Norwalk

LeGrand Cannon departed from the Mill Hill hearthstone and identified himself with living issues in his adopted Troy. Thither a number of his Norwalk relatives had already gone, and there he founded an influential home. He was an incorporator of the Troy Water Works, a member of the first board of directors of the Renssalaer and Saratoga Railroad, a di- rector of the New York and Albany Railroad Company, the head of the LeGrand Cannon Roll- ing Mill, and a prominent Trojan generally. The Cannon pew was close to the chancel in the Third Street stone St. Paul's church, the elegant damask hangings of which pew 'found, singularly enough, their way at last to Norwalk. John Pintard (page 303), second cousin of LeGrand Cannon, left Norwalk somewhat prior to the date of the latter's birth, but had so far life-succeeded as that when the young LeGrand was 'only five years old his cousin in the second degree endorsed to the amount of one million dollars the notes of the husband of Lady Kitty Stirling (see page 19). This was a blow to Pintard, whose Norwalk relatives must have wondered at his ability to make good the Duer loss. He gave up everything ; but rose again to a pinnacle, and has the proud NORWALK. record of being one of the founders of the New York free school system, to which he gave the sum of ten thousand dollars. His father, the son of Alderman Pintard, bought, Septem- ber 15, 1758, a Norwalk home site on the opposite side of the street from the grounds of John Cannon1". Colonel LeGrand B. Cannon, son of LeGrand of Troy, and grandson of Samuel of Norwalk, was a Norwalk school lad (see page 171) aud himself and companions were large contributors to the happy side of Norwalk school experience. The Colonel chose New York city for a residence, where, possessed of abilities and fitted for an alert life, he has been a citizen of large interests and influence, while the nation will ever stand debtor to him by reason of his loyal, valuable and memorable services in the days of the American Civil War. His sisters (pages 272 and 412) were ladies of prominence, his son (page 412) was of social and skillful rank, and his nephew, Edward Courtland Gale, who married Marie, daughter of John I. and Mary Mabbett (Warren) Thompson (page 277), was not of the Norwalk Gale family of earlier days, but a descendant of Dr. Samuel Gale of honored memory of Troy, N. Y. The father of E. C. Gale (E. Thompson Gale) was one of the best known Trojans of his generation and his mother was a Norwalk DeForest-Lambert descendant (page 279). Mr. Gale, born October 28, 1861, is a graduate, class of 1883, of the Renssalaer Polytechnic Insti- tute of Troy. He married, 24th April, 1888, as before mentioned a daughter of John I., son of John L. Thompson of Troy. His children are Alfred Warren, born January 2, 1892, and Harold DeForest, born January 18, 1896. After the Cannon use of the Mill Hill home the property became the purchase of Colonel Buckingham St. John Lockwood. Mrs. Colonel Lnckwood was a niece of Mrs. Cannon and the handsome spot seemed naturally to fall to the Lockwoods, who have pre- served its old reputation. It has been a New England hearth of merit, and as it stands river- facing and elm o'erhung it to-day presents an imposing appearance, and is one of this town's fondest domiciles (pages 299 and 304). 420 yUINTARD. Isaac1" and Jeanne (Fume) Quintard were married in the Chapel of the Gaunt, Bristol, England, on November 26, 1693. The groom had resided "near Lusignau in Poitou in France," and the two were married by M. Descariac, pastor of the French Church in Bristol, the fruit of the union being: Marie, baptized January 13, 1695; Isaac2"4, baptized December 13, 1696 j1 'Isaac21111, son of Isaac Quintard1 went with his brother Abraham to Stamford. Isaac2""! lived to reach the age of two and forty years. When twenty years old he married Hannah Knapp of Stamford. These had a son, Peter, born 1730, who married Elizabeth DeMills and had IsaaeSri who married Hannah Palmer and had Isaac"'', born May 15, 1794, who married Mrs. Clarissa (Hoyt) Show. Isaac** and Clarissa Quintard were the parents of five children, among them Rt. Rev. Charles T. Quin- tard, Bishop of Tennessee, and Bdward A., a heavy New York city business man. The eloquent Bishop Quintard, well known in Norwalk, was happy in meeting his Quintard kin. Abraham, baptized September 25, 1698; Pierre1"', born January 14, 1699-1700. The last two sons, Abraham and Pierre, were baptized in the French Church in New York. Pierre1", or Peter, as he came to be called, married Jeanne, daughter of Jaques and and Jeane (O'dart) Ballereau (born July 3, 1708) of New York. On May 18, 1731, said Pierre or Peter1" was admitted a freeman and recorded as a goldsmith. He came to Norwalk in about 1637-8, and made several land purchases, appearing to select for his home seat the meadows somewhat north of the present Marshall Street in South Norwalk. His children were : Jaques or James1"', born February 6, 1723-4, no record ; Marie, born May 23, 1726; Pierre or Peter2"11, born July 22, 1732 ; Jane, born October 24, 1738. Pierre or Peter1" Quintard married, second, Deborah, daughter of John Knapp of Stamford, and had no issue. Peter Quintard2'"1 married, first, and had James2"4, Peter3"1, born 1765, Evert1"' and Isaac. He married, second, May 23, 1774, Ruth Stevens of Stamford and had Rebecca (a Mrs. Raymond of New York), Lewis Y., and Clarissa (Mrs. Stephen Mott).1 James2"1,2 son of Peter Quintard2"1, married, first, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Raymond, Stephen, born October 24, 1771, son of Reuben and Phebe (Tuttle) Mott, married Clarissa, daughter of Peter2"<l and Ruth Quintard. Mrs. Reuben Mott was from New Canaan. Her husband was probably of the Long Island Mott family. The children, other than Stephen, of Reuben and Phebe Mott, were Jesse, born December 17, 1764, Grace (Mrs. Thomas Trow- bridge), born July 14, 1766, Sarah (Mrs. Johnson), born June 30, 1769, Polly (Mrs. Smith of Ridgcfield) , Fanny (Mrs. Curtis Whiting of Stratford) , Betsey, born April 23, 1776 (Mrs. James Jarvis of New York). The children of Stephen and Clarissa Mott were Eliza (unmarried), Marietta (Mrs. Rev. Dr. Humph- reys), and Langdon. Langdon, son of Stephen Mott, married (see page 275) Harriet, daughter of Captain Joshua and Margaret Bonton. Their son, Charles B., married Emily A., daughter of Edwin and Eliza (Smith) Hoyt (see page 359), and their daughter Harriet married Henry, son of Dr. Emmery C. Bissell of Nor- walk. The children of Thomas and Grace Trowbridge were Nancy (Mrs. Jacob Jennings2"'1) , Betsey (Mrs. Uriah Johnson), and a son who was accidentally shot at Sag Harbor. The children of Jacob2nd and Nancy Jennings were George W., Jacob. Julia Ann, James. The children of George W. and Esther (Hoyt) Jennings were George, Jacob, William, James, Han- nah (Mrs. Captain Nathaniel Clark) , Hattie (unmar- ried), and Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Allen Betts). Jacob Jennings2nd, who married Mary Trow- bridge, was born April 22, 1779. He was a son of Jacoblsl and Grace (Parks) Jennings (see page 43), and had a sister Anna, who married, first, a Munson, and second Edwin Van Antwerp1"1, whose son, Edwin Van Ancwerp2lld formerly owned the East Avenue property afterward occupied by Charles B. White of New York. Anna Jennings married, third, Hezekiah Whitlock, the father by another wife of Mrs. James Stevens (Fanny Whitlock), and of her brother Lewis Whitlock, for may years a keeper of the Norwalk Island lighthouse. 2James Quintard2nd lived in the last house, east, on the north side of the present Marshall Street in South Norwalk. He there kept an " Inn " which bordered the old Quintard Dock." This dock in the days of the Vanderbilt-Peck steamboat opposition was the landing place of the Vanderbilt boat. The Peck line moored its boat at the " Day Dock," foot of the present Washington Street. It was because Messrs. Vanderbilt and Drew failed to influence the Norwalk stage coach proprietors to first drive their vehicles to the Quintard pier before proceeding with passengers for the Peck line that Mr. Drew determined to plant a coach line of his own. Horses and car- riages were brought from the city and the Vanderbilt patrons were provided for. The Quintard Inn was the only public house at 422 NORWALK. and had James*', Polly (Mrs. Hale), Sarah (Mrs. Anthony Delaney), William, and Rebecca (Mrs. Horace Taylor).1 James < Suintard2-' married, second, Sally Hilliard of Redding and had Charles Morris, Jane, Henry Harrison, Maria, and, as it seems, Mi. iris. James Ouintard""', born October 12, 17S6, married, May 28, 1K07, Sally, born February 12, 17S7, daughter of Henry and Deborah (Hoyt) Chichester, and had: Margaret, born May 4, rKrj, died unmarried ; James A., born December iS, 1S14 ; Walter ('.. born January 14. 1S16 ; Orestes P.;2 Lucretia, died unmarried ; Francis E.: Mary Amelia. Mrs. Samuel 1). Smith ;s Sarah Deborah, Mrs. George Selleck ;4 Harriett E., died young. James A., son of James Ouintard3"', married, November 16, 1834, Eunice B. Hoyt.5 Walter C, son of James Ouintard3"', married, March 19, 1857, Sarah C Smith of Ridgefield, and had : Theodore Francis, died unmarried ; Emma Louise, Mrs. Robert Baxter. that time in " ' Well." Its sign, which was sus- pended from a 'a.-.. 1:.-: over the trout door, enjoined : Since man In man is so unjust. You cannot tell what man to trust. I've trusted man}' to my sorrow. So pay tool, iv ami trust tn-morron.