Norwalk

3This James was Deacon James Olmsted, of Wil- ton, who had a son, James, who married, Sept. 11, I 1754. Sarah Trowbridge, and had Aaron, born March I 4, 1770, who married, June 17, 1792, Sarah Hawlev, j (see note page 105) and was the father, Dec. 17, 1793, of Dr. Hawlev Olmstead, of Wilton and New Haven. Dr. Olmstead died December 3, 1868, and it fell to his son, Dr. Edward Olmstead, to take up the great work that his scholar father had inaugurated and for many 3'ears carried successfully on. The labors of both father and son have been a rich blessing to the long line of graduates from their tuition, and there is no earthly measure of the good which has been accom- plished by these descendants of Richard Olmstead, St. Dr. Edward Olmstead still continues the work. 2S4 ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF STEPHEN AND SAMUEL E. OLMSTEAI). Gen. I. — Richard Olmsted. II— James'*1 and Phcebe (Barlow) Olmsted. HI. — Nathan and Mary (Comstocki Olmsted. IV — Samuel"1- and Sarah (Fairchild) Olmsted. V —Samuel*1- and Anne (Dunning) Olmsted. VI. — Noah and Annie (Belden)' Oi.mstead. VII. — Stephen and Samuel E. Olmstead.2 Stephen, son of Noah and Annie (Belden) Olmstead, married Maria, daughter of John Olmstead, and had : Isabella M. Gertrude E. (Mrs. Clesson F. Gibbs). Samuel E., born March 25, 1824, son of Noah and Annie (Belden") Olmstead, mar- ried, Oct. 4, 1846, Rebecca Gould, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Newkirk-) Camp, and had : Arthur; died in infancy. Mary Newkirk; died in infancy. Louise, (Mrs. Dr. Clarence B. Coolidge), Rebecca Camp, (Married Feb. 6, 1S7S.) (Mrs. Frank W Woodward.) Maria, died in infancy. ■She had been previously married ; had one child. -These brothers had a brother Belden (twin of Samuel E.) and sisters, Surah Ann, Jane, Henrietta and Frances. Sarah Ann, daughter of Noah and Annie (Bel- den) (r-.i-.-i ,1:1. married a Thatcher of Lockport, N.Y Jane, born Aug. 12, 1N12, died Feb. 1, 1871, mar- ried Nov. 19, 1846, Thaddeus Birdsey Curtis, oi Strat- ford, and had Myra, horn Sept. $ 1S47, Emma, Feb. IS. 1S51, Louise \V„ February 16, 1S57. Thaddeus IS. Curtis died May 1S64. Henrietta Olmstead married. All" as his second wile, Jonah Chaiie.. Kccler, born March 29, 1.S0N, of Ridgrfirld, and had: Joseph Belden, born Julv 23, 18^4. George Olmstead, born Oct. X, 1835. Sarali Ann, born Nov. 15, 1837. Charles Lewis, born Nov. [8, 1S39. Henry, born Nov. 14, 1841. Sarah Maria, born July 31, 1843. Edwin Olmstead, (Hon.) born Jan. 12, iS4r,. Frederic, born Dec. 31, 1847. Charles L., born April 22, 1850. Jonah C. Kreler. married, third, a Betts from Wilton, and had : William Arthur, horn Sept. 24, ,8,6. of Den- ver. Colorado. Franklin A., born Dec. 25, 1858, of Neb. Holland Stehbins, horn Dec. 26, i860; died Sep- tember 14, 1868. Mr. Keeler was son of Jonah, horn June -.. 1772, and Rebecca (Raymond) k- The two were mar- ried, Dec. 30, 1794. Jonah Keeler was a son of Mat- thew and Rebecca (Close) Keeler, which Matthew was a son of Jonah and Ruth (Smith) Keeler, which Jonah was a son of Samuel and Sarah (St. John) Keeler (see page 122), which Samuel Keeler was son of Ralph Keeler, the Norwalk Keeler settler. Joseph B.,son of Jonah C and Henrietta Keeler, married Harriet Eddy, of Chicago. George O. mar- ried Julia Waterbury, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Betts) Benedict, of Norwalk, and had Susan and Henrietta, both of whom died young;. Sarah A., Charles L., Henry, Sarah Maria, Frederic and Cltas- L.^ died young. Hon. Edwin 0.,of Norwalk, (1896) married, May 13, 1868, Sarah V Whiting, of Frank- lin, Mass., and had : Inez Rosealine. A child who died in infancy. Rutherford Ballou. Jonah C. and Henrietta Keeler removed from Ridgefield to Wilton and resided on the Belden Hill road a little distance below the Wilton Congregational Church. X O R \Y A L K 2S5 Samuel E. Olmstead1 was one of modern Norwalk's most enterprising and indefatig- able citizens. His name was the synonym of business energy and vitality. His mother was a daughter of Capt. Azor Belden, by his first wife, who was of the Taylor family. Capt. Azor Belden was the son of Azor Belden, ,st- who was son of William and Margaret (Arms) Belden, which William was the son of Daniel Belden, of Deerfield, Mass., who was a brother of the first John Belden, of Norwalk. // 0 ME- I. O T X VI. ISAAC MOORE.' MARK ST. JOHN. Isaac Moore or More, of Farmington, who married, Dec. 5, 1645, Ruth Stanley, owned home-lot xvi but a few years. He sold the same to Mark (son of Matthias St. John, Sr.,), whose home-grant (No. 2) has already been described. Mr. Moore's "accom- modations," in 1655, were rated at £252. Before he came to Norwalk he was chosen Ser- geant at Farmington, and fifteen years after Norwalk was settled he was excused from "training day" service because of his engagements as a soldier prior to his Norwalk ap- pearance. His own wife and the wife of Mark St. John were of the same family name. He was one of the earl)- Norwalk "townsmen" (1654) his colleague being Thomas Fitch, Sr. His residence in Norwalk does not seem to have been a long protracted one. home- /. o r x vii THOMAS HALE. RICHARD OLMSTED Thomas Hale, who shared home-lot xvii with Richard Olmsted, whose allotment has received mention, was evidently in Hartford before coming to Norwalk. He had mar- Frances, born July 6, 1821, died April 29, 1863, daughter of Noah and Annie (Belden) Olmslead, married, Aug. 19. 1843, Lewis Judson, son of William and Rebecca (Judson) Curtis, and had: Charles Lewis, born March 19, 1847, died March 23, 1862; Maria Louise, born May 18, 1850, died July 17. 1864; Anna Belden, born March 27, 1853, died Aug. 29, 1890: Franklin Judson, born Jan. 23, 1S59, married Julia Boquette; Lewis J. Curtis married, second, Oct. 20, 1864, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. David Willard, of Wilton. Anna Belden, daughter of Lewis J. and Frances Curtis, married, Oct. 20, 1885, Ciiarle* Everslev, son <.-'. Stiles \\ . and Harriet (Bennett) Curtis, and had: Anna Everslev, born Aug. 29, 1890. Captain Azor Belden married, second, Hannah, daughter of Timothy and Esther (Piatt) Fitch, and had Geo. F and Piatt Belden. Piatt Belden became a citizen of New York. His brother's (George V.,1 children were Henry II., of Westport, and the late George F. Belden, Jr., of Norwalk, who married Louisa, daughter of William and Lucinda (Nash) Cornwall, of Norwalk. . The second Mrs. Capt. Azor Belden was a grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas Fitch. Captain Belden was the grandfather of the before named brothers and sisters, Stephen, Saml. E., Belden, Sarah Ann, Jane, Henrietta and Frances Olmstead. 'The grandchild of Samuel E. Olmstead, child of his daughter, Rebecca Camp (Mrs. Frank W. Wood- ward), is Warren Olmstead, born May 2, 1891. 2There is a Hartford or Farmington record of " Ruth Moore, born, Farmington, Jan. 5, 1656, bap- tized at Norwalk; " also Sarah Moore, b. Feb. 12, 1661, bap. Farmington. Mary " " Sept. i?. 1664, " Phcebe " " Apr. 25, 1669, " These were probably the children of Isaac Moore, the last three of whom seem to have been baptized : after Mr. Moore left Norwalk. He sold his Norwalk home-lot in 1660 to Mark St. John, who also married a Stanley. 2S0 NOR W A L K ried Jane Lord, of Roxbury, Muss., in 1639, and is spoken of as a godly man. He is thought to have been seventeen years in the country when the pioneers came to Norwalk. Samuel Hale of home-lot xxi is believed to have been his brother.1 HOME L O T XV TU. THOMAS WARD. RALPH KEKI.KR. Of Thomas Ward who. with Ralph Keeler of home-lot vii, shared home-lot xviii, but little is known. Ward is an excellent New England name, but the Norwalk history of the family is meagre. Thomas Ward was married and had something of a nursery on his grounds. Beyond these facts it seems difficult to gather very much concerning his Nor- walk story. HO M E-L O T XIX MATTHEW CAMPFIEL1) OR CANFIELI). This proprietor was one of the most honored of the Xorwalk founder-fathers. He was nominated in the King's Connecticut Charter of 1662, and he became a freeman in 1654, after which he represented Norwalk at a number of General Assembly sittings. His wife was of a distinguished family, having been a daughter of Richard and Joanna Treat and a sister of Gov. Robert Treat, Mrs. John Denting, Sr., and Mrs. John Hollister. His brother Thomas, was one of the founders of Xcw Milford, and he was undeniably a man of parts and power. The family is found in Hertfordshire, England, at the time of the Spanish Armada, and as long ago as the year A.D., 1200, "Camville" was a proper name. Matthew Campfield, unquestionably an influential settler, seemed, for some reason, to have been dissatisfied with government matters in the Connecticut Colony. Although a public man, his Norwalk residence w as brief, and he early emigrated to Xew Jersey, where he became as prominent as he had been in his former home. He was rated a wealthy man, and is supposed to be buried where now stands the Xewark City Hall. Samuel,"*- son of Matthew Campfield, appears to be the only Norwalk son of Mat- thew.1-'- This son. baptized Oct. 19, 1645, and who had a sister, Sarah, who was baptized ■The follow,,,;; ,-xtracl from Norwalk Town Rec chased bv the said Samuel Hale of his brother, I** ords. Vol. II, will explain the I tale- Olmsted home- i Hale, unto which Thomas Hale, the plantation grant- lot jointure: I ed U)e sa,ne_four acre8_ln home-lot, etc., sold to -lliomas Adgatc. of Norwich, May 30, 1663, ad- Richard Olmsted for £20." This homestead Richard numerator ol Richard Hushnell's estate, and having Olmsted, Sr., bequeathed to his son James,"'- «*» married Sj,hI rinshm-lls widow | Mary, daughter of the permission that he (Jas.) might exchange ('with- Matthew Marvin, Sr.), sell, one home-lot with house, in one rear and a day after the decease of Richard1) tree-, etc to Richard Olmsted ; which said home-lot lots with John Olmsted. James Olmsted-did so « was purchased of Samuel Hale, late of Norwalk, bv I change - One or both brothers Hale went to Charles- R,cl,;„-d l„,sh„ell, and which said home-lot was pur'- 1 town, as per Norwalk record. NORWALK.