Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 39

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

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LeGrand Cannon married Esther Burlock (sister of Mrs. Nathan Warren ) and became an ardently active Trojan. His Troy hearthstone was composed of the two parents and their children, LeGrand B. (Col. Cannon, 1896, of New York City), Henrietta (Mrs. Geo. H. Cramer), Mrs. Geo. Bird and Amelia (Mrs. Rev. John B. Tibbits). The first three are still living. Their sister, Mrs. Tibbits, of signal loveli-

*Silas Hickox, born Jan. S. 1714-15, wa- the oldest son of Beni. and Sarah (Selleck) Hickox. His father was one of the progressive men of ancient Norwalk ( Wilton). He established himself near the pre-ent Congregational Church in Wilton, and was the " Henry Whitney " of that section. He speaks of

Mrs. Job Burlock as " my loving niece." The most remarkable wedding that ever, perhaps, took place in Norwalk was that of the mother of Silas Hickox, who, March 9, 1756, married Samuel, son of Daniel Kellogg, the Norwalk settler, the bride being then -eventy-eight and the groom eighty-three years of age. Her

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Nathan and Mary (Bouton) Warren's children who lived to maturity' were :

Harriet Louise.

Stephen Eliakim.

Nathan Bouton (Mus. Doc.)

George Henry.

Harriet L., daughter of Nathan and Mary Warren, married Capt. Edmund Schriver, U. S. A. She was greatly interested in the work founded by her grandmother, Phoebe, and enlarged by her mother, that of the benign and blessed mission of the Mary Warren In- stitute, and the Church of the Holy Cross, Troy. On Jan. 15, 1859, Mrs. Schriver had been at the Church of the Holy Cross, attending to some slight change which had been made in relation to Church furnishings, when, upon her return to her home in Washington Park, she was thrown from her sleigh, in Third Street, Troy, and soon after died from the injuries received. She was the noble daughter of a noble mother, and her loss was sorely felt. She left no children. Her brothers, Nathan B., Stephen E. and George H., loyal to the core to a departed parent's and sister's memories, devoted time, energy and fortune to the furtherance of the great work which had been inaugurated by those who had gone be- fore. That work, so long under the spiritual headship of the late J. Ireland Tucker, D.D., has been remarkably prospered, and will remain a grand monument to the piety, charity and liberality of a family, the genesis-honor of which the town of Norwalk proudly claims. The brothers, Stephen E. (Trinity College, Hartford, ), and George Henry (Union Col-

ness of person and character, and whose remem- in Troy. Her son, LeGrand, like his uncle, Col. Le- Grand B. Cannon, was a Norwalk school youth. brance-ministrations to her second cousins, Nor- walk's two benevolent sisters, the Misses Margaret The young LeGrand B. Cannon, as was the case with the young Bell (see page 95), attended Doctor Sherwood's Norwalk school, and was a lad of gallant spirit. The Dr.'s boys made fast friends in Norwalk, and some of them-Bell and Cannon-left souvenirs of their pupil-days which, during the intervening years, have not been lost. and Amelia Belden, are a momory, died many years ago. Her husband was a son of Hon. Geo. M. Tib- bits, of Troy, and her son is now engaged in eccle- siastical and educational work in Hoosick, N. Y. LeGrand Cannon, Sr., came occasionally to Norwalk. lle was a patron of Rev. Dr. Sherwood's school in this place, and he accompanied, in 1834, his brother- "There were three children of Nathan and Mary in-law, Nathan Warren, in the latter's last visit, in a . Bouton who died in infancy, viz., Mary Esther, Mary chartered steam vessel, to his birth-town. Mrs. Cra- mer is the only one of the family who has remained

! Bouton and Charlotte Buel. The grandchildren are the sons and daughters of George Henry Warren.

life had been a changing one. She had lived in Stamford, then in Wilton and is now accompanying an aged third husband to Norwalk. This last husband was born just after sunset, on Saturday evening, Feb. 19, 1673. in the pleasant field-lot (now upper end of Osborn Ave .. East Norwalk ). Daniel Kellogg, ist. father of Samuel, who married the widow Hickox, was one of Norwalk's antiquity-athlete men. He was muscular and manly. On one occasion he was visiting in his neighborhood and found that two Indians, who were callers at the same time at the same Norwalk home, had so far forgotten English proprieties as to have engaged in an angry and violent wrangle within the white man's abode, Mr. Kellogg stepped forward and in a very busi- ness-like manner rubbed the heads of the red natives vigorously together and taught them a lesson. His son, Samuel, who had passed almost twelve " seven years' periods " of human life when he married hi- last ( Hickox) wife, bought the land west of "Whitney's mill," back almost to "Pona-sus Path" ( Wall Street. 1896, north side, and west of the bridge). There were no child- ren by the Hickox marriage, but quite an offspring by a former union. This offspring embraced the long line of Epenetu- Kel-

logg'- descendants. Said Epenetus Kellogg was a " White Oak Shade " land proprietor, near by whose domain ran, easterly and westerly, the old Indian Ponassus path. Mr. Kellogg was a progenitor of the late venerable Eseck Kellogg, whose fine farm (now of Bradley ownership) lay near the West Norwalk of to-day. These handsome Kellogg acres have been tilled from an early period of Norwalk history, and the old house (Bradley 1896) has been an hospitable haunt. Here were reared the several members of the Eseck Kellogg hearthstone, from the comfort-cheer of which the children scattered to different points. Josiah, son of Execk, now occupies the north-adjoining home and home-lands, and with his Saratoga County, New York, wife, maintains the old time reputation of the inviting spot. The pioneer Daniel Kellogg's children are many and may be found in diverse parts of our spreading land, (see Kel- logg home-lot lineage.)

One of Daniel Kellogg's direct descendant- of to-day is Miss Esther Fenn Kellogg, of New York City, a daughter of Edward R. and Rebecca J. F. Kellogg, and who is much inter- ested in her Norwalk Kellogg lineage.

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legei, are deceased. Nathan B., (Mus. Doc.) and now in hale age. the only surviving one of his generation, makes his home at the beautiful " Warren Cottage" on Mount Ida.

- The Hall" of the " Warren Cottage " on Muam Ida, in the city of Troy, N. Y. The three brother- Esnias, Nathan and Stephen Warren had their town residence- in Third Street, Truy. and Nathan selected - Mount Ida " for his country -var. This eminence, on the eastern confines of the city, and beautifully overlooking a broad expanse of territory_ is now occupied by the last member of the immediate family of Nathan Warren, sr., Dr. Nathan B. Warren. Dr. Warren isa musician and an author, in two of whose writings " The Holiday-" and " Recollections of Revolutionary Times" mes- tom is made of early Norwalk life. The great work accomplished by his noble mother in the True formaling. in 1549 of - The Church of the Holy Cross," as a house of prayer for all people, " without money and without price," is minutely described in the Meminal of Mr. Nathan Warren," published in rio, by Daniel Dana. Jr., New York,

Stephen E. Warren was unmarried, and so is his brother. Dr. Nathan B. George H. Warren, Sr., born Nov. 18, 1823, the youngest member of the family, married, April 29. 1851. Mary Caroline, daughter of J. Phillips and Mary (Whitney') Phoenix, of New York City Theri children were and are :

Mary Ida. Harriet Louise, George Henry, Jr .. Emeline Whitney Dore. Whitney Phoenix.

Edmund, Whitney, Anna Phoenix. Edith Caroline. Lloyd Elliot.

WA name which calls forth the following note: In the autumn of 1729 occurred a Norwalk marriage which wa- truly a strong " old family " alliance. The groom was the grandson of Henry Whitney, who six- ty oud years before had revolutionized Norwalk will matters, and the bride was the grand-daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford, first, in point of time and tal- ent, a- a scholar and a divine, in early Norwalk an-

nals. After a wedded life of six years the groom and bride, Josiah and Eunice (Hanford) Whitney, had born to them a third child who took the name of the lad' great-grandfather, Henry Whitney, the settler, which infant Henry was the father, in 1776, of the modern multi-millionaire, Stephen Whitney. Mary, the secund daughter of said Stephen, married on the eve of the centennial anniversary of Josiah and Eu-

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The father, Geo. H. Warren, of the foregoing ten children, and his brothers Stephen E. and Nathan B., were great-grandsons of Esaias' and Phoebe? (Byxbee) Bouton, of Norwalk.

STEPHEN WARREN.

Stephen, born March 1783, the youngest son of Eliakim2d. and Phoebe Warren, was a lad of only fifteen summers when the " Three Brothers" weighed anchor, in 1798, and quitted the Indian Runckingheage, Conn., waters. As their vessel's sail filled, the family most likely indulged in sent-back glances over their native Norwalk hills, scattered here

nice Hanford's bridal, Jonas Philips Phoenix, of New Jersey, and was, personally and by inheritance, of such manner and character-gentleness and loveable- ness that she did and could not fail to command the admiration even of those who were entire strangers to her. Of the children of Jonas and Mary Phoenix, Mary Caroline married a descendant of a Norwalk family almost as old as that of her own, George Henry Warren, youngest son of Nathan and Mary (Bouton) Warren, of Troy, N. Y., and a grandson of Eliakiam and Phoebe Warren, of Norwalk and Troy. Geo. Il. and Mary C. Warren resided in the metrop- olis but chose Mount Ida in the city of Troy for their country seat. A sister of Mrs. Geo. H. Warren, Har- riet Whitney Phoenix, married Isaac Bronson, of the Greenfield Hill Bronson family. Mrs. Bronson was seized with illness while traveling, in 1864, in Ger- many, and fully aware that her malady would termin- ate fatally, she, with tenderly true devotion, employed her last moments in dictating consoling messages to her soon to be bereaved mother. A brother of Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Bronson, Stephen Whitney Phc- nix, had, before death, erected his monument by the publication of the colossal work, entitled " The Whit- ney Genealogy."

The Bronsons of Greenfield Hill were also in Norwalk acquaintance-touch through the Murrays. John B. Murray, son of Col. James B., of St. Mark's Place, N. Y., in the winter and of Fairfield in the summer, married Sarah, daughter of Moses Craft, of Troy, and grand-daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bel- den) Cannon, of Norwalk. Mr. Murray (John B.) was the brother of Maria (Mrs. Cambridge Livings- ton) and Anna (Mrs. Wm. Dana) and Agnes, who to this day keeps up the Greenfield Hill establishment. His wife was the sister of Mrs. Hannibal Green and Mrs. G. Parish Ogden, of Troy, and his mother-in- law, Mrs. Moses Craft, was the charming daughter of Samuel Cannon, of Mill Hill summit, Norwalk, who is referred to in the Christmas eve foot note, page 171.

Josiah Whitney, the Norwalk great-grandfather of Mrs. Jonas P. Phoenix, was the brother of the great-grandfather, on his mother's side, of Rev. Sam- uel Jarvis, the father of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Colt, of Hartford. The four sisters of Rev. Mr. Jarvis, the Misses Lavinia, Amelia, Sarah and Mary, made en-

joyable visits to their Whitney relatives, in Darien, the descendants of which relations occupy, to-day, the old home-land vicinities. The drive between the Middlesex Warren and Whitney homes is of interest.

The grandchildren of Geo. H., Sr., and Mary C. Warren are John P. C. and Geo. H. W., sons of Rob- ert P. and Mary Ida Alden; Robert W. G. and Bea- trice, children of Robert and Harriet L. Goelet ; Con- stance W., son of Geo. H., Jr., and Georgie W. War- ren; Charlotte A., daughter of Whitney and Char- lotte A. Warren; Edith, daughter of William S. and Edith C. Miller.

2 Esaias Bouton's older brother, Joseph, born 1726, married Aug. 25, 1748, Susannah, third daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Fitch) Raymond. The groom was twenty-two and the bride, a niece of Gov. Thos. Fitch, only sixteen when the marriage was solemniz- ed. Joseph Bouton was in military service, but his son, Joshua (Capt. Joshua), was, like his uncle, Esaias Bouton, in merchant service. Capt. Joshua was born Oct. 18, 1759, and on Nov. 17, 1784. he married Mar- garet McLean. The Capt. and his wife lived on the present site of the Dr. McLean homestead at the head of High Street, and during his trip-intervals he could there, generally, be found. What, he would sometimes jocosely remark upon entering his home at evening and finding it glowingly lighted, "so many candles burning and nary ship at sea." The children of this household were Sally S. (remember- ed, in 1896, as the "Sally Bouton" of fifty years ago), born Aug. 25, 1785; Cornelia, born March 15. 1787; George, born Oct. 23, 1789; Alexander, born June 29, 1791; Harriet (Mrs. Langdon Mott), born Feb. 6, 1793, and Charles, born May 25, 1795. Henry, son of Dr. Emery C. Bissell, married Harriet, daugh- ter of Langdon and Harriet Mott, and removed from Norwalk to become cashier of the Farmer's Bank of Somers, Westchester Co., N. Y.

The descent of Mrs. Esaias Bouton, as carefully Norwalk-collated from the Massachusetts "Cape" rec- ords, is as follows: Stephen Hopkins, the pilgrim, was twice married before coming, in 1620, to Amer- ica. His second wife, Anna, accompanied him to this land with two of her step-children (by her husband's first wife), viz. : Giles and Constance. Giles Hop- kins, son of Stephen, married, in 1639, Catherine

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and there, amid which were the homes of their blood. Where to-day stands the hand- some "Brook Farm " establishment of the Parsons, was a Warren house, and also on the sightly Roton Hill corner, directly opposite the old Holy Trinity, N. Y., home, as well as on the romantic road leading from said corner toward the Roton Point of 1896, and not far from the old Hoyt family homestead. Stephen Warren, however, was but a boy whose his- tory was to be made. At the age of twenty-five he married, on Aug. 17, 1808, Martha Cornell. born July 5, 1791, daughter of Joseph S. and Mary (Thorne) Mabbett, of Lan- singburgh, N. Y., his children being :

Mary Mabbett, born Oct. 3, 1810 (Mrs. Jno. L. G. Knox).

Joseph Mabbett, (Hon.) born Jan. 28, 1813. William Henry, born Sept. 14, 1815.

Phoebe Elizabeth, born July 5, 1819 (Mrs. Henry Pratt McKean).

Anna Chester, born Sept. 5, 1826 (Mrs. Edward Ingersoll). John Hobart, born Sept. 3, 1829.

It will be a long time before the story of the descent of Norwalk's son, Stephen Warren, and Lansingburgh's daughter, Martha C. Mabbett, will be completely written, but Mr. Warren's birth-town is honored by the family history already presented. His oldest child, Mary M., passed but a few months of wedded life. His next child, the late Hon. Joseph M. Warren, of Troy, was one of the solid men of the day, and one whose civil, commercial and church careers have conferred eminent credit upon the city, to the growth and goodly fame of which he was such an intelligent and influential contributor. He mar- ried, Sept. 9, 1835, Elizabeth Adelaide, born March 3, 1815, daughter of Walter and Julia Steel (Beach) Phelps, of Hartford, and had :

Stephen, born Aug. 23, 1836, died young. Josephine, b. Aug. 22, 1842, d. young. Mary Mabbett, born May 6, 1838. Phœbe Mckean, born Aug. 5, 1844.

(Mrs. John I. Thompson. ) (Mrs. Isaac McConihe.)

Walter Phelps, born June 13, 1841. ( Firm, 1896, Fuller Warren Co.) Stephen,2d. born Jan. 28, 1852, died Sept. 1, 1864.

Anna, born Feb. 21, 1849.

Mary Mabbett, daughter of Hon. Joseph M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married Jan. 29. 1861, John Isaac, oldest son of John L. Thompson, one of the heaviest wholesale merchants of Troy, and a man without reproach. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Thompson are :

Wheldon, and had nine children, the seventh of whom, Joshua, born 1657, married, May 26, 1681, Mary, daughter of Daniel Coles. These had eight children, John, Abigail, Elisha, Lydia, Mary, Joshua, Hannah and Phoebe, the youngest, who was born in 1702. Phobe, daughter of Joshua and Mary Hop-

kins, married Moses, son of Joseph Byxbee, Ist. and had Joseph2d. (died in infancy), Joseph,3d. John, Eliza- beth, and Phoebe. Joseph Byxbee3d. married a sister of Joseph Warren; John married, February 17, 1758, Elizabeth Warren; Elizabeth married Jos. Warren, and Phobe married, May, 30, 1753, Esaias Bouton.

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Hobart Warren,' born April 2, 1862, (a Norwalk school youth and Trinity Col- lege, Hartford, graduate).

Marie Warren, born March, 1868, (Mrs. Edward Courtlandt Gale).

Walter Phelps, son of Hon. Jos. M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married, July II. 1866, his cousin, Martha Mabbett, daughter of Wm. H. and Mary Warren, and had :

William Henry,2 born June 3, 1867. John Hobart, born May 9, 1873. (Died June 10, 1873.)

Walter Phelps, Jr., born Dec. 31, 1874.

Joseph Mabbett. born Dec. 14, 1868. (Died March 7, 1872.) Mary Eliza, born Feb. 5, 1870. Elizabeth, born Apr. 14. 1876.

(Mrs. Thos Vail, of Troy. Married, Nov. 5, 1896.) (Died Feb. 3, 1878.)

Chester Ingersoll, born Feb. 22, 1880.

Phoebe Mckean, daughter of Hon. Jos. M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married, Oct. 11, 1866, Isaac, son of Hon. Isaac McConihe, of Troy, and had :

Anna Pruyn, born Nov. 30, 1867. Malcolm Stewart, born Aug., 1871.

(Died Sept. 1868.)

Warren, born July 8, 1869.

Elizabeth, born July, 1881.

Anna, daughter of Hon. Jos. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married Oct. 21, 1869, John M. Glidden, of Boston, and had:

Mary Warren, born May 10, 1871. John, born May, 1876.

Joseph Warren, born June 17, 1872. Susette Adelaide, born Dec., 1879.

Amy Gardiner, born Nov., 1873. Anna.

William, born Dec., 1874.

Arthur Boynton.

. William Henry, second son of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married Dec. 12, 1839, Mary, daughter of Halsey and Deborah (Wing) Rogers, of Moreau, N. Y., and had :

Halsey Rogers, born July 25, 1841.

Martha Mabbett, born Dec. 22, 1842, (Mrs. Walter Phelps Warren.)

Mary Rogers, born May 6, 1853, died July 17, 1859.

Stephen Warren, born Aug. 12, 1855, died Nov. 19, 1858.

Edward Ingersoll, born Jan. 18, 1858, died Apr. 8, 1878.

William H. Warren died Jan. 9, 1867. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and himself and Mrs. Warren were the heads of a home of refinement. Both were faithful members of St. Paul's Church, Troy, and their pew in that venerable edifice was open to the stranger. Their son Halsey R., was a Norwalk visitor.

Phobe Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married July 8, 1841, Adjutant and General Henry Pratt, son of Thos. J. and Sarah C. (Pratt) McKean, of Philadelphia, and grandson of Chief Justice Thos. McKean, LL.D., and had, Thos., born

Married Grace McLeod.

2Married, Jan. 5, 1893, Caroline E., daughter of

Samuel O. Gleason, of Troy, and had Mary Rogers, born July 7, 1896.

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Nov. 28, 1842, an engaging visitor, when a youth, at his Troy grandmother's fine old Albany Street home, who married Elizabeth Wharton, of Philadelphia, and became one of that city's wealthiest and most distinguished residents. He had a brother, Stephen, born Feb. 4, 1844, who died April 28, 1846.

Anna Chester, youngest daughter of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married, when twenty-four years of age (June 5, 1850), Edward, son of Chas. and Susan C. Inger- soll, of Philadelphia, and grandson of Hon. Chas. Jared and Mary Ingersoll, and had :

Stephen Warren, born April 8, 1851. (Married Josephine Bond ; died Oct., 1864. Mary Wilcocks, born Aug. 19, 1852. (Mrs. James Logan Fisher.)

Phoebe Warren, born March 23, 1854. (Mrs. Harry Wilcocks McCall.)

Anna Warren, born Sept. 7, 1855.

(Mrs. Charles Morton Smith )

Charles Edward, born June 17, 1860. ( Married Rita Sturges. )

Henry McKean, born Jan. 29, 1862.

Jennie Hobart, born Oct. 27, 1865.

John Hobart, youngest son of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married, first, May 16, 1853, Eliza Atwood Tibbits (daughter of Hon. Geo. M. Tibbits), an estimable lady and one of admirable presence. She died April, 1870, and Mr. Warren married, second, Har- riette M. Coulter, of New York. There were no children by these marriages. -

BURLOCK-WARREN-DEFOREST ADDENDUM.

In the ancient town of Stratford, an emphatic DeForest hearthstone, and a short distance S. E. of Christ Church, is the site of the first Connecticut house built by a Norwalk DeForest ancestor. The family is of French origin. Jesse and Maria (DuCloux) DeFor- est had a son, Isaac, who sailed, in 1636, for New Amsterdam. Isaac married in this country, July 9, 1641, Sarah, daughter of Phillip Du Trieux, who lived in Harlem and had many American children. Among these children of Isaac, who was appointed by Stuyvesant as Great Burgher, Jan. 28, 1658, the youngest, David, 1-t. baptized Sept., 1669, married, at thirty years of age, Martha, daughter of Samuel Blagge, and grand-daughter of Capt. Benj. Blagge. David's". and Martha DeForest settled in Stratford, where they had David,2d. born 1702. David2d. and Abigail DeForest had a son, Lemuel, baptized 1728, who married Phoebe Keeler, of Norwalk. These had a daughter, Abigail, born April 24, 1753. This daughter married, Nov. 9, 1774, as his second wife, James, son of Job and Rachel Lockwood, and grandson of James and Lydia (Smith) Lockwood. James and Abigail (DeForest) Lockwood had Lemuel, David and Samuel Lockwood. Lemuel died young but David and Samuel were the prominent New Canaan residents of the .. Lockwood District," in that town, which three brothers bore DeForest family names. David, the second brother, was the grandfather of Edwin Hoyt Lockwood, historian of New Canaan and a tutor (1896) in Yale University.

Samuel DeForest, brother of David, 2d. and son of Davidist. and Martha DeForest,

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married on the last day but one of the year 1725, Abigail Peat, of Stratford. These had a son, Nehemiah, born Jan. 24, 1743, who married, Dec. 20, 1769, Mary, born Aug. 31, 1745, daughter of Peter Lockwood, of Norwalk. She died Oct. 17, 1790, and is buried at Monroe, Conn. Nehemiah and Mary (Lockwood) DeForest had a son, William, born June 13, 1773, whose youngest daughter, Mary A., married, as his second wife, March 6, 1834, deacon George St. John, of Norwalk. Mrs. St. John was a woman of remarkable loveliness of manner.

Elihu, son of David2d. and Abigail DeForest, married, May 4, 1761, Rachel, daugh- ter of David and Laurana (Bill) Lambert, and had several children, among whom was Benjamin,' born July 16, 1771, and baptized in 1777. The family removed eventually to Danbury, and the young Benjamin commenced life for himself. His ambition, however, tempted him to a wider field than Fairfield County presented, and encouraged by the busi- ness example, if not assistance, of Eliphalet Lockwood & Son, who were Norwalk West

1Benjamin, son of Elihu and grandson of David DeForest,zd. removed early, with his parents, from Wilton. The family seems to have gone, first, to Ridgebury, a portion of the town of Ridgefield. Here it remained awhile when Elihu DeForest pur- chased a large tract which now lays on the line be- tween Ridgefield and Danbury, about a mile from the Danbury Fair Grounds, in the present " Miry Brook " district of Danbury. It is a fine country and the es. tate to-day (Norris Knoll) is held by a nephew of Benj. DeForest, viz., Benj. DeForest Norris. The old proprietors, Elihu, born Nov., 1739, and Rachel DeForest, born Aug. 31, 1744, sleep in the burial acre a short distance away, and the house and grounds in and upon which their grandchildren, Margaret, Mary B. and Caroline (daughters of Benj. DeForest), at- tended by the family maids and family livery, spent and sported many happy summer hours, are still well kept up. Of this spot, his own home, Benj. DeFor- est as a lad was fond, and from it when a little older he left to become associated with his older brother, D. Lambert, who had left the same place and found- ed himself in the village of Southeast, over the New York line, and a few miles from his father's home. The children of Elihu and Rachel DeForest, were David Lambert, born March 16, 1762; Joseph, born June 9, 1764; Laurany, born July 9, 1767; Benj., Ist. born July 16, 1771; Elizabeth, born March 13, 1774; Bill Clark, born July 14, 1782, who died Dec., 1812. David Lambert, oldest son of Elihu DeForest and named for his maternal grandfather (David Lambert, Sr., of Wilton), married a Barnum and resided at " DeForest Corners" (named for himself) in South- east. He had three sons, Archibald, Alfred and Ben-

jamin. Alfred went to New York, where he married, and became largely and successfully associated with his uncle, Benj. DeForest. This uncle, Benj., had, when young, lived with his brother, D. Lambert, in Southeast and helped him, as a clerk, in his business. Alfred, nephew of Benjamin and son of David L. De- Forest, had no children, but his namesake second cousin, Alfred DeForest Gale, of Troy, was a rare and beautiful natured and tempered youth, whose race, indeed, was early run, but whose memory is to- day treasured by his old Norwalk tutor. After Benj. DeForest left Southeast he went, for a time, to Sing Sing, but finally settled in New York City, where he prospered. He married, in 1804, Mary (see note page 272), daughter of Thomas Burlock, (son of Job, of Norwalk). Thomas Burlock had now established a business in Grand Street, New York, and was at one time rated at a "hundred thousand." He lived in First Street, near Bond, from which street his funeral was attended. Mary Burlock, daughter of Thomas and niece of Mrs. Nathan Bouton (her father's sis- ter), was engaging, and became the wife of Benjamin DeForest. These had three children, all daughters, Margaret, born Nov. 21, 1816 (Mrs. Geo. B. DeFor- est*); Mary B., born Sept. 7, 1819 (Mrs. Colonel Le- Grand B. Cannon), and Caroline, born May 27, 1823 (Mrs. E. Thompson Gale, of Troy, N. Y.). Mrs. Geo. B. DeForest and her two sisters, Mary B. and Caroline, were, as has been noted, delighted and de- lightful warm weather guests at their father's and grandfather's northern Fairfield County home, in which romantic spot, Margaret, 2d. daughter of Mrs. Geo. B. DeForest, lay for some time a sufferer from blindness. This good woman did not marry, but a

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 39

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