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Lewis Smith married in May, 1808, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Raymond) Weed, and had William Lewis, born February 16, 1811 ; Ann Eliza, born March 5, 1813 (Mrs. Dr. L. D. Gale);1 Clara Augusta (Mrs. William Allen first, and, second, Mrs.
1The children of Dr. Leonard D. and Ann Eliza (Smith) Gale were Clara Augusta (Mrs. William Al- len first, and, second, Mrs. Edward O. Graves). Mrs. William Allen had Clarence Gale Allen, who married Martha McKee of Washington, D. C. The children of Mrs. Edward O. Graves were Jessie, Bertram and Evelyn.
Dr. Leonard D. Gale assisted Prof. Morse in his
electrical work. Himself and Morse w lked from Baltimore to Washington in the work of superinten- dence of putting up wires for the first telegraph line. In their experiments Dr. Gale had thirty miles of wire stretehed around his room, and Morse a shorter dis- tance of the metal. The discoveries of both were united. See Century Magazine, 1888. Morse and Gale are closely linked names.
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Edward O. Graves); Lydia Esther, born January 9, 1816 (unmarried); Harriet Augusta,1 born December 3, 1821; Mary, born November 9, 1824 (Mrs. Henry Bushnell Sheldon) ;2 Catharine (unmarried).
The Norwalk Jamaica, L. I., Smith blood emenates from Ebenezer Smith of said Jamaica, and has mention on pages 186, 213, 262 and 263. The earliest names of such of that branch of the Smith household as have Norwalk registry are Robert, John, Abraham, Samuel and Mary (Mrs. John Gregory, Jr., of 1735).
JOSEPH AND EUNICE SMITH LINEAGE.
At least three of the children, Eliphalet, Hezekiah and Gershom B. of the above captioned Smiths established homes in Norwalk and Westport. The first, located in Cran- berry Plains, the second, in Saugatuck, and the last on Norwaik Island. The family is prob- ably of Long Island origin, and constitutes a distinct branch of the name. Eliphalet married Olive Gregory; Hezekiah, Emma Meeker, and Gershom B., first, Sarah Finch, and, second, Temperance Sheffield. The complete Joseph and Eunice Smith3 family roll is Rachel born March 21, 1759, Eliphalet, February 25, 1761, Joseph, May 27, 1763, Sarah (Mrs. Abraham Pulling), September 29, 1765, Eunice, January 23, 1768, Hezekiah, January 18, 1770, Huldah, January 29, 1773, Priscilla (Mrs. John Duncan), September 28, 1775, Belinda, September 14, 1777, Gershom Burr, February 9, 1780, and Walter, January 15, 1784.
The widow Eunice was in 1786 one of the administrators of her late husband's estate and in 1807 both parents were deceased. Their daughter Eunice married John Lockwood (see page 423). Their son Hezekiah has reference on page 223.
Gershom B. Smith was Norwalk Island identified. He sold a portion of the island to the government and for some thirty years he had charge of the light there established about seventy years ago. Norwalk light, remarked one of the New York dailies over a half century ago, is reliable. Mr. Smith's stately fashioned home thereat is a pleasant memory to- day. Theoriginal house which survived, for years, Mr. Smith's residence, was in existence, seem- ingly, as long ago as the days of Nathan Reed. In 1793, Noah Smith sold that house with ten acres of surrounding land to Joseph Franklin White, son of Joseph Moss White of Dan- bury. On January 24, 1804, Mr. J. F. White and wife Betsey sold for $6,000 "Little Long Island, or Smith's Island or White's Island" to Robert Sheffield, a ship master of New York.
1 Harriet Augusta, daughter of Lewis and Eliza- beth Smith, married Thomas E. Lee and had Lewis Smith, Harriet Augusta, Florenee Pohlman, and Aliee. Lewis Smith Lee married Clara Paulison and had Howard Sheldon, born June, 1883, and Paul Paulison, born November, 1885.
A granddaughter of Lewis Smith, Miss Florenee Pohlman Lee, takes a most loyal and loving interest in her Norwalk Smith aneestry. She makes periodieal visits to the town and tenderly eares for her kindred's resting places in its soil. These kindred rest in Union and Pine Island cemeteries. The latter burial place is Norwalk-aneient.
2 Henry Bushnell and Mary (Smith) Sheldon had
Augusta, Henry Bushnell and Elizabeth. Henry Bushnell Sheldon married Charlotte S. Sutphen.
3Joseph Smith, (Euniee wife) the parent of Ger- shom B. Smith and his brothers Eliphalet, Hezekiah, Joseph and Walter, appears to have been from the Richard, Samuel, Joseph and Thomas Long Island Smith stoek. Samuel was the founder of "Smith Ridge," and this seetion of the large Smith family seem to have established "Smith Hills," near Poplar Plains, and to have settled in near by Weston, which was aneiently within the bounds of Fairfield. The Noah and Robert (Hadley and Jamaiea) Smith lines are entirely distinet, not alone from each other, but from the Samuel Smith braneh.
SMITH-INTERPAGE.
Lieutenant Samuel Smith, mentioned in paragraph two, page 431, died, it has been ascertained, some four or so years before 1685 (1680-1). His son Kiliab had children other than those indicated'in next paragraph, viz : John, born October, 1661 (married Martha Golding); Sarah, born April, 1673 (died young); Hester, born 1674 (Mrs. Nathaniel Ingraham);1 a child who died in infancy ; Elizabeth, born February, 1678 (Mrs. James Smith) ; Mary, born 1681 (Mrs. Preserved Smith, first, and, second, Mrs. Peter Mon- tague) ; Kiliab2nd, born August, 1683, (died in infancy); Kiliab&rd, born Febril- ary, 1685 (married Mary Golding), and Sarah, born 1688 (Mrs. Jonathan Martin).
Martha, daughter of Eliakim and Abigail Smith, as mentioned on page 431, married Ebenezer Nash. She probably had died in young married life, and before her sister of same name was born in 1756.
Mrs. Jonathan Thompson, named in note one, page 432, had also sons David and George Thompson.
Eliakim and Lydia (Olmsted) Smith (second wife) had beside the three sons named on page 432, Samuel, born May 1, 1780.
Before her marriage to Benjamin Weed, Catherine (mother of Mrs. Lewis Smith, page 433, had been a widow of Peter Smith.
While these lines are being penned (November, 1899), the old " Elia- kim Smith Home on Rusco Creek," South Norwalk, is being demolished in order to make contemplated improvements in the interests of the Corset Company, which company now owns the property. It should never, however, be forgotten that a brave "Old Well" boy (Lewis, son of Eliakim2nd and Lydia Smith, see page 433) was there brought up.
This Norwalk youth grew to become the gallant CAPTAIN LEWIS SMITH, who did splendid service in the war of 1812. He was a capturer of British vessels, and albeit he was once himself captured, still it was against great odds, and when fired upon by the squadron surrounding him. When the heroic Smith saw that he must give up, he threw guns, muskets and powder overboard, and had no apology to render when explanation for such a step was demanded of him by the enemy. He was in command of the "Governor Tompkins" at the time that a son of the Earl of Shrewsbury was his prisoner. Pointing to the ensign at Captain Smith's peak, the Earl's son "thought it a shame that British colors should be compelled to strike to it." The fearless Smith replied " that it was not the first time and he believed it would not be the last."2
The story of the disappearing (1899) Rusco Creek Smith home abounds in instructive passages and the site is of interesting memory.
1 Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Ingraham, married (second wife, see note, page 384) Samuel, son of Daniel Belden1st.
2 " We would like to see Commodore Decatur," said one of the British officers to Captain Smith. "And he would be equally happy to see you," was Smith's reply.
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Gershom B. Smith, married, first, Sarah Finch and had Nelson, born December 31, 1803, who was drowned in 1832, unmarried. Mr. Smith, married, second, Temperance, born June 15, 1790, daughter of Robert and Temperance (Doty) Sheffield, and had Edward, born, December 19, 1811, Austin, December 11, 1812, Jane, June 16, 1815, died young, Theodore (Captain), August 7, 1816, Gershom B., April 28, 1818, died young, Andrew, August 5, 1819, Emaline (Mrs. Edgar Hoyt), December 18, 1821, Eliza Jane (Mrs. Allen Gray), May 19, 1820, Mary (Mrs. David T. Coon), March 11, 1826, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Cox), June 20, 1827, Leonard, January 28, 1831, and Robert Sheffield, July 31, 1836.
Edward the oldest son by his second wife, of Gershom B. Smith, married Martha Smith of Long Island and had Victoria. Millard Filmore, Warren Eagleton, Jennie June, Wilson R. and Mattie M.
Robert Sheffield was the uncle of the distinguished Joseph F. Sheffield, founder of the Sheffield Scientific School of New Haven.
Edward Smith was one of the heads of the Smith & Gray clothing firm of Brooklyn.
Warren E. Smith, resides in Greenwich and has a summer sea girt home on one of the Norwalk Islands.
Captain Theodore Smith and his wife Agnes B., daughter of Hanford and Eliza Weed of New Canaan, were the latest proprietors of the ancient and reputable piece-Indian and Eng- lish-of Norwalk property known as " Longe," " Smiths," "Sheffield" and Norwalk Island. The widow of Captain Theodore still holds it. Her husband there built a commodious home and the site, salubrity and scenery of the spot are fine. The history of the island from the days of the Sachem Winnipauk's possession of it down to the present Smith's incumbency is interest-abounding. Commodore Reed's story of the heroine of the Madeiria Islands has there had something of a counterpart and there have been periods when the island's occupant has seemed a second Robinson Crusoe. Gay parties have spent happy hours beneath its " pines" and perhaps no more fervent prayers have ever floated heavenward than those from thence wafted to the skies during the visits, years ago, of Dr. Asa Hill to this tide-kissed Nor- walk " embracing."
By day and night, in storm and shine, in summer and winter, the place has its fascina- tions and albeit there may no longer be witnessed, when off the island, from the mid-sounds Bridgeport or New Haven steamers, the always dextrous and sometimes dangerous launch of Captain Theodore Smith's private craft which was to bear the brave fellow to the loved ones on the two or three miles distant sands yet, to this day " Norwalk Island" has its charms and is one of this old community's favorite localities. The children of Captain Theodore and Agnes Blair (Weed) Smith were :
Theodora (Mrs. Richards), DeWitt and Robert Sheffield (twins), Stanley Sheffield, Agnes Fairfield2nd, Genevieve, Ada May (Mrs. William Gade), Linda (Mrs. Charles Chamber- lain), Theodore Ledyard, Thornton Hoxie; Agnes Fairfield1st and Minnesota both died in infancy.
Agnes Fairfield2nd, daughter of Captain Theodore and Agnes Smith, married on Nor- walk Island, January 22, 1899, W. H. lloffman.
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THE SMITH RIDGE AND RIDGEFIELD SMITHS.
Samuel Smith1st, who married Rachel, daughter of Matthew Marvin1st, (see pages 150 and 177) had Rachel (Mrs. Thomas Benedict), Lydia (Mrs. James Lockwood), Sarah, Hannah, Samuel2nd and Nehemiah1st. Samuel Smith1st was brother of Joseph (page 431).
Samuel Smith2nd married, June 13, 1711, Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Whitney and had Samuel3rd, Sarah (Mrs. Nathan Olmsted), Rachel (Mrs. James Northrop), and Patience (Mrs. Benjamin Hoyt), all of Ridgefield.
Nehemiah Smith1st, brother of Samuel2nd, married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Clapham and had Nehemiah211, (not found excepting that his daughter Mary married Thaddeus Sey- mour), Peter1st, Matthew1st, Daniel1st, Elizabeth1st, (Mrs. Lieutenant Samuel Street), Rachel3rd (Mrs. Ebenezer Street), Rebeccah (Mrs. John Hanford), Lydia Ann (Mrs. Josiah Burr), and Joseph.
Mrs. Nehemiah Smith1st (Elizabeth Clapham), married, second, Thomas Talmadge of Stamford.
The mother of Mrs. Nehemiah Smith1st, was Isabella, daughter of John and Ann Bar- low of Fairfield.
The children of Peter and Isabella Clapham were Elizabeth (Mrs. Nehemiah Smith), Rebeccah (Mrs. Nathan Adams, Jr.), Mary (Mrs. Thomas Marvin).
" Smith Hills" was a district near " Bear Swamp" in Poplar Plains. Bear Swamp is traversed by the Newtown Turnpike.
The descent of Peter1st, son of Nehemiah1st, is traced on page 178. Matthew Smith1st, son of Nemiah1st, owned the fine old style H. M. Prowitt beautifully kept house and grounds in East Norwalk (1895). He left these to his nephew Matthew (son of his brother Peter Smith1st,) which nephew parted with the property or a portion of it, to Josiah Hanford Fitch, the father of the late Mrs. Samuel Daskam of East Norwalk.
From Samuel Smith1st, descended the Smith families of Smith's Ridge and Ridgefield.
SELLECK.
This Stamford-Norwalk family is of ancient pedigree. By tradition it originated in Wales. The name is Cornish-British, which is a dialect of the Celtic, Belgic or Cambrian formerly spoken throughout Cornwall. The etymology of the proper noun Selleck is "in open view," conspicuous, and its mention is found as early as A. D. 1086.
Along the seventeenth century are records of Sellecks in positions of influence. John Selyocke about that period "declined knighthood." In the deed of Galdon Manor Robert Selleck is mentioned as a "trustie and well beloved friend," and John Selioke, father and son, were Mayors of St. Albans 1684-1700, while "Selleck on the Wye" is a beautiful village.
In the roll of early New England settlers occurs in 1640 the name of David Selleck. It is claimed that the first provision for a free school in the western world, by direct tax, was made in Dorchester, Mass., in 1639. David Selleck, before referred to, was one of the sub- scribers to a petition to that effect. David and Susannah Selleck, his wife, were members of the 1644 First Church of Boston, and the births of their children are recorded in that ancient
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town. Among the antiquities of Boston is found the "David Selleck home lot description." Mr. Selleck was engaged in trade between the Colonies and the Barbadoes. He died while on an expedition, in 1654, to Virginia. His two sons, Jonathan and John, came to Stamford in 1660. They there married sisters, daughters of Hon. Richard Law, the first civilian among the Stamford settlers, and one of the "first gentlemen in the Colony." Jonathan Selleck was one of the leading men of the period (see Colonial histories of New York and Connecticut). His son Jonathan2nd shared his father's civil and military renown, and his son John was the first Fairfield county graduate of Harvard College.
John Selleck1st, brother of Jonathan1st, married a daughter of Hon. Richard Law. He became a wealthy ship owner and captain, and was extensively known in early days. He was taken prisoner by the French (on one of his ocean trips), in May, 1689, but his estate, which was large, was not settled until 1708. He left one only son, Nathaniel, who married Sarah, daughter of Gershom and Anne (Millington) Lockwood of Greenwich. From these two has been a descent "which has been largely characterized by the qualities of honor, courage and loyalty ; a God fearing, will making, debt-paying people."
CHILDREN OF DAVIDIst AND SUSANNAH SELLECK.
David2nd, born October 11, 1638, went to the Barbadoes ;
Jonathan1st, born March 20, 1641, came to Stamford ; John1st, born February 2, 1643, came to Stamford;
Nathaniel1st, born July 18, 1645, no Norwalk descent ; Joanna, born December 11, 1647 ;
Elizabeth, born February 1, 1651 ;
A daughter Susannah, died September 10, 1653.
David Selleck1st died in Virginia in 1654.
Jonathan1st and John1st, sons of David and Susannah Selleck, came as young men to Stamford in about 1660. Jonathan1st married Abigail, daughter of Richard Law, and John Selleck1st married Sarah Law, a sister of the wife of his brother Jonathan Selleck1st.
Hon. Richard Law, the father of the Mrs. Jonathan1st and John1st Selleck is denominated by one historian a most important Colonial personage. He was the Scribe of the Colony, and because of his legal lore the "Counsellor and Adviser of the community." He married Mar- garet, daughter of Thomas Kilbourne1 of Wethersfield, and removed to Stamford, where their home was one of the most honored of the Colony, and the family furnished names that gave a lustre to the State, whose highest civil and judicial seats its members filled.
1Thomas Kilbourne was born in the parish of Wood Ditton in Cambridge, England, A. D. 1578, where he was baptized May 8 of that year. With his wife Franees, and a portion of his family, he em- barked April 15, 1635, from London for New Eng- land in the ship Inerease. He settled at Wethersfield, Conn., and died previous to 1639. His wife's will was made November 3, 1650, and inventoried Deeem- ber 3, 1650.
Margaret (Mrs. Richard Law) daughter of Thomas and Franees Kilbourne, was born in Wood
Ditton, England, in A. D. 1607, and baptized Septem- ber 23rd of that year. She was married to Hon. Richard Law soon after the New England arrival of the Law family.
Mrs. Law died before her husband. He made his will Mareh 12, 1687, in which "he divides lands to his daughters, the two Mrs. Selleeks, so that they may have eaeh a half as much as the son ; for which, he says, the word of God is clear and good reason for it, and why any Christian man that loveth righteous- ness and equity should be against it he sees not."
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DESCENT FROM THE SELLECK BROTHERS JONATHAN1st AND JOHN1st.
JONATHAN1st.
Jonathan1st, son of David1st and Susannah Selleck, married, May 11, 1663, Abigail, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Kilbourne) Law, and had :
Jonathan2nd, born July 11, 1663;
David, born January 27, 1666, probably died young ;
John, died young.
Jonathan2nd, oldest child of Jonathan1st and Abigail (Law) Selleck, married, January 5, 1685, Abigail, daughter of Major Nathan Gold of Fairfield.
Major Nathan Gold1st came from St. Edmondsbury, South Britain, to Fairfield. He was an educated, opulent gentleman and a foremost man in the government of the Connecti- cut Colony. His children were Nathan2m1, Sarah (Mrs. John Thompson), Deborah (Mrs. George Clark), Abigail (Mrs. Jonathan Selleck2md), Martha (Mrs. John Selleck first, and second, Mrs. Rev. John Davenport). Nathan Gold1st died on Sunday, March 4, 1693-4.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN2nd AND ABIGAIL (GOLD) SELLECK.
Nathan1st, born September 12, 1686; Abigail born April 3, 1688;
Jonthan3rd, unmarried ;
Theophila, born February 11, 1694, Mrs. Samuel Pennoyer ;
John Gold, unmarried ;
Abigail, born February 15, 1707, Mrs. Ebenezer Silliman.1
As Nathan1st was the only son of Jonathan2nd and Abigail (Gold) Selleck, who married, it follows that the said Nathan became the ancestor of those of Selleck name who descended from Major Jonathan Selleck1st, one of the two brothers who came from Boston to Stamford in about 1660.
Nathan Selleck1st married, August 12, 1708, Susannah, only child of Mr. William Hooker of Farmington (see page 327), and had :
Susannah, born September 3, 1709, Mrs. Joseph St. John.
Nathan Selleck1st married, second, December, 1710, Mary, daughter of Captain John
1 Hon. Ebenezer Silliman, baptized September 21, 1707, was a son of Robert and Sarah (Hull) Silliman, of Fairfield, and a grandson of Daniel Silliman, the Fairfield pioneer Silliman who, tradition elaims, eame from Holland. The marriage of this eminent Colo- nist, Hon. Ebenezer Silliman, to Abigail Selleek, took place October 8, 1728, the fruit of the union being Gold Selleck, born 1732, Ebenezer, Jr., born 1734, Amelia Gold, born 1736, Hezekiah, born 1739, Jona- than, born 1742, Abigail, born 1748, and Deodate, born 1749. These all overlived their parents several years, being interested, the year Norwalk was burned, in the division of the Lieutenant Jonathan Selleek estate made in Stamford April 3, 1779. Gold Selleek Silliman (General), the oldest son, married, January
21, 1754, Martha, daughter of Deodate and Lydia (Woodward) Davenport of East Haven, and grand- daughter of Madame Davenport, nee Martha Gold. The first Mrs. General Gold Selleek Silliman died August 1, 1774, and the General married, seeond, May 24, 1775, Mary, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Rebeeea (Peabody) Fish of Stonington, and widow of Rev. John Noyes of New Haven. By this union there was Benjamin Silliman, who became the re- nowned " Professor Silliman" of Yale College, who died, after more than a half century's illustrious eon- neetion with that seat of learning, November 24, 1864, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. (See page 198.) The Sillimans of New Canaan are of the old Fairfield stock.
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Sands of Long Island, who died July 13, 1712. Her husband, Nathan Selleck1st, married, third, Sarah, daughter of Captain Samuel Sands and cousin of Mr. Selleck's second wife. The issue by said Selleck's last wife was :
Sands1st, born April, 1714; Silas, born June, 1715 ;
Mary, born October 1, 1717, Mrs. Jacob Warren ; Jonathan, born October 1, 1720; Sarah, born August 12, 1723, Mrs. Nathaniel Selleck ; Nathan2m, born September 15, 1726 ; Samuel, born January 10, 1728, died young ; Gold John, born January 10, 1730 ; Silvanus, born September 1, 1734.
Sands1st, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, August 10, 1742, Mary Raymond, and had :
Simeon1st, born August 14, 1743, died an infant ; Simeon2nd, born September 18, 1744 ;1 Jesse, born January 19, 1746 ;2 Sands2nd, born May 19, 1751 ; Raymond, born June 26, 1752 ; Samuel, born July 17, 17553 ;
Anna, born February 28, 1759, Mrs. Benjamin Belden ;
Henry, died young ; Stephen, died young.
Silas1st, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, January 12, 1738, Eliza- beth Ferris, and had :
Silas2na, born October 29, 1740; Sarah, born August 19, 1741. Silas Selleck1st died December, 1772.
Sarah, daughter of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, August 7, 1744, Nathaniel, son of David and Mercy (Waterbury) Selleck, and had :
Uriah1st, baptized January 21, 1761, died young ;
Ray, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Mercy, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Sarah, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Nathaniel, baptized 1761 by Dr. Mather ; Uriah2nd, baptized October 31, 1762-3.
1 Married, February 28, 1771, Mary Belden of Stamford. Had Betsey, Polly, Benjamin and Anne. These children and their parents belonged in Stamford rather than in Norwalk.
2 Married, January 26, 1786, Elizabeth Howc and had James, born April 22, 1787, Catharine, born December 11, 1789, Eliza, born August 10, 1792,
Sands, born January 13, 1796, Henry Raymond, born May 21, 1798.
3 Married, August 1, 1779, Hannah Smith, and had nine children, the two yonngest of whom, Angeline, born September 4, 1796, and Caroline, born March 8, 1802, lived until recently at the Ring's End Landing (Darien) homestead there established by their father.
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Nathan20, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, September 17, 1745, Catharine, daughter of John Clark of Stamford, and had :
Deborah, Mrs. Amos Roberts ;
Phebe, Mrs. Thomas Comstock ;
Catharine, Mrs. Wyy Seeley, died July 4, 1813 ;1
Edward.
Gold Jolin, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married Jane and had : A child, no name found ;
Gold John, baptized November, 1772.
Mrs. Gold John Selleck (Jane) married, second, December 23, 1773, Benjamin Betts of Norwalk.
Silvanus, son of Nathan1st and Sarah (Sands) Selleck, married, March 2, 1768, Tabitha of Stratford, and had :
Molly, baptized November 17, 1772, Mrs. Captain Stephen Raymond of Norwalk. Betty, baptized November 17, 1772.
Mrs. Silvanus Selleck married, second, June 21, 1774, Daniel Lockwood.
JOHN SELLECK1st.
Captain John Selleck1st, son of David1st and Susannah Selleck, married, October 25, 1669, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Richard and Margaret (Kilbourne) Law, and had :
Sarah, born August 22, 1670, Mrs. John Potter ;
David born, December 27, 1672, probably unmarried ;
Nathaniel2m2, born April 7, 1678 ;
John, born June 7, 1681, unmarried ;
Susannah, born February 2, 1683, Mrs. John Holly ;
Johanna, born May 31, 1686, Mrs. Jonathan Bates.
Nathaniel201, son of Capt. John1st and Sarah (Law) Selleck, married, January 25, 1700, Sarah, born 1678, daughter of Jonathan1st and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, and had:
David, born December 23, 1700;
Sarah, born August 14, 1702;
Nathaniel3rd, born October 9, 1704 ;
John, born January 3, 1706; Martha, born April 19, 1710, died young ;
Ebenezer, born March 20, 1712, died in infancy.
Nathaniel Selleck died August 14, 1712, and his widow married Deacon Benjamin Hickox (see pages 272, 281, and 318).
David, son of Nathaniel2nd and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, January 23, 1723, Mercy, daughter of David Waterbury, and had :
1 Wyy and Catharine (Selleck) Seeley had six children. Their oldest daughter Mary, born November 10, 1791, married Kilbourne Selleck and was the vener-
able personage, who neatly kept up her Darien home near the Selleck woods through which electric cars now make their way from Norwalk to Stamford.
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David, born April 1, 1724;1
Nathaniel4th, born October 29, 1725, see "Uriah Selleck descent," page 446; Ebenezer, born December 18, 1727; Gershom, born July 10, 1730 ;2 Ezra, born February 19, 1732 ; Samuel, born February 4, 1734 ;3 Thaddeus, born 1736; James, born 1742 ;+
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