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portion, said Jesse having died in New Vurk " without wife or children," it is inferred that these two were the only children by a last marriage. Seth, the fourth son, removed to Goshen, Conn., and to him fell the Dry Mill (Thatcher) property. John, the oldest son, married Abigail, daughter of Reuben and Eunice Taylor, and had: John, Keuben, Daniel, Peter, Abigail and Rhoda (llrv Ebenezer Thorp. lr,,). Fhineas married .1 Smith, and was the father .»f Philip "Lockwood, Lorn .766, who mar- ried a Sncll, i;do. and had Ann. born M,mh jjr, 170.. who mar- ried Capt. lohn hurry, and had Catherine Ann, born Feb. 16, 1S00, who married James Wilcox and had Marie Louise, who married t urds Thumps., n, of the 1S96 Bridgeport law firm of Thompson, Wakeman & Thompson. Hannah, daughter of John Lockwood, .si. married James Smith, grandfather of the present Edmund Smith (so,, of Jim. L. Smith), of East Norwalk. which Edmund ovcuptc- hi- father's premises. 264 NORWALK. OF COMSTOCK-BETTS BLOOD. James St. John,2'1' son of Matthias,*1 and grandson of Matthias St- John ,'-'• mar- ried, Dec. 1 8, 1693, Mary, daughter of Christopher and Hannah Comstock. These had a daughter, Hannah, named for her Comstock grandmother, who married a Mead, and had Thaddeus, who married, July 27th, 1748, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Betts,2'1' (son of Samuel'"1' and grandson of Thomas'"- and Mary Betts). Thaddeus and Rebecca Mead had several children, among whom were Rebecca (Mrs. Phineas Keeler) ; Sabra (Mrs. David DeForest) ; Phcebe and Jasper. Jasper married, April 8, 1779, Elizabeth Bene- dict. He is reputed to have been one of the original members of the Connecticut Cincin- nati, and to have had a son, Thaddeus, born March 16, 1781, who married Electa.' daugh- ter of Xathan and Mar}' (Smith) Dauchv, of Ridgefield, to whom was born, June 21, 1 S 1 3, Man- Elizabeth, who married the widely-known Dean Richmond, of New York State, formerly President of the New York Central Railroad. When Jasper Mead was a young man he parted with a handsome Saratoga County, N, Y., property, and had made over to him several Norwalk pieces of real estate. His father belonged in Norwalk, but he resided in Ridgefield, and the family had an interest in the ancient and modern extensive forest tract which lays immediately west of the 1896 "Cannons" Station of the Danbury division of the Consolidated road, and is known as •' Rock House Woods." Here, as long ago as the days of Gov. Thomas Fitch was built, in the wild solitude, a habitation, probably a woodman's shelter. Rebecca, sister of Joseph Mead, married, July 9, 1775, as his second wife, Phin- eas, son of Luke Keeler. Mr. Keeler had first married, May 16, 1769, Mary Camp, of the Milford-Norwalk branch. There were two children by this union, Luke and Anna. Luke, born Feb. 15, 1770, married May 20, 1793, Jemima, born Aug. 29, 1774, daughter of Stephen, son of Samuel Benedict, and was the Ohio Keeler emigrant, who like the Sherman's, left for the West in a "prairie schooner," and was one of the founders of Nor- walk. Ohio. By the Mead union there were two Keeler children, Phcebe Baxter and 'Samuel. born Jul, ,, ,769, brother of Electa of ,ohn \Vate,-l>,uy, of Darien, Conn. Chas. Dauchv (Dam-by) Mead manned, Dec. 6, ,789, Mary, daugh- j and hi. bru.her George were well known merchant* er ol col I H.l.p Burr Bradley, whose Ridgefield j and citizens of Troy, N, Y Nathan, the oldest son home was the sue of the present Billow residence of Charles and Hannah Maria Dauchv, resides at n,"« ' T'1' , 1 S:"" a'Ul Ma' V 1>lm- *° P'-^»l time in Darien. George", brother of chy was horn July „ ,8oo, Samuel,^. u.ho married ! Charles Dauchv, married 1*1,., v Ann. daughter of Clanssa Kellogg, of Galway, N. V. Mr. Lewis Richards, of Trov, N. Y.,\.nd had Ruth, who ). u h died June ». hi. Wldow married I married Edward C. Ha.tison, of commercial and C.„,t. L. II. 1 upper, of Iroy, N. Y„ and a Hudson | social standing in Trov, and her brother Henrv II. \ niminon, ui- nr^t ■ .......... 1 v? ,,, , i-i 1 >u«.i;ti «[;imiimr in iroy, unit her brother Heniv n.. N. nltn*™^ Un,k"OWn N"nVillU' 1 who Cordelia,' daughter of the late S. R. P. Tl ddeu T,d' E la',r" br0ther0fM'S- >m[ "«! *™™ ( Kee ler ) Camp, of Norwali, lev, „, Ridgefield, and h.d Cll t . " * ^ Ed*««> '»». {»™^> "< »« ^'»<? ley, of Ridgefield, and had Chas, bom me „ Z' » i T , ' '"""^ '"' l"C" FMM ^'T' who mnried o,-, •,„ ,i ,, , ' ' 5' B;lnk, Norwalk. Louis R., son of Edward and Mary WHO ma.iud Ou. 30, 1833, Hannah .Maria, daughter Mill v i, i , , , u.tu^on 1 Mill, was .1 .Norwalk school hov. X () R W A L K Thaddeus M. Sabra, another sister of Joseph Mead, married, as before stated, David Forest.1 Toll)' Dauchy, sister of Electa (Mrs. Thaddeus Mead), married Gould, son of Lieut. James Rockwell, of Ridgefield, and was the mother of the late venerable Gould Rockwell, of Ridgefield. Nathan Dauchy, the father of Electa and Polly, was the son of Vivas Dauchy, the Ridgefield Huguenot settler of that name. Said Vivas emigrated from New Rochelle to Ridgefield and married, first, Rachel, daughter of James and Marv (Hyatt I Wallace, of North Salem, N. Y. The Wallaces' were originally from Xorwalk, and the ancestors of the present Mrs. Josiah R. Marvin, of East Xorwalk. // a .1/ /•; - /. o r x i r N ATI I A N IEL RK'I I A RUN. This home-lot father was forty-eight years old when he was, in 1652, assigned a Norwalk home-lot. He had twenty years before landed, (Sept. 16, 1632) with his first wife in Boston. He came, well accredited, to the colon)- and selected for his first home- seat the present site of Harvard College, at Cambridge.3 When Thomas Hooker, in 1632. made his wilderness-pilgrimage to Hartford Mr. Richards helped make up the party and was elected "orderer," or selectman, of that new town. He came with the pioneers to Xorwalk and felled the trees and drained the land pertaining to his set-off acres fronting to-day the meadows of Oscar Raymond. Mr. Richards married, second, .March 15, 1663, Rosamond, the widow of Deacon Henry Lindall,4 of Xew Haven, and w as consequently JThe Norwalk DeForest family originated in Stratford. Tin* line, which has it.- proper place in . Norwalk history, is genealogically all important one, ami includes the story of the Bridgeport and New York City DeForests. ^James Wallace, as the tradition runs, was sailing ! through Long Island Sound and because, perhaps of the weariness of the trip or of his love of adventure, left the vessel as it passed the Norwalk Islands and was landed upon the Norwalk coast, lie here formed the acquaintance of Marv, daughter of Th-i: and Mary (St. John) Hyatt, and was married to her. Mrs. Mary Hyatt was a daughter of Matthias St. John, son of Matthias, 'st. so that the young stranger must have heen well thought of. James and Marv Wallace had a daughter, Rachel, horn 1711, who married Vivas Dauchy, of Ridgefield. -Hit* was so strongl v endorsed that " probation " trial was dispensed with in his case and he was al- lowed to take the "Freeman's oath" shortly (twenty days) after his arrival, lie built his house in Cam- bridge and there was neighbor to Rev. Thos. Hooker anil Gov. John llavnes. lie seems to have come to Norwalk before he was formally dismissed (Oct. 11. 1658,) from his last residence, Hartford. There is no American record of bis children. -tllenrv Lindall, who belonged to the rich New Haven Colony and was a deacon in the first Church of that Colony, left, at his decease in New Haven, a widow and four children, every one of which surviv- ors married in Norwalk. The mother accepted the proffer of Nathaniel Richards, and her daughter, Re- becca, wedded the voting John, son of Thos. Fitch, the so considered, opulent Fitch founder of Nor walk. Jho. and Rebecca had a son, Nathaniel, named most probably, for his step-grandfather Richards. The young Nathaniel Fitch and bis wife, Anna, had a son whom they named Lindall (after the lad's Lindall grandmother). Lindall grew to propose wedlock to Mary, daughter of John Harriett, and grand-daughter of Will. Havnes, and a daughter, Elizabeth, blessed this blood union of five well-known N. E. families. At the age of about sixteen Elizabeth Fitch (step- niece of Mrs John Belden,3<t- uf Norwalk) married a New Canaan man of twenty two years, Justus, son of Zerubbabel and Dorothy Hovt, and the father of the to-dav recalled New Canaan " Miller Hovt." whose quaint establishment utilized the Five Mile River water at a point a little southeast of the present New Canaan business center. |iistus Hovt and his Elizabeth Fitch wife chose for a family -eat the level -ince known as the liellj. 266 X O R W A L K step-father to her four daughters (see page 12 1) who married in Xorwalk. He died in 1681, and having mentioned his step-children in his will, he made bequeathments to Samuel Hayes and to " Rebecc Garcet now Rebecca Weller." He also left the sum of £10 to his minister, Rev. Thos. Hanford. Nathaniel Richards was one of the early Xorwalk millers, as per foot note on page 35, and was also active in the interests of the town. The Xorwalk Richards' are the descendants of Samuel (no relative it is probable of Nathaniel) Richards, who married, first, March 4, 1714, Elizabeth, born 1692, daughter of John Latham, of Xorwalk; and, second, the widow Abigail Peck. The first Mrs. Samuel Richards died in I 75 I. Samuel and Elizabeth Richards had ten children. NOME-L 0 T XV RICHARD OLMSTKAD.