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the south, where he married. Enoch, Jr., another son of Col. Enoch went to Rochester, N. Y., and Hannah, the Col.'s daughter, married Hanford Davenport, who occupied the Haynes Ridge home, leaving it, at his decease, to the Davenport heirs.
+Benjamin, brother of Col. Enoch St. John, had a farm given him by his father, at the foot of " Ferris Hill ", on the present road to the Grupe Reservoir. He had five children. His daugh- ter Catherine, of happy memory, made her home with her uncle Samuel of New Haven, and married Hon. Noah A. Phelps of that city. Colonel Enoch St. John was wont to make horseback trips to and from New Haven.
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St. John. Their children were : Jonathan, who went West ; David 2d., who married Nancy Hurd of Monroe, Conn .; ' Hannah (Mrs. Krozer); Sally (Mrs. Hannon); Mary, (Mrs. Abraham Camp); William, who married Antoinette Betts (see page 90); no children.
The descendant-record of Matthias St. John, Sr., comprises a long roll-call. The second occupant of home-lot xxii bequeathed his blood to a small army, every unit of which host stands descent-debtor to the forefather. It is a satisfaction to know that the large family is to receive deserved attention at the hands of one of its own members, re- ferred to on page 335, the earnest and influential Madame Regent, in 1897, of the Hannah Benedict Chapter, D. A. R., of New Canaan.
JOHN PLATT.
Between home-lots xxii and xxiii (see diagram page 39) lay a somewhat surface-di- versified tract, which became the ownership of one who, Norwalk-arrived later, by a few years, than the first planters appearance. The "Towne Street" home-lots had been quite disposed of when to John Platt, Sr., the proprietors, in 1660, 1663 and 1672 assigned dif- ferent portions of the new township. On March 9, 1665-6, Thos. Lupton, of home-lot 27, made a sale to Mr. Platt, and on May 14, 1669, Samuel Hale of home-lot 21 (brother of Thomas Hale of home-lot 17) having removed to Wethersfield, parted with property to Mr. Platt. Thos. Hale died in 1680-81, and John Platt and his brother-in-law, Thomas Fitch, Jr., were appointed by the County Court, administrators of his estate. John Platt, Sr. was married on June 6, 1660, the year of his Norwalk-coming, to Hannah, daughter of "farmer" George Clark of Milford. He was one of the most noted public men in Nor- walk history. His deputyship to the " General Court" covered a period of several years. He was appointed in Oct., 1680, a commissioner to view grounds with reference to a new plantation on the north of Stamford, and was one of the parties who laid out Danbury. His children were :
John 2d., born June 1, 1664. JosiahIst., born Dec. 28, 1667; (died young.) Samuel'st., born Jan. 26, 1670. Joseph, born Feb. 17, 1672. Ilannah, born Dec. 15. 1674 ; (Mrs. Marvin.) Sarah, born May 20, 1678; (Mrs. Samuel Kellogg.) Mary, born May 1. 1683 ; (Mrs. Benedict.)
1David St. Johned, was for a protracted term of years a faithful warden of St. Paul's Church. He re- sided some three or so miles from the sanctuary. but was constant in his attendance upon public worship. During the later porton of his life he was, with the venerable Mrs. Wm. Jarvis Street, engaged in Sun-
day School work and diligent at his post. On Ash- Wednesday, 1845, a heavy snow-storm was raging, but the Rector of St. Paul's, Rev. William Cooper Mead, 1). D .. held service, the congregation comprising the Rector's wife, Mr. St. John and the church sexton. The children of David St. Johnzd. died under age.
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John Platt 2d., born 1664, married May, 1695, Sarah, born Nov. 3, 1670, daughter of Ephraim Lockwood. Their children were : Sarah, born Mar. 30, 1697 (MIrs. Nathan Whitney); Elizabeth, born June 11, 1699 (Mrs. Benj. Lyon); John, 3d. born April 2, 1702 ; Abigail, born Feb. 12, 1707 (Mrs. Samuel Warring); Josiah, born Nov. 6, 1704; and Mary (Mrs. Richard Bouton.) John Platt 2d. died in 1736.
The next child of John PlattIst., Josiah, born 1667, probably died early and un- married, as no mention of him or his is made in his father's will, neither upon any record yet discovered.
Samuel, son of John Platt'"t., born 1670, married June 18, 1712, Rebecca Benedict, who was daughter of Samuel Benedict of Danbury. One daughter was born to these parents, viz., Rebecca, April 9, 1713. Samuel Platt, the father, died Dec. 4, 1713. Being "very sick," he made his will the day before he died, leaving his estate to his wife and daughter, decreeing that in the event of his daughter's death before having reached eight- een years of age, or in the event of her afterward dying single, her portion should finally fall to his two nephews, John and Josiah, "sons to my brother John Platt ", and to " Jo- seph Platt, my brother Joseph Platt's son," which will was probated Dec. 15, 1713.
Joseph Platt, "ye worshipful Joseph Platt, Esq.", born 1672, the youngest son of John'st. and Hannah Platt, had a grant by the town, in 1700, of the fine France Street lot, now the property of Thomas C. Cornwall. He married, first, Nov. 6, 1700, Eliza- beth, daughter of Matthew 2d. and Elizabeth Marvin, and had Elizabeth,' born Dec. 2, 1701. The first Mrs. Joseph PlattIst. died April 9, 1703, and her husband married, second, Jan. 26, 1704, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford. There were two children by this union, Hannah, born Oct. 30, 1704, and Joseph 2d., born Sept. 9, 1706. Joseph 2d. (Hon.) was a Yale man, class of 1733. He married Hannah, daughter by his third wife, of Zech- ariah Whitman. His children (six) were all daughters, and the corner France Street home sent forth well-known Norwalk mothers. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, married Samuel Fitch 2d., son of Samuelist. and Susannah Fitch. Mary, the next daughter, married Jede- diah Hanford ; Esther married Timothy, son of Gov. Fitch, and lived opposite the present Gray Mineral Water works in East Norwalk ; Ann became the wife of Stephen Thatcher ; Susannah married Daniel Hanford, father of Selectman Joseph Platt Hanford, formerly of Strawberry Hill, (see notes page 139 and page 143), and Hannah married an Avery.
Josiah, son of John 2d. and Sarah (Lockwood) Platt, had a daughter Abigail, who married, Aug. 1, 1753, Jabez Saunders, who had ThomasIst., born Dec. 28, 1758, who mar- ried, Sept. 20, 1789, Ann Blatchley, and had Thomas 2d., born Dec. 11, 1790; Platt, born March 13, 1793 ; Lydia, born Apr. 16, 1796 and Betsey ("Aunt Betsey" Saunders2 of 1896), born March 11, 1799.
IShe married, for his third wife, Rev. Samuel Cook (see page 201).
"This woman is an object of interest because of
her extreme age. She is, in 1896, ninety-seven years old. The Blatchley's lived in the vicinity of the present Saugatuck station of the Consolidated road.
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John Platt 3d., son of John 2d., married Sarah Hickox (see page 234),' and had John4th., born Mar. 20, 1736, who married Sept. 3, 1758, Charity Morehouse, from which union descend the so-known "Silver Mine " Platts.2
Samuel 2d., son of John 3d, and Sarah (Hickox) Platt, married, March 2, 1757, Ann, daughter of Jabez Raymond, and had :
JustusIst,, born Dec. 4, 1757.
Justus 2d., born Sept. 10, 1768.
Jabez, born Nov. 22, 1761 ; (died young.) Hannah, born May 24, 1771 ; (unmarried.) Esther, born Aug. 11, 1763 ; (Mrs. I. Hyatt.) Betty, born Nov. 27, 1773.
Joseph, born June 25, 1765. John, born Dec. 17, 1777.
Ann, born Feb. 6, 1781, (Mrs. John Sturges.)
"Aunt Betsey " was an early inmate of the Newkirk family, the seat of which household was where Noah Bradley has, in more recent years, resided. This beautiful water-view home now belongs to the Eno family. It has had a succession of well-known ten- ants-the Newkirks, Ketchums, Sillimans, Judahs and Bradleys have all found it a goodly spot. It was, in pre English times, an Indian haunt, evidently. The Norwalk pioneers recognized this fact, and gave the name of a prominent red ruler to its neighborhood It is to be presumed that the Ludlow covenant of 1640 was made not far from its spray-sprinkled shore. A handsome portrait of one of its early admirers adorns Greenfield Hill walls, and in the care now bestowed the home and its environments, is exhibited a taste befitting the felicitous situation.
'The New Haven records read "John Platt of Norwalk and Mrs. Mary Smith were married Nov. 20, 1722. " This may have been an early marriage, fol- lowed by early decease, of John Platt3rd., son of John2d.,
2The cradle of the Platt's of Silver Mine, is the (1896) yellow painted building called the "Marvin- Raymond " house (last house, on the west side of the street, before is reached the turns in the Silver Mine road, one toward New Canaan and the other in the direction of Winnipauk.) This house was built in the day of John Platt3d., born in 1702, and probably by the same John3d ..
John4th., son of John Platt3d., married, as stated in the text, Charity Morehouse. Both parents rest in St. Paul's churchyard. The husband, John Platt4th., was the " master carpenter" employed in the build- ing of the St. Paul's Church which was taken down in 184L
John Platt4th. had two sons. Joseph and Jonathan, and five daughter -- Sarah, Hannah, Anna, Susan and E-ther. Of these daughters, Sarah was the mother
of Nathan Beers, whose son Frank now occupies the Beers (formerly Sherman) house in Main Street, (see plate, page 129) and the husbands of the others were named Nash, Richards, Glover and Mix.
Joseph, son of John4th. and Charity Platt, born 1774-5, was the next older child than Jonathan, the youngest. Joseph married, first, March 7, 1800, Nancy McAllister of Troy, N. Y., and had :
Alfred M., born Oct. 6, 1800.
Jonathan2d., born Sept. 11. 1803.
Laura, born Jan. 21, 1806 (Mrs. Lemuel Bronson). Esther Sally, born Mar. 21. 1808 (died young). Joseph, born July 8, 1811.
Nancy Jane, born Nov. 10, 1813 (died young). Charles, born Mch. 15, 1816 (died young). Esther, born Sept. 7, 1818 (died young). Susanna, born Feb. 19, 1821 (Mrs. Samuel Beers). Emily C., born Dec. 17, 1825 (Mrs. Levi Brown). Chauncey Cook, born Dec. 20, 1827.
Minerva, born June 28, 1832 (Mrs. John Wesley Dickens).
Joseph Platt, father of the immediately foregoing children, was familiarly called "Governor". He married, second, Oct. 1, 1837, Mrs. Olive Gregory.
Alfred M., son of Joseph and Nancy Platt, mar- ried Hannah Smith of West Norwalk, and had : Giles (married Mary Couch); Amanda (Mrs. Samuel Com- stock) ; Cornelius (married Caroline, daughter of John Quigley. and had Charles) ; Sarah (Mrs. Royal Miller); Martha (Mrs. Joseph Gilbert); Ann Elizabeth (Mrs. John Lambert"); Mary Jane (Mrs. Sydney Guthrie); Frederick M. (unmarried); LeGrand (died young).
Jonathan2d., son of Joseph and Nancy Platt, mar- ried, Apr. 6, 1828, Laura Parmely, daughter of Wm. and Esther ( Squires ) Taylor of Wilton, and had : David M., born Jan. 2, 1830; Augustus, born Dec. 10, 1831; Mary E. (Mrs. Wm. H. Holly ),t born June 6, 1834; John Henry, born Sept. 13, 1837; Harriet L.
*John and Ann E. Lambert had one child, Carrie, who mar- ried Geo. F. Lockwood, and had Ellsworth and Mary Jane.
+The children of Wm. H. and Mary E. Holly were: Wm.
Henry, died young; Orris Starr, died young; Mary G., (Mrs. Arthur T. Evans); Jennie F , ( Mrs. Edward B. Butler); Chas .. died young: Estelle, died young.
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A NORWALK ANCESTOR STORY
Richard Platt and Mary his wife, accompanied by their Anglican children-Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah-landed from the Old World in 1638, in New Haven. Somewhat after the family's arrival in the Elm City of to-day, a project for founding a settlement at Milford was agitated, and the Platt's anon thither removed. John, the oldest son, and the future Norwalk Platt forefather, became of age in Milford, and there selected his bride, Hannah, daughter of George and Sarah Clark, one of the old Milford families. On June 6, 1660, magistrate Treat was called upon to unite John and Hannah in wedlock. They now came to Norwalk, and choosing for a home-lot a site on the old Fairfield path, settled down to life's duties. The father's namesake son, John2d., married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Lockwood. The fruit of this Platt-Lockwood union was a son, John Platt 3d .; five and one-half years after whose nativity occurred that of his future bride (see note page 234), Sarah, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and grand-daughter of Sergt. Samuel and Elizabeth (Plumb) Hickox of Waterbury. John and Sarah Platt had a daughter Sarah, who married Joseph Betts (born March 29, 1717, son of John, who was son of Thos. Jr., son of Thos. Sr.), of Norwalk, to whom were born Anna (Dec. 5, 1748) ; Justus (Sept. 20, 1749) ; Moses (Nov. 22, 1754) ; Aaron (Apr. 23, 1757); Platt (died unmarried); Susanna.
Joseph Betts died May 19, 1760, and his widow, Sarah, married Feb. 1764, Ste- phen, Sr., son of Moses and Mercy St. John, who had Stephen, Jr., born Oct. 9, 1772, who married Jan. 4, 1797, Sarah, born Dec. 22, 1777, daughter of Moses' and Ann (Sturges) Betts, and had :
(Mrs. Geo. M. Quigley), born Oct. 3, 1839; Frances Jane (Mrs. Geo. Burr Williams), born Nov. 25, 1884. Joseph, son of Joseph and Nancy Platt, married Nov. 30, 1834, Clarinda Olmstead of Wilton, and had : Geo. M., born Dec. 11, 1835 (married Frances Brown) ; Almira (Mrs. Augustus B. Brown), born Dec'r. 22, 1840; Joseph E., born Sept. 1, 1844; Frances Ade- laide, born Oct. 18, 1847 (Mrs. John Loudon).
Chauncey Cook, son of Joseph and Nancy Platt, married Louisa Davinson, and had: Chauncey L .; Maria; Joseph Edward, (died young).
David M., son of Jonathan 2d. and Laura P. Platt married, first, Dec. 23, 1849, Jane Elizabeth McGrand, and had Geo. A., died young ; Isabel Jane, died young ; Charles A., died young. David M. Platt married, second, Jan. 25, 1858, Mrs. Esther Polly McCormick, and had no issue. He married, third, Oct. 27, 1863, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Rood (daughter of Henry Smith), and had: Homer Edward, born Apr. 10, 1867, died young.
Augustus, son of Jonathan 2d, and Laura P. Platt married Sept. 27, 1858, Isabelle Hoyt, and had : Em- ma (Mrs. Franklin Austin); Clara Bell (died young) ; Charles Augustus, who married Susan Worden.
John Henry, son of Jonathan 2d. and Laura P. Platt married Jan. 1, 1863, Mrs. Clarissa Mary Clark of Wilton. No issue.
The living children of Chauncey L. (son of Chaun- cey C.) and Gertrude Platt are : Carrie and Harry.
Harriet L., daughter of Jonathan2d. and Laura P. Platt married, Jan. 14, 1865, as his second wife, Geo. Mortimer, son of Adam and Betsey (Slauson) Quig- ley, and had : John William, born May 22, 1867, died Sept. 23, 1867; Homer Platt, born June 23, 1872, un- married. Geo. M. Quigley had, by his first wife, Ann Palmer, one child, Charlotte Estelle, born July 25, 1862.
IMoses Betts, born Apr. 5, 1751, son of Elias and Abigail (Birchard) Betts, married Mar. 7. 1776, Ann, born Mar. 18, 1755, daughter of Gershom and Mary Sturges. Gershom Sturges, born 1731, was a son of Jeremiah and Ann (Barlow) Sturges. Jeremiah Stur- ges seems to have been a son of John and Sarah (Beers) Sturges, and his wife Ann, to have been a daughter of John Barlow3d., who was a son of John2d. and Abigail (Lockwood) Barlow, who was a son of John Barlow, the Fairfield settler. John Sturges2d., who married Sarah Beers, was a son of John Sturgesist., the Fair- field Sturges father.
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Caroline, born June 8, 1800. (Married Henry Chichester).
Edward B., born Dec. 4, 1801.
Alanson Platt, born Aug. 20, 1803.
Jessup R., born Sept. 7, 1805.
Sally A., born Oct. 30, 1807. (Married Thomas B. Merrill).
Moses B., born Dec. 19, 1809.
Charles G., born Dec. 2, 1811.
Harriet H., born Sept. 28, 1813. (Died in infancy).
Henrietta, born Sept. 28, 1813. (Died in infancy).
Hiram, born Dec. 22, 1814.
Catherine, born July 1, 1816. (Married Lawrence M. Stevens).
Harriet E., born Sept. 20, 1818. (Married Gould D. Jennings).
HOME LOT XXIII.
THOMAS BARNUM, SR.
This Norwalk settler's rank appears, in the particular of distinguished descent, to have been of "crown jewel" designation. It is believed that he was the father of all the Barnums in America, and that the old Barnum well, still in Norwalk existence, is a " high family" shrine.
While the author insists upon a strict interpretation of the pedigree "preface " found on page 81, still the searching investigation which has been made in relation to the foreign antecedents of the occupant of home-lot xxiii, supplemented by the close study of his early New England association, justifies reference to the claim that Thomas Barnum, or Barnham, Sr., of the Norwalk allotment under consideration, sprang from (son or grandson of ) Sir Martin and Judith (Calthorpe) Barnham; that his mother or grandmother was the daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, Lord Mayor of London; that Sir Francis Barnham, Knight of Hollingbourne, was either his step-brother or own uncle, and that the wife of Francis Bacon (Lord Bacon), Great Lord Chancellor and Viscount was, if not his first, yet at least, his second cousin.
The question as to what brought this supposed-to-be offspring of a " Lord of many Manors" to America, is likely to remain an open one. He is Norwalk-introduced as a capturer of "wolfs", and in drawing the attention of the town authorities to the matter. He appears here to have holden no special public position other than that he was one of the founders of Danbury. He had town " grants" of different dates, and held a " com- monge estate". In 1681 he was chosen by the settlers (whose " select emigration"-ideas were limited only to character-qualification, and who expected every colonist to be in some
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sort " of service ") as a disciplinarian, during the hours of Divine worship,' which fact is calculated to deepen the impression that the precise generation of Thomas'st. from Sir Martin Barnham is second rather than first. Had Thomas Barnum, Sr. been the son of Sir Martin,2 as appears clear from the British register of the family, he would have been at least seventy-two years of age when the Norwalk folk elected him director of the young people's sanctuary manners. This, however, is quite immaterial. Whether the busy Barnum or Barnham of early Norwalk days was Sir Martin's adventurous son or grandson, the descent, in either case, is notable.
Thomas Barnum, Sr. is found, in 1663, in Norwalk. He was then a married man, as his son, Thomas 2d., was born July 9 that same year. His Norwalk life covered a period of about twenty-one years, during which time his ten children were born. There seems to have been a brief Norwalk residence-blank during these years, and a transient Fairfield tenancy, the explanation of which, probably, is that owning land which was claimed by both towns, he may have deemed it advisable to temporarily occupy the disputed terri- tory. His homestead, however, (foot of Strawberry Hill) was kept intact and retained by him until after his removal, in 1684, to Danbury. The children of Thomas Barnum, Sr., were Thomas2d., Francis, Richard, John, Ebenezer, Hannah and four other daughters. The family disappeared from Norwalk after the settlement of Danbury.
OF THOMAS BARNUM, SR. DESCENT. Gen. I .- Thomas Barnum, Sr.
" II .- Thomas 2d. and Sarah (Beardsley) Barnum.
" III .- EphraimIst. and Mehitable Barnum.
" IV .- Ephraim ?d. and Keziah (Covill) Barnum.
" V .- Joseph Barnum1st,,3 born Aug. 14, 1761, who had :
'Town Records 1681 .- " Thomas Barnum was chosen and appoynted, for to oversee and to keep good Decorum amongst the youth in times of exercise on the Sabbath and other Publique meetings; and the Town doe impower him if he see any disorderly, for to keep a small stick to correct such with; oneley he is Desired to doe it with clemency; and if any are incoridgable in such disorder, he is to present them either to their parents or masters; and if they do not reclaime them. then to present such to authority."
2The alabaster monument of Sir Martin Barnham, which stands in All Saints Church, Hollingbourne Hill, England, is thus inscribed :
"Sacred to the memory of
SIR MARTIN BARNHAM,
Sprung from the old Southampton family of Barnhams,
who married Ursula, daughter of Robert Rudstone, of Bouton, Nonchelsey, and had two daughters and one son. On her death he married Judith, the daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had five sons and five daughters .* He was a man on every side of gentle birth, most happy in the extreme piety of his life and death alike; on whom God of the boundless riches of His mercy poured (piled upon him) of this world's gifts of nature, Grace and Honor, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. He died 12th December, 1610, aged 60 years."
3Joseph Barnum was half-brother of Philo Bar- num, born Apr. 4, 1778, who was the father of Hon. P. T. Barnum of Bridgeport, born July 5, 1810.
* There is a discrepancy between the monument and the family records as to the number of children by Sir Martin Barnham's second wife. The author of this work has valu- able Barnum data, collected from different sources, and believed
to be highly accurate. He is, however, unable to positively state whether the first Thomas Barnum of Norwalk was the next-or the next but one-generation from Sir Martin Barn- ham of Hollingbourne Hill, England.
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(Gen. VI.) Noah Starr Barnum (Deacon) of Norwalk.
Noah S. Barnum came from Bethel to Norwalk, and here married Amelia, born Apr. 17, 1796, daughter of John' and Sally (Hoyt) Raymond of "Old Well". Mr. and Mrs. Barnum established their first home at the head of "Federal Hollow", in front of the present home, on North Avenue, of the late W. B. E. Lockwood. They then removed to the building on the southeast corner of the Timothy Merwin (North Avenue and France Street) property. In the rear of this building stood, at one time, a hat manufactory, and Noah S. Barnum, Stephen Smith and Samuel Randall were its proprietors. Prosperity rewarded Deacon Barnum's efforts, and he purchased, from the Cameron estate, and occu- pied the large building, known thereafter as the Noah S. Barnum home, on North Avenue, at the foot of the hill which connects Jarvis Hill with the Avenue referred to. The only child of Noah S. and Amelia Barnum was :
George Hoyt, born Jan. 5, 1820.
Geo. H., son of Noah S. and Amelia Barnum, married, May 30, 1844, Susan Jane, daughter of James W and Laura (Gray) Hyatt." and had :
Noah Starr, Charles Hyatt ; (died young).
George Raymond.
Noah Starr, son of Geo. H. and Susan J. Barnum, married, Jan. 5, 1871, Elizabeth E., daughter of Thomas and Hannah Wheen of New York, and had : Amelia; Charles Hyatt ; Geo. Hoyt and Percy Lee.
'John Raymond was son of Benj. 2d. (and Abby Cole ) Raymond, who was son of Benj. Ist. ( and Re- becca) Raymond, who was son of Thomas, (and Sarah Andrews ) Raymond, who was son of John ist. and Mary ( Betts ) Raymond of Norwalk.
2Jas. W. Hyatt, a citizen of industry and integrity, was the second son of John and Jane ( White ) Hyatt of Norwalk. His brother and sisters were John W. Hyatt, who married Cornelia Burbridge of N. Y. ; Jane ( Mrs. Joseph Corker ); Delia, and Angeline ( Mrs. John Brown ).
James W. Hyatt married Laura Gray of Wilton and had : Susan Jane ( Mrs. Geo. H. Barnum ) ; Delia Louise, died young ; Charles Edwin ( married Jan. 17, 1855, Priscilla Westerfield, and had Charles, died young; William Westerfield ); Joseph Le Grand, died young; James William ( Hon. ); Stiles Gray ; Franklin Thomas; Louisa Amelia; Geo. Gilbert.
Hon. James W. Hyatt, son of James W. and Laura, rose from a bright and intelligent Norwalk school lad of nearly fifty years ago, to the high dis- tinction of Treasurer of the United States. He was a prompt and vigorous man of affairs, and a warm natured, helpful citizen. He married, Dec. 26, 1860,
Jane Maria, daughter of Geo. and Lucy (Allen) Hoyt, and had : John Kimmey ; Jane Maria (married Charles E., son of William Church of Norwalk, and had one child, born Sept. 3, 1898 ); Harry Munsell; Sarah Flower.
Stiles Gray, son of Jas. W. and Laura Hyatt, married Nov. 9. 1865, Antoinette Lawrence of South Norwalk, and had ; James William ; Florence; Hattie Gray; Nellie May.
Franklin Thomas ( Dr. ), son of James W. and Laura Hyatt, married, first, Dec. 25, 1872, Isabelle, daughter of Francis Brady, and had three children. The oldest died young, and the two others are Helen and Isabelle. Dr. F. T. Hyatt married, second, Mar. 8, 1881, Mary L. Osborn ; no children. His sister Lou- ise Amelia married Stephen Brady (had Laura Gray and Frederick. Laura G. married William Palmer and had one child, Adele Hyatt. Frederick married Millicent Houghton).
George Elbert, youngest child of James W. and Laura Hyatt, married, first, Oct. 24, 1884, Emma Ab- dell of Virginia. There were no children by this marriage. Hle married second, and had one child, viz .: Norma.
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Geo. Raymond, son of Geo. H. and Susan J. Barnum, married, Nov. 18, 1888. Georgia Dorothea, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Weed. No issue.
BARNUM BLOOD.
Francis, son of Thomas Barnum'st. of Norwalk, married Deborah, born Dec. 28, 1679, daughter of John and Mary (Lindall) Hoyt, (see p. 121). These had a son Nathan, who married Rebecca, born July, 1708. daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Benedict) Lock- wood, (see p. 290). Mrs. Nathan Barnum spent her girlhood in afterward Ralph Isaacs meadow, (Morgan Avenue, 1896). Nathan and Rebecca Barnum had David, born in Dan- bury, March 30, 1733, who married, July 13, 1756, Anna Towner of New Fairfield, Conn. She died Jan. 13, 1767. He married, second, Mar. 22, 1768, Jemima, daughter of Capt. Eben- ezer Stevens of New Fairfield. These had a son, Samuel Towner Barnum, born Nov. 18,1769, who married, Dec. 15, 1791, Alice, daughter of Eliakim Nash.' Samuel T. and Alice Barnum had only two children, twins, David and Betsey, born Apr. 27, 1794 (see note page 108). Betsey Barnum married Amzi Rogers, and the wedded two were the parents of the pains- taking genealogy student, Theodore D. Rogers of Strawberry Hill (1896), Norwalk.
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