Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 64

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

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Mary, born September 14, 1753, Mrs. Betts ;

Hannah, born May 15, 1760, Mrs. Hendricks ;

Thomas Fitch, born June 16, 1769;1

Britain King. Annoque Domini, One thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five.

ALEXANDER RESSIQUIE. [SEAL.]

Signed, Sealed and delivered in presence of

JOSEPH PLATT,

NATHAN'L C. STREET.

Norwalk on ye day above written Mr. Alexander Ressiquie The Subscriber unto ye above written instrument personally ap- peared and did acknowledge it for to be his free act and Deed Beffore me.

JOSEPH PLATT, Justice of the Peace. Brot to record December 31, 1724,

and Recorded per me, JOHN Corr, Recorder.

1Thomas Fitch Thacher married, March 28, 1790, Susannah, daughter of John Lockwood, and, having bought out the heirs, resided on "Drye Hill," where ten nts in 1896 Albert, son of Allen Betts. This portion of the now-named "Newtown Avenue" belonged to the Lockwood family branch represented by Mrs. Thomas F. Thacher, a branch which num-

bers among its descendants the present highly regarded Probate Judge for the Norwalk district, Hon. A. B. Woodward. James Lockwood, the more remote Mrs. Thacher and Judge Woodward ancestor, is described as having lived in primitive comfort a little to the west of Belden Hill, from which sequestered locality some who have been a power in their day and genera- tion haveemerged. In a retreat, quite like to the James Lockwood cradle, a noted one spent a summer and left, inscribed upon a window pane, grateful testimony for the lessons gleaned in his solitary quarters, and to the silent training of the secluded Lockwood home, a President-elect of Princeton, and a chosen head of Yale, and a Chancellor Kent, all of the same Lock- wood blood, may have been influence-excellence indebted.

Mrs. Thomas F. Thacher (Susannah Lockwood) was brought up in the Lockwood abode which stood on the opposite street-side of the Drye Hill Thacher house, and about where is now built the residence of Postman Glendenning. Her father owned the prem- ises, several acres, of this fine property, and she was a woman of force. In later life she was known as an excellent dairy care taker. Her milk, cream and butter were of superior quailty. The latter brought the

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Esther Ann1st, born January 26, 1773, died young ;

Esther Ann2nd, born April 19, 1775, died young.

Mrs. Mary (Fitch) Thacher died September 30, 1776, and Josiah Thacher3rd married, second, December 3, 1785, the widow Wait Burwell, mother of Samuel Burwell.

Daniel1st, son of Captain Josiah2md and Mary (Greenleaf) Thacher, married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Raymond) Street, and had :

Josiah4h;

Daniel Greenleaf ;

William, supposed to be a New York City physician.

John1st, son of Captain Josiah2nd, and Mary (Greenleaf) Thacher, married twice. He was a young man of destiny and distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War. He was with the brave General David Waterbury of Stamford in 1776 at Crown Point and Ticonderoga. An old record makes him a "Captain of Navy on Lake Champlain" at that time. General Waterbury left Crown Point and returned to Connecticut early in 1776 and was ordered by Hancock to proceed on a tory errand to Long Island. This accomplished he left in the autumn for Crown Point again to officer a command in General Arnold's fleet on Lake Cham- plain. It was with one of the two Waterbury galleys that Captain John Thacher of Norwalk was possibly connected. The General was taken prisoner and so was Captain Thacher What may have been Thacher's immediately subsequent history is not documentarily known, but from a preserved register it is learned that Captain Thacher, four years afterward (1780) belonged to the "militia light horse." It is a little curious that the Waterbury commission, signed by Captain John Thacher's boyhood neighbor, Governor Thomas Fitch, should have been to this day well kept in this ancient settlement. Captain Thacher resided in Stratford and New Haven, and dying at the age of sixty-three, his remains were interred in the Christ Church burying yard in Stratford. From this patriotic Norwalk youth, through his second wife, the widow of Lieutenant William Thompson, who fell beside the heroic David Selleck (see page 200) at Ridgefield, has descended his son, Anthony Thacher24, born January 7, 1782, whose daughter, Julia Ann Hubbell Thacher, married General James Totten, of the

highest price in the market. She did her milking after night-fall and made her butter at midnight. All was done in the cool of the day and her well was her re- frigerator. She ended her days under the care of Stephen Smith and his family. The Thacher property on the west side, and quite a share, of the Lockwood property on the east side of the street, now Newtown Avenue, finally fell to Mr. Smith, who was the owner of the Thacher house at the time of its accidental conflagration. Colonel Buckingham Lockwood's land adjoined the east side Lockwood-Thacher estate. The present Colonel Frederick St. John Lockwood was wont, as a youth, to look after this portion of his father's large landed domain during harvest-tide. He was an able handler of the fine family horses, and whether in the saddle or holding the reins over the dashboard presented a noticeable appearance. He is known to have taken some pride in overseeing the

Newtown Avenue meadows, and his excursions in and out, and greetings from the future Mrs. Colonel Colt and her sister Mirs. Beach, who as young ladies might chance at the time to be visiting their Grand- father Jarvis, at his home which lay along the route to the Thacher and Lockwood lands, are a local re- call of to-day.

Colonel Frederick St. John Lockwood, who is now the last representative of his immediate family generation, was as a mere lad exceedingly fond of saddle riding. It is told that when a child of only five or six he mounted one of the horses and gaily rode as far as Westport, where one of the friends of the family recognized him and asked the young eques- trian whither he was bound. "To New Haven," was the enthusiastic boy's answer. Dr. Richmond turned the horse's head Norwalk-ward and sent horse and rider home.

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Mexican and Civil wars, and was the honored mother of Lieutenant Charles Adele Lewis Totten, whose profound mathematical calculations have attracted widespread attention, and of his brother, John Reynolds Totten (Lieutenant Fourth U. S. Artillery), West Point class of 1878.

Stephen Greenleaf, son ot Captain Josiah and Mary Thacher, married, March 5, 1778, Anna, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Whitman) Platt (see page 237). This was a short married life and the widow wedded, March 3, 1785, Samuel Keeler.

Josiah Thachert, son of Daniel and Mary (Street) Thacher, married, October 12, 1782, Anna, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Reed,1 and had Polly, born August 5,

1There were two Reeds, John and William, in Norwalk (see page 79) as early as 1655-6, but the Reed family proper appeared in this town in about 1684, chosing for its home seat the southwestern por- tion of the Runckinheage domain, or what is now known as Rowayton. Here, where Samuel Richards Weed maintains, in 1899, his summer chateau, was the " Reed Farm," which embraced something of an acreage in the present S. R. Weed vicinity. John Reed1st, the head of the household, was born in Corn- wall, England, in 1633, and had been a soldier from his mid-teens. At the restoration of Charles II. he fled to the western world and was found first in Providence, R. I., where he married Ann, the widow of Francis Derby. Mr. Derby died in 1663, his will having been probated on October 31 in that year. Mr. Reed subsequently married a Mrs. Scofield, but his children were all by the first union. He removed from Providence, R. I., to Rye, N. Y., and from thence, in about 1684 (see pages 267 and 315), to Norwalk. His children were:

John2nd;

Thomas1st, born 1672, died Oct. 9, 1757 ; William N., possibly died young; Mary, Mrs. David Tuttle;

Abigail, Mrs. Crozier; Nathan, possibly died young.

John Reed2nd married, March 28, 1687, Eliza- beth, born November 19, 1666, daughter of John and and Kattareen (Lane) Tuttle of New Haven, and had:

Ann, born October 23, 1687; John3rd, born February 24, 1689;

Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Green), born Septem- ber 14, 1692;

Eleazer, born June 6, 1695, married Abigail Tuttle, had Ebenezer and Moses;

Daniel1st, born June 13, 1697;

Experience, born March 13, 1700, Mrs. Jacob St. John.

Samuel, born October 24, 1702, removed to White Plains ;

William, born November 16, 1708; Mehitable, Mrs. Samuel Brinsmade ; Moses.

Thomas Reed1st married, May 9, 1694, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Benedict) Olmstead (see page 267) and had :

Mary, born May 2, 1695; Eunice, born February 26, 1896, married Jan- uary 24, 1716, Jonathan Bell;

Thomas2nd, born May 7, 1699; John, born August 7, 1701;

Elizabeth, born October 7, 1703;

Ann, born July 6, 1706, died young; Temperance, born October 15, 1708; Elias, born March 10, 1711; Nathan, born August 13, 1713.

John3rd, son of John2nd and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, married (presumably) Hannah, widow of Ele- zar Hanford, and had:

John, baptized May 25, 1775; Thaddeus.

Daniel Reed1st, born 1699, son of John2nd and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, and a grandson of John1st and Ann (Derby) Reed, the Norwalk Weed progenitor, was a man of consideration. He married Elizabeth Kellogg, as per page 372, and had had Daniel2nd, born December 28, 1721; Abraham, born November 28, 1723; Eliakim1st, born September 18, 1725; Eliza- beth, born March 30, 1730 (Mrs. Joseph Ambler); Benjamin, born February 3, 1732, died young; Lydia, born February 15, 1734 (Mrs. Davenport); James born March 18, 1736; Benjamin, born February 3, 1737; Ezra, born March, 1740; Joanna, born 1743 (Mrs. Stephen Warren), and Elijah, baptized July 25, 1745.

Daniel2nd, son of Daniel Reed1st, married May 22, 1746, Mary, born November 16, 1723, daughter of Jonathan and Eunice (Reed) Bell, and had Ger- shom, baptized March 15, 1749; Lydia, baptized May 12, 1751 (Mrs. John Baxter), and Joseph, bap- tized April 14, 1754. Mrs. Daniel Reed2nd married, second, a Smith.

Abraham, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, No- vember 9, 1750, Hannah, born January 24, 1726, sister of his brother Daniel's wife, and had Abraham, baptized February 3, 1756; Kitchell, Joel, Jonathan, baptized December 25, 1757; Carl, born January 6, 1760; Hannah, born December 27, 1761; Eunice,

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1786 (Mrs William Smith); George, born October 6, 1788; Esther, born April 20, 1791 (Mrs. Uriah Seymour); Harriet, born December 23, 1792 (Mrs. Henry Beach); Nancy, born April 28, 1895 (Mrs. Munson Betts); Amelia (Mrs. Don Carlos Hurd); Sally (Mrs. George Tansly); and Frances (Mrs. Samuel Betts, first, and, second, Mrs. Sheldon Griswold).

The Thacher-Seymour descent embraces several of Seymour name and blood in Nor- walk to-day.

"CAPTAIN JOHN THACHER."1

John Thacher1st (page 453) was an old Norwalk "Down Town" boy whose career it is gratifying to recall. The Thachers and Fitchs (Governor) were near neighbors and evidently intimate. John's older brother Josiah asked and gained the hand in wedlock of the Govern-

born February 12, 1764, and Daniel, born November 24, 1771.

Eliakim1st, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, June 16, 1748, Sarah, born June 24, 1727, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Latham) Richards, and had Sarah, baptized March 11, 1750 (Mrs. Matthew Fitch, Jr.); Eliakim2nd, April 26, 1752; Simeon, April 21, 1754; Silas, May 7, 1758; Samuel, March 23, 1760; Phineas, March 3, 1762; Ezra, August 3, 1765, and Esther, August 9, 1767.

James, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, April 16, 1760, Joanna, daughter of Daniel Castle, and had Daniel, born April 15, 1761, Reuben, September 2, 1763; Elijah, March 12, 1766; Jesse, July 16, 1768; Stephen, September 14, 1770; Amos, December 28, 1772; Gilbert, September 25, 1775; James; Jacob and Joanna, twins, February 15, 1778; Betsey, April 21, 1780; Robert and Rhoda, twins, June 29, 1784, and Philo, April 3, 1787.

Benjamin, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, April 25, 1765, Bethia, daughter of Charles Weed of Stam- ford, and had Bethia, born May 22, 1766; Sarah, March 31, 1770; Benjamin P., April 24, 1772; Eliza- beth, June 3 1776; Daniel, December 11, 1778, and Enos, October 30, 1787.

Ezra, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, May 24, 1763, Sarah Kellogg and had, Sarah, born April 19, 1765, died in infancy ; Sarah2nd, April 19, 1766; Lois, September 10, 1767; Roswell, November 9, 1769; Aaron, April 27, 1771; Jemima and Epinitus, twins, August 29, 1773; Zediana, October 8, 1775; Lydia, September 28, 1777; Huldah, September 23, 1780, and Ezra, May 20, 1783.

Elijah, son of Daniel Reed1st, married, December, 1768, Esther Bates of Stamford, and had Elijah, Jr.

William, son of John2nd and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, married Rachel, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Plum) Kellogg (page 372), and had William Joseph, died young; Joanna, Hannah, Sarah, Joseph, Wil- liam, Jacob, Matthew, born 1740: Isaac, Abigail, Mary and Nathan.

Matthew Reed, son of William and Rachel (Kel- logg) Reed, married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Kellogg2nd (see page 372), and had Stephen, born 1765, died young; Polly, born 1768 (Mrs. Seth Sey- mour); Betsey (Mrs. Olney Stone); William, died young; Hannah, born 1784 (Mrs. Asa Benedict); Stephen, Samuel, Sally (Mrs. Joseph Haskett); Esther (Mrs. Isaac Belden); Frederick, died young, and Anna (Mrs. Josiah Thacher).

The Reed family ( John Reed, son of Thomas1st, who was son of John Reed the settler) into which Eliakim Warren 1st (see page 269) is recorded to have married was (other than Ann-Mrs. Warren) com- posed of Josiah (who removed to Stamford and mar- ried, December 20, 1752, Sybil Belden, who had Josiah, born October 29, 1753), and John, and Ithiel, and Jonathan. John Reed, the father of these four sons and one daughter, was born August 7, 1701, and Ann was seemingly his oldest child. Her brother John may possibly have settled in Stamford also. Her husband's father is interred but a few feet from Thomas Reed, whose wife was from New Haven, and whose family branch has representatives in that city. The tomb stones of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reed2nd are surprisingly preserved, and the late Dr. Nathan B. Warren of Troy took care, several years ago, to perpetuate in the same Rowayton grounds, the memory of his Warren foreparent.

1Of the record of its son, Captain John Thacher, Norwalk may boast. Under date of Washington, D. C., November 1, 1896, General Alexander J. Perry, himself of Norwalk ancestors, states, "You will find in Force's American Archives, Fifth Series, the report of the Inspector General Varrick, in which Captain John Thatcher is reported as the Captain Command- ing the galley Washington at the battle of Valcour's Island October 11, 1776." The Pension Office in Washington also furnishes evidence to the same effect. George W. Thacher of St. Louis, Mo., adds further that the gallant Norwalker "raised a company of soldiers and uniformed them at his own expense;"

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or's daughter Mary, and how far Mary's brother, the dashing Colonel Thomas Fitch, may have been an example, military wise, to his susceptible seventeen years younger neighbor, John Thacher, it is impossible to say. Young Thacher took up young Fitch's profession, and although the former was only a lad of eighteen when the latter figured at Crown Point, yet we find Thacher following Fitch, geographically, and distinguishing himself in 1776 at the north. Neither of the boys, however, brought any discredit upon Norwalk, and their valor is a matter of Norwalk comment and commendation.

John Thacher, born July 25, 1742, son of Captain Josiah and Mary (Greenleaf) Thacher, was twice married. His children by the first union were :

Partridge, born February 14, 1767 ;

Stephen Greenleaf ;

Betsey.

John Thacher (Thatcher) married, second, Mehitable, daughter of Ebenezer and Jane (Moss) Uffort, and widow of Lieutenant William Thompson, who was killed at the battle of Ridgefield, April 27, 1777, and had :

Anthony1, born January 27, 1779, died in infancy ;

Mehitable, died July 16, 1780, aged 30 hours ;

Anthony2nd, born January 7, 1782 ;

Betsey, died young ;

Daniel, born May 15, 1789.1

Partridge, oldest son of Captain John Thacher, married, February 8, 1788, Mary, born November 21, 1769, daughter of Major Ebenezer Lockwood of Pound Ridge, Westchester County, N. Y., and had eleven children :2

that he covered the Lake Champlain fleet after an all day fight, and was captured by the British, who so respected him for his bravery that they commis- sioned one of their own surgeons to attend his wounds, and returned him his sword. The hero sleeps in Stratford, but his deeds merit cenotaphic attestation in his native town.

1 Daniel, youngest son of John and Mehitable Thacher, was the Bridgeport far and favorably known citizen of that name. He was a thorough and thrifty business man of that prosperoos manu- facturing seat, and a safe and conservative capitalist. His family consisted of Julia and George W.

"Robert, the Fairfield County Lockwood fore- parent, came from England in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass., from whence he removed sixteen years later to Fairfield. His children were Jona- than1st, Deborah, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim (the Nor- walk foreparent), John, Abigail, Sarah, and Mary.

Jonathan1st, born September 10, 1634, the old- est child of Robert, the American Ancestor, married Mary Ferris of Greenwich and had Jonathan2nd, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, Still John, Sarah and Abi- gail.

Joseph, son of Jonathan1st, married, first, May 19, 1698, Elizabeth Ayres, and had Joseph, Jr., born

March 15, 1699, Hannah, John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Israel, Mary, and Reuben. Mr. Lockwood married, second, August 10, 1716, Margery, daughter of James and Hannah (Scofield) Webb, and had Nathan- iel, Nathan and James.

Joseph, Jr., son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ayres) Lockwood, married Sarah, born 1700, daughter of Joshua Hoyt of Stamford, and had Eliakim, Joseph, Elizabeth, Gilbert, Ebenezer, born March 31, 1737, Rachel, Mercy, Hezekiah and Prudence.

Ebenezer, son of Joseph, Jr., and Sarah (Hoyt) Lockwood, became the widely known and honored Justice, Judge, Commissioner, Regent, Provincial Congress and Constitutional Convention member, Ebenezer Lockwood of Westchester County. The fine site of his home is observed as one now enters from the south the romantic village of Pound Ridge. The British during the Revolution so rated his influence that gold was offered for his head, and his home was burned on the second Friday before Norwalk was consumed. He was twice married, his children (all by first wife) being Betsey (Mrs. Alsop Hunt), Ruhama (Mrs. Samuel Read), Hannah (Mrs. David Osborn), Mary (Mrs. Partridge Thacher), Ebenezer, Clarissa (Mrs. Solomon Cox first, and Mrs. Jesse Richards second), Sally (Mrs. Ezra Weed), Ezra, and Horatio.

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John1ªt (Capt.), son of Capt. Josiah and Mary (Greenleaf) Thacher, mar- ried first, Ann, baptized February 19, 1744, daughter of Miah or Micha and Grace (Sturges) Perry of Fairfield, and (see page 456) had :

Partridge, born February 14, 1767;

Stephen Greenleaf ;

Betsey.

Miah or Micha (possibly Michael) and Grace Perry were married Dec. 8. 1742, and had :

Ann, born February 19, 1744, Mrs. Capt. John Thacher :

Jabez, born September 1, 1745;

David, born October 4, 1747, (see page 13);

Eleanor, born October 19, 1749, Mrs. Jehiel Thorpe ;

Jonathan, born October 6, 1751 ;

Sturges, born March 17, 1754;

Grace, born July 4, 1756, possibly unmarried ;

Mary, born April 9, 1758, Mrs. Wright Weeks ;

Esther, born March 15, 1761, Mrs. Samuel Smith.

Grace Sturges (Mrs. Miah Perry), born March 8, 1723-4, appears to have been the daughter of Peter and Hannah (Jennings) Sturges. Hannah Jennings was the daughter of Joshua Jennings, the settler.

Miah or Micha Perry, the father-in-law of Capt. John Thacher1st, was a brother of Mrs. John (Commodore) Cannon14 of Norwalk (page 13). As the Cannon and Thacher Norwalk homes were in near proximity, it is possible that Mrs. Cannon's niece, Ann, was visiting her aunt when originated the acquaintance of the neighboring young Thacher.

Mrs. Thacher's grandparents were Joseph and Mary (Cluckstone) Perry, and her great-grandparents Nathaniel and Hester (Lyon) Perry. Richard Perry, the settler (father of Nathaniel), was Mrs. Thacher's great-great-grand- father.

Strong genealogy lines, Goodyear (page 13), Wakeman, Lyon, Sturges, Jennings, here meet, and the Thacher-Perry blood consequently was of New England remark.

The first Mrs. Capt. John Thacher died in early married life, and her husband married, second, the widow of Lieut. William Thompson (page 456).

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Maria, born November 3, 1789, unmarried ;

John, born May 29, 1791, not further known; Philo, born February 11, 1793 ;

Samuel, born August 4, 1794, died in infancy ;

Stephen, born September 6, 1796, died about 1840; George Lockwood, born October 21, 1798;

Hannah, born July 28, 1800, Mrs. Captain John Gurrell ; Betsey Ann, born May 29, 1802, Mrs. Albert Lockwood;

Clarissa, born July 15, 1804, Mrs. William L. Smith ;

Sarah Cornelia, born April 14, 1908, Mrs. Rev. William Patterson ; Catherine, born February 5, 1812, Mrs. Linus Olmstead.

Mrs. Partridge Thacher was a daughter of Major Ebenezer Lockwood, born March 31, 1737, son of Joseph2nd and Sarah (Hoyt) Lockwood, and grandson of Joseph1st and Margery (Webb) Lockwood. Joseph Lockwood1st (son of Jonathan) was a grandson of Robert and Susannah, the New England Lockwood settlers, and he was a nephew of Ephraim, the Nor- walk Lockwood settler. Mrs. Partridge Thacher was a great granddaughter of Margery, born October 4, 1683, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Scofield) Webb, which Joseph Webb, born March 30, 1636 (page 399) was a son of Richard Webb, Jr., the son, presumably, of Richard Webb1st of Norwalk as per page 150.

Major Ebenezer Lockwood was a prominent civilian and military man. He was a member of the Committee of Safety and of the New York Provincial Congress for Westches- ter. He was also a Regent of the University and a member of the Assembly. A price had been set upon his head and on Friday, July 2, 1779, a Colonel (Tarleton) of the British army raided his Poundridge home in the endeavor to affect his capture, and burned his house and bore off his cattle.

Philo, son of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married Cynthia,1 born May 12, 1794, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Slauson) Lockwood, and had :

William, born March 29, 1814, died January, 1852 ;

John Augustus, born August 1, 1815, died May 27, 1895 ; George, born August 8, 1817, died young ;

Emma, born April 23, 1820, Mrs. Charles Fancher.2

1Cynthia Lockwood (Mrs. Philo Thacher) de- scended from Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood, son of Robert and Susannah Lockwood, the settlers, and a brother of Ephraim Lockwood, the Norwalk settler. Mrs. Robert Lockwood (Susannah) was of Bulkley, England, blood, and the name, Gershom, has its ap- parent orgin in the Bulkley family. Lieutenant Ger- shom Lockwood (Lockwood Genealogy) married Lady Ann Millington, who came to America in quest of a lover, an officer in the royal army. She failed to find the object of her pursuit, and married a New rather than an old England official, Lieutenant Lockwood, the groom, born September 6, 1643, was almost two years younger than his Norwalk brother Ephraim. Gershom and Ann Lockwood had a

daughter, Hannah, born 1667, who married John Burwell1st (see pages 235 and 236). These had a daughter Hannah, who married John Bettsend of Norwalk. John Burwell1st died in 1690 and his widow married Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Han- ford of Norwalk.

2The children of Charles and Emma Fancher were Edward, born December 28. 1843, died June 5, 1860; Harriet A., born June 21, 1845; Francis, born February 18, 1846, and Theodore, born November 22, 1844, died April 15, 1845. Harriet A. married and had one child which died the day after its birth. Francis married May 17, 1884, Susan T. Morrison. Fancher is a Westchester County name.

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George Lockwood1st, son of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married, June 19, 1848, Eliza Trappal, born February 26, 1812, of Brooklyn, L. I., and had :

George L.2nd, born July 25, 1853.

Hannah, daughter of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married, September 16, 1826, Cap- tain John Gurrell, and had :

John T., born November 1827, died June 18, 1842.

Captain Gurrell died of Asiatic cholera June 6, 1831, at Cronstadt, Russia.

Betsey Ann, daughter of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married Albert, born January 23, 1799, son of Judge Ezra, and grandson of Major Ebenezer Lockwood, and had :

Sarah Maria, born April 1, 1831, unmarried.

Clarissa, daughter of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married, November 9, 1826, Wil- liam L. Smith, and had :

Mary E., born June 5, 1828, died February 8, 1829 ;

Joseph L., born June 3, 1830, died March 8, 1831 ;

George Thacher, born May 30, 1836;1

Benjamin Keeler, born November 10, 1838, died April 20, 1858.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 64

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