Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 37

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

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The slave, Onesimus, before mentioned, was a character in his way. Older Norwalkers still remem- ber him as seated upon one of the Comstock Hill horses, he rode, the attendant of Miss Phoebe, to and from Norwalk. "O'ne" was a Long Islander, born

before the Revolution. He was Norwalk-purchased by Sarah and Phoebe Comstock, the aunts of " Miss Phobe." The lad's original bill of sale, of which a copy is here presented, is in the possession of Hon. A. H. Byington, of Norwalk. "O'ne " is said to have been the last slave owned in Connecticut.

. Norwalk, Auggust the Ninth Day, in the Year, 1773.

" Know all men to whom these presents shall come that I, Jonathan Husted, of Brookhaven on Long Island, for the consideration of thirty-nine pounds, New York money, received to my full satis- faction of Sary Comstock and Phebe Comstock, I do bargain, sell and convey unto the above named Sary Comstock and Phebe Comstock, of Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield, one certain negro boy aged nine years the first day of November last named Onesi- mus, which I, the said Jonathan Husted, do sell for a slave for the term of his life which I do bind myself and my heirs and assigns to warrant secure and de- fend against all claims and demands whatever.

" In witness whereof, I have herein set my hand and seal, the day and date above said.

" JONATHAN HIUSTED."

"Signed and delivered in presence of

" JOHN MARVIN, MOSES COMSTOCK."

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Hooker.' Mrs. Nathan Hooker Selleck died Oct. 5, 1709, leaving a daughter, Susannah, who married Joseph St. John, the father of Hooker, William and Buckingham St. John, of Norwalk. Nathan Selleck married, (see note page 126) second, Dec. 1710, Mary Sands, of Jamaica, L. I., who died July 15, 1712. He married, third, Jan. 1, 1713, Sarah Sands, cousin of his second wife, and had Nathan, born Sept. 15, 1726, who married, Sept. 17. 1745, Katherine, daughter of John Clock, of Stamford, who had Phoebe, who married, Feb. 1, 1776, as his second wife, Thos., son of Abijah, and Deborah Comstock, of New Canaan. Thomas2 and Phoebe lived in the Wardwell house in Silvermine, which house three years after their marriage was crowded, at the time of Tryon's incendiarism, with Norwalk refugees. Their son, Nathan Selleck Comstock, married Betty, daughter of Ezra Sey- mour,3 of White Oak Shade, and had Seymour, born 1804, who married Matilda, daugh-

'William Hooker was the third son of Rev. Sam- uel and Mary (Willetts) Hooker, of Farmington, Conn. His father was a son of Rev. Thomas Hook- er, founder of Hartford, and his mother was a daugh- ter of Capt. Thos. Willetts, of Plymouth, Mass., and the first Mayor of New York City. Hle was a broth- er of Mrs. Rev. Stephen Buckingham of Norwalk.

2On the afternoon before Norwalk was burned Thomas Comstock, born Jan. 26, 1747, was dwelling in peaceful security in the house now standing in Sil- vermine, west side of the road and second house above the "Crofoot corner" (See note page 115). The alarmed Norwalkers, however, soon put in an appearance, as hastening out of the doomed town they sought shelter in the suburbs. Mr. Comstock opened wide his doors to receive them and the refu- gees were made welcome. The times were stringent and it was difficult, at that date, to money-pay Mr. Comstock for the unexpected expense he had in- curred. Two well-known benefitted Norwalk men, Simeon Raymond and Goold Hoyt, who themselves had suffered by the foreign incendiaries, generously proposed to surrender to Mr. Comstock any damage- claims which might ultimately stand in their favor. These claims were afterward satisfied by the Ohio " Firelands," apportionment, and as Messrs. Ray- mond and Host's shares were put to Mr. Comstock's credit, the latter became proprietor of a Western estate. Time rolled along and it was not until 1806 that Mr. Comstock's son, Nathan S., determined, with some others, to journey to Ohio and look up land matters. The companions reached their des- tination, but the land was unmarked, and local infor- mation could not easily be obtained and the com- pany returned from a bootless errand. Three years passed and Nathan S. Comstock, hoping for better things, arranged for a second investigation trip. He now took with him Darius Ferris, of Ferris Hill, not a half mile north of the Thos. Comstock place, and Elijah Hoyt. There is a record that the three men took a span of horses which, attached to a wagon,

drew the necessary implements for clearing up wild lands. After a long and wearisome journey they finally reached the mouth of Huron River, where they found a Moravian Mission house for the In- dians. The Norwalkers were hospitably greeted and offered the use of the Mission quarters until they could complete a lodge further inland for their pro- tection. The trio of men set themselves to work and it was not long before they asked the few white men in that part of the country to assist them in raising and putting up the new building, which was the very first house erected in the present township of Nor- walk, Ohio, and which was built and owned by Na- than Selleck Comstock, grandfather of Stephen Com- stock, of Morgan Avenue (1896), of Norwalk. The next year, Abijah, brother of Nathan S. Comstock, removed from this town to Ohio, and was the second settler of our namesake town in that Western State. He there remained and lived until 1857.

3The Seymour (Ezra) into whose family Nathan S. Comstock married, lived on the property now oc- cupied by Selleck Y. St. John, on the Stamford road, New Canaan. Ezra Seymour's children were Ezra, 2d. Holly, Henry, Betty (Mrs. Nathan S. Comstock), Abigail, Nancy, Hannah, Rebecca, Lavinia, Sybil.

Ezrazd. was a farmer, who beyond carrying his produce to market, seldom left home. He was once in Silvermine, at a sister's funeral, but was never probably east of said locality, and he had been west as far as North Stamford and north as far as Ridge- field. He was unmarried, lived in primitive simplic- ity with his sister, Abigail, and gave his goods to St. Mark's Church, New Canaan. His sister, Betty, Mrs. Nathan S. Comstock, had a daughter, Betty, (sister of Seymour Comstock) born 1812, and baptized in Silvermine on the day of her mother's funeral and within a week of her father's decease, who married March 18, 1833, David S., son of Thomas H. Rock- well, of Ridgefield (See note page 114).

David S. Rockwell purchased the Davenport School property on Church Hill, New Canaan, (see

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ter of Thaddeus and Rebecca (Lockwood) Hoyt, of White Oak Shade, and had Albert S., Stephen and William. Seymour Comstock married, second, Mary, widow of Benjamin Rogers, and was the step-father of H. B. Rogers, of New Canaan, who married for his second wife Edna, daughter of Edwin Hoyt, of New Canaan.

OF COMSTOCK DESCENT.

Gen. I .- CHRISTOPHER AND HANNAH (PLATT) COMSTOCK.

.. II .- MOSES AND ABIGAIL (BRINSMADE) COMSTOCK.

" III .- PHINEAS AND HANNAH (COMSTOCK) HANFORD.

" IV .- STEPHEN AND PHOEBE (FITCH) HANFORD.

" V .- DAVID AND MARGARET (BAILEY) HANFORD.

VI .- CHARLES AND CAROLINE (HANFORD) YOUNG.

Charles and Caroline Young, who were married Sept. 6, 1836, were the parents of Mary, who married Judge Henry W. Bookstaver, of the Supreme Court, of New York (1896). Mrs. Judge Bookstaver had three children, Carmi and Harry, who died young, and Mary A. Margaret (Mrs. Rev. John Turner) and Helen (Mrs. E. Starr Lloyd), were Mrs. Bookstaver's sisters, and cousins of Thos. Cook Hanford of page 146. Phineas Hanford of Gen. III above, was the son of Eleazer and Hannah (Frisby) Hanford, which Eleazer was the son of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Ince) Hanford. Phineas Hanford's home was on Chestnut Hill. His son, Stephen, was a grandson of Abigail Brinsmade (Mrs. Moses Comstock), daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade, and grand- daughter of Daniel Kellogg, the Norwalk settler of that name, and probably the largest man among the pioneers. He was seven feet in height and of proportionate dimensions otherwise. Stephen Hanford's grandmother, Abigail, was a sister of Lieut. Daniel Brins- made. of Stratford, whose son was the Rev. Daniel Brinsmade, of Washington, Conn. Mrs. Stephen Hanford, born Sept. 5, 1733, was Phoebe, daughter of Elijah and Phoebe (Smith) Fitch and grand-daughter of James and Mary (Haynes) Fitch. Her Smith grand- father was Robert, who married Judith Fountain, of Greenwich (see note page 186), who

note page 114) and for 28 years maintained at that point a successtul boarding school for boys. He dis- posed of the property to the Rev. Mr. Gilder, who conducted a school to which both sexes were admit- ted. During Mr. Gilder's incumbency the property was a short time occupied for school purposes by John Osborn, afterwards principal of a like institu- tion on Strawberry Hill, Norwalk. After Mr. Os- born's tenantey Mr. Gilder returned to the property and retained it until his disposition of it to Dr. Wil- lard Parker, of New York City. The elevation at the lower end of Haynes Ridge was considered one of the most desirable spots in early Norwalk. It was selected by the first New Canaan settlers for an ecclesiastical and academic site. The town academy

that anciently stood near the present H. B. Rogers premises was afterward removed, and planted near the present entrance to the senior Parker grounds.

Nathan Selleck Comstock married, second, Su- sannah, born September 17, 1780, daughter of Mich- ael Lockwood, ist. and aunt of Carmi Lockwood, of Norwalk. They had a son Ralph, who removed to California, where he died in 1893. He married, third, Esther, daughter of Samuel and grand-daughter of John Rusco, who lived west of Bald Hill, near lands now flooded by water of the new Norwalk reservoir. Hlad one child named Matilda, who married Roswell A. Raymond, of Norwalk, who had George, who married Julia, daughter of Thos. Mead, of the town of New Canaan.

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made considerable land-purchase in Norwalk. Robert Smith,' who took Miss Judith Fountain to wife, was the son of Ebenezer Smith, of Jamaica, L. I. His Norwalk broth- ers and sisters were John, who married Magdaline Fountain (sister of Robert's wife), Sam- uel, Abraham and Mary (Mrs. John Gregory).

The Comstock-Sands blood is from Capt. James Sands, a native of Berkshire, England, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1658, and purchased Block Island in 1660. His daughter, Mary, was wife of Hon. John Thos., first Judge of Westchester Co., whose grand- son, Samuel, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Pell, Lord of the Manor of Pelham, in Westchester Co., which Samuel was brother of the grandmother of Mrs. Thos. Comstock, of Silvermine. (See Bolton.)

1Robert, son of Ebenezer Smith, of Jamaica, L. I., appears (per document) first in Norwalk on May 2, 1729. On that date Rev. Moses Dickinson sold to him for £395 consideration, his home-lot of 4 acres, with dwelling house and barn thereon standing, and situated in that part of the present Earle property near to the Earle dwelling. His acreage extended from the town street west to Norwalk Creek, and be- tween it and Oyster Shell Point lane on the north lay the home-lot of Caleb Hoyt.

On April 10, 1730, Robert Smith" sold the rear of this property ( reserving about one acre in front where his house and barn stood) to Joseph St. John, whose father's home adjoined that of Robert Smith's on the south. The young St. John paid Smith £12612 for the same.

On June 15, 1732, Robert Smith sold all that he still owned of the above mentioned property to his brother Abraham for £250.

The above transactions all took place after Rob- ert Smith's marriage, on March 11, 1724, to Judith, daughter of James Fountain, of Greenwich, the child- ren of which Robert and Judith were :

FOUNTAIN, born Mar. 2, 1725.

JAMES, born Nov. 14, 1726. ROBERT. 2d. JUDITH, born Aug. 21, 1728; mar. Chas. Pope. PHOEBE, born Sept. 21, 1730, died young.

PHŒBE, born Dec. 20, 1731; married, Oct. 25, 1752, Elijah, son of Jas. Fitch.

ABRAHAM, born May 17, 1734.

Fountain, the oldest son of Robert Smith, lived directly across the common from his father's, and immediately south of his great-grandson, the present Edmund Smith's home. Emerging from his house to learn the reason of the outcry on the morning of Tryon's invasion, he was taken by the British, put in temporary custody and sent to New York, where he died. Ilis wife was afterward cared for by her son Hutton, at his home which he built on Strawberry Hill, the residence, in 1896, of Mrs. Albert Ilyatt. The old lady's aversion ever afterwards to the King's American friends may have been a mute, nevertheless was it a marked dislike. It was the custom at that time for the "master" to board around, and as the Norwalk School was for a season headed by a " tory " teacher, the patriotic woman would quit the family table whenever said personage appeared at it. The children of Fountain and Hannah Smith (page 186) were :

SAMUEL; removed to Saratoga Co., N. Y .; no Norwalk record.

DANIEL; married had a family ; lived in Bal -. ton. MYER (perhaps Jeremiah) ; went West. WILLIAM ; went West.

JAMES ;

EBENEZER ; removed to Ridgefield.

HANNAH; married a Darrow, of Balston, N. Y HerTON, married Phoebe Hyatt.

James Smith, son of Fountain, married, Sept. 14, 1780, Hannah, daughter of John Lockwood.+ Hle lived in the old Hendricks house in Oyster Shell Point lane, and had James, born July 5, 1785, and John L., born Nov. Nov. 5, 1787.

*John Smith, brother of Robert, married Magdaline, young- est daughter of James Fountain, of Greenwich, and sister of Robert Smith's wife. Judith and Magdaline Fountain, two future Norwalk mothers, lost their father when very young. The Probate Court, consequently, on Jan. S. 1710, appointed Anthony Nougier, one of the " bankers" of Fairfield County, guardian for Judith, and Alexander Resseguie, for Magdaline.

+John,ist. born Feb. 8, 1719-20, son of Col. James and Lydia (Smith) Lockwood, owned the East Avenue (1896) level of which the residence of the late Joseph W. Hubbell formed the northern limit, and he also held the summit of " Dry Hill " ( Newtown Turnpike ), which wa- afterward known as the Thatcher place. Hle had eight children: John, Matthew, Phin- eas, Seth, Polly ( Mrs. Daniel Hyatt ), Betty, Hannah, Jesse and Sarah ( Mr-, Peter Buckout ). As Mr. Lockwood, one year be- fore he died ( 1758), gave to Sarah all of his deceased son Jesse's

portion, said Jesse having died in New York " without wife or children," it is inferred that these two were the only children by a last marriage. Seth, the fourth son, removed to Goshen, Conn., and to him fell the Dry Hill ( Thatcher ) property. John, the oldest son, married Abigail, daughter of Reuben and Eunice Taylor, and had: John, Reuben, Daniel, Peter, Abigail and Rhoda ( Mr -. Ebenezer Thorp. Jr .. ). Phineas married & Smith, and was the father of Philip Lockwood, born 1766, wbo mar- ried a Snell, 1700, and had Ann, born March 31, 1701, who mar- ried Capt. John Barry, and had Catherine Ann, born Feb. 16, 150), who married James Wilcox and had Marie Louise, who married Curtis Thompson, of the 1896 Bridgeport law firm of Thompson, Wakeman & Thompson. Hannah, daughter of John Lockwood, ist. married James Smith, grandfather of the present Edmund Smith ( son of Jno. L. Smith), of East Norwalk, which Edmund occupies hi- father's premises.

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OF COMSTOCK-BETTS BLOOD.

James St. John,2d. son of Matthias, 2d. and grandson of Matthias St. John, "" mar- ried, Dec. 18, 1693, Mary, daughter of Christopher and Hannah Comstock. These had a daughter, Hannah, named for her Comstock grandmother, who married a Mead, and had Thaddeus, who married, July 27th, 1748, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Betts,2d. (son of Samuel"". and grandson of ThomasIst. and Mary Betts). Thaddeus and Rebecca Mead had several children, among whom were Rebecca (Mrs. Phineas Keeler); Sabra (Mrs. David DeForest); Phoebe and Jasper. Jasper married, April 8, 1779, Elizabeth Bene- dict. He is reputed to have been one of the original members of the Connecticut Cincin- nati, and to have had a son, Thaddeus, born March 16, 1781, who married Electa,' daugh- ter of Nathan and Mary (Smith) Dauchy, of Ridgefield, to whom was born, June 21, 1813, Mary Elizabeth, who married the widely-known Dean Richmond, of New York State, formerly President of the New York Central Railroad. When Jasper Mead was a young man he parted with a handsome Saratoga County, N. Y., property, and had made over to him several Norwalk pieces of real estate. His father belonged in Norwalk, but he resided in Ridgefield, and the family had an interest in the ancient and modern extensive forest tract which lays immediately west of the 1896 " Cannons" Station of the Danbury division of the Consolidated road, and is known as " Rock House Woods." Here, as long ago as the days of Gov. Thomas Fitch was built, in the wild solitude, a habitation, probably a woodman's shelter.

Rebecca, sister of Joseph Mead, married, July 9, 1775, as his second wife, Phin- eas, son of Luke Keeler. Mr. Keeler had first married, May 16, 1769, Mary Camp, of the Milford-Norwalk branch. There were two children by this union, Luke and Anna. Luke, born Feb. 15. 1770, married May 20, 1793, Jemima, born Aug. 29, 1774, daughter of Stephen, son of Samuel Benedict, and was the Ohio Keeler emigrant, who like the Sherman's, left for the West in a "prairie schooner," and was one of the founders of Nor- walk. Ohio. By the Mead union there were two Keeler children, Phoebe Baxter and

Samuel, born July 1, 1769, brother of Electa (Dauchy) Mead, married, Dec. 6, 1789, Mary, daugh- ter of Col. Philip Burr Bradley, whose Ridgefield home was the site of the present Bigelow residence in that town. To Samuel and Mary (Bradley) Dau- chy was born July 11, 1800, Samuel, 2d. who married in 1822, Clarissa Kellogg, of Galway, N. Y. Mr. Dauchy died June 12, 1859, and his widow married Capt. L. II. Tupper, of Troy, N. Y., and a Hudson River steam commander not unknown in Norwalk. Nathan, born May 16, 1773, another brother of Mrs. Thaddeus Mead (Electa Dauchy), married, Nov. 13, 1794, Ruth, another daughter of Col. Philip B. Brad- ley, of Ridgefield, and had Chas, born June 21, 1805, who married Oct. 30, 1833, Hannah Maria, daughter

of John Waterbury, of Darien, Conn. Chas. Dauchy and his brother George were well known merchants and citizens of Troy, N. Y Nathan, the oldest son of Charles and Hannah Maria Dauchy, resides at the present time in Darien. George, brother of Charles Dauchy, married Debby Ann. daughter of Lewis Richards, of Troy, N. Y., and had Ruth, who married Edward C. Pattison, of commercial and social standing in Troy, and her brother Henry B., who married Cordelia, daughter of the late S. R. P. and Mary Frances ( Keeler ) Camp, of Norwalk. Mary (Richards), sister of Mrs. Geo. Dauchy, mar- ried Edward Hill, formerly of the Fairfield County Bank, Norwalk. Louis R., son of Edward and Mary Hill, was a Norwalk school boy.

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Thaddeus M. Sabra, another sister of Joseph Mead, married, as before stated, David De- Forest.' Polly Dauchy, sister of Electa (Mrs. Thaddeus Mead), married Gould, son of Lieut. James Rockwell, of Ridgefield, and was the mother of the late venerable Gould Rockwell, of Ridgefield. Nathan Dauchy, the father of Electa and Polly, was the son of Vivas Dauchy, the Ridgefield Huguenot settler of that name. Said Vivas emigrated from New Rochelle to Ridgefield and married, first, Rachel, daughter of James and Mary (Hyatt) Wallace, of North Salem, N. Y. The Wallaces2 were originally from Norwalk, and the ancestors of the present Mrs. Josiah R. Marvin, of East Norwalk.

HOME-LOT XIP NATHANIEL RICHARDS.

This home-lot father was forty-eight years old when he was, in 1652, assigned a Norwalk home-lot. He had twenty years before landed, (Sept. 16, 1632) with his first wife in Boston. He came, well accredited, to the colony and selected for his first home- seat the present site of Harvard College, at Cambridge.3 When Thomas Hooker, in 1632. made his wilderness-pilgrimage to Hartford Mr. Richards helped make up the party and was elected " orderer," or selectman, of that new town. He came with the pioneers to Norwalk and felled the trees and drained the land pertaining to his set-off acres fronting to-day the meadows of Oscar Raymond. Mr. Richards married, second, March 15, 1663, Rosamond, the widow of Deacon Henry Lindall, + of New Haven. and was consequently

'The Norwalk DeForest family originated in Stratford. The line, which has its proper place in Norwalk history, is genealogically an important one, and includes the story of the Bridgeport and New York City DeForests.

zjames Wallace, as the tradition runs, was sailing | through Long Island Sound and because, perhaps of the weariness of the trip or of his love of adventure, left the vessel as it passed the Norwalk Islands and was landed upon the Norwalk coast. Ile here formed the acquaintance of Mary, daughter of Thos, Ist. and Mary (St. John) Hyatt, and was married to her. Mrs. Mary Hyatt was a daughter of Matthias St. John, son of Matthias, ist. so that the young stranger must have been well thought of. James and Mary Wallace had a daughter, Rachel, born 1711, who married Vivas Dauchy, of Ridgefield.

3He was so strongly endorsed that " probation " trial was dispensed with in his case and he was al- lowed to take the " Freeman's oath " shortly (twenty days) after his arrival. Ile built his house in Cam- bridge and there was neighbor to Rev. Thos. Hooker and Gov. John Haynes. He seems to have come to Norwalk before he was formally dismissed (Oct. 11. 1658,) from his last residence, Hartford. There is no American record of his children.

+Henry Lindall, who belonged to the rich New Haven Colony and was a deacon in the first Church of that Colony, left, at his decease in New Haven, a widow and four children, every one of which surviv- ors married in Norwalk. The mother accepted the proffer of Nathaniel Richards, and her daughter, Re- becca, wedded the young John, son of Thos. Fitch, Ist. the so considered, opulent Fitch founder of Nor- walk. Jno. and Rebecca had a son, Nathaniel, named most probably, for his step-grandfather Richards. The young Nathaniel Fitch and his wife, Anna, had a son whom they named Lindall (after the lad's Lindall grandmother). Lindall grew to propose wedlock to Mary, daughter of John Bartlett, and grand-daughter of Wm. Haynes, and a daughter, Elizabeth, blessed this blood union of five well-known N. E. familie -. At the age of about sixteen Elizabeth Fitch (step- niece of Mrs. John Belden,3d. of Norwalk) married a New Canaan man of twenty-two years, Justus, son of Zerubbabel and Dorothy Hoyt, and the father of the to-day recalled New Canaan " Miller Hoyt." whose quaint establishment utilized the Five Mile River water at a point a little southeast of the present New C'anaan business center.

Justus Hoyt and his Elizabeth Fitch wife chose for a family seat the level since known as the Benj.

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step-father to her four daughters (see page 121) who married in Norwalk. He died in 1681, and having mentioned his step-children in his will, he made bequeathments to Samuel Hayes and to " Rebecc Garcet now Rebecca Weller." He also left the sum of £10 to his minister, Rev. Thos. Hanford.

Nathaniel Richards was one of the early Norwalk millers, as per foot note on page 35, and was also active in the interests of the town.

The Norwalk Richards' are the descendants of Samuel (no relative it is probable of Nathaniel) Richards, who married, first, March 4, 1714, Elizabeth, born 1692, daughter of John Latham, of Norwalk; and, second, the widow Abigail Peck. The first Mrs. Samuel Richards died in 1751. Samuel and Elizabeth Richards had ten children.

HOME-LOT XV RICHARD OLMSTEAD.

Richard Olmsted,' proprietor of home-lot xv, was one of the most honored and honorable of the Norwalk settlers, and in this town's records his name date-leads all others. He was the new settlement's surveyor and was probably more practically versed with the topography of the plantation than any other member of the Norwalk company. His first bit of work would appear to have been the layout of the " Towne Street," which extended, originally, from Beacham's lane to the crest of Goodman Hoyt's Hill; from the south end, that is, of the East Norwalk Cemetery of 1896 to the highest point of the "Earle's Hill" of the same year. Along this straight and, for the greater part, level, street, every one of the resident-named " Ludlow agreement " planters built. Their con- tiguous homes were of simple construction but their Olmsted, Marvin, Fitch, St. John and other tenants were solid people. Mr. Olmsted's domicile stood nearly midway (south of

Høyt hearthstone, on the east side of the street as one approaches the present " New Canaan hotel." A large family was here reared, one member of which, Justus, ed. has been referred to. Another child, Steph- en, (Capt. ) who was born near "Trayning-day," 1770, and was baptized on the eve of his "eighth day " of age, married, at twenty-four, Polly, daughter of Dea- con John and Hannah (Benedict) Carter, and a niece of the proprietor (Abijah Comstock) of the many Oblong-adjoining acres, now known as the Samuel Comstock New Canaan tarm. Captain Stephen and Polly (Carter) Hoyt, had a daughter, Polly, who mar- ried Bradley Keeler, whose carriage establishment afterward adjoined, or nearly so, his wife's grand- father . home.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 37

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