Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Hames, son of David and Mercy Selleck, married Sarah Weed (page 293), sister of his brother Samuel's wife, and had James, born January 2, 1764, Heze- kiah, born January 14, 1766, Sarah, born April 8, 1768, Mercy, born June 12, 1770, William, born July 11, 1773, Hannah, born June 26, 1776, David, born June 1, 1779, Mary, born August 29, 1781, and Charlotte, born April 23, 1784. Of these children Mercy married Jarvis Kellogg (page 375), Hannah married as his first wife William, son of Eliphaletand Susannah (St. John) Lockwood (page 293). William Lock wood's second wife was the widow of Orange Webb, Jr. (page 401), who was a stateh' lady and of commanding presence. Emerging with her daughter from the Lockwood residence to pay a visit one sum- mer evening to the family of her husband's brother, Colonel Buckingham St. John Lockwood, she was observed by the Colonel's children (the parents were in Greenwich, and the daughters had made an even- ing party to help pleasantly pass their father's and and mother's absence) approaching the home. The young people, who had converted the parlor into a room for temporary diversion, felt that it was not in proper shape to receive their aunt and friend, and hastened consequently to place-restore the furniture, adornments, etc., ere their courtly relative arrived. Orange Webb, Jr., the first husband of the second Mrs Win. Lockwood, was a great grandson of Henry, who was a grandson of Richard Webb., Jr., tentatively, perhaps, of Norwalk. Richard Webb, Sr., was a Norwalk resident whose home lot, after Mr. Webb's day, adjoined that ofthe Roger's (seepage39) in connection with which fact a Fairfield County Rog- ers-Watson-Webb mention is interesting. Moses Rogers, grandson of James Rogers of home lot XI, as per page 39, lived at No. 7 State Street, Battery Park, New York. At No. 6 State Street (next door to to Moses Roger's, there being no dwellings opposite) resided James Watson, originally of Wethersfielcl , Conn., but now a successful city merchant. Mr. Watson was a devoted friend of Moses Roger's son- in-law, Samuel Miles Hopkins, a young man of re- markable power and promise, and the father of the NORWALK. Jacob, born 1744 Sarah, Mrs. John Bates; Mercy, baptized July 22, 1750. 1896 Colonel Woolsey R. Hopkins (see page 171) of Shippan Point, Stamford. Another ardent Watson friend was Colonel Samuel Blaehley Webb (see page 400) . Colonel Webb, who as the Revolution was rising, raised a company in Connecticut, desired to make Watson an officer, but was in some way . pre- vented, and the aspiring Watson went after- ward to New York. Mr. Watson had a son, James Watson, Jr., and an adopted daughter who married Judge Williams and had a son, James Watson Wil- liams, a prominent lawyer of Utica, N. Y. James Watson, Jr., a brilliant youth, was drowned at the Battery, New York, on one of the loveliest ot winter days, and in the presence of a fashionable throng which, because of the balmy air, was parading in that handsome early park. His father's •friend, Colo- nel Webb, went also to the city after the war, where General Washington, who, it is claimed, was fond of young men, became much attached to Webb. The intimacy between James Watson and Webb and Hop- kins was so peculiar that General Webb named a son for the first who became the famous James Watson W ebb of the New York Courier and Enquirer (see page 401) , while Hopkins exchanged portraits with Mr. Watson. Jonathan Trumbull was the artist em- ployed, and his likeness of Mr. Watson (which now adorns a Fairfield County mansion) is masterful. Mr. Watson had a painting of Mr. Hopkins, but this has been lost. Both friends of James Watson, General Samuel RlachUy Webb and Hon. Samuel Miles Hopkins, were Norwalk family-associated and left remarkable memories. The name of Webb is still Norwalk pre- served and an old inmate of the household of the parents of Mrs. Samuel M. Hopkins lives (1899) at the great age of 102 years to tell of the "splendid black team " driven by Mr. Rogers and of the Shippan "niceties" even to the dairy shelves which were of marble. This venerable woman is the mother of Capt. Cyrus Crab be of the Norwalk and New York Steam Navigation Service. The letter of Chief Justice Tapping Reeve, head of the Litchfield Law School, introducing the Yale graduate, Samuel M. Hopkins, to the acquaintance of Aaron Burr; the warm reception of the same tal- ented young man into the family of James Watson and his residence at No. 6 State Street; the Hopkins survey of the great Shenandoah tract and the intrust- ing of the European sale of the same to Hopkins by Watson; the mock Colonels Webb-Livingston duel; the pathetic wiping-out through the ice on the Bat- tery beach of the James Watson blood on the occa- sion of the tragic life-end of his only son ; the Captain Moses Webb granddaughter's bridal in a cottage still standing on Norwalk's ancient Indian trail; the Margery Webb marriage August 10, 1716, to Joseph, nephew of Ephraim Lockwood, the Norwalk settler and the proprietorship of Margery's mother's kin to a hundred acre slice (boundary to-day pointed out) of the Stamford Shippan ; the overland Moses Rogers family coach trips to Connecticut from No. 7 State Street at the Battery, starting at early morn, reach- ing the Jay home at Rye at noon, and driving along the splendid Shippan Avenue as night-fall approached; the double (Rogers-Isaacs) Norwalk connection with the families of the business house of Woolsey & Woolsey — father and son — who had in their employ a young German whose reply to their "good morning, Peter," was a respectful return salutation, and who grew to become the Peter Moller of sugar refinery' fame, all these are local mentions the reference to which may be looked upon as in some sort a posterity re mi n i seen ee- d u e . James Selleck, brother of Hannah (the first Mrs. William Lockwood), married, November 17, 1791, Sally' Gilbert of Salem, and had, among five other children, Hannah, born February 28, 1803, the beloved partner (first wife) ot Lewis Rich- ards, M. D., of New Canaan. Mrs. Dr. Rich- ards' sister Sarah, born April 8, 1799, was the wife of Peter Smith of Smith's Ridge, New Canaan. The New Canaan Dr. Richards' residence is now the bough shaded Bond home of that town, and the Peter Smith acreage lays a little west of the spreading "Maple Farm" of Mrs. Stephen Keeler of the same town. ijacob Selleck1 st, son of David and Mercy Selleck, lived on Carter Street, New Canaan. He married, April 10, 1764, Hannah Fitch, and had Sarah. The first Mrs. Jacob Selleck died February 10, 1765, and Mr. Selleck married, second, May 2, L776, Sarah, daughter of Theophilus Fitch. There were by this union Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Hunt), Jacob2nd, Anna (Mrs. Drake Pennoyer), Lydia (Mrs. Avery), Polly (Mrs. Samuel Raymond), and Samuel. Sarah, daughter of Jacob Selleck by his first wife, married Abraham Weed of New Canaan. The children of Samuel and Polly (Selleck) Ray- mond were Charlotte (Mrs. William Nash), Thomas, Charles, and William E. Samuel, born May 24, 1791, son of Jacob 1st and Sarah Selleck, married January 20, 1818. Ann born January 15, 1794, daughter of Isaac DeForest. Mr. Selleck lived at White Oak Shade, New Canaan (Holly Hanford Place) and had Caroline, born October 20, NORWALK. 443 Nathaniel8"1, son of Nathaniel'2™1 and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, June 30, 1726, Mary De Mill, and had: Mary ; Peter, born May 2, 1729; Sarah, born March 12, 1731 ; Elizabeth, born January 3, 1733; Abraham, born December 3, 1735; Catharine, born March 28, 1739; Anthony ; Hannah. John, son of Nathaniel'2'"1 and Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck, married, November 5, 1729, Abigail, daughter of John and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour of Norwalk, and had : John, born August 18, 1730; Bethel, born March 27, 1732 ; Seymour, born March 1, 1734; Abigail, born May 12, 1736; Martha, born February 6, 1739; Mercy, born October 9, 1740. LOCKWOOD — SELLECK. Sarah, born 1678, daughter of Jonathan1*1 and Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, and grand- daughter of Robert Lockwood the settler, married, January 25, 1700, Nathaniel2'"1, born April 7, 1678, son of John and Sarah (Law) Selleck, and had: Nathaniel3r£l, born October 9, 1704. Nathaniel Selleck'2'"1 died August 14, 1712, and his widow married, second, Benjamin Hickox, and third, Samuel Kellogg (see pages 272, 273, 317, 318). Nathaniel Selleck3rd married, June 30, 1726, Mary DeMill of Stamford and had Mary, Peter, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abraham18', Catharine, Anthony and Hannah. Of these children Abraham11, born December 3, 1735, married, first, May 3, 1756, Deborah, born October 24, 1734, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Beachgood) Whiting, and had Abraham2'"1, born De- cember 13, 1750; Nathan, born Ma)' 26, 1759, and Charles, born December 9, 1760. The first Mrs. Abraham Selleck, died April 11, 1761, and her husband married, second, and had Nancy, born April 10, 1763; Edward, born November 19, 1764 ; Anthony, born May 9, 1766; Isaac1*', born January 22, 1768; William, born October 6, 1769; Nancy2'"1, born December 19, 1771, and Sarah, born July 3, 1773. 1819, Charlotte born May 24, 1821, Herman bom December 11, 1823, George born January 13, 1825, Charles and Julia, twins, born June 25,1828, Mary born August 9, 1830 and Benjamin born July 26, 1832. The two brothers, Jacob2nd and Samuel Selleck, received by inheritance the homestead of their father which at the decease of Jaeob2nd was divided among the heirs. It was then purchased by Capt. Stephen Hoyt who gave up mercantile business, and established upon the Jacob Selleck property (Shaker Farm) the now far known "Hoyt Nursery" of the town of New Canaan. Capt. Stephen Hoyt and his truly excellent wife are deceased but their enterpris- ing sons Hons. James and Edwin Hoyt carry on a business which has assumed large proportions. Their establishment is on Carter Street. 444 NORWALK.