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The Lounsbury family is claimed to be of Scotch
origin. Richard, the father, appeared first in that portion of the New York province near to which the Norwalk Beldens, in after years, planted themselves. He removed to Rye as early as 1672, where he owned a no mean slice of the territory (Rye was at one time a part of Fairfield County, Conn.,) which was a be- longing of the Sachem Ponus, of the Ponus Weku- wuhm, Canaan Parish, and which was probably named for that chieftan, "Peningoe Neck". He then went to Stamford, where his descendants have registration. "Louns" or Lounds is reputed to signify seclu- sion, shelter, serenity, and its suffix " bury ", a table- elevation or height-level.
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home-lot-see page 39-was backed on the east by that of the Marvins and on the west by that of the Fenns, while it south-fronted the residence of his brother-in-law John BoutonIst .. The children of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg were :
Mary, born 1662; (Mrs. Joseph Platt).
Rachel, born 1663 ; (Mrs. Abraham Nichols).
Sarah, born 1665; (Mrs. Daniel Brinsmade).
Elizabeth, born Aug. 1666; (died early and unmarried ).
Daniel 2d., born May 7th, 1671.'
Samuelist., born Feb. 1673.2
Lydia, born April, 1676; (Mrs. John Clark).
Benjamin, born 1678; (died, presumably, unmarried).
JosephIst., born 1678.3
Daniel Kellogg died in 1688-9. His will is Fairfield-recorded.
Mary, the oldest child of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, married, at eighteen-May 5, 1680, Lieut. Joseph, youngest son of Richard PlattIst. of Milford, and brother of John Platt1st. of Norwalk. Richard'st. gave his home (still standing, it is believed, near the New Haven and New Milford Tramway Co. tracks at " Woodmont" on the Sound), to his son Joseph, where. it is quite probable, Joseph Platt and his Kellogg bride afterward lived.
Rachel, second daughter of Daniel Kellogg'st., married Abraham Nichols, born Jan. 1662, of northern Stratford. Abraham Nichols was son of Caleb Nichols, and his mother was Annie, daughter of Andrew Ward of Fairfield. The Nichols family was well known. Abraham, who found his wife in Norwalk, was the grandson of Francis Nichols, the Ameri- can ancestor of the Nichols family.
Sarah, the third daughter of Daniel Kellogg'st., married Daniel Brinsmade, of the same Stratford locality to which the husband of her sister Rachel (Abraham Nichols) be-
'The children of Daniel Kellogg2d., were Daniel3d. Benjamin2d., Eliasaph, Johnist. and Johanna. From Daniel Kellogg3d., son of Danieled., descended his son, Jarvis Kelloggist., born 1731.
Samuel Kelloggist., married, Sept. 6, 1704, Sarah, daughter of Johnzd. and Hannah (Clark) Platt, and had Sarah, Samueled,, Mary, Martinist., Abigail, Ly- dia. Gideon, and Epenetusist ..
For last marriage of Samuel Kelloggist, see foot note, page 272.
From Samuel Kellogg2d. (son of Samuelist.) de- scended his daughter Ruth, who married, Oct. 26, 1766, Asa, son of Nathan Hoyt (see note, page 363).
Esther, born Nov. 9, 1769, daughter of Asa and Ruth ( Kellogg) Hoyt, married, Feb. 22, 1789, Capt. Moses Gregory, father of Admiral Francis HI. Greg- ory, U. S. N. (see page 84). The Norwalk mentions of the youthful activity of Rear-Admiral Francis H. Gregory suggest the possible semblance on his part to the remarkable physical manhood of his Kellogg
progenitor, Danielist., Mrs. ex-Gov. Chas. R. Inger- soll (1897) of New Haven (daughter of Admiral Greg- ory), is of the lineage of several old Norwalk fami- lies. Asa, brother of Mrs. Moses Gregory, married Clarissa Crane, and was the father of Capt. Francis Hoyt, who married Nancy Fitch, and had Clarissa Ann (Mrs. Burwell F. Day) of 1896. There were other children also.
The children of Samuel Kellogg2d., were Loui, Ann, Ruth (Mrs. Asa Hoyt), Elizabeth, Mary, Es- ther and Sarah.
3Josephi.t., son of Danielist. and Bridget (Bou- ton) Kellogg, married, Nov. 25, 1702, Sarah, daugh- ter of John Plum of Milford, and had: Elizabeth, born Oct. 5, 1703 (Mrs. Daniel Reed); Sarah, born April 5, 1705 ( Mrs. Sam'I. Reed) ; Joseph2d., born Sept. . 26, 1707: Rachel, born July 15, 1710 (Mrs. William Reed); Hannah, born Aug. 1, 1712 (Mrs. John War- ingist.).
Mrs. Joseph Kelloggist. died Aug. 17, 1712.
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longed. Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade had (Lieut.) Daniel Brinsmade 2d., born 1687. who was the father, July 31, 1718, of Daniel Brinsmade 3d. This Daniel 3d., married Rhoda, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Burwell) Sherman of New Haven, and had Daniel N., who married Abigail Farrand, and had Daniel B. (Gen.), whose daughter Abi- gail Irene, married Frederick W. Gunn, the founder of the famous Washington, Conn., educational establishment known as " The Gunnery". This honored institution, beloved by its many pupils, and which has done a noble work, is still carried on by a grandson (John C. Brinsmade) of the seventh generation of Sarah, daughter of Daniel Kellogg'st. of Norwalk. The present John C. Brinsmade married the only daughter of the deservedly notable progenitor of the Gunnery, the late Frederick W Gunn of Litchfield County.'
Elizabeth, the next daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, reached the period of young womanhood and was the only original Kellogg daughter who was unmarried. She died early, the inventory of her estate having been made Nov. 3, 1690.
EPENETUS KELLOGGIst. LINE.
Gen. I .- Daniel'st. and Bridget (Bouton) Kellogg.
.. II .- Samuel and Sarah (Platt) Kellogg.
: III .- Epenetus'st. and Jemima (Rogers) Kellogg.
IV .- Stephen and Lydia (Bouton) Kellogg.
V .- Eseck and Maria (Osborn) Kellogg.
Eseck, born Nov. 21, 1786, son of Stephen and Lydia (Bouton) Kellogg, married, March 24, 1811, Maria, born May 26, 1788, daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Jarvis) Os- born, and had :
Betsey Ann, born Dec. 16, 1811 ; died Jan. 20, 1812. Margaret Emily, born Nov. 7. 1813 : (Mrs. Wm. A. Barlow).
Harriet, born June 21, 1817; (Mrs. Horace Fitch). Mary Frances, born May 29, 1819; (Mrs. Wm. H. Wheeler). Caroline, born Aug. 3, 1821; (Mrs. Charles F. Osborn). Adelia Maria, born Feb. 28, 1824; (Mrs. Calvin S. Wheeler).
Joseph Kelloggist., married, second, Mary, widow of Andrew Lyon, and had Davidist' and Benj. 2d ..
After the decease of Joseph KelloggIst., his wid- ow, Mary, married a Scudder, and lived at Hunting- ton, L. I.
Joseph Kellogg2d., married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Smithist ..
David Kelloggist., married, Feb. 28, 1734, Judith, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Harris) Raymond. David Kelloggist., married, second, March 19, 1751, Hannah Fairchild of Fairfield.
Benj. Kellogg2d., removed to Wallingford, Conn. 'The children of Danielist. and Sarah (Kellogg)
Brinsmade were: Mary, born 1684; Daniel2d., born 1687; Abigail, born 1691; Samuel, born 1694; Ruth, born 1700. After the decease of Daniel Brinsmaderst. his widow married, as his second wife, John Betts of Norwalk. The young Daniel Brinsmade 2d. chose his Betts step-father as his guardian. This youth became afterward Lieut. Daniel Brinsmade, and was father of Daniel Brinsmade, born July 31, 1718, who graduated at Yale (Class of 1745), studied theology, and was the Congregational pastor of Washington, Conn. Rev. Daniel Brinsmade died in 1793, leaving his son, Judge Daniel, born 1751, who was the father of Gen. Daniel B. Brinsmade.
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Andrew, born May 1, 1826; died Sept. 4, 1826.
Josiah, born March 28, 1829.
Margaret Emily Kellogg married Wm. A. Barlow, a former organist of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk; Harriet married Horace Fitch' of New Haven: Mary Frances married Wm. H. Wheeler; Caroline married, as his first wife, Charles F. Osborn ; Adelia Maria married Calvin S. Wheeler, brother of the husband of her sister. Mary Frances.
Josiah, son of Eseck and Maria Kellogg, married, May 8, 1855, Amanda, daughter of Jesse and Ann (Pawling)2 Morey of Ballston, Saratoga Co., N. Y., and had :
William Morey, born April 23, 1858.
Ann Maria, born April 23, 1860; died Feb. 11, 1861.
Frederick J .. born April 23, 1862 ; died Oct. 28, 1866.
Caroline Maria, born Jan. 23, 1866: died Oct. 14. 1866.
Harriet Louisa, born July 23, 1868 ; died Sept. 26, 1871.
Frank Pawling, born Oct. 17. 1871.
Stephen Osborn, born Sept. 20, 1877.
William Morey Kellogg married, Jan. 5. 1888, Kathleen, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Lyon) Bradley, and had William Bradley, born Dec. 5, 1891. Of the brothers and sisters of Wm. M. Kellogg, four-Frederick J., Ann Maria, Caroline M. and Harriet L .- died young, and Frank P. and Stephen O. are unmarried.
Charles F. Osborn, born Sept. 28, 1818, married, first, Mar. 23. 1841, Caroline Kellogg, and second, Apr. 19, 1865, Harriet E., daughter of Stephen and Polly Smith, and widow of Charles A. Maybury. Mr. Osborn had no issue by his first marriage. His only child, Clarence Frederick, born June 13, 1866 (member of the Connecticut Legisla- ture, 1898-91, married, Sept. 23. 1897, Marie, daughter of Christian and Amelia Miller, and had Dwight Jarvis, born Nov. 10, 1898.
Charles F. Osborn was a son of Charles Osborn, born Aug. 17. 1792, who was the fifth child of Jacob and Betsey ( Jarvis) Osborn. Jacob Osborn, born in Salem, Westches- ter Co., N. Y .. was a painstaking Town Clerk of Norwalk. His son, Charles was twice married, first to Hulda, daughter of Noah Jarvis, and second, to Mary A. White. Chas. Osborn built the premises now owned by Josiah Kellogg of West Norwalk. He had charge of the Van Rensselaer estate, of New York City, a position in which he was suc- ceeded by his son. Charles F., who was an accurate accountant and an excellent business manager. Chas. F. Osborn left the New York City trusteeship to his brother, George L. and brother-in-law Aaron Hardman, and after returning to Norwalk, held, for twenty- five years, the position of treasurer of St. Paul's Church. He died Feb. 25, 1896.
'The children of Horace and Harriet ( Kellogg) Fitch were: Horace Kellogg. died young; Emma France -; Harriet Louise: Anna Maria; Chas. How- , mayor, appointed by the "Council" of Troy, N. Y.
ard; Caroline Blanche. Mr. Fitch once lived South. 2Albert Pawling (father of Ann), was the first
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JARVIS KELLOGG LINEAGE.
Gen. I .- Daniel'st. and Bridget (Bouton) Kellogg.
" II .- Daniel 2d.
" III .- Daniel 3d. and Eunice Kellogg.
" IV .- Jarvis Kellogg's1., born 1731.
Jarvis™ (son of Daniel 3d. and Eunice Kellogg), married, first, June 10. 1760, Eliza- beth Smith, and is supposed to have built the ancient house, still standing, on the north- east corner of upper Main Street and the Winnipauk road. He is thought to have twice married. His children, however, by his first wife, were Sarah and Jarvis2d. Jarvis 2d., born April 20, 1767, married, Feb. 19, 1792, Mercie,' born June 12, 1770, daughter of James and Sarah (Weed) Selleck, and had James Selleck, born Nov. 19, 1792 ; Sally, born Dec. 3, 1794, died young ; Sarah, born July 19, 1796 (Mrs. Joseph ScribnerIst.) ; Charles, born June 17, 1800; Lucia, born May 28, 1803 (Mrs. Stephen Stanley); Martin, born July 3, 1808 ; Charlotte, born Feb. 15, 1811 (Mrs. Linus St. J. Benedict). Some of these children were, it is probable, born in the 1896 John Henry Aiken Main Street home, which was built and occupied by Jarvis Kellogg 2d .. Of the sons, Charles established his home, still in the family, near the " New Canaan Bridge ", and Martin resided a little west of the present northwest corner of Main Street and Center Avenue.
A KELLOGG-JAMES DESCENT.
Hard by where serpentine-wound the Canaan Indian way, denominated from of old, " Ponasses-path", and some two miles northwest of the ancient Whitney Mill (corner of Main and Wall Street, 1896), stood the old-time home of Epenetus Kellogg2d. (son of Epenetus""". and Jemima (Rogers) Kellogg). The domicile remained, browned, bent and bowed by very age. Here was born the owner's little daughter Anna, who first saw the light during the autumn before the Norwalk Tryon invasion (Nov. 28, 1778). Anna Kel- logg had recently passed her twentieth birthday when her hand in matrimony was sought by a captain in the Southern marine service, Daniel, born Sept. 10, 1773, the third son of Peter and Mercy James. On Jan. 18, 1798, Daniel and Anna were married, and es- tablished a home near the commercial center, at that time, of Norwalk.2 This home, on
'Mrs. Jarvis Kelloggzd. (Mercie Selleck) was the daughter of James Selleck, born 1742, who was son of David and Mercie ( Waterbury) Selleck. Her father, David Selleck, born Dec. 23, 1700, was son of Na- thaniel and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck. Nathaniel Selleck, born April 7, 1678, was son of John and Sarah (Law) Selleck, which John Selleck, born Feb. 21, 1643, was son of David and Susannah Selleck the settlers. Hannah, born June 26, 1776, sister of Mrs. Jarvis Kel- logged., married William, son of Eliphalet and Susan- na Lockwood, and father of the late William S. Lock- wood of North Avenue, Norwalk.
James Selleck, father of Mrs. Jarvis Kellogga.,
married Sarah, born 1746, daughter of David, Jr. and Mary ( Waterbury ) Weed.
2Ruth, born 1762. older sister of Captain Daniel James, married Stephen, born 1761, son of John3d. and Elizabeth (St. John) Abbott. These had two daughters, Elizabeth, born 1787, who married Mat- thew Middlebrook of Wilton, and Cynthia, who mar- ried David Comstock of Norwalk, whose daughter Sarah is the present widow of Samuel Comstock2d. of the Comstock New Canaan farm (see page 346). John Abbott3d. was son of John2d. and Emma ( Judd ) Abbott.
On Christinas day, 1760, Isaac, son of David and Ruth (Lockwood) Hoyt, and grandson of Caleb and
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the hill just east of the 1896 Norwalk .. Boston Store", overlooked the harbor, and was convenient to Capt. James' vessel. To the mariner and his partner were born three child- ren : Sally. Aug. 27. 1798: William Kellogg, Sept. 18, 1800, and Mary Esther. The first child, Sally James, married a Keeler, and was a Winnipauk mother. who died quite before she was eighteen ; her child also died early.
The second child, William Kellogg James, became one of Norwalk's strong, ener- getic, enterprising and successful business and banking men. The late William K. James was bred to industry. He read human nature, was an observer of human actions, and quickly discerned the general trend of things. His acquaintance was large, he was a responsible and much respected man, and his reputation as a strict, sage finan- cier was wide. He amassed a handsome property, was a capitalist of integrity and influ- ence, and an unostentatiously liberal and charitable man. The ending years of his life were happily passed with his wife, Maria Philips Selleck, in the substantial residence which he erected (1840) some years before his marriage. He left, at his decease, what is known as the " James Legacy " to St. Paul's Church. He had no children.
The third child, Mary Esther, of Capt. Daniel and Ann ( Kellogg) James, married Samuel Hubbell of Wilton.'
Mehitable (Blakeley-Keeler) Hoyt. married Phoebe. ' ther Hubbell, married, April 20, 1864, Helen A. Bar- daughter of John2d. and Eunice (Judd) Abbott, and : num, and had : great-grand-daughter of George Abbott, the settler. Annie Kellogg, born Apr. 13, 1865. Isaac and Phoebe Hoyt had a son Stephen, born Oct. William Kellogg James, born July 5, 1867. Helen A. Hubbell died May 16, 1869, and her hus- band, Thaddeus K. Hubbell, died Aug. 25, 1880. 25, 1761, who married Althea, daughter of Peter and Mercy James, and sister of Capt. Daniel James. Ste- phen and .Althea Hoyt were the parents of Polly, who married, as his second wife, Ebenezer Churchzd., who was the father of the late Isane and Mary Church of Westport Avenue.
Caleb, father of Isaac Hoyt, was son of Zerub- babelist. (son of Walter Hoyt the settler). Phoebe Abbott was a grand-daughter of John and Ruth Ab- bott2d.
Samuel Hubbell, born July 29, 1799, of Wilton (-on of Zadock, born 1756, son of Thaddeus, born 1725, son of Nathan, born 1699, son of Samuel, son of Richard Hubbell the settler), married Mary Esther, daughter of Capt. Daniel and Anna (Kellogg) James, and had :
John William, born July 5, 1828:
Thaddeus Kellogg, born Apr. 14, 1834.
John William. son of Samuel and Mary Esther Hubbell, married first, Jan. 1, 1854, Nancy, daughter of Justus Hoyt, and had :
James Thaddeus, born Mar. 17, 1855.
Mrs. Nancy Hubbell died May 17, 1856, and John W Hubbell married, second, Emily, born March 21, 1836, daughter of bijah and Ann (Warren) Adams, and had :
Susie Maria, born Feb. 21, 1866.
Thaddeus Kellogg, son of Samuel and Mary E-
Hon. James Thaddeus, son of John W. and Nan- cy (Hoyt) Hubbell, and Mayor, in 1895, of Norwalk, married, June 22, 1888, Mary Clinton, daughter of Rev. Clinton and Mary (Merwin) Clark, and had :
Clinton Clark, born Nov. 13, 1889. John Samuel, died in infancy. Helen C., born Apr., 1894.
Susie Maria, daughter of John W and Emily (Adams) Hubbell, married May 1, 1890, Stanton, son of Ebenezer and Eleanor O. (Gregory ) Coley of West- port, and had :
William Stanton, born Dec. 13, 1891. Emily Eleanor, born Feb. 10, 1897.
Mrs. Justus Hoyt, mother of the first Mrs. John William Hubbell, was a sister of Jonathan, David and Martha Betts, several years since of Winnipauk Ave- nue, Norwalk.
Edwin Adams of South Norwalk (1896) is young- est brother of Abijah Adams, the father of the second Mrs. John W. Hubbell.
The mother of Mrs. Hon. James Thaddeus Hub- bell was Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Merwin of | New Haven. Rev. Mr. Merwin, born in Milford in 1782, was a Yale graduate of 1802. He was a student | of Dr. Timothy Dwightist., and was for over a quar- ter century a New Haven Congregational pastor. He
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HOME-LOT XXXIII.
JOSEPH FENN.
ATHOMAS BETTS.
The Fenn family Norwalk connection was transient. Joseph Fenn has record in 1665, at which time William Rusco conveys to him his (Rusco) dwelling house. In 1677-8, this house seems to be transferred by Benjamin1st., brother of Joseph Fenn, to Thos. Betts. Jr. Benjamin Fenn, Jr., son of Benjamin'st., completed, in 1682, this Fenn-Betts trans- action. The Fenns were Milford folk. Joseph and Benjamin'st. of Norwalk were sons of Benjamin of Milford. The line of Benjamin Fenn of Milford is plainly traced. Joseph Fenn of Norwalk was a son of Benjamin of Milford, and (from a Norwalk deed reference) evidently a grandson of Benjamin and Sarah (Baldwin) Fenn of Milford, who were the Fenn Milford settlers. This older Benj. Fenn came, in 1630, to America, and was a co- lonial Assistant Gov. from 1665 to 1672. His son Benj. made his will in 1683, and gave the Norwalk property which had belonged to Joseph Fenn, then deceased, to Benj. Fenn, Jr. Joseph Fenn's estate was inventoried in 1671.
For Betts record, see home-lot xiii, page 225.
married a daughter of Col. Timothy Taylor of Dan- bury, and had, among other children, Timothy T. Merwin (of the Norwalk bar of some fifty years ago), who married Hannah B., daughter of Ephraim Moss and Charity (Tucker) White of Danbury. The Tay- lor, Merwin and White stock was principle-titled. and the Norwalk North Avenue Merwin home was one of elevated aims and standards. While two of the Richard P. Hart daughters, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Hon. John A. Griswold), and Jane (Mrs. Doughty ) of Second Street, Troy, N. Y., were at school in Norwalk their home was with Mr. and Mrs. Merwin. Mr. Merwin was a gentleman of legal parts and prestige and Mrs. Mer- win a lady of charming cultivation. One of their children was the late Augustus, who married a daugh- ter of Prof. Edward Olmstead of Wilton.
Charles H. Merritt, a Troy business man of note, married into the same White family. Mrs. Merritt was a lady who made her Troy hearth-stone, at the corner of Second and State Streets, a prized spot to the family members and who extended a welcome to her visitor. Her son Charles is the present occupant of the ancestral home in Main Street, Danbury.
Mercy, an older, probably the oldest, child of Peter and Mercy James, married, May 20, 1781, Aaron Keeler, whose daughter Laura married Carmi, son of Michael Lockwoodzd,, and father of Edward Keeler Lockwood of 1896 (see page 117).
KELLOGG-JOTTING.
Samuel Kelloggist. (see sub-note page 272 and note page 372), survived his last (Hickox) marriage
nineteen months and four days, and was laid to rest in the "Town House Hill" Cemetery, where to-day stands his legibly-inscribed tombstone. It is possi- ble that his last wife, who was a Selleck and Hickox progenitress of remark, was laid near him, but there is no evidence of the same. His father is looked upon as having been a French protestant and his descend- ants have been many.
John Kellogg ist., son of Daniel Kellogg2d., mar- ried, Jan. I, 1729-30, Ann, daughter of Samuel Coley of Fairfield, and had: Ezra, Mary (Mrs. Robert Smith Jr.) ; Ann ( Mrs. Elnathan Knapp of Danbury) ; John; Seth. Mrs. Robert Smith Jr. appears to have been the daughter-in-law of Robert ist. and Judith (Fountain) Smith (see pages 186 and 263). After the decease of John Kellogg Ist. the widow married James Hayes and lived in Danbury.
Martin Kellogg ist., born March 23, 1711, son of Samuelist., had four sons-Eliphalet, Martin, Jr., Samuel and Nathan. He died July 7, 1756, and his wife, who was his junior by six years, overlived him twenty - seven years. llis son, Martin, purchased a farm in New Fairfield, Mar. 13, 1773, and then left Norwalk. His wife was Mercy, daughter of James and Mercy (Knapp) Benedict of Danbury, which Jas. Benedict was the gr .- grandson of Thos. Benedictist. of Norwalk. Martin and Mercy Kellogg had a son Mar- tin, born Sept. 3, 1763, who was a Norwalk boy of some ten years when his parents quit this town and removed to their one hundred and ten "apple trees " acres in New Fairfield. The lad Martin reached ma- jority, and on Sept. 15, 1785, married Rachel Stevens,
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HOME-LOT XXXIT.
THOMAS BENEDICT, JR.
When, two-and-a-quarter centuries ago, Thomas Benedict, Jr.,' the second of his name in Norwalk, stood in his cottage, a little south of Oyster Shell Point, and from one of its river-view windows looked across the water, he perhaps hardly dreamed that it was to fall to his own blood soon to possess a no mean portion of the westward upland and lowland country upon which his eyes rested. The hill based by " Ponasses Path " (back to-day of the Armory), and extending as far as the "Great Swamp" on the Stamford road, was anon to bear his family name and be called " Benedict's Hill", while upon the present Maple Street was to be built, by his grandson, a structure which would perpetuate the family story down into the yon half of the nineteenth century.
who bore to him, Sept. 12, 1786, a son Ira, who lived to marry, Jan. 29, 1812, Flora Rogers of the New Fairfield (Rogers) family (see page 108).
Martin Kellogg, father of the present Jarvis Kel- logg of Center Avenue, was a son of Jarviszd. and Mercie (Selleck) Kellogg. His sister, the venerable Mrs. Stephen Stanley, now survives a husband who attained to a noble and much respected age.
A grandson of Charles, brother of Martin, and son of Jarvis Kellogg2d., married the oldest child, Anne Adele Walton, of Rev. Alexander and Adele Walton (Livermore) Hamilton, now of Norwalk. This fair descendant (Mrs. Gilvia Burr Kellogg) of Secre- tary Alexander and Elizabeth (Schuyler) Hamilton (see page 331), faded early away, but bequeathed a fragrant memory-legacy.
'The fourth brother of Thomas Benedict, Jr., Danielist., was young when his father came from Long Island to Norwalk. Directly across the street from the Benedicts ( Fort Point Street 1896, somne few hund- red feet west of East Avenue) lived Mary Marvin, also a mere child, daughter of Matthew Marvin, Jr.
Danielist. and Mary grew up together, and early in life married each other. The husband was a pat- riot, and as the Indians were thorns in the sides of the New England settlers, he resolved to help put down the savage foe. We consequently find him in the Indian engagement of Dec. 19, 1675, known in history as the " Direful Swamp fight ", and so pleased was the town of Norwalk with his demeanor on that occasion, that a grant of land, near what is now West Avenue, was voted him in recognition of his services. While he was vet in full strength, the town of Dan- bury had been projected, and himself and wife sold their Norwalk property, packed up everything, and started upon their tedious trip thither. Keeping, it is possible, along the river's valley, and passing " Split Rock", they drove through " Pimpewaugh " and over the hill-path northeast of " Nod", and then diverg- ing, possibly to the left, continued across a level
which conducted, after a half-dozen miles, to a chasm road, from both sides of which, if old mentions are true, wild cats jumped " clean " across the way, and in the broken plain at the northern foot of which already lived Daniel's two brothers, Samuel and James.
Daniel2d., son of Danielist., married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Taylor, one of the Norwalk set- tlers of Danbury. Matthew, second son of Danielad. and Rebecca, wedded a young woman from the " Still River" country, sixteen miles to the northeast of Danbury (Mabel, daughter of John Noble of New Milford). These two had a son (Capt. Noble Bene- dict, born Jan. 25, 1735), who raised, in the Revolu- tionary war, a company in Danbury, among the first to enlist in which was a Carmel farm youth, Enoch Crosby, the future " spy " (see page 96).
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