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Goold 3d., married Camilla, daughter of Maj .- Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. A. Goold Hoyt 3d. has always lived in New York. He had Goold4th., un- married; Winfield Scott, unmarried; Percy G., unmarried; Gerald- ine, deceased ; Camilla, unmarried ; Virginia.
Lydig Monson, married Geraldine, daughter of Maturin and Margaret (Lewis) Livingston of New York, and had several children.
Emily Esther, married May 29, 1849, David 2d., son of David SearsIst., one of Boston's oldest families, and had five children.
Esther, daughter of GooldIst. and Elizabeth Hoyt, married Henry, son of John and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden of Norwalk, and had :
Margaret, unmarried.2 Amelia, unmarried. John, unmarried.
Ebenezer Dimon, son of Goold and Elizabeth Hoyt, married, July 16, 1799, Hul-
Judge William Brown Glover, son of Samuel and Emily H. Glover, was a jurist of fine parts and an ac- complished gentleman. He married Helen Wardwell and had: William Brown; Samuel; Cathaleen Stur- ges; Deborah Norris.
The Bulkleys and Glovers of Fairfield and the Beldens and Hoyts of Norwalk were intimate in ear- lier days, and the visit - interchanges between the households were marked occurrences. The best fam- ily coach conveyed the Norwalk contingency Fairfield- wards, and the return reciprocity was enjoyed in this town.
IWilliam Redmond's namesake son, William, Jr., married Mary, daughter of Wm. Preston and Mary (Lawrence) Griffin. The grandfather of Mrs. Wm. Redmond, Jr., was the brave navy Lawrence, whose last words were " Don't give up the ship." Mrs. Wm. Redmond, Jr., died, leaving a husband and children. A son, Preston, perpetuates the family name.
Sabina Redmond, daughter of William, Sr., mar- ried John Walter Wood of New York. Her sisters, Mary and Emily, and brother Goold II., were un- married. Iler brother Henry married Lydia Small- wood of Orange, N. J .; her sister Matilda married R. James Cross of Scotland ; her brother Roland mar- ried Helen C. Bulkley of N. Y .; her sister Annie married her deceased sister Matilda's husband (R. James Cross) ; her brother Gerald married Estelle, daughter of Johnston Livingston of Tivoli, N. Y., and her sister Fanny married Henry B. Livingston of New York.
2Margaret and Amelia, the daughters of Henry and Esther (Hoyt) Belden, were the almoners of a large estate, which they improved and enjoyed during life, and made generous testamentary disposition of at the close of their days. Their brother John, a Wilton School lad, died in early manhood. He was a factor in Norwalk society, but his career was brief. His sisters filled out a protracted life term. They placed a window in the chancel of St. Paul's Church to the memory of their parents, and handsomely re- membered the Berkeley Divinity School at Middle- town, Conn. A West Avenue Chapel-of-Ease for St. Paul's Church seems to have been a favorite project with the sisters, but they passed away ere the bene- faction was accomplished. Their home on their pa- rents' estate (site of Grace Church 1896), was one of refinement, and their remains rest beneath a monu- ment of Scotch granite close by the west portals of the old St. Paul's Church of nearly sixty years ago.
St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, has for many years enjoyed the use of the Hoyt legacies. The father of Goold Hoyt2d. registered himself a benefactor of the same parish when, on June 26, 1790, he was one of four (Goold Hoytist., John Cannon, Thomas Belden), and Ebenezer Church), who, " in consideration of the esteem and good-will which we have for the Episco- pal Church and Society " united in a deed of land " at upper end of France Street, three-and-a-half acres in quantity, for the use, benefit and support of the Epis- copal minister in said Society". The income from this legacy is a revenue to-day.
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dah, daughter of John and Mehitable (Comstock) Hanford (see notes pages 98 and 99), and had :
Edwin, born Feb. 18, 1800; married Mar. 4, 1821, Eliza, born Oct. 2, 1800, daughter of Josiah and Abigail (Beers) Smith of Newtown.1
Eliza, born Dec. 28, 1801 ; married Charles, son of Isaac and Mary (Ray- mond) Hoyt.
Monson, born Apr. 19, 1803 ; married Mary Esther, daughter of William St. John 2d., (see page 332).
Goold, born June 28, 1805 ; died young.
William Goold, born Dec. 12, 1811 ; died in infancy.
Mary, born Nov. 8, 1813; married June 3, 1833, as his second wife, her brother-in-law, Charles Hoyt.
William Thomas, born Mar. 16, 1816; died unmarried.
Harriet, born Nov. 7, 1817; married John Cleveland, and had Ella (Mrs. Rev. Samuel Unsworth); John; Alice ; and two who died in infancy.
Monson, son of Goold and Elizabeth Hoyt lived until within a few months of twen- ty-one years of age, and died unmarried.
THE JESSE HOYT LINE.
Jesse, born June 2, 1744, son of James'st. and Hannah (Goold) Hoyt, married, Oct. I, 1764, Mary, daughter of Samuel Raymond 2d., by his second wife, Mary Kitto of Eng- land.2 Samuel Raymond, 2d. was a son of SamuelIst. and Judith (Palmer) Raymond, and a grandson of John1st. and Mary (Betts) Raymond, who, with Richard (father of John1st.) Raymond, were the Norwalk settlers of that name. The children of Jesse and Mary (Raymond) Hoyt were :
Silas, born Apr. 4, 1766. Jesse, born Oct. 25, 1767.
Hannah, born Feb. 13, 1778.
Harriet, born Nov. 11, 1781.
"The children of Edwin and Eliza (Smith) Hoyt were :
Charlotte Sophia, born Jan. 19, 1822. Ebenezer Dimon, born Apr. 19, 1824. Emily Abigail, born Sept. 14, 1827. Elizabeth Hulda, born Oct. 27, 1830. Monson, born Sept. 25, 1833. Frederick Edwin, born Feb. 8, 1835. William Thomas, born Apr. 30, 1838. Margaret, born Oct. 5, 1840.
Eliza Geraldine, born Nov. 6, 1842. Henry Augustus, born June 16, 1845.
Charlotte S. Hoyt married John J. Thomas, (had Henry, died young) ; Ebenezer D). married Mary Reele (had Edwin ; James; Emily (Mrs. Edwin Case) ; John ; Ebenezer); Emily Abigail married Charles B., son of Langdon and Harriet ( Bouton ) Mott ( had Charles
Edwin, died young; Wallace Augustus; Lottie, who married William Burrows of Cleveland, Ohio, and had one son who died young, and two daughters, Lorna D. and Gladdis Elgin) ; Elizabeth Hulda is un- married; Monson was unmarried; Frederick Edwin married Mary Marchand of New Orleans (had Henry ; Emily (Mrs.Sheridan Law) ; Thomas ; May A. ; Allen). William Thomas married Annie Perry of N. Y., and had Mary (Mrs. Hilon Sawyer), who has three child- ren, George, Willard and Margaret; Margaret died young; Eliza Geraldine was a social favorite, and died Feb. 10, 1875; Henry Augustus was unmarried.
2Mrs. Jesse Hoyt was the sister of Ruth, born about 1732, who married, for his second wife, Ebene- zer Churchist. Mr. Church's first wife was Susan- nah, daughter of Samuelist. and Susannah Fitch, (see page 175).
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Polly, born June 16, 1769. Hannah, born June 9, 1774.
Frederick, born Feb. 4, 1776.
Alfred, born Jan. 21, 1783. Anna, born Nov. 12, 1784.
James Moody, born Jan. 25, 1789.
James Moody, the youngest child of Jesse and Mary Hoyt, married, May 12, 1814, Mary, daughter of Dr. Samuel Nesbitt of New York, and had :'
Jesse, born Mar. 12, 1815. James Henry, born July 4, 1823.
Alfred M., born Dec. 22, 1828.
Mary, born Jan. 23. 1819. Samuel N., born Mar. 4, 1821. Reuben, born May 17. 1831.
Mr. and Mrs. James Moody Hoyt came about fifty years ago to Norwalk, and here, on the highland northeast side of the Norwalk Green, built a residence of goodly and generous acreage, in which they peacefully ended their protracted lives. They were devout members of St. Paul's Church and warm friends of its rector, Rev. Wm. Cooper Mead, D.D., at whose side their dust now reposes in the old church yard. Their oldest son was the principal in the metropolitan commercial house of "Jesse Hoyt & Co.", business as- sociated with which son were his brothers. The only daughter of the family lovingly cared for her honored parents, and until her departure from Norwalk, continued to make inviting to the family relations and connections, the handsome Hoyt home hospitality of former years.
THE ISAAC HOYT LINE.
Isaac, born 1754, fifth son of James1st, and Hannah (Goold) Hoyt, married, June 30, 1776, Mary, born May 13, 1755, daughter of Eliakim2 and Hannah (Street) Raymond, and had :
'Jesse Hoyt married, in 1836, Helen M. Demaray, and had Mary Irene.
Mary Hoyt was unmarried.
Samuel N. Hoyt married ; had a step-son.
James Henry Hoyt married Sarah E. Petit, and had James (died young) and Mary Nesbitt, who mar- ried James Petit of N. J., and had Dorothy and Alice. Alfred M. Hoyt married, Oct. 20, 1858, Rose E. Reece, a niece of Maj .- Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, and had Florence (Mrs. Dr. Wm. F. Otis); Henry Reece (married Amy Otto, niece of Judge Daly); Alfred (unmarried) ; Mary (unmarried) ; John Sherman (mar- ried Ethol, daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes of N. Y.); Rosenia (unmarried).
Reuben Hoyt married Rhoda Clark of N. J., and had Jesse; Frank Rogers; Isabel (Mrs. Dr. Bangs, who has a son, Nesbitt Hoyt) ; Reuben M.
Much of the youth of the daughter of James H. Hoyt, Mary Nesbitt, (Mrs. James Petit) was passed in Norwalk, where she is remembered for her rare good nature.
John Sherman, son of Alfred M. and Rosa E. Hoyt, has chosen " Contentment Island " for a marine-
side home. This is one of the "Norwalk Islands" which has not, to a serious extent, parted with its an- cient beauty, and consequently the eye and hand of the artist have here been busy. The "isle" from of old has been a native forest-wild, through breaks in which blue sea views are obtained, while its rosy red reflections at morning and evening are delightful. The structures thereat erected charmingly command Long Island Sound.
Jesse, son of Reuben and Rhoda Hoyt, married Cornelia Baldwin, daughter of John T. and Jeanette Palmer (Baldwin) Waring (see note page 287) of Yon- kers, N. Y. John T. Waring, well age-preserved, is of the fifth Norwalk Edmond and Elizabeth (Bou- ton) Waring or Warren generation (see page 268). Edmond Warren's children scattered somewhat from the father's and mother's Roton domicile, and yet a Warren home-hearth entourage to-day will strengthen the belief that the Warren descendants slowly lost their Rowalton love. The recent visits of the vener- able John T. Waring to the family cradle have been Norwalk enjoyed.
2Eliakim, born Feb. 20, 1720, son of Samuel and
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James, born Jan. 11, 1777. Sally, born Mar. 11, 1778. James Isaac, born Dec. 20, 1782.' Nancy, born Apr. 24, 1785. (Died young ).
Mary, born Dec. 28, 1787. (Mrs. Chas. R. Sherman). (See pages 129, 1341.2 Hannah, born Jan. 16, 1789. (Mrs. Joseph Keeler, see note page 137).
Charles, born June 9, 1791.3
Richard, born July 26, 1793. (Died young).
A HOYT RECORD.
The young John Hoyt'st., who was a lad of about nine summers when his father, Walter'st., Norwalk-cast his lot, made, at the age of twenty-two, a good choice of a part- ner. The four New Haven Lindall daughters-see page 121-made four good Norwalk wives, and the sequel to the young Hoyt's " attentions " at the " Towne Streete" home of Rosamond Lindall (now the second Mrs. Nathaniel Richards), was the life-union on Sept. 14, 1666, of John and Mary. The third pledge to crown this union was the birth, Jan. 5, 1674, of a third son, ThomasIst .. This son became a "Surveyor of the town of Danbury," where he resided until death. To Thomas Hoyt and Daniel Taylor belong the honor of the first " layout " (March 1, A. D., 1711) of the town of Redding to the first grantee of said town (Ephraim Nichols). The grant was made (but not registered) nearly a quarter of a century before.
Isaac, son of Thomas Hoyt"", was, like his father, a Danburian. He was elected in 1775, to "dignify " people, to seat them, that is, in the Danbury church. His second
Elizabeth (Hoyt) Raymond, married, Nov. 20, 1740, Hannah, born Sept. 8, 1722. daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Raymond) Street. Nathaniel Street, born Jan. 19, 1693, was son of Lieut. Samuel and Hannah (Glover) Street, which Lieut. Samuel Street, born July 27, 1667, was son of Rev. Samuel and Anna (Miles) Street and grandson of Rev. Nicholas Street, the settler. Mrs. Nathaniel Street (Mary Raymond. born Mar. 15, 1694), who was married Nov. 25, 1719, was the daughter of John 2d. and Elizabeth (St. John) Raymond, and grand-daughter of Johnist. and Mary (Betts) Raymond.
The children of James A., son of James Isaac Hoyt, and grandson of Isaac and Mary (Raymond) Hoyt, are mentioned on pages 298 and 299.
-Mary, daughter of Isaac and Mary Hoyt. mar- ried Charles Robert, born Sept. 26, 1788. son of Tay- lor and Elizabeth Sherman, and had (see page 102) : Charles Taylor Sherman ; Mary Elizabeth Sherman; James Sherman ; Amelia Sherman ; Julia Sherman ;
William Tecumseh Sherman; Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Lampson Parker Sherman ; John Sherman ; U. S. Senator; Susan Sherman ; Hoyt Sherman ;
Frances Beecher Sherman.
3Charles, son of Isaac and Mary Hoyt married, first, Eliza, born Dec. 28, 1801, daughter of Ebenezer 1). and Hulda Hoyt, and had :
Eliza Augusta, born Oct. 20, 1823; unmarried. Charles Henry, born Sept. 30, 1825: married and had two children.
Charles Hoyt married, second, Mary, born Nov. 3, 1813, sister of his first wife, Eliza, and had :
Mary Louisa, b. June 26, 1836 (Mrs. W. H. Yale) ; Adriana Lawrence (Mrs. David B. Scaver), born Jan. 22, 1840; had Adriana;
Douglass, born Mar. 12. 1842.
Harriet, married R. James Nichols, had Chas. Marion ; Thomas; Harry ; Ethel : Sherman, born Aug. 18, 1852.
Mrs. Gov. William H. Yale had one son, Hoyt: unmarried.
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son, Isaac24., married Amy, daughter of Benjamin Starr. Starr is a Danbury name, but Mrs. Isaac 2. (Starr> Hoyt was from Redding. Isaac and Amy Hoyt were blessed by the birth of their first son, Benjamin Starr Hoyt, on Aug 23, 1772, which youth had by twelve days passed his twenty-second birthday when he married (Sept. 4. 1794) Anna Wood, born 1774, and a direct descendant of Samuel 2d. and Sarah ( Cornwall) Wood of Danbury. Samuel Wood 2d., son of Dr. Samuel Wood'st., was brought up on the splendid Danbury rise of ground known as " Deer Hill", and near where the elevation reaches its crest. The Wood-site at that time beautifully overlooked the country east and west. Its pro- prietor, Samuel Wood, M. D., was educated abroad, and upon reaching America, was found, temporarily, in Norwalk, in which place he married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Benedict, Sr. The Dr. removed in 1685-6, to Danbury, which town had just been settled by Norwalk people. Here he was a leading man, and took a deep interest. particularly in the educational work of the new settlement. He lived to see Danbury well started, and died in 1714. bequeathing a fine property to his son, Samuel 2d., father of the grand old colonial Capt. John Wood and his three brothers, Samuel 3d., Lemuel and Daniel, and fore- father of Mrs. Dr. Benj. Starr Hoyt, the mother on Dec. 27. 1807, of Mrs. Thomas A. Morison, Sr .. ' of Brooklyn, and on April 20. 1815. of the venerable Henry Isaac Hoyt of Norwalk, whose high and honorable citizen-career has won for him the coveted esteem of the community, and whose intelligent interest in the mental and moral welfare of the many over whom. as a large manufacturer, he has sedulously watched, has constituted him a benefactor.
Henry I. Hoyt' married, first, Nov. 1, 1838, Anna Maria, daughter of Thomas W. Brown: married, second, Anna Nichols, daughter of Gen, William Nichols of Coopers- town. N. Y.
HOYT-SMITH DESCENDANTS.
HOYT. :
SMITH.
Gen. I .- Walter Hoyt.
Gen. I .- Samuel Smith.
·· II .-- Zerubbabel Hoyt.
" II .-- Killiab Smith.
.. III .- Daniel Hoyt.
" III .- Ebenezer Smith 1-1.
" IV -Abigail Hoyt.
" IV -Eliakim Smith 1st.
Daniel, born Jan. 1. 1681. son of Zerubbabel Hoyt" was twice married. By his
'Thomas Henry, son of Thomas A. Mori-on, orig- inally of New England, married Nov. 17, 1863, Julia A. daughter of Thomas T. and Anna (Peckham) Shef- ield of Newport, Rhode Island, and had : Thomas S. : Charles Il. (died young-Sept. 10, 1869): Frederick A. (died young-May 24. 1879).
Thomas S. Morison married. June 9, 1886, Flor- ence Belle, daughter of Gilbert and Ann (Merritt) Bogart. and had :
Florence Sheffield, born July 16. 1887. Pauline, born Nov. 22, 1889.
Thomas S. Morison died Apr. 22, 1894, and his widow married second, Oct. 16, 1897, Archibald, son of Theodore A., and Emily (Childs) Sheffield.
Herbert T. Sheffield, brother of Mrs. Thomas Henry Morison, married Oct. 20, 1887, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Stanton of R. I. No children.
/The children of Henry I. and Maria (Brown)
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first wife. Elizabeth, he had Abigail, born Jan. 26, 1709, who married Eliakim"", born in Hadley, Mass .. Jan. 23, 1704, son of Ebenezer"". and Abigail (Bouton) Smith (see page 349).' To Eliakim". and Abigail (Hoyt) Smith, was born Mar. 7. 1737, a son, Noah's", who afterward lived on " Noah Smith's Island " (Norwalk Island, 1896). Noah Smith'-t. mar- ried Eunice, born July 18, 1742, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth ( Lockwood) Hoyt.3 David, son of Noah'st. and Eunice Smith, was the well known Lansingburgh, N. Y., citizen. many years since, of that name. Asa"t., brother of David, married. Jan. 16, 1792, Jeruse Knapp.+
Hoyt were Henry Downing, born Oct. 30, 1839; Jose- phine Anna, born Jan. 18, 1842, died young; Freder- ick Thomas, born Apr. 26, 1844.
The children of the second marriage were Anna Maria, born June 15, 1847 (Mrs. Brent Good); Kate Hamilton, born Sept. 15. 1848 (Mrs. Clarence M. Roof) ; Augustus Wood, born Jan. 7. 1851 ; Harriet Stone, born May 14, 1856 (Mrs. William Coley) : Frank Ames, born Sept. 5, 1858; Edith Huntington, born Oct. 16, 1864 (Mrs. Anton Hodenpyl).
'Ebenezer Smith , born in Hadley, Mass., July 11, 1668, was a son of Killiab Smithist., who was son of Samuel Smithist., born 1602, who came with Eliza- beth, his wife. to this country in 1634. Samuel Smithist. came to Windsor, but only transiently re- mained there. Ile removed from Windsor to Weth- ersfield, and from the latter place to Hadley, Mass. He brought with him to this country Samueled., born 1625, Elizabeth, born 1627, Mary, born about 1630, and Philip, born 1633. Killiabist. and John were born in this country. The first was born in 1635, and the second fell, May 30, 1676, in the Hadley Indian at- tack. Samuelzd. and Philip, are, it is believed, the two 1680 Hadley " representatives " alluded to by Dr. W'm. Allen on page 740 of Allen's Biographical Die- tionary. Killiabist. who married Hannah, daughter of Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was the ancestor of the well known Noah Smith family line of Norwalk. Ebenezerist., the grandfather of Noah Smithist., married Abigail Bouton, daughter of John and Abigail (Marvin ) Bouton of Norwalk.
Benajah, born Dec. 8, 1708, son of Caleb and Mehitable ( Keeler-widow Blatchley) Hoyt, and grand- son of Zerubbabel Hoytist., married Dinah, born July 8, 1715, daughter of Ebenezerist. and Abigail (Bouton) Smith. Their daughter Susannah, baptized Nov. 16, 1740, married, first, Aug. 18, 1757, Hezekiah Green. and second, Ebenezer Crofoot, and their daughter Mehitable, baptized Oct. 24, 1742, married Nathan, son of Matthew Fitch Ist. (see page 219).
¿Martha, born Jan. 3, 1728, the oldest child of Eli- akimist. and Abigail (Hoyt) Smith, and sister of Noah, married Ebenezerist., born 1729, son of Johnzd. and Abigail (Blakesley) Nash. Mr. Nash was three times married, (see note page 343).
3Nathan Hoytist, born Apr. 29. 1718, was the son of Daniel Hovtist., who was son of Zerubbabelist. who was son of Walter the Norwalk settler. Nathanit. married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth, born it would seem May 23, 1721, and daughter of Josephist. and Mary ( Wood) Lockwood.
+The children of Avant and Jeruse ( Knapp) Smith were:
Noah2d., born May 17. 1794. Stephen, born Mar. 16, 1796. Ava E .. born Oct. 1. 179%. Rufu- R., born Mar. 12, 1801 (unmarried). Henry Whitlock, born Aug. 4, 1803. Doctor S., born May 22, 1805 (Sydney). George E., born Feb. 20. 1807. Ward B., born Ang. 20, 1809. Eliza Jane, born July S. 1812.
Noah Smith 2d. married, first, Feb. 9, 1815, Esther Crofoot (see page 288) and second, Angeline Foot. He was thrice married, and had Amelia E., Sarahi C., Giles C., George A., Jeruse A., Charles S., Mary B. Catharine, William R., Matilda P., Noah, Eugene, Henry C., Ward B.
Stephen Smith married, Oct. 20, 1816, Polly Betts, and had Mary Platt ( Mrs. Edw. Stone) ; Burr R. (unmarried ); Le Grand; Anna B. (unmarried); Har- riet E. (Mrs. Charles A. Maybury, first, and second, Mrs. Charles F. Osborn): Isaac B, (unmarried) : J. Kemper (unmarried).
Asa E. Smith and Ann M. Brown (daughter of Jedediah and Rebecca Brown) married, Sept. 11. 1823. had, Amanda (died young) ; Amanda G. (Mrs. W. T. Smith): Theodore E .; Asa; Louisa C. (died young) ; Anna L. (died young); Josephine F. (died young) : Elbert W .: Howard H .; Harriet G. (died young) Anna Frances (Mrs. Thos. L .. Peck).
Henry W Smith married Feb. 29, 1824, Elizabeth, born Oct. 28, 1805, daughter of Stephen and Rachel B. (Hickok) Camp, and had Caroline Ellen. born Jan. 30, 1825 ( Mrs. William Curtice Hinman first, and sec- ond, Mrs. Lawrence Proudfoot Mott); Elizabeth Camp. born Nov. 26, 1826 ( Mrs. Curtiss Rood, first, and second, Mr. David M. Platt) : Stephen Henry, born Aug. 29, 1828 died June 4, 1896; Emily, born Oct. 11, 1830 (died voung ) : France- Marion, born Dec.
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Eunice, daughter of Noah Smith, Ist. married, Mar. 1, 1787. Samuel,' son of Esaias Bouton, and her sister Betsy married, Feb. 14, 1792, Absalom Day2 born May 15, 1770.
Noah and Eunice Smith had also a son Charles and daughter Jane (Mrs. Hoyt). Mrs. Noah SmithIst. married, second, Samuel Pearsall of Fairfield.
30, 1832: Margaret Celina, born Aug. 9, 1834 (Mrs. Benj. Franklin Morgan); Harriet Emily, born June 13, 1836 (Mrs. Alfred Jackson) ; Sarah, born Apr. 21, 1840 (died young) ; Homer Burr, born Jan. 12, 1843 (died young) ; Irene Louisa, born Sept. 3, 1846 (Mrs. Rufus A. Fillow).
Doctor S. Smith married, Sept. 9, 1829, Julia Ann Riley of Troy, N. Y., and had Maria E., Rufus R., Isabella, Sydney S., Riley, Julia, Charles, Lizzie.
George E. Smith married, Jan. 23, 1827, Mary E. Hoyt, and had George W .; Jane E. : Sydney ; Edgar; William; Henry.
Ward B. Smith married, May 8, 1836, Maria Beecher, and had Agnes ; Thomas Il. ; Jefferson ; Wal- lace B. : Theodore: Francis; Purvis.
Eliza Jane Smith married, May 9, 1832, George W., son of Joseph St. John, and had Charles F. ; Theo- dore E .; Ferdinand R .; Homer S .; Le Grand S .; Herman M.
"The children of Samuel and Eunice (Smith) Bou- ton were Phoebe, born Mch. 14, 1788 (Mrs. Ira Ford) ; Abbie, born July 24, 1790 (Mrs. Walter Hoyt); Han- nah Smith, born Dec. 4, 1792 (Mrs. Aaron Gregory Hoyt); Esaias, born July 18, 1796; Mary Ann (un- married).
Hannah Smith Bouton married, Jan. 14, 1809, Aa- ron Gregory, born Sept. 2, 1784, son of John and Ruth (Gregory) Hoyt and brother of Susan (Mrs. Matthew Wilcox). Samuel Bouton, son of Esaias and Phoebe, and father of Hannah Smith Bouton (Mrs. Aaron G. Hoyt), lived first, it seems, at the head of " Witch Lane", and opposite the small Bouton burial enclosure thereat. Here his children were, probably, brought up. He afterwards removed to the old Middlesex road, beyond Flax Hill ( West Street, South Norwalk, IS96). Hannah S., after her marriage, lived on what was, a few years since, the New York Holy Trinity Home on Roton Hill. She was a woman of energy even in later life. At the age of seventy she herself
cut down a tree on her premises. The children of Aaron G. and Hannah S. Hoyt were Mary Esther ( Mrs. Geo. W. Jennings); Emily Bouton: Harriet Amelia (Mrs. James M. Hoyt); Ira Ford; Walter Griffing.
Ira Ford, son of Aaron G. and Hannah S. Hovt, married Nov. 27, 1845, Mary Bell of N. J. and lived in the finely shaded home on Roton Hill, a few rods south of his father's home. His children were Frances Elizabeth ; Oliver Perry ; Samuel Wixon; Mary Es- ther; Ira Mortimer; William Griffing: Annie Jose- phine: Edward Everett; ! larry Hubbell and Dudley Elv.
2The children of Absalom Days (of Chatham, N. J. later of Norwalk), were; Susanna (Mrs. Chas. Saun- ders), born Dec. 1, 1793 ; Absalom George, born Sept. 16, 1796 (married, Oct. 25, 18:8, Mary Ann, daughter of James and Esther (Camp) Fitch); Noah Smith, born Sept. 27, 1798 (married, first, Elizabeth Chap- man, and second, Elizabeth Price) ; Amanda, born Mar. 29, 1801 (married, first, John Smith, and second. Chas. Peck); Eliza (Mrs. William Raymond Hazlitt), born Nov. 25, 1803; Mary (Mrs. Eli Reed), born Feb. 11, 1806; JaneIst., born Oct. 10, 1808 (died young); Chas., born Apr. 22, 1810 (married Mary daughter of Nathan and Esther (St. John) Beers) ; Ward Smith, born May 12, 1812 (died unmarried at the age of twenty-three) ; Jane2d., born Apr. 6, 1815 (died unmarried) ; Caroline (Mrs. Jesse Searles) born July 5, 1818.
Absalom George and Mary Ann (Fitch) Day had eleven children, the second of whom, Burwell Fitchist. born Apr. 1, 1821 is the 1896 occupant of the new East Avenue Day premises a little north of the old "Oyster Shell Point" path. Mr. Burwell F. DayIst. married, March 4, 1851, Clarissa Ann, daughter of Capt. Francis and Nancy (Fitch) Hoyt, and had, Hal- sey ; Ella Hoyt; Burwell Fitch2d. : Nancy Fitch ; Mary Anne.
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