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Thomas1st, his oldest son, had by his wife Sarah five sons, viz: Benjamin, Jr., Thomas2nd, Philip, Zacheus and Uriah. Zacheus removed to Ballston, N. Y., and had son Daniel. The daughters of Thomas Scribner1st were Sarah (Mrs. Gershom Bradley), Ruth (Mrs. Phineas Hanford), Wait (Mrs. Nathaniel Disbrow), and Hannah.
Benjamin Scribner2nd had sons Stephen, Matthew, Abraham, and daughters Hannah (Mrs. Gray), Rachel (Mrs. Fairchild), Lydia, Elizabeth, Isabel, Ruth and Abigail.
John Scribner1st married. March 9, 1709-10, Deborah, daughter of Lieutenant William and Mehitable (Rusco) Lee, and had Mary, born March, 1711, and Rebecca, born October 12, 1712.
Joseph Scribner1st married, Mary, daughter of John1st and Ruth (Rusco) Abbott.
Matthew1st, son of Benjamin Scribner2nd, married Martha Smith, born 1720, and had : Nathaniel, born December 23, 1743, removed to Dutchess County, N. Y .;
Matthew2nd (Rev.), born February 7, 1746;
Martha, born February 20, 1748, Mrs. Cable; Enoch, born August 29, 1750, died September 21, 1816;
Elijah, born June 25, 1753 ;
Jeremiah, born December 15, 1755;
1 Eugene Leslie Boyer, born February 8, 1843, son of David H. and Esther (Scofield) Boyer, married Harriet Francis Quintard and had :
Frederick Quintard, born April 14, 1888; Ruth Lounsbury, born November 13, 1890; Eugene Francis, born March 12, 1894.
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Keziah, born January 20, 1758, Mrs. Thomas Hawley ;1 Abigail, born November 9, 1760, Mrs. Edmonds :
Elizabeth, born December 10, 1763, Mrs. Dr. Spaulding.
Nathaniel, son of Matthew1st and Martha (Smith) Scribner, had a daughter Martha, married Uriah Rogers, son of Rev. Matthew and Abigail (Rogers) Scribner. These had a daughter Matilda, who married, April, 1859, George W. Schuyler of Ithaca, N. Y.
Rev. Matthew, son of Matthew1st and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married Abigail, daughter of Dr. Uriah and Hannah (Lockwood) Rogers of Norwalk (page 179) and had one son, Uriah Rogers. Uriah Rogers Scribner married twice. His first wife was the mother of Mrs. George W. Schuyler, before referred to, and his second wife gave birth to the founder (Charles Scribner) of the widely known Scribner publishing house of New York.
Enoch, son of Matthew1st and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married, March 22, 1781, Betty Benedict of Norwalk, and had Jeremiah, born February 18, 1782, died by accident, William, born June 14, 1783, died of fever, Mary, born September 15, 1785 (Mrs. Lewis Benedict), George, born March 14, 1786, Sally, born September 14, 1790 (Mrs. Czar Jones), Charles born March 24, 1793, died young, Joseph, born October 30, 1796.
THE ENOCH SCRIBNER LINE.
Gen. I. Benjamin and Hannah (Crampton) Scribner.
Gen. II. Benjamin and Abigail Scribner.
Gen. III. Matthew and Martha (Smith) Scribner.
Gen. IV. Enoch and Betty (Benedict) Scribner.
The good name of Enoch Scribner of Saugatuck still lives, and the Scribner home is a grateful memory. Jeremiah and William died, one from injury and the other of yellow fever. Mary went with her Benedict husband to New York state, her children being Lewis, Eliza- beth, Isaac, George, Sarah and Abby Jane.
George, son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married Deborah Benedict and occupied the old Westport homestead, where he died. His children were Mary Frances, Charles, James Williston, Sarah (Mrs. Rev. Isaac Cundall) and Louisa.
1 Keziah Seribner, born 1758, was a daughter of farmer Matthew and Martha (Smith) Seribner, and a sister of Rev. Matthew Seribner. She married, March 10, 1779, Thomas, born February 28, 1755, son of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Gold) Haw- ley, and her husband was cousin of Ezekiel Hawley of Norwalk, whose widow, Ellen or Elinor, married, second, March 25, 1778, Reuben, son of Daniel Betts, the oldest daughter of which Reuben Betts, Eunice, who was two months old to a day when Nor- walk was burned, married James White, son of Dan- iel1st and Sarah (Pickett) Church. Mrs. Reuben Betts was mother of Sarah Esther, only daughter of Ezekiel and Ellen Hawley. Sarah Esther Hawley married Aaron, son of James Olmstead (page 105),
and these were the parents of Hawley Olmstead, LL. D., of Wilton. Mrs. Aaron Olmstead was a great granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hawley of Ridgefield. Mrs. Ezekiel Hawley first, and seeond, Mrs. Reuben Betts, was Elinor Olmstead. She was married to Mr. Hawley January 4, 1775, and her only Hawley ehild (Mrs Aaron Olmstead) was a very young bride. Elinor Olmsted, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of Nathan1st and Sarah (Keeler) Olm- sted (pages 83 and 84), was a niece of Mrs. Matthew Fiteh, whose granddaughter Merey married Adam Swan (page 219). Elinor Olmstead's father (Samuel) made his will March 16, 1761, wherein is intimated that some of the children were at that date under age.
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Joseph, the youngest son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married (see page 375) Sarah, born July 19, 1796, daughter of Jarvis and Mercie (Selleck) Kellogg of Norwalk. These excellent parents resided at the old Saugatuck home until 1851, when everything was sold out and parents and children left their native hills and removed to Rosendale, Wisconsin. They carried their sterling New England character to their new home, where the father soon be- came an important factor church, college and citizenwise. The training on week-day at the upland Saugatuck shrine of integrity, and on Sunday in the old church on Norwalk Green, had done its happy work, and the family of Joseph, son of Enoch Scribner, was a valuable contribution to western society. The children were William1st, Martha Elizabeth, Enoch, Joseph, James Kellogg, Lucia and Harriet.
William1st, son of Joseph Scribner, married Mary Eleanor Hill of Westport. He was a Rosendale farmer and held office in that town. His children were Mary Elizabeth1 (Mrs. Thomas C. Hill), Joseph Lewis, died young, Julia (Mrs. Joseph Maber),2 William Henry,3 John W., Ellen Maria, Charles H.,+ and Eliza Ruth.
William Scribner1st married, second, Maria Elizabeth Vandenburgh, and had no issue.
Martha Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married Storrs Hall, M. D.,5 of the state of New York. Dr. Hall graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and afterwards engaged in academic work in Connecticut. He was the brother of the learned Edwin Hall, D. D., the pastor for twenty-three years of the First Congregational Church in Nor- walk, in which town Dr. Storrs Hall established a private of school of high grade, and remained for a number of years its able and successful head. He subsequentiy studied medicine at Yale University, New Haven, and leaving the east established himself as a physician in Rosendale, Wis. In 1860 he was elected a Trustee of Ripon College, Wisconsin, and four years later chosen Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the same institution. His life has been spent along scholastic lines, and he is now, at the age of four and eighty, industriously engaged in professional work. His children are Sidney Storrs, William Scribner, Charles Edwin, and Ira.
Enoch, the next child of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, was an artisan, and afterward an
1 Mary Elizabeth Scribner married Thomas Coop- er Hill and had Edith Cooper (unmarried) and Clar- enee. Clarence married Carrie Mendlik and had Clarenee Donald.
2The children of Joseph Maber were Joseph, Charles, Herbert and Winifred.
3William Henry Scribner married Maggie Secry and had Lewis, Mary, Iva (Mrs. Arthur Brentner), and Alice. William H. Scribner married, seeond, Esther Anderson and had William and Lewis2nd.
4Charles H. Scribner, M. D., of Paterson, N. J., (1899) married Annie Doremus and had Elenor and Dorothy.
5The children of Storrs and Martha Elizabeth (Scribner) Hall were Sidney Storrs, a graduate of
Harvard University and a physician of Ripon, Wis .; William Scribner of Denver, Col .; Charles Edwin of Russell, Kas., and Ira.
Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall married Franees W. Pow- ell and had John Storrs, Edwin Charles, Jennie, Mary Powell and Robert Sidney.
William Scribner Hall married Mary D. Wheeler and had Carlos, Hiram Storrs, Kittie and Ira.
Charles Edwin Hall married Emma Ackerman and had Henry Storrs and Winfred R.
Ira Hall married Emma Anderson and had Ber- tine Anderson, William Seribner and Susan Elizabeth. John Storrs Hall, M. D., married Ruth Nohl, and has no children.
Edwin Charles Hall is a civil engineer, his sister Jennie is an instruetress in Appleton, Wis., and his sister Mary P., and brother Robert S., are now in Ripon College, Wis.
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agriculturist. He finally engaged in mercantile life in Eldorado, Wis., in which place he died. He married, first, Catherine Taylor of the old Westport family of that name and had, Fran- cis, Howard, George, Harriet, Carrie, Belle and Arthur.1
Enoch Scribner married, second, Anna Wilson of Norwalk. No issue.
Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married Olive White of Eldorado, Wis. He was a farmer and had, Frederick H.,2 Adelbert Eugene, Sarah Josephine, and Angretta.
James Kellogg, son of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, is a flour manufacturer in Eldora . do, Wis., He married Laura M. Wheeler, and had Winthrop,3 Walter K., Elizabeth M.,4 Abbie L., Joseph, Kittie May, Harry C., Mabel W.,5 James Clinton and Enoch Richard.
Lucia, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, is pleasingly recalled in Norwalk to- day. She was a young lady when the family elected to go to Wisconsin. She married Henry M. Hill of Springvale, Wis., and had two children, Kate6 and Minnie, who were many years ago bereaved of their mother. Mr. Henry M. Hill died and Mrs. Hill married, second, Wil- liam Crichton of Minneapolis. No issue.
Harriet, youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married John C. Cooley, a western railroad contractor. The home of the two was in Rosendale, Wis., where they had Sarah,7 Martha Elizabeth and John Scribner.8.
When Norwalk parted with its Enoch Scribner blood and sent it to the west the town thence diffused an excellent emigration element. Years have flown and others till the Scrib- ner fields and fill the Saugatuck Scribner places. Their mother town proudly notes the fact that its children of this family occupied with honor to themselves, and with the approbation of their fellows, positions of trust in town, county, state and the church in the land of their adoption.
1 Arthur, son of Enoch and Catharine Scribner, inarried Kate Hall of Green Bay, Wis., and has a son and daughter. He is connected with the Union Paei- fie Railroad at Omaha, Neb. His brother Howard died young and his brother George is unmarried. His sister Harriet married Warren R. Anderson and had William, Kate and Howard, and his sister Carrie Bell married Samuel Lamont and has no children.
2 Frederiek H. Scribner married Vina Linsley of Lamartine, Wis., and had Roy Herbert and Erna. His brother Adelbert Eugene married Alice Johnson and had no children. His sister Saralı Josephine mar- ried William Stuart and had Nellie and Jennie. His youngest sister Angretta married her cousin John W., son of William Seribner, and had John Edwin, Bessie, Jessie and Edith Maria.
3Winthrop Seribner married Nellie Potter and had Percy, Nellie, Louisa, and Harry Potter. Walter K., brother of Winthrop Seribner, married Gertrude Stuart and had Laura, Jennic, Abbie, Frederick and Walter. Jennie is the only child who is married. Her father, Walter K. Scribner, married, second, Emaline Boss, and has no children.
+Elizabeth M. Scribner married H. E. Blackburn of Minneapolis and had Winthrop and John. Her sister Abbie L. married C. R. Blackburn of Minneapolis and had Lester, Nina and Earl. Her brother Joseph mar- ried Carrie Steele and has no children, and her sister Kittie May married Bert Brown and had one child, Robert.
5 Mabel W. Seribner married F. A. Jackson of Ash- kosk and had no issue. Her brother Harry married Maud Monroe and had Howard. Her brother James C. is unmarried and her brother Enoch Richard is still a school boy.
6 Kate Hill married Charles Riee and had Flora. Her sister Minnie married, first, Edwin Barbour, and had Lulu, Lullah and Alyma. Mrs. Barbour married, second, a Mr. Butler, and has no issue.
7Sarah Cooley married George A. Stuart and had Edna, Robert and Norma.
Mary Elizabeth, sister of Mrs. George A. Stew- art, married Marshall Chase and had Harry, Hattie, Louisa, Carlton and Donald.
8John Seribner Cooley married Katheryn Reeves and had Doris,
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SCRIBNER NOTES.
The Andrews family from which Mrs. Benjamin Scribner1st sprang was the old Hart- ford and Fairfield Francis and Anna (Smith) Andrews household. In his will, executed June 6, 1662, of which instrument he appointed Dr. Thomas Pell "overseer," Mr. Andrews men- tions his daughter Hannah (Mrs. John Crampton), and remembers his "granddaughter Hannah Crampton " (Mrs. Benjamin Scribner1st).
Five of the Norwalk Scribners, viz: Hezekiah, born 1759, Elias, Thaddeus, John, Thomas born 1760, settled in 1783 in New Brunswick.
The mother of Rev. Matthew Scribner (Mrs. Matthew Scribner1st), lived to a good age, and died March 11, 1813. Her son Enoch overlived her between three and four years and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Enoch Scribner (Betty Benedict), lived until April 19, 1835.
Benjamin1st and Hannah Scribner cradled their children on the exact spot where now stands the old Joseph Scribner Saugatuck home, a little to the eastward of "Boston Bridge" and "Indian Brook," and not remote from "Indian Field." The elevation is gentle and its southeast slope towards the present Saugatuck is beautiful. On September 21, 1741, Benja- min Scribner, the ancestor, deeded the hearthstone to his son Matthew ScribnerIst.
The children of Mary (Mrs. Lewis Benedict), daughter of Enoch and Betty Scribner, were William, Lewis, Elizabeth, Isaac, George, Sarah and Abby Jane.
Charles, son of George and Deborah Scribner, married Mary Ann Jesup and removed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Their children were Erna (Mrs. Dr. James Barnet), Charles, Jesup who married Mary Avery.
James Williston, son of George and Deborah Scribner, married Gertrude Van Hoosen and had Charles Henry (unmarried), Edward (married Ada Hammond, no children), Nellie (unmarried). James W. Scribner married, second, Rhoda White, and had Sarah (Mrs. Sey- mour Hammond), and Vernon (unmarried). Seymour and Sarah Hammond have Bulah, Hattie, and a young son.
Sarah, daughter of George and Deborah Scribner, married Rev. Isaac Cundall, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Rosendale, Wis., and had several children who died in infancy. Their son Walter was a soldier in the Spanish-Cuban war. Mrs. Sarah Cundall deceased and her husband married, second, her sister Louisa. The children by the second marriage are William and Jessie. William married Mary Lewis, and his sister Jessie is unmarried.
SCRIBNER PUBLIC MARRIAGE REGISTRATION.
NORWALK.
Benjamin Scribner and Hannah Crampton,
married March 5, 1679-80
John 66
Deborah Lee
9, 1709-10
Abraham
66
Sarah
66
October abt. 1744
Matthew 66
66
Martha Smith
..
November 19, 1742
Mary
. 6
Micajah Nash
October 9, 1744
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Hannah
Scribner
and
Thomas Hyatt
married
April
3,1748
Enoch
60
66
Betty Benedict
66
March
22, 178I
Benjamin
Phebe Fillow
66
November 28, 1797
WESTPORT.
Stephen Scribner
and
Deborah Allen
married
March
22, 1768
John
66
Lydia Lyon
66
September
6,1770
Thomas
Elizabeth Webb
66
May
3, 1780
WILTON.
Abigail
Scribner
and
John St. John
married
August
24, 1749
Widow Sarah “
66
John St. John
November
II, 1749
Mindwell
66
6.
Ebenezer Hickox
April
26, 175I
Samuel
66
Mary Boulton (or Bouton)
26, 1755
Ruth
Daniel Whitlock
66
May
19, 1772
Keziah
60
66
Thomas Hawley
66
March
10, 1779
Levi
Ruth Bunts
March
30, 1779
Molly
66
..
Lewis Hurlbutt
6.
December
14, 1796
Martha
66
Stephen Olmsted,
66
November
2, 1797
A Norwalk John Scribner and Mary Fitch union recalls a diversified family record. Mary Fitch (Mrs. John Scribner of New York) was one of the two children of Clark Marvin and Polly (Gibbs) Fitch. Mrs. Scribner's brother, David Haynes Fitch, dead, but Norwalk- unforgotten, married Sarah Sterling of Brooklyn and built a pleasant home in East Norwalk where, just as that now growing section was starting upon its career of promise, he dwelt for a few years. His children were Estelle (Mrs. Nathaniel Lovell), Lincoln Haynes and David Porter. Clark Marvin Fitch was the son of James Fitch2m by his second wife. James Fitch2nd son of James1st and Mary (Buckingham) Fitch (see page 210), married, first, Ann Hanford. Mrs. Ann Fitch died and her husband married, second, Esther Marvin and had Clark Marvin who married Polly, daughter of Captain Samuel Gibbs. James2ª and Ann (Hanford) Fitch, son of James1st and Mary (Buckingham) Fitch (see page 211), had a daughter Susannah, born December 24, 1756, who married Deacon John Chapman. Mrs. Chapman's sister was Nancy Fitch (Mrs. William Benedict), the grandmother of Mrs. Le Grand Lockwood. (See pages 212 and 213).
Annah H., daughter of Deacon John and Susannah (Fitch) Chapman, married Novem- ber 25, 1815, Asael Dudley, the father of John Chapman and James Fitch Dudley. These broth- ers had two sisters, viz., Susan, born June 25, 1817, and Mary Ann, born November 13, 1819. Susan, married, September 3, 1845, Charles Greene of Providence, R. I., and Mary Ann, married November 12, 1846, Charles, son of William and Eunice (Barnum) Greene. Mrs. Eunice Greene was a sister of Star Barnum of Bethel, whose son, Rev. Dr. Henry S. Barnum, married Helen, daughter of George H., and Caroline (Lounsbury) Randle.
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Henry S. Barnum is a niece of Henry, Lewis and Joseph Randle of Norwalk. Her mother was a daughter of John D. and Sally (Crane) Lounsbury (see page 370).
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SMITH.
With the exception of Joseph, Thomas and Richard Smith, the Samuel (Smith's Ridge) and what may be termed the Hadley Smith lines, appear to be Norwalk oldest men- tion of the family name. The exact manner in which the referred-to Joseph, Thomas, Richard and Samuel Smith were Long Island related it is difficult to determine, but the Hadley, Mass., lineage is distinctly traced.
Samuel and Elizabeth Smith sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, in April, 1634, with four children aged respectively nine, seven, four and one years, the parents being somewhat above thirty years old. They came first to Watertown, Mass., removed thence to Wethersfield, and thence to Hadley in 1659-60. Mrs. Smith died March 16, 1685, and Mr. Smith during the same year. Their children were Samuel2m, Elizabeth, Mary, Philip, John, and Chiliab or Kiliab.
Kiliab (see page 363), born about 1635, lived to reach his ninety-sixth year. He mar- ried, in 1661, Hannah, daughter of Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, which Hannah was held "in wide repute as a singer," and benefactor. The children of Kiliab and Hannah Smith were Hannah, born July 7, 1662 (Mrs. Jolin Montague) ; Samuel, born March 9, 1664; Luke, born April 16, 1666; Ebenezer1st, born July 11, 1668; and Nathaniel, born January 2, 1670, who died young. Samuel married Sarah Bliss, Luke, Mary Crow, and Ebenezer1st, October, 1691, Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Marvin) Bouton (see page 349).
The children of Ebenezer1st and Abigail Smith were Abigail, born October 10, 1692 (Mrs. Joseph Kellogg2nd); Martha, born November 10, 1694 (Mrs. Reed); Ebenezer2m, born March 20, 1697; John, born May 1, 1699, lived in Hadley; Nathan, born August 14, 1701, lived in Norwalk; Eliakim1st, born January 23, 1704; Eunice, born June 9, 1706 (Mrs. Nathan Olmstead2nd); Joseph, born September 18, 1708; Ephraim1st, born January 27, 1711 ; Dinah, born July 8, 1715 (Mrs. Benajah Hoyt).
Ebenezer2nd, son of Ebenezer1st and Abigail Smith, married, June 2, 1729, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlett (see page 206), and had Ephraim,1 born March 24, 1730; Jedediah, born September 5, 1732; Josiah, born October 25, 1734 ; Prue, baptized April 24, 1737; Jesse, baptized April 29, 1739.
Eliakim1st, son of Ebenezer1st and Abigail Smith, married Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Hoyt, and had :
Martha1st, born June 3, 1728, died young ; Daniel1st, died in infancy, by accident ;
Daniel2nd, born September 25, 1731, living in 1811 ;
Eliakim2nd, born December 25, 1734; Hannah, born February 28, 1737 ; Noah, born March 7, 1739 (see page 363);
1 Ephraim, son of Ebenezer2nd and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Smith, married, October 20, 1756, Mehit- able Parsons and had Hannah (Mrs. Silas Betts), Isaiah, Jesse, David, Samuel and Ephraim. These
children were young when their father died and their mother seems to have married, second, Theophilus Hanford. Her sons Jesse and David Smith settled in Derby, Conn., and Samuel in Saratoga, N. Y.
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Thankful, born May 15, 1745 ;
Elizabeth, born February 22, 1747;
Abigail, born July 25, 1749, Mrs. Alexis Wood, first, and, second, Mrs. Timothy Whitney2nd ;
David, died young ;
Nathan, born November 24, 1752;
Martha2m1, born April 29, 1756, Mrs. Stephen W. Johnson of Albany, N. Y. Catharine, born March 12, 1762, Mrs. Jonathan Thompson.1
Ephraim1st, son of Ebenezer1st and Abigail Smith, married Isabel, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlett, and sister to his brother Ebenezer's wife, and had Ephraim, Sarah, Susannah2 (Mrs. Isaac Bell, see pages 94, 95, 167), James, Nathan, Thomas, baptized April 3, 1743, Rhuamah and Hannah These children have definite registration. There ap- pears also to have been Moses of St. Johns, N. B., in 1793.
Eliakim2nd, son of Eliakim1st and Abigail (Hoyt) Smith, married first Catharine Han- ford, born December 25, 1737, and had Enoch, born December 29, 1759; Catharine, born March 12, 1762; Eliakim, born February 19, 1765; Josiah, born May 1, 1775.
The first Mrs. Eliakim Smith2nd died May 17, 1776, and her husband married, second, May 5, 1777, Lydia Olmstead, born April, 1749, whose first husband was Daniel Middlebrook. The children of Eliakim Smith2nd by his second marriage were Nathan, born February 18, 1778; Lewis, born October 30, 1784; Francis, born April 25, 1792.
The Eliakim Smith home was the first house west of the present Corset Factory in
1 Mrs. Jonathan Thompson (Catharine Smith), died Friday, November 18, 1791, and is buried in Waterford, N. Y. She left Charles born September 17, 1783, Anson, born October 6, 1785, Catharine, born, October, 3, 1788, and Sarah born "fore part" December, 1790.
2Susannah, daughter of Ephraim1st and Isabel (Bartlett) Smith was baptized in New Canaan shortly after her father and mother had become members on April 19, 1740, of the Congregatianal church in that town. Between 1740 and 1742 said church seemed to be without a settled pastor. At this time the young Susannah Smith (afterward the second Mrs. Isaac Bell) was baptized in her native town by Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll of Ridgefield. Her sister Sarah had been baptized April 9, 1739, and her brothers James and Nathan on April 27, 1740, just after their parents had united with the church. Her brother Thomas was a subject of the same sacrament April 3, 1743. The children of this family scattered from New Canaan where the family were part owners of what is now the splendid Owenoke avenue. James and Nathan resided in Iship, L. I .; Susannah through her Bell marriage became a prominent ancestress (pages 94, 95, 173) and spent the troublous war days in the provinces where her Norwalk son-in-law, Nche- miah Rogers 2nd, entertained the father of the Empress
Victoria. The descent from Isaac and Susannah (Smith) Bell is notable. Their great grandson, Gor- don Knox Bell, a New York city attorney (son of Edward R. Bell), was the groom at the Bell-Crafts bridal solemnities in St. John's church, South Salem, Westchester county, N. Y., on May 11, 1899. The mother of thegroom, Eliza N. Soutter (Mrs. Edward R. Bell) belonged to the Soutter family of the South, the head of which household was, previous to the last civil war, a well known Metropolitan financier. The groom's father was a brother of Isaac Bell a former Norwalk school lad (pages 95 and 171). The bride of May 11, 1899, was Marian Mason, daughter of Dr. James M. Crafts, president of the Institute of Tech- nology, Boston, Mass., whose summer villa crowns a Salem New York and New England bordering ele- vation of rich aboriginal aud colonial association, and from the summit of which, beneath rare aerial brightness and freshness, an expansive and most beautifully diversified landscape charms the sight and captivates the senses.
The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlett (page 206) comprise a conspicuous company and the Bell, Bennett, Biglow, Fitch, Rogers, Satter- ley and Smith relatives and connections of Norwalk's early Bartlett barrister are many. The Bartlett- Belden blood emanates from the Bartlett-Betts union as per page 384.
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South Norwalk. The original house was burnt July 11, 1779. The second house (standing in 1899 on same site) was raised Saturday, April 23, 1788.
OF ELIAKIM SMITH2nd DESCENT.
Lewis, son of Eliakim2nd and Lydia Smith, was born October 30, 1784. His early child- hood was spent in the house still standing (15 Ann Street). The house which his grandfather, Eliakim Smith1st had built upon that site had been burned by the British in 1779 and the present house was erected in 1788. Close by was Rusco Creek, in which, in childhood, he sailed his little boats. When seven years old his father, who owned and commanded a schooner, took him to New York, and thence to Little Egg Harbor. In 1804, having received a nautical education, he made a long voyage, being away from home fourteen months. In 1805 he embarked upon a United States Custom House brig, receiving a commission from Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and James Madison, Secretary of State. In 1810 he commanded a ship. The year in which war was declared against Great Britain he entered the service, and during the struggle assisted in capturing ninety cannon and four hundred and one prisoners. He faced the mouth of the enemy's guns while his companions were killed at his side. He also commanded two private armed schooners. He left Nor- walk (to assume charge of these) by stage on the 7th of October, and arrived at New Bedford on the 9th. In December following he was chased for six hours and then captured by the British blockading squadron. He was on Commodore Hardy's ship for seventeen days, where he was well treated. The Commodore took pleasure in conversing with him, and on the morning of his release he breakfasted with the Commodore, who requested him to tell the inhabitants of Stonington that if they molested him with any of their fireships or torpedoes, he would surely knock their town down about their ears. Commodore Hardy offered to give him a license to trade with any of the fleet under his command. The brave Norwalk youth thanked him, but declined the favor. He landed at Stonington. When the inhabitants were informed of Commodore Hardy's intention regarding their conduct in molesting him, it did not appear to alarm them. He was in service at sea when peace was declared. In Jan- uary, 1816, he united with the Congregational Church in Norwalk, of which Rev. Roswell Swan was pastor. He removed to New York in 1820, and in January, 1821, united with the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, of which he remained a member till the end of his life. He was widely known and his Christian character greatly admired.
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