Norwalk

■ This is the orthography of the name as copied from a family bible which was long kept by a second cousin (Dorinda Collins) of Sir Garnet Woolsley of the British army. The Norwalk Collins occupied the venerable building, standing to-day, on the north- east corner of Main Street and the Winnipauk road. Since their day the same property had the Scotch Pierrie for a tenant. Samuel Collins, the head of the family, and a cousin of Lord Woolsley, was the father- in-law of William Lockwood. This branch of the family has carefully preserved the Joseph Lockwood Bible record. 1 88 N'ORWALK. many descendants may consequently claim him as a genuine -'revolutionary ancestor." Of these descendants mention may be made of his daughter Ruth, born Jan. 9, 1780, who mar- ried John Boalt.' John Boalt was five years older than his Lockwood bride, who was named after tier aunt Ruth, born Dec. 30, 1741. He was an ambitious man and in 1815 left Norwalk for residenceship in the western part of the state of New York, taking with him, with the other members of the family, his son Charles L., who was born in this town Nov. 27. 1 802. Mr. Boalt remained in western New York some two years and then decided to plant himself in the new town of Norwalk, in the state of Ohio, and thence removed in 1817. His Norwalk, Conn, born son, Charles L., became one of the best and best known citizens of the whole western country. He died Aug. 10, 1870, having built a division of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad and been president of the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad of Ohio. He was a man of weight, worth and wealth, and his wife belonged to one of the dis- tinguished families of Connecticut, being a daughter of Gov. Roger Griswold, son of Gov. Matthew Griswold. His daughter, the wife of Jay O. Moss of the Sandusky, Ohio, Moss Banking House, survives him. The career of no Rogers-Lockwood descendant confers greater honor upon native Norwalk than that of Charles L. Boalt, a man of preeminent probity and principle. Another Joseph Lockwood-Rogers descendant, was Ebenezer, who married Mary, baptized Aug. 20, 1758, daughter of Lieut, and Martha (Couch) Godfrey of Fairfield. The memory of Ebenezer and Mary Lockwood's son, Edwin (Uncle Edwin) born Sept. 8, 1 799. is still fragrant in Norwalk. "Count not your summer begun until Whitsunday comes," was one of his practical counsels, and to be amiable, affable and agreeable a part of his genial nature; while his brother Benjamin, born Sept. 18, 1777, and called, possibly, for his uncle Benjamin, of the army in Albany in 1776, was the father of LeGrand Lockwood whose name one intuitively idea-associates with grand financiering. Morris Ketchum was un- intimidated, indeed, when others deemed the originally demanded N. Y. & X. H. R. R. three millions stock subscription to be a hazardous adventure, but could himself or his contempor- ' Richard Bold, Bolt, Boalt, Boult, Sr., was a sol- Rev. William and Elizabeth Clemence, viz: Eliza- dier of Cromwell, who, as was true of his young com- beth, 1 lannah and Mary, seem to have, on the same panion in arms, John Reed, Sr., came to America date, married respectively, John Boult"". Caleli and settled not a (treat distance from an old boundary Knapp and John Butler. John and Elizabeth (Clem- line (on the Sound) between the colonies of Connect- ence) Boult came to Norwalk, although thev prob- lem and New York. Whether or no these two fel- , ablv lived, for a short time after marriage, "in New low Cromwelians were personally acquainted it is 1 York. Their oldest son, Richard was, according perhaps impossible now to decide, but their first New to a Norwalk Record, born in " New York Island." World landed properties lay only a few miles apart The family grew to large proportions in Norwalk and and their earliest Norwalk estates almost if not quite 1 its ancient •• Canaan " and "Oblong" limits. A por- adjoined each other. Richard Bolt, Sr. had a son tion of the "Canaan" Boult property embraced tlie John, born, seemingly, not far from 1670, near Horse to-day valuable "Church Mill" neighborhood, while neck (Port Chester, N . Y,J On Nov. 23, l69+, there I flowers set out, in all probability l.v the Boults. appears to have been a triple marriage in the Clem- bloomed, a pathetic sight, in ,896, ill the long W ence hm.lv of Stamford. The three daughters of sileu, and deserted Boult door vard in the " Obion? " N O R YY A L K . ary Lockwood return, their methods, contrasted with the magnificent scale on which the same corporation's business is in 1896 conducted, would seem, even to themselves, as prim- itive perhaps as may to some seem the methods of the road's1 superintendent of their time, James H. Hoyt, who was likely, during the first years of his incumbency, to have been over- heard at the Stamford depot, instructing some afternoon " up " conductor to leave an order, upon his New Haven arrival, for an "extra" to be attached to a down train, and either dropped at Stamford or drawn through to New York City, read)' for an anticipated traffic "emergency". This story of the faithful Hoyt and of conductor's other than those of page 239 reference — Allen, Bacon, Hurlbutt, Street, Sanborn. Thomas, is interesting history. I.OCKWOOD-ROGERS-CANNON MENTION Joseph Lockwoodad-, born April 1, 1750, son of Joseph1"- and Rebecca (Rogers) Lockwood, married Isabel Hyatt, born Feb. 25, 1755, and had Fanny, born June 29, 1784. Hyatt is a Norwalk family name. Fanny, daughter of Joseph 2d- and Isabel Lock- wood, married John3d\ born May 16, 1778, son of John 2d- and Sarah (St. John! Cannon. The groom's father was a son of "Commodore" John and Esther (Perry) Cannon, and his mother was Sarah, daughter of Col. Stephen and Ann (Fitch) St. John. As Ann Fitch was a daughter of Hon. Samuel Fitch and sister of Elizabeth (Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers 1 John Cannon 3d- was consequently of Fitch blood. He was the brother-in-law of Isaac Scudder Isaacs (father of Judge Benj. and his brothers Chas., William and John Isaacs) and also of Matthew Marvin, whose home-site in the Pimpewaugh Valley is a "thing of beauty" at this date. Among his own brothers and sisters were George, who married Betsey, daugh- ter of Phineas Hanford of Chestnut Hill, and whose son. Dr. George Cannon," was the father of Martha Elizabeth, who married (first wife and the mother of his children 1 the late William G. Spencer, D.D., of Washington, Conn., and formerly rector of Trinity Church. South Norwalk, and Antoinette, who, down to advanced life, was the highly respected wife, and lor man}- years widow, of Hon. Thaddeus Betts, Senator in 1840, of the United States. I ~" The Reverend David Rogers Austin, for several J ill some quarters whether a line, even of but one years the zealous pastor of the Second Congregational track only, could be made to pay. Morris Ketchuni Church, South Norwalk, was the son of John Punder- was not of this school of thought evidently, and the son and Susan ( Rogers) Austin. H is Greenfield Hill grandmother, Mrs. Dr. David Rogers, Sr., (son of Dr. Uriah, Sr., and Hannah Lockwood Rogers of Norwalk) was Martha, daughter of Charles Tennent of Maryland, and distinguished for her true piety and thorough culture. The home at Greenfield was one Robert Schuyler irregularity itself did not seem to shake his confidence. Dr. Geo. Cannon married, at Le Roy, \. Y., July 27, 1837, Martha Taylor, and had: Martha Elizabeth, born June 30, 183S ( Mrs. Rev. W. G. Spencer) : Geo. W., born May 9, 1840; Isabella Satterlee, born Apr. of reputation. Her father, Charles Tennent, was one I 6, 1842 ( Mrs. Robert S. Williams) ; Charles 1 1., born of four sons who were educated, savs Boudinot, under July 6, 1845; LeGrand, born Apr. 16. 1847; Ida, born the sole instruction of their scholar father, Rev. William Tennent, a Presbyterian divine. She was first cousin of the Rev. William Tennent of Freehold, N. J., whose remarkable vision is a matter of record. 'When this road was projected there was doubt Jan. 10, 1850 (Mrs. Geo. W. Parker); Harriet, born Nov. 21, 1853; William Taylor, born Apr. 23, 1856. The children of Rev. W. G. and Martha E. Spen- cer were Termor J., b. Oct. 13, 1857 ; Amy C. b. Oct. it, 18591 Mr-. William Cape) : Lizzie l\, b. Nov. 14. iKfyv X O R W A L K . James L Cannon, the Westport druggist, represents, in 1896, his father and mother, John3'1- and Fanny (Lockwood 1 Cannon. See John Cannon Topic, page 412. Stephen, born Aug. 16, 1754, was next to the youngest son of Joseph and Rebecca (Rogers) Lockwood. He married, April 14, 1782, Sarah, born March 7, 1757, daughter of Dr. Thaddeus and Elizabeth (Maltby) Betts. From this union sprang Ralph Lockwood, who, taking for his bride Esther Antoinette, daughter of Capt. Moses and Esther Gregory, went to the West. The visits of himself and wife to the old forefather's hearth are among the living memories of to-day, and the remembrance of the western Lockwood's gathering at old Mrs. Jabez Gregory's (mother of Capt. Moses) near the spring' is gratifying even now. Elizabeth, born March 24. 1 79 1 , daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Betts) Lockwood, married David Gibbs. a record which opens up fairly a " mine " of Norwalk, Conn, and Nor- walk. Ohio, history. She belonged to a family of eight children. Her father was brought up in old " Pudding Lane" (Main Street 1896), and Center Avenue is cut through the very site of the Joseph Lockwood barn-yard, while her mother was bred just where now stands the First Congregational Church on " Norwalk Green". Her grandmother Betts, (second wife of Dr. Thaddeus Betts) who was of the old Maltby family, died Feb. 8, 1789. Her grandfather. Dr. Thaddeus Betts, lived to be eighty-two, and died when she was sixteen years old (March 22, 1 807 1.