Norwalk

-Cei'shorn Selleck married Pruella Gounn and had Charlotte, who baptized May 211, 1763, married June 3, 1784, Stephen, sou ol Bushnell and Abigail (Reed) Fitch, and had Abbey, Chauncey, Frank B., William, and Benjamin (Hon.). This last son was the founder of Fitch's Home for Soldiers in Darien. His mother, Mrs. Charlotte (Selleck) Fitch, is described as having been a woman of much personal beauty, and of tried and noble character (page 200). "Samuel, son of David and Mercy Selleck, was horn, as per note page 200, and his life was given to his country. He married, March 2S, 175S, Han- nah, daughter of David and Mary (Waterbury) Weed, and had Samuel, David, Hannah, Mary and Ebenezer, which last child was only two years old when his brave father perished in the prison ship in 177(1. The young Ebenezer married Emilea, born 177(>, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Youngs) Cheshire of Long Island, and had .Mary W., Hannah, Benjamin, and Ebenezer211*), who died in infancy. Mr. Ebenezer Selleck married, second, October 10, 1S26, Mary, daughter of Holly and Martha (Pease) Lyncs, and had : Rebecca, born October 22, 1831 ; Ebenezer, born June 0, 1834. Rebecca, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Selleck, is acquaintance-valued in Norwalk. She has devoted ranch lime to the w ork of record tracing and has been quite successful. Her only brother, kbenezer, Jr., resides in the south. The old Ebenezer Selleck home in Westchester County was a coveted site. JJames, son of David and Mercy Selleck, married Sarah Weed (page 203), sister of his brother Samuel's wife, and had James, born January 2, 176-1. Heze- kiah, born January 14, 1766, Sarah, born April s, 176S, Mercy, born June 12, 1770, William, born July 11, 1773, Hannah, born June 26, 1776, David, born June 1, 177'.), Mary, born August 211, 17s 1, anil Charlotte, born April 23. 17N4. Ol these children Mercy married Jarvis Kellogg (page :i7,",), Hannah married as his first wife William, son of Eliphalet and Susannah (St. John) Lockwood (page 21)3). William Lockwood's second wife was t lie widow of Orange Webb, Jr. (page 4-01), who was a stately lady and of commanding presence. Emerging with her daughter from the Lockwood residence to pay a visit one sum- mer evening to the family of her husband's brother, Colonel Buckingham St. John Lockwood, she was observed bv the Colonel's children (the parents were in Oreemvich, and the daughters had made an even- ing party to help pleasantly pass their father's and and mother's absence) approaching the home. The young people, who had converted the parlor into a room for temporary diversion, felt that it was not in proper shape to receive their aunt and friend, and hastened consequently to place-restore the furniture, adornments, etc., ere their courtly relative arrived. Orange Webb, Jr., the first husband of the second Mrs Win. Lockwood, was a great grandson of Henry, who was a grandson of Richard Webb., Jr., tentatively, perhaps, of Norwalk. Richard Webb, Sr., was a Norwalk resident whoschomelot, after Mr. Webb's day, adjoined that ofthe Roger's (see page 3!) ) in connection with whiehfact a Fairfield County Rog- ers-Watson-Webb mention is interesting. Moses Rogers, grandson of James Rogers of home lot XI, as per page 31), lived at No. 7 State Street, Battery Park, New York. At No. 6 State Street (next doorto to Moses Roger's, there being no dwellings opposite! resided James Watson, originally of Wetherslield, L onn., but now a successful city merchant. Mr. Watson was a devoted friend ol Moses Roger's son- in-law. Samuel Miles Hopkins, a young man of re- markable power and promise, and the father ol the 442 Jacob, born 1744 Sarah, Mrs. John Bates; Mercy, baptized July 22, 1750. Ism; Colonel Woolsey R. Hopkins (see page 171) of Sliippan Point. Stamford. Another ardent Watson friend was Colonel Samuel Blacliley Webb (see page 400). Colonel Webb, who as the Revolution was rising, raised a company in Connecticut, desired to make Watson an officer, but was in some way pre- vented, and the aspiring Watson went after- ward to New York. Mr. Watson had a son, James Watson, Jr., and an adopted daughter who married Judge Williams and had a son, James Watson Wil- liams, a prominent lawyer of I'tiea, X. V. James Watson, Jr., a brilliant youth, was drowned at the Battery, Xcw York, on one of the loveliest of winter days, and in the presence of a fashionable throng which, because of the balmy air, was parading in that handsome early park. His father's friend, Colo- nel Webb, went also to the city after the war, where General Washington, who, it 15 claimed, was fond of young men, became much attached to Webb. The intimacy between James Watson and Webb and Hop- kins was so peculiar that General Webb named a son for the first who became the famous James Watson Webb of the Xew York Courier and Enquirer (see page +01), while Hopkins exchanged portraits with Mr. Watson. Jonathan Trumbull was the artist em- ployed, and his likeness of Mr. Watson (which now adorns a Fairfield County mansion) is masterful. Mr. Watson bad a painting of Mr. Hopkins, but this has been Inst. Both friends of James Watson, General Samuel Blachhy Webb and Hon. Samuel Miles Hopkins, were Norwalk family-associated and left remarkable memories. The name of Webb is still Nor walk pre- served and an old inmate oi the household of the parents of Mrs.. Samuel M. Hopkins lives (lsiJ'l) at the great age of 102 years to tell of the "splendid black team " driven by Mr. Rogers and of the Shippan "niceties" even to the dairy shelves which were of marble. This venerable woman is the mother of Copt. Cyrus Crabbe of the Norwalk and Xew York Steam Navigation Service. The letter of Chief Justice Tapping Reeve, head of the Litchfield Law School, introducing the Yale graduate, Samuel M- Hopkins, to the acquaintance of Aaron Burr; the warm reception of the same tal- ented young man into the family of James Watson and his residence at No. <> State Street; the Hopkins survey of the great Shenandoah tractand the intrust- ing of the European sale of the same to Hopkins by Watson; the mock Colonels Webb-Livingston duel; the pathetic wiping-out through the ice on the Bat- tery beach of the James Watson blood on the occa- sion of the tragic life-end of his only son; theCaptain Moses Webb granddaughter's bridal in a cottage still standing on No 1 walk's ancient Indian trail; the Margery Webb marriage August 111, 1716, to Joseph, nephew of Ephraim Lock wood, the Norwalk settler and the proprietorship of Margery's mother's kin to a hundred acre slice (boundary to-day pointed out) of the Stamford Shippan ; the overland Moses Rogers family coach trips to Connecticut from No. 7 State Street at the Batter}-, starting at early morn, reach- ing the Jay home at Rye at noon, and driving along the splendid Shippan Avenue as night-fall approached; the double (Rogers-Isaacs) Norwalk connection with the families of the business house of Woolsey & Woolsey — father and son — who had in their employ a young German whose reply to their "good morning, Peter," was a respectful return salutation, and who grew to become the Peter Moller of sugar refinery fame, all these are local mentions the reference to which may be looked upon as in some sort a posterity reminiscence-due. James Selleck, brother of Hannah (the first Mrs. William Lockwood), married, November 17, 1791, Sally Gilbert of Salem, and had, among five other children, Hannah, born February 2ft, ISO.'b the beloved partner (first wife) ot Lewis Rich- ards, M. D., of New Canaan. Mrs. Dr. Rich- ards' sister Sarah, born April S, 1799, was the wife of Peter Smith of Smith's Ridge, Xew Canaan. The Xew Canaan Dr. Richards' residence is now the bough shaded Bond home of that town, and the PeterSmith acreage laysa little west of the spreading "Maple Farm" of Mrs. Stephen Keeler of the same town. \Jacob Selleckist,son of David and Mercy Selleck, lived on Carter Street, New Canaan. He married, April 10, 17*54, Hannah Fitch, and had Sarah. The first Mrs. Jacob Selleck died February 10, 1705, and Mr. Selleck married, second, May 2, L77*>, Sarah, daughter of Theophilus Fitch. There were by this union Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Hunt), Jacob2"^ Anna (Mrs. Drake Pennoyer), Lydia (Mrs. Avery), Polly (Mrs. Samuel Raymond), and Samuel. Sarah, daughter of Jacob Selleck by his first wife, married Abraham Weed of New Canaan. The children of Samuel and Polly (Selleck) Ray- mond were Charlotte (Mrs. William Nash), Thomas, Charles, and William E. Samuel, born May 24-, 1791, son ofJacoblst and Sarah Selleck, married January 20, 1818. Ann born January 15, 1794, daughter of Is aac DeForest. Mr. Selleck lived at White Oak Shade, Xe« Canaan (Holly Hanlord Place) and had Caroline, born October 20, NOEWALK. 443 Nathaniel3'", son of Nathaniel2"" and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, June 30, 1726. Mary De Mill, and had : Mary ; Peter, born May 2, 1729; Sarah, born March 12, 1731 ; Elizabeth, born January 3, 1733; Abraham, born December 3, 1735; Catharine, born March 28, 1739; Anthony ; Hannah. John, son of Nathaniel2"' and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, November 5, 1729, Abigail, daughter of John and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour of Norwalk, and had: John, born August 18, 1730; Bethel, born March 27, 1732 ; Seymour, born March r, 1734; Abigail, born May 12, 1736; Martha, born February 6, 1739; Mercy, born October 9, 1740. LOCKWOOD— SELLECK. Sarah, born 1678, daughter of Jonathan'-' and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, and grand- daughter of Robert Lockwood the settler, married, January 25, 1700, Nathaniel5'"1, born April 7, 1678, son of John and Sarah (Law) Selleck, and had: Nathaniel8'4, born October 9, 1704. Nathaniel Selleck2"' died August 14, 1712, and his widow married, second, Benjamin Hickox, and third, Samuel Kellogg (see pages 272, 273, 317, 318). Nathaniel Selleck3"1 married, June 30, 1726, Mary DeMill of Stamford and had Mary, Peter, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abraham1", Catharine, Anthony and Hannah. Of these children Abraham1-1, born December 3, 1735, married, first, May 3, 1756, Deborah, born October 24, 1734, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Beachgood) Whiting, and had Abraham2"4, born De- cember 13, 1750; Nathan, born May 26, 1759, and Charles, born December 9, 1760.