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H.cWere: Horace Ke.l..s!?. died vounl I « . <- »™l,„e Blanche. Mr. Fitch once lived South. IW,.; Harriet LouUe : .W, Maria- Ch^ lbe" ' a,VHng (fa,"rr of An">- ™ «rst a, MM . Ho* mayor, appointed by the -Council" of Trov, N. V. 373 JARVIS KELLOGG LINEAGE. Gen. I. — Daniel""' and Bridget (Boutoni Kellogg. H. — Daniel2'1-. •■ III. — Daniel31'- and Eunice Kellogg. IV. — Jarvis Kellogg"'-, born 1731. Jarvis'"- ison of Daniel*1' and Eunice Kellogg), married, first, June 10. 1760, Eliza- beth Smith, and is supposed to have built the ancient house, still standing, on the north- east corner of upper Main Street and the Winnipauk road. He is thought to have twice married. His children, however, by his first wife, were Sarah and Jarvis1* Jarvis2*1-, born April 20, 1767, married, Feb. 19, 1 792, Mercie,' born June 12, 1 770, daughter of James and Sarah (Weed) Selleck, and had James Selleck, born Nov. 19. 1792; Sally, born Dec. 3, 1794, died young; Sarah, born July 19, 1796 (Mrs. Joseph Scribner15'-) ; Charles, born June 17, 1800; Lucia, born May 28. 1803 (Mrs. Stephen Stanley); Martin, born July 3, 1808; Charlotte, born Feb. 15, 181 1 (Mrs. Linus St. J. Benedict). Some of these children were, it is probable, born in the 1896 John Henry Aiken Main Street home, which was built and occupied by Jarvis Kellogg Of the sons, Charles established his home, still in the family, near the " New Canaan Bridge ", and Martin resided a little west of the present northwest corner of Main Street and Center Avenue. A KBLI.OGG-JAMKS DKSCKNT. Hard by where serpentine-wound the Canaan Indian way , denominated from of old, '• Ponasses-path ", and some two miles northwest of the ancient Whitney Mill (corner of Main and Wall Street, 1896), stood the old-time home of Epenetus Kellogg 2d- ison of Epenetus'-'- and Jemima ( Rogers) Kelloggj. The domicile remained, browned, bent and bowed by very age. Here was born the owner's little daughter Anna, who first saw the light during the autumn before the Norwalk Tryon invasion (Nov. 28, 1778). Anna Kel- logg had recently passed her twentieth birthday when her hand in matrimony was sought by a captain in the Southern marine service, Daniel, born Sept. 10. [773, the third son of Peter and Mercy James. On Jan. 18, 1798, Daniel and Anna were married, and es- tablished a home near the commercial center, at that time, of Norwalk.2 This home, on 'Sirs. Jarvis tit-Hogg*!- (Mercie Selleck) was the | married Sarah, born 1746. daughter of David, Jr. ami daughter of James Selleck, born 1742. who was son of I Man- (Waterbuiy) Weed. David and Mercie ( Waterburv) Selleck. I ler father, aRtlth, born 1762. older sister of Captain Daniel David Selleck, born Dec. 23, 1700, was sun of Na- thaniel and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck. Nathaniel Selleck, born April 7, 1678, was son of John and Sarah ( Law) Selleck, which John Sellec k, born Feb. >:, 1643, was son of David and Susannah Selleck the settlers. Hannah, horn June 26, 1776, sister of Mrs. Jarvis K.el- James, married Stephen, born 1761, son of Johns-1- and Elizabeth (St. John) Abbott. These had two daughters, Elizabeth, born 17H7, who married Mat- thew Middlebrook of W ilton, and Cynthia, who mar ried David Comstock of Norwalk, whose daughter Sarah is the present widow of Samuel Comstock2*1- of , married William, son of Eliphalet and Susan- | the Comstock New Canaan (arm (see page .546). John na Lockwood, and father of the late William S. Lock- Abhottv-1- was son of John«!-and Emma t J udd) Abbott, wood or North Avenue, Norwalk. j On Christinas day, 1760, Isaac, soli of David and James Selleck, father of Mrs. Jarvis Kellogg"1-. Ruth [Lockwood) Hoyt. and grilllltsoii of Caleb and 376 XORWALK. the hill just east of the 1896 Norwalk - Boston Store", overlooked the harbor, and was convenient to Capt. James' vessel. To the mariner and his partner were born three child- ren : Sally. Aug. 27. 1798: William Kellogg, Sept. 18, 1800, and Mary Esther. The first child, Sally James, married a Keeler, and was a Winnipauk mother, who died quite before she was eighteen ; her child also died early. The second child, William Kellogg James, became one of Norwalk's strong, ener- getic, enterprising and successful business and banking men. The late William K. James was bred to industry. He read human nature, was an observer of human actions, and quickly discerned the general trend of things. His acquaintance was large, he' was a responsible and much respected man, and his reputation as a strict, sage finan- cier was wide. He amassed a handsome property, was a capitalist of integrity and influ- ence, and an unostentatiously liberal and charitable man. The ending years of his life were happily passed with his wife, Maria Philips Selleck, in the substantial residence which he erected 1,1840) some years before his marriage. He left, at his decease, what is known as the •' James Legacy " to St. Paul's Church. He had no children. The third child, Mar}' Esther, of Capt. Daniel and Ann 1 Kellogg) James, married Samuel Hubbell of Wilton.' Mchitable ( Blakeley-Keeler) Hoyt. married Phoebe. ther Hubbell, married, April 20, 1S64, Helen A. Bar- daughter of JohnaJ- and Eunice (JuddJ Abbott, and nuni, and bad: great-grand-daughter of George Abbott, the settler. Annie Kellogg, born Apr. 13, 1865. Isaac and Phcebe Hoyt had a son Stephen, born Oct. ! William Kellogg James, born July 5, 1S67. 25, 1761, who married Althea, daughter of Peter and | Helen A. Hubbell died Mat 16, l86o,and her hus- Mercy James, and sister of Capt. Daniel James. Ste j band, Thaddeus K. Hubbell, died Aug. 2;, 1880. phen and Althea Hoyt were the parents of Potty, who Hon. James Thaddeus, son of John W. and Nan- married, as his second wife, Ebenezer Church*!., who cv (Hovt) Hubbell, and Mayor, in 1H95, of Norwalk, was the father of the late Isaac and Mary Church of married, June 22, 1888, Mary Clinton, daughter of Westport Avenue. Rev. Clinton and Mary (Merwin) Clark, and had: Caleb, father of Isaac Hoyt, was son of Zeruh- Clinton Clark, born Nov. 13, 18S9. babel'-t. («,„ of Walter Hoyt the settler). Phcebe John Samuel, died in infancy. Abbott was a grand-daughter of John and Rulh Ah- Helen C. bum Apr., 1894. l,ot'2'' s»-ie Maria, daughter of John W and Einilv 'Samuel Hubbell, born July 29, 1799, of Wilton (Adams) Hubbell, married May ,, ,890, Stanton, son (son of Zadock, born 1756, son of Thaddeus. born of Ebenezer a nd Eleanor O. (Gregory ) Colev of West- 1725. son of N.nban, born 1699, son of Samuel, son of port, and had : Richard Hubbell the settler), married Mary Esther, William Stanton, born Dec n .891 daughter of Capt. Daniel and Anna (Kellogg) James, Emily Eleanor, born Feb. 10, 1S97. ;'nd h"d: M». Justus Hovt, mother of the first Mrs. John Jonn ft lllam, Ix.rn July 5. ,82ft; William Hubbell, was a sister of Jonathan, David and I haddeus Kellogg, born Apr. 14, .S„. Martha Belts, several years since of Winnipauk Are- John William, son of Samuel and Mary Esther nue, Norwalk Hubbell, married first, Jan. ,, „s?+, Nancy, daughter j Edwin Adams of South Norwalk ( 1896) is young- 01 Justus Hoyt and had : I est brother of Abijah Ad ,he father „f tlli/8econd James 1 haddeus, born Mar. ,;, ig5s. Mrs. John W Hubbell W H h't^r- HU,be" diKi '7' ani' i0lm 1 T,,e m0tlle'' "f Hon. James Thaddeus Hnb- \ l.ubbe 1 married second, Emily, bom March 2x, bell was Mar,, daughter of Rev. Samuel Merwin of ana had ,W"™> Wa»S- 1 SeW Haven. Rev Mr. Merwin. born in Milford in '...., _, '7s-- "as a Yale graduate of 1S02. He was a student Thn iZZ Ken ' 2'' °f DT- Ti'nolh-v U«'iS"t"t-. and was for over a quar- haddens kelh.gg. son ,,i Samuel and Mary K-. Mr century a New Haven Congregational pastor. He XORWALK. 377 HOME-LOT XXXIII, JOSEPH FENN. ' ' .t? " V ' * ..THOMAS BETTS. The Fenn family Norwalk connection was transient. Joseph Fenn has record in 1665, at which time William Rusco conveys to him his (Ruscoi dwelling house. " In 1677-8, this house seems to be transferred by Benjamin'"'-, brother of Joseph Fenn, to Thos. Betts. Jr. Benjamin Fenn, Jr., son of Benjamin'81-, completed, in 1682, this Fenn-Betts trans- action. The Fenns were Milford folk. Joseph and Benjamin'*'- of Norwalk were sons of Benjamin of Milford. The line of Benjamin Fenn of Milford is plainly traced. Joseph Fenn of Norwalk was a son of Benjamin of Milford, and (from a Norwalk deed reference) evidently a grandson of Benjamin and Sarah (Baldwin) Fenn of Milford, who were the Fenn Milford settlers. This older Benj. Fenn came, in 1630, to America, and was a co- lonial Assistant Gov. from 1665 to 1672. His son Benj. made his will in 1683, and gave the Norwalk property which had belonged to Joseph Fenn, then deceased, to Benj. Fenn, Jr. Joseph Fenn's estate was inventoried in 1671. For Betts record, see home-lot xiii, page 225. married a daughter of Col. Timothy Taylor of Dan- bury, and had, among other children, Timothy T. Merwin (of the Norwalk bar of some fifty years ago), who married Hannah B., daughter of Ephraim Mops and Charity (Tucker) White of Dan bury. The Tay- lor, Merwin and White stock was principle-titled, and the Norwalk North Avenue Merwin home was one of elevated aims and standards. While two of the Richard P. Hart daughters, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Hon. John A. (iriswold), and Jane (Mrs. Doughty) of Second Street, Troy, N. V., were at school in Norwalk their home wits with Mr. and Mrs. Merwin. Mr. Merwin was a gentleman of legal parts and prestige and Mrs. Mer- win a lady of charming cultivation. One of their children was the late Augustus, who married a daugh- ter of Prof. Edward Olmstead of Wilton. Charles H. Merritt, a Troy business man of note, married into the same White family. Mrs. Merritt was a lady who made her Troy hearth-stone, at the corner of Second and Stale Streets, a prized spot to the family members and who extended a welcome to her visitor. Her son Charles is the present occupant of the ancestral home in Main Street, Danbury.