Norwalk

The descent of Mrs. Esaias Bouton, as carefully Norwalk-collated from the Massachusetts "Cape" rec- ords, is as follows: Stephen Hopkins, the pilgrim, was twice married before coming, in 1620, to Amer- ica. His second wife, Anna, accompanied him to this land with two of her step-children (by her husband's first wife), viz. : Giles and Constance. Giles Hop- kins, son of Stephen, married, in 1639, Catherine N'ORWALK and there, amid which were the homes of their blood. Where to-day stands the hand- some "Brook Farm" establishment of the Parsons, was a Warren house, and also on the sightly Roton Hill corner, directly opposite the old Holy Trinity, N. Y., home, as well as on the romantic road leading from said corner toward the Roton Point of 1896, and not far from the old Hoyt family homestead. Stephen Warren, however, was but a boy whose his- tory was to be made. At the age of twenty-five he married, on Aug. 17, 1808, Martha Cornell, born July 5, 1791, daughter of Joseph S. and Mary (Thorne) Mabbett, of Lan- singburgh, X. Y., his children being: Mary Mabbett, born Oct. 3, 1810 (Mrs. Jno. L. G. Knox). Joseph Mabbett, (Hon.) born Jan. 28, 1813. William Henry, born Sept. 14, 18 15. Phcebe Elizabeth, born July 5, 1819 (Mrs. Henry Pratt McKean), Anna Chester, born Sept. 5, [826 (Mrs. Edward Ingersoll). John Hobart, born Sept. 3, 1829. It will be a long time before the story of the descent of Norwalk's son, Stephen Warren, and Lansingburgh's daughter, Martha C. Mabbett, will be completely written, but Mr. Warren's birth-town is honored by the family history already presented. His oldest child, Mary M., passed but a few months of wedded life. His next child, the late Hon. Joseph M. Warren, of Troy, was one of the solid men of the day, and one whose civil, commercial and church careers have conferred eminent credit upon the city, to the growth and goodly fame of which he was such an intelligent and influential contributor. He mar- ried, Sept. 9, 1835, Elizabeth Adelaide, born March 3, 1815, daughter of Walter and Julia Steel (Beach) Phelps, of Hartford, and had : Stephen, born Aug. 23, 1836, died young. Josephine, b. Aug. 22, 1842, d. young. Mary Mabbett, born May 6. 1838. Phcebe McKean, born Aug. 5, 1844. (Mrs. John I. Thompson.) (Mrs. Isaac McConihe.) Walter Phelps, born June 13, 1841. Anna, born Feb. 21, 1849. (Firm, 1896, Fuller Warren Co.) Stephen,"1- born Jan. 28, 1852, died Sept. 1, 1864. Mary Mabbett, daughter of Hon. Joseph M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married Jan. 29. 1 861, John Isaac, oldest son of John L. Thompson, one of the heaviest wholesale merchants of Troy, and a man without reproach. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John I. Thompson are : Wbeldnn, and had nine children, (he seventh of kins, married Moses, son of Joseph Byxbee,"'- ana whom, Joshua, born 1657, married, SI« 26, 16S1, had Joseph*, (died i n infancy), Joseph,}*!- John, Eliza- Marv, daughter of Daniel Coles. These had eight beth, and Phoebe. Joseph livxbee.vl. married a sister children, John, Abigail, Elisha, Lydia, Mary, Joshua, > of Joseph Warren; John married, February 17, '7S8' Hannah and Phcebe, the youngest, who was born in Elizabeth Warren; Elizabeth married Jos. Warren, i, 02. Phu-be. daughter at Joshua and Mar> Hop- and Phcebe inarnej, May, 30, [753, Esaias Boutoil. NORWALK 277 Hobart Warren,1 born April 2, 1862, (a Norwalk school youth and Trinity Col- lege, Hartford, graduate). Marie Warren, born March, 1868, (Mrs. Edward Courtlandt Gale). Walter Phelps, son of Hon. Jos. M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married, July 11, 1866, his cousin, Martha Mabbett, daughter of Wm. H. and Mary Warren, and had : WTilliam Henry,z born June 3, 1867. John Hobart, born May 9, 1873. (Died June 10, 1873.) Joseph Mabbett. born Dec. 14, 1868. Walter Phelps, Jr., born Dec. 31, 1874. (Died March 7, 1872.) Mary Eliza, born Feb. 5, 1870. Elizabeth, born Apr. 14, 1876. (Mrs. Thos Vail, of Troy. Married, Nov. 5, 1896.) (Died Feb. 3, 1878.) Chester Ingersoll, born Feb. 22, 1880. Phcebe McKean, daughter of Hon. Jos. M. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married, Oct. 1 1, 1866, Isaac, son of Hon. Isaac McConihe, of Troy, and had : Anna Pruyn, born Nov. 30, 1867. Malcolm Stewart, born Aug., 1871. (Died Sept. 186S.) Warren, born July 8, 1869. Elizabeth, born July, 1 881. Anna, daughter of Hon. Jos. and Elizabeth A. Warren, married Oct. 21, 1869, John M. Glidden, of Boston, and had: Mary Warren, born May 10, 1871. John, born May, 1876. Joseph Warren, born June 17, 1872. Susette Adelaide, born Dec, 1879. Amy Gardiner, born Nov., 1873. Anna. William, born Dec, 1874. Arthur Boynton. . William Henry, second son of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married Dec 12, 1839, Mary, daughter of Halsey and Deborah (Wing) Rogers, of Moreau, N. Y., and had : Halsey Rogers, born July 25, 1 841 . Martha Mabbett, born Dec. 22, 1842, (Mrs. Walter Phelps Warren.) Mary Rogers, born May 6, 1853, died July 17, 1859. Stephen Warren, born Aug. 12, 1855, died Nov. 19, 1858. Edward Ingersoll, born Jan. 18, 1858, died Apr. 8, 1878. William H. Warren died Jan. 9, 1867. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and himself and Mrs. Warren were the heads of a home of refinement. Both were faithful members of St. Paul's Church, Troy, and their pew in that venerable edifice was open to the stranger. Their son Halsey R., was a Norwalk visitor. Phcebe Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married July 8, 1 841, Adjutant and General Henry Pratt, son of Thos. J. and Sarah C. (Pratt) McKean, of Philadelphia, and grandson of Chief Justice Thos. McKean, LL.D., and had, Thos., born 'Married Grace McLeod. "Married, Jan. 5, 1893. Caroline E., daughter of Samuel O. Gleason, of Troy, and had Mary Rogers, bom July 7, 1896. 278 NORWALK. Nov. 28, 1842, an engaging visitor, when a youth, at his Troy grandmother's fine old Albany Street home, who married Elizabeth Wharton, of Philadelphia, and became one of that city's wealthiest and most distinguished residents. He had a brother, Stephen, born Feb. 4, 1844, who died April 28, 1846. Anna Chester, youngest daughter of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married, when twenty-four years of age (June 5, 1850), Edward, son of Chas. and Susan C. Inger- soll, of Philadelphia, and grandson of Hon. Chas. Jared and Mary Ingersoll, and had : Stephen Warren, born April 8, 1851. Anna Warren, born Sept. 7, 1855. (Married Josephine Bond ; died Oct., 1864. (Mrs. Charles Morton Smith ) Mary Wilcocks, born Aug. 19, 1852. Charles Edward, born June 17, 1S60. (Mrs. James Logan Fisher.) (Married Rita Sturires.) Phoebe Warren, born March 23, 1854. Henry McKean, born Jan. 29, 1862. (Mrs. Harrv Wilcocks McCall.) Jennie Hobart, born Oct. 27, 1865. John Hobart, youngest son of Stephen and Martha C. Warren, married, first, May 16, 1853, Eliza Atwood Tibbits (daughter of Hon. Geo. M. Tibbits), an estimable lady and one of admirable presence. She died April, 1870, and Mr. Warren married, second, Har- riette M. Coulter, of New York. There were no children by these marriages. FSURLOCK- WARREN- DEFOREST ADDENDUM. In the ancient town of Stratford, an emphatic DeForest hearthstone, and a short distance S. K. of Christ Church, is the site of the first Connecticut house built by a Norwalk DeForest ancestor. The family is of French origin. Jesse and Maria (DuCloux) DeFor- est had a son, Isaac, who sailed, in 1636, for New Amsterdam. Isaac married in this country, July 9, 1641, Sarah, daughter of Phillip Du Trieux, who lived in Harlem and had many American children. Among these children of Isaac, who was appointed by StuyvLsent as Great Burgher, Jan. 28, 1658, the youngest, David,"1- baptized Sept., 1669, married, at thirty years of age, Martha, daughter of Samuel Blagge, and grand-daughter of Capt. Benj. Blagge. David'8'- and Martha DeForest settled in Stratford, where they had David,"1- born 1702. David'"- and Abigail DeForest had a son, Lemuel, baptized 172S. who married -Phcebe Keeler, of Nonvalk. These had a daughter, Abigail, born April 24, 1753. This daughter married, Nov. 9, [774. as his second wife, James, son of Job and Rachel Lock-wood, and grandson of James and Lydia (Smith) Lockwood. James and Abigail (DeForest) Lockwood had Lemuel, David and Samuel Lockwood. Lemuel died young but David and Samuel were the prominent New Canaan residents of the ••Lockwood District," in that town, which three brothers bore DeForest family names. David, the second brother, was the grandfather of Edwin Hoyt Lockwood, historian of New Canaan and a tutor (1896) in Yale University. Samuel DeForest. brother of David,-'- and son of David-'- and Martha DeForest, NORWALK. 2 79 married on the last day but one of the year 1725, Abigail Peat, of Stratford. These had a son, Nehemiah, born Jan. 24, 1743, who married, Dec. 20, 1769, Mary, born Aug. 31, 1745, daughter of Peter Lockwood, of Norwalk. She died Oct. \j, 1790, and is buried at Monroe, Conn. Nehemiah and Mary (Lockwood) DeForest had a son, William, born June 13, 1773, whose youngest daughter, Mary A., married, as his second wife, March 6, 1834, deacon George St. John, of Norwalk. Mrs. St. John was a woman of remarkable loveliness of manner. Elihu, son of David2d- and Abigail DeForest, married, May 4, 1761, Rachel, daugh- ter of David and Laurana (Bill) Lambert, and had several children, among whom was Benjamin,' born July 16, 1771, and baptized in 1777. The family removed eventually to Danbury, and the young Benjamin commenced life for himself. His ambition, however, tempted him to a wider field than Fairfield County presented, and encouraged by the busi- ness example, if not assistance, of Eliphalet Lockwood & Son, who were Norwalk West