Norwalk

'Mrs. Jane Newberry (Mrs. John Warham, sec- ond,) had no grandchildren through her daughter, the first Mrs. Thos. Han ford. Her direct Norwalk descendants (through the Keelers) lived in different parts of the town, largely at the lower end of the present Belden avenue. Among her Fairfield Coun- ty affinity-representatives are the descendants of Rev. Thomas Hawley, of Ridgefield. Her grand-daughter Rebecca, married Lieut. Joseph Hawley, a son of Capt. Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, and a broth- er of Rev. Thomas Hawley, the first pastor of Ridge- field, whose Norwalk descent opens up quite a genealogy-field. The Hawleys, station-wise, talent- wise and principle-wise, were notable progenitors. Rev. Thomas, a Harvard, 1709, graduate, belonged to the unimpeachable-character class of men, concern- ing one of whom (a relative of his) a Northampton Indian, on a certain occasion, remarked that he was " Englishman's god." He married a young lady six vears younger than himself, Abigail, grand-daughter of Major Nathan Gold, a scholarly and oppulent gen- tleman and a leading man in Colonial times. Mr. Gold was a King Charles Charter petitioner, " which petition was signed by no gentleman unless he had sustained a high reputation in England before he came to New England." He became proprietor of the fine Fairfield estate previously owned by the founder of Norwalk (Ludlow) where he died on the first Sunday of the Spring of 1693-4. His namesake and only son, Nathan, Jr., married a maiden, born Dec. 8, 1663, daughter of Col. John Talcott, of Hart- ford, and whose Wakeman mother was great-aunt to the first Mrs. John Cannon, of Norwalk. Nathan^, and Hannah Gold's oldest child, Abigail, married Rev. Thos. Hawley, of Ridgefield, and founded the XORWA L K widow of Thomas Xcwberry, of Dorchester, Mass. Jane's daughter, Hannah Newberry,' was the first wife of Rev. Thomas Hartford, of Norwalk, at whose Nonvalk home Mrs. Jane Warham died, as before mentioned, April 23, 1655. which distinguished personage probably sleeps beneath the unmarked and prostrate slab (lSg6) in the middle of the East Nonvalk cemetery. This Norwalk sleeper's daughter, Hester, baptized Dec, 8, 1644, married, first, Rev. E. Mather, and second, Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass.. and lived to the age of ninety-one or two. Mrs. Hester Stoddard was a remark- able woman. Her husband was one of the early scholar-controversalists of the New World, and her daughter Esther the mother of President Jonathan Edwards. Esther Stoddard, daughter of Rev. Solomon and Hester, was educated, as was also her gifted sis- ter, Hannah, in Boston. Both girls were under tutorage in that Capital during the Har- vard College membership of the renowned Timothy Edwards, of Windsor, and William Williams, Jr., of Weston, Mass. The talented young ladies became acquainted with the married Joseph William Bissell, and had sons Clark (Hon. Clark Bissell, of Norwalk), born, Sept. 7, 1782. Emery (Dr. Emerv), of Norwalk and Levaret, of New York. Hon. Clark Bissell was married in Greens Farms, April 29, 1 S 1 1 , to Sally, daughter of lion. S. B. Sherwood, of Wt-^tport, and occupied first, in Nor- walk, the Rogers' Main St. house, then the recent Cowles place, until their future home (on the Bis- sell corner at the lower end of the Green) should be completed. Dr. Emery Bissell owned the East Ave- nue premises known, in 1896, as the First Congreg:i- ional parsonage. Gov. Clark Bissell's children were and are, Rev. Samuel B. S., born Feb. 16, 1812; Ed ward C, born Aug. ■ , 1822; Geo. A., born Aug. 27. 1825; Mary E., (Mrs. Charles O. C. Betts) born Fell. 22, 1827, Charlotte C, (Mrs. Hon. O. S. Kerry) born Dec. iS, 1S2S, and Arthur I lenrv, born May seventh, l%r. Tin- children of Dr. Emery and Mary (Ihm'«) Bissell were: George, died young; William K. ; Henry; Mary ; Harriet ; Julia. The two brothers, Hon, Clark and Dr. Emerv, resided near each other, and were held in high personal and professional es- teem. Their wives were of great character-excel- lence and their children, the cousins, have been ad- mirable members of society. Samuel ( Rev. ), oldest son of Hon. Clark and Sally Ui-sell, gave high thought, excellent preparation and his high reputa- tion to the claims of his sacred calling. Ilis faith- ful and fruitful ministerial life was passed in Vir- ginia and in his native Connecticut. lie married, first, Fanny M , daughter of Renssalaer Havens, of N. V , and had Ellen A. (Mrs. Brayton Ives); Sam- uel S.; Kate Havens (Mrs. LeGrand Lock wood, Jr. ;j Renv^;ilaer; Clark; Fanny (Mrs. C. Cuyler Patter- son) ; Mon is J. ; Frederick P. ; Howard 11. He mar- married, second, Fanny, daughter of James Miller, of Newark. N. J., and had James Miller, who died yo ung. ?44 Ilawlev family hearthstone in that upland town. The first daughter horn to them (New Year's day, 1716,) was named for her mother, and married, when just under twenty two, Peter, son of Eliphalet and Mary (Gold) Lockwood, of Norwalk, and grandson of Ephraim Lockwood, the --el tier. Peter and Abi- gail Lot kwood's second child, Eliphalet, born Oct. 17, 174.1, married, Jan. 8, 1766, Susannah, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Susannah (Selleck) St. John, and had Buckingham, born, Dec. 23, 1774, who was the father of the present Col, Frederick St. John Lock- wood, of East Avenue. Thos. Ilawlev, Jr., born Feb. 22, 1722, son of Rev. Tim*., of Ridgetield, married Elizabeth Gould, who wa- three \ ears his junior. The-e had a daugh- ter, Abigail, l">rn Oct. 24, 1749, who married James, I born June 9, 1750, -on of Thos. and Ruth (Benedict) Rockwell, and had Anna, born March 21, 1774. who ] married Jacob, -on of Jacob and Freelove Nash, and i had Capt. Daniel K. Nash, who died in South Nor- | walk, Oct. is. 1S64. 'Hannah's sister, Marv, married, June 1 it, [644. Cup: Daniel Clarke, who came at sixteen vears of .igr from Warwickshire, England, with Rev. Ephraim Unit, Aug. 17, 1639. This wa.* the young Clarke's ir-i marriage, by which he had ten children, among whom was John,1-1' born Apr. 10, ]6;b This |ohn Clarke married, in 1.685, Mary, born, Oct 1665, daugh- ter of Christopher and Marv (Burr) Crow, of Hart- ford. Mary Crow's father, Christopher, is conjectur- ed to have been the youngest child of John and Eliza- beth Crow , who settled in ifiyS. in Charlestown, Ma^.. and, in 1639.111 Han lord. Conn. John'st. ;r.nl M.iri j Clarke had a son, Daniel, born the last dav of 1704, ' who married, Nov. 11, 1731, K-ther Bridge, and had I Dmiel, liorn at Godien, in the town of Lebanon, Apr. I. 1734. This son married, Nov. 24, 17^7, Eliza- beth Abel, and had daughter B-N.-y, born 17^9, who NORWALK. ^45 two named clever young gentlemen who enthusiastically offered to assist the diligent sis- ters in their student-work. The offer was accepted and the result was a development, mind-wise, that so astonished their learned parent as to cause him to at once write to his daughters for an explanation of their remarkable success. "Mot alone," was their memor- able reply to their father, " not alone." Esther married Mr. Edwards and her sister mar- ried Mr. Williams. Esther's son, Jonathan, was afterward the Xorthampton, Mass., di- vine of wide reputation, President Jonathan Edwards, and her grand-daughter Esther married President Aaron Burr, w hile her next younger grand-daughter, Mary, married Col. Timothy Dwight, who was the father of Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., President 1 795- 1817 of Yale College. Anna Williams, a daughter of Rev. Win. Williams, jx.. married Col. Oliver Partridge, of the first Colonial Congress. Their daughter Elizabeth married Dr. Erastus Sargeant, Sr., whose son, Dr. Erastus, Jr., married Margaret, daughter of Stephen'51- and Margaret (Pynchon) Kecler, of Xorwalk, which Stephen Keeler'st- was the son of Matthew,'"1 who was the son of Samuel"1, and Sarah (Betts) Keeler, of Xorwalk first, and Ridgefield afterward. Mrs. Stephen Keelerl,t- was Margaret, one of the four daughters of Dr. Joseph and Mary .Cotton 1 Pynchon. KEEI.ER-I'YNCHON DKSCEST. Judge William Pynchon. born about 1590, came from Essex Co., England, in 1630, and was one of the first settlers of Springfield, in 1637. His wife was Ann Andrews. To Judge William and Ann Pynchon was born, in 1627. John Pynchon (Col.) who was for a half-century a magistrate of Springfield. Col. John married, Oct. 30, 1645, Amy, daughter of Gov. George Wyllis, of Hartford. The marriage took place about one and one-half years after the decease of the bride's father, Gov. Wyllis. Col. and " most wor- shipful " John and Amy Pynchon had a son, John (Col. John3di ), born 1648, who married Margaret, daughter of Rev. William and Margaret (Rogers! Hubbard. Mrs. Rev. William Hubbard was a sister of Rev. John Rogers, the president of Harvard College, and a daughter of Rev. Xathaniel and Margaret Crane Rogers. Col. John2'1 and Margaret Pynchon had a son. John!d- (Col. John*""), who married Bathshua, daughter of Rev. Ed- ward and Elizabetli (Fitch) Taylor,' of Westfield, Mass. Elizabeth Fitch was the daugh- ter of James Fitch, of Norwich. Col. John"1- and Bathshua Pynchon had a son, Joseph, (Dr. Joseph), before mentioned, born 1706, who married Mary Cotton, widow of T. Cheney, of Brookfield, Mass. Dr. Joseph and Mary Pynchon had four daughters, viz., 'Rev. Edward Taylor's second wife was Ruth, daughter „f Samuel and Ruth (Havnes) Wyllis. Samuel Wyllis was sun of Gov. George Wyllis, of Conn., and Rmh llavnes was daughter of Gov. John and Mabel llarlakenden Havnes. of Mass. and Conn. Rev. Edward and Ruth Taylor had Kejiah, born 1702, who married Rev. Isaac Stiles, and was the mother of President Ezra Stiles, ..f Yale College, who was succeeded in that office by Dr. Timothy Dwight. Dr. Dwight, through his wile's mother, had something of a Norwalk patrimony. There is no known record of Rev. Edward and Mrs. Taylor's visits to their Fairfield L'uuntv great grand-children, but old family traditions are valued and preserved by their descendants, Mrs. Guv. John J. Bagley. of Michigan, and Mrs. Judee Austin Adam-, of Iowa. 24<3 NOR W A L K .