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Thaddeus M. Sabra, another sister of Joseph Mead, married, as before stated, David Dc-"
Forest.' Polly Dauchy, sister of Pllecta (Mrs. Thaddeus :\Iead), married Gould, son of
Lieut. James Rockwell, of Ridgefield, and was the mother of the late venerable Gould
Rockwell, of Ridgefield. Nathan Dauchy, the father of Electa and Polly, was the son of
'Vivas Dauch)-, the Ridgefield Huguenot settler of that name. Said Vivas emigrated from
New Rochelle to Ridgefield and married, first, Rachel, daughter of James and Mar)-
(Hyatt) Wallace, of North Salem, N. Y. The Wallaces^ were originally from Norwalk,
and the ancestors of the present Mrs. Josiah R. Marvin, of East Xorwalk.

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N.\TII.\NIEL RK1I.\RI)S.
This home-lot father was fort)--eight )-ears old when he was, in 1652, assigned a
Norwalk home-lot. He had twent)- years before landed, (Sept. 16, 1632) with his first
wife in Boston. He came, well accredited, to the colon)- and selected for his first home-
seat the present site of Harvard College, at Cambridge.-* When Thomas Hooker, in 1632,
made his wilderness-pilgrimage to Hartford Mr. Richards helped make up the party and
was elected " orderer," or selectman, of that new town. He came with the pioneers to
Norwalk and felled the trees and drained the land pertaining to his set-off acres fronting
to-day the meadows of Oscar Raymond. Mr. Richards married, second, .March 15, 1663,
Rosamond, the widow of Deacon   Henr\' Lindall,-* of New Haven, and was  consequentl)-
 

'The Norwalk DeForest family originated in
Stratford. The line, which has its proper place in
Norwalk history, is genealogically an im])ortant one,
and includes the story of the Bridgeport and New
^'ork City DeForests.

^Jaines Wallace, as the tradition runs, was sailing
lliroiigh Long Island .Sound and because, perhaps of
the weariness of the trip or of his love of adventure,
left the vessel as it passed the Norwalk Islands and
was landed upon the Norwalk coast. He here formed
the acquaintance of Marv, daughter of Thos.i~i-and
Mary (St. John) Hyatt, and was married to her. Mrs.
Mary Hyatt was a daughter of Matthias .St. John,
son of Matthias, 1st. so that the young stranger must
have been well thought of. James and Mary Wallace
had a daughter, Rachel, born 1711, who inarried
\'ivas Dauchy, of  Ridgefield.

-ille was so strongly endorsed that " probation "
trial was dispensed with in his case and he was al¬
lowed to take the '-Freeman's oath" shortly (twenty
days) after his arrival. He built his house in Cam¬
bridge and there w-as neighbor to Rev. Thos. Hooker
and Gov. John Haynes. He seems to have come to
Norw-alk before he was formally dismissed (Oct. 11.
1658,) from his last residence, Hartford. There is no
American record of his children.
 

4llenry Lindall, w-ho belonged to the rich .New
Haven Colony and was a deacon in the first Church
of that Colony, left, at his decease in New Haven, a
w-idow- and four children, every one of which surviv¬
ors inarried in Norwalk. The mother accepted the
proflfer of Nathaniel Richards, and her daughter, Re¬
becca, wedded the young John, son of Thos. Fitch,'~>-
the so considered, opulent Fitch founder of .Nor¬
walk. Jno. and Rebecca had a son, Nathaniel, named
most probably, for his step-grandfather Richards.
The young Nathaniel Fitch and his wife, .\iiiia, had a
son whom they named Lindall (after the lad's Lindall
grandmother). Lindall grew- to propose wedlock to
Mary, daughter of John Bartlett, and grand-daughter
of Wm. Havnes, and a daughter, Elizabeth, blessed
this blood union of five well-know-n N. E. families.
.\t the age of about sixteen Elizabeth Fitch (step-
niece of Mrs. John Belden,,3d. of Norw-alk) married a
New Canaan man of tw-enty-two years, Justus, sou of
Zerubbabel and Dorothy Hoyt, and the father of the
to-dav recalled New- Canaan " Miller Hoyt." whose
quaint establishment utilized the Five Mile River
w-ater at a point a little southeast of the present Neu
e'anaan business center.

[ustus Hoyt and his Elizabeth Fitch wife chose
for a familv seal the level  since known as  the  Benj.