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get (Bouton) Kellogg, the Norwalk Kellogg settlers. One of Mrs. Ruth lloyt's sisters was Elizabeth, wife of Matthew Reed, (p. 455,) who was the father of Esther, (Mrs. Isaac Belden). Matthew Reed was the son of William and Rachel (Kellogg) Reed. His mother was a daughter of Sam'l. Kellogg. His name- sake-nephew, was the N. Y. City bank president, whose Persian snow-white parlor carpets, banded with crimson, are a Norwalk mention to-day. He was great-grandfather of the Wilson sons, of BeldenNeck, of whom the youngest, Victor, is now the only sur- vivor. Another sister of Mrs. Asa. Hoyt (see Kellogg lineage) and aunt of Mrs. Moses Gregory, was Mary, wife of Blackleach Jessup, who was brother of Dr. Ebenezer Jessup, the great-grandfather of Morris K. Jessup, of New York City. Asa Hoyt, born Aug. 23, 1744, was sou of Nathan and Elizabeth Hoyt. His sister Eunice was the wile of Noah Smith, who was the grandfather of the late Stephen and Henry Smith of Newtown Avenue. •*Was social and of old-time nice sense of conven- tional propriety. The old-fashioned Gregorv after- noon tea" invitations were thus language-couched: "Aftss Grc^r,,, v\i complimeuts to and requests the pleasure of your company at her home, etc." 5Dr. Ira Gregory, born Jan. 31, 1804, who belonged to the school of pathology of which the skillful Drs. David H. Nash of Bridgeport, David Richmond of Westport, Nehemiah Perry of Ridgefield, Samuel S. Noyes of New Canaan, Nathaniel 1). Haight of Stam- ford and Uriah Rogers (Sr. and Jr.) Jonathan Knight, John A. McLean, Emery Bissell and Samuel Lynes of Norwalk were members, was a sage, safe and sym- pathetic physician of this latter town. Himself and brethren named represented talent, and were profes- sionally successful. He was the great-grandson of Matthew Gregory, lst- (son of Jachin, son of John Gregorv Sr.,) who owned the eligible sites to-day of the Norwalk Baptist Church and its neighboring Bel- den and Betts proeprties. Matthew Gregory1'1 »a» NORWALK. S5 Frances Augusta, daughter of Capt. Moses and Frances Esther Gregory, married July 26, 1842, Ira (M.D.) son of Moses and Abigail Gregory of Wilton, and had : James G., born May 12, 1843. Julia Augusta, born May 12, 1843 ; died March 19, 1859. Esther Abby, born April 19, 1847 ; married Albert Ernst Barclay. Virginia Antoinette ; married G. Willis White, Jan. io, 1872. James G. Gregory, M.D., son of Ira and Frances Augusta Gregory, married Dec. 5, 1877, Jeanette Lindsley, daughter of Rev. Timothy (M.D.) and Jeanette L. Pinneo,1 and had : Edward Slauson ; (Ward), born April 2, 1879. Jeanette Lindsley, born Dec. 31, 1881. Alyse Earle, born July 19, 1882. HO M E- L O T II Nathaniel Hayes, Sr., of Lot II, and concerning whom Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., orator in 1851, at the two hundredth celebration of the founding of Norwalk, declares "nothing certain is known of his origin," was in Norwalk as early as 1655. He came hither, it would appear, with a junior brother, Samuel,"* born 1640. Nathaniel had a large family. He reported, in 1672, seven children, of whom three, possibly, died young, as at the drawing of his will, Apr. 7, 1705, and its inventory, Mar. 12, 1706-7, these children only are mentioned : Samuel, 2d* Nathaniel, 3d- the father of Ezra Gregory, >st. the patriot, whose daughter Sarah married Jesse Sterling, who was the father-in-law of the late P. C. Calhoun, President of the Fourth National Bank, N. Y. City. President Calhoun's grandson, the late Harry W Latham of Los Angeles, Cal., one of the pnrest and most prom- ising of Norwalk school youth, and one of the rarest of his rising generation, died this year, greatly be- loved and deeply lamented. The parent of Ezra Gregory, selected for a home for two of his sons, Ezra and Matthew, 2d-, the site in the green Wilton field, and beneath its blue sky, to-day the ownership of Julian Gregory. The old house, out of the portals of which passed the valorous Ezra 'St., who lives in the veneration of " children's children " of the third generation, exists to this hour. From thence emanated Benjamin, the youngest of the family of Ezra,lsl-and who was the father of the more recent Dudley S. Gregory, the New Jersey capitalist, and of New York and Jersey City ferry fame. Mary, the sister of Dudley S., be- Rachel ; (Mrs. Alexander Messenger.) James. came the wife of one of this nation's artists, Catlin, the Indian painter, of whose high name time and change cannot rob him. Hisworks adorn the Smith- sonian Institute, Washington, D. C. Matthew, 2d- brother of i£zra,ist. occupied the still standing structure on the hill, the first to the west of the Wilton Congregational Church. At the time of Tryon's Danbury raid, the troops as they approached Matthew Gregory's dwelling, struck up a drum air. The men at once drove the horses and cattle to the woods. Upon reaching the house a shot - vollev was discharged, but with no harmful effect. Mrs. Gregory at that time was praying with and protecting her children in the cellar. Dr. Ira Gregory of Norwalk, was the son of Mo- ses, who was the son of Ezra Gregory. 'Timothy Stone Pinneo, born at Milford, Conn., Feb. 18, 1804. Graduated from Yale College, 1824, and from Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, as a phy- sician, in 1826. Practiced medicine in the South for several years, when his health gave way. He was of a 86 NORWALK Samuel Haves, Sr.. brother of Nathaniel, Sr., who was probably in his teens when he arrived in Norwalk, married first, a daughter of Isaac More or Moore of Farm- ington,' Conn., and afterward of "home-lot" 16 of Norwalk. The children of Samuel Hayes, Sr., by his first wife, were : SARAH, b. Sep. 19. 1673. (Mrs. Matthew Seymour.) RUTH, (Mrs. John Belden, Sr.) Ann, (Mrs. Justus Bush,) of Greenwich. Isaac, born Aug. 27. 1682. The Norwalk Hayes' (see Hayes lineage) have descended from the two brothers, Nathaniel '"■ and Samuel "'■ The here presented Hayes family legend was sent to this country last spring by the Karl of Enroll, of Great Britain. lefleno of tbe Battle of Xoitcartle, or tbe origin of the "1bav>3." " In the reign of Renneth 111, the Danes having invaded Scotland, about the year 980, with a great and numerous army, were opposed by the King Renneth, who gave them bat- tle near Loncartie in Perthshire, w here the Scots were worsted and fled. In their flight through a narrow pass, they were met by a brave Scotsman and his two sons who were labouring their ground near by; they stopt them, encouraged them to decided literary turn, and became Professor of Miithe- j modesty. He was noted for his piety, and benefited nwtiCK in Marietta College, Ohio, where he met Miss every community in which he lived by his learning Jeannette Lindsley, daughter of Joel Harvey Linds- and goodness. ley, President of the institution. Married her June 'The Farmington, Conn., town records read thus: I, 1S4S. Five children were born to them, two of ; N,JV. 17, 1737, Matthew Seymour of Ridgefield, Sam- whom died in early childhood ; three survived, Jean- i uel Seymour and Thomas' Sevmour of Norwalk to nette Lindsley, Dotha Stone and James Arthur. Dr. John Belden of Norwalk, a piece of land in Farming- Kinneo died Aug. 1893, at the residence of his ton that had been the property of their honored daughter, Mrs. James Glynn Gregory, Norwalk, Conn. I gr. grandfather, Mr. Isaac More (or Moore) and also a Mr*. Pinneo died Jan, 33, 1889, In Norwalk. purchase made bv their grandfather, Mr. Samuel Dr. Pinneo was one of the pioneers in the great ' Hayes of Norwalk, of their great-grandfather, Mr. work of writing the best school books, lie was the ! Isaac More. author of Pinncos Grammars, McGuffey's Readers, j On the Farmington Church register appears : and other works. He was a man of distinguished 1 Ruth Moore, born Farmington, Ian. 5, 16,6, bap. Rbiliiu-*, being a brilliant scholar, but of extreme at Norwalk. NT OR WALK. 87 rally, telling it was better and more honorable to die in the field fighting for their King and their country, than to fly and afterwards be killed by the merciless Danes ; by thus upbraid- ing their cowardness they were prevailed upon to stop. The father and his sons having only such arms as their ploughs furnished them with, led back their countrymen, who returned to the charge. They renewed the fight, fell upon the Danes and made a most furious onset, crying aloud, " Help is at hand." The Danes believing that a fresh army had fallen on them, soon gave way, whereby the Scots obtained a complete victory and effectively freed their country from servitude. The battle being over, the old man (afterwards known by the name of Hay) was brought to the King, who gave him and his sons, as just reward of their valour and merit, so much land on the side of the river Tay in the carse of Goneril, as a falcon, set off a man's hand, should fly over before she settled. She flew over about six miles of ground in length which was afterwards called Erroll (and the property remained in the family until 1633 when it was sold in consequence of the extravigance of the tenth Earl.) The King further promoted the old man and his sons to the order of the nobility, and assigned them a coat of arms, viz., argent, three scut- cheons, gules, to imitate that the father and the two sons had been the three fortunate shields of Scotland. Supporters : two men in country habits, each holding an ox-yoke over his shoulder. Crest : on a wreath, a falcon proper. The property ill Aberdeenshire now in the family was given by Robert Bruce about the year 1 306. ' While the mistletoe bats on Erroll's aik,' And that aik stands fast — The Hays' shall flourish — and their good gray hawk Shall not flinch before the blast ; But when the root of the aik decays. And the mistletoe d wines' on its withered breast, The grass shall grow on Gerroll's hearthstane, And the Corbie-^ roup4 on the Falcon's nest.' " (,) Oak. (2) Fades. (j) Crow or Raven. (4) Cn.ak. The Mistletoe is the badge of the Hays'. Formerly there grew a large ancient oak in the neighborhood of Erroll, which was full of this plant.