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Miss Julia Abigail Lockwood's cousin (Charlotte Selleck Lockwood), daughter of her Uncle William and Aunt Hannah S. Lockwood, married June 9, 1825, Leonard Bradley, of New Haven, and had Elizabeth Cebra, Susan Lockwood, Leonard Abraham, Mary Louise and William Lockwood. The Bradleys have not resided in Norwalk
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Elizabeth, born July 28, 1803. (Mrs. Henry Morgan ; no children.)
Mary Esther, born Sept. 25, 1815, (Mrs. John P. Treadwell).
William Buckingham Eliphalet,1st. born Dec. 20, 1820, (died in infancy).
William Buckingham Eliphalet, 2d. born Dec. 23. 1822.
Frederick St. John, born Aug. 23, 1825.
Mary Esther, daughter of Col. Buckingham St. John and Polly Esther Lockwood, married, Dec. 8, 1841, John Prime, born Oct. 6, 1811, son of Samuel and Jane (Prime) Treadwell, of New Milford, and had :
Mary Elizabeth, born July 19, 1843, (unmarried).
Julia Abigail, Ist. born Dec. 6, 1845 ; died Aug. 7, 1849.
Buckingham Lockwood, born Feb. 10, 1850; died March 5, 1851.
Julia Abigail Lockwood, born May 14, 1852; died Nov. 8, 1884. (Mrs. Mortimer M. McRoberts.) John Prime, Jr., born Aug. 17, 1854.
Mrs. John P. Treadwell, Sr., died May 11, 1880, and her son, John Prime Tread- well, Jr., married Oct. 12, 1880, Millicent Clarissa,' daughter of Charles Herd and Celestia Millicent (Cross) Booth, and had :
John Prime, born Aug. 16, 1881. Henry Resseguie, born Dec. 3, 1884.
William Buckingham Eliphalet, 2d. son of Col. Buckingham St. John2 and Polly Esther Lockwood, married June 12, 1856, Mary C., daughter of DeForest and Catherine (Booth) Manice, and had :
Manice DeForest, born Feb. 26, 1858.
Buckingham Lockwood, born Sept. 19, 1859; unmarried.
William Buckingham Eliphalet, Jr., born Nov. 16, 1862; unmarried.
Manice DeForest, son of William B. E. and Catherine Lockwood, married Nov. 24, 1880, Annie, daughter of John S. and Sarah J. (Pentz) Lawrence, of New York, and had :
Mary Catherine Lockwood, born Sept. 21, 1881 ; died Nov. 16, 1881. Manice DeForest, Jr., born May 15. 1886.
George Lawrence, born Nov. 27, 1889.
Mrs. John P. Treadwell, Jr .. by a previous mar- riage, had a son Charles.
2The three brothers, Wm., Eliphalet and Buck. . ingham St. John Lockwood, lived in near proximity to each other at the head of "Federal Hollow." Wil- liam resided in the present home of his grand-daugh- ter Mrs. Geo. B. St. John, S. W. corner of Knight Street and North Avenue. Eliphalet's home was the
residence of his nephew, the late Wm. B. E. Lock- wood, and Buckingham St. John Lockwood lived where now resides his grandson, John P. Treadwell. Buckingham St. John Lockwood bought, in about 1824, the Samuel Cannon house at the summit of Mill Hill and thence removed. He was a business man who, even until later life, well managed his large estate, and he was of vision-breadth. "I think," he
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Frederick St. John, son of Col. Buckingham St. John and Polly Esther Lockwood, married, Feb. 21, 1866, Carrie Ayres, born Feb. 1, 1844, daughter of Frederick Sey- mour and Nancy (Raymond) Ayres, (see page 89) and has :
Elizabeth, born July 30, 1868, (Mrs. Frank W. Hubbard.)
Frederick Ayres, born Nov. 18, 1870; unmarried.
Julia Belden, born June 30, 1881.
Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Frederick St. John and Carrie Lockwood, married June 7, 1893, Frank Watson Hubbard, of Port Austin, Michigan, and had :
Carolyn Lockwood, born Sept. 13, 1894.
Annabel Ruth, born Jan. 30, 1898.
Lambert,2d. son of Peter and Elizabeth (Lambert) Lockwood, married Dec. 5, 1793, Elizabeth, born March 1, 1771, daughter of Rev. Dr. Azel and Rebecca (Foote) Roe, of Woodbridge, N. J., and had Rebecca Roe, Frederick, Peter, Roe, Elizabeth ; none of whom belong in Norwalk.
Lockwood DeForest resided in the near vicinity of what was afterward known as "IRANISTAN," the Bridgeport home of Hon. P. T. Barnum. His fine premises and those of Lambert Lockwood, in the same town (State Street of 1896, a short distance west of the Court House in that thoroughfare) were fair abiding places. Thrifty Bridgeport has outgrown its maiden evironments, but the Lambert Lockwood house stands to-day a re- minder to the family kin of its former prestige. Norwalk was the native place of young Lambert Lockwood, and the lad here passed a clerkship (see note page 20). The Lock- wood-Lambert-DeForest blood came through David DeForest, 2d. who was the first Nor- walk son of his name. The Lamberts to-day tell of the DeForest kinship, and the visits of Benj. DeForest's daughters to this town are present memories. The family of Col. Buckingham St. John Lockwood was intimate with that of Benj. DeForest. As the older generations, however, have passed away, the pilgrimages hither of the later Norwalk de- scendants have became less frequent than formerly. The time has been when the War- rens, Cannons, Knox's and Crafts came so regularly to the family hearthstone that their arrival was looked upon as a matter of course. The younger family branches have gradually lost track of the ancient haunts. "Pympewaugh Plain," "Roton Hill" and
said, when the trees south of the present First Con- gregational Church were set out, long before that edifice was built, "that the same should be planted somewhat inside of the contemplated line." Perhaps he argued that the street might some day be widened. The irregular topography of earlier times was, in certain cases, misleading. So undulating was the original West Avenue site of St. Mary's Church that when the foundation for the corner stone of the build- ing was being laid its elevation was a surprise and
suggested a possible miscalculation. One of the Rev. Peter Smith's flock was observed to be, from time to time, observation-engaged from the Chapel Street rear of the Church site. Finally he approached his pastor with the remark, " Father Smith I think that the corner-stone is a little too low." Whether any change in the plan was made is not known, but as the ground depression, by filling in and filling up, was overcome, it became evident that the stone was set not an inch too high.
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even old " Witch Lane "' would be oddly sounding names in their ears, and they would be strangers in the land of their fathers' graves. May the day be distant when the mother town shall be tardy in extending a cordial welcome to every son and daughter of the soil, regardless of the generation.
A PETER LOCKWOOD MONUMENT.
The present Wall Street Lockwood building, of which structure Lockwood's Hall forms a portion, marks one of the most notable business sites of earlier Norwalk. When Henry Whitney, Sr., established the " Whitney Mill" (N. W. corner of Main and Wall Streets 1896) the land gradually sloped from the foot of the present High Street to the "coast," as old deeds describe the same, and for a long time that section of the settle- ment now comprising East Wall Street and the site of the Phoenix Block, Lockwood's Hall, Mallory and E. K. Lockwood buildings, was "common land," across which, from east to west, coursed, at first, the path to Whitney's mill, and later the "post road." Fronting the present Lockwood Hall, and standing on the rise of ground into which the rear walls of the present Street Railway depot are built, stood, until the Revolution, Nor- walk's first recorded " Town House," and not far away "Arnold's Inn," which held the valuable natural history collection referred to in note on page 20. Peter Lockwood owned where is now erected what is known as the Lockwood building and the Lockwood dock. This was the wharf at which vessels to and from the West Indies received and dis- charged their valuable cargoes. A heavy trade was here carried on by, among others, Peter Lockwood's son Eliphalet, and the Norwalk house of .. E. Lockwood & Son" (Buck- ingham St. John Lockwoodi became well known. The spot is, naturally, of Lockwood association and its mention makes not ill-placed. perhaps, the insertion, just here, and as a sort of Peter Lockwood memory-testimony, of the succeeding memoranda :
EARLIER AND LATER NORWALK COMMERCE.
Capt. Richard Raymond, of Saybrook, heads the roll of Norwalk navigators. He ran a coasting vessel (transiently, in and out of Norwalk harbor in the seventeenth cen- tury, his " pier " being, in all probability, near Fort Point. Old wharf remains have there been discovered.
Capt. Josiah Thatcher, of Yarmouth, Mass., succeeded Capt. Raymond. Both these captains were Eastern men, and evidently experienced sailors. The first appeared in Nor- walk early in the eighteenth century. His hill-home (rear of present Street Railway de- pot. Wall and Knight Streets, ) commanded, at that day, the Norwalk river, or more prop- erly creek, and he was a prominent progenitor.
'In a publication of late years ( Warren's " Recol- lections of War Times") reference is made to the Norwalk " Witch lane" of days gone, and " Toney"
is mentioned and one of his deeds picture-illustrated. This "Toney " was none other than "O'ne" ( Miss Phoebe Comstock - "Onesimus"). See page 260.
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Capt. James Hurlbut, a ship builder of Saugatuck, is anciently mentioned and in about 1750, Commodore John Cannon also. The keels of Commodore' John Cannon's sailing vessels ploughed the West India waters. Nathan Mallory was a Norwalk captain in 1757, and owned the future James Mallory store at the head of navigation. He was in the service between 1740 and 1800. Captain David Whitney was a Norwalk mariner in about 1775. He did good service in the Revolutionary War.
In about 1770 the Polly made regular trips to and from the Southern Islands, and Capt. Squire piloted his bark hither from the Barbadoes. On one trip, in the spring of 1773, thirteen horses and eleven oxen were transported from Norwalk to the West Indies, the horses realizing for their owners about one hundred and fifty dollars each, and the oxen about one hundred and fifty dollars per pair. Gov. Roberts of Anguilla laid in, in the summer of 1773, Norwalk pork. hams and beans; and John Fane, of the same place, Norwalk corn and oats, and "Widow Hews" ten thousand shingles. Hams, horses, hoops, staves, flour, butter and earthenware were exported to the West Indies, and sugar, mo- lasses and liquors from thence imported. A little before the battle of Lexington was fought the Polly, on one of its trips, had hither brought, as a part of its cargo, nearly two thousand gallons of molasses and between three and four thousand pounds of sugar.
"" Commodore" was the familiar title by which Norwalk's John Cannonist. was locally known. He was the son of John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon, of New York. It is late, perchance, to inquire as to what first here attracted him. It is a tradition that the young man stopped, on his way to Boston, in Fairfield (see note page 181) and there made the ac- quaintance of Esther Perry, whom he afterward mar- ried. This may be fiction, but if true, the residence at that time, in Norwalk, of Esther Perry's uncle and aunt (Samuel Cluckstone and his Perry wife, see page 13) may have drawn the nephew and niece hither who established their home-hearth in the meadow now the spacious private approach-green to the East Avenue residence of Col. Frederick St. John Lockwood. Mr. Cannon seems to have had a palate for choice fruit. The East Avenue orchard-remains of fifty years ago (the original planting, probably, of John Cannonist.) evidenced, even in age, superb stock. The fruits' pulp and flavor-purity and fineness indicated the species-superiority. Here John and Esther Cannon lived until the burning of their dwelling by Tryon, when the cinders of their consuming fire-side arose together with those of the near-by ( Wm. G. Thomas home-lot of 1896) second Meeting House. After the conflagration the family possibly occupied premises somewhere near the Quintard building of 1896. Here stood the " Cannon well" and on the opposite (south) side of the street was built the " Cannon store." A portion of this latter structure, the widow of Mr. Cannon was known to tenant some years after the
Revolutionary War. It was here that she was under the care of Miss Azubia Hitchcock. (See page 13.)
The brothers and sisters of John Cannonist. were James, baptized Feb. 14, 1728; Andrew, baptized Jan. 23, 1730; LeGrand, born April 19, 1733, and baptized when ten days old: Sarah, baptized July 27, 1735, and Maria, January 28, 1739. This younger sister Maria, "the lovely Miss Cannon," became, May 27, 1757, the wife of John Pintard, son of Alderman Pintard, of New York. One son, named for his father, rewarded the union. Soon after the birth of this son the mother was called hence, to be followed, ere many months rolled away, by the boy's father. The pa- rentless lad now found a home for awhile with his Norwalk Cannon kin. War was raging and the days were sad, but through the interposition of army of- ficial influence the young Pintard secured a good position. He was accomplished and like Colonel Stephen St. John, who was twenty years his senior, he was elegant. In 1785 he was married to Eliza, daugh- ter of Col. Brasher, both of the contracting parties at the nuptials being celebrated beauties.
The sons of "Commodore" John Cannon were John ( grandfather of Charles O. C. and Frederick T. Betts of 1896); Samuel ( grandfather of Colonel LeGrand B. Cannon, of New York); James (grand- father of the late Mrs. Jonathan Camp, of Cannon Street); LeGrand, a brilliant youth; Lewis, who died unmarried, and William Aspinwall, who mar- ried Betsey, daughter of John Seymour, of Norwalk. The daughters were Sarah and Esther Mary. The
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Later than 1770, Esaias Bouton owned a vessel that plied between Norwalk and Boston, and Isaac Wicks, of this town, was commissioned to cruise on the Sound. A ferry to L. I. was anon established by the Raymonds, and afterward ran by Ebenezer Phillips. At the close of the eighteenth century Capt. Joseph Warren' and his son Capt. Samuel B. Warren,2 and others of the Warren family, and later still, Capt. Isaac Scudder Isaacs and Capt. Daniel James followed the marine profession.
The Warrens alluded to employed at least two sailing vessels in the Norwalk and New York transportation service, viz., the Griffin and the Republican, which made regular
children were all, it is probable, born on the East Ave- nue green hill-side, now the property of Col. F. St. John Lockwood. From thence, John, the oldest son, founded a home which his grandson, Charles O. C. Betts has somewhat improved but about which much of Cannon designing is still left. The Cannon super- mantel painting ( New York Battery ) in the south parlor, is unique. At the raising of the frame of this building Richard, father of the late Miss Eliza Camp, of France Street, was injured. Samuel, the second son of John Cannon,'st. built the 1896 handsome Lockwood house which crowns Mill Hill. Mr. Lock- wood (Colonel Buckingham St. John) bought it from the Cannons some seventy-odd years ago, and al- though its more recent mansard roof and south ve- randa have given it a modern look, still with its sur- viving eastern " wing" and " outside kitchen " it is a pleasing picture of the past.
The two remaining Lockwood (Wm. B. E. and Col. Buckingham St. John) "outside kitchens " were not ephemeral wood sheds, but, on the contrary, of constant service-purpose. They, especially the lat- ter, remind of the period when colored domestics played an important part in household economics. Col. Lockwood's family servants and farm help con- stituted quite a force and made such exterior accom- modation quite a necessity. Mrs. Lockwood was very clever in her direction of this service-retinue, but as the good wife on one occasion broached to her hus- band, who had just reported to her of an additional property-purchase he had made, it was possible for in- crease of crops to involve increase of cares, and the multiplication of acres the multiplication of anxie- ties. The Mill Hill Cannon-Lockwood establishment has long been one of Norwalk's noticeable old family mansions, and its glory has not departed with the lapse of time. It is now, in 1896, of splendid preser- vation, and under the proprietorship of the colonel's last surviving daughter, Miss Julia Abigail, is the trustee of family portraits, furniture, embroideries and treasures which a refined and happy taste have so arranged as to make the home an interesting visiting- spot. The ladies of the house, the colonel's daugh- ters, enlivened, in their younger days, the home, and were a prized society-contribution. In their time lady
equestrianism was not a slighted art, and when such Norwalk daughters as Elizabeth Lockwood, Eliza Mott, Ann Terrell Isaacs, or the Misses Meade rode out, in saddle, it was with no difficulty realized that "Queen Elizabeth on horseback " was none the less than " Queen Elizabeth herself."
James Cannon, brother of John and Samuel, erected the Cannon Street commodious home, in the southwest front room of which his grand-daughter, Mary C. Newkirk, wedded the late Jonathan Camp, Jr., and beneath the venerable roof of which the extendedly known husband and his honored wife passed many years of enjoyment.
William Aspinwall, the youngest married son of "Commodore" and Esther Cannon, lived near the foot of Flax Hill, in the South Norwalk of 1896.
iIn his will dated Jan. 28, 1748, and inventoried Sept. 18, 1749, Edmund Warren, Sr., makes mention of his grandsons Joseph, Ist. Edmund and Enoch, sons of Edmund. Jr. A preserved receipt, dated April 15, 1791, evidences the sons' care of their mother. Said Josephist. married Nov. 12, 1754, Elizabeth Byxbee, and had Joseph,2d. born June 19, 1755: James, born Aug. 2, 1757; Jesse, born May 12, 1759.
Josephzd. married Oct. 17, 1776. Anna Bates, and had Samuel B., born Apr. 28, 1777; Betty, born July 3, 1778; Jane, born Sept. 2, 1779. This branch of the Warren family is noted from the fact that its mem- bers were Norwalk navigators during the post-Revolu- tionary period and that they claimed near relation- ship to Maj. Gen. Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill con- nection. Some of the descendants exhibit, to-day, an old leather wallet and a sword, upon the blade of which is inscribed Joseph Warren, articles that (so they claim) were in the possession of a member of the General's household who, whilst journeying from Boston to Norwalk, was compelled to stop, through sickness, in some Rhode Island port, from whence they were forwarded to this town. The descendants of Joseph Warren, Ist. son of Edmund, 2d. of Norwalk, accept, as have their fathers before them, and stoutly profess to believe this. Joseph Warren and his im- mediate successors were seamen. They were em- ployed in the coasting trade.
¿Samuel B. Warren, familiarly called " Squire"
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trips between the two places named, their city berth being adjacent to Catharine, James and Peck Slips and the annual " corporation wharfage" at each berth averaging about ten dollars for each vessel. The receipts for pierage, still preserved, are in olden form, being signed, from 1795 to 1803. by John Bingham, Charles Smith and Moses and Daniel Coe.
Some few years subsequently, 1812-15, Long Island Sound commerce was almost annihilated by the British Commodore Hardy and the "Liverpool packet." Sad work was made with Connecticut schooners and sloops. Our North shore sailors, however, notably Capt. Dan'l. Merritt (ancestor of the 1896 Norwalk Merritts), sometimes eluded the enemy and made their way through the East River into the city. From 1815 to the beginning of local steam navigation, in 1824, there were several Norwalk coasting proprietors. Uriah Selleck,' one of whose vessels (see page 51) was lost in the memorable autumn gale of 1821, was one of these. Eben. D. Hoyt was a shipmaster at that time. In the summer
Warren, son of Joseph, was well known in this com- munity. He married Lydia, daughter of Hezekiah Raymond, and a sister of Mrs. Capt. Daniel K. Nash. Their residence was on Flax Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Warren were blessed with nine children, the oldest son being the heroic Dr. Hezekiah B. Warren. This physician of character "too valuable to die so young" (see page III) was a grandson of Hezekiah Raymond, whose wife Lydia, was a daughter of Rev. James and Mary Lockwood, said Mrs. Mary Lockwood having been a daughter of Rev. Moses Dickinson, third pas- tor of the First Congregational Church, Norwalk.
The Warren incumbency of the Norwalk sail ves- sel route was at a time of interesting metropolitan his- tory. John Jacob Astor had just established himself in Water Street and made the second of his nearly three hundred property purchases. Alexander Hamilton had recently become the proprietor of the twenty- acre "Grange," a splendid tract in the upper part of the island. Aaron Burr, who in 1804 mortally wound- ed Hamilton, had bought his handsome Richmond Hill, now Varick Street. The Rosevelts' lucrative plate glass plant had been established and their ele- gant home (Broadway and Fourteenth Street) opened ; and High Constable Hayes, who dared to name his son after Aaron Burr, which son held for a half-cen- tury the office of cashier of the North River Bank, was then an influential citizen.
'Uriah Selleck's dwelling was on the N. W. cor- ner of the present Main Street and Union Avenue. His store and dock were (see note page 51) near the Leonard coal wharf of to-day and opposite the Jos- eph Keeler, afterward Anson Quintard, home. Jos- eph Keeler was a son of Capt. Samuel Keeler, whose "home-lot land" was the southern boundary of Ralph Isaacs' 1750 purchase, covered in 1894 by the Norwalk Opera House, Post-Office, Railway station, Masonic building, Club house, Isaacs Street and Hanford's Floral Hall. Mrs. Joseph Keeler was Hannah, daugh-
ter of Isaac Hoyt, of South Norwalk, and a sister of Charles Hoyt, formerly of North Avenue. At the decease, in 1822, of Uriah Selleck, his dock and store property fell to the widow of his son Zalmon, Mrs. Eliza Selleck, mother of Mrs. Wm. K. James, whose husband afterward bought the property. The next store above Uriah Selleck's was that of Joseph Keeler, the premises to the extreme north of whom on Har- bour Avenue, now Water Street, was owned by Eben- ezer D. Hoyt.
Uriah Selleck's grand-daughter, Maria Philips Selleck, the now venerable (Mrs. William K. James) has, from childhood, been the intimate friend of the Peter Lockwood descendants through his grandson Buckingham St. John Lockwood. The daughters of the latter, Elizabeth, Mary Esther and Julia Abigail, and also such well recalled Norwalk daughters as Elizabeth, Ann and Sophia Isaacs, and Mary Esther, Susan Virginia, Sarah Louisa and Julia Belden St. John, and Margaret and Amelia Belden, and Mary and Harriet Hoyt, and Mary and Margaret Newkirk, and Elizabeth Jarvis, Harriet Betts, Augusta Greg- ory, Elizabeth St. John and Charlotte Camp were acquaintances and companions in days agone. Mrs. James is of the same Hon. Richard Law blood as are the descendants, Lockwoods and others, of Captain Joseph St. John.2d. Her father Zalmon, born March 31, 1795, was son of Uriah, baptized Oct. 31, 1762-3, who was son of Nathaniel, born Oct. 29, 1725, who was son of David, born Dec. 23, 1700, who was son of Nathaniel, born April 7, 1678, who was son of John and Sarah ( Law) Selleck. John Selleck married Sarah, daughter of Hon. Richard Law, October 25, 1669. He was born in Boston, Feb. 21, 1643, and bap- tized two days afterward. Mrs. James has been a benefactor of St. Paul's Parish, Norwalk, and has generously erected the Ludlow monument in the East Norwalk of 1896 to the memory of Roger Ludlow, the founder of Norwalk.
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of 1814 he built on Uriah Selleck's dock the sloop Teaser. Afterward the firm name was "E. D. Hoyt & Son" (Edwin), the line consisting of the Union, Captain Jedediah Brown ; the Mechanic, Captains Samuel Daskam and Alden Brothwell; the Citizen, Captains Sam- uel Pennoyer and Sherman T. Morehouse, and Sabina, (Capt. Francis Hoyt was an officer in this line) made tri-weekly trips, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, to New York.
Noah Selleck having bought out the Hoyts, sailed from the Hoyt dock close to the "bridge." His line embraced the sloops, Mary Ann Selleck, Domestic and Surplus as an extra. Captains Joseph Byxbee, Isaac Demmon and Isaac Selleck commanded the boats. At this time Captain Willis J. Merritt built and ran the sloop Mary Willis upon the Nor- walk route. Noah Selleck afterward associated with him his brother Isaac. The two were succeeded by the latter's son Capt. Isaac Selleck, Jr. Charles T. Leonard now be- came temporary proprietor, and finally Capt. Isaac Demmon controlled the line. This was the end (barring a sort of desultory occupancy of the route by the sloop John I. Perry be- longing to A. J. Meeker & Brother) of Norwalk packet history, which end was tragic. The last vessel of the last regular line, the Domestic, was burned to the water's edge off Shippan Point, and her last commander, Capt. Isaac Demmon, died in the arms of Captain Isaac Selleck, Jr., on West Avenue, Norwalk.
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