Norwalk

i-frtl ri<l " hfTi TtMf Orilirr *iili- ■>> 1 In' tW* i*VWl*(M*fj«i tli* ronilWM * . • . Ei i k-ml- i -milli | I" Ril^ilM Mill. NORWALK, 271 He had previously visited Troy, and, encouraged by the outlook, arranged for the family's removal thither. His bride, who was born on the brow of the hill on the old Mid- dlesex road, a little to the east of the Middlesex Church, was a daughter of Gershom and Lydia (Bell) Scofield. Mrs. Gershom Scofield, born Xov. 2, 1750, and the daughter of Jonathan' and Lydia (Hoyt) Bell, lived to a great age. Her family was broadly known. Esaias and Lydia Warren were married in Middlesex on Jan. 1 1 | according to Church record), 1797, and had : Geo. Bouton, born Sept. 25, 1797. Eliza Ann, born March 22, 1801. (Mrs. John Paine.) Phoebe, born Sept. 6, 1804. Lydia, born Dec. 27. 1808. (Mrs. Benj. Ogle Taylor,) (Mrs. Alfred Itrouks.) Wm. Henry, born July 28, 1814. Geo. B., oldest child of Esaias and Lydia Warren, and born the autumn before the major portion of the family left Norwalk, became a citizen of large interests and influence in his parents' new home. He was a director of the old Troy Insurance Co., Troy City Bank, Troy Gas Light Co., an officer of the Troy Street Railway Co., and the type of a gentleman of a half-century ago. He married, first. Sept 15, 1823, Mary Meyers Bowers, of Cooperstown. N. Y., and, second, Emily Bowers Collins, of the same place. His child- ren were John E./ born 1827, Geo. B.. Jr.,3 born 1S28, Chas. S., born 1832, and Man B.t (Mrs. J. A. Mantling), born 1836. Eliza Ann, oldest daughter of Esaias and Lydia Warren, married John Paine, of Troy, and lived in affluence on the corner of First and State Streets. As a girl, Eliza A. (with her sister, Phoebe,) visited Norwalk (see note page 56) and in later life dignificd- ly filled her place in society Her sons, John and Warren, were well-known Troy young men, and her daughter Elizabeth was a social favorite. This daughter married Commo- dore Cicero Price, U. S. N., and had Lillian W., who married, first, Louis Carre Ham- mers!)', whose great-uncle's striking portrait adorns Norwalk private walls, and, second, the Duke of Marlborough. Phcebe, second daughter of Esaias and Lydia Warren, married Bciij. Ogle Tayloe, of the United States Capital, and her sister, Lydia, married Alfred Brooks, of Medford. 'From existing Stamford and Norwalk Bell rec- ords it appears that Mrs. Esaias Warren's Ml de- scent is from Francis Hell, the pioneer, through said Francis' son, Jonathan's!- and (Mercie (Crane) Bell. Jonathan,*', born Feb. 14, 1663, son of Jonathan, >>l- inarried, March 22d, 1693, Grace Kitchell, anil had Jonathan,]''- born Jan. 15, 1693-4. Jonathan.!'1- married Eunice Reed, of Norwalk, and had Jonathan-"*- who was Mrs. Warren's grandfather on the Bell side. Martha, sister of Jonathan was the grandmother of lion. John Cotton Smith. "John Esaias Warren married, 1853, Charlotte R. Crain, of Herkimer, N, Y., and had Mary Narina, born 1855, died 1895; Paul Warren, born 1830. 3George Bouton Warren, Junior, married, 1S56, Eugenia Phcebe Taylor, of Washington, D. C, and had Mary Bowers, born 1839: Anna Tayloe, born 1863; Ogle Tayloe, bom 1S66; George Thornton, born 1868; Eugene, born 1873, 4Mary Bowers Warren, married, 1861, John A. Manning, of Troy, N. Y., and had George Warren, born 1862; William Henry, born 1X67 ; Marv Emilv. born 1871; Charles Stewart, born 1S76, died 1893, a youth of seventeen; Jennie B.; Mary C. NORWALK. Mass. Geo. B. Warren, Sr., and his three sisters had a young hrother, Wm. Henry, born July 28, 1 8 14. who did not live to see twelve months of age. NATHAN WARREN. Three days after the British had passed through alarmed upper Nonvalk on their retreat from the burning of Danbury, and in the Roton-Middlesex neighborhood, which so broadly commanded Long Island Sound and the enemy's rendezvous on the thither side of the same, was born, Thursday, May I. 1777, Nathan, the second son of Kliakim-''1- and Phoebe Warren. Nathan was a young man of twenty-one w hen he embarked with his father's family for Troy. He had been in Troy ten years, when on April 24, 1S08, he mar- ried his cousin Mary, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Burlock) Bouton. Nathan Bouton, brother of Phcebe (Mrs. Eliakim Warren 1, had, like his father, a fondness for the water. Their home was at the bay's edge (sec page 55) and tradition tells of the young Nathan's adventure-aptness. On Dec. 12, 1782, at the age of twenty-six, he was married by the Rev. Wm. Bloomer, of Long Island, to Abigail Burlock, born 1763, of the old Norwalk Burlock household.' Two children were born to them, Mary (Mrs. Nathan Warren), April 2 [ , 1789, and Esther (Mrs. LeGrand Cannon),2 July 13, 1793. 'The Burlocks, were, it is supposed, an Eng- li-h family. Job Burlock, the lather of Mrs. Nathan Bouton, had three sons, Thomas, William and Sam- uel, and two daughters, Abigail (Mrs. Bouton) and, it is believed. Esther. Job and Esther Burlock, nephew and niece of Silas Hirkirc,* held Norwalk lands, but Mr. Burlock was crown-lnval, and, conse- quently, after returning from the English provinces at the close of the Revolution, failed to recover his New England properly. Mrs. Nathan Boutnn's bro- ther, Thomas, married one of the eleven Litvton daughters of Long Island. These ladies were re- markable in that every one of the sisters lived to pass swenty-five years of age. Brought up on the highest land in Long Island, the family was a hardy one, and has h;ui a vigorous descent. The "blue eved Lav- tons" of the Civil War of the present century's "Six- ties" are to day referred to. Of Mr-, Boulnn's bro- tilers, Tho- and S uel married Lay tons. No rec- ord is found of William's marriage, Thos. became a New York City merchant and had a daughter Man', who, because of her beauty and splendid health (she was acquainted with Fairfield County and was a fine saddle ruler) was marriage- nought by Benj. DeFnr- est, who was born July 16, 1771, and was a son of 'Silii. Hickox, born Jan. s. 17 14-1 wa- the oldest son of j Belli, and Sarah (Selleck) Hickox. His father was one of the progrcs-ive men of ancient X, .rwalk I Wilton). He established him., If near the present Congregational Church hi Wilton and ... the - Henry WMttlev-of that sect.on. He speaks of Elibu and Rachel (Lambert) DeForest. Mrs. Uenj. Deforest, whose home was in Bond Street, New York City, is well-recalled in Norwalk. Her daughter, Mary, married Col. LeGrand B. Cannon (iXoo), of New York City. Mrs. Col. Cannon, whose husband was a nephew of Mrs. Nathan Warren (daughter of Abigail Burlock Bouton), was herself second cousin of Mrs. Warren. 2LeGrand Cannon, horn March 20, 17H7, was the son of Samuel and Sarah (BeLlen) Cannon of "Mill Hill " crest, Norwalk. His grandfathers Cannon anil Belden lived on opposite sides of Norwalk river, antl were progenitors of Norwalk's best known offspring. Samuel and Sarah Cannon's family was small antl their native town detained only one, Henrietta (Mrs. Hugh Ivnox), of their children (LeGrand and Pulfjf Esther — Mrs. Moses Craft — lived in Troy, N. Y.) LeGrand Cannon married Esther Burlock (sister of Mrs. Nathan Warren) and became an ardenlly active Trojan. His Troy hearthstone was composed of the two parents and their children, LeGrand B. (Col. Cannon, tXgfi, of New York City), Henrietta (Mrs. Geo. II. Cramer), Mrs. Geo. Bird and Amelia (Mrs. Rev. John 1!. Tihbits). The first three are still living. Their sister, Mrs. Tihbits, of signal lot-ell- Mrs. Job Burlock as " my loving niece." The most remarkable wedding that ever, perhaps, took place In Xorwalk was that of the mother of Silas Hickox, who, March 9, :75ft, married Samuel' -on of Daniel Kellogg, the Norwalk settler, the bride being then seventy-eight and the groom eighty-three years of age- Her NORW A L K 273 Nathan and Mary (Bouton) Warren's children who lived to maturity1 were: Harriet Louise. Stephen Eliakim. Nathan Bouton (Mm. Doc.) George Henry. Harriet L„ daughter of Nathan and Mary Warren, married Capt. Edmund Schriver, U. S. A. She was greatly interested in the work founded by her grandmother, Phoebe, and enlarged by her mother, that of the benign and blessed mission of the Mary Warren In- stitute, and the Church of the Holy Cross, Troy. On Jan. 15, 1859, Mrs. Schriver had been at the Church of the Holy Cross, attending to some slight change which had been made in relation to Church furnishings, when, upon her return to her home in Washington Park, she was thrown from her sleigh, in Third Street, Troy, and soon after died from the injuries received- She was the noble daughter of a noble mother, and her loss was sorely felt. She left no children. Her brothers, Nathan BM Stephen E. and George H„ loyal to the core to a departed parent's and sister's memories, devoted time, energy and fortune to the furtherance of the great work which had been inaugurated by those who had gone be- fore. That work, so long under the spiritual headship of the late J. Ireland Tucker, D.D., has been remarkably prospered, and will remain a grand monument to the piety, charity and liberality of a family, the genesis-honor of which the town of Norwalk proudly claims. The brothers, Stephen E. (Trinity College, Hartford,), and George Henry (Union Col- ness of person and character, and whose remem- brance-ministrations to her second cousins, Nor- walk'? two benevolent sisters, the Misses Margaret and Amelia Bel den, are a tnoniorv. died many years ago. Her husband was a son of Hon. Geo. M. Tib- bits, of Troy, and her son is now engaged in eccle- siastical and educational work in Hoosick, N. Y. LeGrand Cannon, Sr., came occasionally to Norwalk. lie was a patron of Rev. Dr. Sherwood's school in this place, and he accompanied, in 1834, his brother- in-law, Nathan Warren, in the latter's last visit, in a chartered steam vessel, to his birth-town. Mis. Cra- mer is the only one of the family who has remained