Norwalk

A HOVT RECORD. The young John Hoyt,s,\ who was a lad of about nine summers when his father, Walter'*1-, Norwalk-cast his lot, made, at the age of twenty-two, a good choice of a part- ner. The four New Haven Lindall daughters — see page 121— made four good Norwalk wives, and the sequel to the young Hoyt's "attentions" at the " Towne Streete" home of Rosamond Lindall (now the second Mrs. Nathaniel Richards), was the life-union on Sept. 14, 1 666, of John and Mary. The third pledge to crown this union was the birth, Jan, 5, 1674, of a third son, Thomas'st-. This son became a "Surveyor of the town of Danbury," where he resided until death. To Thomas Hoyt and Daniel Taylor belong the honor of the first "layout" (March 1, A. D., 1711) of the town of Redding to the first grantee of said town (Ephraim Nichols). The grant was made (but not registered t nearly a quarter of a century before. Isaac, son of Thomas Hoyt1-1-, was, like his father, a Danburian. He was elected in 1/75, to "dignify" people, to seat them, that is, in the Danbury church. His second Elizabeth (Hoyt) Raymond, married, Nov. 20, 1740, Hannah, born Sept. S, 1722. daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Raymond) Street. Nathaniel Street, born Jan. 19, 1693, was soft of Lieut. Samuel and Hannah (Glover) Street, which Lieut. Samuel Street, born July 27, 16A7, was son of Rev. Samuel and Anna (Miles) Street and grandson of Rev. Nicholas Street, the settler. Mrs. Nathaniel Street (Mary Raymond, horn Mar. 15, 1694), who was married Nov, 25, 1719, was the daughter of John**' and Elizabeth (St. John) Raymond, and grand -daughter of John***- and Mary llletts) Raymond. •The children of James A., son of James Isaac Hoyt, and grandson of Isaac and Mary (Raymond) Hoyt, are mentioned on pages 298 and 299. JMary, daughter of Isaac and Mary Hoyt. mar- ried Charles Robert, born Sept. 26, 1788. son of Tay- lor and Elizabeth Sherman, and had (see page 102) : Charles Taylor Sherman ; Mary Elizabeth Sherman ; James Sherman ; Amelia Sherman; Julia Sherman ; William'IVrumseh Sherman; Maj.<iwi.lL S. A. Lampson Parker Sherman ; John Sherman; U. S. Senator; Susan Sherman ; 1 lovt Sherman ; Fiances Beecher Sherman. sCharles, son of Isaac and Mary Hoyt married, first. Eliza, born Dec. 2S, 1801 , daughter of Ebenezer I), and Hul da Hoyt, and had: Eliza Augusta, born Oct. 20, 1*2.}; unmarried. Charles Henry, Inirn Sept. 30, 1 825 ; married and had two children. Charles Hoyt married, second, Mary, born Nov. 3, 1813, sister of his first wife, Eliza, and had : Mary Louisa, h. June 26, 1836 (Mrs. W.H.Yale) | Adriana Lawrence (Mrs. David B, Staver), born )an. 22. 1840; had Adriana; Douglass, born Mar. 12. 1K42. Harriet, married R. James Nichols had Chas. Marion; Thomas; Harry; Ethel; Sherman, born Aug. IS, 1S52. Mrs. (toy. William H. Yale had line son. Hoyt; unmarried. NOR WALK. son, Isaac J,l\ married Amy, daughter of Benjamin Starr. Starr is a Danbury name, but Mrs. Isaac "'■ (Starr) Hoyt was from Redding. Isaac and Amy Hoyt were blessed by the birth of their first son, Benjamin Starr Hoyt, on Aug 23, 1772, which youth had by twelve days passed his twenty-second birthday when he married (Sept. 4. 1794) Anna Wood, born 1774. and a direct descendant of Samuel ,d- and Sarah 1 Cornwall) Wood of Danbury. Samuel Wood !d: son of Dr. Samuel Wood"1-, was brought up on the splendid Danbury rise of ground known as '• Deer Hill ", and near where the elevation reaches its crest. The Wood-site at that time beautifully overlooked the country east and west. Its pro- prietor. Samuel Wood, SI. D., was educated abroad, and upon reaching America, was found, temporarily, in Xorwalk, in which place he married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Benedict. Sr. The Dr. removed in 1685-6. to Danbury. which town had just been settled by Xorwalk people. Here he was a leading man. and took a deep interest, particularly in the educational work of the new settlement. He lived to see Danbury well started, and died in 1714, bequeathing a fine property to his son, Samuel 2<i\ father of the grand old colonial Capt. John Wood and his three brothers, Samuel-1''-, Lemuel and Daniel, and fore- father of Mrs. Dr. Benj. Starr Hoyt. the mother on Dec. 27. 1807. of Mrs. Thomas A. Morison. Sr..' of Brooklyn, and on April 20. 181 5. of the venerable Henry Isaac Hoyt of Xorwalk, whose high and honorable citizen-career has won for him the coveted esteem of the community, and whose intelligent interest in the mental and moral welfare of the many over w hom, as a large manufacturer, he has sedulously watched, has constituted him a benefactor. Henry I. Hoyt-' married, first, Nov. 1, 1S38, Anna Maria, daughter of Thomas W Brown : married, second. Anna Nichols, daughter of Gen, William Nichols of Coopers- town, X. Y. IIOYT-S.UITU 111 -c KM..W J> HOYT, SMITH. den. I —Walter Hoyt. (Jen. I. — Samuel Smith. - II — Zerubbabel Hoyt, •• II — Killiab Smith. " HI.— Daniel Hoyt. •■ III.— Kbene/er Smith"'- "IV Abigail Hoyt. .. IV -Kliakim Smith"'- Daniel, born Jan. |. 16s,. son of Zerubbabel Hoyt"'- was twice married. By his m.o,„aS Henry sot, o f Tl A. M«rSu„, orig. i ^ ^ mall, „ New tngtand, marned Nov. ,;, ,86.,, Jnlia Pai„ine, h„m Nm. 22 ^ A. daughter ol Ihomas I. and Anna (Pcckham iShcf- ield of Newport. Rhode Island, and had : Thomas S. : Cliarle- 11. (died rouns— Sept. («. 1S69); Frederick A. (died voting— Mav 24. i.Sto). burn Nov. 22, 18 Thomas S. Morison died Apr. 22, 1894, and his widow married second, Oct. ]6, 1897, Archibald, of Theodore A., and Emily (Child*) Sheffield. iterbrrt T. Sheffield, brother of Mr,. Thomas cue. - v ^h 'T"! 7T * F,OT- H"»'-v M»ri»o». ied Oct. 20. 1887, Elizabeth. ,;:!!:;,t:r! ■ -* An" (M,nk" - ,„ R. ,. *„ ^m™. ■ Hie children of HrllrT 1. and Maria (Brown! NOR WALK. 363 first wife, Elizabeth, he had Abigail, born Jan. 26, 1709, who married Kliakim"1-, born in Hadley. Mass., Jan. 23, 1704, son of Kbenezer'-1- and Abigail (Boutonj Smith 1 see page 3491.' To Eliakim'M-and Abigail (Hoyti Smith/ was born Mar. 7, 1737, a son, Noah"1', who afterward lived on " \Toah Smith's Island"' (Norwalk Island, 18961. Noah Smith"1- mar- ried Eunice, born July 18, 1742, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth { Lock wood I HqjtV David, son of Noah"1- and Eunice Smith, w as the well known Lansingburgh, WW. citizen, many years since, of that name. Asa"1-, brother of David, married. Jan. 16. 1792, Jeruse Knapp.4 Uovt were Henrv Downing, born Oct. 30, 1839; Jose- phine Anna, born Jan. |S, 1842, died young; Freder- ick Thomas, born Apr. 26, 1S44. The children of the second marriage were Anna Maria, born June 15, 1*47 (Mrs. Brent Good) ; Kate Hamilton, born Sept. 15. 1S48 (Mrs. Clarence M. Roof); Augustus Wood, born Jan. 7. 1 851 ; Harriet Stone, born Mav 14, 1856 (Mrs, William Coley); Frank Ames, born Sept. 5, 1 85K ; Edith Huntington, born Oct. 16, 1864 (Mrs. Anton llodenpyl). 'Ebenezer Smith***-, born in Hadley, Mass.. Jttlv 11, 1668, was a son of Killiab Smith'"-, who was sun of Samuel Smith1*1-, born 1602, who came with Eliza- beth, his wife, to this country in 1634. Samuel Smith1*' came to Windsor, but only transiently re- mained there, lie removed from Windsor to Weth- ersrield, and from the latter place lo Hadley, Ma>s. He brought with him to this countrv Samuel^'1-, born 1625, Elizabeth, born 1627, Marv, born about 1630, and Philip, born 1633. Killiab's'- and John were born in this countrv. The first was born in 1635, and the second fell. May 30, 1676, in the Hadley Indian at- tack. Samuel2*1- and Philip, are, it is believed, the two 1680 I ladley " representatives " alluded to by Dr. Wni. Allen on page 740 of Allen"- Biographical Dic- tionary. Killial>'*t- who married Hannah, daughter of Luke Hitchcock of Wether^rield, Connecticut, was the ancestor of the well known N'oah Smith family line of Norwalk. Ebenezer'st-, the grandfather of Noah Smith'*'-, married Abigail Ronton, daughter of John and Abigail (Marvin) Kouton of Norwalk. lienajah, born Dec. 8, 1708, son of Caleb and Mrhitahle ( Keeler-widow tilatchlev) I lovt, and grand- son of Zeruhbahel (lovt'"1-, married Dinah, born Jul v 8, 1715, daughter of Ebenezer"*- and Abigail (Bouton) Smith. Their daughter Susannah, baptized Nov. 16, 1740, married, first, Aug. 18, 1757, Hezekiah Green, and second, Ebenezer Crofoot, and their daughter Mehitable, baptized Oct. 24, 1742, married Nathan, son of Matthew Fitch !«■ (see page 219). 'Martha, born Jan. 3, 1728, the oldest child of Eli nkim'^-and Abigail (1 loyt) Smith, and sister of Noah, married Ebenezer1^1-, born 1729, son of John*1*- and Abigail (Blakeslev) Nash. Mr. Nash was three times married, (see note page 34 \). .tNathan Uoyt'**1-. born Apr. 20., 171N, wa* the -on of Daniel Hort»-S who was son of Zerubbabel1"- who was son of Walter the Norwalk >ettler. N.ithan'-'- married twice. His Hr-t wile was Eli7.it belli, born it would -n in Mav 23, 1721, and daughter of Joseph'-', ami Marv (Wood) L<x-kwood. 4The children of A<a and Jeruse fKnapp) Sinilh Were : Noah2''-, born Mas [7, 1794. Stephen, born Mar. 16, 17(30. A>a E.. born Oct. 1, 1 Rufu- R., born Mar. 12, [801 (unmarried). Henry Wlntlock, born Aug. 4, 1S03. Doctor S., born Ma\ 2*. tHo$ (Svdnevi. George E., born Feb. 2u. 1S07. Ward B., horn Aug. 20, 1S09. Eliza Jane, born Julv S. 1812. Noah Smith ZfI- married, first, Feb. 9, 1S15, Esther Crofoot (see page 288) and second. Am gel hie Fooi. He was thrice married, and had Amelia E., Surah C, Giles C, George A., Jeruse A., Charles S , Mary B.. Catharine, William R., Matilda P.. Noah, Eugene, Henry C. , Ward B. Stephen Smith married, < )ct. 20, I s j 6, Polly Betts, and had Maw Piatt (Mrs. Kdw, Si one); Burr R. (unmarried); Le Grand : Anna B. (unmarried) ; Har- riet E. (Mrs. Charles A. Mayburv, first, and second, Mrs. Charles F. Osborn): Isaac B, (unmarried): J. Kemper (unmarried).