Norwalk

Joseph, son of Jachim and Mary Bouton and grandson of Joseph, Sr. and Mary (Gregory! Bouton married, Aug, 25, 1748, Susannah, born Aug. 28, 1732, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Fitch) Raymond, and niece of Gov. Thomas Fitch. After the decease of Joshua Raymond, his widow, the mother of Mrs. Susannah Bouton, married Rev. Elisha Kent (see page 128). William, oldest child of Joseph and Susannah Bouton, married, at the age of twenty, Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Benedict, and had, among a large number of children, Esther (an infant of less than three months when Nor- walk was burned), who married Nathaniel Benedict, and was the mother of S. Williston Benedict and grandmother of Louisa Benedict (Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood). John, brother of Esther Bouton (Mrs. Nathaniel Benedict), was one of the worthy and intellectual sons of Norwalk fifty years ago. He was called " Deacon John Bouton ", and was well known in what is now the city of South Norwalk. To himself and son, William S. Bouton,1 Nor- walk is influence and annals-obligated. Nathaniel (D.D.), born June 22, 1799, the youngest son of William and Sarah (Benedict) Bouton and grandson of Joseph and Susannah (Ray- mond) Bouton, was a Yale (1821 > graduate, and an able Divine of Concord, New Hamp- shire. He delivered the published interesting discourse at the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of Norwalk, and was one whose learning and virtues merit perpetual remembrance in his native town. John and Nathaniel Bouton, of primal Norwalk Bouton stock, were among the Canaan parish pioneers of 1730-32, to whom descendants may unhesitatingly memory- refer. A hardy, honest folk made up the primitive constituency of that spine-advantaged township, and it is instructively suggestive to-day to visit the ancient hearthstone sites and thereat retrospect with reference to the safe principles, practices and foundation work of former times. The "Bouton path to the Meeting-House" is an old New Canaan desig- nation which, as indicative of an excellent element in the careful, conscientious and com- pensating training of early days, carries its own interpretation, and needs no verbal com- ment. Simple, and as some might suggest slow, but it was sure, satisfying and substance- full education. > \\ illw.ii Smith Bouton (son of Dea.John Bouton), j walk, in Hurd's History of Fairfield County, is a clear married Dec. 4, IH.W. Margaret F. Hudson of New I statement of ancient facts. His two children were Roche lie, N. \ ., and »as a Norwalk history, benefac Emily Virginia (Mrs. Edward D. Taylor) and Julia tor. H.s contnhmion nude, the description of Nor- Minor (Mrs. Jacob M. Sherwood) N'ORWALK. 353 HOME-LOT XXIX. WALTER HOY i, Simon Hoyt, born in England in 1595, and who, company-led by Gov. John En- dicott, embarked at the age of three-and-thirty, for America, reached his desired western haven Sept. 6, 1628. Two children had, up to this time, been born to him, Walter and Nicholas. Walter was an English boy of ten, and Nicholas of eight, when the family set foot on the New World soil. Their father, two years after arrival, is found in 1630 as a Dorchester, Mass., settler. He there remained a few years and thence departed to Scitu- ate, in the same colony. He here found his second wife, Susanna Smith, with whom, in April, 1635, he "joined the Church of that place". He then went to Windsor, where, in 1640, he had definite registration. The family had now increased to four children, all boys and all living: Walter, Nicholas, John and Moses. Walter was of age, and several Windsor land grants were made to him. He seems to have Windsor-remained thirteen years, and then, about 1653, aged thirty-five, came to Norwalk, his father having for a few years already resided in Fairfield. The residence-center home-lots had, probably, been pretty well disposed of when Walter Hoyt appeared in Norwalk. His apportionment adjoined, on the west, that of John Bouton, and was near the shore terminus of the path from Fairfield. John, the oldest son, was about ten years old when he came with his father to Norwalk, and his brother Zerub- babel four or five, perhaps. The children between the two brothers were Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel St. John) and Hannah (Mrs. Judah Gregory). Walter, the Norwalk Hoyt father, was useful until the end of life. He made his will Feb. 1 1, 1695-6, "aged abt. 78 ", and did not long thereafter survive. John, his son, who married a step-daughter, Mary Lindall, of Nathaniel Richards (see page 121) re- moved to Danbury, leaving his only brother, Zerubbabel, sponsor for the Norwalk male portion of the family. The children of Zerubbabel were Abigail, born Feb. 2, 1675; Joseph, born 1676-78; Daniel, born Jan. 1, 1681 ; Hannah (Mrs. Joseph Whitney); Caleb; Rhoda (Mrs. John Keeler 2d ). DESCENT OF AND FROM WALTER HOYT. Walter Hoyt, the Norwalk settler, son of Simon Hoyt the progenitor, was some thirty-five years of age when he came to this town and planted his "coaste banke" home adjacent to the fathers' ferry to "the other side", now South Norwalk. Four children — John, about nine or ten, Elizabeth and Hannah, girls not far from five and seven, and Zerub- babel, a mere child — composed, with their parents, the Hoyt family circle when Norwalk was cradled. The quite young Zerubbabel15'- grew to man's estate and lived to be twice married, his second wife, Mehitable, the widow of John Keeler, and by whom he had no children, being, singular to say, the mother-in-law of his son Caleb and daughter Rhoda. 354 N 0 R W A L K Joseph- son of Zerubl.abcl. married 5W»W dW8»l«* of James - ami Rebecca l'ickett. ami tod Ze«bW«l*! lames--: Mos,s; Joseph. * Sarah : Kli,abeth ami Hannah. James.' second son of Joseph- . married Hannah Goold. and had James* : Goold: Jesse: Stephen: Isaac: Hannah: Ann. lames Hoyt «S married Sarah llanford and lived ,n Bridgeport: GouW married E8«*rth Dhjior, <rf Palrfcldj Jess, married M.ny. da«ghtcr Of Samuel Raymond ■'' : Stephen married Ksthcr. daughter of Joseph l.ampsoii of l-air- field. ami Bved outside of Norwalk : Isaac married Mary, daughter of Kliakim and Han- nah Raymond; Hannah married |onathan Bulkley . Ann married George Raymond. Goold, born Jan. 9. of James-- ami Hannah fGooMl I loyl. established INK SOOLO HGVT LINE i m i.ooi ii nov i hoc**. n ininiwn ihimii mniiii m t«o infg i->n^n u< htnni ni t Arm ihr ra-f*«-ld II. Il.m-Mi Wedding t rrriw.nT.thr mlrMlmf parties, ewnrlrd l.l I he ,n> >|| and hnJ.-. ialK<tfa-atlelld.i>|< up..,, b.».,|..,-k. M» ■ I ' lu.l It.ii.bi-.l N..ov«lk ItMKaj nlv.ic ilhi.traled. •Karal, PU-lMI'- ■ Mr- J..-rpli II..1I'-'- I. I»,rn April |. 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Jo- >rpii ItujiTi iMniiiiii Mm Kinjfctahrli -Iwi1 bft ■m lathrr. and Iil. nral son Jamr. |*bn marrird inah G.Mildl.allrr 1ii« »ifr"» (allirr, »hii » apprar* II. 1 In liavr lirrn an am-irm ru*li»in. rjaim-. ]|..vfi. bought, wirlv In lift- , onr limul rnl un«l mriil v'.,! lln- spt.^.lid t»«M>> Ri'lH"' " NORW ALK. 355 FAMILY OF GOULDS. AND ELIZABETH HOYT. HOYT. Goold'"-, second son of James and Hannah (Goold) Hoyt, and the widely known Goold Hoyt'8'- of Norwalk, was of the fifth (Walter, Zerubbabel, Joseph, James'"-) Nor- walk Hoyt generation. His great-great-great-grandfather was Simon Hoyt, the Ameri- can Hoyt father.' Gen. I. — Simon Hoyt. " II. — Walter Hoyt, (first Norwalk Hoyt generation). " III.— Zerubbabel Hoyt. " IV.— Joseph'"- and Sarah (Pickett) Hoyt. " V. — James'"- and Hannah (Goold) Hoyt. DIMON. Gen. I. — Thomas Dimon. " II. — Moses and Abigail (Ward) Dimon. " III. — Moses and Jane (Pinckney) Dimon. " IV. — Ebenezer and Mary (Burr) Dimon. Moses Dimon'"-, who early settled in Fairfield, seems to have been a son of Thos. Dimon, an old Pequonnock mariner. "God made the country", and Stratfield and Fair- field were notable portions of His handiwork. Natural beauty was the accident which led to their founding, for no sooner had Ludlow chased the red foe across their handsome levels, where the enemy was finally captured, than that he appropriated the spot to civil- ization and cultivation. The Dimons selected a lovely bit of this " fairefielde" — the precise site, in 1896, of the summer seat of Col. Wm. H. Stephenson — for a family home. The purchase was made (see Norwalk Land Records of 1742) of David Waterbury, Jr., and the purchase price was the neat amount of £408. The portion of the Ridge bought at that time by Mr. Hoyt embraced the now choice site known as wsigaunonta (sundown knoll), and tile seat of the spacious mansion of L. P. Child, in New Canaan. The ancient name of that particular part of the propM-tv was "Piatt's Farm". In 1757 Mr. Hoyt sold this, or much of it, to Capt. John Alexander of New York. On May 12, 1764, Child residence. A clause in the "Church yard" deed (" whereon the frame for a Church now stands ") given by Mr. Hoyt on July 1764, fixes the date of the erection of the first St. Mark's Church in New Canaan. Capt. Alexander had given the site on M !> 12, 1764, and between that date and July 18 following, the building had been " raised ". 1 A Scituate, Mass., record thus reads : " goodman Haites (Simon Hoyt) house on Kent Street was built between Sept. 1634 and Oct. 1636, the house of the