Norwalk

Elizabeth (Griffeth) Betts. Her father Isaac, born, July 8, 1730, was the son (see Betts lineage) of Thomas3dand Deborah Betts. Thomas Rett*** was the son of Thomas ■*■ and Sarah (Marvin 1 Betts. His father, Thomas 2d; was a man of possessions. " Come," said (so declares tradition) Hannah (Betts) to her husband Stephen Fitch, "I am tired of rye bread, let us go west where we can raise wheat," and "west" the two went. Stephen died July 26, 1 829. He survived his wife about a score of years, she hav- ing died March 28, 1809 (18-9 as the Betts bible represents it). They had a daughter. Phcebe, born, April 26, 1803, died, Jan. 20, 1886, who married a New son, and a son \bi- jah, born, Jan. 1799, who was the father of Nelson Fitch, born in Auburn, N. Y'., Sept. 1824. Nelson Fitch w as the father of the present Mrs. Elmore W. Ross of Springfield, Ohio. Elijah Fitch, Jr., born, Sept. 2, 1773, son of Elijah"'- and Phcebe (Fitch) Smith, married. May 30, 1793, Mary Olmstead, born, April 2, 1774, and had: Lydia; born, Dec. 20, 1793, died, Nov. 10, [801. Sarah; born, Aug. 2, 1795, married, first, Daniel M. Smith, married, second, Daniel Dunbar. Maria; born, April 8, 1797. died, July 6, 1804. Amarylla T. ; born, Nov. [6, 1798, married, Abraham Spaulding. The children of Elijah Fitch, Jr. were all daughters, two of whom died young. Sarah, who married, first, Oct. 3, 1812, Daniel M. Smith of Otsego County, N. Y., had one daughter by the Smith union, viz: Maria (Mrs. L. B. Hyatt) who lived until 1850. By Sarah's Dunbar marriage there were Hannah (married Jan. 8, 1846, William Haythorn); Douglas D. (married, Nov. 24, 1842. Laura Hudson), and Harriet F (married Sept. 4. 1856, Peter Barton). Amarylla T., the youngest child of Elijah Fitch, Jr., married, April 8, 1821, Abraham Spaulding and had eight children, the most of whom resided in Pennsyl- vania:. Elijah Fitch, Jr. died Jan. 4, 1 841 , and his wife (Mary Olmstead) May 22, 1852. They removed from Norwalk and their descendants are elsewhere found. A SAMUEL FITCH DESCENT. Samuel 2d-, born. 1727, son of Hon. Samuel ls'- and Susanna Fitch, married, July 2. 1750, F;iizabeth, born, Sept. 22, 1735, daughter of Joseph-'1 and Hannah (Whitman) Piatt. Joseph Piatt*1 was educated at Yale College. He was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Han- ford, and his life, until its end, was spent in Norwalk. He lived in a fine old-fashioned two story house, unlike many of its contemporary dwellings in that it had no "back roof run- ning low," but was more "on the square." It stood near to, if not upon the exact site of, the Thomas Cornwall France Street 1896 property. Here, two years after his college grad- uation, was born his daughter Elizabeth and, in all probability, her five sisters, Mary (Mrs. 2 I 6 XORWALK. Jedediah Hanford) ; Esther (Mrs. Timothy Fitch) ; Ann (Mrs. Stephen Thatcher ; Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Hanford), and Hannah (.Mrs. Avery). This old France Street Piatt house- hearth furnished the warm coals wherewith the foot-stoves of the Chestnut Hill Fitch's were replenished before divine service. On their way to the sanctuary, which in those days was not warmed, the good Chestnut Hill folk found it convenient to stop at the Platts and new- ly fill the little stove's ash-pan, thus furnishing sufficient caloric for their hour or two of church attendance. Mrs. Samuel Fitch2d- (Elizabeth Piatt) lived on Chestnut Hill, the fam- ily, in addition to herself and husband, consisting of the following children : Susanna3"1-; born, Dec. 6, 1750. Anna; born. Nov. 23, 1766. Joseph; born, Jan. 4, 1753. Sarah; born, Nov. 23, 1766. Samuel-5"1-; born, April 21, [761. Zechariah Whitman ; born, Dec. 25, 1771. Elizabeth; born, Jan. [4, 1763. Esther; born, Sept. 23, 1773. Samuel3'1-, son of Samuel Jd- and Elizabeth Fitch, married, March I, 1783, Olive Stu- art, born, May 28, 1760, and had, Joseph Piatt,' born, Xov. 20, 1790. The father and mother of Joseph P. Fitch removed for a period to Cooperstown, New York, during which time their son, Joseph P., was left with his Norwalk relatives. This son married, Jan. [, 1816, Emma, born, Nov. 7. 1789. daughter of Amos and Man (Brown) Sherman. These lived in Lower Wilton, and had: Mary Elizabeth ; married John R. Sturges ; Sherman Piatt; Harriet A.; married, first, Rev. Abel Ogdeir of Fairfield, and second, Rev. Luther Gregory of Danbury. The late Sherman Piatt Fitch, son of Joseph P. and Emma Fitch, and a gr.-gr.- grandson of Hon. Samuel Fitch1-, and who remained through life in touch with the city lie had a brother Daniel, who married Lucrctia, I Rev. Reuben Sherwood, D.D., rector, ,8.6.,82S,of St. I linn T — r-VA .1 1. . .fVT'l . . born June 27, 17.S6, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth (Raymond) Whitney, and sister of Eben Whitney who lived, universally regarded and to a venerable Paul's Church, Norwalk. Dr. Sherwood was born on Mill Hill, beyond Mill Plain, in Fairfield. The Ogden family dates back to early Fairfield history. age, ,„ the old style comfort home now supplanted by Mr. and Mrs. Abel Ogden, (,he latter was a strong he commodious Earie Last Avenue summer residence. c haracter and a woman of great intelligence) l.adl mT-TJ^' t' aSU" H— I George, whomarriedUettv/eersofFairffeW; David, Ihter , „ Tr?' «V *V ? ' Rebra"' <R«v.)Who married Elizabeth Nash of New Canaan; fe\ ^itch remo e ) f W M Wilton. Har- | Abbie, who married judson Sturges of Fairfield; \r\ fitch removed from Wilton to Norwalk in rKift i v,u„~ 1^1 . His children were- ,„h„ v.„„, °. ' Edward S., who married Hannah Nash (sister of Mrs. His children were: John, Mary Jennet, Alice, Agnes and Surah. John married Sarah Amelia Hodge, and had, Alice Rebecca and Jennie Eliza. Marv Jennet m..rrted John, son of James Cotter, and had, Rebecca Gertrude, Robert Fitch and Helen |ennet. Miss Emma Filch, sister of Harvey, is now resid- ing in Norwalk. 'Ahel Ogden -.-of Fairfield, married a sis,t.r of Rev. David Ogden) of New Canaan; Abel ( Rev.) who married, Harriet A., youngest daughter uf Joseph Piatt Fitch; Elizabeth (unmarried) and Lucretia (un- married.) Rev. Reuben Sherwood married, first. Catharine Rogers (see page 170) and had two daugh- ters, Catharine and Emily. Dr. Sherwood married, late in life, second, Penelope, daughter uf Chainplain Harrison. Then- were no children hv this union. NORWALK. 2ty affinity of his great grand-aunt, Mrs. Nchemiah Rogers, was a parent in the memory of whose worth and admirable character-unison children's children may take delight. He married, May 12, 1847, Sarah Maria, born, Aug. 24. 1826, daughter of the excellent Philo Webb and Rebecca (Lobdell i Jones of Westport, and had : Edward Sherman; born, Feb. 7, 1848. Arthur Treat; born, Aug. 6, 1849, resides abroad. Helen Elizabeth ; born, Feb. 6, 1853, married, Dec. 29. 1870, John B. Sturges. Agnes J.; born, Nov. 10, 1854, married, Oct. 27, 1886, David 15. Ogden. Harriet R. ; born, Jan. 10, 1857, married, May 2, 1882, Daniel D. Telford. Frances; born, Sept. 5, 1 86 1 , married, Oct. 16, 1889, John M. Belden. Richard Henry; born, June 5, [866, unmarried. Sherman Piatt Fitch, born, Nov. 26, 1822 ; died Feb. 16, 1894. Edward S., son of Sherman P. and Sarah Maria Fitch, married, Xov. 16, 1870, Ella L. Chauncey of Brooklyn, L. I., and had ; Harry S., Maud and Ethel. The record, for public service, of the four successive Samuel Fitch generations, down to Edward S. Fitch, is somewhat unique. Samuel -'• was a well known colonial official. His son, Samuel 2d\ was a sergeant, in 1775, under Col. Israel Putnam. Joseph Piatt Fitch belonged to the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia, and Sherman Piatt Fitch received a lieutentant's commission, Aug. 15, 1843. FITCH-BELDEN DESCENT. Hannah, born, Sept. 15, 1776, oldest daughter of Timothy and Esther (Piatt) Fitch, and grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Fitch, was a widely related young woman. Her home was opposite the 1896 Strawberry Hill residence of the late Walter T. Gray, on the east side of the street. Her aunt Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Hanford) lived next door south of her father's home, in the door-yard which is shown to-day, and which was long occupied by her second cousin, the late Joseph Piatt Hanford 2d\ Her aunt Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Fitch 2d) lived on the fine Chestnut Hill elevation, a home often visited by Mrs. Samuel Fitch's sister-in-law, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers. Her aunt's Mary (Mrs. Jede- diah Hanford) and Ann (Mrs. Stephen Thatcher) and Hannah (Mrs.) Avery, completed the children of her Yale grandfather, Jos. Piatt 2d- Hannah Fitch descended directly from John Piatt lst- on her mother's side and from Thomas Fitch on her father's side. She married, as his second wife, Capt. Azor Belden 2d- of Wilton, and removed from Norwalk to the premises, fair to behold to-day, the handsome valley near Cannons station in the town of Wilton, through which beautifully winds the Norwalk River. Her husband was the son of Azor Belden ,st-, who was the son of William""' and Margaret (Arms) Belden, the first of the Belden name who settled in Wilton. William Belden 'st- was the son of Daniel Belden of Deerfield and the nephew of the brothers, John ,s'- and Samuel Belden151, who were the ear- M O R YV A L K . Iiest of all the Belden family to come to Xorwalk. John Belden '«• was the grandfather of the John Belden who married Rebecca Bartlctt. which Rebecca Belden's daughter, Man- Esther, became the wife of William St. John, who lived on the site of the present north corner of Morgan and East Avenue. 1 The children of Azor2dand Hannah (Fitch) Belden were George F. and Piatt Belden. Piatt Belden has no Xorwalk descent ; for children of George F.. see "Gov. Fitch Xorwalk IfgC) Blood " topic. A MATTHEW FITCH'*- DESCENT. Gen. I. — Thomas Fitch •• II.— -John"1- and Rebecca (Lindall) Fitch. ■• III. — John2d- and Lydia iHushnell) Fitch.