who was the father of Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL. D., President 1795- 1817 of Yale College. Anna Williams, a daughter of Rev. Wm. Williams, Jr., married Col. Oliver Partridge, of the first Colonial Congress. Their daughter Elizabeth married Dr. Erastus Sargeant, Sr., whose son, Dr. Erastus, Jr., married Margaret, daughter of Stephen'st. and Margaret (Pynchon) Keeler, of Norwalk, which Stephen KeelerIst. was the son of Matthew, "". who was the son of Samuelzd. and Sarah (Betts) Keeler, of Norwalk first, and Ridgefield afterward. Mrs. Stephen KeelerIst. was Margaret, one of the four daughters of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Cotton) Pynchon.
KEELER-PYNCHON DESCENT.
Judge William Pynchon, born about 1590, came from Essex Co., England, in 1630, and was one of the first settlers of Springfield, in 1637. His wife was Ann Andrews. To Judge William and Ann Pynchon was born, in 1627. John Pynchon (Col.) who was for a half-century a magistrate of Springfield. Col. John married, Oct. 30, 1645, Amy. daughter of Gov. George Wyllis, of Hartford. The marriage took place about one and one-half years after the decease of the bride's father, Gov. Wyllis. Col. and " most wor- shipful " John and Amy Pynchon had a son, John (Col. John2d. ), born 1648, who married Margaret, daughter of Rev. William and Margaret (Rogers) Hubbard. Mrs. Rev. William Hubbard was a sister of Rev. John Rogers, the president of Harvard College, and a daughter of Rev. Nathaniel and Margaret Crane Rogers. Col. John2d and Margaret Pynchon had a son, John3d. (Col. John3d.), who married Bathshua, daughter of Rev. Ed- ward and Elizabeth (Fitch) Taylor,' of Westfield, Mass. Elizabeth Fitch was the daugh- ter of James Fitch, of Norwich. Col. John3d. and Bathshua Pynchon had a son, Joseph, (Dr. Joseph), before mentioned, born 1706, who married Mary Cotton, widow of T. Cheney, of Brookfield, Mass. Dr. Joseph and Mary Pynchon had four daughters, viz.,
'Rev. Edward Taylor's second wife was Ruth, daughter of Samuel and Ruth ( Haynes ) Wyllis. Samuel Wyllis was son of Gov. George Wyllis, of Conn., and Ruth Haynes was daughter of Gov. John and Mabel Harlakenden Haynes, of Mass, and Conn. Rev. Edward and Ruth Taylor had Kejiah, born 1702, who married Rev. Isaac Stiles, and was the mother of President Ezra Stiles, of Yale College,
who was succeeded in that office by Dr. Timothy Dwight. Dr. Dwight, through his wife's mother, had something of a Norwalk patrimony. There is no known record of Rev. Edward and Mrs. Taylor's visits to their Fairfield County great grand-children, but old family traditions are valued and preserved by their descendants, Mrs. Gov. John J. Bagley, of Michigan, and Mrs. Judge Austin Adams, of Iowa.
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Mary, who married Rev. Andrew Eliot, of Fairfield; Elizabeth, who married Dr. Charles Russell, of Burlington, Vt .; Martha, who was unmarried, and Margaret, who married Mar. 28, 1779, Stephen, son of Matthew Keeler, of Norwalk.
It is mentioned by a grand-daughter of Stephen and Margaret Pynchon Keeler' that the Norwalk home of these Keeler grandparents was a delightful Norwalk and Fair- field entre nous meeting spot. Mary Pynchon (Mrs. Rev. Andrew Eliot), of the latter place and sister of Mrs. Stephen Keeler, presided over a beautifully situated hearthstone. Her husband as well as herself were notably related. His father was the Rev. Dr. An- drew Eliot, Sr., of Boston reputation and her husband's sister was Susannah, wife of the distinguished Dr. David Hull, of Fairfield. Elizabeth, sister of Mrs. Keeler and Mrs. Eliot, married Dr. Chas. Russell, who was located at Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Charles and Elizabeth Russell were the parents of Dr. Charles P Russell, of the U. S. N. These three sisters, Mrs. Keeler, Mrs. Eliot and Mrs. Russell were society-prominent. Margaret was for a time in delicate health and remained much at home. She was the intimate friend of Mary Esther Belden (Mrs. Wm. St. John), of Norwalk. Elizabeth's home in Burlington preceded that of the elegant establishment, in that same city, of Col. LeGrand
"The children of Stephen and Margaret (Pynch- on) Keeler were Margaret (Mrs. Dr. Erastus Sar- geant, Jr.,), born Jan. 19, 1780; Mary. born Jan. 20, 1781; Martha ( Mrs. Hugh Knox), born July 16, 1783 ; Elizabeth, born Jan. 31, 1786: Stephen, born Jan. 10, 1,89: Anne, born Jan. 9, 1792; Sarah ( Mrs. Chas. H. Bontecou), born April 14, 1795, and Matthew, born Sept 13, 1797. The daughter of Margaret (Mrs. Dr. Erastus Sargeant, Jr.,), Mary Ann, married Rev. Samuel Newbury, whose two daughters, Mary and Frances, married, respectively, the present Judge Austin Adams, of Duluth, Iowa, and Gov. John Jack- son Bagley , of Detroit, Mich. Martha, sister of Mar- garet, married, as his second wife, Hugh Knox, whose Norwalk home was the 1896 Cowles place on the Green. Sarah, another sister, married, Jan. 28, 1826, Cha -. II. Bontecou, of Lansingburgh, N. Y. Steph- en, a brother of the girls and the namesake of his father, married and lived entirely outside of Nor- walk, while Matthew, who was an infant when his fa- ther died, kept, in later years, a draper establishment in Cedar Street, N. Y. The entire family removed to New York City, where the mother, who long survived her husband, made her home with her son Matthew, at whose residence she died in 1833. This mother's literary taste evidenced itself in her closing years by her fondness for letter writing. She did not entirely forget Norwalk. Her children's Keeler uncles and aunts (children of Stephen and grand-children of Matthewist.) were Samuel. Thomas, Isaac. William, Sarah (Mr -. Isaac Marvin), Rebecca (Mrs. James Seymour), Abigail (Mr. Olmstead). Elizabeth (Mrs. Job Smith), Aaron, Hannah (Mr -. Giles Mallory),
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