Norwalk

William, son of Nathaniel Benedict, married Nancy Fitch, a grand-daughter of Gov. Fitch's youngest brother, James, and great-grand-daughter of Mr. William Haynes. William and Nancy Benedict had daughters Anna (who married a Lockwood), Charlotte (who married Jeremiah Camp),' Susanna (who married James I. Hoyt),2 Sally (who mar- ried Daniel Smith), Esther (who married Edward Smith),' Fanny (who married Seth Wil- liston Benedict),* Mary (who married George Brown), and Deborah (who married George Scribner). They owned a goodly portion of the present Knight Street, and sold, on Aug. 15, 17S5, his house lot to Dr. Jonathan Knight. Nathaniel Benedict's youngest child, John, who was a lad of nine when the British destroyed the family home, married Jane, daughter of Capt. Samuel Raymond, whose father died a few days after the town was burned. John and Jane's second son was Rev. Henry Benedict of fond memory, whose son, E. Cornelius Benedict, born Jan. 24, 1834, across the Croton, in Westchester County, has now a residence at Indian Harbor, Green- wich, isee note page 2141. 'Father of Mr-. Charles F Raymond of Knight Street. 3Father of William D. Smith and grandfather of William 11. Smith father of Janu'« A. H<>vt. deceased. ,P.„U c " « ♦Father of Mr?. LoGrand Lockwood, deceased. NORWALK 369 In the burying ground at the head of the Ridgefield Street stands a tombstone bearing the following inscription : " HKRE LTES INTERRKli THE BODY OF JAMES BENEDICT." The tomb's tenant was born in, it is probable, the new John Benedict home of 1675, a few furlongs to the north of the Norwalk St. Paul's Church of 1896. This home at that day was in the Norwalk suburbs, a long distance from church and school, which may account for the lad's spending a goodly portion of his earlier days with his grand- parent, the widow of Thomas Benedict. Sr., who lived close by both church and school. He had enjoyed, evidently, the tuition of an old Norwalk and Greenwich master, Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Hanford, Sr., and at the age of twenty-three united with several of his grandparents Norwalk neighbors in purchasing from the Indian Catonah, the magnificent tract now known as Ridgefield. A twelve-month after this purchase he married into the family of one of the Norwalk braves who gallantly defended the colony against the red men, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Hyatt, and husband and bride at once identified them- selves with the now Lenox of Connecticut, Ridgefield in this County, within the soil of which their ashes are urned. The grandson of this worth}- Xorwalk-Ridgefield pair, Joel, a Nassau Hall man, afterward Rev. Joel Benedict, D. D., " a great man in Israel ", was the father of Mrs. President Eliphalet Nott of Union College, N. Y., and the grandfather of the second wife of Rt. Rev. Dr. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania. This estimable lady, Sarah, daugh- ter of Esquire Robert Benedict of Richfield Springs, N. Y., was the step-mother of Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry C. Potter, and of his brother, Rev. Dr. Eliphalet X. Potter, late President of Hobart College, X. Y., (see page 133). PRC) P ATRIA. A little east of the outlet of the stream which spends itself in the salt water inlet heading where the XWwalk Tramway Co. finds, in 1896, its Stamford terminus at the foot of Xoroton Hill, stood, on the highway, one hundred and sixteen years agone, the home of sufferers in the cause of American liberty. Phineas Waterbury and Elizabeth Lounsbury,' his wife, with a brave boy, Nathan, just out of his teens, and three or four 'Elizabeth Lounsbury (Mrs. Phineas Waterburv), Isaac Selleck, Sr. of East Norwalk) graphically told daughter of Monmoutb*i-and Jemima Lounsbury, was I of its maternal head. Phineas, born Feb. IS, 1773, a of tall figure, very erect even in age, and although younger brother of Mary and Sarah, was for a time sprightly and cheerful, was of quiet, almost Quaker- connected witli a New York ship yard; while Noah, like taste. Her home (north side of Connecticut I born Aug. 1, 1775, and a lad of some six or se\en turnpike, 1896, a short distance east of the Noroton \ when his brother Nathan was killed, was first a Soutb- coveand stream mentioned in the text), was the fond | ern sailing-master, and afterwards became a man of visiting spot of her daughter Mary (Mrs. Thus. Bene- means, and a founder of families of distinction to-day. ilictWi-J, while her daughter Sarah (mother of the late He married a widow lady, whose son, Win. McKin- 37<> NORWALK. younger brothers, and two or so sisters, made up the family. Norwalk had been burned. Rev. Moses Mather was captivity-doomed, the enemy well understood how to harass the shore dwellers, and the liberty and loyalty loving Waterbury's were in danger. The father was prisoner-destined, and the oldest boy, Nathan, served in the coast-guard. Night shrouded Shippan and settled over Noroton w hen the ear within caught the sound of dis- charging musketry and heard footstep-pattering along the King's road-way. Elizabeth's Nathan had fallen and was brought home dead. Thought may rank speech but feeling, elsewhere than in art, ranks both. In Elizabeth Waterbury's bleeding home honors at that awful hour were indeed laid low and hope had w ell nigh flown, but still " over against " her martyr-hearthstone Time's iron pen has deterringly written " Ichabod ". Man-, the fifteen summer's child when Nathan was shot, lived to tell of her mother's daring during said Mary's long age-tarry with her daughter, the faithful Catharine Bene- dict, of the old Benedict home which was planted on the West Avenue of 1896. The sister of Mary — Sarah — was the grandmother of the recent " Selleck Brothers " (Isaac, Geo. W., Henry S., a firm of Norwalk business repute) and Frank, and great-grandmother of the late young Clarence (son of Geo. W.) Selleck, whose art sketches and published letters while abroad were indicative of present attainment, and argued much of promise for the future. Noah, a younger child of Elizabeth, and brorher of Nathan Waterbury, has de- scendants, in 1896, who are commercially, civilly and socially metropolis-prominent ; while Mrs. Rev. Henry S. Barnum,' a grand-niece w hose life is nobly spent among the Constan- tinople Christians, and the legal Theodore and S. H. Fitch of Broadway, N. Y.. as well as Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury- and his brother George E., of unimpeachable integrity, and the 1898 Connecticut Commonwealth Governor-elect, are of the same Lounsbury pro- genitor's blood. new was a midshipman with Commodore Lawrence when the hen. bade, in death, his men to stand bv The Chesapeake. Lawrence Waterbury, son of Noah, started the great Long Island Cordage Establishment, which is headed to-day bv his son, James M. Water- bury, whose home is at one of the choicest East River and Long Island Suimd residential sites- -Throp-i>,s Neck. Among the nolicable Norwalk. kept war and other relics are the parchment commission executed bv Gov. Thomas Fitch to Lieut. David Waterbury, born Feb. • 2, 1-22, son of John and Su-anna (Newkirk) Water- bury, and which, singular to say, was accidentally found in a small trunk of papers belonging to a West Avenue, 1896, Benedict descendant; and also a mus- ket ( Damascus barrel) which was the property of mid- shipman William McKinney (siep-son to Noah, son of Phineas and Elizabeth (Lounsbury) Waterbury), which said 111 d-hipman (afterward U.S. Navy officer) M. Kinney presented to Thomas Benedict?^, and which has now fallen to Thomas Benedict mh., of the New York Sub-Treasury. So highly was this piece valued by its first Benedict owner that he had a small closet made, over the fire-place, ill his welcome home-seat at the ancient " Tide Mill " (now architect Randall's East Norwalk water-side residence) as a receptacle for the rare piece, which is known as " Old Algerine". 'Elizabeth Lounsbury. born Sept. 6, 1746, or per- haps more correctly June 2, 1745, had a brother Moil- mouth-"!-, born July 31, 1748, who married, April 8, 1770, Sarah Davenport. Monmouth"!- and Sarah Lounsbury had John Davenport Lounsbury, born May 5. 1792, who was of the old-time Wimiipauk Mills firm of Lounsbury, Bissell & Co. 2Nathan Lounsbury^1. ( father of ex - Governor Phineas C. and Governor - elect (1898) George E. Lounsbury, and also of their three sisters, Matilda (Mrs. Francis E. Quintard), Sarah, and Ann Eliza I Mrs Joel Rockwell of Ridgefield), and brother Wil- NORWALK 37 > HOME-LOT X X X 1. MATTHEW MARVIN. Jit. As the proprietor of this home-lot has, necessarily as well as naturally, name-con- nection with his father, Matthew Marvin1"-, of home-lot x, reference is made to this latter home-lot description on page 150. From Matthew Marvin, Jr., of the home-lot under treatment directly descend the 1896 "Marvin Brothers" of East Norwalk. Samuel Mar- vin1"', (Representative to General Court) son of Matthew Marvin 3d- or Jr., had a son Mat- thew, born 1702. This son married Elizabeth Clark (see pages 15 1-2-3), and nad Ozias, born Jan. 29, 1737, who married Nov. 26, 1 76 1 , Sarah, daughter of Joseph Lockwood. To Capt. Ozias and Sarah Marvin was born, Dec. It, 1772, a son (named for his grand- father), Joseph Lockwood Marvin, who was the grandfather of the present brothers J. R. and W. E. Marvin, whose line runs thus : Gen. I. — Hon. Matthew Marvin"1- II. — Matthew"1- and Mary Marvin. III. — Samuel and Hannah (Piatt) Marvin. IV — Matthew and Elizabeth (Clark) Marvin. V — Ozias and Sarah (Lockwood) Marvin. VI. — Joseph L. and Clarissa (Meeker) Marvin. VII. — William and Amanda (Raymond) Marvin. " VIII. — Josiah R. and William E. Marvin. (See pages z$i and 1^2). HOME-LOT XXX//. DANIEL KELLOGG. This settler has Norwalk registry in 1655. He came, it is probable, either at or about the time of the arrival of the other settlers, and seems to have been a splendid specimen of physical development (see note page 273). He had been in Norwalk a few years when he married, about 1661, Bridget, sister of John Bouton15'- of Norwalk. His Iiam, was son of Enos, wlio was son of Nathan'".. origin. Richard, the father, appeared first in that who was son of Heni-v, who was son of Richard and | portion of the New York province near to which the