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ing care she prepared at least five full copies of the family lineage and was ever ready and happy to fur- nish such information as to the town's people as lav in her power. Her reminiscences were valuable, and her regard for old associations was exceptional. Here (in her sitting room) she would remark, Samuel Can- non (father of LeGrand of Troy) died in his chair in that corner, and there " Mother Cannon" (Esther Perry) passed away. Out in the street in front — and she could point to the spot — Esaias Bouton, seated upon the saddle, would lift his hat and cavaliericallv salute the family as he galloped by the house. Yon- der, in the distance, she told where the steamer stopped which brought, in 1834, Nathan Warren of Truy to take a last look at his birthplace, and how the steamer waited at "Old Well" to allow time for LeGrand Cannon and Capt. Richard Hall Fitch (the rirst Mr. Warren's brother-in-law, and the second his sailing-master) to drive to the Lockwood house. Her Norwalk spirit and sympathies were praiseful and her uiiapocrypiial provincial and personal recitations re- markable. She was the delight of her blood and was highly respected by the world outside of her kin. Although the senior of her two sisters, Mary Esther and Elizabeth, yet did she for several years survive them, and took great comfort in their admirable memories. Miss Julia Abigail Lockwood's cousin (Charlotte Selleck Lockwood), daughter of her Uncle William and Aunt Hannah S. Lockwood, married June 9, 1825, Leonard Bradley, of New Haven, and had Elizabeth Cebra, Susan Lockwood, Leonard Abraham, Mary Louise and William Lockwood. The Bradlevs have mil resided in Norwalk 300 X O R W A L K . Elizabeth, born July 28, 1803. (Mrs. Henry Morgan; no children.) Mary Esther, born Sept. 2;, 181 5, (Mrs. John P. Treadvvell). William Buckingham Eliphalet.'-' born Dec. 20, 1820, (died in infancy). William Buckingham Eliphalet,2'1- born Dec. 23. 1822. Frederick St. John, born Aug. 23, 1825. Mai> Esther, daughter of Col. Buckingham St. John and Polly Esther Lockwood, married, Dec. 8, 1841, John Prime, born Oct. 6, 181 1, son of Samuel and Jane (Prime) Treadwell, of New Milford, and had : Man- Elizabeth, born July 19, 1 843, (unmarried). Julia Abigail, l5t- born Dec. 6, 1845 ; died Aug. 7, [849. Buckingham Lockwood, born Feb. 10, 1850; died March 5, 1851. Julia Abigail Lockwood, born May 14, 1852; died Nov. 8, 1884. (Mrs. Mortimer M. McRoberts.) John Prime, Jr., born Aug. 17, 1854. Mrs. John P. Treadwell, Sr., died May 11, 1880, and her son, John Prime Tread- well, Jr., married Oct. 12, 1880, Millicent Clarissa.' daughter of Charles Herd and Celestia Millicent (Crossi Booth, and had : John Prime, born Aug. 16, 1881. Henry Resseguie, born Dec. 3, 1884. William Buckingham Eliphalet, id- son of Col. Buckingham St. John* and Polly Esther Lockwood, married June 12, 1856, Mary C, daughter of DeForest and Catherine (Booth 1 Manice, and had : Manice Deforest, born Feb. 26, 1858. Buckingham Lockwood, born Sept. 19, 1859; unmarried. William Buckingham Eliphalet, Jr., born Nov. 16, 1862; unmarried. Manice DeForest, son of William B. E. and Catherine Lockwood, married Nov. 24, 1880, Annie, daughter of John S. and Sarah J. (Pentz) Lawrence, of New York, and had : Mary Catherine Lockwood, born Sept. 21, 1881 ; died Nov. 16, 1881. Manice DeForest, Jr., born May 15. 1886. George Lawrence, born Nov. 27, 1889. ■Mrs. John P Treadwell, Jr.. In- a previous mar ! residence of his nephew, the late Win. B. E. I.ock- riage, had a son Charles. wood, and Buckingham St. John Lockwood lived *Tlie three brothers Win., Eliphalet and Buck. . where now resides his grandson, John P. Treadwell. ingharo St. John Lockwood, lived in near proximitv to Buckingham St. John Lockwood' bought, in about each other at the bead of "Federal Hollow- Wil- 1024, the Samuel Cannon house at the summit of Mill ham resided in the present home of his grand-daugli. Hill and thence removed. He was a business man ter Mrs. Geo. B. St. John, S. Vv. corner of Knight 1 who, even until later life, well managed his large Mreet and North Avenue. Kiiphalef., ho,,,,. the estate, !lnj he lva5 of visiun-breadtll. ■• I think," lie NORWALK. Frederick St. John, son of Col. Buckingham St. John and Polly Esther Lockwood. married, Feb. 21, 1866, Carrie Ayres, born Feb. 1, 1844, daughter of Frederick Sey- mour and Nancy (Raymond) Ayres, (see page 89) and has : Elizabeth, born July 30, 1868, (Mrs. Frank \V. Hubbard.) Frederick Ayres, born Nov. 18, 1870; unmarried. Julia Beldcn, born June 30, 1881. Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Frederick St. John and Carrie Lockwood, married June 7, 1893, Frank Watson Hubbard, of Port Austin, Michigan, and had : Carolyn Lockwood, born Sept. 13, 1894. Annabel Ruth, born Jan. 30, 1898. Lambert, 2d- son of Peter and Elizabeth (Lambert) Lockwood, married Dec. 5, 1793, Elizabeth, born March 1. 1771, daughter of Rev. Dr. Azel and Rebecca (Footei Roe, of Woodbridge, N. J., and had Rebecca Roe, Frederick, Peter, Roe, Elizabeth ; none of whom belong in Norwalk. Lockwood DeForest resided in the near vicinity of what was afterward known as " IRANISTAN," the Bridgeport home of Hon. P. T. Barnum. His fine premises and those of Lambert Lockwood, in the same town (State Street of 1896, a short distance west of the Court House in that thoroughfare) were fair abiding places. Thrifty Bridgeport has outgrown its maiden evironments, but the Lambert Lockwood house stands to-day a re- minder to the family kin of its former prestige. Norwalk was the native place of young Lambert Lockwood, and the lad here passed a clerkship (see note page 20). The Lock- wood-Lambert-DeForest blood came through David DeForest, 2i- who was the first Nor- walk son of his name. The Lamberts to-day tell of the DeForest kinship, and the visits of Benj. DeForest's daughters to this town are present memories. The family of Col. Buckingham St. John Lockwood was intimate with that of Benj. DeForest. As the older generations, however, have passed away, the pilgrimages hither of the later Norwalk de- scendants have became less frequent than formerly. The time has been when the War- rens, Cannons, Knox's and Crafts came so regularly to the family hearthstone that their arrival was looked upon as a matter of course. The younger family branches have gradually lost track of the ancient haunts. " Pympewaugh Plain," " Roton Hill" and said, when the trees south of the present First Con- gregational Church were set out, long before that edifice was built, "that the same should be planted somewhat inside of the contemplated line." Perhaps he argued that the street might some day be widened. The irregular topographv of earlier times was, in certain cases, misleading. So undulating was the original West Avenue site of St. Mary's Church that when the foundation for the corner slime of the build- ing was being laid its elevation was a surprise and suggested a possible miscalculation. One of the Rev. Peter Smith's flock was observed to be, from time to time, observation-engaged from the Chapel Street rear of the Church site. Finally he approached his pastor with the remark, "Father Smith I think that the corner-stone is a little too Aire." Whether any change in the plan was made is not known, but as the ground depression, by filling in and filling up, was overcome, it became evident that the stone was set nor an inch too high. 3o2 X O R W ALK. even old "Witch Lane"' would be oddly sounding names in their ears, and they would be strangers in the land of their fathers' graves. May the dav be distant when the mother town shall be tardy in extending a cordial welcome to every son and daughter of the soil, regardless of the generation. A PETER LOCKWOOD MON I'MKNT. The present Wall Street Lockwood building, of which structure Lock-wood's Hall forms a portion, marks one of the most notable business sites of earlier Xorwalk. When Henry Whitney. Sr., established the "Whitney Mill" (N. W. corner of Main and Wall Streets 1896) the land gradually sloped from the foot of the present High Street to the "coast," as old deeds describe the same, and for a long time that section of the settle- ment now comprising East Wall Street and the site of the Phoenix Block. Lockwood's Hall, MaHory and E. K. Lockwood buildings, was "common land," across which, from east to west, coursed, at first, the path to Whitney's mill, and later the " post road." Fronting the present Lockwood Hall, and standing on the rise of ground into which the rear walls of the present Street Railway depot are built, stood, until the Revolution, Nor- way's first recorded " Town House," and not far away "Arnold's Inn." which held the valuable natural history collection referred to in note on page 20. Peter Lockwood owned where is now erected what is known as the Lockwood building and the Lockwood dock. This was the wharf at which vessels to and from the West Indies received and dis- charged their valuable cargoes. A heavy trade was here carried on by, among others, Peter Lockwood's son Eliphalet, and the Xorwalk house of "E. Lockwood & Son" 1 Buck- ingham St. John Lockwood 1 became well known. The spot is. naturally, of Lockwood association and its mention makes not ill-placed, perhaps, the insertion, just here, and as a sort of Peter Lockwood memory-testimony, of the succeeding memoranda : KARL1ER AND LATER NORU'ALK COMMERCE. Capt. Richard Raymond, of Saybrook. heads the roll of Xorwalk navigators. He ran a coasting vessel (transiently) in and out of Xorwalk harbor in the seventeenth cen- tury, his - pier"' being, in all probability, near Fort Point. Old wharf remains have there been discovered. Capt. Josiah Thatcher, of Yarmouth, .Mass., succeeded Capt. Raymond. Both these captains were Eastern men, and evidently experienced sailors. The first appeared in Xor- walk earl)' in the eighteenth century. His hill-home (rear of present Street Railway de- pot. Wall and Knight Streets.) commanded, at that day. the Xorwalk river, or more prop- erly creek, and he was a prominent progenitor.