Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut

III. Benjamin Northrup, fourth son of Jere- miah (II) and grandson of Joseph (I), was bap- tized in Milford in October, 1696, and became a mason by occupation. His name appears amcjng the pioneers of Newtown in 17 12, and as men- tioned above he had land assigned to him then and in 1720. He was a deacon of the Congre- gational Church in that town. On March 4, 1724, he tnarried Sarah Piatt, who died Febru- ary 25, 1775, aged seventy-two years, and he himself passed away August 9, 1775, at the age of seventy-nine, his death being occasioned by a fit. He had eleven children, Benjamin, Sarah, Phoebe, Benjamin (2), Abigail, Meriam, Mercy, Alice, Nathaniel, Eunice and Elihu, all of whom were born in Newtown, and will be mentioned in the next paragraph. IV. Of the above, (i) Benjamin, born Febru- ary 7, 1725, died November 7, 1727. (2) Sarah, born February 25, 1727, died December 5, 1787. She married Abner Wakelee, of Roxbury, Conn., who died July 22, 1769, and they had three children — Henry, born April 9, 175 1; Eunice, September 19, 1752; and Elizabeth, born July 8, 1754, who was married March 9, 1780, to Thad- deus Hurd, of Roxbury. (3) Phoebe, twin to Sarah, was married May 14, 1760, to Joseph Rockwell, of Danbury. (4) Benjamin, born February 24, 1729, was married March 24, 1755, to Sarah Prindle, of Newtown, and died in 1785. He had eight children. Prudence, Andrew, Re- becca, Jerusha, Naomi, Alanson, Oliver and Annis, who are mentioned in the next para- graph. (5) Abigail, born January 9, 1734, died June 21, 1816. She married Samuel Castle, of Roxbury, who was born February 16, 1734, and died November 16, 18 13. They had six chil- dren, Huldah, Oliver, Silas, Nabby or Abigail, Zalmon and Northrop, who are mentioned be- low. (6) Meriam married Gideon Bristol, and had three children, on Woodbury Records — - Phileney, born August 23, 1765; Meriam, August 16, 1767, and Joseph, December 23, 1770. (7) Mercy married Benjamin Munger, and had four children, born in Woodbury, Conn.: Benjamin, May 9, 1763; Damaris, born July 27, 1765; Jesse, December 3, 1767, and Caleb, October 12, 1769. (8) Alice married, January 5, 1760, Joseph Botsford, who died April 5, 1774. (9) Nathaniel, born in 1740, was engaged in farm- ing throughout his life, and died at a good old age May i, 18 12. He was married (first) November 10, 1767, to Esther, daughter of Daniel Gould, a pioneer settler of Redding, and his second wife's name was Rebecca . He had eight children: Nancy, Grace, Samuel, Susan, Jerusha, Andrew, Esther Ann and Heze- kiah, all of whom are mentioned below. (10) Eunice, baptized June 3, 1743, was married November 17, 1768, to Ebenezer Castle, of Rox- bury, who was born August 25, 1743. They had three children: Samuel, born January 10, 1770; Eunice, December 8, 1772, and Ebenezer, April 6, 1774. (11) Elihu, baptized February 16. 1747, is mentioned in 1775 in connection with the distribution of his father's estate. V. From the above-named children of Sarah, Meriam, Mercy and Eunice (IV), no lines of de- scent are traced, and they will not be again men- 294 COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tioned. Of the eight children of Benjamin (IV), (1) Prudence, born March 27, 1756, married Thomas Hall, and removed to Cornwall, \'t. (2) Andrew was born September 24, 1757. (3) Rebecca, baptized August 26, 1759, married Eben- ezer Bbstwick. (4) Jerusha was baptized May 23, 1762. (5) Naomi, baptized October 5, 1764, mar- ried Gershom Bostwick. (6) Alanson, born Sep- tember 24, 1765, who was a carpenter by occu- pation, died April 18, 1812, a horse havingthrown him; he was married April 18, 1792, to Lydia, daughter of Eliphalet and Rebecca (Baldwin) Hull, and she survived him many years, dying January 9, i860, at the age of eighty-seven. They had four children: Oliver, Cyrenus, Lydia Ann and Elizur, who are mentioned in the next paragraph. (7) Oliver was baptized May 15, 1768. (8) Annis married Amos Baldwin, and settled at Butternuts, N. Y. Andrew and Oliver both died before their father, Benjamin, as in his will, dated 1785, he calls Alanson his only son. Of the six children of Abigail Northrup (IV) and Samuel Castle, the eldest, Huldah, was born December 22, 175S. (2) Oliver, born April 8, 1761, and married May 17, 1784, to Thankful Strong, of Woodbury, Conn., died June 17, 1786. (3) Silas, born September 21, 1763, became a physician; he died December 5, 1840, at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife, Hannah , of Wethersfield, Conn., died March 7, 1847, at the same age. They had seven children: Harry H. (who is supposed to be the same as Harvey H.); Chancey N., Abigail R. , Charles H., Julia H., Jerome S. and Catherine L. , all of whom are mentioned below. (4) Nabby (or Abigail), born June 19, 1767, was married in Roxbury, Conn., January 31, 1 791, to John Mosely. (5) Zalmon was born April 6, 1774. (6) Northrup was born March 21, 1776. Of the eight children of Nathaniel Northrup (IV), the eldest, Nancy, born February i, 1769, married Ziba Washburn. (2) Grace, born July 24, 1771, married William Birch, and had two children, Samuel and Harriet, who are mentioned below. (3) Samuel, born in 1773, married Clarissa John- son, of Newtown, and died October 26, 1821. (4) Susan was baptized April 2, 1775. (5) Jer- usha, born in 1778, married Jacob Johnson, and died October 30, 1828. (6) Andrew married a daughter of Jacob Wallace. (7) Esther Ann. (8) Hezekiah, born February i, 1780, married, September 15, 1804, Huldah Johnson, a daugh- ter of Abel Johnson, of Newtown, and died Jan- uary 5, 1825; he had eight children. VI. Of the children of Alanson Northrup (V), the eldest, Oliver, known as Captain Oliver, was orn August 24, 1793, and follosved farming, tie was connected with public business during the greater portion of his life, and served as a mem- ber of the General Assembly in 1836, and as a selectman for six years, while he was frequently called upon to act as administrator and executor in settling estates. On February 20, 1815, he married Nanny Northrup, who is mentioned above as a descendant of John (III). Her death oc- curred November 25, 1835, from consumption, and on April 30, 1843, he married Mrs. Jerusha Skidmore, a widow, from whom he was divorced. He died May 4, 1871, from typhoid fever. The three children of his first marriage, Heman G., Horatio N. and Hosea B., are mentioned in the next paragraph. (2) Cyrenius,.born October 24, 1795, engaged in farming, and died May 30, 1869, from dropsy. He was married October 22, 1821, to Phoebe Ann Parmalee, who was born August -9' 1799. a daughter of Amos Parmalee, of New- town, and she survived him, dying February 10, 1891, at the age of ninety-one, from pneumonia. Their three children, Mary Eliza, Horace and Lydia Ann, are mentioned below. (3) Lydia Ann, daughter of Alanson (V), was born Sep- tember 7, 1799, and died July 12, 1862. She was married July 2, 1817, to Timothy A. Bene- dict, of Bethel, who died December 14, 1878. Their three children, Rebecca, Juliette and Gran- ville, are mentioned below. (4) Elizur, youngest child of Alanson (V), was born August 21, 1807, became a farmer. and comb-maker, and died Jan- uary 21, 1868. He was married March 25, 1828, to Charlotte Johnson, daughter of Samuel John- son. She died March 8, 1839, aged twenty-eight years and ten months, and on June 21, 1839, he married Delia Sherwood, who survived him, and was married July 15, 1873, to a second husband, Wooster Ives, of Wallingford, Conn.; she died April 24, 1883, aged sixty-one. By his first mar- riage he had six children, Juliette, Alanson, Em- ily, John, Harriet and Charlotte, and by the second he had two, John and Phcebe Ann, all of whom are mentioned among the seventh genera- tion. Of the seven children of Dr. Silas Castle (V), the eldest, Harvey H., born October 5, 1796, was married (first) on September 24, 1818, to Lucinda Youngs, who died February i, 1850, aged fifty. On October 28, 1852, he married. Widow Irene Summers, and his death occurred February 10, 1873. By his first marriage he had- one child, Emeline L., born July i, 1822. (2) Chancey N., born May 12, 1799, was married December 7, 1828, to Sarah Amanda Minor, by whom he had two daughters, Frances, who died in 1837, and Henriette V., born September 3, 1838, who was married January 3, 1865, to R. T. Kendall, of Waterbury, Conn. (3) Abigail R. ■-.IVIJ^'. I; I -.1 i/' ■,■ -I .('■■) * :ikl"'. l\ ' .A • } (I ' COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 295 born July 22, 1S05, was married March 28, 1824, to Heman Patterson. (4) Charles H. was born July 18, 1824. (5) Julia H., born December 14, 1826, was married September 2, 1848, to Edward A. Garlick. (6) Jerome S. , born December 3, 1829, was married May 24, 1852, to Mary H. Garlick, and died February 2, 1862. (7) Cath- erine L., born July 2, 1833, was married October 26, 1853, to Eliad Taylor. Of the two children of Grace Northrup (V) and William Birch, namely: Samuel and Harriet, the latter was born July 25, 1791, and died May 26, 1887. She married Samuel Toucey, who was born June I, 1789, and died July 21, 1850. Their children were Charles, born October 8, 1808, died March 14, 1880; William, December 15, 1810, died February 16, 1S94; Russell, July 25, 1814, was drowned May 25, 1836; Walter, April 4, 1818, died March 24, 1841; Laura, April 4, 1820, died December 15, 1840; John, about 1827, died Sep- tember, 1898; Clarissa, June 11, 1828, died June 10, 1841, and Donald, October 5, 1830, died September 8, 1832; there were two other sons. Beers and Frederick.