Norwalk

Elizabeth (De Bois) Lounsbury, the settlers. Mon- I Norwalk Beldens, in after years, planted themselves, mouth Lounsbury"1. (son of Monmouth lst-), and his He removed to Rye as early as 1672, where he owned sister Elizabeth (Mrs. Phineas Waterbury) were gr., I a no mean slice of the territory (Rye was at one time nephew and niece of Henrv. from whom Nathan I a part of Fairfield County, Conn.,) which was a be- Lounsbury^- more immediately sprang. Henry 1 longing of the Sachem Ponus, of the Ponus Weku- Luunsbury, who married Mercy, born October 30, wuhm, Canaan Parish, and which was probably named 1690, daughter of John and Hannah (Mead) Scofield, | for that chieftan, " Peningoe Neck ". He then went was also the more immediate Lounsbury foreparent to Stamford, where his descendants have registration, of the Broadway, N . Y . , Fitch Brothers, mentioned "Louns"or Lounds is reputed to signify sedu- in the text. ' sion, shelter, serenity, and its suffix " bury ", a table- The Lounsbury family is claimed to be of Scotch elevation or height-level. ( 372 NORWALK. home-lot — see page 39 — was backed 011 the east by that of the Marvins and on the west by that of the Fenns, while it south-fronted the residence of his brother-in-law John Bouton'51-. The children of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg were : Mary, born 1662; (Mrs. Joseph Piatt). Rachel, born 1663; (Mrs. Abraham Nichols). Sarah, born 1665 ; (Mrs. Daniel Brinsmadej. Elizabeth, born Aug. 1666; (died early and unmarried). Daniel2'1-, born May 7th, 1671.' Samuel born Feb. 1 67 3 .z Lydia, born April, 1676; (Mrs. John Clark). Benjamin, born 1678; idied, presumably, unmarried). Joseph'"-, born 1678. 3 Daniel Kellogg died in 16S8-9. His will is Fairfield-recorded. Mary, the oldest child of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, married, at eighteen — May 5, 1680, Lieut. Joseph, youngest son of Richard Piatt'5'- of Milford, and brother of John Platt,st- of Norwalk. Richard1*1- gave his home (still standing, it is believed, near the New Haven and Xew Milford Tramway Co. tracks at " Woodmont" on the Sound), to his son Joseph, where, it is quite probable, Joseph Piatt and his Kellogg bride afterward lived. Rachel, second daughter of Daniel Kellogg181-, married Abraham Nichols, born Jan. 1662, of northern Stratford. Abraham Nichols was son of Caleb Nichols, and his mother was Annie, daughter of Andrew Ward of Fairfield. The Nichols family was well known. Abraham, who found his wife in Norwalk, was the grandson of Francis Nichols, the Ameri- can ancestor of the Nichols family. Sarah, the third daughter of Daniel Kellogg1"-, married Daniel Brinsmade, of the same Stratford locality to which the husband of her sister Rachel (Abraham Nichols) be- 'The children of Daniel Kellogg, were Daniel progenitor, Daniel-,, Mrs. ex-Gov. Chas. R.lnger- X TP ' KV an,d, |0ha"na- F™» »» <]897) °f N>« Haven (daughter of Admiral Gfeg- f KM°S f-- «» «• l»mel«i, descended his „,,-,, is of the lineage of several old Norwalk fami- son Jarv,s M%e.* |„„ ,„,. | Asa, brother of Mrs. Moses Gregory, married -Samuel Kellogg,-, -married, Sep,. 6, 1704, Sarah, Clarissa Crane, and was the father of Opt. Francis h d's ah s t/' m Z 'aa'"k) P'at'' ! H"-Vt' ™h° Fitch, and had Clarissa ia « ;, :;;; ; art,nKS Ai,igaii- Lv- a»° <m- b-~.ii r. »„> ot n™ TC« •-" 1 ' other children also. The children of Samuel Kellogg^J., were Loui, Ruth (Mrs. Asa Hon), Elizabeth, Mary, Es- For last marriage of Samuel Kellogg,-,., see f< note, page ; Ann ,,, the votitnrtrt activity of Rear Admiral F t r> ' ' '-' \""™- Cregon- s„gge-t the possible semblance on 'hTpart K """""^ ^ '7I"' <MrS' ]0h" to the remarkable phv-ical manhood of bis Relit ° \, , , „ tveuogg Mrs. Joseph Kellogg, -t. died Aug. 17, i7r2. . . , . , , ■ ' v ~ ' - 1 uier anu ftarah. wended his daughter Ruth, who married, Oct 26 1 nos.„l,i , < ,^ ■ , i-C,fi Vs-i s,„, „f v.,ri, ,„ 11 ., I 'Joseph'-,-, son of Daniel'st. and Bridget (BOU- .w,i, »,«) 01 Nathan llort see note, pa«-e 262) ronl kVll„..r. .„ ■ j x- , , , K.rher h„vn v,„- „ ,-c. a , , 1 ' KHIo£K, married, Nov. 2^, 1702, Sarah, daugh- Rut,r ,k:l :r„o: ,1 d x::*" , r of„,o,,n Pk,mof mu°«- ^ iiad: Mose- Gre.rorv f.,h".r „r v 1 • , ~ "' * ' °'n ( ?' '703 1Mb, Daniel Reed); Sarah, bom o ■ U ^ ; " 1 7v"M: GreR- AprU S. »7'* ( Sam'l. Reed, ; ,oseP horn Sep,. NOR W A L K longed. Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade had (Lieut. ) Daniel Brinsmade born 1687, who was the father, July 31, 1 7 1 8 , of Daniel Brinsmade3<l\ This Daniel3d-, married Rhoda, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Burwell) Sherman of New Haven, and had Daniel N., who married Abigail Farrand, and had Daniel B. iGcn.), whose daughter Abi- gail Irene, married Frederick W. Gunn, the founder of the famous Washington, Conn., educational establishment known as "The Gunnery". This honored institution, beloved by its many pupils, and which has done a noble work, is still carried on by a grandson (John C. Brinsmade) of the seventh generation of Sarah, daughter of Daniel Kellogg1*'- of Norwalk. The present John C. Brinsmade married the only daughter of the deservedly- notable progenitor of the Gunnery, the late Frederick W Gunn of Litchfield County.1 Elizabeth, the next daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, reached the period of young womanhood and was the only original Kellogg daughter who was unmarried. She died early, the inventory of her estate having been made Nov. 3, 1690. EPENETUS KELLOGG'"- LINE. Gen. I. — Daniel151- and Bridget (Bouton) Kellogg. II. — Samuel and Sarah (Piatt) Kellogg. III. — Epenetus1"'- and Jemima (Rogers) Kellogg. IV. — Stephen and Lydia (Bouton) Kellogg. V. — Eseck and Maria (Osborn) Kellogg. Eseck, born Nov. 21, 1786, son of Stephen and Lydia (Bouton) Kellogg, married, March 24, 1 8 1 1 , Maria, born May 26, 1788, daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Jarvis) Os- born, and had : Betsey Ann, born Dec. 16, 1811 ; died Jan. 20. 1812. Margaret Emily, born Nov. 7. 1813: iMrs. Wm. A. Barlow). Harriet, born June 21. 1817; iMrs. Horace Fitch). Mary Frances, born Hay 29. 1819; (Mrs. Wm. H. Wheeler). Caroline, born Aug. 3, 182 1 ; (Mrs. Charles F. Osborn). Adelia Maria, born Feb. 28, 1824; (Mrs. Calvin S. WheelerV Joseph Kellogg'^-, married, second, Mary, widow of Andrew Lyon, and had David, sr and Benj.-'1-. After the decease of Joseph KfUogg1"'-, his wid- ow, Mary, married a Scudder, and lived at Hunting- ton, L. I. Joseph Kellogg*)-, married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Smith's!.. David Kellogg'"-, married, Feb. 28, 1734, Judith, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Harris) Raymond. David Kellogg'st., married, second, March 19, 1751, Hannah Fail-child of Fairfield. Benj. Kelloggzd-, removed to Wallingford, Conn. 'The children of Daniel'st. and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade were: Mary, born 1684; Daniel2d-, born 1687; Abigail, born 1691; Samuel, born 1694; Ruth, born 1700. After the decease of Daniel Brinsmade'1-'- his widow married, as his second wife, John Betts of Norwalk. The young Daniel Brinsmadead. chose his Betts step-father as his guardian. This youth became afterward Lieut. Daniel Brinsmade, and was father of Daniel Brinsmade, born July 31, 1718, who graduated at Yale (Class of 174?), studied theology, and was the Congregational pastor of Washington, Conn. Rev. Daniel Brinsmade died in 1793, leaving his son. Judge Daniel, born 1751, who was the father of Gen, Daniel H. Brinsmade. 374 NOR WALK. Andrew, born May I, 1826; died Sept. 4, 1826. Josiah, born March 28. 1829. Margaret Emily Kellogg; married Wm. A. Barlow, a former organist of St. Paul's Church, Xorwalk; Harriet married Horace Fitch' of New Haven: Mary Frances married Wm. H. Wheeler; Caroline married, as his first wife, Charles F. Osborn ; Adelia Maria married Calvin S. Wheeler, brother of the husband of her sister, Mary Frances. Josiah, son of Eseck and Maria Kellogg, married, May 8, 1855, Amanda, daughter of Jesse and Ann 1 Pawling,2 Morey of Ballston. Saratoga Co., N. Y.. and had : William Morey, born April 23, 1858. Ann Maria, born April 23, i860; died Feb. 11, [861. Frederick J., born April 23, 1862; died Oct. 28, 1866. Caroline Maria, born Jan. 23, 1866: died Oct. 14. 1866. Harriet Louisa, born July 23, 1868; died Sept. 26. [871. Frank Pawling, born Oct. 17. 1871. Stephen Osborn, born Sept. 20. 1877. William Morey Kellogg married, Jan. 18S8, Kathleen, daughter of Henry and Rebecca iLyon) Bradley, and had William Bradley, born Dec. 5. 1S91. Of the brothers and sisters of Wm. M. Kellogg, four— Frederick J., Ann Maria, Caroline M. and Harriet L.— died young, and Prank P. and Stephen O. are unmarried. Charles F. Osborn, bom Sept. 28, 181 S, married, first, Mar. 23. 1 84 1 , Caroline Kellogg, and second, Apr. 19, 1865, Harriet E., daughter of Stephen and Polly Smith, and widow of Charles A. Maybury. Mr. Osborn had no issue by his first marriage. His only child, Clarence Frederick, born June .3, 1866 (member of the Connecticut Legisla- ture, 1898-9,. married, Sept. 23. 1897, Marie, daughter of Christian and Amelia Miller, and had Dwight Jarvis, born Nov. 10, 1898. Charles F Osborn was a son of Charles Osborn. born Aug. ,7. 1792. who was the fifth child of Jacob and Betsey , Jarvis, Osborn. Jacob Osborn. born in Salem. Westches- ter Co.. X. V.. was a painstaking Town Clerk of Xorwalk. His son, Charles was twice married, first to Hulda, daughter of Xoah Jarvis. and second, to Marx- A. White. Chas. Osborn built the premises now owned by Josiah Kellogg of West Xorwalk. He had charge of the Van Rensselaer estate of \ew Vnrt rtt.. .. • 111 ' *orK City, a position in which he was sue- ceeded by his son. Charles F., who was an accurate accountant and an excellent business manager. Chas. F. Osborn left the Xew York City trusteeship to his brother, George I.. and brother-in-law Aaron Hardman, and after returning to Xorwalk, held, for twenty five years, the position of treasurer of St. Paul's Church. He died Feb ^5 ,896 ■The children of Horace and Harriet (Kellt i a„|.r i- „,