NORWALK                                                          i4>
 

ASCENT  OF   AND   DESCENT   FROM   CAPT.  RICHARD   HANFORD.

Gen.      I.—Rev. Thomas and Mary (Miles) Hanford.
II.—Samuel and Isabel (Haynes) Hanford.

III.—Haynes and Elizabeth (Ketchum) Hanford.

IV—John and Rebecca (Gorham) Hanford.
V.—Capt. Richard Hanford.
Beneath the walls of Trinity Church, on the New Haven Green, rest the remains of
one of the founders of that church, a young French Huguenot, Timothy, son of Pierre and
Marguerite Bontecou, the American ancestors of the Bontecou household. Timothy Bonte¬
cou had married Mary, fourth child of Col. David and Prudence (Churchill) Goodrich.
The Colonel, who was born IMay 4, 1667, was a son of Ensign William Goodrich and wife
Sarah, who was a daughter of Hon. iMatthew Marvin, Sr., "Magistrate," and one of the
settlers of Norwalk. IMary, born Dec. 15, 1704, a daughter of PZnsign William and Sarah,
married Sept. 29, 1736, Timothy Bontecou, Jr., a son of Timothy, Sr., the Trinity Church
sleeper. Timothy, Jr., a New Haven silversmith, had a son William, who started out in
life in his father's Connecticut city, but who subsequently went to Troy, N. Y. To William
and his wife Hannah, was born, July 22, 1792, a daughter, Polly, who married, Nov, 2,
1812, Capt, Richard Hanford, son of John' and Rebecca Hanford, who, born Jan, 9, 1794,
in Norwalk, removed to Lansingburgh, then a village, three miles north of Troy. Lansing¬
burgh was of lovely situation, on the east bank of the upper Hudson and its recent Nor¬
walk contributed citizen proceeded to found a passenger and freight traffic line from thence
to the City of New York, one hundred and sixty miles to the south, and thus stood in
honored transportation-association with several notable Norwalk names. He was the junior
of the Warrens,^ whose vessel had thither sailed from Norwalk when he was only four years
old, and he was a younger man, by fourteen years, than Capt. Richard Hall  Fitch,-^ also of
 

'John Hanford, born Jan. i, 1755, married, Aug.
6, 1775, Rehecca Gorham, born Feb. 12, 1759. His
brother Jedediah lived in the present France Street,
Norwalk, and his brother Joseph where now stands
 

married Robert De Belle and resided in Georgia,
where they had four children. Emily, the second
daughterof Capt. Richard 11. Fitch married, as his sec¬
ond wife, Albert P. Heartt, one of the best known citi-
 

the Page cottage in Westport.                                             ;   zens of Troy.    These had one child, a daughter who
 

■^See Warren lineage.

.iCapt. Richard Hall Fitch, born Nov. 5, 1770,
was the fourth child of Col. Thomas and Sarah (Hill)
Fitch, and a grandchild of Gov. Thomas Fitch of
Norwalk. He went from the rebuilt Fitch home
(standing on the Earle Hill of 1S96)  to marry Theo-
 

died unmarried at the age of twenty-three. Mrs.
Albert P. Heartt died May 31, 1874, beloved, as was
her mother before her, for her good works. Capt.
Richard H. Fitch had a next younger sister, Mary
Esther, who married her cousin Edward, son of Tim¬
othy and Esther (Piatt) Fitch, who lived in the hon-
 

dochi Conklin of Long Island. The young couple   j    ored habitation which stood in the meadow directly-
resided in Norwalk until about 1812. Here the two    ;    east of the 1896 widow Walter T. Gray's East Nor-
of their children who survived infancy were born,    j   walk home. Here presided Esther, one of the five
Their daughter Sarah married Peletia Bliss of Troy,    I    grand-daughters of "ye worshipful Joseph Piatt," a
N. ^' , who was early left a widow with three child-    '    revered Norwalk memory. This quintette of Nor-
ren, LeGrand, James and Sarah Elizabeth. James       walk women, Esther (Mrs. Timothy Fitch), Marv
married Lydia Brintnall, and had no children. The    |   (Mrs. Jedediah Hanford), Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel
parents, however, adopted a daughter, Amelia, who        Fitch), Ann (Mrs, Stephen Thatcher), Susanna) Mrs.