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IThe Rev. Curtis Trowbridge Woodruff, an at- tached friend of the Lockwoods, was actively inter- ested in this handsome celebration.
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LeGrand Lockwood, Jr., died in New York City, April 1, 1887.
Williston Benedict, son of LeGrand and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married October, 1869, Janet Isabel, daughter of Jas. Wm. and Mary Day (Wells) Dominick,' and had :
Louise, born Aug. 15, 1870, (Mrs. Aldred Warren).
Bertha Day, born Feb. 18, 1872.
Isabel Dominick.
Henry Benedict, son of LeGrand'st. and Ann Louisa Lockwood, married Aug. 17, 1885, Rosa Cooper, daughter of J. P. and Emily (Gray) McCay, of Baltimore, and had :
Violet, born Jan. 2, 1887.
Edwin Lockwood, uncle of LeGrand and son of Ebenezer and Mary (Godfrey) Lockwood, born Sept. 8, 1799, was a genial gentleman. He married, first, Oct. 22, 1829, Emily Ives, of New Haven, and had Emily Ives, born Oct. 12, 1830, who only passed eleven summers. Mr. Lockwood married, second, August 2, 1832, Emily, daughter of Henry and Eleanor (Burr) Olmstead, of Ridgefield, and had :
Elizabeth A., born April 29, 1833. Ebenezer, born Nov. 23, 1837. (Died Feb. 27, 1838.) (Died Jan. 26, 1857.)
Edwin F., born June 14, 1834. (Died March 7, 1838.) (Married Mary Amelia Smith. )
Charles Edwin, born June 1, 1841.
Eliza J., born Dec. 12, 1836.
(Died June 17, 1838. )
Ellen E. born Aug. 5, 1846. (Died Nov. 28, 1847.) Elvira, born March 17, 1849. (Died Feb. 19, 1858.)
The second Mrs. Edwin Lockwood's (Emily Olmstead) admirable nature and man- ners endeared her to a large circle of relatives and friends.
'The Dominicks were formerly Norwalk visitors, as were also branches of the Corning and Delavan families. The first were New Yorkers, the last two were of Albany association. Mr. Williston B. Lock- wood here met his Dominick bride. Edward Corn- ing. who spent a brief portion of his childhood in Norwalk, married a Dominick. Himself and a son of Geo. W Betts (George) were brothers-in-law. The sons of Edward C. Delavan, John S. and William M., are fondly Norwalk-remembered. William M. died young and John S. (M.D. ) in early life. Words in- adequately portray the grand qualities of these royal- natured brothers. With their sister Mary (Mrs. Al- bion Ransom, deceased), one of the best of women, they were children, by his first marriage, of the emin- ent philanthropist, Edward C. Delavan. Delavan is a household Albany name and a lofty Albany mem- ory. Edward C. Delavan spent his life and employed his large wealth for the benefit of his fellow men. He was a humanitarian not alone in profession but in practical performance. Standing, May 27, 1854, on the edge of Ballston Lake, which was bordered by his | Place, Troy, N. Y.,) were former school mates.
extensive Saratoga County property and summer home, a startling shout arose from a company of school boys (a grandson of LeGrand Cannon was one of the number) there bathing, " Jimmie Perry is miss. ing." In a moment the aged man was waist deep in water and a second afterward was diving beneath the surface. Rising to the level he held aloft the lad's stiffened form and, exhausted, left to another to com- plete the heroic deed and bear the rigid body to the lake-bank where, after almost herculean efforts, the youth was restored. Mr. Delavan had walked across his rolling acres to show a Norwalk party the roman- tic spot when the depicted scene occurred. He was one of God's noblemen. His second wife was Miss Harriet Schuyler, of Ballston, N. Y., by whom he had one daughter. His son-in-law, Albion Ransom, (Ransom & Co., Albany,) was the uncle of the wife of the Rev. Richard P. H. Vail, D. D., pastor, in 1896, of the Stamford Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. Vail, the Delavan boys, LeGrand C. Cramer and the rescued young Perry (son of Hon. Amos S. Perry, of Park
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Charles Edwin, son of Edwin and Emily (Olmstead) Lockwood, married July I, 1875, Mary Amelia, only daughter of George W. and Emily (Gregory) Smith. There are no children by this union.
LOCKWOOD-BOALT DESCENDANTS. LOCKWOOD.
Gen. I .- EPHRAIM AND MERCIE (ST. JOHN) LOCKWOOD.
.. II .- JOSEPH15. AND MARY (WOOD) LOCKWOOD.
III .- JOSEPH2d. AND REBECCA (ROGERS) LOCKWOOD.
IV .- DAVID AND MARTHA (WIDOW TROWBRIDGE) LOCKWOOD.
.. V .- RUTH LOCKWOOD, born Jan. 9, 1780.
BOALT.
Gen. I .- JOHN". AND ELIZABETH (CLEMENCE) BOALT.
" II .- RICHARD BOALT, 3rd. born April 30, 1696.
" III .- DAVID, b. March 31, 1740, and SARAH (Mott or de la Mott) BOALT.
IV .- JOHN AND RUTH (LOCKWOOD) BOALT.
The generation-difference, numerical-wise, between the Lockwood and Boalt de- scendants is accounted for from the fact of the latter family's fifty years later Norwalk ar- rival than the family of the Lockwoods.
The progenitors of the Norwalk Bolt or Boalts' appear early in this land as occu- pants (see page 188) of that territory-portion which forms at the present time the border line, on Long Island Sound, of the States of Connecticut and New York. Here, near the ancient " Horseneck," we seem to find the ancestors of the Norwalk Boalts and Reeds who, having, it is claimed, belonged to the English Cromwell party, came afterward to this country and settled as before mentioned, where they were, presumably, agriculturists and built their vegetable vaults" similar to those, the remains of which were, until within a few years past, distinctly traced along the banks of the "Neck " referred to. The Reeds and Boalts, both, came to Norwalk and founded farms in the same section of the town- ship. John Reed brought his Rhode Island and John Boalt his Stamford bride to this town, and the two families were not distant neighbors. Mrs. Boalt was the daughter of a
'Bolt or Boalt is a family patronymic of recog- nition across the sea, and " Bolt's End " and " Bolt's Court" are English Channel and London City desig- nations. John Bolt or Boalt,Ist. of Norwalk, was what might to-day be termed a topographical engin- eer. He married into a minister's family, and his brother-in-law, if Stamford registration is correctly interpreted, was a Colonial physician.
2These stone receptacles were, in the old Norwalk and Stamford steamboat days, a curiosity to the trav- eler whose eye caught them from the vessel's deck as
it turned in from the Sound to make a landing at "Sawpits" or "Horseneck." It was the custom on the boats, as these points were approached, to ring the steamer's bell (steam whistles were at that time un- known) as an announcement that a "stop" would shortly be made, and anon a porter's bell warning "passengers who are going ashore" to "get their baggage ready." The near-by green slope, dotted now and then by the "Rocky Neck" and " Horse- neck" ancient potato vaults, furnished a fine echo- bank for the steamer's musical-toned monitor.
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clergyman.1 Herself and husband were married in Stamford on Nov. 20, 1694, and came, presently, to their new home. The following is their descendant-table :2
Richard, 3rd. born " in New York Island," April 30, 1696.
Arkellus, died Nov. 28, 1706.
Charles, born Aug. 30, 1702 ; died unmarried.
Sarah, born June 12, 1705, (Mrs. John Little). (Married April 14, 1735.)
Abigail, born Nov. 7, 1707.
John,3 born Oct. 7. 1710. William, born Nov. 7, 1713. Benjamin, born Sept. 26, 1718.
Richard, 3d. oldest son of JohnIst. and Elizabeth (Clemence) Boalt, remained in Nor- walk. He owned the to-day beautiful upper Haynes Ridge (see page 204) and sold the same in 1736 to Ebenezer Smith, a grandson-in-law of "Mr. William Haynes." The Boalt New Canaan acreage was admirable. A portion of the estate forms the present site of the Dr. Willard Parker, Sr., commanding vicinity. From this high land the view scape, in every point of the compass, is exceptionally fine. The family of Richard3d. and Hepzibah Boalt was composed, as far as is positively known, of four sons and four daugh- ters, viz. :
Richard, (never returned from sea). Hepzibah, born April 3, 1721.
Charles, died at sea. Deborah,5 (Mrs. David Camp).
Abraham, died abroad.4 Abigail.
David, Ist. born March 31, 1740. Catherine.
David, Ist. son of Richard and Hepzibah Boalt, married Sarah (born Sept. 3, 1744) Mott or de la Mott, and had :
Elizabeth, born May 4. 1765, (Mrs. Samuel Betts).
David, Jr., born Dec. 25. 1766.
Mrs. John Boalt. Ist. of Norwalk, was named for her mother, Elizabeth, wife of Rev. William Clemence of Stamford. Mrs. Clemence survived her husband until March 17, 1727-8. Mr. Clemence was an in- structor also.
2The lineages of Johnist. and Richard3rd. Boalt are text-presented after very close and careful examin- ations of the ancient Stamford and Norwalk records, and a thorough perusal of private data. They are be- lieved to be highly accurate.
3At the early age of twenty-six was one of the " Five Mile River petitioners." He then removed to Dover, N. Y., and does not seem to have permanently returned to Norwalk.
4He was engaged with Capt. Sears in the French War. The captain and his men took a vessel-prize,
but through some unfortunate affairs-turn Boalt and a number of his comrades were left upon an island, and not afterwards heard from.
5Deborah, daughter of Richard Boalt,3d. married April 29, 1741, as his second wife, David, son of Sam- uel Camp, of Milford, and had Samuel, born Oct. 23, 1742; Hepzibah, 1744; Elizabeth, 1747; Mary, 1751; David, 1752; Moses, 1754, and James, 1757. David Camp had married, first, June 26, 1735, Sarah Terrill, of Woodbury, who died March 31, 1737, leaving an infant, Sarah, born 1737. David Camp died March 18, 1782, aged 82 years.
A grand - daughter of Richard3d. and Ilepzibah Boalt, (Mrs. Samuel Betts) who was living in 1841, mentioned that she had a step-grandmother, the sec- ond Mrs. Richard Boalt.3d.
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Rhoda, born Feb. 1, 1769, (Mrs. Uriah Hanford).'
Jacob, 1st, born March 26, 1771, died June 9, 1772.
Jacob,2d. born Feb. 7, 1773, went to Otsego Co., N. Y.
John, born Feb. 9, 1775.
Charles, born Jan. 3, 1777.
Ebenezer, born Aug. 4, 1780.
David, Jr., son of David'st. and Sarah (Mott or de la Mott) Boalt, married March 17, 1790, Sarah Taylor,' of West Norwalk, and had :
Sarah, born Nov. 11, 1790, died young.
Frederick Anson, born Aug. 18, 1793, died young.
Rhua, born Aug. 22, 1797, (Mrs. William Daskam).3
Of the sons, other than Richard, 3d. of John Boalt,">". Charles'st. may have died young, as he seems to have birth registration only. John2d. went to the Oblong. Wil- liamIst. married Dec. 8, 1748, Lydia Fitch, and had :
Lydia, born Mar. 23, 1750, (Mrs. John Hoyt).
Elizabeth, born May 25, 1752, (Mrs. John Jarvis).
William, 2d. born March 24, 1755, (went to Ballston, N. Y.)
John, born Jan. 18, 1758, (died young).
Charles, born Nov. 26, 1761, (went to Cayuga Co., N. Y.).
Abigail, born May 11, 1765. Samuel, born July 5. 1768.
Benjamin, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Boalt, married Dec. 29, 1748, Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Whitney) Keeler.
LOCKWOOD-HICKOX-BOALT.
John, fourth born son of David and Sarah (Mott or de la Mott) Boalt, married Ruth, daughter of David and Martha (Hickox-Trowbridge) Lockwood, the descent from which Mrs. Ruth (Lockwood) Boalt constitutes one of the most interesting of Norwalk
1Her daughter Sarah, born Feb. 24, 1797, married Daniel Fitch Betts, of Norwalk. The other children of Uriah and Rhoda (Boalt) Hanford were George, born February 28. 1789; Amanda, July 3, 1790; John, April 16, 1792; Uriah, Jr., May 21, 1799; Theodore, March 2, 1807; Wm. LeGrand, Apr. 13, 1811. These were nephews and niece of Mrs. Ebenezer D. Hoyt, of Norwalk.
2Her sister was the mother of Rev. Melancthon Hoyt, missionary under Bishop Kemper. Mrs. Hoyt was a sister of Rev. B. M. Yarrington of Greenwich.
3The children of William and Rhua (Boalt) Das- kam were George (married Sarah Finch and had
daughter Georgiana); Ann Eliza (Mrs. S. B. Beards- ley); Wm. (died at sea) ; Mary Louisa (died unmar- ried) ; Harriet Frances (died unmarried).
Ann Eliza, daughter of William and Rhua Das- kam, married June 29, 1844, Sidney Burr Beardsley (Judge S. B. Beardsley), and had :
Cyrus H., died young. An infant.
Edward Burr; married Harriet Phelps.
Sarah Taylor; married Fritz Hosuinghaus.
Susan ; married Charles, son of Fred'k. Wood. Judge S. B. Beardsley is deceased and his widow and family are residing in Bridgeport.
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genealogy-recitals. Her mother, Martha Hickox-Trowbridge,' was baptized in Wilton in 1743-4. She was the daughter of Silas Hickox. born Jan. 8, 1714, (page 281 ) and married, first, March 9, 1763, Josiah Trowbridge, and second, Aug. 6, 1777, David Lockwood. Silas Hickox, the grandfather of Mrs. John Boalt, was the son of a " good man," Deacon Benjamin (and Sarah Lockwood-Selleck) Hickox, first of Stamford and next of Norwalk (Wilton Parish). Deacon Benjamin Hickox was the first deacon of the Wilton Church, and it is a singular and suggestive coincidence that Deacon Benj. Hickox, of Woodbury, (see Cothren page 566) should have been about the same age and have died the very same year, and had a son Silas, as was and did and had Norwalk's Deacon Benjamin Hickox. Silas Hickox (father of Mrs. David Lockwood) received from his worthy sire advantageous Wilton property, a portion of the Hickox estate being the vicinity-site of the present Con- gregational Church in that town. His mother was the remarkable Kellogg-bride referred to in sub foot-note, page 272, and the care which he (Silas) took of his niece, Mrs. Job Burlock (grandmother of Mrs. Nathan Warren and Mrs. LeGrand Cannon, of Troy, and great-grandmother of Mrs. Benjamin DeForest, of New York, see pages 278-280) is trust- evidence. That niece, over whom the Court, in 1748, appointed him a guardian, lived to see trouble. Her husband died at his own door-sill, and she, because of political (prop- erty) complications, fled, to marry, however, for a second husband, an English General who has fine notice in the annals of Nova Scotia. The history of Mrs. John Boalt's Hickox blood and affinity is study-repaying and forms a no mean topic of Norwalk genealogical and biographical recitation. She herself, and it is no surprise that it was so, was a New England woman whose virtues such a pattern son as the late Hon. Chas. Leicester Boalt, of Sandusky, Ohio, naturally inherited. She was, as has been expressed of her, "a most unusual woman, stamping on each child her individual traits, of perfect honesty and fine personal character. The children (she had three sons and eight daughters) always spoke of their mother as a woman to be greatly respected and revered."2
IMrs. David Lockwood ( formerly the widow Trowbridge) whose daughter Ruth married John, son of David and Sarah ( Mott or de la Mott) Boalt, and who was married to Mr. Lockwood Aug. 6, 1777, was the widow of Josiah Trowbridge of Wilton, Conn. She was born in 1743 and her maiden name was Hic- kox. Her Trowbridge union took place March 9, 1763. Her Lockwood daughter Ruth, ( Mrs. John Boalt) was born Jan. 9. 1780. David Lockwood, her husband, died July 6, 1789. On the 26th of Jan. the year previous (1788) he drew up his will and execut- ed it. He made bequests to his wife Martha, and his children Thomas, David, Silas Clark, John, Ruth and Anne. The will was proven in less than a month after his decease, Aug. 3, 1789, but the estate was not inventoried until Dee. IS, 1790, and the court did not order its distribution until Nov. 7, 1791, while distri- bution was not finally made until Mar. 20, 1792. The
children were first cousins of Benjamin (father of Le- Grand) Lockwood, and of Edwin, who lived so long at the head of Norwalk Green (present home of the daughters of the late Morgan T. Smith), and of the well known Alfred Lockwood, of New York City.
2She was named for her grandmother Ruth, Mrs. Silas Hickox. This goodly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hickox, were admitted to the Wilton Church on April 16, 1738. They had probably just been mar- ried and after covenanting between themselves made their "covenant" with God. Their dwelling was in a sequestered portion of the Wilton precincts, hard by which lay some of the boldest scenery in that roman- tic township. They had five children, Wm., Sarah, Martha ( Mrs. Josiah Trowbridge first, and second, Mrs. David Lockwood), Esther and Hannah. Martha was born June 13, 1743-4, and she gave her mother's name, Ruth, to her Lockwood daughter.
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Hon. Charles Leicester Boalt, of Sandusky, Ohio, born in Norwalk, Conn., Nov. 27, 1802, and son of John and Ruth (Lockwood) Boalt, of this town, married Eliza Wood- bridge, daughter of Gov. Roger Griswold and grand-daughter of Gov. Matthew Griswold, both of Conn. This distinguished Norwalk native (see page 188) and known and prized by such modern residents of this town as Judge Thomas B. Butler and Colonel F. St. John Lockwood, died in Sandusky, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1870, leaving the following children :
Cornelia Elizabeth.
(Mrs. Wm. H. McDonald, Glens Falls, N. Y.)
Charles Griswold.
John Henry. Frances Lane Griswold.'
(Mrs. Jay Osborne Moss, Sandusky, Ohio.)
Frederick Harper.
William Leicester (Austria).
These children have distinct Colonial office-ancestry, their father's Hickox forepar- ent having been a member, in 1728, of the Hartford Colonial General Assembly and their mother having been of more than one Colonial Governor's blood.
But few sons of old Norwalk have ever reflected such eminent credit upon their New England cradle as has Hon. Charles L. Boalt, of Ohio. His visits to his father's hearthstone are well remembered and all who here knew him will agree with the accom- panying just tribute, which was written, at his decease, in his adopted Ohio :
"Mr. Boalt was a man generally and most favorably known, especially among members of the bar. He was a man of indomitable courage and unflinching persever- ance in everything he undertook ; a man of probity and honor, and of the highest moral sentiments and purity of character. He possessed all of those kind and genial qualities that lend their sweetest charms to social companionship. Few men ever lived who en- joyed more fully the love and esteem of personal acquaintances. He has left thousands to mourn his loss, but enemies he had none."
Jacob, Charles and Ebenezer were the brothers (other than David2d. and John) who were the sons of David"". and Sarah Boalt. These brethren have, in different locali- ties, perpetuated the name of their Norwalk ancestor, John Boalt,2 of Five Mile River, the
Frances Lane Griswold Boalt married May 26, 1863, Jay Osborne Moss, of the "Moss Bank," San- dusky, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have two children, Augustus Leicester and Cornelia Emily. The bro- ther Augustus L., married Carrie Curtis, of Hart- ford, and the sister, Cornelia E., is the present Mrs. George Hunter Brown, Jr., of Fishkill-on-Hudson. Mrs. Jay O. Moss makes contribution of her time and talents in the prosecution of the work of historical and genealogical study. Herself of notable lineage she gladly minds any discovery in a kindred direc-
tion, and takes a warm interest in her departed father's birth place recordings and reminiscences. Her husband, Jay Osborne Moss, is a descendant of John Moss, one of the A. 1)., 1639, singers of the New Haven Colony compact. The blood of both Mr. and Mrs. Moss is that of the conspicuous and commend- able of the land.
2John Boalt, Ist. "Artice" ( so an ancient deed designates him) or topographer, was, if an old manu- script is reliable, the son of Richard Boalt, Sr., and the American Norwalk-line Boalt father. Richard
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first of the family who has record in this antiquity. plantation. It is a pity that disassoci- ation with the past should be such an accomplished fact as that inquiry must needs, in 1896, be made ere one can be assured, locality-wise, of such formerly well-known Roway- ton or Five Mile River sites as Boalt's meadows. "Reed's Farm " and " Warren's dock."'
The Lockwood family into which John, son of David Boalt, 1st. married is a house- hold, the descendants of which, lineal and collateral, have so figured in home and abroad history as that the household's founder could hardly have forecast the increase and in- fluence of his large and important progeny.
With the description-completion of Home-lot xx ends the partial story of those primitive hearthstone divisions which stood on the ancient "Towne Streete." Other fathers elsewhere planted themselves (see diagram page 39). The situations of the re- ferred-to home-sites are believed to be accurate, but the numbering of the same is simply a matter of convenience.
Boalt, Sr., had four sons, Richard, 2d. John, Ist. (who came to Norwalk) William, Benjamin, Charles, and a daughter Deborah. No other Boalts than those of this lineage are found in Norwalk. The estate of John Boaltist. was inventoried May 4, 1730, and his widow and son Richard3d. were the executors of the same.
IThis dock at the navigable head of Five Mile River was, it is believed, built by Edmond Warren, (see page 268) the parent of the Norwalk Warrens. It stood, as is now said and shown in Rowayton, on the west side of the stream and immediately across the Tramway bridge which spans the narrow upper end of said river at Rowayton. Beyond this dock and bridge the stream, a small rivulet and afterward brook, may be traced as far north as Vista in the State of New York. (See page 59.) The " Warren dock" is mentioned to-day by the descendants of Ed- mond Warren, Ist. and its present appearance is not unattractive. It is claimed by one of the Warren family that a son of Edmond, Ist. the forefather, was drowned in " Warren's Pond" at Rowayton. As be- fore intimated on this page it is to be regretted that so many old time place-memories have been per- mitted to lapse with the lapse of the generations. It is not, however, altogether too late to undo to some extent this remissness-effect, and the proper tablet marking of points still recognition-possible, might constitute albeit a limited yet a not entirely unin- structive panorama of Norwalk founding days' "ex- periences."
BOALT-GLINTS.
Sammel, son of William and Lydia Boalt, mar- ried Jan. 3, 1798, Mary Webb, and had Samuel Webb Boalt, born December 9, 1798. Mary, wife, died De- cember 26, 1798.
From Boalt records which have been preserved in Unadilla, N. Y., it is gathered that John Boalt Ist., the Norwalk pioneer, had a sister Deborah, who married and settled in the extreme north-western portion of Fairfield County. Her husband's name is said to have been Wanzer. Wanzer appears to have been a New Milford vicinity cognomen of later date.
It is inferred that the Charles Boalt, (son of Rich- ard 3d.) who died at sea, left two daughters, Lydia, who married a Captain Butterworth and settled in Boston, and Elizabeth, who married a Timberlin.
The Ballston, N. Y., Boalts are descendants of William Boalt of New Canaan. There stands to-day, at the foot of Church ilill, in that town, and in the rear of the present Seymour Comstock residence, the remains (transformed) of an old Boalt mill.
David Boalt 2d., who married Sarah Taylor, lived in the yet existing house on " Mullen Hill " (opposite the Main Street Edwin Hoyt home). This hill has been so changed as that a very imperfect idea can now be formed of the old David Boalt 2d. grounds.
The Vista Boalt home grounds are unbuilt upon in 1896. They stand upon the New Canaan and Ridge- field road, about midway between the two towns, and near the source of the stream, Five Mile River, at the mouth of which the Norwalk Boalt father established himself.
The Hickox-Burlock relationship furnishes mat- ter for quite a chapter of Norwalk history. Job Bur- lock, the father of the Burlock family, met with a sad death. and his widow afterward married in the Prov- inces. It is possible that she had children by her second husband, but they do not appear in their mother's childhood home. Her maiden - De Forest name still lives, although marriages and removals have wrought great alterations. The Lockwood family vigorously remains to this hour.
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HOME-LOT XXI SAMUEL HALE. ROBERT STUART.
Samuel Hale's tenancy of home-lot xxi is mentioned in connection with that of his supposed to be brother Thomas' occupation of home-lot xvi (see page 285). The Hale's do not appear to have remained many years in Norwalk, nor here to have left descend- ants. Nathan Hale, the patriot-spy of the Revolution, came to Norwalk, (see Lamb's New York, Volume ii, page 137) but his errand was entirely professional. He here took a craft and, investigation errand - bound, sailed from hence' to the enemy's quarters at Huntington, on the thither side of Long Island Sound.
Robert Stuart, the second occupant of home-lot xxi, made the purchase on March 8, 1660. The lot was in the rear of the East Avenue Chichester property of 1896. Mr. Stuart may have made this purchase as anticipatory of his marriage, June 12, 1661, to Bethia, daughter of Thomas and Rose (Sherwood) Rumble of Stratford. Mrs. Stuart's father, Thomas Rumble, was born in 1613, and came in Sept. 1635, to Boston. The year after Thomas Rumble landed, a small craft of 25 tons brought the brave Lyon Gardiner, and his wife Mary, to these shores. These two worthies were the founders of the well- known " Gardiner's Island," in the eastern part of Long Island Sound. Lyon Gardiner reached Saybrook Nov. 28, 1635, and the next season built the Saybrook fort At this time Thomas Rumble put himself under Mr. Gardiner's command, and fought against the Pequots. The first white child born (Apr. 29, 1636) in Connecticut, David, son of Lyon and Mary Gardiner, was the offspring of Rumble's leader, the birth of which lad the soldier. Rumble, for thirteen years survived. Four years after his death, his widow, Rose, married Thomas Barlow of Fairfield. Mrs. Barlow survived her second husband, and married, third, Edward Nash, the founder of the Nash family of Norwalk. Her daughter Bethia had wedded Robert Stuart, and the two good people lived on the home-lot under descrip- tion (xxi). To the south of their domain stretched a tract east of the highway (rear of the present Oscar W. Raymond and other properties) which (see note page 7) may originally
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