Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 35

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

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Anne (Mrs. Zebulon Philips), Margaret and Mary. The third mentioned uncle, Isaac, born April 20, 1759. married Sept. 27, 1781, Deborah, daughter of David and Elizabeth ( Hyatt ) Whitney, and lived about where now stands the West Ave. residence of Cashier Price. Isaac and Deborah Keeler's youngest son, James H., born July 17, 1801, married Matilda, sister of David and Morris Stephenson, who kept for many years. the Norwalk Hotel. Two of James H. and Matilda Keeler's children were Frances Eliza- beth (Mrs. S. R. P. Camp) and the late Antoinette (Mrs. Edwin Mallory). Rebecca Keeler, sister of Isaac, married James Seymour, the grandfather of the late Misses Harriet and Ann Seymour, of Nor- walk. The venerable form and features of this pro- genitress are to this hour recalled. The Norwalk Keeler who was formerly connected with the New York Custom House was not of the line of Mat- thew Keeler, ist. as has been supposed, but rather the Keeler who was of the Jehu and Lydia ( Lookwood) Keeler line. This last Keeler lineage embraces well known modern names. Jehu Keeler's wife was Lydia, daughter of James Lockwood, a founder of the "Lockwood District," New Canaan. Stephen, son of Jehu and Lydia Keeler, married Hannah Mar- vin, and had several children, mostly daughters, among whom was Mary, who married Seth, son of Gould Ferris, whose home was near the old Ponus- Heckett wigwam-sites, now Trinity Lake vicinity, the frequented haunt in early days of game, more es- pecially the deer. Seth and Mary (Keeler) Ferris had Stephen G. Ferris, the late worthy South Nor- walk citizen of that name.

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Cannon, the grand nephew of Mary Esther Belden. Martha, the unmarried sister of Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary, had her name perpetuated by her niece Martha (daughter of Mrs. Stephen Keeler), who wedded (second wife) Hugh Knox,' father of John L. G. Knox, Esq., of Troy, N. Y., who married, first, Mary Mabbett Warren, of Troy, and sec- ond. Elizabeth C. Sigourney, of Hartford.

Samuel2nd. and Sarah (Betts) Keeler, father and mother of Matthew Keeler, ". were assigned the home-lot not distant from the Ridgefield premises of the late Abijah Res- sequie. The leaves were about to fall (Sept. 30, 1708,) when the Indian Catonah set his hand to the document which transferred his nature-beautiful "Candatowe" (Ridgefield) to the pale face, and the littering fragments had, it is probable, hardly dropped ere the now venerable " Ridgefield Street" was laid out on the protected eastern slope of the ancient highland mid-way between the Hudson and the Housatonic, the grand trees of which noble street were, in their prime, impervious, in a delightfully comfortable degree, almost to a ray of vertical sunlight.

Samuel Keeler emigrated from healthful Ridgefield and purchased the site (now North Wilton) in the near vicinity of his lineal descendant, the late LeGrand Keeler, and in 1896 the property of William Keeler, son of LeGrand. This North Wilton estate near " Bald Hill," is somewhat to the south of one of the most remarkable rock-wilds of Southwestern New England, which spot is a part of what was known to the Norwalk fa-

'Hugh Knox, a not-forgotten Norwalk gentleman of the olden school, was a son of Rev. Dr. Hugh Knox, of one of the West India Islands. He was born, one record says, Dec. 19, 1781, another Dec. 20, 1782. lle married, first, Henrietta, born June 24, 1784, the oldest child of Samuel and Sarah (Belden) Cannon) of Norwalk, and the sister of Esther Mary (Mrs. Moses Craft) and LeGrand Cannon ( the found- er of the Cannon family of Troy. N. Y.,), both of Troy. There was one son, the late John LeGrand Knox, by this union. The Norwalk residence of Hugh Knox was on the east side of Norwalk Green (Cowles place 1896) and when their son was seven years of age Mr. and Mrs. Knox were received (Aug. 29, 1810,) by Rev. Roswell Swan, as members of the First Congregational Church, which stood only a few rods from their house. The second Mrs. Hugh Knox was Martha, daughter of Stephen and Mar- garet (Pynchon) Keeler, by which union there were no children. Mr. Knox, after his removal from Nor- walk, took pleasure in returning to the town. Here a cordial welcome awaited the appreciative former resident, as did also every visit from his estimable sister-in-law, Mrs. Moses Craft. Mrs. Craft's broth- er, LeGrand Cannon, was so thoroughly business-ab- sorbed that Norwalk, in his later life, saw but little of him, but Samuel and Sarah Cannon's children could not fail to be remembered. Jno. L. G., son of

Hugh and Henrietta Knox, was a far and favorably known Trojan, and a Troy-visiting old Norwalker could count upon a warm greeting from him. He was born Nov. 15, 1803, and married, first, April 5, 1831, Mary Mabbett, oldest daughter of Stephen and Martha (Mabbett) Warren, of Troy. Mrs. Knox sur- vived her bridal a little less than eight months. Her husband married, second, Miss Elizabeth C. Sigour- nev, of Hartford, a lady of exceptionally fine sensi- bilities, and whose home was a culture-charming hearthstone. Because of her husband's Norwalk re- lations Mrs. Knox, as a widow, beautifully honored his memory, by occasional trips to this town, laying thereby, upon such as were privileged by her visits, a gratitude- debt. The daughter of John L. G. and Elizabeth C. Knox, Mary, of lovely girlhood Nor- walk recall, married Dudley, son of Hon. Geo. M. Tibbits, of Troy, and is survived by her husband and two children. Charles S., oldest son of John L. G. Knox, has long been the head-master of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. With him his brother James is now office-associate. Another brother of Charles S. and James, viz., John H., is of the Troy firm of Knox & Mead. The wife of John H. Knox is a great grand-daughter of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, who, in 1780, conducted Major John Andre to his Salem quarters, not a great distance from the ancient Nor- walk northern line.

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thers as " Mill Stone Hill" and is the site of granite conformations of surprising singu- larity and decidedly romantic environment. An ancient mill stone, cut at this quarry, stands to-day on the south side of the road leading from Bald Hill towards " Nod."

A THOMAS BETTS FIFTH AND SIXTH GENERATIONS.

.Azor Betts, M. D., born 1740, seventh child of Nathan (born Nov. 5, 1700,) and Mary (Belden) Betts, and named for his grandfather Azor Belden, married Glorianna Purdy, and was a New York physician of repute. His city residence embraced the vicin- ity of the present approach to the Brooklyn bridge, and he was professionally dis- tinguished. He was the son of Nathan, who was son of Samuel, who was son of Thomas Betts.^. His Belden great-grandmother, Margaret, born Oct. 6, 1683, was the daughter of Daniel Arms, of Deerfield, Mass., while his Belden great-grandfather, (William) who was twelve years his wife's senior, was of Foote and Deming blood. Dr. Azor and Glori- anna Betts had a large family, their children being Samuel; Elizabeth (Mrs. John W. Wright); Sarah (Mrs. Hoyt); Charlotte (Mrs. Phipps) ; Hiram, who married Elizabeth Craig ; Gabriel ; James O .; Bertha, who married, first, a Chute, and second, a Walker ; Lewis; Solomon ; a child born in 1790 and died in infancy; Fanny (Mrs. Haskell, and Jane. Dr. Azor Betts settled, during the Revolutionary War, in Nova Scotia, where he died in 1809. His son Hiram, who was a mere child when the parents left this country, was the grandfather of the present Hiram S. and Craven Betts, of New York city. Nathan Betts,''. father of Dr. Azor, was one of six children. Nathan's father, Samuel, (son of Thos."".) married at the age of thirty-two, and had a numerous descent.

The seventh child of Thomas"". and Mary Betts and probably the first Betts child born in Norwalk was named Samuel.". He married and had Samuel, 2d. born Oct. 28, 1695, who was twice married, and had a son David (see page 142), born April 4, 1730. David and Betty Betts, his wife, lived together until Nov. 1767. when Mr. Betts died. On Nov. 30, 1770, Rev. Isaac Lewis, of Wilton, married the widow of David Betts to Caleb Baldwin, Sr., of Newtown, Conn. These had a son, Caleb Baldwin, Jr. Mrs. (Betts; Baldwin, Sr., died in 1778. She left a son, Jared, (her oldest son) by her first hus- band. When Jared's mother married Mr. Baldwin she sold her Betts property, of the pro- ceeds of which sale her new husband took part possession. Jared was at that time under age, but when he had reached twenty-one he asked to have his share set over to him. Mr. Baldwin, his stepfather, declined his stepson's request, upon which in a moment of desperation possibly, the young man connected himself with Tryon's army, which was at that time moving upon Danbury. He stood in the streets of Danbury while the men fell around him and " the blood ran into his shoes." The patriots were so incensed at his course that he was compelled to quit the country. His mother not knowing whither he had flown, so sorely mourned for him and for his brother Nathan who was killed, as that sorrow eventually ended her days. When Jared had reached the age of seventy-five he

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wrote from Schenectady, N. Y., to Norwalk, inquiring as to his brother's children. The reply resulted in a visit of one of his Norwalk or Wilton nephews (David Betts') to him in Schenectady. He had been married and had one child, but both mother and child were dead, and the father (Jared) married, last (see page 142) the mother of Major-General John E. Wool, U. S. A., of Troy, N. Y.

THOMAS AND DEBORAHI BETTS LINEAGE.

Thomas2d. and Sarah (Marvin) Betts, son and daughter-in-law of Thos. Betts, Ist. had a grandson Thos. (son of Thos.3d. and Deborah Betts), who married May 22, 1748, Elizabeth Benedict. These last, Thos. and Elizabeth Betts, had two sons, Thos. and Hezekiah. Between the two brothers there was seven years age-difference. They were born in the house in lower France Street, which the existing Miss Juliette Betts home supplanted. Thomas, born March 14, 1753, married, March 19, 1782, Elizabeth Smith, of Smithtown, L. I., and had George W., born June 6, 1800, who married Julia, daugh- ter of Dr. William Miner, an old physician of East Broadway, New York City. Geo. W. Betts was a large Pearl Street, N. Y., carpet dealer. He purchased the Lewis Mallory estate on East Avenue, Norwalk, and in 1846 enlarged the same, founding a country home thereat. Here the family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Betts and their sons and daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. Jas. Selleck), Wm. M., Julia, Sarah (Mrs. Henry Banks), Geo .. Chas. and Hat- tie, enjoyed a delightful residence for several years. Mr. Betts was a man of fine presence and of liberal spirit and one who took an intelligent and active interest in Norwalk. Upon the completion of the building and furnishing of his handsome Norwalk home a brilliant function therein occurred on the evening of Jan. 3, 1848, the occasion being the wedding of his oldest daughter. The family has now entirely disappeared from Norwalk. The parents sleep within the town's confines, and the children are living elsewhere. Of the two sons William M. married into the Stamford Sanford family, George is connected with the Devoe Paint establishment of Fulton St., N. Y., and Charles lives in Evansville, Ind.

Hezekiah, second son of Thos. and Elizebeth Betts, was the Capt. Hezekiah Betts of Revolutionary fame. With his brother Thos. he was brought up on the Juliette Betts France Street premises of 1896. He married, Oct. 1, 1785, Grace, born Oct. 5, 1765, daughter of Hezekiah" t. and Deborah (Hoyt) Hanford. Hezekiah Hanford was son of Samuel who was son of Rev. Thomas Hanford. He inherited his father Samuel's home- stead, which was that of Rev. Thos., southwest corner East Avenue and Fort Point St. of 1896. He was a prominent Norwalker and served in Capt. Eliphalet Lockwood's com- pany of " Coast Guards " during the Revolutionary War. His wife was a daughter of Caleb (son of Zerubbabel, son of Walter, the settler,) Hoyt, to whom he was mar-

'This David Betts was the son of Abner Betts (baptized Aug. 21, 1763,) who was son of David Betts, born Sept. 20, 1730, who was son of David, Ist. who was son of Samuel, 2d. son of Samuel, ist. son of

Thos. and Mary Betts, the settlers. David, nephew i of Jared Betts, who married the Mrs. Wool, noted in ¡ the text, was father of the 1896 Mrs. Mary A. Betts Bristol, of New York City.

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ried Oct. 7, 1743. Hezekiah and Grace (Hanford) Betts had a large family of children, two of whom, Alfred and Xenophon, were clergymen. Henry, their third son, born Nov. 26, 1794, was of inventive genius and an excellent man. He' married second, Mary, daughter of Peter Ketchum. His wife, sister of Nancy (Mrs. Jas. S. Keeler, of Troy, N. Y.,), was of saintly-consecrate life and walk. The father of the two daughters, Nancy and Mary Ketchum, at one time lived on Handsome Ridge, near the Oblong, and was ac- customed to take the children by the hand and walk through the romantic " Luke woods" to visit their Hayes relatives, who resided where now stands St. John's Chapel, Lewisboro, N. Y The two daughters, before death, loyally indicated their mother's tomb in the old " Beck's Hill" cemetery in Lewisboro. She was a member of the widely-known Hayes family of Westchester County. Peter Ketchum afterward owned the present Eno acres in Saugatuck. Henry and Mary (Ketchum) Betts had one son, Edgar K., who mar- ried into the Gardiner family, of Renssalaer Co., N. Y., the Earle branch of which family has built the 1896 imposing crematory mausoleum in Oakwood cemetery, Troy, N. Y. Mr. Edgar K. Betts is a successful business man of Troy, N. Y., in which city he has im- portant connection with the Earle & Wilson Manufacturing Company. His father, Henry Betts, made and saw "ran" probably the first steam craft that ever plied the Norwalk waters. The children of Capt. Hezekiah Betts (see note page 139) have been valuable members of society and have left behind them serviceable Norwalk memories. Miss Harriet Scott, daughter of Richard and Mehitable Scott and grand-daughter of Heze- kiah and Grace Betts, maintains the old home to-day and represents the old-time family.

CHRISTOPHER COMSTOCK-THIRD OCCUPANT.

Sergeant Christopher Comstock. the third proprietor of Home-lot XIII, had regis- tration in Fairfield before he came to Norwalk. On Jan. 27. 1661, he bought the Thos. Betts property. Hither he brought his bride Hannah (daughter of Richard Platt">".), to whom he had been married on Oct. 6, 1663. The bride was baptized Oct. 1, 1643, and was a sister of Mary (Mrs. Luke Atkinson, of New Haven) and Sarah (Mrs. Thomas

illenry Betts married, first, in Northern Fairfield County, and had Amarylis (Mrs. Nathaniel Long), Courtland Palmer Swan, Julia S. ( Mrs. Jared Olm- stead), Mary E. (Mrs. Winchester) and Henry E. B. 2It is claimed that Christopher Comstock, of Norwalk, was the son of Frederic Komstohk, born at Frankfort, Germany, March 18, 1575, and who mar- ried, at Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1611, Mary Mc- Donald. These had, ir appears, five children, viz. : Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1612; Daniel, born Nov. 11, 1614: Christopher, born Oct. 21, 1618; John, born Mar. 25, 1625, and Catherine, born May 30, 1627. If this be correct. Mr. Comstock was about forty-five years old when he married Hannah Platt and was sixty-six at the birth of his youngest son Moses.

Christopher Comstock, of Fairfield, made, on May 29. 1654, affidavit, in New Haven, as to what good- wife Knapp said about "witches" in the "Thomas Staples versus Roger Ludlow" case.

It is further claimed that Mr. Comstock was born in about 1625, and that he was a Fairfield young Welshman and bachelor of three generations remove from Baron von Komstock. He owned a silver cup or goblet upon which the Comstock coat of arms was engraved. This piece fell to his descendants, by whom it was bequeathed to the Wilton Congrega- tional Church; by direction of the officers or mem- bers of which body it was finally melted up; and, in changed shape, exists now as a part of the Commun- ion service of said Church.

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Beach, first, and second, Mrs. Miles Merwin, an ancestress of the late S. Irenaus Prime). Mrs. Comstock's brother, John, had married, June 6, 1660, Hannah Clark, of Milford, and taken up his residence in Norwalk, and himself and wife founded the Platt family of this town. To Christopher and Hannah Comstock were born nine children, viz .: Daniel, July 21, 1664, who married, June 13, 1692, Elizabeth, born 1667. daughter of John and Judith (Turner) Wheeler, of Fairfield; Hannah, born July 15, 1666, who lived in Mil- ford; Abigail, born July 27, 1669, who died Feb. 9, 1687; Mary (Mrs. James St. John). born Feb. 19, 1671 ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Ebenezer St. John), born Oct. 7, 1674; Mercy (Mrs. Nathan Olmstead), born Nov. 12, 1676 ; Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1680; Nathan and Moses, the last of whom was born 1684. Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Christopher and Hannah Comstock, married the brothers, James and Ebenezer, sons of Matthias St. John,21. and grandsons of Matthias St. John, Sr., and settler. Mercy Comstock (daughter of Christopher) was the second wife of Nathan Olmstead. Her brother, Samuel, married Dec. 27, 1705, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford, and had Sarah, born Mar. 25, 1707, who married Daniel Betts, Jr., of Norwalk; Samuel, born Nov. 12, 1708; Mary (Mrs. John Trowbridge), born Aug. 5, 1710; Nathan, born 1713 ; Daniel; David, born 1720. Nathan and Moses Comstock were the two youngest sons of Christopher, Sr.

Of the daughters of Christopher Comstock, Sr., Hannah resided elsewhere than in Norwalk and Abigail died a young lady (Feb. 9, 1689). Mary married at the age of al- most twenty-three (Dec. 18, 1693) James, son of Matthias St. John,2d. and had five sons, James, Daniel, Samuel, Moses and Nehemiah St. John. Her sister Elizabeth married her husband's brother, Ebenezer, and had Daniel, Jacob, Ezra and Jemima who married Matthew Fitch. Mercy Comstock, next daughter of Christopher, Sr., married, as his sec- ond wife. Nathan, son of James and Phoebe (Barlow) Olmstead, and grandson of Richard Olmstead, the settler. It was Nathan and Mercy (Comstock) Olmstead's daughter, Mercy, who married Moses St. John, whose daughter, Mercy, married Capt. Jabez Gregory.

Samuel Comstock, "st. son of Christopher, Sr., and brother of the just mentioned sisters, married at the age of twenty-five (Dec. 27, 1705), Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford. His children were Sarah, born March 25, 1707 (Mrs. Daniel Betts, Jr .. ) Sam- uel,2d. born Nov. 12, 1708; Mary (Mrs. Daniel Trowbridge, of Danbury,) born Aug. 5, 1710; Nathan, born 1713; Lydia ; Daniel; David, born 1720.

Moses Comstock, born 1684-5, son of Christopher, Sr., and brother of Samuel, Int. married, Feb. 23, 1709-10, Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade, and grand-daughter of Daniel Kellogg, one of the Norwalk founders. His children were Sarah, Phoebe, Abigail, Hannah, Martha, Abijah, Moses, 2d. Dinah, Ruth. Of these daugh- ters Hannah married Phineas Hanford ; Martha married Ambrose Olmstead; Dinah mar- ried, second wife, Rev. John Eells, and Ruth married James Richards. The will of Moses ComstockIst was made January 24. 1754, and probated February 11, 1766. He died January 18, 1766.

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OF SAMUEL COMSTOCKIst. DESCENT.

Samuel Comstock, son of Christopher" and Hannah (Platt) Comstock, lived either upon or very near his father's home premises, and his father-in-law, Rev. Thos. Hanford, resided at the corner on the opposite side of the street. Here, in all probability, was born, in 1713, a son, Nathan, whose destiny it was to found a large Wilton home. On March 7th, 1739, the young Nathan married Bethia, born 1714, daughter of Benajah Strong, of Fairfield. Nathan and Bethia Comstock chose for a residence the high land in North Wilton over against the Oblong. Their son Major Samuel Comstock, born 1739-40, grew to marry Mercy Mead and became a soldier-acquaintance of Gen. Lafayette, while their daughter, Mehitable, married, Oct. 28, 1762, John, son of Elnathan and Sarah (St. John) Hanford, which John and Mehitable (Comstock) Hanford brought up a large family on the present Lewis C. Green premises on the Winnipauk road (see note page 98).

Major Samuel Comstock and his sister Mehitable had a brother, Benajah Strong, born 1755, who married July 22, 1773, Abigail, daughter of David and Mary (Slauson) Westcott. These had a son, Jabez Fitch, born Feb. 22, 1774, who was married, June 6, 1799, by the Rev. Hezekiah Ripley, to Amelia, daughter of Rev. George Ogilvie, rector 1790-96 of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, which Comstock-Ogilvie union introduces the ac- companying :

OGILVIE FAMILY HISTORY

Lancaster Symmes and Mary Lydias, of New York, were married Jan. 15, 1729, and had son Lancaster and daughters Elizabeth and Susanna Catherine. Elizabeth mar- ried Rev. Dr. Theodore F. Frelinghuysen, of Albany, and Susanna C. married, as his first wife, about 1756, Rev. Dr. John Ogilvie, of Trinity Parish, N. Y., and had George (Rev.) afterward of Norwalk. The first Mrs. Ogilvie died and her husband (Dr. John) married, second, April 15, 1769, Margaret Phillips, of " Phillips Patent," Duchess County, N. Y

Frederick Phillips, oldest son of Frederick and Johanna (Brockholes) Phillips, was the last Lord of the Manor of Phillipsburgh (opposite West Point). At the time of the Revolution he espoused the King's cause, and as a consequence the Phillipsburgh estate, east of the Hudson, was confiscated. Frederick, its former Lord, went to England. His brother, Phillip Phillips, became owner of a goodly portion of the Highland Patent, and having married Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel Marston, of New York, occupied this magnificent property. He died young, May 9, 1768, was buried in the Marston vault in Trinity Church-yard, N. Y., and his widow married within a year. Rev. John Ogilvie, D D., an incumbent, for a short time before the Revolutionary War, of St. Paul's Parish, Norwalk. Dr. Ogilvie died Nov. 26, 1774, but left no children by Margaret, his second wife. His widow repaired to the old Phillips estate and there ended her days on Feb. II. 1807 By her first husband. Phillip Phillips, she had a son, Nathaniel, born Aug. 5, 1756,

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graduate of King's College (now Columbia) of class of 1773, who became an officer in the British Army, and was killed when only 21 years old, at the Battle of Germantown. (See note page 136).

It was somewhat after this that Thomas Hoyt, of Norwalk, married into the family, and that his neighbors, Thomas and Amos Belden, became land stewards of the Phillips possessions. (See note page 96).

Mrs. Ogilvie tenanted upon the Phillips, N. Y., estate until her decease, her dwell- ing being not far from Constitution Island on the Hudson. The donation received just after the Revolutionary War by St. Paul's Parish from " Mrs. Ogilvie and Mr. Phillips " was from this source.

Mrs. Ogilvie visited her stepson, Rev. George Ogilvie, born 1758, son of Dr. John and Susanna C. Ogilvie, graduate of King's College, 1774, incumbent of St. Paul's Parish, Norwalk, from 1790 to 1796 and died April 3, 1797. He was twice married, and from his daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born July 30, 1779, by his wife, Amelia Willett, daughter of Dr. Cornelius Willett, Westchester Co., there is Norwalk descent. Elizabeth Ogilvie mar- ried, on Christmas eve, 1795, Thomas, son of Samuel Belden, of Wilton, and grandson of John and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, of Norwalk, and had George Ogilvie, born in the spring of (March 28) 1797.

George Ogilvie, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Belden, married July 19, 1821, Minerva Ann, only daughter of Elisha and Anna Heacock, of Washington, Litchfield County, Conn., and had Anne Eliza, born Oct. 17, 1822.

Anne Eliza, only daughter of Hon. George O. and Minerva Ann Belden, married in St. Michael's Church, Litchfield, June 27. 1842, Edwin Belden Webster, of Litchfield, and had George Ogilvie Webster, born July 29, 1843, U. S. A .; Edwin Belden Webster, born March 7, 1858, U. S. N.

The widow of Hon. George O. Belden died excellence-remembered in Norwalk, Sept. 9, 1874. Her daughter, the widow of Edwin Belden Webster, visited during his life time, her kinsman, the late Frederick Belden, of Norwalk, whose son, the late Webster Belden, took his first name from the Litchfield Webster family.

Edwin Belden Webster, son of Edwin and Anne Eliza Belden, and a paymaster in the United States Navy, was a Norwalk school youth.

Rev. Geo. Ogilvie's second daughter, Amelia, born Dec. 13, 1780, sister of Eliza- beth Ann, married, June 16, 1799, Jabez Fitch Comstock, son of Benajah Strong Com- stock, of North Wilton, and had John Ogilvie, born 1800; Elizabeth Ann; Samuel Wil- letts, born 1805, a New York merchant (Howland, Aspinwall & Co.); Mary; George Christopher ; Amelia Susan ; Alexander Adams; Martha Maria ; William Ogilvie; Wal- ter Bradley ; Sarah, Margaret and Cornelius.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 35

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