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Beach, first, and second, Mrs. Miles Merwin, an ancestress of the late S. Irenauis Prime). Mrs. Comstock's brother, John, had married, June 6, 1660, Hannah Clark, of Milford. and taken up his residence in Norwalk, and himself and w ife founded the Piatt family of this town. To Christopher and Hannah Comstock were born nine children, viz.: Daniel, July 21, 1664, who married, June 13, 1692, Elizabeth, born 1667, daughter of John and Judith (Turner) Wheeler, of Fairfield; Hannah, born July 15, 1666, who lived in Mil- ford; Abigail, born July 27, 1669, who died Feb. 9, 16S7; Mary (Mrs. James St. John), born Feb. 19, 1671 ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Ebenezer St. John), born Oct. 7, 1674; Mercy (Mrs. Nathan Olmstead), born Nov. 12. 1676 ; Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1680; Nathan and Moses, the last of whom was born 1684. Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Christopher and Hannah Comstock, married the brothers, James and Ebenezer, sons of Matthias St. John,"1- and grandsons of Matthias St. John, Sr., and settler. Mercy Comstock (daughter of Christopher) was the second wife of Nathan Olmstead. Her brother, Samuel, married Dec. 27, 1705, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford, and had Sarah, born Mar. 25, 1707, who married Daniel Betts, Jr., of Norwalk; Samuel, born Nov. 12, 1708; Mary (Mrs. John Trowbridge), born Aug. 5, 1710; Nathan, born 1713; Daniel; David, born 1720. Nathan and Moses Comstock were the two youngest sons of Christopher, Sr. Of the daughters of Christopher Comstock, Sr., Hannah resided elsewhere than in Norwalk and Abigail died a young lady (Feb. 9, 1689). Mary married at the age of al- most twenty-three (Dec. 18, 1693) James, son of Matthias St. John,2d- and had five sons, James, Daniel, Samuel, Moses and Nehemiah St. John. Her sister Elizabeth married her husband's brother, Ebenezer, and had Daniel, Jacob, Ezra and Jemima who married Matthew Fitch. Mercy Comstock, next daughter of Christopher, Sr., married, as his sec- ond wife. Nathan, son of James and Phcebe (Barlow) Olmstead, and grandson of Richard Olmstead, the settler. It was Nathan and Mercy (Comstock) Olmstead's daughter, Mercy, who married Moses St. John, whose daughter, Mercy, married Capt. Jabez Gregory. Samuel Comstock, '"'• son of Christopher. Sr., and brother of the just mentioned sisters, married at the age of twenty-five (Dec. 27, 170$), Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford. His children were Sarah, born March 25, 1707 (Mrs. Daniel Betts, Jr.,) Sam- uel ,!d- born Nov. 12, 1708; Mary (-Mrs. Daniel Trowbridge, of Danbury,) born Aug. 5, 1710; Nathan, born 1713; Lydia ; Daniel; David, born 1720. Moses Comstock, born [684-5, son °f Christopher, Sr.. and brother of Samuel,"'- married, Feb. 23, 1709-10, Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Sarah 1 Kellogg) Brinsmade, and grand-daughter of Daniel Kellogg, one of the Norwalk founders. His children were Sarah, Phoebe, Abigail, Hannah, Martha, Abijah, Moses, 2d- Dinah, Ruth. Of these daugh- ters Hannah married Phineas Hanford ; Martha married Ambrose Olmstead ; Dinah mar- ried, second wife. Rev. John Eells, and Ruth married James Richards. The will of Muses Comstock'8' was made January 24, 1754. and probated February ir. 1766. He died January 18, 1766. 252 NOR WALK. OF SAMUEL COMSTOCK'*'. DESCENT. Samuel Comstock, son of Christopher'*'- and Hannah (Piatt) Comstock, lived either upon or very near his father's home premises, and his father-in-law, Rev. Thos. Hanford, resided at the comer on the opposite side of the street. Here, in all probability, was born, in 17 1 3. a son, Nathan, whose destiny it was to found a large Wilton home. On March 7th, 1739, the young Nathan married Bethia, born 1714, daughter of Benajah Strong, of Fairfield. Nathan and Bethia Comstock chose for a residence the high land in North Wilton over against the Oblong. Their son Major Samuel Comstock, born 1739-40, grew to marry Mercy Mead and became a soldier-acquaintance of Gen. Lafayette, while their daughter, Mehitable, married, Oct. 28, 1762. John, son of Elnathan and Sarah (St. John I Hanford, which John and Mehitable (Comstock) Hanford brought up a large family on the present Lewis C. Green premises on the Winnipauk road (see note page 98). Major Samuel Comstock and his sister Mehitable had a brother, Benajah Strong, born 1755, who married July 22, 1773, Abigail, daughter of David and Mary (Slauson) Westcott. These had a son, Jabez Fitch, born Feb. 22, 1774, who was married, June 6, 1799, by the Rev. Hezekiah Ripley, to Amelia, daughter of Rev. George Ogilvie, rector 1790-96 of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, which Comstock-Ogil vie union introduces the ac- companying : OGILVIE FAMILY HISTORY Lancaster Symmes and Mary Lydias, of New York, were married Jan. 15, 1729, and had son Lancaster and daughters Elizabeth and Susanna Catherine. Elizabeth mar- ried Rev. Dr. Theodore F. Frelinghuysen, of Albany, and Susanna C. married, as his first wife, about 1756, Rev. Dr. John Ogilvie, of Trinity Parish, N. Y., and had George (Rev.) afterward of Norwalk. The first Mrs. Ogilvie died and her husband (Dr. John) married, second, April 15, 1769, Margaret Phillips, of ••Phillips Patent," Duchess County, N. V Frederick Phillips, oldest son of Frederick and Johanna (Brockholes) Phillips, was the last Lord of the Manor of Phillipsburgh (opposite West Point). At the time of the Revolution he espoused the King's cause, and as a consequence the Phillipsburgh estate, east of the Hudson, was confiscated. Frederick, its former Lord, went to England. His brother, Phillip Phillips, became owner of a goodly portion of the Highland Patent, and having married Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel Marston, of New York, occupied this magnificent property. He died young, May 9, ,768, was buried in the Marston vault in Trinity Church-yard. N. \\, and his widow married within a year. Rev. John Ogilvie, D D„ an incumbent, for a short time before the Revolutionary War, of St. Paul's Parish, Norwalk. Dr. Ogilvie died Nov. 26, 1774, but left no children by Margaret, his second wife. His widow repaired to the old PhUlips estate and there ended her days on Feb. ... «»,- By her first husband. Phillip Phillips, she had a son, Nathaniel, born Aug. 5. .756. NOR \V ALK 253 graduate of King's College (now Columbial of class of 1773, who became an officer in the British Army, and was killed when only 21 years old, at the Battle of Germantown. f Set- note page 1 361. It was somewhat after this that Thomas Hoyt, of Xorwalk, married into the family, and that his neighbors, Thomas and Amos Belden, became land stewards of the Phillips possessions. (See note page 96). Mrs. Ogilvie tenanted upon the Phillips, N. Y., estate until her decease, her dwell- ing being not far from Constitution Island on the Hudson. The donation received just after the Revolutionary War by St. Paul's Parish from '-Mrs. Ogilvie and Mr. Phillips'' was from this source. Mrs. Ogilvie visited her stepson, Rev. George Ogilvie, born 1758, son of Dr. John and Susanna C. Ogilvie, graduate of King's College, 1774, incumbent of St. Paul's Parish, Norwalk, from 1790 to 1796 and died April 3, 1797. He was twice married, and from his daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born July 30, 1779, by his wife, Amelia Willett, daughter of Dr. Cornelius Willett, Westchester Co., there is Norwalk descent. Elizabeth Ogilvie mar- ried, on Christmas eve, 1795, Thomas, son of Samuel Belden, of Wilton, and grandson of John and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, of Xorwalk, and had George Ogilvie, born in the spring of (March 28) 1797. George Ogilvie, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Belden, married July 19. 1821, Minerva Ann, only daughter of Elisha and Anna Heacock, of Washington, Litchfield County, Conn., and had Anne Eliza, born Oct. 17, 1822. Anne Eliza, only daughter of Hon. George O. and Minerva Ann Belden, married in St. Michael's Church, Litchfield. June 27. 1842, Edwin Belden Webster, of Litchfield, and had George Ogilvie Webster, born July 29. 1S43, U. S>. A.; Edwin Belden Webster, born March 7, 1858, U. S. N. The widow of Hon. George O. Belden died excellence-remembered in Norwalk, Sept. 9, 1874. Her daughter, the widow of Edwin Belden Webster, visited during his life time, her kinsman, the late Frederick Belden, of Norwalk, whose son, the late Webster Belden, took his first name from the Litchfield Webster family. Edwin Belden Webster, son of Edw in and Anne Eliza Belden, and a paymaster in the United States Navy, was a Norwalk school youth- Rev. Geo. Ogilvie's second daughter, Amelia, born Dec. 13, 1780, sister of Eliza- beth Ann, married, June 16, (799, Jabez Fitch Comstock, son of Benajah Strong Corn- stock, of North Wilton, and had John Ogilvie, born 1800; Elizabeth Ann; Samuel Wil- letts, born [805, a New York merchant (Howland, Aspinwall & Co.); Mary; George Christopher; Amelia Susan ; Alexander Adams ; Martha Maria ; William Ogilvie ; Wal- ter Bradley; Sarah, Margaret and Cornelius. William Ogilvie, born May 11,1815. son of Jabez Fitch and Amelia (Ogilviel Com- stock, married June 3, 1856. Margaret Eliot, born Oct. tl, 1831. daughter of Thomas and 2^4 NOR W A L K Hannah Dawes' (Eliot) Lamb, and had William Ogilvie Comstock, who married Jan. 8, 1890, Madelaine, daughter of William and Clara (Tilesoni Bryce, and had William Ogilvie and Clara Bryce. Thomas Hoyt. before noted, son of Goold and Elizabeth (Dimon) Hoyt, married, Jan. 1795. Elizabeth Phillips, of the same Oblong family. The Phillips blood, however, in Norwalk to-day, is not, at least to any great extent, that of the Ogil vie-Phillips family, but rather as here appears. THE EBENEZER PHILLIPS 1.INE.\(,E. Ebenezer and Philetus Phillips,' sons of William Phillips, of Smithtown, L. L, and grandsons of Rev. Geo. Phillips,* a great-uncle of Dr. John Phillips, the founder of Phil- lips Academy, of Exeter, Mass., married two sisters, the first, Mary, the second. Esther, daughters of Daniel Benedict,4 of Norwalk. The Phillips family were of Colonial fame. Rev. Geo., grandfather of Ebenezer Phillips, of Norwalk, was uncle of Hon. John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, and great-uncle of Hon. Samuel Phillips, who was father of Judge Samuel Phillips, and grandfather of Rt. Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, late Bishop of Massach u Setts,