Norwalk

iThe children of Josiah and Mary (Hayes) Grum- man were Julia (Mrs John H. Knapp of South Nor- walk),and Samuel of the firm of Mather & Grummau of Dariem Josiah and Mary (Hayes) Grumman have no grandchildren. 2The children of Amos and Jane (Hayes) Nor- thrup were Frances Jane (Mrs. George Bennett, no children), A. Randolph (married Emma L., daughter of Jacob Lockwood of Ridgefield, had child who died young), Benjamin Brandreth (married Edith Ben- jamin and had five children). "William, only son of Colonel Isaac Hayes by his second wife, married Hannah Loder of the Oblong family of that name. Hannah Loder (Mrs. William Hayes) was of the same blood of Benjamin Loder of Erie Railroad celebrity, who married Polly Ann, daughter of James White Church, who was a son of Daniel and Sarah (Pickett) Church, which Daniel Church was a son of Ebenezer1^ and Susannah (Fitch) Church, and consequently a grandson of Hon. Samuel, brother of Governor Thomas Fitch of Nor- walk. Mrs. William Hayes had no children, but Ben- jamin Loder, of whom she was wont to remind her Hayes marriage kin, had a large family. With Mrs. Benjamin Loder's grandmother Try- on's men, after the battle of Ridgefield, enjoyed some- thing of a repast while marching from Ridgefield, via Wilton, to Wcstport. The soldiers seemed to take possession of a room set off from the porch and there helped themselves freely. Mrs. Daniel Church was a woman of sweetness of voice, and known as quite a singer. Perhaps her disposition was of a quality to enable herto unrurfledly bearthe British visitation. A great granddaughter of Daniel and Sarah Church married Edward D. W ebb of Cortland, N. Y., who traces himself back, in direct line, to Christopher Webb, who, born April 15. 1599, came to America in 1 626, and is supposed to have been a younger j brother of Richard Webb1 st of Norwalk (see pages 39X--KH). Samuel, ayounger brother ofJamesWhite Church, I married Jane, daughter of Stephen and Hannah N O R W A L K . 465 David W„ son of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married, March 30, 1847, Hannah Campfield, daughter of Ebenezer Selleck, and had Levinia (Mrs. Harvey Hoyt),1 and Mary Eliza (Mrs. James Slauson). David W. Hayes married, second, Mrs. Albia Campfield, and had no children. Clarissa, daughter of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married, as his second wife, Lewis Richards, M. D.,s of New Canaan, and had no children. Charles, son of Thacher and Mary (Weed) Hayes, married Betsey, daughter of Stephen Waterbury, and had no children. THACHER— DEANE— WEBB. Lydia Thacher, a few years the senior of Captain Josiah of Norwalk, married John Deane of Groton, Conn., and was the mother of Silas Deane1". Silas1*1 married Sarah Bar- ker, to whom was born, on the day before Christmas, 1737, Silas Deane, Jr., who was a member of the first (1774) Congress, and deputized, in 1776, to proceed on a political errand to France, there to meet Dr. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and confer in the interests of the new power in the West. Silas Deane2"1 married the widow of Joseph Webb4'1. This young Webb, who died March 5 or 25, 1761, was born in Stamford December 8, 1627, but anon left Fairfield County for Wethersfield, where he married, February 2, 1748, Mehetable, born 1732, daughter of Gershom and Sarah (Waterhouse) Nott. The widow Webb was, before her second marriage, the mother of a number of Webb children, among whom was General Samuel B. (see page 400). Joseph Webb4"1 was son of Joseph"", born (Marvin) Keeler. Stephen Keeler was a son of Jehu and Lydia (Lockwood) Keeler, a fine connection, see pages 178 and 185. The children of Stephen and Hannah Keeler were Sally (Mrs. Amos Smith of Ridgefield), Nancy (Mrs. Asahcl Osborn of Ridge- field), Lucy (Mrs. William Dudley), John, Lockwood died young, Mary (Mrs. Seth Ferris), Jane (Mrs. Sam- uel Church), Esther (Mrs. Bela St. John) which Jane and Esther were twins, and Roxy (Mrs. Charles Nash). Seth and Mary (Keeler) Ferris were the parents of the greatly esteemed Deacon Gould Ferris of Sonth Norwalk, who married Mary Ann, daughter of Sam- uel and Esther (Keeler) Beers of Wilton, and had, Mary A. (Mrs. Rev. J. J. Wooley), Frank A., and Emma (Mrs. Nelson Dickerman). Lockwood Keeler Ferris and Mary (Mrs. Tru- man Trowbridge) of Danbury were also children of Seth and Mary Ferris. Mrs. Nancy (Keeler) Osborn had several sons and daughters. One Charles, a New York silver- smith, married the educated Miss Esther Harrington, of Middletown, and had a son Henry, who was on the New York Graphic (illustrated) staff. 'Mrs. Hoyt, who is now a widow and tenderly ministered to by her two daughters Cheshire and Mary Eliza, and grandson William A. Hanford, occu- pies the Hoyt home a little north of the Lewisboro rectory and westerly of the Upper Norwalk reservoir. She is a lady of high worth and the family is held in just < *Lewis Richards, M. D., was a New Canaan clever and conscientious physician of the old school. He possessed certain manner characteristics, but was skillful and good. His name was an household one and he was highly respected. He was twice married. His first wife, Mary Selleck, a sister of Mrs. Peter Smith of Smith's Ridge, was a rare character. She filled the Dr. Richards home (Bond house on Owenoke Avenue, 1899), with sweetness and goodness, and made it an attractive hearthstone. Her daughter Sophia (Mrs. Prof. James H. Olmstead) was a New England maiden, the like to whose eminent excellence the poet must have had in mind when he taught that "few or none rise in their room." There were two other sisters, Sarah and Hannah, and a brother James Dr. Richards married, second, Clarissa, daughter of Thacher and Mary Hayes, to whom he was introduced by a worthy Oblong wife and mother, Mrs. Amos. N. Raymond. NORVVALK. January 26, 1700, who married, August 23, 1726, Sarah, born November 7, 1702, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Finch) Blachly. The father of Joseph Webb8'1 was Joseph2""", born January 5, 1674, who married, February 23, 1698, Mary Hoyt. Joseph WebbM was son of Joseph1", born March 30, 1636, who married, August 11, 1672, Hannah Scofield of Stamford. Joseph Webb1"' was the son of Richard, Jr., the only son, presumably, of Richard Webb1"' of Norwalk. James Watson Webb (See pages 388 and 442), son of General Samuel Blachley Webb, married, 1823, Helen Lispenard, daughter of Alexander L. and Sarah Lispenard Stewart of New York. Norwalk's first Thacher, Captain Josiah,1 of clerical and professional lineage, closed his life not far from the time of Tryon's invasion. His estate was inventoried November 22, 1780, but the court did not order its distribution until December 27, 1785. He seems to have 'Whatever may be its significance Thacher -wise, a minute, seemingly incidental, in an ancient Norwalk land record to the effect that Captain Josiah Thacher and Jachin Gregory were "heirs of Thomas Grego- ry, dec.," opens to important data pertaining to the Gregory family genealogy. Thomas Gregory1", SOn of John1", married Elizabeth Pardee (page S3) and had Martha, born April 31, 1680; Thomas, died young; Ebenezer, October 27, 1683; Phebe (Mrs. Thomas Hurlbutt), November, 1686; Rachel, May, 1691; Rebecca, and, presumably, Elizabeth and Sarah (Mrs. David Perry). The only son (at least to reach maturity) of Thomas Gregory1" was Ebenezer, who married Mary, daugh- ter of John Fitch as per page 83, and was the father of Jabez and grandfather of Moses Gregory. Thomas Gregory2"* (nephew of Thomas1") was a son of Jachin'" arld grandson of John Greg- ory1". Thomas Gregory^* born January 17, 1672, married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Lindall) Ketehum, and sister of Nathaniel Ketehum of Wilton. He seems to ha%-e been several years his wife's senior and to have died at the age of forty. He was the brother of Samuel, who died young, and of Matthew, the ancestor of Ira Gregory of Norwalk, and Jachin, and Mary, (Mrs. Joseph Bouton) and Sarah (Mrs. John Seymour), and John, born January 25, 1670. After the decease of Thomas Gregorys™! his widow married Moses Fountain. The children of Thomas*"* and Elizabeth (Ketehum) Gregory were Thomas; Benjamin, born December 17, 1703 ; Sam- uel, March 22, 1705; Elizabeth, September 22, 1708 (Mrs. David Whelpley, see page 444) and Sarah, born February 4, 1710 (Mrs. Ebenezer Nash). The Cranberry Plain Gregorys are in the direct John Gregory line. John1" and Sarah Gregory, the settlers, were the parents of John2"*, whose ' son John3'* married Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and a sister of Robert Smith of Long Island, the mother of which Mary and Robert Smith was (page 186) the honor subject of a Jamaica, L. I., public action. John3rd and Mary Smith lived in Cranberry Plain and were the parents of John4th, Nehemiah, Denton, Stephen and Sarah (Mrs. John Betts). The children of John*th and Mary Gregory were John, Mar}'1", Ebenezer, Abraham, Seelev, Hezekiah, Mary2nd, Sarah (Mrs. Nash), Phebe (Mrs. Linsley), Elizabeth, Hannah and Charity. Abraham1", born September 17, 1736, son of John Gregory^th, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah (Gregory) Betts, and had Hannah, born April 5, 1761 (Mrs. Seth Marvin); Ebenezer, 1763, died 1793; Abraham2"*, January 22, 1765, died young; Abraham3'*, September 7, 1767, married Polly Allen; William'-", 1770, died young; Sarah, January 2, 1772 (Mrs Hanford); Nancy, August 9, 1775, died young; Mary, September 17, 1776 (Mrs. Francis Galpin, first, and, second, Mrs. William Jameson); William2"*, January, 1778, died young; Sabra, December 8, 1779 (Mrs. Ashbel Crossman); John B., April 3, 1782, married Olive Raymond ; Wil- liam3'*, January 1, 1786. Abraham Gregory'" married, second, April, 1791, Damarist Disbrow. He bought a pole of land of Colonel Stephen St. John (site of the house of his grandson, the late Henry Marvin, son of Seth, of East Norwalk) and there built a small oak irame structure. This was afterward removed to Half Mile Island and constituted the home (see page 51) of Grandmother Gregory, the widow of John B., son of Abraham Gregory'".