Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 38

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

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Between the Bouton Hoyt New Canaan grist mill and that of Justus Hoyt stood the Col. Wm. Watson mill, afterward Young's axe mill. These milling in- dustries were planted on Five Mile River, the waters

of which small stream, from its rise in Vista to its mouth at the Rowayton of 1896, were at several points mill-used. Mrs. Col. Watson and Mr. Young were both drowned near the site of the Watson mill. I Upon the list "of all persons holding land in Hartford, in Feb., 1639," occur the names of James, Nicholas, John and Richard Olmsted. James is sup- posed to have been the father of Nicholas and the uncle of John and Richard. John and Richard's uncle, in whose company they came, it is believed, to America left them, at his decease, a small legacy. Richard was one of the petitioners in 1650, for the planting of Norwalk, and he is the third one men- tioned in the governor and company's patent to the Norwalk proprietors, upon the extant records of which proprietors, volume one, page one, line one, his name appcars. Four acres and one rocd were apportioned to him for a home-lot, which lay on the east side of the Town Street, not far from the

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Rider home of 1896) between the street's extremes. Richard Olmsted was forty-two years old when he arrived from Hartford, in Norwalk, with his two sons, James and John, the second of whom was an infant under, it is to be presumed, two years of age. The father had been twice married (see his will, made Sept. 5, 1684). His Norwich brother, John, was married but left no issue. John Olmsted, of Norwich, died before 1679. His wife (see Caulkins) eventually bequeathed a right in "two thousand Norwich acres to her late husband's near kinsmen, Lieut. James and Ensign John Olmsted, of Norwalk." The supposition of an Olmsted-Marvin affinity receives strength from a devisement in Richard Olmsted's will to Samuel Smith of "ye bed, etc., of my last wives," said Smith having married a daughter of Matthew Marvin.Ist. Both sons of Richard Olmsted were, it is probable, quite young when the family came to Norwalk. James, the older of the two, married, May 1, 1673, Phoebe, daughter of Thos. Barlow, of Fairfield, and had James, Joseph, Nathan, Samuel and John. Ensign John (brother of James), who was baptized Dec. 30, 1649, married July 17, 1673, Mary, daughter of Thomas'st. and Mary Benedict, by whom he had his children, Mary, Sarah (Mrs. Jonathan Abbott), Rebecca (Mrs. Samuel St. John), Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Whitney), Daniel, Jane (Mrs. Benj. Wilson), Richard, Eunice, Deborah, Abigail, Anna and John.

Mary, the oldest child of Lieut. John and Mary (Benedict) Olmsted, was prob- ably born in the meadow home, neighbor-site of the recently improved Oscar Raymond East Avenue house.' She was a sister-in-law of such early known Norwalk personages as Samuel St. John and Henry Whitney, and married in the spring (May 9) of 1694. Thomas, son of JohnIst. and Ann (Mrs. Ann Derby) Reed, of " Reed's Farm," Norwalk. Mary's

(1896) East Norwalk Rider home. His neighbor to the south was Nathaniel Ely, and to the north Thom- as Hale. In his rear lay the common land, and he fronted the Town Street. On the opposite side of the street tenanted Matthew Marvin, Sr., and Thom- as Fitch, Sr., so that the three homes of, respectively, Norwalk's maiden Justice, Commissioner and Re- corder lay in close proximity. Richard Olmsted was a public official, and was Norwalk's first Clerk. He died, it is probable, in the autumn of 1686, having been twice married, and having survived both wives and one daughter, and leaving behind two children, both by his first wife, viz .: Sergeant James and Lieut. John Olmsted, from whom the Norwalk Olm- sted's have descended. James was his older son, but he gave his home-lot to John. On February 1, 1715, eleven-thirteenths of this homestead, which had been in the possession of the father and son " for upwards of fifty years," was sold to Thos. Fitch,3d. the father of the Governor, whose home adjoined the Olmsted's on the north, occupying about the site of Oscar Ray- mond's property to-day. This same "eleven-thir- teenths" Olmsted homestead, plus enough Fitch land to make out six acres, was the legacy on Jan. 6, 1729, of Thos. Fitch3d. to his son, Samuel, the brother of

the Governor, which estate was the cradle of, among other children, Elizabeth Fitch, the mother of Moses Fitch, Nehemiah and Henry Rogers.

'The rear of this house was, it seems, the dwell- ing place of Haynes, son of James and Mary (Buck- ingham-Haynes) Fitch. Mr. Raymond has plaster- covered the ancient visibly-protruding posts and joists, but the structure, notwithstanding the recent veranda-addition, preserves its antique look. The place fell, afterwards, to Jonathan (son of Daniel) Fitch, who there took his wife, Sarah, daughter of James Cannon. Mrs. Jonathan Fitch long survived her husband and was, in her age, the tender care of her daughter, Mrs. Stephen Raymond. The devo- tion of this daughter and her sister, Rebecca, Mrs. James Mallory, to their mother was remarkable and beautiful. Mrs. Mallory was married in the north parlor of this house and removed to her new home on Mill Hill, but her carriage stood, almost daily, be- fore her honored parent's door. This parent passed a serene age and was at last gently gathered to her Cannon fathers. Her grand-daughter, Mrs. Oscar Raymond, has some handsome Cannon china and glassware in her possession. The house is now one of Norwalk's older dwellings.

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married home lay some three or four miles southwest of her father's " Town Street " domi- cile, and nigh to the ". Rowalton" waters. Her husband's family came thither from West- chester County, having previously been English Cromwell-loyalists. Thomas and May Reed had just established themselves at the " Farms" when a new groom and bride, John and Elizabeth Boult, there founded a home. The Reeds and Boults had been fellow- Cromwellians, from the latter of whom have descended the family of the Ohio banker, Jay O. Moss, and a younger branch of the Jay Cooke, Philadelphia, banking firm.

To Thomas and Mary (Olmsted) Reed was born, Aug. 7, 1701, a son, John, who was the father of Ann, who married, Dec. 7, 1738, Eliakim, born, July 8, 1717. son of Ed- mond and Elizabeth (Bouton) Waring or Warren, from which union sprang the here fol- lowing :

REED.OLMSTED-ELIAKIM WARREN LINEAGE.

On the last day of the winter of 1706-7 the convened early Norwalkers (see page 30) constituted Joseph St. John and Samuel Keeler a committee to care for East Sauga- tuck lands. On this same date a new purchaser appeared and bargained with the father of Gov. Thos. Fitch for a tract as centre-remote perhaps as Saugatuck, but which formed a portion of the eligible height once ruled by the Sachem Runckingheage, and since known by the name of " Roton Hill." This stranger-investor, Edmond Waring or Warren, Sr., hailed from Queen's Village, L. I., but was not totally unknown in Norwalk. He had fre- quently, it is possible, sailed to this town from his own island home (on the Sound almost opposite Norwalk) as eight years before he had married, a Norwalk youth of nineteen. Elizabeth, daughter of John Bouton, and taken her to Queen's Village, where he founded a large family, the members of which came, afterward, to be well versed with Norwalk. His children, who were mostly born on Long Island, were :

Edmond, Jr., born Sept. 16, 1700. Isaac, born Jan. 13. 1702. John, born Dec. 21, 1704. Solomon, born Apr. 24. 1707.

Mary, born Dec. 22. 1708. (Mrs. Henry Henman. ) Nathan, born Feb. 6. 1710-11.

'Abigail Warren (Mrs. Samuel Richards, Jr.,) was seven years the junior of her husband. She died July 23, 1784, having had two sons, Samuel and Isaac, and two daughters, Esther and Elizabeth. Her youngest son and child, Isaac, born Sept. 15, 1759, married Hannah Benedict (see note page 123.) Isaac and Hannah Richards made eligible purchase and founded one of the most peaceful of homes a little to the west of lower Smith's Ridge. The old house- frame i- almost fallen to pieces but children's child-

Jacob, born Jan. 15, 1712-13. Michael, born July 16, 1715. Eliakim, Ist. born July 8, 1717. Elizabeth, born March 8, 1719-20. (Mrs. Edward Nash.) AAbigail, born Apr. 19, 1723. (Mrs. Samuel Richards, Jr.)' Hannah, b. in Norwalk, Sept. 7. 1725. (Mrs. James Richards. )- ren have cause to revere its worthy story. Edmond Warren, Sr., was not in the flesh when his grandson, Isaac Richards, planted the hearthstone, near the an- cient Pequot wild, and which to-day is almost a ruin, but to the widely sprinkled Warren-Bouton blood of 1896, the spot is a family shrine. The title to-day to the Isaac Richards acres is in Mr. Richard's great grandson's (Dr. Samuel St. John2d.) name.

"This youngest daughter of Edmond Warren, Sr., married a brother of her sister Abigail's hus-

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Eliakim,Ist. ninth child of Edmond and Elizabeth Warren, was but a youth when the family removed to Norwalk. Hard by his father's house lay the Reed family seat, the founder of which was Jno. Reed, Sr., whose grandson. Jno. (son of Thos.), had a daughter, Anne, who, on Dec. 7, 1738, was married to Eliakim Warren,1st. the union-offspring being :

Zaccheus, born Oct. 19, 1741. Anne, baptized July 30, 1749.

Jesse, born June 14, 1744.

Abigail, baptized March 29, 1752.

Eliakim, 2d, born Feb. 9, 1747.

Moses, baptized Dec. 29, 1754.

Hannah, baptized Apr. 6, 1757.

Eliakim, 2d, whom Rev. Moses Mather, of Middlesex (Darien), baptized' at one

band, Capt. James Richards, of New Canaan. The Captain was born Oct. 29, 1723. He was thrice mar- ried, but by Hannah Warren, his first wife, he had Jas. Richards, 2d. born Dec. 9, 1744, who married Feb. 27, 1766, Ruth daughter of Samuel Hanford, and had James (D.D.), born Oct. 29, 1767. The Richards de- scendants of Edmond Warren through his daughter Hannah as well as through Abigail, were notable. Capt. James Richards2d. began life as a clerk, becom- ing afterward a soldier and sailor. He was present, in arms, at the invasion of Danbury and Norwalk. His vessel brought from England the mother of a Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Elizabeth Walmsley, who, dying in Fairfield County (Seward house, north of Smith's Ridge) is buried near the entrance of the old St. Mark's Cemetery on Haynes Ridge, New Canaan. The wife of Capt. James Richards, 2d. Ruth Hanford, was a daughter of Samuel, and grand-daughter of Eleazer, and a great grand-daughter of Rev. Thos. Hauford, of Norwalk. Ruth llanford's mother was a daughter of Moses Comstock. Rev. Dr. James Richards, son of Capt. James,2d. was born Oct. 29, 1767, and became an eminent Professor of Divinity in the Presbyterian Seminary at Auburn, N. Y. He is buried in the Auburn Cemetery near the tomb of Ed- win Hall, D).D., formerly pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, of Norwalk, and in later life an Auburn Seminary Professor. Both Connecticut di- vines sleep within a short distance of the ingeniously stone-heaped memorial to the Indian Logan.

'Eliakim Warren2d. had, before marriage, belong- ed to the Middlesex (Darien) Church, of which body the Warrens had, evidently, been strong supporters .* Mr. Warren had now, however, wedded an Episco- palian, and in 1787, was elected Vestryman of St.

Paul's, Norwalk. Eleven years afterward he removed to Troy, N. Y., and there was instrumental in the or- ganization of the first Episcopal Parish of that new centre. Mrs. Warren's sister, Hannah, had married Jonathan Camp,3d. of Norwalk, the sister of whom, Rebecca, was Mrs. Daniel Nash, of Westport, who was careful to recount to her children the following facts relating to the Troy Church : After the settling of the Warrens in Troy they were visited by their Conn. relatives, at the close of one of which visits Mrs. Warren journeyed down the Hudson (by sloop) with her company and during the trip gave expres- sion to the thought uppermost in her mind, viz. (see note page 57) that efforts looking to the erection of a Church in Troy ought at once be made, and the wish that the same might be modeled after their old spirit- ual home in Norwalk. In confirmation of this state- ment, fresh to this day in the remembrance of the Nash household, it may be remarked that the original St. Paul's, Troy (cor. Third and Congress Sts.), cor- responded in size with the Norwalk St. Paul's of that day (supposed to have been the earliest consecrated Episcopal Church in America) and was its architect- ure-second. The circular-headed windows were of like pattern (Mrs. Nash's husband designed the Nor- walk heads) and the chancel was almost the exact counterpart of that of the Norwalk sanctuary, while the pews preserved, to the last, much of their New England-like arrangement and appearance. As the worshipers entered these and silently knelt around the little table in the centre, covered with a green fabric, and spread with the family prayer-book, one was happily and helpfully reminded of the godly simplicity and sincerity of the fathers' times.+ One part of this Troy structure was quietly denominated

*At a meeting of the Consociation of the Western Churches of Fairfield County, convened at Middlesex, June 5 and 6, 1744, and under the direction of such divines as Jno. Ingersoll, Robt. Silliman, Moses Dickinson and Noah Hobart, and to which such laymen as Col. Thomas Fitch, of Norwalk, and Matthew Gregory, of Wilton, and Ebenezer Carter, of New Canaan, were " Messengers," Edmond and Eliakim Warren (ist.) were the chosen Middlesex delegates to enter, with the other lay mes-

sengers, into solemn covenant relation " according to the con- stitution of the Churches in this government." The wives of Edmond and Eliakim Warren ist. were, at that time, added to the Church by letters of recommendation.

+The family pew, in this old Church, of Hon. G. M. Tibbits, preserved, until the Church was taken down, its reverent style- appropriateness. The Church faced south, The tower in the Norwalk Church was at the west end.

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month, lacking one day, of age, grew up near neighbor to Esaias Bouton, whose daugh- ter, Phobe, he married Jan. 17, 1771. Phoebe was only seventeen when her partner took her from her seaside home (see page 55) to be his bride, but she proved one of the truest of wives and women. The children, all born in Norwalk, were :

Esaias, born Oct. 16, 1771. Nathan, born May 1, 1777. Hannah,'s. b. July 19, 1773 ; d. Jan. 1775. Stephen, born Mar. 9, 1783. Hannah,2d. b. Aug. 30, 1775 ; d. 1776. Hannah, 3d. born July 9, 1793.

In 1798 Eliakim2d. and Phœbe (Bouton) Warren, with their children, broke up the Norwalk hearthstone to take up their abode in the new city of Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. They had just had a sailing vessel built for them at Rowayton1 aboard of which, quitting their native, Sound-skirted hearthstone, they embarked, bound for their future habitation on the east bank of the upper Hudson, where it was to fall to the family to establish a name of great worth and weight and to lead in the origination of one of the most important ecclesiastical organizations of the Empire State.

ESAIAS WARREN.

Esaias, oldest son of Eliakim Warren, 2d. was married when the sails of the " Three Brothers" were hoisted in the Norwalk Harbor, and the vessel's prow was Troy-pointed.

"Norwalk," as there sat the Warrens, Boutons, Kel- loggs, Crafts and Cannons, who emigrated from the mother town. At the first recorded Troy administra- tion of the Holy Communion three lay members par- took thereof, two of the three being Eliakim and Phobe Warren.

The Warren family sailed out of Norwalk harbor (Rowayton 1896) in 1798, and made the entire trip to Troy by water. The party was composed of the parents and their children. The oldest son, Esaias, had anticipated the family's Troy-arrival. Upon reaching the place they found it as the son, Esaias, had reported, a growing village, and the father with his sons became mercantile-engaged under the firm name of "E. Warren & Co." Esaias had married the year before the family's Norwalk-departure. The two other sons, Nathan and Stephen, married later. Of the three sisters in-law, the Mrs. Esaias, Nathan and Stephen Warren, two were from Conn. and one from the State of New York. Mrs. Esaias Warren (Lydia Scofield) was from the Bells, who were stir- ring citizens. Capt. James Bell (see note page 94) was an alert man, and through the instrumentality of Mrs. Warren's active second cousin, Hon. Thaddeus Bell, the name Darien was made to supplant that of Middlesex. Mrs. Nathan Warren (Mary Bouton) was, on her mother's side, a Burlock. This is a name ancestral with a large branch of the DeForest family also. Mrs. Benj. DeForest, of years agone, whose

elegance is Fairfield County-remembered, was a Bur- lock maiden, whom her destined partner found near the northern confines of older Norwalk. Mrs. Na- than Warren, whose mother was Abigail Burlock, was of a deeply spiritual nature, and her life was conse- crated to religion. Mrs. Stephen Warren (Mary Cor- nell Mabbett) was a Rensselaer County daughter of worth and womanly dignity. She impressed one, but at the same time her manner-grace put one entirely at ease in her presence.

1Eliakim Warren, 2d. had an older Norwalk cousin who lived in his not distant vicinity. Joseph, Ist son of Edmond, 2d. who was an uncle of Eliakim Warren. 2d. This Josephist. was the grandfather of the well-known and to-day well-remembered Samuel B. Warren, of Flax Hill. Joseph Warren, 2d. son of Joseph, Ist. was accustomed to tell of the kinship between his own and the family of Joseph, the father of Maj. General Warren, of 1775. This Joseph, 2d. second cousin of Eliakim, 2d. was, at the date of the latter's Troy-emi- gration, owner of the Norwalk and New York packet line, which was composed of the two sloops, "Grif- fin " and " Republican." His descendants insist upon the Massachusetts. Warren relationship.

"This sloop was named the "Three Brothers." It was 50 ft. keel, 20 ft. beam and 6 ft. hold and rated 64 tons. Henry Johnson, Jr., was the builder, and it was completed July 3, 1797. Five Mile River (Ro- wayton 1896) was convenient to Long Island Sound.

THE ELLAKIM WARREN al, HOME-SITE OF THE LAST CENTURY.

This pictured meadow ( photographed in 15,8) comprised the Eliakim ad, and Pluche ; Bouton, Warren Norwalk homestead which was vacated by the family upon its 170% Troy-removal. The Warren house. now gone, stod a few feet from the depicted broken limb. The family well, still >cen, is a few feet from the trunk (this side) of the large central tree. The farther -ide of the tree werhang- the roadway, which leads (-nuth) to Roton Hill.

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He had previously visited Troy, and, encouraged by the outlook, arranged for the family's removal thither. His bride, who was born on the brow of the hill on the old Mid- dlesex road, a little to the east of the Middlesex Church, was a daughter of Gershom and Lydia (Bell) Scofield. Mrs. Gershom Scofield, born Nov. 2, 1750, and the daughter of Jonathan' and Lydia (Hoyt) Bell, lived to a great age. Her family was broadly known.

Esaias and Lydia Warren were married in Middlesex on Jan. II (according to Church record), 1797, and had :

Geo. Bouton, born Sept. 25, 1797. Eliza Ann, born March 22, 1801. (Mrs. John Paine.)

Phœbe, born Sept. 6, 1804. (Mrs. Benj. Ogle Tayloe.) (Mrs. Alfred Brooks.)

Lydia, born Dec. 27. 1808.

Wm. Henry, born July 28, 1814.

Geo. B., oldest child of Esaias and Lydia Warren, and born the autumn before the major portion of the family left Norwalk, became a citizen of large interests and influence in his parents' new home. He was a director of the old Troy Insurance Co., Troy City Bank, Troy Gas Light Co., an officer of the Troy Street Railway Co., and the type of a gentleman of a half-century ago. He married, first, Sept 15, 1823, Mary Meyers Bowers, of Cooperstown, N. Y., and, second, Emily Bowers Collins, of the same place. His child- ren were John E.,4 born 1827, Geo. B .. Jr., 3 born 1828, Chas. S., born 1832, and Mary B.+ (Mrs. J. A. Manning), born 1836.

Eliza Ann, oldest daughter of Esaias and Lydia Warren, married John Paine, of Troy, and lived in affluence on the corner of First and State Streets. As a girl, Eliza A. (with her sister, Phoebe,) visited Norwalk (see note page 56) and in later life dignified- ly filled her place in society Her sons, John and Warren, were well-known Troy young men, and her daughter Elizabeth was a social favorite. This daughter married Commo- dore Cicero Price, U. S. N., and had Lillian W., who married, first, Louis Carre Ham- mersly, whose great-uncle's striking portrait adorns Norwalk private walls, and, second, the Duke of Marlborough.

Phoebe, second daughter of Esaias and Lydia Warren, married Benj. Ogle Tayloe, of the United States Capital, and her sister, Lydia, married Alfred Brooks, of Medford.

IFrom existing Stamford and Norwalk Bell rec- ords it appears that Mrs. Esaias Warren's Bell de- scent is from Francis Bell, the pioneer, through said Francis' son, Jonathanist. and (Mercie (Crane) Bell. Jonathan, 2d. born Feb. 14, 1663, son of Jonathan, ist. married, March 22d, 1693, Grace Kitchell, and had Jonathan, 3d. born Jan. 15, 1693-4. Jonathan3d. married Eunice Reed, of Norwalk, and had Jonathan4th. who was Mrs. Warren's grandfather on the Bell side. Martha, sister of Jonathan, 4th. was the grandmother of Hon. John Cotton Smith.

2John Esaias Warren married, 1853, Charlotte R.

Crain, of Herkimer, N. Y., and had Mary Narina, born 1855, died 1895; Paul Warren, born 1850.

3George Bouton Warren, Junior, married, 1856, Eugenia Phobe Taylor, of Washington, D. C., and had Mary Bowers, born 1859; Anna Tayloe, born 1863; Ogle Tayloe, born 1866; George Thornton, born 1868; Eugene, born 1873.

4Mary Bowers Warren, married, 1861, John A. Manning, of Troy, N. Y., and had George Warren, born 1862; William Henry, born 1867; Mary Emily. born 1871; Charles Stewart, born 1876, died 1893, a youth of seventeen; Jennie B .; Mary C.

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Mass. Geo. B. Warren, Sr., and his three sisters had a young brother, Wm. Henry, born July 28, 1814, who did not live to see twelve months of age.

NATHAN WARREN.

Three days after the British had passed through alarmed upper Norwalk on their retreat from the burning of Danbury, and in the Roton-Middlesex neighborhood, which so broadly commanded Long Island Sound and the enemy's rendezvous on the thither side of the same, was born, Thursday, May 1. 1777, Nathan, the second son of Eliakim2d. and Phoebe Warren. Nathan was a young man of twenty-one when he embarked with his father's family for Troy. He had been in Troy ten years, when on April 24. 1808, he mar- ried his cousin Mary, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Burlock) Bouton. Nathan Bouton, brother of Phoebe (MIrs. Eliakim Warren), had, like his father, a fondness for the water. Their home was at the bay's edge (see page 55) and tradition tells of the young Nathan's adventure-aptness. On Dec. 12, 1782, at the age of twenty-six, he was married by the Rev. Wm. Bloomer, of Long Island, to Abigail Burlock, born 1763, of the old Norwalk Burlock household.' Two children were born to them, Mary (Mrs. Nathan Warren), April 21, 1789, and Esther (Mrs. LeGrand Cannon),2 July 13, 1793.

"The Burlocks, were, it is supposed, an Eng- li-h family. Job Burlock, the father of Mrs. Nathan Bouton, had three sons, Thomas, William and Sam- uel, and two daughters, Abigail (Mrs. Bouton) and, it is believed. Esther. Job and Esther Burlock, nephew and niece of Silas Hickox,* held Norwalk lands, but Mr. Burlock was crown-loyal, and, conse- quently, after returning from the English provinces at the close of the Revolution, failed to recover his New England property. Mrs. Nathan Bouton's bro- ther, Thomas, married one of the eleven Layton daughters of Long Island. These ladies were re- markable in that every one of the sisters lived to pass seventy-five years of age. Brought up on the highest land in Long Island, the family was a hardy one, and has had a vigorous descent. The " blue eyed Lay- tons" of the Civil War of the present century's "Six- ties" are to-day referred to. Of Mr -. Bouton's bro- thers, Thos, and Samuel married Laytons. No rec- ord is found of William's marriage. Thos. became a New York City merchant and had a daughter Mary, who, because of her beauty and splendid health (she was acquainted with Fairfield County and was a fine -addle rider ) was marriage-sought by Benj. DeFor- est, who was born July 16, 1771, and was a son of

Elihu and Rachel (Lambert) DeForest. Mrs, Benj. DeForest, whose home was in Bond Street, New York City, is well-recalled in Norwalk. Her daughter, Mary, married Col. LeGrand B. Cannon (1896), of New York City. Mrs. Col. Cannon, whose husband was a nephew of Mrs. Nathan Warren (daughter of Abigail Burlock Bouton), was herself second cousin of Mrs. Warren.

2LeGrand Cannon, born March 20, 1787, was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Belden) Cannon of " Mill Hill " crest, Norwalk. His grandfathers Cannon and Belden lived on opposite sides of Norwalk river, and were progenitors of Norwalk's best known offspring. Samnel and Sarah Cannon's family was small and their native town detained only one, Henrietta (Mrs. Hugh Knox), of their children (LeGrand and Polly Esther-Mrs. Moses Craft-lived in Troy, N. Y.)

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 38

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