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Webster, born December 7, 1870, died July 6, 1895. The I-'rederick Belden residence "on the green" supplanted the more ancient Grum- man home, and was presided over by those to whom refinement and good breeding seemed a second nature. Mrs. Belden was gracefully dignified and of pleasing presence. Her good mother, Mrs. Gruman, who was for many years her daughter s care, was, like her near neighbor. Mrs. Senator Thaddeus Betts. a feeling friend. Those of Miss Susan Betts' school children who yet remain may recall how that good instructress was wont, during the noon recess on the green, to receive warm, appetizing viands, as a mid-day luncheon. She was unforgotten in the school's generous vicinity. As the Belden children approached maturity the bright home invited the young. The second Mrs. Belden has preserved its reputation. 'Mr. and Mrs. Col. Buckingham Lockwood and reward the trip's close. Warm greetings, blazing family were some of the Norwalk relatives who, hearth fires, and the attendance of the Belden colored although many miles separated their own and the retinue service welcomed the guests. The home (see home of their Amos Belden family kin, still kept up page 96) w as beautifully situated. Amos Belden had their Carmel intimacy. It was made a point when charge of the Phillips estate and became largely in- the sleighing was fine, to drive from Norwalk (via terested in Dutchess countv property. His wife Kidgefield and North Salem) to Carmel. It was a ( Elizabeth Isaacs) was social and an agreeable enter- day's journey, but oldtime hospitality was sure to ' tainer. NORWALK THE LINE OF WILLIAM2"3 AND MARGARET (ARMS) BELDEN. William2"3, son of Daniel1*' and Elizabeth (Foote) Belden, resided in early life in Deerfield, but eventually found his way to the home in Norwalk of his uncles John Belden1" and Samuel1"'. The two latter lived in the southern or settlement portion of the town (East Norwalk, 1898), but their cousin chose, about 1720-21, the northern section of the plantation (Wilton Parish) for his habitation. Through his father he was of like Belden blood with all the Norwalk Beldens, but through his mother his line of the family inherits the strong blood of the New England Demings and Footes.1 The children of William2"3 and Margaret (Arms) Belden, who were married May 2, 1700, were: Margaret, born February 10, 1701, Mrs. Nathaniel Slawson; Daniel2"3, born September 14, 1702, late Norwalk appearance;2 Elizabeth, born November 10, 1704, Mrs. Daniel Cole;8 Thankful, born February g, 1706—7, died August 26, 1717; Mary, born June 25, 1709, Mrs. Nathan Betts; Abigail, born January 4, 1710-11, Mrs. John Rockwell; Ruth,4 born January 18, 1712-13, Mrs. John Seymour3'3; Mirriam, born November n, 1714, Mrs. Samuel Higgins; Esther,5 born October 11, 1716, Mrs Daniel Hurlbutt1"; Thankful2"3, born October 5, 1718, Mrs. Alexander Ressiquie, Jr.; Sarah,6 born August 20, 1720, Mrs. Zebulon Crane; Azorlst, born December 10, 1723. 1Deming-Footestock is colonial excellence brand. John Deming, Sr., was a 1662 Connecticut charterer. His sister Elizbeth, born in England in 1595, married at the age of twenty, Nathaniel Foote, Sr., and at the age of about of about fifty the Colonial Governor Thomas Welles. Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Deming) Foote Sr. had Nathaniel Jr., who was the father of Mrs. Daniel Belden (see page 156), the mother of the first William Belden of Norwalk. Mary Foote, great aunt of Wiliam Belden, was; first, Mrs. John Stoddard of Wethersfield, and, second, Mrs. John Goodrich of the same place, and, third, Mrs. Lieut. Thomas Tracy of Norwich. 2Married first, February 22, 1727, Esther, daughter of Samuel Smith of Hatfield, Mass. She died October 19, 1757. Married, second, Mary Kim- berly. In 1744 his Norwalk relatives took six horses and removed himself and family from Deerfield to Norwalk, Wilton parish. sAncestress of the present Norwalk residents of Cole name. *For Belden-Seymour reference see page 160. 50n November 28, 1737, Rev. William Gaylord married Esther, daughter of William and Margaret Belden to Daniel Hurlbutt, Sr., of Wilton. These had a son Daniel who married, second, March 20, 1765, Esther, daughter of John Partrick. Daniel and Esther (Partrick) Hurlbutt had John, born October 14, 1778, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Rachel Ogden. John and Elizabeth (Og- den) Hurlbutt had a son John P., who on October 31, 1832, married Polly Esther Gregory. These had a son born December 1, 1843, who is found in the person of Norwalk's well known J. Belden Hurl- butt, Attorney and Counsellor at Law of 1899. 6Benjamin Crane of Wethersfield married Mary Backus and had Jonathan, born December 1, 1658, who married Deborah Griswold. These had Joseph, born May 17, 1696, who married Mary, born Decem- ber 15, 1695, daughter of Samuel and Edera Couch, These had eight children, the eldest of whom, Zebu- lon, born January 25, 1721, married Sarah, daughter of William2"*) and Margaret (Arms) Belden. The children of Zebulon and Sarah (Belden) Crane were : John, born 1742 ; William, born 1744 ; Zebulon, born 1746 ; Elijah, born 1748 ; Sarah, born July 12, 1750, Mrs. Ashael Noble: Mary, born 1752, died young; Belden, born 1754. died young; Samuel, born 1757 ; NORWALK. LINE OF AZOR BELDEN1" Azor1". son of William21"1 and Margaret (Arms) Belden, was born in Deerfield, Mass., and brought, in infancy, to Norwalk (Wilton parish) where he married1 and had : Azor2"4 (Capt.) born 1749 r A child, born December, 1752, died September following; Abigail, born 1754. died unmarried December 6, 1806 ; Eunice1", scalded to death September 12, 1760; Eunice2"", Mrs. Zalmon Hull ;s- Mary, Mrs. Justus Gray, married January 14. 1799 ; David1" (Rev.), born July 16, 1764, Yale 1785 : Esther, born December 16, 1768, Mrs. Levi Taylor Azor5'"1, son of Azor and Mary Belden1", married, first, HannalvCouch, born April 22. 175J, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Couch) Smith, and had : William (Rev.), born July 16, 1781, Yale 1803; Charles (M. D.), born 1783. Princeton 1812, unmarried ; Anna,5 born 1784 ; Abigail, born May art, 17:,'.). Mrs. Paul Welch; Stephen, born 17(51 ; Anna, born 1763 ; Serb, born 1 7(58. Mrs. Asalul Noble was the mother of Ranson Noble, whose son Harmon lived so delightfully in Es- sex, northern New York. Mrs. Harmon Noble, a highly estimable lady, was the mother of Mrs. Charles B. Waite son of the late C. C. Waite, of the Brevoorte House, Nee. York city. She was also the mother of Henry Harmon Noble, now of Albany, N. Y and a whilom Norwalk school youth. This mother of Mrs. Waite and of her brother Henry H. Noble was Laura Ann, daughter of Peter and grand- daughter of Paul Welch, who married Abigail, a younger daughter of Zebulon and Sarah (Belden) Crane. 'The maiden name of Alary, wife of Azor Bel- den1-1, is not, with certainty, ascertained. She is thought to have been, possibly, a Fail-field (the tow n of Weston was formerly a part of Fairfield) Dimon. The matter has been a subject of study. -Was an officer in the Revolutionary war. "Zalmon and Eunice2""! (Belden) Hull had daughter Sarah, born June 20, 17X3. yvho married John Austin Crocker, who had Susan Maria Crocker born February l'J, lull, who married, October 27! 1x41, Henry Osborn of Maumee City. Ohio, who was born in Ridgefield May 19, 1X14. These had a son, Henry A. Osborn, born September 30, 1X69. The children of Zalmon and Eunice Hull were Theop, Harry, Hezekiah, Sarah and Lydia. +Levi Tavlor, born December 15, 17(54, belonged to the old Taylor family of Saugatuck (Westport). This family owned, anciently, such a generous por- tion of the west side of the Saugatuck River in what is now Westport village, that the name was locally known as Taylor Town. 3This only daughter of Capt. Azor Belden mar- ried, first, Stephen, son of Samuel and Anne (Dun- ning) Olmstead. She married, second, Noah 01m- stead, brother of the first husband. See note page 283. Mrs. Stephen and later, Mrs. Noah, Olmstead died January 12, 1.X34. Her second husband died October 6, 1842. The child of Stephen and Anna (Belden) Olm- stead was George, born lKOli, died October 27, 1858. He married Sarah Ann Belden and had no children. The children of Noah and Anna (Belden-Ohn- stead) Olmstead were: Sarah Anne, born Nov. 27, 1X07, Mrs. Ralph Thatcher; Henrietta, see page 281 ; Jane, see page 2X1, Mrs. Thaddeus B. Curtis; Charles, died young; Stephen, born June 30, 1X17, see page 284; Maria; Frances, born July 6, 1X21, see page 2X5 ; Samuel Edwin, born March 25, 1X24, see page 285 ; Azov Belden, died 1X40. Thaddeus B.Curtis, who married, November 19. 1846, Jane Olmstead, was born at Stratford July 12, lxox, and died May 5, 18G4. His wife died at Stratford February 1, 1,871 . Their children were: Myra, born September 5, 1847 ; Emma, born Feb. 18, 1851, died Sept. 27, 1876; Louise. N O R W A L K. 395 Lewis, born May 14, 1787, Princeton 1811; Joseph, born December 23, 1790, was married ; Daniel, born November 4, 1793; Benjamin (M. D.), born September 23, 1797, unmarried. The first Mrs. Azor Belden2"" died March 27, 1801, and her husband married, second Hannah, born September 15, 1766, daughter of Timothy and Esther (Piatt) Fitch, and grand daughter of Gov. Thomas Fitch (see page 209), and had : George Fitch, born March 21, 1802, see pages 218, 221; Piatt, born February 19, 1804. David1"1 (Rev.), son of Azor and Mary Belden1", married, December 21, 1794, Martha born April 28, 1774, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth (Mallory) Hull, of Redding, and had: David Hull, born December 21, 1797; Jane, born May 27, 1799, Mrs. Reuben Booth ; John Arms, born September 24, 1802; Elizabeth S., born July 31, 1814, Mrs. Edgar S. Tweedy. William (Rev.)1, son of Azor2'"1 and Hannah (Smith) Belden, married, February 5, 1807, Abigail Frances, born November 9, 1785, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Cass) Hatch^ and had :