Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 46

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

USA > Connecticut > Fairfield County > Norwalk > Norwalk, history from 1896 > Part 46

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

'The point on the Norwalk coast from which Na- than Hale embarked for Long Island is not, so far, positively known. The Raymonds, in 1764-84, ran a "ferry" to the Island, but there is proof that Hale's conveyance was not a public one. There was private transportation to the Island from "Pampaskashanke", and horses for the British were " scowed " across the Sound from Middlesex (Darien). The Sunday (July 22, 1781) route from the shore which the captors of Rev. Moses Mather took, lav, one record states, from just west of the head of Pampaskashanke inlet (Wil- son's Cove, 1896) near " Witch Lane", and thence over the present " old Five-Mile River Road" to the Middlesex Church, along which same way they possi- bly marched the prisoner-minister and his assembled

people, in pairs, on the return to their boats at Pam- paskashanke beach. "Witch Lane" (see page 302) is to this day a wierd spot. The present Norwalk Tramway crosses it at a point not greatly distant from the temporary quarters of old Phoebe Comstock's old slave, "O'ne " (see note page 260). The Comstock's who lived in Lower Silver Mine, seem to have gath- ered their salt hay from the neighborhood of the 1896 Belden Point, and "O'ne," during the hay-cut- ting season, probably there inhabited. At the sum- mit of Witch Lane, and but a few rods northwest of the Tramway crossing, is a small burial enclosure, which formed a portion of the Esaias Bouton estate, and within which are interred the mortal remains of this Pampaskashanke resident and those of his wife.

322

NORWALK.

have possibly been intended for Mr. Ludlow's sons, but which fell to Richard Bushnell's ownership. Mr. Bushnell was a non-resident of Norwalk, probably, but as he had married Maria, daughter of Matthew Marvin, Sr., he was Norwalk-connected. On May 30, 1663, Robert Stuart bought from Thos. Adgate of Norwich (who had married the widow of Richard Bushnell and was administrator of the Bushnell estate) a portion of this fine piece, and on Oct. 22, 1674, he purchased still more of it. Mr. Stuart also owned a large slice of property in the " Ely Neck ", later " Belden Neck" vicinity. "Stuart's Meadow" was his belonging as well as "Stuart's Landing". The latter was quite a shipping pier or place, near what was afterwards known as the "Village", (between the South Norwalk and Wilson Point of 1896). Robert Stuart made his thus endorsed will, "They that are in the Lord are happy indeed", on March 12, 1679, and died in 1688, leaving issue as follows :

James,'st. born March 19, 1662-3.

Abigail, born middle Aug. 1666. (Mrs. Richard Corsair.)' John,1st. born March 18, 1668-9. Deborah, born May, 1669. Elizabeth, born Sept., 1671. Phœbe, born Feb. 1673. Sarah, born 1675. Samuel,1st. born May, 1677. Rachel, born 1685. (Married David, son of John Raymond'st.).

The children of James'st. and Experience Stuart were James2nd., Robert, Hannah, (married John Taylor), Deborah (married Apr. 14, 1726, James Pickett).2 Mary (married John Morehouse of Fairfield), and Emma (who married, March 4, 1723-4), John Paret of Fairfield. The family seat was where now resides, on East Avenue, the widow of the late Wm. G. Thomas. This piece of property (some two or so acres) was on Feb. 20, 1667, granted by the town " Proprietors" to James Beebe of Stratford (see note page 113). Soon after James StuartIst. became of age, he bought (1685) Mr. Beebe out, and the latter removed to Danbury. Mr. Stuart held the acres intact until Dec. 1, 1726, when he deeded one-half acre to the town as a site for the third Meeting House, he receiving for the new

'The children of Richard and Abigail (Stuart) Corsair were: John, born 1693; Abigail (married a Watson); Hezekiah, born July 3, 1708; Josiah, born March 1. 1710 (removed to Milford); and Thomas, born 1711.

2Deborah, daughter of Ensign JamesIst. and Ex- perience Stuart, married April 14, 1726, James2d., son of JamesIst. and Rebecca ( Keeler) Pickett, and grand- son of John and Margaret Pickett the settlers. The son. John, born Sept. 6, 1737, of James and Deborah (Stuart) Pickett, married Mercy Platt, and had a son

John, who married Mary Bates, which John and Mary (Bates) Pickett were the parents of Clarissa Pickett, born March 28, 1799, who married the late Joseph Platt Wood of East Avenue, Norwalk, who was the father of the energetic Noah Wood, now of said Ave- nue, and who, in 1896, owns and occupies the house of the late Edwin Hall, D). D., in the second story south east front room of which was compiled " Hall's Norwalk", and written " Hall's Infant Baptism", and later in the author's Norwalk life, " Hall's Puri- tans and their Principles ".

323

NORWALK.

ecclesiastical locality three and one-half " Ely Neck " acres. The choice of this lot for the third church was made by a disinterested committee (James Wadsworth, John Hall and Samuel Clark) appointed by the Connecticut General Assembly. The old church (second edifice) stood on the Earle's Hill of 1896, but the settlement was stretching north- ward, and convenience compelled the sanctuary's removal. The structure here reared (Thomas place of 1896) was the same that was burned by the British in 1779. After the town's conflagration, the fourth Meeting House was built at the south end of " The Green," opposite, or nearly so, of the present First Congregational Church. Subsequently to Mr. Stuart's disposal of his land to the Church Society he left Norwalk and made a home in Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

John Stuart'st., brother of James'st., had John 2d., Silas, Reuben, Benjamin, Ezra, Abigail (married Jan. 20, 1746, Samuel Fountain), Jemima and Sarah. He was a town surveyor. On Christmas day 1723, he sold ten acres of East Avenue (1896) property to Robert Smith, founder of the Smith branches (Fountain, Hutton and John L.) of the Smith family, and afterward removed to Wilton, of which place he was one of the settlers.

Samuel Stuart1st., brother of James'st. and John'st., married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bennett of Fairfield. His children were : Samuel, John, Simeon'st.,' Nathan, Ruth (married Jonathan Atherton) and Dorothy, who on Aug. 18, 1742-3, married Daniel Burchard of Cortland Manor.

The three sons of Robert'st. and Bethia Stuart, viz. : James'st., John'st. and Samuelist. have many name-descendants to-day, and the sons and daughters of the old Stuart pro- prietor of home-lot xxi have widely diffused his blood.2

OF ROBERT STUARTIst. DESCENT.

The good fore-parents, Robert'st. and Bethia Stuart, had recently bought their home-site (near the 1896 Edmund Smith house, just east of Earle's Hill) when their first

'Samuel and Hannah Stuart had a son Simeonist. who married Nov. 15, 1739, Abigail Smith, who had Simeon2d., who seemed to marry Mary or Maria, daughter of David Whelpley, and to have had Olive, born May 28, 1760, who married Samuelsd., son of Samuel2d. and Elizabeth (Platt) Fitch, who were the parents of Sherman Platt Fitch of Wilton. (see p. 216.)

"The Stuart family has widely scattered repre- sentatives to-day. Nathaniel, son of Nathan Stuart, was baptized Oct. 15, 1755, and married Mary, daugh- ter of Isaac, son of Joseph and grandson of Ephraim Lockwood the settler. Nathaniel and Mary Stuart removed to Vermont. Nathaniel's younger brother, Nathan, born 1747, and almost, if not the only Stuart- named occupant of St. Matthew's Cemetery, Wilton, has a somewhat pathetic history. The little fellow was home-gathered just as the sun was setting on the evening of July 20, 1761, when a bolt descended from a thunder-cloud, and, as was the case with Blackleach Jessup of the same parish, he was instantly killed.

On June 21, 1778, William Scott of the Flat Rock (Ridgefield) district family, married Susanna Stuart. The Scott's seem to have arrived at the Wilton- Ridgefield borders from the more southern portion of the country. They are represented to-day in Ridgefield and Norwalk. It was near their "Flat Rock" possessions that Tryon's men slept on the April 1777 night after the burning of Danbury, and at the time of the Ridgefield skirmish.

The branch of the old Quintard family which is to-day represented by the investigating C. A. Quin- tard of Main Street, derived its Stuart-Pickett blood from Deborah, daughter of Ensign James StuartIst. who married James2d. son of James PickettIst. Ezra Pickett, born July 12, 1740, son of James2d. and Deb- orah Pickett, and who, on March 30, 1761, married Elizabeth Benedict was the father of Elizabeth Pickett who married Isaac, father of the late Evert Quintard, one of Norwalk's venerable and much regarded re- cent citizens.

324

NORWALK.

born, James Stuart".t., came to gladden the home in the spring of 1662-3. The young James, in due time, became a father, and having settled about a half-mile north of his parents, (Thomas East Avenue home of 1896) his wife Experience presented him with a son who, named for his paternal grandfather, was Robert Stuart2nd. Robert2nd. had several children : Betty, born 1740; Sarah, bap. June 3. 1743; Experience, bap. May 1, 1751 ; Isaiah, bap. Aug. 29, 1748, and Isaac, born 1749. The last named child, Isaac, married, Dec. 25, 1771, Olive, born Oct. 20, 1749, daughter of (so it seems) Thaddeus and Abigail Morehouse. Soon after his marriage Isaac Stuart left his peaceful home on the Wilton height, and joining Capt. Comstock's company, "went to war" He had a brother James also, and his sister Sarah, marrying Peter Hubbell, was the mother of the late venerable Matthias Hubbell of Main Street, Norwalk. Isaac Stuart's children were Betty, born July 9, 1772; Martha, born Dec. 24, 1777: Moses, born March 26, 1780, and Sarah, born Aug. 25, 1781. Moses, the only son of Isaac and Olive Stuart, left at his decease. Jan. 4, 1852, an imperishable name and record. He was a Yale man, Class of 1799, and for a short time a Yale tutor. He was settled for a few years over the Centre Church, New Haven, and then was elected Professor of Sacred Literature in the Andover. Mass., Theo- logical Seminary. He married a Miss Hannah Clark of Danbury, and had several child- ren. It was a long step from the quiet portal at the rear of " Drum Hill " to the eminent pulpit on the Elm City Green, but the promising young Moses accomplished it, and his exceptional attainments and character have conferred glory upon his family name and his ancient birth-town. His father died March 23, 1820, and his mother reached a grand age, having deceased June 24. 1840.

HOME-LOT XXII JOHN STEELE.' MATTHIAS ST. JOHN.2

As the head of a great house, the name of Matthias Sension or St. John, is laurel- crowned. When this father arrived in Norwalk and chose his cottage-site, the place was a wilderness. He selected for his home the highest point on the "Towne Street", and, looking through the "clearings" caught, from his south-facing door, glimpses of the dis-

IFor Hon. John Steele's connection with this home-lot see foot note, page 40.

Agreeable to the statement-drift of the " Lineage Preface" found on page 81, the subjoined is here sub- mitted.

ST. JOHN PEDIGREE.

St. John was a name of note in England. Oliver St. John of Penmarke was step-grandfather of Henry VII. Lady Anna, daughter of Sir John St. John, was great-grandmother of Gov. Calvert of Maryland, the father-in-law of John Parke Custis, who was Presi-

dent Washington's step-son, and the grandfather of Mary Randolph Custis (Mrs. Gen. Robert E. Lee).

The claim was formerly made that the Colonial Connecticut St. John's were of descent from one of the English Kings. Cicely, a daughter of Edward IV. married Viscount Sir John, the son of whom took the name of Sir John de St. John, which latter's great- grandson Sir Oliver, was the father of Elizabeth St. John (born 1605, who married, in 1629, a son of John Whitney, Lord Mayor of Boston, England), who came to this country in May, 1636, and settled, with

325

NORWALK.

tantly shimmering Sound. The site of the original St. John hearthstone is to-day covered by the north door-yard and adjoining short east and west roadway of the East Avenue Chichester property. On this spot, the purchase in 1661, from Hon. John Steele, the remarkable progenitor spent his Norwalk life-time, and with his aging eyes beheld the gradual growth of the Ludlow plant.

Roger Ludlow, the Norwalk purchaser and Matthias St. John, the Norwalk pioneer, with other "persons of figure " appear to have been founders of Dorchester, Mass. Lud- low, dissatisfied with the elevation, in 1636, of John Haynes to the Governorship of Mas- sachusetts, determined to quit the colony and emigrate to Connecticut. With a number of his Dorchester neighbors, including, quite possibly, Matthias St. John, Sr., the party, "nearly one-half the population of Dorchester", and a large proportion of its intelligence and wealth, made its way to Windsor, Connecticut. Ludlow came afterward to Fairfield and St. John to Norwalk.

Mr. St. John's estate was tabulated as early as 1655, and in 1661 he bought the home-lot of " Mr. Steele of Farmington ". Granting that the St. John's had fully Norwalk arrived in 1655, the youngest member of the family, James, would have then been six years of age. The children, none of whom were born in Norwalk, were :

MATTHIAS, JR. SAMUEL.

MARK. MERCIE. JAMES.

The oldest son of Matthias St. John, Sr., (Matthias Jr.) must at least have "been of age" in 1655, as his estate was then a matter of record. In 1672 himself and wife Eliza- beth are listed as having seven children,' but their progeny's full complement was, probably, eight, viz .: Ebenezer, James 2d., Samuel 2d., Nathan, Matthias 3d., John, Rachel and Mary.

her husband, in Lynn, Mass. Her father was a man of mark in Cromwell's time, a fact adduced in possi- ble explanation of the conjecture found in Hurd's, 1881, History of Fairfield County, Conn., to the effect that the Norwalk St. John's are descendants of a rel- ative by that name of Protector Oliver and Lady Eliza- beth Cromwell. Again, the belief has obtained that Matthias, the Norwalk St. John forefather, was of kin to Lord Bolingbroke; whilst, finally, a partial gene- alogy of the family, published in 1890, records that the Norwalk St. John ancestors were French Hugue- nots who, driven from their native country on account of their religion, found a refuge in America.

Staunch advocates of these St. John foreign con- jectures were found in the families of Jos. St. John2d., Moses St. John, and in the person of Henry St. John of New Haven, who is remembered in Norwalk to- day. Henry St. John married into a branch of the Samuel Gray family of Brookfield, Conn. Samuel Gray removed from Brookfield to Norwalk, residing for some time in the old building which once occu- pied the northwest corner of the present North Ave-

nue and France Street. He was thrice married. By his first wife he had one child who died young. His second wife was a Ritner, by whom he had one daugh- ter, Miss Sarah Gray. His third wife was Mary Lyon, who died at the house of the late Lucretia ( Jarvis ) St. John in Main Street. There was no is- sue by this marriage. Samuel Gray's niece, daugh- ter of his cousin Harvey E. Gray, of Brookfield, mar- ried Mr. Henry St. John of New Haven.

The Lord Bolingbroke crest embellished the Hudson River palace steamer "St. John," which ves- sel was named for, and for a time commanded by, a great-grandson of Moses St. John of Norwalk, Capt. Alanson Platt St. John.

IThe old home in which the children of Matthias St. John2d. were brought up, stood in a portion of what now forms the East Norwalk Earle homestead. It was hard by Ephraim Lockwood's house on " Meet- ing House Hill", but somewhat nearer the "lane leading to Oyster Shell Point". Soon after the death of Matthias St. John2d. his son Ebenezer sold one- half of the lot to Benjamin St. John, which Benjamin al

326

NORWALK.

Mark, second son of Matthias St. John'st. was the stirring settler who was owner of home-lot iii, as per page 93 and note on page 40.

Samuel, born in 1639, brother of Mark St. John, married in Sept. 1663, Elizabeth, daughter of Walter, the Norwalk Hoyt settler. On his pre-bridal errands Samuel had only to cross a few of the Indian-cleared fields before was reached the home of his future partner, near the present railroad-transformed Fort Point. His life was comparatively brief, as he died at the age of forty-five (Jan. 14, 1684), leaving three children : Sarah, Thomas and Elizabeth.

James"t., youngest son of Matthias St. John, Sr., was married just as 1673 expired (Dec. 31). His partner was Rebecca, daughter of John Pickett"t. of Stratford.' Matthias St. John's last boy, JamesIst., seemed to be in precarious health. He enjoyed only two years of wedded life and died without issue, leaving his property largely to his widow and his nephews Joseph, Thomas and James St. John, and James Lockwood, the son of his sister Mercie (Mrs. Ephraim Lockwood, the Norwalk Lockwood settler). This sister (Mercie) of the early St. John boys, was the progenitress (see home-lot xx, page 289) of the extensive Lockwood household of Norwalk.

A DIVERSE ST. JOHN DESCENT.

Joseph">t., Norwalk's oldest St. John "only son" (see page 93) was the son of Mark and grandson of Matthias St. John, Sr. He married at the age of thirty-two (Mar. 15, 1696) Sarah, (born 1666) daughter of Thomas'st. and Mary Betts, and had :

Sarah, born June 13. 1697. Mary, born Aug. 22, 1701. (Mrs. John Eversley1st.)2 Joseph 2d., born Nov. 5, 1705. (" Captain ".) Elizabeth, born Feb. 6, 1707. (Mrs. Isaac Scudder. )3

ready owned the land adjoining it on every side save the north.

'John Pickett the settler appeared first in Salem, Mass., in 1648 and two years later in Stratford. He died April 1, 1654 and his wife, Margaret Oct. 6, 16.85. His sons John, Jamesist. ( see note page 223 ) and Thomas were baptized in Salem in 1648 His daughter Sarah, who married Robert Lane of Strat- ford, was baptized the same year as were her three brothers. His daughter Rebecca, who married James St. John of Norwalk, and her younger brother Daniel, were baptized later. He was a Stratford Constable in 1650, Selectman in 1667, and a Colonial Assembly Representative 1673-1675.

2The children of the young Englishman Johnist. and Mary ( St. John ) Eversley were John Eversley2d., Daniel, born 1740, Sarah and Mary. John Eversley2d. married Abigail Hyatt and had : John3rd., born Aug. 23, 1766; Molly ( Mrs. Samuel Cable, Jr.), born Mar. 27, 1769 and Betty ( Mrs. Salmon Jennings ), born Jan. 3, 1773. John Eversley3rd. married Mary, born

March 23, 1770, daughter of Nathaniel Benedict and had Anab (Mrs. Eli B. Bennett), born July 30, 1794; John, born Aug. 21, 1797, unmarried ; Polly, Dec. 29, 1799, unmarried; Charles, born Aug. 28, 1802, mar- ried Jane Ketchum of L. I. ; Esther Mary, born May 8, 1803 (Mrs. Richard Sammis) ; Eliza Ann, born Feb. 14, 1809, (Mrs. Samuel Fernald of N. Y. ) ; and Harriet, born June 1, 1815 ( Mrs. Isaac Platt Jarvis).

The children of Eli B. and Anah ( Eversley ) Ben- nett were, Mary Augusta; Nancy Emily; John Fred- erick; Charles Rinaldo; Edwin; Mary Elizabeth ( Mrs. Edward W Stuart); Harriet, ( Mrs. Stiles Whiting Curtiss ); Augusta, (Mrs. James E. Hayt ) : Jane Eliza and Sarah Frances.

Salmon and Betty ( Eversley ) Jennings, lived in the present Cram East Avenue place. They had one child, Sally Ann, who married William Clark and had two children, Edgar and Mary Augusta, neither of whom married.

3Isaac ScudderIst. of Norwalk was one of the eight sons of Benj. Scudderist., who was son of Thomas2d,

327

NORWALK.

Joseph St. John'st. made his will Sept. 24, 1731, and dying two days afterward, the same was probated Jan. 12, 1731-2. In this document mention is made of his wife Sarah, his son Joseph 2d. and his daughters Mary Eversley and Elizabeth. His wife survived him until Aug. 27, 1735. His son, Joseph 2d., like his father before him, was an only son, who, by his marriage to Susannah, born Sept. 3, 1709, daughter of Nathan and Susannah (Hook- er) Selleck, conveyed to his children and their descendants the staunchest of Colonial blood (see page 293). The children of Joseph 2d. and Susannah St. John were :

Susannah. (Mrs. Eliphalet Lockwood 2d.)

Sarah, born Dec. 6, 1734; died Apr. 18, 1741.

Stephen, (Col.) born 1736.

Hooker, born 1742; died March 10, 1782, (unmarried.)'

William, born 1744; died Feb. 1, 1800.

Buckingham, born 1745; died May 5, 1771, (unmarried). (son) died ten years old.

Joseph St John 2d. died Sept. 1753, his wife having preceded him to the tomb on Dec. 4, 1749. His will was drawn Oct. 1, 1751, and admitted to court Oct. 5, 1756. He bequeathed to his oldest son (Col. Stephen) the handsome amount, in that day, of £1000, albeit Stephen was not yet of age. He testamentarily enjoined that his "son William and son Buckingham be brought up to learning in ye college at New Haven". William, for some reason, did not take up a collegiate course, but Buckingham was Yale connected in 1770, and was drowned in Long Island Sound whilst on a passage from New Haven to Norwalk, May 4, 1771.

who was son of Thomas Scudderist. of L. I., the father of the Scudder family of America. Thomas. Ist., great- grandfather of Isaac ScudderIst., is believed to have been the son of Dr. Henry Scudder who presided at the ( 1643) convention appointed by order of the King, at Westminister Abbey ( see Munsell's History of Suffolk County, L. I. ) Thomas Scudder2d. died in 1690, leaving sons and daughters. Benj. Ist. was one of his two only sons. Benj. Ist. died in 1736 leaving eight sons, two of whom, Isaacist. and Ezekiel, settled in Norwalk. Isaac Scudder married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Josephist. and Sarah (Betts) St. John, and had :

Isaac. Sarah. (Mrs. Benjamin Isaacs). Elizabeth. (Married Aug. 27, 1776, Job Bartram).

Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Scud- der, was the third wife of Job Bartram. Mr. Bartram married, first, Nov. 18, 1762, Jerusha Thompson, who died Nov. 23, 1773. The widower married, second, Nov. 7, 1774, Abigail Starr, and had Daniel Starr Bartram, born 1775, who was the father, among other children, of Helen, the late Mrs. Dr. Augustus Sam-

mis of South Norwalk and New Haven. Mrs. Abigail Bartram died Jan. 14, 1776 and her husband married, third, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaacist. and Elizabeth Scudder. The children of Job and Elizabeth ( Scud- der) Bartram were Isaac, born March 27, 1777, died next day ; John, born Dec. 27, 1778, died Feb. 17, next ; Isaac Scudder, born July 2, 1780, died Feb. 27, 1783; Eulalia, born Dec. 22, 1782 and Betsy, born July 10, 1785. Betsy died unmarried.

Eulalia, daughter of Job and Elizabeth Bartram married Rev. Henry Whitlock, Rector 1800-1811, of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk.

Dr. Henry Scudder, the eminent India Mission- ary descended from another branch of the same family from whence sprang the Norwalk Scudders.

1Hooker St. John's complete estate was distribut- ed April 17, 1792, among his two surviving brothers, Stephen and William, and his sister Susannah (Mrs. Eliphalet Lockwood), each receiving an equal share. The value of the whole estate was nearly £2,000. He owned the wharf lot, still held in the Lockwood family, just east of Norwalk Bridge, which lot was valued in 1792, at £50.

328

NORWALK.

Joseph St. John 2d. resided where now summer-tenants, on East Avenue, the family of Wm. H. Earle. It was, in old times, a sightly and picturesque spot. Four of the seven children died young or unmarried, leaving only Susannah (Mrs. Eliphalet Lockwood 2d.), Col. Stephen and William, to transmit the immediate Joseph St. John'st. and 2d. lineage.' The first of this trio, Susannah, has mention on page 292. Her brother,

COLONEL STEPHEN ST. JOHN, Ninth Connecticut Regiment,

who is described as having been an elegant man, married, Dec. 9, 1757, Ann, born 1734, daughter of Hon. Samuel and Susannah Fitch,2 and sister of Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers (see page 161), Mrs. Jehiel Ketchum, and the first Mrs. Ebenezer Church, as well as of the brothers Samuel Fitch 2d. (see page 215), Daniel Fitch (see page 221), and Jonathan Fitch (see page 175). The children of Col. Stephen and Ann St. John were :

Stephen 2d ..

Sarah. (Mrs. Dr. John Cannon zd.)

William.

Susannah. (Mrs. Isaac Scudder Isaacs).

Nancy. (Mrs. Matthew Marvin of Wilton). (See note page 143).

Col. Stephen St. John died May 9, 1785, and his wife April 28, 1797. Their de- scendants have Colonial official-eligibility on both foreparents sides. Col. Stephen St. John had military command, and his wife was a daughter of one high in social position. Their son, Stephen 2d., married Sarah, daughter of Col. Thomas and Sarah (Hill) Fitch (see page 209) which Col. Thomas Fitch was the oldest son of Gov. Thomas Fitch. The children of Stephen 2d. and Sarah St. John were : Julia Ann (the first Mrs. Horace Gibbs, see page 211) and Henrietta. William, the younger brother of Stephen St. John 2d., married Han- nah Marvin (see note page 143).

Of the daughters of Col. Stephen St. John, Sarah married John 2d., son of John1st (Commodore) and Esther (Perry) Cannon (see page 13 and note page 299) and Susannah married Isaac Scudder Isaacs, son of Benjamin and grandson of Ralph and Mary Isaacs; which St. John- Isaacs alliance invites reference, at this point, as follows :

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 46

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