NORWALK
 

Stephen Rusco married, Sept. 29, 1763. Ruth, daughter of Eleazer and Elizabeth
Bouton.     Mrs. Elizabeth Bouton was a vSe}-mour.

Thos. Rusco, supposed to be son of Thomas-'''-, married Anna Dibble, Feb. 26,
1756. Possibl}- this is the same Thomas who married, a little later, P21izabeth, daughter of
Lemuel and .Sarah Raymond.

The late .Michael Rusco of Norwalk, son of David, and grandson of John and
Joanna Rusco of Rusco Ridge, married Mar}-, daughter of Rev. James Brown of Salem,
and sister of Luc}- (Mrs. Isaac Selleck). He had Samuel and Joseph. Joseph married
Emma, daughter of Lewis and .Anna Fancher and had F"rank Rusco, the 1896 Business
College principal,

John and Rebecca, the Norwalk Rusco fore-father and mother, were honored
ancestors. The old house-lot and home. No. 6, continued for about fifty-five \-ears in the
famil}-. The father died without having made a will and the estate was court-inventoried
on Nov. 20, 1702. On Feb. 19, 1705, the original home was sold b}- the heirs to Samuel,
the }-oungest son of Rev. Thos. Hanford, to whom fell his late father's adjoining home
propert}- This extended the Hanford acreage. The Hanford front yard and well are
shown to-da}-, but ever}- vestige of the Hanford Rusco-annex has disappeared by the Con¬
solidated road's changes.

H O M E - I O T    ]' T I.

R.M.FH Keelek. Sr.. of Home-Lot No. 7, was born in 161 3. He was one of the
settlers, in 1639, of Hartford, and appeared in Fairfield in 1645, from whence we find him
in Norwalk in 1655, He was twice married. His second wife was Sarah, widow of Henry
Wiielpley of Fairfield, who had at least two Whelpley children. He had assigned to him
the four-and-a-half acre home-lot, the south-west corner of which is occupied to-day by
W S. Hanford of East Norwalk. He retained his original premises until Oct. 21, 1662,
when he parted with them, and Richard Raymond became their proprietor. On Sept. I,
1665, was executed a deed whereby was made over to him the dwelling house, barn and
lot that had belonged (see page 39) to Thos. Ward, now the garden land of Wm. H. Earle.
Ralph Keeler, Sr,, who died in 1672, left four sons, s iz„

R.M.PII"'-;                                                                                 ^

.S.AMUEL;

JoN.As;   died unmarried.

Mr. Keeler had, also, four daughters, one of whom married, Nov. 16. 1671. Benj.
lurney o. F.orfield ; another, Rebecca, who married, July ,7, 1673, James Pickett; and
another, Isabel, who married Thos. Morehouse of Fairfield

Norwalk and Ridgefield are widely Keeler-spread, and the family's lineal and col¬
lateral  branches are numerous.     The dtscovery, if ever  made, of the fi-'st  Keeler mother