Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

2, 1797 A Norwalk John Scribner and Mary Fitch union recalls a diversified family record. Mary Fitch (Mrs. John Scribner of New York) was one of the two children of Clark Marvin and Polly (Gibbs) Fitch. Mrs. Scribner's brother, David Haynes Fitch, dead, but Norwalk- unforgotten, married Sarah Sterling of Brooklyn and built a pleasant home in East Norwalk where, just as that now growing section was starting upon its career of promise, he dwelt for a few years. His children were Estelle (Mrs. Nathaniel Lovell), Lincoln Haynes and David Porter. Clark Marvin Fitch was the son of James Fitch'21"1 by his second wife. James Fitch2'"1 son of James1"1 and Mary (Buckingham) Fitch (see page 210), married, first, Ann Hanford. Mrs. Ann Fitch died and her husband married, second, Esther Marvin and had Clark Marvin who married Polly, daughter of Captain Samuel Gibbs. James23 and Ann (Hanford) Fitch, son of Jameslst and Mary (Buckingham) Fitch (see page 211), had a daughter .Susannah, born December 24, 1756, who married Deacon John Chapman. Mrs. Chapman's sister was Nancy Fitch (Mrs. William Benedict), the grandmother of Mrs. Le Grand Lockwood. (See pages 212 and 213). Annah H., daughter of Deacon John and Susannah (Fitch) Chapman, married Novem- ber 25, 1815, Asael Dudley, the father of John Chapman and James Fitch Dudley. These broth- ers had two sisters, viz., Susan, born June 25, 1817, and Mary Ann, born November 13, 1819. Susan, married, September 3, 1845, Charles Greene of Providence, R. I., and Mary Ann, married November 12, 1846, Charles, son of William and Eunice (Barnum) Greene. Mrs. Eunice Greene was a sister of Star Barnum of Bethel, whose son, Rev. Dr. Henry S. Barnum, married Helen, daughter of George H., and Caroline (Lounsbury) Randle. Mrs. Rev. Dr. Henry S. Barnum is a niece of Henry, Lewis and Joseph Randle of Norwalk. Her mother was a daughter of John D. and Sally (Crane) Lounsbury (see page 370). 43i SMITH. With the exception of Joseph, Thomas and Richard Smith, the Samuel (Smith's Ridge) and what may be termed the Hadley Smith lines, appear to be Norwalk oldest men- tion of the family name. The exact manner in which the referred-to Joseph, Thomas, Richard and Samuel Smith were Long Island related it is difficult to determine, but the Hadley, Mass., lineage is distinctly traced. Samuel and Elizabeth Smith sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, in April, 1634, with four children aged respectively nine, seven, four and one years, the parents being somewhat above thirty years old. They came first to Watertown, Mass., removed thence to Wethersfield, and thence to Hadley in 1659-60. Mrs. Smith died March 16, 1685, and Mr. Smith during the same year. Their children were Samuel2""1, Elizabeth, Mary, Philip, John, and Chiliab or Kiliab. Kiliab (see page 363), born about 1635, lived to reach his ninety-sixth year. He mar- ried, in 1661, Hannah, daughter of Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, which Hannah was held "in wide repute as a singer," and benefactor. The children of Kiliab and Hannah Smith were Hannah, born July 7, 1662 (Mrs. John Montague) ; Samuel, born March 9, 1664; Luke, born April 16, 1666; Ebenezerlst, born July ir, 1668; and Nathaniel, born January 2, 1670, who died young. Samuel married Sarah Bliss, Luke, Mary Crow, and Ebenezerlst, October, 1691, Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Marvin) Bouton (see page 349). The children of Ebenezerlst and Abigail Smith were Abigail, born October 10, 1692 (Mrs. Joseph Kellogg'2'1'1); Martha, born November 10, 1694 (Mrs. Reed); Ebenezer2uJ, born March 20, 1697; John, born May 1, 1699, lived in Hadley; Nathan, born August 14, 1701, lived in Norwalk; Eliakim1", born January 23, 1704; Eunice, born June g, 1706 (Mrs. Nathan Olmstead211'1) ; Joseph, born September 18, 1708; Ephraiml5t, born January 27, 1711; Dinah, born July 8, 1715 (Mrs. Benajah Hoyt). Ebenezer2ud, son of Ebenezerlst and Abigail Smith, married, June 2, 1729, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlett (see page 206), and had Ephraim,1 born March 24, 1730; Jedediah, born September 5, 1732; Josiah, born October 25, 1734; Prue, baptized April 24, 1737; Jesse, baptized April 29, 1739. Eliakim1", son of Ebenezer15' and Abigail Smith, married Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Hoyt, and had: Marthalst, born June 3, 1728, died young ; Daniel151, died in infancy, by accident ; Daniel2"'1, born September 25, 1731, living in 181 1 ; Eliakim2n<1, born December 25, 1734; Hannah, born February 28, 1737; Noah, born March 7, 1739 (see page 363); 1Ephraim, son of Ebenezer3nd and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Smith, married, October 20, 1756, Mehit- able Parsons and had Hannah (Mrs. Silas Betts) -, Isaiah, Jesse, David, Samuel and Ephraim. These children were young when their father died and their mother seems to have married, second, Theophilus Hanford. Her sons Jesse and David Smith settled in Derby, Conn., and Samuel in Saratoga, N. Y. 432 N O R W A L K. Thankful, born May 15, 1745; Elizabeth, born February 22, 1747; Abigail, born July 25, 1749, Mrs. Alexis Wood, first, and, second, Mrs. Timothy Whitney2"*; David, died young ; Nathan, born November 24, 1752; Martha2'"1, born April 29, 1756, Mrs. Stephen W. Johnson of Albany, N. Y. Catharine, born March 12, 1762, Mrs. Jonathan Thompson.1 Ephraimlst, son of Ebenezerlst and Abigail Smith, married Isabel, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlect, and sister to his brother Ebenezer's wife, and had Ephraim, Sarah, Susannah'2 (Mrs. Isaac Bell, see pages 94, 95, 167), James, Nathan, Thomas, baptized April 3, 1743, Rhuamah and Hannah These children have definite registration. There ap- pears also to have been Moses of St. Johns, N. B., in 1793. Eliakim2"'1, son of Eliakim1" and Abigail (Hoyt) Smith, married first Catharine Han- ford, born December 25, 1737, and had Enoch, born December 29, 1759; Catharine, born March 12, 1762; Eliakim, born February 19, 1765; Josiah, born May 1, 1775. The first Mrs. Eliakim Smith2"4 died May 17, 1776, and her husband married, second, May 5, 1777, Lydia Olmstead, born April, 1749, whose first husband was Daniel Middlebrook. The children of Eliakim Smith2"" by his second marriage were Nathan, born February 18, 1778; Lewis, born October 30, 1784; Francis, born April 25, 1792. The Eliakim Smith home was the first house west of the present Corset Factory in *Mrs. Jonathan Thompson (Catharine Smith), died Friday, November 18, 1791, and is buried in Waterford, N. Y. She left Charles born September 17, 1783, Anson, born October 6, 1785, Catharine, born, October, 3, 1788, and Sarah born "fore part" December, 1790. 2Susannah, daughter of Ephraim1 4t and Isabel (Bartlett) Smith was baptized in New Canaan shortly after her father and mother had become members on April 19, 1740, of the Congregatianal church in that town. Between 1740 and 1742 said church seemed to be without a settled pastor. At this time the young Susannah Smith (afterward the second Mrs. Isaac Bell) was baptized in her native town by Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll of Ridgefield. Her sister Sarah had been baptized April 9, 1739, and her brothers James and Nathan on April 27, 1740, just after their parents had united with the church. Her brother Thomas was a subject of the same sacrament April 3, 1743. The children of this family scattered from New Canaan where the family were part owners of what is now the splendid Owenoke avenue. James and Nathan resided in Islip, L. I.; Susannah through her Bell marriage became a prominent ancestress (pages 94, 95, 173) and spent the troublous war days in the provinces where her Norwalk son-in-law, Nehe- miah Rogers 2nd, entertained the father of the Empress Victoria. The descent from Isaac and Susannah (Smith) Bell is notable. Their great grandson, Gor- don Knox Bell, a New York cit}^ attorney (son of Edward R.Bell), was the groom at the Bell-Crafts bridal solemnities in St. John's church, South Salem, Westchester county, N. Y., on Ma}' 11, 1899. The mother of the groom, Eliza N. Soutter (Mrs. Edward R. Bell) belonged to the Soutter family of the South, the head of which household was, previous to the last civil war, a well known Metropolitan financier. The groom's lather was a brother of Isaac Bell a former Norwalk school lad (pages 95 and 171). The bride of May 11, 1899, was Marian Mason, daughter of Dr. James M. Crafts, president of the Institute of Tech- nology, Boston, Mass., whose summer villa crowns a Salem New York and New England bordering ele- vation of rich aboriginal aud colonial association, and from the summit of which, beneath rare aerial brightness and freshness, an expansive and most beautifully diversified landscape charms the sight and captivates the senses. The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Haynes) Bartlett (page 206) comprise a conspicuous company and the Bell, Bennett, Biglow, Fitch, Rogers, Satter- ley and Smith relatives and connections of Norwalk's early Bartlett barrister are many. The Bartlett- Bclden blood emanates from the Bartlett-Betts union as per page 384. NORWALK. 433 South Norwalk. The original house was burnt July n, 1779- The second house (standing in 1899 on same site) was raised Saturday, April 23, 1788. OF ELIAKIM SMITH2"" DESCENT.