Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 62

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

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Sands of Long Island, who died July 13, 1712. Her husband, Nathan Selleck1st, married, third, Sarah, daughter of Captain Samuel Sands and cousin of Mr. Selleck's second wife. The issue by said Selleck's last wife was :

Sands1st, born April, 1714; Silas, born June, 1715;

Mary, born October 1, 1717, Mrs. Jacob Warren ;

Jonathan, born October 1, 1720 ;

Sarah, born August 12, 1723, Mrs. Nathaniel Selleck ;

Nathan2nd, born September 15, 1726;

Samuel, born January 10, 1728, died young :

Gold John, born January 10, 1730 ; Silvanus, born September 1, 1734.

Sands1st, son of NathanIst and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, August 10, 1742, Mary Raymond, and had :

Simeon1st, born August 14, 1743, died an infant ;

Simeon2nd, born September 18, 1744;1

Jesse, born January 19, 1746 ;2

Sands2nd, born May 19, 1751 ;

Raymond, born June 26, 1752 ;

Samuel, born July 17, 17558 ;

Anna, born February 28, 1759, Mrs. Benjamin Belden ;

Henry, died young ; Stephen, died young.

Silas1st, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, January 12, 1738, Eliza- beth Ferris, and had :

Silas2nd, born October 29, 1740; Sarah, born August 19, 1741.

Silas Selleck1+ died December, 1772.

Sarah, daughter of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, August 7, 1744, Nathaniel, son of David and Mercy (Waterbury) Selleck, and had :

Uriah1st, baptized January 21, 1761, died young ;

Ray, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Mercy, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ;

Sarah, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Nathaniel, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Uriah2nd, baptized October 31, 1762-3.

1Married, February 28, 1771, Mary Belden of Stamford. Had Betsey, Polly, Benjamin and Anne. These children and their parents belonged in Stamford rather than in Norwalk.

2Married, January 26, 1786, Elizabeth Howe and had James, born April 22, 1787, Catharine, born December 11, 1789, Eliza, born August 10, 1792,

Sands, born January 13, 1796, Henry Raymond, born May 21, 1798.

8 Married, August 1, 1779, Hannah Smith, and had nine children, thetwo yonngest of whom, Angeline, born September 4, 1796, and Caroline, born March 8, 1802, lived until recently at the Ring's End Landing (Darien) homestead there established by their father.

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Nathan211, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, September 17, 1745, Catharine, daughter of John Clark of Stamford, and had :

Deborah, Mrs. Amos Roberts :

Phebe, Mrs. Thomas Comstock ;

Catharine, Mrs. Wyy Seeley, died July 4, 1813;1 Edward.

Gold John, son of Nathan14 and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married Jane and had : A child, no name found ;

Gold John, baptized November, 1772.

Mrs. Gold John Selleck (Jane) married, second, December 23, 1773, Benjamin Betts of Norwalk.

Silvanus, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, March 2, 1768, Tabitha of Stratford, and had :

Molly, baptized November 17, 1772, Mrs. Captain Stephen Raymond of Norwalk. Betty, baptized November 17, 1772.

Mrs. Silvanus Selleck married, second, June 21, 1774, Daniel Lockwood.

JOHN SELLECK1st

Captain John Selleck1st, son of David1st and Susannah Selleck, married, October 25, 1669, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Richard and Margaret (Kilbourne) Law, and had :

Sarah, born August 22, 1670, Mrs. John Potter ;

David born, December 27, 1672, probably unmarried ;

Nathaniel2nd, born April 7, 1678;

John, born June 7, 1681, unmarried ;

Susannah, born February 2, 1683, Mrs. John Holly ;

Johanna, born May 31, 1686, Mrs. Jonathan Bates.

Nathaniel21, son of Capt. John1st and Sarah (Law) Selleck, married, January 25, 1700, Sarah, born 1678, daughter of Jonathan14 and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, and had :

David, born December 23, 1700 ;

Sarah, born August 14, 1702;

Nathaniel&rd, born October 9, 1704;

John, born January 3, 1706; Martha, born April 19, 1710, died young ;

Ebenezer, born March 20, 1712, died in infancy.

Nathaniel Selleck died Angust 14, 1712, and his widow married Deacon Benjamin Hickox (see pages 272, 281, and 318).

David, son of Nathaniel2" and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, January 23, 1723, Mercy, daughter of David Waterbury, and had :

1Wyy and Catharine (Selleck) Seeley had six children. Their oldest daughter Mary, born November 10. 1791, married Kilbourne Selleck and was the vener-

able personage, who neatly kept up her Darien home near the Selleck woods through which electric cars now make their way from Norwalk to Stamford.

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David, born April 1, 1724;1

Nathaniel4th, born October 29, 1725, see "Uriah Selleck descent," page 446 :

Ebenezer, born December 18, 1727; Gershom, born July 10, 1730 ;2 Ezra, born February 19, 1732; Samuel, born February +, 1734 :3 Thaddeus, born 1736; James, born 1742 :+

1David, son of David1st and Merey Selleck, mar- ried, January 8, 1750, Sarah Bates, and had : Lydia, born October 23, 1754; Hannah, born February 18, 1758; David, baptized March 11, 1762; Mary, baptized October 10, 1765; Charles, baptized July 20, 1766.

This youngest son Charles, married Hannah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Moses Mather. The wedding occurred June 2, 1796 and was followed by the birth of eleven children, the oldest of whom, David, baptized by his grandfather, Dr. Mather, June 15, 1797, be- came the remembered David Selleck of West Norwalk, who died in 1876, leaving a son, David R., born No- vember 14, 1822 and a daughter, Frances Albena, born October 6, 1824. The household was a worthy one.

2Gershom Selleck married Pruella Gounn and had Charlotte, who baptized May 29, 1763, married June 3, 1784, Stephen, son of Bushnell and Abigail (Reed) Fitch, and had Abbey, Chauncey, Frank B., William, and Benjamin (Hon.). This last son was the founder of Fitch's Home for Soldiers in Darien. His mother, Mrs. Charlotte (Selleck) Fitch, is described as having been a woman of much personal beauty, and of tried and noble character (page 200).

3Samuel, son of David and Merey Selleck, was born, as per note page 200, and his life was given to his country. He married, March 28, 1758, Han- nah, daughter of David and Mary (Waterbury) Weed, and had Samuel, David, Hannah, Mary and Ebenezer, which last child was only two years old when his brave father perished in the prison ship in 1776. The young Ebenezer married Emilea, born 1776, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Youngs) Cheshire of Long Island, and had Mary W., Hannah, Benjamin, and Ebenezer2nd, who died in infancy. Mr. Ebenezer Selleck married, second, October 10, 1826, Mary, daughter of Holly and Martha (Pease) Lynes, and had :

Rebecca, born October 22, 1831 ; Ebenezer, born June 9, 1834.

Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Selleck, is acquaintance-valued in Norwalk. She has devoted much time to the work of record tracing and has

been quite successful. Her only brother, Ebenezer. Jr., resides in the south. The old Ebenezer Selleck home in Westchester County was a coveted site.

+James, son of David and Merey Selleck, married Sarah Weed (page 293), sister of his brother Samuel's wife, and had James, born January 2, 1764, Heze- kiah, born January 14, 1766, Sarah, born April s. 1768, Mercy, born June 12, 1770, William, born July 11, 1773, Hannah, born June 26, 1776, David, born June 1, 1779, Mary, born August 29, 1781, and Charlotte, born April 23, 1784. Of these children Mercy married Jarvis Kellogg (page 375), Hannah married as his first wife William, son of Eliphalet and Susannah (St. John) Lockwood (page 293). William Lockwood's second wife was the widow of Orange Webb, Jr. (page 401), who was a stately lady and of commanding presence. Emerging with her daughter from the Lockwood residence to pay a visit one sum- mer evening to the family of her husband's brother, Colonel Buckingham St. John Lockwood, she was observed by the Colonel's children ( the parents were in Greenwich, and the daughters had made an even- ing party to help pleasantly pass their father's and and mother's absence) approaching the home. The young people, who had converted the parlor into a room for temporary diversion, felt that it was not in proper shape to receive their aunt and friend, and hastened consequently to place-restore the furniture, adornments, etc., ere their courtly relative arrived.

Orange Webb, Jr., the first husband of the second Mrs Wm. Lockwood, was a great grandson of Henry, who was a grandson of Richard Webb., Jr., tentatively, perhaps, of Norwalk. Richard Webb, Sr., was a Norwalk resident whose homelot, after Mr. Webb's day, adjoined that of the Roger's (see page 39) in connection with which fact a Fairfield County Rog- ers-Watson-Webb mention is interesting. Moses Rogers, grandson of James Rogers of home lot XI, as per page 39, lived at No. 7 State Street, Battery Park, New York. At No. 6 State Street (next door to to Moses Roger's, there being no dwellings opposite) resided James Watson, originally of Wethersfield, Conn., but now a successful city merchant. Mr. Watson was a devoted friend of Moses Roger's son- in-law. Samuel Miles Hopkins, a young man of re- markable power and promise, and the father of the

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Jacob, born 1744 :1 Sarah, Mrs. John Bates; Mercy, baptized July 22, 1750.

1896 Colonel Woolsey R. Hopkins (see page 171) of Shippan Point, Stamford. Another ardent Watson friend was Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb (see page 400). Colonel Webb, who as the Revolution was rising, raised a company in Connecticut, desired to make Watson an officer, but was in some way pre- vented, and the aspiring Watson went after- ward to New York. Mr. Watson had a son, James Watson, Jr., and an adopted daughter who married Judge Williams and had a son, James Watson Wil- liams, a prominent lawyer of U'tica, N. Y. James Watson, Jr., a brilliant youth, was drowned at the Battery, New York, on one of the loveliest of winter days, and in the presence of a fashionable throng which, because of the balmy air, was parading in that handsome early park. His father's friend, Colo- nel Webb, went also to the city after the war, where General Washington, who, it is claimed, was fond of young men, became much attached to Webb. The intimacy between James Watson and Webb and Hop- kins was so peculiar that General Webb named a son for the first who became the famous James Watson Webb of the New York Courier and Enquirer (see page +01), while Hopkins exchanged portraits with Mr. Watson. Jonathan Trumbull was the artist em- ployed, and his likeness of Mr. Watson (which now adorns a Fairfield County mansion) is masterful. Mr. Watson had a painting of Mr. Hopkins, but this has been lost.

Both friends of James Watson, General Samuel Blachley Webb and Hon. Samuel Miles Hopkins, were Norwalk family-associated and left remarkable memories. The name of Webb is still Norwalk pre- served and an old inmate of the household of the parents of Mrs. Samuel M. Hopkins lives (1899) at the great age of 102 years to tell of the "splendid black team " driven by Mr. Rogers and of the Shippan "niceties" even to the dairy shelves which were of marble. This venerable woman is the mother of Capt. Cyrus Crabbe of the Norwalk and New York Steam Navigation Service.

The letter of Chief Justice Tapping Reeve, head of the Litchfield Law School, introducing the Yale graduate, Samuel M. Hopkins, to the acquaintance of Aaron Burr; the warm reception of the same tal- ented young man into the family of James Watson and his residence at No. 6 State Street; the Hopkins survey of the great Shenandoah tract and the intrust- ing of the European sale of the same to Hopkins by Watson; the mock Colonels Webb-Livingston duel; the pathetic wiping-out through the ice on the Bat- tery beach of the James Watson blood on the occa- sion of the tragic life-end of his only son; the Captain

Moses Webb granddaughter's bridal in a cottage still standing on Norwalk's ancient Indian trail; the Margery Webb marriage August 10, 1716, to Joseph, nephew of Ephraim Lockwood, the Norwalk settler and the proprietorship of Margery's mother's kin to a hundred acre slice (boundary to-day pointed out) of the Stamford Shippan ; the overland Moses Rogers family coach trips to Connecticut from No. 7 State Street at the Battery, starting at early morn, reach- ing the Jay home at Rye at noon, and driving along the splendid Shippan Avenue as night-fall approached; the double (Rogers-Isaacs) Norwalk connection with the families of the business house of Woolsey & Woolsey-father and son-who had in their employ a young German whose reply to their "good morning, Peter," was a respectful return salutation, and who grew to become the Peter Moller of sugar refinery fame, all these are local mentions the reference to which may be looked upon as in some sort a posterity reminiscence-due.

James Selleck, brother of Hannah (the first Mrs. William Lockwood), married, November 17, 1791, Sally Gilbert of Salem, and had, among five other children, Hannah, born February 28, 1803, the beloved partner (first wife) ot Lewis Rich- ards, M. D., of New Canaan. Mrs. Dr. Rich- ards' sister Sarah, born April 8, 1799, was the wife of Peter Smith of Smith's Ridge, New Canaan. The New Canaan Dr. Richards' residence is now the bough shaded Bond home of that town, and the Peter Smith acreage lays a little west of the spreading "Maple Farm" of Mrs. Stephen Keeler of the same town.

1Jacob Selleck1 st, son of David and Mercy Selleck, lived on Carter Street, New Canaan. He married, April 10, 1764, Hannah Fitch, and had Sarah. The first Mrs. Jacob Selleck died February 10, 1765, and Mr. Selleck married, second, May 2, 1776, Sarah, daughter of Theophilus Fitch. There were by this union Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Hunt), Jacob2nd, Anna (Mrs. Drake Pennoyer), Lydia (Mrs. Avery), Polly (Mrs. Samuel Raymond), and Samuel.

Sarah, daughter of Jacob Selleck by his first wife, married Abraham Weed of New Canaan.

The children of Samuel and Polly (Selleck) Ray- mond were Charlotte (Mrs. William Nash), Thomas, Charles, and William E.

Samuel, born May 24, 1791, son of Jacob Ist and Sarah Selleck, married January 20, 1818. Ann born January 15, 1794, daughter of Isaac DeForest. Mr. Selleck lived at White Oak Shade, New Canaan (Holly Hanford Place) and had Caroline, born October 20,

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Nathaniel3rd, son of Nathaniel2ud and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, June 30, 1726, Mary De Mill, and had :

Mary ; Peter, born May 2, 1729;

Sarah, born March 12, 1731 ;

Elizabeth, born January 3, 1733; Abraham, born December 3, 1735; Catharine, born March 28, 1739;

Anthony ; Hannah.

John, son of Nathaniel2nd and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, November 5, 1729, Abigail, daughter of John and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour of Norwalk, and had :

John, born August 18, 1730;

Bethel, born March 27, 1732 ;

Seymour, born March 1, 1734; Abigail, born May 12, 1736; Martha, born February 6, 1739;

Mercy, born October 9, 1740.

LOCKWOOD-SELLECK.

Sarah, born 1678, daughter of Jonathan1st and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, and grand- daughter of Robert Lockwood the settler, married, January 25, 1700, Nathaniel2", born April 7, 1678, son of John and Sarah (Law) Selleck, and had :

Nathaniel&rd, born October 9, 1704.

Nathaniel Selleck2nd died August 14, 1712, and his widow married, second, Benjamin Hickox, and third, Samuel Kellogg (see pages 272, 273, 317, 318).

Nathaniel Selleckard married, June 30, 1726, Mary DeMill of Stamford and had Mary, Peter, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abraham1st, Catharine, Anthony and Hannah. Of these children Abraham1», born December 3, 1735, married, first, May 3, 1756, Deborah, born October 24, 1734, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Beachgood) Whiting, and had Abraham2 4, born De- cember 13, 1750; Nathan, born May 26, 1759, and Charles, born December 9, 1760.

The first Mrs. Abraham Selleck, died April 11, 1761, and her husband married, second, and had Nancy, born April 10, 1763; Edward, born November 19, 1764 ; Anthony, born May 9, 1766; Isaac1st, born January 22, 1768; William, born October 6, 1769; Nancy2nd, born December 19, 1771, and Sarah, born July 3, 1773.

1819, Charlotte born May 24, 1821, Herman born December 11, 1823, George born January 13, 1825, Charles and Julia, twins, born June 25,1828, Mary born August 9, 1830 and Benjamin born July 26, 1832. The two brothers, Jacob2nd and Samuel Selleck, received by inheritance the homestead of their father which at the decease of Jacob2nd was divided among the heirs. It was then purchased by Capt.

Stephen Hoyt who gave up mercantile business, and established upon the Jacob Selleck property (Shaker Farm) the now far known "Hoyt Nursery" of the town of New Canaan. Capt. Stephen Hoyt and his truly excellent wife are deceased but their enterpris- ing sons Hons. James and Edwin Hoyt carry on a business which has assumed large proportions. Their establishment is on Carter Street.

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Nathan, son of Abraham SelleckIst by his first wife, married three times. By his first wife he had Jonathan and Sidney. Jonathan married first a Barnes and had seven children.1 He married, second, Sally Esther, widow of Benjamin Hoyt, and daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Waterbury) Keeler (page 124), and had Frances A. (Mrs. Samuel C. Waterbury),2 and James K.

James K., son of Jonathan and Sally Selleck, married, first, Semantha, daughter of Peter and Sophia (Thompson) Bontecou of Troy, N. Y., and had Reed B., died young; Fred- erick D .; 8 Charles B .; + James K .; Wilson W .; Clara F (Mrs. James H. Bailey);5 Florence T. (Mrs. William Martin): Josephine K., died young; Eugenia, died young ; Jonathan H.

Sally E. (Mrs. Benjamin Hoyt) Keeler, afterward Mrs. Jonathan Selleck, had a daughter Elizabeth, who married George Weed of North Stamford and had Mary Esther (Mrs. Harvey Smith of Stamford).

Nathan Selleck had by his second wife George, Henry and Riley. George married, December 1, 1819, Mehitable, who was a daughter of Bouton Hoyt of New Canaan, and had Mehitable H. (Mrs. James H. Marvin first, and, second, Mrs. O. P. Riggs; no children by either marriage). Henry, brother of George, married Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Waterbury) Keeler, and had Henry K. (married, first, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Uriah and Augusta (Remson) Ambler ; married, second, Mary Elizabeth Taylor; no children ;) Charles M .; George Ward, (married Mrs. Anna M. Potter, no issue); Theodore D .; Mary E.

Nathan Selleck married, third, Amy Holmes of Bedford, N. Y., and had Charlotte (unmarried) and Jesse.

Jesse married Hannah M., daughter of Jakin and Rhoda (Richards) Bouton of New Canaan and had Andrew and C. Frederick. Andrew married, first, Mary, daughter of William and Fanny (Olmsted) Harrington," and had William A., died unmarried, Lilias M. (Mrs. W.

1 Among the children of Jonathan Selleck, by his first wife (Barnes) were Edward and Betsey (Mrs. Gould first and, second, Mrs. Curran).

2The children of Frances A. Selleck (Mrs. Samuel C. Waterbury) were Anna (Mrs. MeClay first and, sec- ond, Mrs. Elmer E. Knapp) ; Josephine S. (Mrs. George H. Roberts); Clarence, died young; Lawrence P., ummarried; Rena S. (Mrs. Eugene Albin) and Eloise A. (Mrs. Frank W. Bogardus).

The children of George H. and Josephine Roberts are Mary, died young; Lena (Mrs. Edward Marshall), Mabel, Florence E., Annie, Jennie and Georgie.

The children of Eugene and Rena Albin are Har- riet F. and Harold C.

The families of Sidney and Riley Selleck reside else- where than in Norwalk.

3Frederick D., son of James K. and Semantha Sel- leck, married September 19, 1878, Nellie Eagan of Chicago, Ill., and had James K., Elizabeth, George, Helen and Lillian.

+Charles B., son of James K. Selleck, married De- cember 27, 1879, Isabel S., widow of William A. S. Hanford and daughter of William C. Street of Nor- walk, no children.

5The child of Mrs. James H. Bailey is Florence.

6Fanny, born May 3, 1801 (Mrs. Wm. Harring- ton) was a daughter of Asa and Betty (Stuart) Olm- stead. Her brother was the clever and considerate Dr. David Olmstead2nd of Belden Hill and her sisters were Charlotte ( Mrs. Justus Keeler), Betsey (Mrs. Stephen Hoyt), and Julia Maria and Mary Elizabeth, who were unmarried. There was also a brother David 1st, who died in infancy. Dr. David Olmstead was a college man and a New York city medical- schoolmate and intimate of Dr. Valentine Mott. His first practice was with Dr. Nehemiah Perry, Sr., of Ridgefield and he was unmarried.

Mrs. Asa Olmstead was the daughter of Simcon and Mary (Gregory) Stuart. Her mother was twice married, her first husband having been a Greg- ory. Her Gregory children were Elizabeth (Mrs, Jesse Jarvis), Sally (Mrs. Nathan Munroe of Salem). Susannah (Mrs. Scott) and Mrs. James Aikin. There was also another Gregory child. Mrs. Simeon Stuart was a daughter of David Whelpley.

The children of Mrs. Justus Keeler were Char- lotte (Mrs. Thos. Merwin Raymond) and Frances L. (unmarried.)

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W. Keyes), Eugene, died young, and Fanny M., died young. Andrew Selleck married, second, Susan F., sister of his first wife, no children. C. Frederick brother of Andrew Selleck, married Ann Eliza, daughter of Robert Flynn, and had no children.

Isaac Selleck1", son of Abraham Selleck1st and half brother of Nathan Selleck, married July 1, 1793, Sarah, born August 20, 1763, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth (Lounsbury) Waterbury (see pages 369 and 370) and had Noah, Isaac?", James, Polly (Mrs. William See- ley, first, and, second, Mrs. Babcock), Hettie (Mrs. George Brown), and Nancy (Mrs. Samuel Selleck).

Isaac2md, born July 14, 1802, son of Isaac14 and Sarah (Waterbury) Selleck, married, October 1 1823, Lucy, born April 1, 1805, daughter of James and Esther (Seeley) Brown, and had : Eliza Esther, born July 7, 1824 (Mrs. Darius Slauson); James Lawrence, born March 15, 1826 ; George Washington, born October 7, 1827; Charles, born November 2, 1829; Isaac, born August 31, 1831; Mary Ann, born June 18, 1833, died young; Henry1st, died young ; Henry S., born December 29, 1838 ; Franklin, born April 4, 1841 ; Cyrus, born May 2, 1843; died young ; Mary, A., died young.

Mrs. Isaac Selleck2nd, died March 15, 1892.

Isaac Selleck2nd, died September 15, 1893.1

The children of Darius and Eliza Esther Slauson were De Witt, Frederick, James and Nettie.

The children of Thomas L. Raymond, were Agnes (Mrs. Jacob Fowler), Celia (unmarried), Justus, Keeler, Henry (died unmarried in the civil war), Har- riet (Mrs. John Wilson) and Catharine (Mrs. William | rytown, N. Y. Folwell).

Stephen Hoyt, son of Stephen and Althea (James) Hoyt, who married Betsey Olmstead had Julia Ann., born June 29, 1829, married, May 24, 1849, William P., son of Silas and Hannah (Brisco) Hayes; Harriet Amelia (unmarried); Thaddeus A., James.

The children of William P. Hayes were Mary Jane, born September 29, 1850, died August 15, 1870, and Alice Frances, born 1853, who married April 3, 1877, Charles Wheeler, son of Alfred Burritt of Stratford, who resides, in 1899, in Morgan Avenue, Norwalk.

Asa Olmstead was son of David, who was son of John and Mary (Small) Olmstead. John Olmstead who married Mary Small wasa son of James1st, who was son of Richard Olmstead, the settler.

Asa Olmstead lived on Belden Hill. Himself and wife were born and brought up on Chestnut Hill, his father owning the present Gorham property on that hill, and her father where the Finch Brothers of 1896 reside. Betty (Mrs. Asa Olmstead), daughter of Simeon and Mary Stuart, repeatedly and distinctly related, during her life time, that when a child she witnessed the burning of Norwalk from her Chestnut Hill home, and that two years before that time (1777) Tryon marched his men, Danbury bound, across their farm.

Darius, brother of Asa Olmstead, married Esther Gregory and had Charles Olmstead of Cranberry Plains, and Silas, the father of the Olmsteads of Tar-

The Harrington's were English people, who came from Boston to Fairfield county. A familiar sight in the Norwalk of forty odd years ago, was the Belden Hill Carriage containing, after the husband and father's decease, Mrs. William Harrington and her daughters Mary and Susan F.

1 Isaac Selleck2nd, father of the present " Selleck Brothers," was a man of exceptional physical power. In his younger days he assisted Henry Selleck in lay- ing the still seen foundation walls-lane and house- of the latter's East Avenue (now Osborn) brick dwell- ing, and made no point of coming from and returning to New Canaan before and after his day's work. He industriously served his generation and earned his enjoyed later life rest. With his cousin Henry he was of strong New England stock, and lived to a good age. Both Westchester men chose Norwalk for their home, where they left families. Clarence, the grand- son of Isaac, was a young man of high promise. He was fond of foreign travel and his published corre- spondence, as well as clever art reproductions of scenery abroad, stamp him as having been a youth of rare tastes and accomplishments. His early demise was greatly lamented, but his noble character is a grateful remembrance. He was the only son of George W. and Cordelia E. Selleck.

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James L., son of Isaac Selleck2rd, married Deborah Wright of Baldwinsville, N.Y., and had Henry and Charles.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 62

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