Norwalk

Colonel Frederick St. John Lockwood, who is now the last representative of his immediate family generation, was as a mere lad exceedingly fond of saddle riding. It is told that when a child of only five or six lie mounted one of the horses and gaily rode as far as Westport, where one of the friends of the family recognized him and asked theyoung eques- trian whither he was bound. " To New Haven," was the enthusiastic boy's answer. Dr. Richmond turned the horse's head Norwalk-ward and sent horse and rider home. 454 Mexican and Civil wars, and was the honored mother of Lieutenant Charles Adele Lewis Totten, whose profound mathematical calculations have attracted widespread attention, and of his brother, John Reynolds Totten (Lieutenant Fourth U. S. Artillery), West Point class of 1878. Stephen Greenleaf, son ot Captain Josiah and Mary Thacher, married, March 5, 1778, Anna, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Whitman) Piatt (see page 237). This was a short married life and the widow wedded, March 3, 1785, Samuel Keeler. Josiah Thacher4"', son of Daniel and Mary (Street) Thacher, married, October 12, 1782, Anna, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Reed,1 and had Polly, born August 5, 1There were two Reeds, John, and William, in Norwalk (see page 79) as early as 1655-6, but the Reed family proper appeared in this town in about 1684, chosing for its home seat the south western por- tion of the Runekinheage domain, or what is now known as Rowayton. Here, where Samuel Richards Weed maintains, in 1899, his summer chateau, was the "Reed Farm," which embraced something of an acreage in the present S. R. Weed vicinity. John Reedlsl, the head of the household, was born in Corn- wall, England, in 1633, and had been a soldier from his mid-teens. At the restoration of Charles II. he fled to the western world and was found first in Providence, R. I., where he married Ann, the widow of Francis Derby. Mr. Derby died in 1663, his will having been probated on October 31 in that year. Mr. Reed subsequently married a Mrs. Scofield, but his children were all by the first union. He removed from Providence, R. I., to Rye, N. Y., and from thence, in about 1684 (see pages 267 and 315), to Norwalk. His children were : John2""!; Thomas'", born 1672, died Oct. 9, IT.^7 ; William N., possibly died young; Mary, Mrs. David Tuttle; Abigail, Mrs. Crozier: Nathan, possibly died young. John Reed2"<l married, March 28, 1687, Eliza- beth, born November 19, 1666, daughter of John and and Kattareen (Lane) Tuttle of New Haven and had: Ann, born October 23, 1687; John3"!, born February 24, 1689 ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Green), born Septem- ber 14, 1692; Eleazer, born June 6, 1695, married Abigail Tuttle, had Ebenezerand Moses; Daniel' si, born June 13, 1697; Experience, born March 13, 1700, Mrs. Jacob St. John. Samuel, born October 24, 1702, removed to White Plains ; William, born November 16, 1708 ; Mchitable, Mrs. Samuel Brinsmade ; Moses. Thomas Reed'st married, May 9, 1694, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Benedict) Olmstead (see page 267) and had : Mary, born May 2, 1695 ; Eunice, born February 26, 1896, married Jan- uary 24, 1716, Jonathan Bell; Thomas2"1, born May 7, 1699; John, born August 7, 1701 ; Elizabeth, born October 7, 1703; Ann, born July 6, 1706, died young; Temperance, born October 15, 1708 ; Elias, born March 10, 1711 j Nathan, born August 13, 1713. John3"!, son of John2"'' and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, married (presumably) Hannah, widow of Ele- zar Hanford, and had: John, baptized May 25, 1775; Thaddeus. Daniel ReedlsI, born 1699, son of John2nd and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, and a grandson of John's' and Ann (Derby) Reed, the Norwalk Weed progenitor, was a man of consideration. He married Elizabeth Kellogg, as per page 372, and had had Daniepul.born December 28, 1721 ; Abraham, born November 28, 1723; Eliakim'st, born September 18, 1725; Eliza- beth, born March 30, 1730 (Mrs. Joseph Ambler); Benjamin, born February 3, 1732, died young; Lydia, born February 15, 1734 (Mrs. Davenport); James born March 18, 1736; Benjamin, born February 3, 1737; Ezra, bom March, 1740; Joanna, born 1743 (Mrs. Stephen Warren), and Elijah, baptized July 25, 1745. Daniel2"!!, son of Daniel Reedls', married May 22, 1746, Mary, born November 16, 1723, daughter of Jonathan and Eunice (Reed) Bell, and had Ger- shom, baptized March 15, 1749; Lydia, baptized May 12, 1751 (Mrs. John Baxter), and Joseph, bap- tized April 14, 1754. Mrs. Daniel Reed2>"i married, second, a Smith. Abraham, son of Daniel Reed's', married, No- vember 9, 1750, Hannah, born January 24, 1726, sister of his brother Daniel's wife, and had Abraham, baptized February 3, 1756; Kitchell, Joel, Jonathan, baptized December 25, 1757; Carl, born January 6, 1760; Hannah, born December 27, 1761; Eunice, NORWALK 1786 (Mrs William Smith); George, born October 6, 1788; Esther, born April 20, 1791 (Mrs Uriah Seymour); Harriet, born December 23, 1792 (Mrs. Henry Beach); Nancy, born April 28, 1895 (Mrs. Munson Betts); Amelia (Mrs. Don Carlos Hurd); Sally (Mrs. George Tansly); and Frances (Mrs. Samuel Betts, first, and, second, Mrs. Sheldon Griswold). The Thacher-Seymour descent embraces several of Seymour name and blood in Nor- walk to-day. "CAPTAIN JOHN THACHER."1 John Thacher" (page 453) was an old Norwalk "Down Town" boy whose career it is gratifying to recall. The Thachers and Fitchs (Governor) were near neighbors and evidently intimate. John's older brother Josiah asked and gained the hand in wedlock of the Govern- born February 12, 1764, and Daniel, born November 24,1771. Eliakimlst, son of Daniel Reedlst, married, June 16, 1748, Sarah, born June 24, 1727, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Latham) Richards, and had Sarah, baptized March 11, 1750 (Mrs. Matthew Fitch, Jr.); EliakimSnd, April 26, 1752; Simeon, April 21, 1754; Silas, May 7, 1758; Samuel, March 23, 1760; Phineas, March 3, 1762; Ezra, August 3, 1765, and Esther, August 9, 1767. James, son of Daniel Reedlst, married, April 16, 1760, Joanna, daughter of Daniel Castle, and had Daniel, born April 15, 1761. Reuben, September 2, 1763; Elijah, March 12, 1766; Jesse, July 16, 1768; Stephen, September 14, 1770; Amos, December 28, 1772; Gilbert, September 25, 1775; James ; Jacob and Joanna, twins, February 15, 1778; Betsey, April 21, 1780; Robert and Rhoda, twins, June 29, 1784, and Philo, April 3, 1787. Benjamin, son of Daniel Reedlst, married, April 25, 1765, Bethia, daughter of Charles Weed of Stam- ford, and had Bethia, born May 22, 1766; Sarah, March 31, 1770; Benjamin P., April 24, 1772 ; Eliza- beth, June 3 1776 ; Daniel, December 11, 1778, and Bnos, October 30, 1787. Ezra, son of Daniel Reed1", married, May 24, 1763, Sarah Kellogg and had, Sarah, born April 19, 1765, died in infancy; Sarahznd April 19, 1766; Lois, September 10, 1767; Roswell, November 9, 1769; Aaron, April 27, 1771 ; Jemima and Epinitus, twins, August 29, 1773 ; Zediana, October 8, 1775 ; Lydia, September 28, 1777; Huldah, September 23,1780, and Ezra, May 20, 1783. Elijah, son of Daniel Reed1", married, December, 1768, Esther Bates of Stamford, and had Elijah, Jr. William, son of John2»d and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, married Rachel, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Plum) Kellogg (page 372) , and had William Joseph, died young ; Joanna, Hannah, Sarah, Joseph, Wil- liam, Jacob, Matthew, born 1740 : Isaac, Abigail, Mary and Nathan. Matthew Reed, son of William and Rachel (Kel- logg) Reed, married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel KelloggSnd (see page 372), and had Stephen, born 1765, died young; Polly, born 1768 (Mrs. Seth Sey- mour); Betsey (Mrs. Olney Stone); William, died young; Hannah, born 1784 (Mrs. Asa Benedict); Stephen, Samuel, Sally (Mrs. Joseph Haskett); Esther (Mrs. Isaac Belden); Frederick, died young, and Anna (Mrs. Josiah Thacher). The Reed family (John Reed, son of Thomas1", who was son of John Reed the settler) into which Eliakim Warren lsc (see page 269) is recorded to have married was (other than Ann— Mrs. Warren) com- posed of Josiah (who removed to Stamford and mar- ried, December 20, 1752, Sybil Belden, who had Josiah, born October 29, 1753), and John, and Ithiel, and Jonathan. John Reed, the father of these four sons and one daughter, was born August 7, 1701, and Ann was seemingly his oldest child. Her brother John may possibly have settled in Stamford also. Her husband's father is interred but a few feet from Thomas Reed, whose wife was from New Haven, and whose family branch has representatives in that city. The tomb stones of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reed2"d are surprisingly preserved, aud the late Dr. Nathan B. Warren of Troy took care, several years ago, to perpetuate in the same Rowayton grounds, the memory of his Warren foreparent. iOf the record of its son, Captain John Thacher, Norwalk may boast. Under date of Washington, D. C, November 1, 1896, General Alexander J. Perry, himself of Norwalk ancestors, states, "You will find in Force's American Archives, Fifth Series, the report of the Inspector General Varrick, in which Captain John Thatcher is reported as the Captain Command- ing the galley Washington at the battle of Valcour's Island October 11, 177:6." The Pension Office in Washington also furnishes evidence to the sameeffect. George W. Thacher of St. Louis, Mo., adds further that the gallant Norwalker "raised a company of soldiers and uniformed them at his own expense;" 456 or's daughter Mary, and how far Mary's brother, the dashing Colonel Thomas Fitch, may have been an example, military wise, to his susceptible seventeen years younger neighbor, John Thacher, it is impossible to say. Young Thacher took up young Fitch's profession, and although the former was only a lad of eighteen when the latter figured at Crown Point, yet we find Thacher following Fitch, geographically, and distinguishing himself in 1776 at the north. Neither of the boys, however, brought any discredit upon Norwalk, and their valor is a matter of Norwalk comment and commendation. John Thacher, born July 25, 1742, son of Captain Josiah and Mary (Greenleaf) Thacher, was twice married. His children by the first union were : Partridge, born February 14, 1767 ; Stephen Greenleaf; Betsey.