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and Hannah Richards made eligible purchase and the Isaac Richards acres is in Mr. Richard's great ounded ,„,,- .,, the mos, peaceful of homes a little to grandson's (Dr. Samuel St. Job.,*-) name. -in eT 1 „ 7„ " ' • K" °ld h°USe- '™' ^unges, daughter of Edmond Warren, ir.nne .,.„,..-. fallen to ,,,,-ce- but children-, child- Sr., married a brother of her sister Abigail's bus- NORW ALK. 269 Eliakim, lst* ninth child of Edmond and Elizabeth Warren, was but a youth when the family removed to Norwalk. Hard by his father's house lay the Reed family seat, the founder of which was Jno. Reed, Sr., whose grandson. Jno. (son of Thos.), had a daughter, Anne, who, on Dec. 7, 1738, was married to EHakim Warren, ,st- the union-offspring being : Zaccheus, born Oct. 19, 1 741 . Anne, baptized July 30, 1749. Jesse, born June 14, 1744. Abigail, baptized March 29, 1752. Eliakim, 2d- born Feb. 9, 1747. Moses, baptized Dec. 29, 1754. Hannah, baptized Apr. 6, 1757. Eliakim, 2d- whom Rev. Moses Mather, of Middlesex (Darien), baptized1 at one band, Capt. James Richards, of New Canaan. The Captain was horn Oct. 29, 1723. He was thrice mar- ried, but by Hannah Warren, his first wife, lie had Jas. Richards,2d- born Dec. 9, 1744, who married Feb. 27, 1766, Ruth daughter of Samuel Hanford, and had James (D.D.), horn Oct. 29, 1767. The Richards de- scendants of Edmond Warren through his daughter Hannah as well as through Abigail, were notable. Capt. James Richards2d- began life as a clerk, becom- ing afterward a soldier and sailor. He was present, in arms, at the invasion of Dan bury and Norwalk. His vessel brought from England the mother of a Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Elizabeth Walmsley, who, dying in Fairfield County (Seward house, north of Smith's Ridge) is buried near the entrance of the old St. Mark's Cemetery on Hay nes Ridge, New Canaan. The wife of Capt. James Richards,3*1- Ruth Hanford, was a daughter of Samuel, and grand-daughter of Eleazer, and a great grand-daughter of Rev. Thos. Hanford, of Norwalk. Ruth II an ford's mother was a daughter of Moses Comstock. Rev. Dr. James Richards, son of Capt. James,2d- was born Oct. 29, 1767, and became an eminent Professor of Divinity in the Presbyterian Seminary at Auburn, N. Y. He is buried in the Auburn Cemetery near the tomb of Ed- win Hall, D.D., formerly pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, of Norwalk, and in later life an Auburn Seminary Professor. Both Connecticut di- vines sleep within a short distance of the ingeniously stone-heaped memorial to the Indian Logan. 'Eliakim Warren2*1- had, before marriage, belong- ed to the Middlesex (Darien) Church, of which body the Warrens had, evidently, been strong supporters.* Mr. Warren had now, however, wedded an Episco- palian, and in 1787, was elected Vestryman of St. *At a meeting of the Consociation of the Western Churches of Fairfield County, convened at Middlesex, June 5 and 6, 1744, and under the direction of such divines as Jno. Ingersall, Robt. Silliman, Moses Dickinson and Noah Hobart, and to which such laymen as Col. Thomas Fitch, of Norwalk, and Matthew Gregory, of Wilton, and Ebenezer Carter, of New Canaan, were " Messengers," Edmond and Eliakim Warren (ist.) were the chosen Middlesex delegates to enter, with the other lav mes- Paul's, Norwalk. Eleven years afterward he removed to Troy, N. Y., and there was instrumental in the or- ganization of Lhe first Episcopal Parish of that new centre. Mrs. Warren's sister, Hannah, had married Jonathan Camp, 3d- of Norwalk, the sister of whom, Rebecca, was Mrs. Daniel Nash, of Westport, who was careful to recount to her children the following facts relating to the Troy Church : After the settling of the Warrens in Troy they were visited by their Conn, relatives, at the close of one of which visits Mrs. Warren journeyed down the Hudson (by sloop) with her company and during the trip gave expres- sion to the thought uppermost in her mind, viz. (see note page 57) that efforts looking to the erection of a Church in Troy ought at once be made, and the wish that the same might be modeled after their old spirit- ual home in Norwalk. In confirmation of this state- ment, fresh to this day in the remembrance of the Nash household, it may be remarked that the original St. Paul's, Troy (cor. Third and Congress Sts.), cor- responded in size with the Norwalk St. Paul's of that dav (supposed to have been the earliest consecrated Episcopal Church in America) and was its architect- ure-second. The circular-headed windows were of like pattern (Mrs. Nash's husband designed the Nor- walk heads) and the chancel was almost the exact counterpart of that of the Norwalk sanctuary, while the pews preserved, to the last, much of their New England-like arrangement and appearance. As the worshipers entered these and silently knelt around the little table in the centre, covered with a green fabric, and spread with the family prayer-book, one was happily and helpfully reminded of the godly simplicity and sincerity of the fathers' times.t One part of this Troy structure was quietly denominated sengers, into solemn covenant relation " according to the con- stitution of the Churches i» this government." The wives of Edmond and EHakim Warren ist. were, at that time, added to the Church by letters of recommendation. •(■The family pew, in this old Church,. of Hon. G. M. Tibbits, preserved, until the Church was taken down, its reverent style- appropriateness. The Church faced south. The tower in the Norwalk Church was at the west end. NORWALK. month, lacking one day, of age, grew up near neighbor to Esaias Bouton, whose daugh- ter, Phoebe, he married Jan. 17, 1771. Phoebe was only seventeen when her partner took her from her seaside home (see page 5 5 ) to be his bride, but she proved one of the truest of wives and women. The children, all born in Korwalk, were : Esaias. born Oct. 16, Iff I. Nathan, born May I, 1777. Hannah. b. July 19, 1773 ; d. Jan. 1775. Stephen, born Mar. 9. 1783. Hannah,*1 b. Aug. 30, 1775 ; d. 1776. Hannah, sd- born July 9, 1793. In 1798 Eliakimjd- and Phoebe (Bouton) Warren, with their children, broke up the Norwalk hearthstone to take up their abode in the new city of Troy, Rensselaer County, Xew York. They had just had a sailing vessel built for them at Rowayton' aboard of which, quitting their native, Sound-skirted hearthstone, they embarked, bound for their future habitation on the east bank of the upper Hudson, where it was to fall to the family to establish a name of great worth and weight and to lead in the origination of one of the most important ecclesiastical organizations of the Empire State. ESAIAS WARREN. Esaias, oldest son of Eliakim Warren,"1- was married when the sails of the " Three Brothers " were hoisted in the Norwalk Harbor, and the vessel's prow was Troy-pointed. " Norwalk," as there sat the Warrens, Rontons, Kel- loggs, Crafts and Cannons, who emigrated from the mother town. At the first recorded Troy administra- tion of the Holy Communion three lay members par- took thereof, two of the three being Eliakim and Phu.be Warren, The Warren family sailed out of Norwalk harbor (Rowayton 1896) in 1798, and made the entire trip to Tmv by water. The party was composed of the parents and their children. The oldest son, Esaias, had anticipated the family's Troy-arrival. Upon reaching the place they found it as the son, Ks.n'as, had reported, a growing village, and the father with his suns became mercantile-engaged under the firm name of "E. Warren & Co." Ksaias had married the year before the family's Nurwalk-departure. The two other son-. Nathan and Stephen, married later. Of the three sisters in-law, the Mrs. Esaias, Nathan and Stephen Warren, two were from Conn, and one from the Slate of New York. Mrs. Esaias Warren (l.vdia Scofield) was from the Bells, who were stir- ring citizens. Capt. James Bell (see note page 941 was an alert man, and through the instrumentality of Mrs. Warren's active second cousin, lion. Thaddcus Bell, the name Darien was made to supplant that of Middlesex. Mrs Nathan Warren (Marv Bouton) was, on her mother's side, a Burlock. This is a name ancestral with a large branch of the Deforest faiuilv also Mr-, lienj. Deforest, of year- agone, whose elegance is Fairfield County-remembered, was a Bur- lock maiden, whom her destined partner found near the northern confines of older Norwalk. Mrs. Na- than Warren, whose mother was Abigail Burlock, was of a deeply spiritual nature, and her life was conse- crated to religion. Mrs. Stephen Warren (Mary Cor- nell Mabbett) was a Rensselaer County daughter of worth and womanly dignity. She impressed one, but at the same time her manner-grace put one entirely at ease in her presence. 'Eliakim Warren, 2d- had an older Norwalk cousin who lived in his not distant vicinity. Joseph, lst son of Edmond,2fl- who was an uncle of Eliakim Warren. 2(1- This Joseph'"- was the grandfather of the well-known and to-day wellremembered Samuel B. Warren, of Flax Hill. Joseph Warren,2j- son of Joseph,"'- was accustomed to tell of the kinship between his own and the family of Joseph, the father of Maj. General Warren, of 1775. This Joseph, 2£l- second cousin of Eliakim,"!. was, at the date of the latter s Troy-emi- gration, owner of the Norwalk and New York packet line, which was composed of the two sloops, "Grif- fin " and " Republican." His descendants insist upon the Massachusetts-Warren relationship. 'This sloop was named the "Three Brothers '' It was 50 ft. keel, 20 ft. beam and 6 ft. hold and rated 64 tons. Henry Johnson, Jr., was the builder, and it was completed July 3, 1797. Five Mile River (Ro- wayton 1896) was convenient to Long Island Sound. 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