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Seth and Mary (Keeler) Ferris were the parents of the greatly esteemed Deacon Gould Ferris of South Norwalk, who married Mary Ann, daughter of Sam- uel and Esther (Keeler) Beers of Wilton, and had, Mary A. (Mrs. Rev. J. J. Wooley), Frank A., and Emma (Mrs. Nelson Dickerman).
Lockwood Keeler Ferris and Mary (Mrs. Tru- man Trowbridge) of Danbury were also children of Seth and Mary Ferris.
Mrs. Nancy (Keeler) Osborn had several sons and daughters. One Charles, a New York silver- smith, married the educated Miss Esther Harrington, of Middletown, and had a son Henry, who was on the New York Graphic (illustrated) staff.
1Mrs. Hoyt, who is now a widow and tenderly
ministered to by her two daughters Cheshire and Mary Eliza, and grandson William A. Hanford, occu- pies the Hoyt home a little north of the Lewisboro rectory and westerly of the Upper Norwalk reservoir. She is a lady of high worth and the family is held in just esteem.
2 Lewis Richards, M.D., was a New Canaan clever and conscientious physician of the old school. He possessed certain manner characteristics, but was skillful and good. His name was an household one and he was highly respected. He was twice married. His first wife, Mary Selleck, a sister of Mrs. Peter Smith of Smith's Ridge, was a rare character. She filled the Dr. Richards home (Bond house on Owenoke Avenue, 1899), with sweetness and goodness, and made it an attractive hearthstone. Her daughter Sophia (Mrs. Prof. James H. Olmstead) was a New England maiden, the like to whose eminent excellence the poet must have had in mind when he taught that "few or none rise in their room." There were two other sisters, Sarah and Hannah, and a brother James. Dr. Richards married, second, Clarissa, daughter of Thacher and Mary Hayes, to whom he was introduced by a worthy Oblong wife and mother, Mrs. Amos. N. Raymond.
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January 26, 1700, who married, August 23, 1726, Sarah, born November 7, 1702, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Finch) Blachly. The father of Joseph Webb3rd was Joseph2nd, born January 5, 1674, who married, February 23, 1698, Mary Hoyt. Joseph Webb2nd was son of Joseph1st, born March 30, 1636, who married, August 11, 1672, Hannah Scofield of Stamford. Joseph Webb1st was the son of Richard, Jr., the only son, presumably, of Richard Webb1st of Norwalk. James Watson Webb (See pages 388 and 442), son of General Samuel Blachley Webb, married, 1823, Helen Lispenard, daughter of Alexander L. and Sarah Lispenard Stewart of New York.
Norwalk's first Thacher, Captain Josiah,1 of clerical and professional lineage, closed his life not far from the time of Tryon's invasion. His estate was inventoried November 22, 1780, but the court did not order its distribution until December 27, 1785. He seems to have
1 Whatever may be its significance Thacher-wise, a minute, seemingly incidental, in an ancient Norwalk land record to the effect that Captain Josiah Thacher and Jachin Gregory were "heirs of Thomas Grego- ry, dec.," opens to important data pertaining to the Gregory family genealogy.
Thomas Gregory1st, son of John1st, married Elizabeth Pardee (page 83) and had Martha, born April 31, 1680; Thomas, died young; Ebenezer, October 27, 1683; Phebe (Mrs. Thomas Hurlbutt), November, 1686; Rachel, May, 1691; Rebecca, and, presumably, Elizabeth and Sarah (Mrs. David Perry). The only son (at least to reach maturity) of Thomas Gregory1st was Ebenezer, who married Mary, daugh- ter of John Fitch as per page 83, and was the father of Jabez and grandfather of Moses Gregory.
Thomas Gregory2nd (nephew of Thomas1st) was a son of JachinIst and grandson of John Greg- ory1st. Thomas Gregory2nd, born January 17, 1672, married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Lindall) Ketchum, and sister of Nathaniel Ketchum of Wilton. He seems to have been several years his wife's senior and to have died at the age of forty. He was the brother of Samuel, who died young, and of Matthew, the ancestor of Ira Gregory of Norwalk, and Jachin, and Mary, (Mrs. Joseph Bouton) and Sarah (Mrs. John Seymour), and John, born January 25, 1670. After the decease of Thomas Gregory2nd his widow married Moses Fountain. The children of Thomas2nd and Elizabeth (Ketchum) Gregory were Thomas; Benjamin, born December 17, 1703; Sam- uel, March 22, 1705; Elizabeth, September 22, 1708 (Mrs. David Whelpley, see page 444) and Sarah, born February 4, 1710 (Mrs. Ebenezer Nash).
The Cranberry Plain Gregorys are in the direct John Gregory line. John1st and Sarah Gregory, the settlers, were the parents of John2nd, whose son Jolin3rd married Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and a sister of Robert Smith of Long Island, the mother of which Mary and Robert Smith was (page 186) the
honor subject of a Jamaica, L. I., public action. John3rd and Mary Smith lived in Cranberry Plain and were the parents of John4th, Nehemiah, Denton, Stephen and Sarah (Mrs. John Betts).
The children of John4th and Mary Gregory were John, Mary1st, Ebenezer, Abraham, Seeley, Hezekiah, Mary2nd, Sarah (Mrs. Nash), Phebe (Mrs. Linsley), Elizabeth, Hannah and Charity.
Abraham1st, born September 17, 1736, son of John Gregory4th, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah (Gregory) Betts, and had Hannah, born April 5, 1761 (Mrs. Seth Marvin); Ebenezer, 1763, died 1793; Abraham2nd, January 22, 1765, died young; Abraham3rd, September 7, 1767, married Polly Allen; William1st, 1770, died young; Sarah, January 2, 1772 (Mrs Hanford); Nancy, August 9, 1775, died young; Mary, September 17, 1776 (Mrs. Francis Galpin, first, and, second, Mrs. William Jameson); William2nd, January, 1778, died young; Sabra, December 8, 1779 (Mrs. Ashbel Crossman); John B., April 3, 1782, married Olive Raymond; Wil- liam3rd, January 1, 1786.
Abraham Gregory1st married, second, April, 1791, Damarist Disbrow. He bought a pole of land of Colonel Stephen St. John (site of the house of his grandson, the late Henry Marvin, son of Seth, of East Norwalk) and there built a small oak trame structure. This was afterward removed to Half Mile Island and constituted the home (see page 51) of Grandmother Gregory, the widow of John B., son of Abraham Gregory1st.
Nehemiah, son of John Gregory3rd, (note, page 150) married the widow of Matthias St. John, whose daughters, Catharine, Elizabeth and Hannah, were respectively Mrs. Joseph Marvin, Mrs. John Abbott, Jr., and Mrs. Lemuel Rogers.
Denton1st, son of John Gregory3rd, married, July 18, 1752, Elizabeth Sherwood, and had Mary, born December 14, 1753; John, December 25, 1755, Eliza- beth, January 4, 1757; Josiah, August 2, 1760; Re-
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ended his days and gone to sleep in his "stone dwelling" at "the head of the harbor" (site of the rear of the present car house of the Norwalk Street Railway Company), his daughter Mary (Mrs. Stephen) Davis having dwelt nigh his own home.
Not greatly distant from Mr. Thacher's house stood the ante-revolutionary "Town House," facing, probably, the harbor. This structure was supplanted, after the town's burn-
becca, August 22, 1763; Clemon, October 21, 1765 (Mrs. Benjamin Fillow); Samuel, March, 1768, and Denton2nd, September 21, 1774.
Stephen, son of John Gregory3rd, married, De- cember 2, 1757, Mary, daughter of John and Eliza- beth Benedict, and had Esther, born July 6, 1758 (Mrs. Darius Olmstead); Aaron, March 18, 1760; Silas, October 7, 1762; Ruth, February 3, 1764 (Mrs. John Hoyt, pages 90 and 418); Sarah, Septem- ber 11, 1765; Molly, August 6, 1767 (Mrs. Thaddeus Waterbury); Stephen2nd, June 6, 1769; Moses, Feb- ruary 22, 1771; Lydia, November 14, 1772; Betty, December 11, 1774; Susanna, April 17, 1776 (Mrs. Lewis Grumman, first, and, second, Mrs. Allen H. Betts); Olive, February 19, 1778 (Mrs. Thorp, first, and, second, Mrs. Eliphalet Smith, and afterward Mrs. Joseph Platt); Nehemiah, March 2, 1780, and Catharine, May 17, 1782 (Mrs. Samuel Finch).
Esther, oldest child of Stephen and Mary Greg- ory, married September 10, 1775, Darius Olmstead. Mr. and Mrs. Darius Olmstead lived where thier grandson (Silas Olmstead of 1896) resides in Cran- berry Plain. Their children were Aaron, born March 3, 1776; David, February 2, 1779; Silas, December 5, 1780; Mary, January 12, 1783; Esther, June 19, 1785, and Charles, November 6, 1791. Their third son. Silas, was the prosperous Silas Olmstead whose home in Tarrytown, N. Y., was on the banks of the Hudson. Charles, the youngest son of Darius Olm- stead, occupied his father's home site in Cranberry Plain, and is Norwalk represented to-day by his daughters Mrs. George and Mrs. Edwin F. Beers (page 345).
Aaron, son of Stephen Gregory, was unmarried. His brother Silas lived in Cranberry Plains, where his daughter Betsey (Mrs. Chadwick Kinner) afterward resided. Ruth, another daughter of Stephen Gregory, married Hiram Grumman, and her sister married In- crease Thorp of Chestnut Hill.
The children of Ruth (Mrs. John Hoyt), daugh- ter of Stephen Gregory, were Aaron G. (see page 364), born September 2, 1784, married, Januarv 14, 1809, Hannah Smith Bouton, born December 4, 1792; Esther, May 10, 1787; Betsey, February 8, 1789; Sally, April 25, 1791; Susannah, February 7, 1795; Nathaniel, May 1, 1797; Ruth, June 16, 1799; Adelia, July 3, 1802, and Anna, October 18, 1804.
Sarah, daughter of Stephen Gregory, married, first, a Porter, and, second, Ezra Pickett of Water- ford, N. Y. There were two Pickett children, Charles
and Jane. Jane married a Losse, who was a Sara- toga Springs hotel proprietor.
Mary or Polly, daughter of Stephen Gregory (Mrs. Thaddeus Waterbury), had several children, one of whom married Budd Finch and had Frank Henry and Henry Frank, the twin Chestnut Hill Finch Brothers of 1895. Another daughter married the worthy David Morehouse Fillow of the North- east (Cranberry Plain) district, and had Frank, David A., Burr, and a daughter who married Thad- deus Waterbury, Jr.
Stephen, Jr., son of Stephen Gregory, married Chloe Fillow, a sister of Lewis Fillow, who until " very age" occupied his peaceful home on the New- town turnpike in Cranberry Plain. Chloe Fillow, (Mrs. Stephen Gregory, Jr.) was brought up in her father's home at the "Poplar Plain Four Corners." Her married home was in the rural township of Somers, Westchester County, N. Y. Her daughter was the present Mrs. Aaron Miller, whose romantic hearthstone is on "Canaan Ridge," at the head of the 1898 New Canaan public reservoir of remarkably pure water.
Moses, son of Stephen Gregory, was the father of the wife of the truly excellent Captain Alfredl Tay- lor of Poplar Plains.
Lydia, daughter of Stephen Gregory, married a Fillow of Saratoga County (near Waterford), N. Y., whose son, Gregory Fillow, was proprietor of a liv- ery establishment in Waterford. Lydia Gregory's sister, Elizabeth, married Captain Wheaton Wood of Waterford, N. Y., who was a Hudson River Captain. Susannah, sister of Lydia and Elizabeth Gregory, was the grandmother of the present venerated and valued Allen Betts of the Norwalk Timber Steam Sawing Works, and the Senior Warden of St. Paul's Church.
Olive, daughter of Stephen Gregory, was thrice married. Her son by her first union, was Increase Thorpe. Her children by her second (Smith) mar- riage were Esther (Mrs. Burwell D. Gregory), Betsey (Mrs. John W. Bouton), and Priscilla (Mrs. Stephen Hoyt, first, and, second, Mrs. George Morgan). Mrs. Olive Smith had no issue by her last (Platt) union.
Nehemiah, son of Stephen Gregory, married Polly, daughter of Elvin Hyatt of Wilton, and had Giles Gregory of Chestnut Hill, the father of Giles, Jr., and of Mrs. Robert Green of Norwalk (1895). The other children of Nehemiah aud Polly Gregory were Stephen and Hyatt Gregory.
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ing, by the predecessor of the present brick building on Town House Hill, opposite to which Captain Thacher also possessed a house-lot.
The sea-faring Captain continued active, it would appear, almost to the going out of his life-tide. He left no "log" as the success-register of his ocean going ventures, but the Norwalk town records attest to his land enterprises. Money was seemingly at his command, as well as the mind-ability to wisely invest and employ it.
On January 6, 1775, he settled his "stone dwelling house at the great bridge " upon his sons Daniel and Stephen G., which edifice became, in 1785, the property of James Selleck of the family of the first Mrs. William Lockwood.
Until advancing age Mr. Thacher held the old Whitney Mill (northwest corner of Main and Wall Streets, 1896). He was its proprietor and the owner, also of "Thacher's mill pond " in the rear. The Whitney-Thacher grain establishment has a history (page 35).
The story of such lives as Captain Josiah Thacher and his contemporaries Joseph Hitchcock, Goold Hoyt, John Belden, John Cannon, Joshua King, Peter Quintard, Thaddeus Betts, and the Lockwoods, Marvins, Raymonds, Benedicts, Hanfords, Ketchums and Rogers of his day is instructive. Write, urges a western lady of prominence and a gifted graduate of the Emma Willard Seminary of Troy, N. Y., the history of the Norwalk ladies of the immediate pre and post revolutionary periods. Mrs. Judge Austin Adams, herself of Norwalk blood, is unquestionably correct. There is, quite likely, much in the lives of the
John Gregory (Lieutenant), son of Denton1st and Elizabeth Gregory, married, first, December S, 1774, Sarah Fairchild, and had Sarah (MIrs. Zecha- riah Whitman Fitch), born July 11, 1775; Hannah, February 6, 1778; Jesse, March 14, 1780; Helena, December 22, 1784; Elizabeth, September 1, 1787; Betsey, February 26, 1790; John, April 25, 1792, and Branford, December 31, 1793, who died January 26, 1798. The first Mrs. Lieutenant John Gregory died January 15, 1795-6, and her husband married, second, September 20, 1795-6, Nancy Dickinson, who died September 3, 1798. Lieutenant John Gregory married, third, December 9, 1798 (date copied cor- rectly but there is possibly a mistake), Betsey, born July 3, 1772, daughter of Burwell and Sarah (Bur- well Betts (second wife), and had Antoinette, unmar- ried, and Angeline (second wife of Edmond Tuttle), twins, and George B. and Burwell D.
Burwell Betts married, first, November 1, 1740, Thankful Raymond, who died December 3, 1747.
Mrs. Stephen Gregory was a cousin of Captain Hezekiah Betts, the Revolutionary soldier. Her grandfather was Captain Thomas Benedict, who was a son of John and Phebe (Gregory) Benedict, which John Benedict was a son of Thomas Benedict the set- tler. Mrs. Gregory's sister Elizabeth married Thomas Hayes of the Hayes family branch, which removed
to Vermont and is represented to-day by Mrs. Sophia Sage of San Francisco.
Silas Gregory, son of Stephen and Mary Grego- ry, and wife Polly had Julia (Mrs. William Hanford), Silas Burr, born February 13, 1807, and Susan (Mrs. Abraham Sherwood of Bedford, N. Y.). Silas B. Gregory married, first, Ruth Ann Sherwood and had William Burr and Jane Ann. Silas B. Gregory mar- ried, second, Emma Green, who came to this country with her father at six years of age from England. Her father was a jeweler whose Norwalk store was the old Thomas B. Merrill building at "the Bridge." The children of Silas B. and Emma Gregory were Silas W., George, Frederick, Thomas, Jane and Emma.
Josiah, son of Denton1st and Elizabeth Gregory, married, January 23, 1783, Ellen Adams. He owned, largely in Cranberry Plains and built and liberally supported the Methodist Episcopal church in Poplar Plains. His sister Clemon married, June 4, 1785, Benjamin Fillow, and had Lewis, born March 13, 1786; Phebe, March 18, 1788, and James, December 21, 1791. Denton Gregory2nd, son of Denton Greg- ory1st, and Elizabeth, was the father of William Gregory, now of Cranberry Plains. The casual men- tion of Captain Josiah Thacher's Gregory heirship prompts to Thacher-Gregory inquiry.
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Norwalk women of those days deserving of study, and the same may also be said of their husbands and brothers.
Thacher! "To men of station and of low degree, Thy faith shines forth like beacons o'er the sea."
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THACHER COAT OF ARMS.
THE THACHER ARMORIAL " ARGUMENT" IS THAT A TEACHER CRUSADER, LAID OFF THE GARB OF A SOLDIER AND PUT ON THE VESTMENTS OF THE CHURCH.
A FREE TRANSLATION OF THE ARMS-MOTTO RUSS: "LET ARMS YIELD TO THE GOWN, AND LET THE LAUREL GIVE WAY TO THE TONGUE: OR, THE POWER OF ELMUCENCE IS SOMETIMES SUPERIOR TO MILITARY FORCE."
A MODERN NORWALK WEBB GENERATION.
Fannie Willard, daughter of Francis and Susannah O. (Scofield) Leonard,1 married, April 12, 1898, Theodore A., Jr., son of Theodore A., Sr., and Emily F. (Childs) Sheffield (page 362).
"The children of Francis and Susannah O. Leon- ard were Julia Frances Wood, died young; Fannie Willard (Mrs. Theodore A. Sheffield, Jr.); Louis
Webb: Edward Street. The last two were twins. Edward S. died young. Francis Leonard is a son of Charles T. and Emily (Street) Leonard.
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Mrs. Susannah Osborn Leonard was a daughter of Smith and Polly (Webb) Scofield. Mrs. Smith Scofield was a daughter of Epenetus Ferris and Sally (Brown) Webb.1 Epenetus Ferris Webb was a son of Captain Moses2 and Polly (Street) Webb (page 388).
WEBB RECALL.
It is lawful to infer that Richard and Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb, Sr., (page 149) lived in quiet dignity in their ancient Norwalk abode. Mr. Webb, whose lands were value-rated second only to those of Thomas Fitch, Thomas Hanford, Nathaniel Ely, Matthew Campfield, Nathaniel Richards, and Matthew Marvin, was held in esteem as the town vote down to the very year of his decease attests. He was eldering when he came to Norwalk, and himself and wite lived quite alone, his supposed only son, Richard Webb, Jr., having chosen Stam- ford for a residence, and been the Webb progenitor of most if not all of the name who have made this town their home or been Norwalk Webb family connected.3
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Webb, Sr., died too early to permit, even had the road been passable or family interchanges convenient, of extensive intercourse between their own hearthstone and that of Richard Webb, Jr., of Stamford. The latter's household was young, large and growing, and has contributed, through Joseph Webb+1), (see page 400) to an inter- esting page of colonial history. Joseph Webb+", great great grandson of Richard Webb, Jr., and father of General Samuel B. Webb (page 400), removed from Stamford to Wethers- field, and founded on the Webb estate in that town the fine "Webb House," which property is depicted on page 116 of "Barber's Connecticut Historical Collections." and in the north- front room of which mansion Washington is said to have planned the capture of Yorktown, which event closed the Revolutionary War. For Deane, Thacher, Webb affinity see page 465.
1Epenetus Ferris, son of Captain Moses and Polly (Street) Webb, married, first, Sarah Brown of Weston and had Anson (married Elvina Burnham of Bradford County, Pa.); Abigail (Mrs. Charles Fin- ney), Amanda (Mrs. James A. Tyndall); Polly (Mrs. Smith Scofield); Deborah (Mrs. Albert McDowell), and Sarah Maria (Mrs. Noah Disbrow). Mr. Webb married, second, Rhoda Disbrow of Westport, and had Esther Matilda, who was the second wife of Noah Disbrow. Epenetus F. Webb married, third, a Mrs. Squires, and, fourth, Elva, sister of Rev. Henry Morgan of New Fairfield. There were no children by the last two unions.
2The children of Captain Moses and Polly (Street) Webb were Epenetus Ferris, John Leland (of Pennsylvania), Sally (Mrs. William Craw), Ruth (Mrs. Matthew Starr), and Greenleaf Street (Rev.). Rev. Greenleaf S. Webb was for forty years pastor of the Baptist Church in New Brunswick, N. J.
The children of William and Sally (Webb) Craw were Martin S., LeGrand, Anna (Mrs. George Ray- mond), Amelia (Mrs. Johnson), William Thomas, Nelson Jarvis, Adelaide (Mrs. James Byxbee) and Hamilton.
3\'EBB-LODER.
Edward D. Webb (page 464), whose wife was of Norwalk descent, was not a Norwalk resident. Emily Loder (Mrs. E. D. Webb) was a daughter of Benjamin, son of Jared and Nancy (Green) Loder. The Loders are supposed to have been of French ex- traction. Rev. William Patterson, for many years the Presbyterian pastor of Pound Ridge, N. Y., and who was parochially intimate with one branch of the Loder family, argued with one of the children to the effect that if his (Patterson's) father had looked as much or was as nearly like a Frenchman as did and was the Loder father referred to, he should adopt the French language or, at least, make it a study. John Loder, a fore- parent, selected the Oblong for the cradling of his offspring, and planted the hearthstone in the not re- mote picturesque neighborhood of the famed John Jay Catonah estate. He had several sons, one of whom was Jared, whose son Benjamin married Polly Ann, granddaughter of Daniel and Sarah Church, and great granddaughter of Ebenezer and Susannah (Fitch) Church (see pages 175 and 176) of Norwalk. Benjamin and his brothers Cyrus, Noah, Lewis and Moses Jarvis Loder, became remarkable business
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WOOD
GENERATION I .- JONATHAN WOOD1St OF NORWALK.
This individual was possibly the son of Jonathan, who at the tender age of four years was apprenticed to John Smith by his mother, Anna Wood, the wife of John Wood, formerly of Rhode Island, August 21, 1662. In the agreement, as shown upon the records of Hemp- stead, L. I., his mother stated that the boy would be four years old about the 29th of Sep- tember next, which would make the date of his birth September 29, 1658. He purchased land at Jamaica, L. I., as early as April 19, 1677. On August 23, 1686, he purchased one-half a home lot at Huntington, and in the deed he is styled "Jonathan Wood, weaver, of Jamaica, L. I." Abiel Titus purchased the remaining one-half of the lot. His name appears on the assessors' lists at different times, and also in the published history of the First Presbyterian Church at Jamaica, L. I.
Early in the year 1706 he disposed of his property on Long Island and on April 17th of that year "Thomas Betts, Thomas Seamor, Daniel Betts and Samuel Betts" of Norwalk, Conn., sold for £40 a tract of land above Pimpewaug, " acres unknown, to Jonathan Wood of Jamaica, L. I., County of Suffolk, Province of New York, America."
Pimpewaug, then in Norwalk, is now a part of the town of Wilton lying on both sides of the Norwalk River, and extending north and south of Cannons Station on the Consoli-
men and the careers of the brethren may be instanced as examples of the signal success which has not in this western world been unknown to crown intelli- gent and indefatigable industry. From the "Mas- ter's" desk in the country school house to the Presi- dency Chair of the Erie Railroad was a long reach, and from the Cross River Loder lads to the Metropo- lis merchant princes Loder Brothers a very goodly promotion. The reach was accomplished by Benja- min and the promotion attained by the several Jared Loder sons.
Benjamin Loder, years ago, purchased a tract in Rye, N. Y., which for some time was occupied by his parents from the Oblong. This tract became subse- quently the elegant Loder Villa of that beautiful suburban Westchester seat. The first cousin of Mrs. Benjamin Loder's Church grandfather, Susannah Rog- ers (page 172), is described as having been wedded.in considerable Colonial state and, as adorned for the groom, she descended the "stairs in the old Norwalk Town Street" home to face Dr. Jeremiah Leaming, and by him to be received from her Grandfather Fitch and pronounced the wife of the handsome David Lambert (see portrait in possession of the Wilton Lamberts), the occasion was memorable, but Daniel Church's granddaughter (Mrs. Benjamin Loder) dwelt at Rye amid modern environments which far transcended those of the ancient Rogers "Down Town" (East Norwalk) establishment.
Mrs. William Hayes (Hannah Loder) referred to on page 164, was a daughter of Reuben Smith and Harriet (Ferris) Loder. Her brothers and sisters
were Josiah, Nancy (Mrs. Isaac Garnsey), Mary (Mrs. John Tyler), Lucinda (Mrs. Edgar Murray). Leonard, and Sarah (Mrs. Charles Sherwood).
Reuben S. Loder was a son of DavidIst, who was a brother of Jared and son of John Loder the Westchester County settler.
David Loder1st married Molly, daughter of John Smith of South Salem, N. Y. His children were Reuben S., Nancy (Mrs. Isaac Deane). Sabrina (Mrs. Enoch Sniffen), Darius, Polly (Mrs. Hawley Piatt), Deborah (Mrs. Cyrus Gregory), William, Allen, Al- fred and Harvey.
Nancy Jane Loder, sister of Benjamin F., mar- ried Alvah Miller. Nancy had a sister Sarah,
Josiah, son of Reuben S. Loder, married Catha- rine Hallett of North Stamford and had George, Katy and Nancy. His brother Leonard is married but has no issue.
Winding agreeably for two or so miles in a gen- erally westerly and northwesterly direction from the romantically situated South Salem St. John's Church, and at the foot of the hill which leads directly to Lake Waccabuc taking the road that conducts more southerly to Cross River, one is presented with a series of attractive landscape pictures. Along this hill and dale and Indian meadow and cultivated fields diversified route stood the earlier and later Loder homes, and hence emanated those of the name who have been a commercial power and the blood which has been more or less widely diffused through- out the country. The Loders are unrepresented by name in Norwalk to-day.
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