Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 65

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

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Sarah Cornelia, daughter of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married, February 16, 1836, Rev. William Patterson2 of Ireland and had :

Mary Elizabeth, died June 28, 1855 ;

Joseph,3 died February 13, 1872;

Maria Thacher,4 Mrs. Rev. Dr. Henry L. Butler ;

Clarissa Smith ;

Sarah.

Catherine, daughter of Partridge and Mary Thacher, married, November 24, 1830, Linus Olmstead, born March 10, 1809, and had :

Julia Thacher,5 born February 19, 1832, died November 11, 1875;

Chauncey J., born August 30, 1839, died April 1861 ;

1George Thacher Smith married, December 25, 1866, Margaretta Scofield, born August 18, 1848, and had Benjamin Kellogg, born August 26, 1868, Helen Margaretta, August 17, 1873, George Thacher, June 25, 1876 (died May 11, 1884), and Harry Wil- liam, December 4, 1882.

2The Rev. William Patterson of Pound Ridge, N. Y., pursued the even tenor of a protracted minis- terial life in diligent duty doing. His church crowned a pleasing Westchester height, and his days in that county were devoted to its interests. A man of mind and standing high in his profession, he was universal- ly respected, while his goodness and geniality, and fine nature-humor caused him to be beloved by young and old. He was born at Hillsboro, County Down, Ireland, January 22, 1809, began his labors in Pound Ridge in 1835, and died February 6, 1889.

3Joseph Patterson married, December 18, 1867, Mary A. Scofield, and had Alice Lydia, who married, September, 1893, Dr. Ezra Todd of New York.

4Rev. Dr. Henry L. Butler is pastor of the Pres- byterian Church in Blairtown, N. J. He was married May 8, 1867, and had Courtland P., William P. (died), Joseph P. (died), Horace Graham, Emma Seymour, Henry (died).

Courtland Patterson, son of Rev. Dr. Henry L. and Maria Thacher (Patterson) Butler, married No- vember, 1897, Maud Valentine of Hackettstown, N. J. He is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Riverton, N. J.

5Julia Thacher Olmstead married, October 25, 1852, Isaac Smith, and had, Sarah Maria Lockwood, born January 9, 1854; Mary Fisher, August 3, 1856, (died July 2, 1857), and Carrie Elizabeth, January 16, 1859

Sarah Maria Lockwood Smith married, October 12, 1871, George Comstock, and had Mortimer, born December 20, 1872, and Andrew Betts, born May 22, 1877.

Carrie Elizabeth Smith married, October 5,

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Kate Maria, born September 13, 1843, Mrs. Philo A. Thacher ;

Harriet,1 born August 4, 1847 ;

Ida E.,2 born August 25, 1852, died November, 1894.

William, son of Philo and Cynthia (Lockwood) Thacher, married Eliza Bouton and had :

Jane A., born September 3, 1841, unmarried ;

Betsey H., born September 23, 1843;

Maria C., born Febraury 18, 1845, Mrs. Allen DeForest.

John Augustus, son of Philo and Cynthia (Lockwood) Thacher, married, October 5, 1837, Ruhamah, born March 31, 1818, daughter of Elias and Maria Dixon of Bedford, N. Y., and had;

Philo Augustus, born August 12, 1839;

John Gurrell, born March 23, 1843;

Frederick Albert, born July 22, 1853, died May 20, 1862.

George L.,2ª son of George L.,1st and Eliza (Trappal) Thacher, married, July 2, 1895, Ellie Callanan, and had :

Edith May, born May 26, 1896.

Philo A., son of John A. and Ruhamah (Dixon) Thacher, married, first, February 5, 1863, Kate M., daughter of Linus and Catherine (Thacher) Olmstead, and had :

Gertrude Maria, born November 13, 1863 ;

Kate Rhunah, born September 27, 1869, died October 4, 1869.

Mrs. Kate Maria Thacher died October 2, 1869, and Philo A. Thacher married, second July 31, 1871, Emma, born February 12, 1845, daughter of Noah W. and Cornelia (Bennett) Hoyt,8 and had :

Frederick Hoyt, born August 15, 1873 ;

Mabel Bennett, born September 17, 1876.

John Gurrell, son of John A. and Ruhamah Thacher, married, March 30, 1871, Mary Stevens, born June 8, 1844.

THACHER-TOTTEN.

Generation I. Rev. Peter Thacher1st, instituted Vicar of the Parish of Queen Camel in 1574, continued in that office until his death in 1624. His children were:

1881, Henry Roberts of Hartford, Conn., and had John Taylor, born June 29, 1882; Francis Thacher, October 5, 1884, (died March 20, 1889), and Edward Constant, June 5, 1888.

1Harriet Olmstead married, October 27, 1869, Joshua Putney, and had Ada.

2Ida E. Olmstead married, December 5, 1871, Orson H. Cole, and had Jennie Louise.

3The late Noah W. Hoyt was a worthful, urbane

and greatly respected citizen and public official of New Canaan, where his days were usefully spent. His son-in-law, Philo A. Thacher, has a centrally and de- lightfully situated residence in that same prosperous town of sightly ridges and salubrious climate and substantial family seats. Mr. Thacher has purchased, in 1899, the ancient Norwalk Captain Josiah Thacher home-site-adjoining of towards two hundred years agone, and his intelligent interest in his family pedi- gree has been of signal service to the author. He is a zealous Josiah Thacher descendant.

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GENERATION II.

Rev. Peter Thacher2nd, Vicar of Milton-Clevedon, Somersetshire, England, 1616, and Rector of St. Edwards, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1622, till his death, February 11, 1640; and Rev. Anthony Thacher1st, probably curate to his father at Queen Camel, and subsequently, possibly for some time in Holland ; afterward curate to his brother Peter 1631-1634 at St. Edmunds, Salisbury. Wiltshire, England.

Rev. Anthony Thacher, brother of Peter, born at Queen Camel, County Somerset, Eng- land, 1590; in England a Curate of the Established Church, in this country one of the original grantees and founders of Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, and prominent in the public affairs of that place. He came to this country in the ship "James," which sailed from Southampton, England, April 6, 1635, and arrived at Boston June 3rd or 4th, 1635. He died at Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, between June 30, 1667, and August 22, 1667, and was buried on his own land. Anthony Thacher1st was married twice. His first wife, whom he wedded between 1617 and May 1, 1621, died at Salisbury, County Wilts, subsequent to April 12, 1634. The chil- dren by the first marriage were William Thacher, born previous to 1620, died August 15, 1635, shipwreched and drowned; Mary Thacher, died August 15, 1635, shipwrecked and drowned; Edith, baptized at Queen Camel, County Somerset, England, February 7, 1621, died August 15, 1635, shipwrecked and drowned; Peter, died August 15, 1635, shipwrecked and drowned ; Benjamin, born at Salisbury, County Wilts, England, Sunday, April 13, 1634, baptized at St. Edmunds, Salisbury, England, Sunday, April 27, 1634, died at Salisbury, England, and buried there September 4, 1639.

Anthony Thacher1st married, second (shortly previous to sailing to this country), Eliza- beth Jones (who died subsequent to her husband's death, as she was granted letters of administration on his estate), and had John Thacher (Colonel), born March 17, 1638-39 at Salem, Massachusetts Colony, died May 8, 1713, at Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony; Judah, died November 4, 1676; Bethia.

John Thacher (Colonel), son of Anthony1st, resided at Yarmouth, where he was Colonel of Militia (over twenty years), Selectman of Yarmouth, for fifteen years Representative to General Court from Yarmouth, member of Council of War, Assistant and member of Provin- cial Council. He died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts Province, May 8, 1713, and was buried with military honors. He married first, November 6, 1661, Rebecca, born at Marshfield, Mass., July 16, 1642, daughter of Josiah and Margarte (Bourne) Winslow. She resided previous to marriage, at Marshfield, Mass., but died at Yarmouth, Mass., July 15, 1683. These had ten children.

Colonel John Thacher married, second, January 1, 1684, (old style), Lydia, daughter of Colonel John and Desire (Howland) Gorham. The second Mrs. Colonel John Thacher was born at Yarmouth, Mass., November 6 or 11, 1661, and died at Yarmouth, Mass., June or August 2, 1744.

Josiah1st, son of Colonel John and Rebecca (Winslow) Thacher, was born at Yarmouth, Mass., April 26, 1667, and resided there, where he was Deacon of the Church. He died at Yar- mouth May 12, 1702. He married, February 25, 1690, Mary, daughter of Elisha Hedge, and had five children.

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Josiah, Jr., son of Josiah1st and Mary (Hedge) Thacher, was born at Yarmouth, Mass., July 7, 1701, and died at Norwalk, Conn., August 22, 1780. He was known as Captain Josiah Thacher,1 and was a sea captain (probably in coasting trade). He died at Norwalk Tuesday, August 22, 1780 at 8 hours and 44 minutes in the morning, and is buried presuma- ably in East Norwalk Cemetery, between the graves of his two wives. He married, first, February 17, 1724, Ann (Burr, Bun or Bunce), born March 25, 1699, who died at Norwalk February 25, 1733-34, between nine and ten at night, and is buried in East Norwalk Ceme- tery, where a stone marks her grave. The children of Captain Josiah2nd and Ann Thacher were Ann, born July 4, 1726, Monday morning, at half-past one o'clock, died June 15, 1727 ; Josiah&rd, born February 15, 1728-29, at about five o'clock Saturday morning, died Monday, March 9, 1807; Ann, born April 10, 1731, about two o'clock Saturday afternoon; Mary, born Friday, September 14, 1733, at one o'clock in the morning.

Captain Josiah Thacher (Thatcher) married, second, probably at Boston, Mass., August 7, 1735, according to Greenleaf genealogy, and September 15, 1735, according to Family Bible, Mrs. Mary Greenleaf-Blinn, widow of James Blinn. The second Mrs. Captain Josiah Thacher was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1706 (Greenleaf geneal- ogy), September 25, 1706 (Family Bible). She died at Norwalk, Conn., April 2, 1774 (Green- leaf genealogy), April 6, 1774 (Family Bible and grave-stone), and was buried in East Nor- walk Cemetery, where a grave-stone marks her resting place. She was a daughter of Rev. Daniel Greenleaf of Yarmouth and Boston, and of Elizabeth Gookin, who resided at Yar- mouth and Boston. The children by this second marriage were Elizabeth, born April 25, 1737, died September 5, 1743 ; Daniel, born Friday, June 29, 1739, died November 17, 1776; John, born July 25, 1742, at Norwalk, died January 16, 1805, at Stratford; Hannah; Eliza- beth, born after September 5, 1743; Stephen Greenleaf.

Captain John Thacher (Thatcher) was born at Norwalk July 25, 1742, and resided at New Haven and Stratford. He was Captain of the galley "Washington " at the battle of Valcour's Island, Lake Champlain, October 11, 1776. He was wounded and taken prisoner, paroled and pensioned for his services in the Revolutionary War. He died at Stratford Jan- uary 16, 1805, and is buried in the Episcopal ground at that place. His children were Par- tridge, born February 14, 1767, died September 8, 1845; Stephen Greenleaf; Betsey.

Captain John Thacher (Thatcher) married, second, at Stratford, probably in 1777-78, Mehitable Uffort, widow of Lieutenant William Thompson, who was killed at the battle of Ridgefield, Conn., April 27, 1777. She was born at Stratford March 16, 1745, and died at

1Captain Josiah Thacher of Norwalk had a sis- ter Mary (see Norwalk Town Records, Vol. VII., page 274), who married Josiah Sears of Harwich, Mass. These seem to have had a grandson Thacher, born 1752, whose mother became, when he was three years old, the second wife of Ebenezer Church1st. The first wife of said Church was Susannah, daughter of Hon. Samuel Fitch, who having given birth to two children, Daniel and Richard, died October 7, 1747. Richard, the younger son, died unmarried, but Daniel, through his wife Sarah Pickett, became the progeni-

tor of a numerous progeny. Thacher Sears went, as did several of his Norwalk contemporaries, to New Brunswick, and the city of St. John (founded, among others, by a Norwalk man) granted him a house lot. He was married twice, his daughter Ann having been the first native of the city of St. John. His son Rob- ert was the well known publisher of the so-called "Sears' Illustrated Bible." His mother, Mrs. Na- thaniel Sears, first, and, second, Mrs. Ebenezer Church1st, is buried in St. Paul's church yard. Rob- ert Sears kept his Norwalk kin in mind.

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Litchfield September 6, 1807, and was a daughter of Ebenezer Uffort and Jane Moss. The children by the second union were Anthony, died the 3rd of February, 1779, aged seven days; Mehitable, died the 16th of July. 1780, aged 30 hours ; Anthony, born at Stratford January 7, 1782, died at New London December 26, 1844, buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Lon- don; Betsey, born in Stratford and died at seven years of age; Daniel, born at Stratford May 15, 1789, died October 30, 1867, and is buried in his family plot at Bridgeport.

Anthony, son of Captain John and Mehitable (Thompson) Thacher, born at Stratford January 7, 1782, resided at New London, where he died December 26, 1844. He was cashier of The New London Bank from the time of its incorporation in May, 1807, for thirty-five years. He married at New London, February 24, 1806, Lucretia Christophers Mumford, who was born at Elm Grove Farm, Salem, Conn., August 10, 1785, and died at New London, April 6, 1871. She was a daughter of John and Lucretia (Christophers) Mumford of Salem, Conn. The children were Nathaniel Woodbridge, born May 25, 1807, died November 13, 1874; Lucretia Mumford, born September 30, 1808, died July 24, 1895 ; Mary Woodbridge, born April 30, 1810, died June 22, 1828, unmarried ; John Christophers, born February 22, 1812, died Decem- ber 20, 1884 : Eloise Hardy, born November 27, 1813, died July 9, 1899 ; George Thomp- son, born January 20, 1816, died 1895 ; Daniel Anthony, born September 3, 1819, died August 6, 1891 ; Henry Perkins, born September 9, 1820, died July, 1853 : Abby Mumford, born June 21, 1821, died October 18, 1897 ; Julia Ann Hubbell (Mrs. James Totten), born March 6, 1823, living May 12, 1899: Elizabeth Wetmore, born October 4, 1825, living May 12, 1899; Mary Perkins, born October 16, 1830, living May 12, 1899. In addition to the foregoing children there were twins, Anthony and Antoinette, who died in infancy.

Julia Ann Hubbell Thatcher (Mrs. James Totten) resides at No. 24 Main Street, New London, Conn. She was married at New London December 5, 1843, to James Totten (son of William and Jane Browne Totten), born at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 11, 1818, and an officer of the United States army. He graduated at West Point, class of 1841, and was in the Second Regiment, U. S. Artillery, as Captain. He served in the Mexican and Civil wars and was Inspector General, United States army. He died at Sedalia, Missouri, October 1, 1871. The children of James and Julia Ann Hubbell (Thatcher) Totten were William Anthony, born at New London May 19, 1845, died at New London February 3, 1851 ; Charles Adele Lewis, born at New London February 4, 1851, Trinity College Class of 1869, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Class of 1873, and First Lieutenant Fourth Regiment U. S. Artillery. He resigned from U. S. army, and is an editor and writer of well known publica- tions, at New Haven. His present residence is Milford, Conn. He married, first, in N. Y., August, 1877. Eda Smith (born September 11, 1856, died January 8, 1884), and had Eda, born October 25, 1878; James, born June 1, 1880, and Tea Tephi, born December 27, 1883. Charles A. L. Totten married, second, January 18, 1888, Mary Bunker, born October 25, 1866 and had Muriel Gordon, born January 8, 1889, and Dennis Bunker, born 1898.

John Reynolds, son of James and Julia Ann Hubbell (Thatcher) Totten, was born at Banancas Barracks, Pensacola, Florida, November 4, 1856. He was a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Class of 1878, and was First Lieutenant Fourth U. S. Artillery. He resigned from the army in 1890, and resides at 44 West 54th Street, New York City. He

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married at Garrisons-on-Hudson, September 5, 1889, Elma Smythe Preston, born at Evans- ville, Ind., January 10, 1862, daughter of Cyprian Preston and of Mary Hamilton Stockwell, who resided at Evansville, Indiana, and New York City. No issue.

The highly creditable Thacher-Totten academic record is a matter of felicitous Norwalk note. The author of "OUR RACE," Prof. C. A. L. Totten, has achieved literary distinction, his genius having entitled him to eminence-place in the world of letters. His brother is Lieut. John R. Totten, of the United States Army.

THACHER-HAYES.

Ann, born 1731, daughter of Captain Josiah2nd and Ann Thacher, married Isaac3rd who was born 1732, son of Isaac2nd, born March 23, 1706,1 who was son of Isaac1st and Elizabeth (Sherwood) Hayes, which Isaac Hayes1st was son of Samuel Hayes1st, brother of Nathaniel Hayes1st of Norwalk. (See pages 86 and 90.)

Nathaniel1st and Samuel1st Hayes were brothers (see page 90) who brought the Hayes name to Norwalk. Isaac1st, son of Samuel, married, July 10, 1701, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Jackson) Sherwood of Fairfield. These had a son Isaac2nd, born March 23, 1706, who married and had a son Isaacard, born 1732, who was the Isaac Hayes who wedded Ann, daughter of Captain Josiah Thacher. Isaac&rd and Ann (Thacher) Hayes lived at Compo, where was born to them in 1771 their son Thacher. The family being harassed by the British, who were wont to cross from their Long Island headquarters and harass the Connecticut coast patriots, resolved in about 1780 to remove out of harm's way as far inland as the Salem precincts (now Lewisboro). Here a purchase was made from Hon. John Thomas near the present site of St. John's parsonage of Lewisboro. The young and only son Thacher, named for his grandfather's (Captain Josiah Thacher) family, married Mary Weed of Darien, born 1761, who belonged to the Weed family of that town, and had an infant who died young; Harriet, born November 15, 1793, died unmarried March 11, 1862; Maria, born June 1, 1795, married William Andreas of Darien, a widower with eight chil- dren, but had no children of her own; Isaac (Colonel) born October 31, 1797; David W., born November 30, 1799; Polly, born August 16, 1804, died young; Clarissa, born July 12, 1806 ; William, born September 28, 1808, died September 18, 1825 ; Charles, born April 30, 1813.

Thacher Hayes, only son of Isaac Hayes&rd, had two sisters, Margaret and Anstrice. Margaret married John Lewis, formerly of Clinton, Conn., but now a resident of the Oblong. These had a son John (Hon.),2 born February 4, 1793, who donated the present lands, etc., to

1The children of Isaac Hayes2nd were Isaac3rd, (born 1732, died September 26, 1805), Freegift, Sam- uel, John, Stephen, Peter and Mary (Mrs. O'Brien). Isaac Hayes2nd was the first person interred in the cemetery close by the present St. John's parsonage in Lewisboro. His funeral was attended by Rev. Henry Whitlock, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk.

The children of Isaac Hayes1st and his wife Elizabeth were Eunice, born May 2, 1702, (Mrs. Stephen Baldwin of Milford); Jeremiah, born Febru-

ary 1, 1704, died young; Isaac2nd, born March 23, 1706; Elizabeth, born May 23, 1708; Samuel3rd, born October 30, 1710.

Mrs. Isaac Hayes1st was Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Jackson) Sherwood of Fairfield.

2 Hon. John Lewis had a brother Isaac who married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Greenly of New Canaan, and had issue. The portrait of Mr. Lewis now hangs in St. Paul's Chapel, Lewisboro, N. Y.

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the church in Lewisboro. Anstrice, sister of Margaret and Thacher Hayes, married Peter Ketchum, of the old Norwalk Ketchum family, and had two daughters, Nancy and Mary Ketchum. The Ketchums owned the elegant water side property at Saugatuck now occupied by the Eno family, and were seemingly interested in lands at Handsome Ridge, near the New York and Connecticut Colonies' line. Nancy, daughter of Peter and Anstrice (Hayes) Ketchum, married James Stevens Keeler of Troy, N. Y., son of Captain Samuel Keeler of the war of 1812 (see page 124). Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Keeler had no children of their own, but their adopted daughter is the present Mrs. Ira Blanchard of Troy. Mary, sister of Nancy and daughter of Peter and Anstrice (Hayes) Ketchum, married Henry, son of Captain Heze- kiah Betts of Norwalk, and is excellently remembered. The two Ketchum daughters were superior women. They were devoted sisters and wives, and proved worthy descendants of the Rev. Peter Thacher of old Sarum across the sea. Mr. Edgar Ketchum Betts, only son of Henry and Mary (Ketchum) Betts, and of the 1899 business house of Earl & Wilson, Troy, N. Y., to-day represents the ancient Norwalk Thacher-Hayes-Ketchum blood. Mr. Betts married, first, April 22, 1867, Fannie M. Fletcher, who died February 8, 1869, no chil- dren. Mr. Betts married, second, May 27, 1875, Harriet Louisa Gardner, and had :

Anson Gardner, born April 14, 1876 ;

Edgar Hayes, born October 23, 1877 ;

Ethel Keeler, born November 8, 1880 ; Arthur Wilson, born June 26, 1886.

Isaac4th (Colonel), son of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married, first, Julia, daugh. ter of Jerry Stebbins of Salem, and had James (went to Philadelphia), Mary (Mrs. Josiah Grumman),1 and Jane (Mrs. Amos S. Northrup).2

Colonel Isaac Hayes married, second, Emily, daughter of Jerry Stebbins and sister of his first wife. By this second marriage he had one child, William.3

1The children of Josiah and Mary (Hayes) Grum- man were Julia (Mrs. John H. Knapp of South Nor- walk), and Samuel of the firm of Mather & Grumman of Darien. Josiah and Mary (Hayes) Grumman have no grandchildren.

2The children of Amos and Jane (Hayes) Nor- thrup were Frances Jane (Mrs. George Bennett, no children), A. Randolph (married Emma L., daughter of Jacob Lockwood of Ridgefield, had child who died young), Benjamin Brandreth (married Edith Ben- jamin and had five children).

3William, only son of Colonel Isaac Hayes by his second wife, married Hannah Loder of the Oblong family of that name. Hannah Loder (Mrs. William Hayes) was of the same blood of Benjamin Loder of Erie Railroad celebrity, who married Polly Ann, daughter of James White Church, who was a son of Daniel and Sarah (Pickett) Church, which Daniel Church was a son of Ebenezer1st and Susannah (Fitch) Church, and consequently a grandson of Hon.

Samuel, brother of Governor Thomas Fitch of Nor- walk. Mrs. William Hayes had no children, but Ben- jamin Loder, of whom she was wont to remind her Hayes marriage kin, had a large family.

With Mrs. Benjamin Loder's grandmother Try- on's men, after the battle of Ridgefield, enjoyed some- thing of a repast while marching from Ridgefield, via Wilton, to Westport. The soldiers seemed to take possession of a room set off from the porch and there helped themselves freely. Mrs. Daniel Church was a woman of sweetness of voice, and known as quite a singer. Perhaps her disposition was of a quality to enable her to unruffledly bear the British visitation.

A great granddaughter of Daniel and Sarah Church married Edward D. Webb of Cortland, N. Y., who traces himself back, in direct line, to Christopher Webb, who, born April 15, 1599, came to America in 1626, and is supposed to have been a younger brother of Richard WebbIst of Norwalk (see pages 398-404).

Samuel, a younger brother of James White Church, married Jane, daughter of Stephen and Hannah

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David W., son of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married, March 30, 1847, Hannah Campfield, daughter of Ebenezer Selleck, and had Levinia (Mrs. Harvey Hoyt),1 and Mary Eliza (Mrs. James Slauson).

David W. Hayes married, second, Mrs. Albia Campfield, and had no children.

Clarissa, daughter of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married, as his second wife, Lewis Richards, M. D.,2 of New Canaan, and had no children.

Charles, son of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married Betsey, daughter of Stephen Waterbury, and had no children.

THACHER-DEANE-WEBB.

Lydia Thacher, a few years the senior of Captain Josiah of Norwalk, married John Deane of Groton, Conn., and was the mother of Silas Deane1st. Silasist married Sarah Bar- ker, to whom was born, on the day before Christmas, 1737, Silas Deane, Jr., who was a member of the first (1774) Congress, and deputized, in 1776, to proceed on a political errand to France, there to meet Dr. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and confer in the interests of the new power in the West. Silas Deane2nd married the widow of Joseph Webb4. This young Webb, who died March 5 or 25, 1761, was born in Stamford December 8, 1627, but anon left Fairfield County for Wethersfield, where he married, February 2, 1748, Mehetable, born 1732, daughter of Gershom and Sarah (Waterhouse) Nott. The widow Webb was, before her second marriage, the mother of a number of Webb children, among whom was General Samuel B. (see page 400). Joseph Webbtu was son of Joseph&rd, born

(Marvin) Keeler. Stephen Keeler was a son of Jehu and Lydia (Lockwood) Keeler, a fine connection, see pages 178 and 185. The children of Stephen and Hannah Keeler were Sally (Mrs. Amos Smith of Ridgefield), Nancy (Mrs. Asahel Osborn of Ridge- field), Lucy (Mrs. William Dudley), John, Lockwood died young, Mary (Mrs. Seth Ferris), Jane (Mrs. Sam- uel Church), Esther (Mrs. Bela St. John) which Jane and Esther were twins, and Roxy (Mrs. Charles Nash).

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 65

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