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of freight to and from the West Indies, seems to have been the Polly and Esther, and it is argued that the craft was named for Mrs. John Cannon1*1- (Esther) and her aunt Mary (Polly) Perry-. In the court action En relation to the estate of Captain Samuel Cluck- stone — an uncle of Mrs. Cannon who evidently was attached to said niece — one fifth of the vessel {Polly and Esther) was court prized at £201 and 16s. Were it not for the ledger, still in good preservation, of Eliakim Raymond (grandfather of Mrs. Hon. Charles R. Sherman and great grandfather of Maj. Gen. Sher- man) the Norwalk-West India business transactions, per the ancient Polly and Esther, might possibly seem incredible. This book shows that on Oct. 4, 1776, an agent of the W. I, line received $4200 to be laid out in West India goods, and twelve day? there- after $5400, and one month (Nov. 4.) thereafter $t8oo in addition. 3io NORWALK. John, of Norwalk, who was a correct, reliable citizen and a Norwalk methodical merchant- man. The trustee of his father (Stephen Buckingham St. John) was wont to relate that he never settled an estate in which matters were found in better shape ; that even in the house bureaus, cupboards and closets, everything was in order. The son's store was an exhibition of the same old time system. Deacon St. John's father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Win. DeForest, were of fine appearance, and were no strangers in Norwalk. The 1896 DeForests of New Canaan and the Oblong are said to have descended, considerably so, from John and Ann DeForest of the same Stratford and Norwalk stock. The blood, under other than the DeForest name, is found in different sections of South- western Connecticut and its adjacent New York parts. The daughters by their Burlock, Comstock, Lockwood, Olmstead and Sterling marriages have widely scattered it. LOCKWOOD-COLT DESCENT. Ephraim and Mercie Lockwood, the foreparents of a long Lockwood line, peace- fully dwelt on a summit (Earle's Hill of 1896) which commanded a land and water scape of quiet beauty. Their daughter Sarah, who was born in the autumn (Nov. 3) of 1670, left the paternal roof and became, at twenty-five years of age, (May, 1695,) the wife of John Piatt, Jr. Mr. Piatt was six years older than his Lockwood bride, and the happy father, on March 30, 1697, of his wife's namesake, Sarah, who at the age of eighteen, found a partner in a grandson of Henry Whitney, Sr., a man evidently of brain, brawn and breadth. Sarah Piatt gave her hand in marriage to the young Nathan, son of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Whitney, which John, born shortly after Ludlow's purchase of Nor- walk, was a son of Henry Whitney.'"- Nathan and Sarah Whitney had a son, Eliasaph, born Feb. 3, 1716-17. who married at the age of twenty-seven into the Bishop' family of Stamford. Here was the Union of two ancient households, and a daughter, destined to become an ancestress of note, crowned the marriage. This daughter of Eliasaph and Mary (Bishop) Whitney was to quit the green Middlesex meadows and to marry, Dec. 13, 1778, (her second bridal) a well known Norwalk man of thirty-two, Hezekiah, son of Samuel and brother of Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis, second bishop of Connecticut. Hezekiah ren 'Rev. John Bishop, "one John Bishop," a Puri- j Stephen Bishop, son of Reverend John and Rebecca Ian dmne of Boston, whom Lieut. Francis Bell and Bishop, had a son John (his oldest, see will of Stephen George Mauson, of Stamford, (see Huntington's His- Bishop, probated July 23, 1723). This son lohn mar lory of Stamford) were sent on foot to Bo-ton to con- ried about .704, Mary Talmadge, and had 'ten child verse and agree with, was in Taunton in 1630 and in Stamford in 1643-4. By his first wife, Rebecca, he had Stephen, Joseph, Ebenezer, Benjamin and daugh- ter Whitinge (so will states), who died young, and Mary, who died "25, 5, 1658." Rev. Mr. Bishop married, second, Joanna Boyce, who had been the widow of Rev. Peter Prndden, of Milford, and after that of Capt. Thomas Wilier, of Swanzey, Mass , and "f the family of the first mayoralty of New York John and Mary Bishop's ninth child Mary, mar- ried May 10. 1744, Eliasaph Whitney, the father of Mrs. Hezekiah Jarvis, of Norwalk, which venerable woman, the grandmother of Mrs. Elizabeth 11. Colt, was great great-grand daughter of Rev. John Bishop, whose great-great Stamford grandson was Alfred, father of the Rev. E. Ferris and Hon. W. D. Bishop, of Bridgeport. A. Bishop and his son Hon. Wm. U., have been connected with the N V., N. II. & 11. R. R. NORWALK. 3H Jarvis and his new (second) wife became the parents on the last day of the winter of 1796, of a son William (Rev.), who on Dec. 22, [825, married Elizabeth Miller, born June 22, 1798, daughter of Richard W. and Elizabeth M. Hart. Rev. William and Elizabeth Jar- vis were the parents of the present Mrs. Elizabeth H. Colt of the city of Hartford. Hcze- kiah Jarvis' first wife seems to have been a sister of the first husband of his second wife. There were five children by the earliest marriage, viz., Noah, Abraham, Elijah, Stephen and James, who were the only llezekiah Jarvis children of Xash blood. The remaining son and daughters William, Sarah, Lavinia, Amelia and Mary were of Jarvis-Whitney blood. The late Charles Edwin Whitney, of Darien, who was a grandson of Eliasaph Whitney, left a widow and children who still occupy the ancestral Whitney home site. These tell of the pleasing visits in gone days of the Norwalk cousins (Hezekiah Jarvis' children) to the Middlesex cradle. At the foreparent, Eliasaph's, one hundredth birth an- niversary in Feb., 1817, the Norwalk grand-children, Sarah Jarvis, then aged thirty-four, and her younger sisters Lavinia, Amelia and Mary, formed a sleighing party and rode to the ancient hearthstone on the present Darien and New Canaan rural avenue, and there greeted their venerable sire. Their grandmother, who had died three years previous to this celebration, was wont in her devotion to her Church to ride, with horse under saddle, five lonely miles to St. John's, Stamford, or St. Paul's, Norwalk. In pew No. 29 of this last named Church sat her quiet-faced and quiet-minded, godly son-in-law Heze- kiah Jarvis, with his well-demeanored household beside him. The picture of Hezekiah Jar- vis,' prayer-book in hand, leading his family on the Lord's Day to the sanctuary, recalls the custom of the English "Squire" of a former period carrying the same large sized volume in one hand, as, emerging from "the house" he early started on Sunday morning for the par- ish Church. So devoted to the memory of her cousin Hannah (Mrs. Nathaniel Slauson) was the late Miss Sarah, oldest daughter of Hezekiah Jarvis, that she ill later life made her way, in winter, to said cousin's distant funeral in 1 851 . Mrs. Hezekiah Jarvis' father was present in the Middlesex sanctuary, a few fur- longs south of his home, when, on Sunday afternoon, July 22, 1781, he was captured by the enemy and marched to the beach, near Five Mile River, and taken thence to Long Island. Some of his younger neighbors jumped out of the window and escaped, but he was taken prisoner. After reaching Long Island, however, he fortunately fell in with a friend through whose intervention he was permitted to return to his family. Mrs. Jarvis was buried at the age of eighty-two in St. Paul's Church yard, Norwalk, on Jan. 15, i834-2 'See portrait in vestry roum of St. Paul's Church, Fairfield probate records, Hall's Norwalk, Jarvis and Norwalk. j Whitney family genealogies and register of St. Paul's 'Fur verification of foregoing Jarvis, Lockwood, 1 Parish, Norwalk, Conn. The Jarvis father came from Piatt and Whitney lineages see Norwalk land and Long Island to Norwalk. 312 NORWALK. OF JOSEPH LOCKWOOD'". DESCENT.