Norwalk

After the decease of his first wife Charlotte, Joseph l P. Hanford, married, second, the widow of Erie , Northrop, Phoebe, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth j Raymond. By this marriage there was the 1896 i Joseph Platt Hanford of East Norwalk. The Han- J ford home at "Bush Pasture," on the ancient "Fair- j field Path," now Strawberry Hill, was one of old-time ! satisfaction and of marine-view beauty. Its head, Joseph P. Hanford a faithful chief town official, there brought up. during his years of strength, his active sons. Of these Daniel, who married a daughter of Ehenezer Smith, established a home in his native town. Charles went south, and Winfield S. who, marrying in Philadelphia and conducting business elsewhere, remained for a long period away, but finally returned and spent the balance of his days in ener- getic efforts city wise and church wise in South Nor- walk. He was one of the most diligent and liberal founders of Trinity Church in that fit v. 144 NOR W A L K . Piatt"*, the Norwalk Piatt settler, who was a son of Richard Piatt, Sr. and settler. The second wife of Joseph P. Hanford was the widow Northrop, a sister of Mrs. James Sey- mour of Xorwalk, and of Mrs. Daniel Aymar of Xew York. The widow Northrop, now the second Mrs. Joseph P. Hanford'"-, was a great grand-daughter of Elizabeth Belden, of the Win. Belden, Deerfield, Mass. branch. By her Cole marriage, Elizabeth Belden scat- tered Foote-Deming blood profusely over Xorwalk. Mr. Joseph Piatt Hanford 'd: only son of Joseph P. Hanford"1' by his second marriage, is to-day, at almost eighty, a splendid example of mental and physical vigor. The story of his own as well as of many of the down-town (East Xorwalk) homes abounds in instructive genealogy passages. DKSL'EN HANTS OF JOSEPH PLATT HANKORD, Sr. Daniel,1 born November 19, 1803, son of Joseph P. and Charlotte (St. John) Han- ford, married June 27, 1X27, Caroline, daughter of Ebenezer H. and Susanna (Wright) Smith, and had : Charles E.. b. Nov. 17. 1830; mar. Nov. 1859, Mary Elizabeth Banker. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. June 20, 1833 ; mar. Jul)' 2, 1853, Edwin H. Baldwin. George Smith'"', b. Feb. 20. 1836; died March 16, 1836. Sarah Catherine, b. April 30, 1837; mar. June 4, 1871, Daniel F Whitlock. <«.-orj»e Smith 3<\ b. July 20. 1838; died Xov. 12, 1849.' Caroline Louisa, b. April 20. 1841 ; mar. Dec. 20, 1865. Stephen Merrill. Winfield Scott, born Sep. 5, 1843; mar. April 9, 1867. Ella Amelia Osborn. Daniel Hanford died Sep. 25, 1857 and his wife Caroline, March 23, 1888. Charles Hanford, born 1809, died April 23. 1847, son of Joseph P. and Charlotte iSt. John] Hanford. married first, 1830, Elizabeth, daughter of David Hanford (Hezekiah Id\ Hezekiah '"-, Samuel. Rev. Thomas).-' She died Feb. 20, 1831, aged eighteen. He mar- ried, second. Arminta Holmes. He married third. 1840, Jane Wilson, and had : still standing; (Wardwell) house as a shelter for Nor- walkers. Anions; these seemed to be the heads of two families,, •'Gold Hon and Simeon Raymond" (see Huron Cinmlv. Ohio, record) who made over tu Thomas Seymour their claim to this Ohio bounty. The result was thai Mr. Cotnstovk (great grandfather of Stephen and Albert of 1896) became the proprie- tor of Sections II and III (now the site of the city of Norwalk. Ohio) of the ''Fireland" district. Andrew Hanford became interested in this matter. 'This engaging youth was" one of til? earliest Norwalk railway-disaster victims, lie was killed, soan after the New York and New Haven railroad was opened for traffic, by a passenger train from Sew Haven, at the now East Avenue crossing of the road. <The Hezekiah Hanford 'St., named within the 'Named for his Hanford grandfather, Daniel1'*-, who had served for two terms during the Revolution- ary War. Norwalk was harrassed during said period l.y plundering parties from the enemy s Long Island quarters. A night visit was paid tile Hanford premi- <e*, and after laying hands upon the family stores, the head of the household ( Daniel '<-) was taken to the Sugar House Prison in New York city. His home was destroyed on the morning of the Tryon invasion. On,- of hi- sons. Andrew, who was born during the terrible winter that succeeded this invasion, was after- ward well known in the Ohio " Fireland " district. Distribution of these western lands was made to east- ren sufferers as an offset to Tn-on-incurred lo-ses. On the night in 1770 of the landing of the enemy in Nor- walk, Tii,, ina« c'omstock of silvermine opened his NORWALK. 145 Emily Jane,' b. Aug. 21, 1841 ; mar. Sep. 25, 1861, Henry Albert Smith. Charles St. John,' b. March I, 1845 ; mar. Nov. 26, 1873, Mary A. demons. Winfield Scott Hanford, born Oct. 3, [814, (died May 10, 1884,) son of Joseph P and Charlotte (St. John) Hanford, married March 16, 1848, Priscilla Thomas Sneil of Philadelphia, and had : Wm. Augustus Sale15'-, born Dec. 17. 1848; died Aug. 2, 1849. Wm. Augustus Sale2d-, born Nov. 6, 1850; died May I, 1878. Charles St. John, born Sep. 29, 1852; died Feb. 1, 1872. Mary Currier, born (Dec. 1856.) Martin Bioley, born Aug. 12, 1858; died Feb. 2, 1861. Charlotte Cecilia, born July 16, i860; died Jan. 20. 1866. Annie Tamzen, born May 9, 1864 ; died July 14, 1865. Joseph Piatt, born May 9, 1864; died Feb. I r, 1866. Wm. Augustus Sale *d-, son of Winfield S. and Priscilla T. Hanford, married, Oct. 20, 1875, Isabella, daughter of Wm. C. and Elizabeth (Wilcoxson) Street, and had : Edna, born Sept. 27. 1876; died Dec. 16, 1877. Mrs. Wm. A. S. Hanford li% married second, Charles, son of James K. and Sa- manthe (Bontecou) Selleck. Mary Currier, daughter of Winfield S. and Priscilla T. Hanford, married Apr. 2 1 , 1881, Elbirt A. Woodward, and had, Lottie Hanford, born Feb. 25, 1882. Joseph Piatt Hanford 2d-, son of Joseph P.'st- and Phoebe Hanford, born March 8, 1818, married, Oct. 6, 1840, Jane, daughter of Cyprian Collins, and had : Franklin, b. July 12, 1841 ; died Dec. 31, 1843. Jeanette Hanford, mar. Sep. 29, 1869, Augustus C. Golding. Mary Scott. Anna, mar. Oct. 6, 1 87 1, John C. Turrell. Emma ; Franklin. parenthesis, born 1721, died May, 2, 1812, inherited Samuel, his father's, homestead (S. W. corner East Avenue and Fort Point Street, 1896.) Samuel Han- lord was the son of Rev. Thomas, and succeeded to his parents' occupancy of the original Hanford home- lot. Hezekiah was one of the chief men of his day and served in the American Revolution. He lived in comfort and died on his reverend grandfather's home property. He located his son, Daniel 011 the Strawberry Hill estate, which was so long the home of the son of Daniel Ist-, the late Joseph P. Hanford Jst- 'Her children are Fannie Albertine,* born Aug. 2, 1862; Charles Wilson, born May 16, 1864; George A.,+ born Oct. 7, 1866; Henry O., born Oct. 23, 1868; Bertha H., born Jan. 31, 1872; Emily Jane, born June T9, 1875. 2Had Bertha Augusta, bom Sept. 25, 1874; died Sept. 11, 1875. *Married, Nov. 30, 1SS0, Albert Geib, who died, Aug. 12, 18S7. Had Bertha L., born July 7, iSSi; Henry A., born Oct. 4, 1S83. fMnrried, Oct. 14, 1891, Edelena, daughter of Edwin J. and Esther (Olmstead) Beers. Had George A., born Oct. 24, 1804, died next day; Reginald S., born Sept. 25, 1S96. The parents' present home is in East Norwalk. X0RWAL1 THOMAS COOK HAN FORD ASCKNT AND DESCENT. Gen. I.— Rev. Thomas and Mary (Miles) Hanford. II. — Eleazer and Hannah (Frisbie) Hanford.1 " III.— Phineas and Hannah (Comstock) Hanford.-* •« IV. — Stephen and Phoebe (Fitch) Hanford.-* V — Abijah and Hannah (Warren) Hanford. " VI.— Thomas Cook Hanford. In the days when Isaac Belden was wont to yoke his team and drive at early morn out of his bar-way (opposite St. Mary's Church, 1896) destined to harvest at Belden's Point, no portion of his long route, from "The Bridge" to "The Neck," was more farmer- inviting than the generous green meadow stretch that opened from the site of the present Mahackemo Hotel and extended southwest to the Hoyt's acres ( Whistleville), and still fur- ther south in the direction of "The Village." This was the " Old Well" Plain, denominated by the settlers "the great meadow," and upon its ancient northern edge Thomas C. Hanford ■About three and eighty years before Thomas C. Hanford was born, in viz., 17J2, there was a con- vening, in person or by proxy, of several Fairfield Countv family principals. Eleazer, great-great grand- father of Mr. Hanford, was one of the party and the Platts, Comstocks, Hills, Burrs and Bulkleys were others of the company. The occasion was that of the distribution of the estate of Norwalk's first min- ister. Eleazer Hanford, who was then fifty-two years of age, was second named in this transaction. His son, well known in his day, Capt. Phineas, of Old Hill, had a son Stephen who married, in 1771, Phcebe Fitch, and had Abijah, born Aug. 27, 1774, who married May 19, 1796, Hannah Warren, and had: Tho-.. Cook Hanford, born Feb. 24, 1805. Closes, son of Christopher and Hannah (Piatt) CoiiT-tock, the Norwalk settlers, married, Feb. 23, 1709-ro, Abigail, bom 1691, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Kellogg) Brinsmade. Mrs. Daniel Brinsmade was a daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg, the Norwalk Kellogg settlers. She was also u sister of Rachel (daughter of Daniel and Bridget Kellogg), who married, Dec. 3, 16N4, Abraham Nichols, son of Caleb and Annie (Ward) Nichols of Woodbury, which Caleb was the son of F"rancis Nichols, the an- cestor of the Nichols family in America. Daniel Kellogg, of Norwalk, through the Nichols and Brins- made marriages of his daughters thus became a noted progenitor. Mo^t-s and Abigail Comstock's daughter Hannah, married Phineas, son of Eleazer and Hannah (FrNbie) DanTord. Phineas Hanford's brothers and sisters were Sarah (Mrs. John Darrow), Hannah, (Mrs. John Reed ), Eleazer, Mary and Eunice (Mrs. Josiali Whitney). iMrs. Stephen Hanford (Pluebe Fitch) born Sep. 17531 wa* the daughter of Elijah and Pha-be