Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 52

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

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Mrs. Burwell F. Dayist. (Clarissa Ann Hoyt) is a grand-daughter of Josiah Hanford Fitch the children

*Absalom Day. an earthenware manufacturer, lived where now stands the Donovan Block, S. W. cor. of Washington and Water Streets, South Norwalk, near which home was " ye olde well". a spring from which modern South Norwalk derived its early name. Mr. Day's garden extended well towards the ( 1%,8) Marvin Bros, new P. O. building in Washington Street. West of the garden Algernon E. Beard built (later the T. L. Peck house ) and founded a substantial and influential family. He subsequently removed to the sightly crest where now resides his son Edward. West of the Beards stood the Chichester house. On the north side of the street, near the Sentinel office lived Capt. Nach, a brother of Capt. Daniel K. East of Capt. Nash resided Nathaniel and Didly ( Wood, Raymond, The habitation

of the Raymonds (gr .- uncle and aunt to Maj .- Gen. W. T. Sher- man), may be seen to-day. The building, now dilapidated, con- trasts strangely with its neighboring pretentious business struc- tures, nevertheless, neatness, coziness and comfort there, doubt- less. had a seat when the soldier-father (twenty-two years old when the Revolution broke out) did patriot duty. Next east of Nathaniel Raymond was the still existing ( Becker in 1896) Geo. Day home. Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Pecks wharfed their boat- at the Day dock, where wood in quantities was stored for steamer use.

It is an additional memory of days agone that, at the south end of the old Commodore Vanderbilt pier, shad (once to the number of thirty-six, were occasionally seine-snared.

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HOME-LOT XXX.

THOMAS BENEDICT.

Norwalk had fifteen years history behind it when, selecting the colony of Conn. for his future residence, Thomas Benedict, Sr., left Long Island, and, accompanied by his wife Mary, and sons John, Samuel, James and Daniel, and daughters Betty, Mary, Sarah and Rebecca, came, in 1665, to the new settlement. His first-born, Thomas2d., who had recently married into a Norwalk family, soon appears upon the scene. Although about all the available "home division " lots had, at the Benedict coming, been appropriated, still was there, at the southwest of the " parade ground ", and on the other side of the street, a small undisposed-of tract, which, lying along the "Fayerfielde road", and in a good neighborhood, Mr. Benedict pitched upon, having evidently prevailed upon the ad- joining proprietors (Thos. Hanford on the east, Richard Holmes on the south and John Bouton on the west) to surrender portions of their own properties (two acres in all) suffi- cient to afford himself the average size " four acre " homestead. Here was, unquestionably, built the first Benedict dwelling, within which was housed a family circle, the members of which were a contribution to the substance, sense and strength of the growing plantation. Grants in diverse sections of the township were made to Thomas Benedict, Sr .. to whom the honors of public office were continuously offered until, after his quarter-century's Nor- walk life he was gathered, in 1689-90, to his fathers.

Thomas Benedict 2d., oldest son of Thomas'st., who had by about one year preceded his father to the tomb, left five daughters, but only one son, Thomas 3d., whose destiny it was to perpetuate the Thomas Benedict line. Thomas2d., who in 1665 or '66, brought hither his bride (Mary, daughter of Andrew Messenger of Jamaica, L. I., and afterward of Norwalk) bought, in 1669, the " Fenn " homestead, which bordered the " coaste banke" in the rear of the present upper Osborn Avenue. The head of this home, like his parent, served the public. He was a surveyor, and himself and father-in-law (Andrew Messenger) were heavy " commonage " proprietors. He lived to see his only son, Thomas3d., reach almost to man's estate, but not long enough to be present when said son married, on May 13, 1697, Rachel, daughter of Samuel Smith and grand-daughter of Matthew Marvin, Sr. This Thomas 3d., known as "Ensign " Thomas Benedict, was a surveyor also, and for several terms Selectman. He lost his first wife in 1737, and married. second, a Knapp of Danbury, by whom there was no issue. The second child of Thomas 3d. and Rachel Benedict, Thomas4th., born Oct. 29, 1701, married, May 21, 1725, Deborah, daughter of Jonathan Waters of Long Island. Thomas4th. was the builder of the to-day remembered West Avenue Benedict house which stood in that part of the large meadow through which the present Maple Street has been laid out, and which was the contemplated site, twenty

of which Josiah H. Fitch were Lucretia (Mrs. Sam- | (Mrs. Jonas Platt Conklin); George (of New Haven); uel Dascam); Jonathan; Theodicia (died young) ; Horace (married a daughter of Eseck Kellogg of Norwalk and resided in New Haven). Descendants of Lucretia and Nancy are Norwalk citizens to-day. Nancy (Mrs. Francis Hoyt); Lewis (of New Haven) ; Hanford (died a lad) ; William (of Michigan); Mary

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odd years ago, of an Episcopal Chapel.' Hannah,' daughter of Thomas4th., who was born in the old Benedict house just referred to, married John Carter of Clapboard Hill, New Canaan. Her brother, Thomas5th., succeeded to the Norwalk home. This brother, born Feb. 25, 1725, was married Jan. 4, 1758, by Rev. Moses Dickinson, to Hannah, daughter of Capt. John Raymond, and a great-grand-daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford. He was a " merchant" and the father of Thos. Benedict6th., whom the older members of the Nor- walk community call to-day to mind. This Thomasnth. was about fourteen years old at the date of Tryon's invasion. He had been either in "The Neck" or out in some of the Benedict fields, harvesting, on the Saturday on which the British crossed the Sound bent upon the burning of the town. It is possible that his father had companied with him, and that both hastened home when, just before night, the enemy's fleet approached the coast. The family. consisting of (besides the father and son referred to) the mother and her three daughters-Hannah, Deborah and Catharine-aged respectively twenty, eighteen and six- teen, were taken to a place of safety (Belden Hill) and the household goods put out of harm's way.

'The idea of a Chapel to belong to St. Paul's par- ish, and to be located on or near the Benedict West Avenue lot was entertained, at one time, by the Le- Grand Lockwood family.

2 Hannah and Deborah, daughters of Thomas4th. and Deborah ( Waters) Benedict married respectively, John Carter and Abijah Comstock of Canaan Parish. The influence of these two potential women was and is an abiding power. John Carter, born Feb. 22, 1730, son of Ebenezer and Hannah (St. John) Carter, was three and twenty years old when he wedded Hannah Benedict, who was born Dec. 13, 1733. The Carters were a staunch, solid folk. Their American progenitor was Samuel, born in London, England, about 1665, who twelve years later (1677) came to America and nine years still further on was found in Deerfield, Mass. Here he married, first, Dec. 4, 1690, Mercy Brooks, who bore to him, Samuelzd., Mercy, John, Ebenezer. Thomas and Mara. The first Mrs. Samuel Carter died Jan. 22, 1701, and the widower married, second, Hannah Weller, and had : Joseph and Hannah. The Deerfield Carter life was one of vicissitude. On Feb. 29, 1703, the Deerfield settlement was attacked by a Canadian French and Indian foe, and Samuel Car- ter lost, by death and capture, his entire household. The mother was murdered as she was ice-crossing the Connecticut River, and Thomas, Mara and Hannah also were slain. The other children were taken into captivity. The father broke up the desolated home in Deerfield and came to Norwalk. Here he married third, Jan. 25, 1705-6 Louis, born 1669, daughter of Mark St. John of Home-lot iii (see page 94). Short-

1 ly after this marriage, to the joy of Samuel Carter's soul. his captive boy, Ebenezer, now ten years old,

reached Norwalk and "was delivered safe and sound into the hands of his father". This boy made the acquaintance of Hannah (daughter of Matthias) St. John, whom he married in 1721, and who presented him on Feb. 22, 1730, with their sixth child, John Car- ter who married Hannah Benedict.

In the history of the Carter family there is much that is consideration-worthy. The household, not- withstanding its early bereavement-baptism, retained a leavening element, the resultant developments of which have been of salutary and happy effect, and stock-furnish the moralist. New Canaan may proud- ly refer to its Carter founders, and venerate the Carter Street acre which holds the family dust. Into one of that acre's open receptacles, lightened by vernal rays, was lowered, in the spring of 1898, the mortal form of one of the best and most loyal of the Carter blood, Cornelia C., daughter of Thos. and Esther (Greenley) Carter, and wife of Albert Seymour Comstock of New Canaan and New York. The late Mrs. A. S. Com- stock, Regent Primus of the New Canaan "Hannah Benedict Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution" was one whose life was a melodious line, and from whose soul issued goodness itself. She took pure delight in plans and perforinances bearing upon the weal of her native home, "nor change, nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high" could drive her love New Canaan astray or away.

Deborah Benedict, daughter of Thomas4th., and sister of Hannah (Mrs. John Carter) was another New Canaan mother of force. The 1896 Samuel Comstock farm in New Canaan, embracing meadow and orchard and woodland, and home-seat probity and prosperity, reminds of its Norwalk progenitress. This New Ca-

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Judging from the facts as narrated in 1847 to Dr. Edwin Hall by Thomas, 6th and supplemented by one' who, in early life, had repeatedly heard the same from the same lips, Thomas5th., after taking his wife and four children to safe quarters on Belden Hill, returned with his negro man to ascertain what might further be done to protect his homestead. The British landed on Saturday evening, and there was, probably, hurrying up and down the " old well road", but no military sally-forth until Saturday morning, when Gen. Garth had quite early been action engaged at Flax Hill. As his men marched up the avenue in order to join Tryon's east side forces at the "bridge ", it was found that Thomas Bene- dictsth. was (from over-work or worry possibly) prostrate in the house and under the care of his faithful negro. Mercy was asked and granted until the enemies' return to their boats at Old Well later in the day. It seems to have occurred to Garth to leave his wounded at the Benedict house. As the record shows. the British, after their France Street engage- ment, were compelled to beat a hasty retreat, during which Thomas Benedict6th. declared that a portion of Garth's division stopped at his father's house, took probably their own men, and tossed a leave-taking brand which, however, was put out before damage was done.

Thomas6th., son of Thomas5th. and Hannah Benedict, married, Oct. 8, 1795, Mary. daughter of Phineas Waterbury of Middlesex (now Darien). He lived and died on his father's and grandfather's " orchard lands of long ago". His children were Thomas7th. born Oct. 7. 1797; Edwin, born Aug. 10, 1801 ; Catherine, born Dec. 26, 1806.

Thomas7th. married, Mar. 26, 1820, Susan, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Fitch) Betts, and grand-niece of Gov. Thomas Fitch. He had Mary, born Jan. 19, 1821, died young : ThomasSth., born June 27, 1824; Elizabeth, born Jan. 5, 1827, died in infancy ; Sarah C., born Feb. 10, 1832, married Richard H. Parmelee ; Julia W., born Oct. 24, 1839, married, Oct. 27, 1858, Geo. O. Keeler; Edwin, married Mar. 15. 1866, Sarah W., daugh- ter of Roswell A. Raymond.

Thomas Benedict7th., son of Thomasoth. and Mary (Waterbury) Benedict, married twice, but had no children by his second wife.

ThomasSth., son of Thomas and Susan (Betts) Benedict, married, Dec. 30, 1852, Cornelia A., daughter of Roswell A. and Sarah (Mead) Weed, and sister of Hon. Smith M. Weed of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and had Thos.9th., born Nov. 26, 1863.

Thomas9th, son of Thomas and Cornelia (Weed) Benedict, married, Aug. 3, 1886, Margaret, born Nov. 19, 1866, daughter of William and Margaret (McQuhae) Seymour.

Nehemiah Benedict, the third of the four children of Thomas4th., married, Dec. 17.

naan estate has been neatly kept. It has not passed out of Comstock hands, but to this day beautifully suc- cors those who honor themselves in loyally preserving, even to the fourth generation, that which was so dear to their foreparents. Mrs. Abijah Comstock's grand- mother was the wife of the " layer-out" of "Smiths

Ridge," and her great-grandmother was Mrs. Mat- thew Marvin Sr. She inherited and transmitted the "head and front" of Norwalk blood.

ICharles Marvin of New Haven, formerly of Nor- walk, was a lover of the latter town and a connoisseur of its history-facts.

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1751, Hannah, daughter of Capt. Samuel Keeler. The Keelers have been identified with the Norwalk of every era, and "Keeler Mill ", " Keeler Hollow", "Keeler's Ridge " and " Keeler's Orchard " were well known pre-Revolutionary localities. Nehemiah and Han- nah Benedict established themselves in New Canaan, where their daughter Hannah, born Dec. 11, 1759, married, Oct. 14, 1779, a representative man for any place or period, Isaac Richards, whose only child, Hannah B. Richards, was the parent of one of the best and brightest men of New Canaan story, Prof. Samuel St. John, M. D. (see page 123).

JOHN BENEDICT LINEAGE.

The young John Benedict came with his parents, in 1665, to Norwalk. Across the meadows to the south of his father's house lay the Cove-side home of John Gregory, whose daughters, Phoebe and Sarah, were destined to become the wives of two of the senior Benedict's sons. John, the second son, married, in 1670, Phoebe Gregory, and the two afterwards made a home for themselves close by that of the groom's parent, and bought later near the present Newtown Avenue rise, a little above St. Paul's Church. At the date of the purchase of this new lot, John, the oldest born, was two years of age. The child grew, married a Hoyt, and before he was thirty years old, was chosen Select- man. This young official had born, in 1716, a son, named Nathaniel, who became a prominent public man and the owner of the finest part of the West Avenue of 1896. His broad acres are now covered by handsome dwellings on the east and west sides of said avenue. Nathaniel's first wife was Mary Lockwood and his second wife Hannah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hawley of Ridgefield, sister of Mrs. Peter Lockwood and Mrs. Nathan Beers of Norwalk.

William, son of Nathaniel Benedict, married Nancy Fitch, a grand-daughter of Gov. Fitch's youngest brother, James, and great-grand-daughter of Mr. William Haynes. William and Nancy Benedict had daughters Anna (who married a Lockwood), Charlotte (who married Jeremiah Camp),' Susanna (who married James I. Hoyt),2 Sally (who mar- ried Daniel Smith), Esther (who married Edward Smith ),3 Fanny (who married Seth Wil- liston Benedict),4 Mary (who married George Brown), and Deborah (who married George Scribner). They owned a goodly portion of the present Knight Street, and sold, on Aug. 15, 1785, his house lot to Dr. Jonathan Knight.

Nathaniel Benedict's youngest child, John, who was a lad of nine when the British destroyed the family home, married Jane, daughter of Capt. Samuel Raymond, whose father died a few days after the town was burned. John and Jane's second son was Rev. Henry Benedict of fond memory, whose son, E. Cornelius Benedict, born Jan. 24, 1834, across the Croton, in Westchester County, has now a residence at Indian Harbor, Green- wich, (see note page 214).

'Father of Mrs. Charles F Raymond of Knight Street.

>Father of James A. Hoyt, deceased.

3Father of William D). Smith and grandfather of William H. Smith.

4Father of Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood, deceased.

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In the burying ground at the head of the Ridgefield Street stands a tombstone bearing the following inscription :

" HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF JAMES BENEDICT."

The tomb's tenant was born in, it is probable, the new John Benedict home of 1675, a few furlongs to the north of the Norwalk St. Paul's Church of 1896. This home at that day was in the Norwalk suburbs, a long distance from church and school, which may account for the lad's spending a goodly portion of his earlier days with his grand- parent, the widow of Thomas Benedict, Sr., who lived close by both church and school. He had enjoyed, evidently, the tuition of an old Norwalk and Greenwich master, Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Hanford, Sr., and at the age of twenty-three united with several of his grandparents Norwalk neighbors in purchasing from the Indian Catonah, the magnificent tract now known as Ridgefield. A twelve-month after this purchase he married into the family of one of the Norwalk braves who gallantly defended the colony against the red men, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Hyatt, and husband and bride at once identified them- selves with the now Lenox of Connecticut, Ridgefield in this County, within the soil of which their ashes are urned.

The grandson of this worthy Norwalk-Ridgefield pair, Joel, a Nassau Hall man, afterward Rev. Joel Benedict, D. D., "a great man in Israel", was the father of Mrs. President Eliphalet Nott of Union College, N. Y., and the grandfather of the second wife of Rt. Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania. This estimable lady, Sarah, daugh- ter of Esquire Robert Benedict of Richfield Springs, N. Y., was the step-mother of Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry C. Potter, and of his brother, Rev. Dr. Eliphalet N. Potter, late President of Hobart College, N. Y., (see page 133).

PRO PATRIA.

A little east of the outlet of the stream which spends itself in the salt water inlet heading where the Norwalk Tramway Co. finds, in 1896, its Stamford terminus at the foot of Noroton Hill, stood, on the highway. one hundred and sixteen years agone, the home of sufferers in the cause of American liberty. Phineas Waterbury and Elizabeth Lounsbury,' his wife, with a brave boy, Nathan, just out of his teens, and three or four

'Elizabeth Lounsbury ( Mrs. Phineas Waterbury), daughter of Monmouthzd. and Jemima Lounsbury, was of tall figure, very erect even in age, and although sprightly and cheerful, was of quiet, almost Quaker- like taste. Her home ( north side of Connecticut turnpike, 1896, a short distance east of the Noroton cove and stream mentioned in the text), was the fond visiting spot of her daughter Mary (Mrs. Thos. Bene- dietoth.), while her daughter Sarah (mother of the late

Isaac Selleck, Sr. of East Norwalk) graphically told of its maternal head. Phineas, born Feb. 18, 1773, a younger brother of Mary and Sarah, was for a time connected with a New York ship-yard; while Noah, born Aug. 2, 1775, and a lad of some six or seven when his brother Nathan was killed, was first a South- ern sailing-master, and afterwards became a man of means, and a founder of families of distinction to-day. He married a widow lady, whose son, Wm. McKin-

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younger brothers, and two or so sisters, made up the family. Norwalk had been burned, Rev. Moses Mather was captivity-doomed, the enemy well understood how to harass the shore dwellers, and the liberty and loyalty loving Waterbury's were in danger. The father was prisoner-destined, and the oldest boy, Nathan, served in the coast-guard. Night shrouded Shippan and settled over Noroton when the ear within caught the sound of dis- charging musketry and heard footstep-pattering along the King's road-way. Elizabeth's Nathan had fallen and was brought home dead. Thought may rank speech but feeling, elsewhere than in art, ranks both. In Elizabeth Waterbury's bleeding home honors at that awful hour were indeed laid low and hope had well nigh flown, but still "over against" her martyr-hearthstone Time's iron pen has deterringly written " Ichabod ".

Mary, the fifteen summer's child when Nathan was shot, lived to tell of her mother's daring during said Mary's long age-tarry with her daughter, the faithful Catharine Bene- dict, of the old Benedict home which was planted on the West Avenue of 1896. The sister of Mary-Sarah-was the grandmother of the recent " Selleck Brothers " (Isaac, Geo. W., Henry S., a firm of Norwalk business repute) and Frank, and great-grandmother of the late young Clarence (son of Geo. W.) Selleck, whose art sketches and published letters while abroad were indicative of present attainment, and argued much of promise for the future.

Noah, a younger child of Elizabeth, and brother of Nathan Waterbury, has de- scendants, in 1896, who are commercially, civilly and socially metropolis-prominent; while Mrs. Rev. Henry S. Barnum,' a grand-niece whose life is nobly spent among the Constan- tinople Christians, and the legal Theodore and S. H. Fitch of Broadway, N. Y., as well as Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury- and his brother George E., of unimpeachable integrity, and the 1898 Connecticut Commonwealth Governor-elect, are of the same Lounsbury pro- genitor's blood.

ney, was a midshipman with Commodore Lawrence when the hero bade, in death, his men to stand by The Chesapeake. Lawrence Waterbury, son of Noah, started the great Long Island Cordage Establishment, which is headed to-day by his son, James M. Water- bury, whose home is at one of the choicest East River and Long Island Sound residential sites -- Throgg's Neck.

Among the noticable Norwalk-kept war and other relics are the parchment commission executed by Gov. Thomas Fitch to Lieut. David Waterbury, born Feb. 12, 1722, son of John and Susanna (Newkirk) Water- bury, and which, singular to say, was accidentally found in a small trunk of papers belonging to a West Avenue, 1896, Benedict descendant; and also a mus- ket (Damascus barrel) which was the property of mid- shipman William Mckinney (step-son to Noah, son of Phineas and Elizabeth (Lounsbury) Waterbury), which said m'd-hipman (afterward U. S. Navy officer) Me Kinney presented to Thomas Benedictich., and

which has now fallen to Thomas Benedict9th., of the New York Sub-Treasury. So highly was this piece valued by its first Benedict owner that he had a small closet made, over the fire-place, in his welcome home-seat at the ancient " Tide Mill" (now architect Randall's East Norwalk water-side residence) as a receptacle for the rare piece, which is known as " Old Algerine". .

'Elizabeth Lounsbury, born Sept. 6, 1746, or per- haps more correctly June 2, 1745, had a brother Mon- mouth2d., born July 31, 1748, who married, April 8, 1770, Sarah Davenport. Monmouthed. and Sarah Lounsbury had John Davenport Lounsbury, born May 5, 1792, who was of the old-time Winnipauk Mills firm of Lounsbury, Bissell & Co.

2Nathan Lounsburyzd. ( father of ex - Governor Phineas C. and Governor - elect (1898) George E. Lounsbury, and also of their three sisters, Matilda (Mrs. Francis E. Quintard), Sarah, and Ann Eliza (Mrs. Joel Rockwell of Ridgefield), and brother Wil-

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HOME-LOT XXXXI.

MATTHEW MARVIN. JR.

As the proprietor of this home-lot has, necessarily as well as naturally, name-con- nection with his father, Matthew Marvin'st., of home-lot x, reference is made to this latter home-lot description on page 150. From Matthew Marvin, Jr., of the home-lot under treatment directly descend the 1896 " Marvin Brothers" of East Norwalk. Samuel Mar- vintst., (Representative to General Court) son of Matthew Marvin 2d. or Jr., had a son Mat- thew, born 1702. This son married Elizabeth Clark (see pages 151-2-3), and had Ozias, born Jan. 29, 1737, who married Nov. 26, 1761, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Lockwood. To Capt. Ozias and Sarah Marvin was born, Dec. 11, 1772, a son (named for his grand- father), Joseph Lockwood Marvin, who was the grandfather of the present brothers J. R. and W. E. Marvin, whose line runs thus :

Gen. I .- Hon. Matthew Marvin'st.

.. II .- Matthew2d. and Mary Marvin.

III .- Samuel and Hannah (Platt) Marvin.

.. IV .- Matthew and Elizabeth (Clark) Marvin.

: V -Ozias and Sarah (Lockwood) Marvin.

VI .- Joseph L. and Clarissa (Meeker) Marvin.

" VII .- William and Amanda (Raymond) Marvin.

" VIII .- Josiah R. and William E. Marvin.

(See pages 151 and 152).

HOME-LOT XXXII. DANIEL KELLOGG.

This settler has Norwalk registry in 1655. He came, it is probable, either at or about the time of the arrival of the other settlers, and seems to have been a splendid specimen of physical development (see note page 273). He had been in Norwalk a few years when he married, about 1661, Bridget, sister of John BoutonIst, of Norwalk. His

liam, was son of Enos, who was son of Nathanist., who was son of Henry, who was son of Richard and Elizabeth (D)e Bois) Lounsbury, the settlers. Mon- mouth Lounsbury2d. (son of Monmouthist.), and his sister Elizabeth (Mrs. Phineas Waterbury) were gr .- nephew and niece of Henry. from whom Nathan Lounsbury2d. more immediately sprang. Henry Lounsbury, who married Mercy, born October 30, 1690, daughter of John and Hannah ( Mead) Scofield, was also the more immediate Lounsbury foreparent of the Broadway, N. Y., Fitch Brothers, mentioned in the text.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 52

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