N O R W ALK.
 

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Samuel E. Olmstead' was one of modern Norwalk's most enterprising and indefatig¬
able citizens. His name was the synonym of business energy and vitality. His mother
was a daughter of Capt. Azor Belden, by his first wife, who was of the Ta>-lor famil)-.
Capt. Azor Belden was the son of Azor Belden,'^'- who was son of William and Margaret
(Arms) Belden, which William was the son of Daniel Belden, of Deerfield, Mass., who
was a brother of the first John Belden, of Xorwalk.

IT O ME-L O T   N VI.

IS.\AC MOORE-
MARK ST. JOHN.
Isaac Moore or More, of Farmington, who married, Dec. 5, 1645, R>-ith Stanley,
owned home-lot xvi but a few years. He sold the same to Mark (son of ]\latthias St.
John, Sr.,), whose home-grant ('No. 2) has already been described. Mr. Moore's "accom¬
modations," in 1655, were rated at i;252. Before he came to Norwalk he was chosen Ser¬
geant at Farmington, and fifteen years after Norwalk was settled he was excused from
"training day" service because of his engagements as a soldier prior to his Norwalk ap¬
pearance. His own wife and the wife of }vlark St. John were of the same famil\- name.
He was one of the earl)- Xorwalk "townsmen" (1654) his colleague being Thomas Fitch,
Sr.     His residence in Norwalk does not seem to have been a long protracted one.
 

H O ME- I O T N VII.

THOMAS   H.\LK.

RICHARD   OLMSTED.

Thomas Hale, who shared  home-lot .xvii with  Richard  Olrnsted, whose allotment

has received mention, was evidently in Hartford before coming to Xorwalk.     He had mar-
 

Frances, born July 6, 1821, died April 29, 1863,
daughter of Noah and Annie (Belden) Olmsiead,
married, Aug. 19, 1843, Lewis Judson, son of William
and Rebecca (Judson) Curtis, and had:

Charles Lewis, born March 19, 1847, died March
23, 1862;

Maria Louise, born Mav 18, 1850, died July 17,
1864;

Anna Belden, born March 27, 1853, died Aug.
29, 1890;

F"ranklin Judson, born Jan. 23, 1859, married Julia
Boquette;

Lewis J. Curtis married, second, Oct. 20, 1864,
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. David Willard, of Wilton.

Anna Belden, daughter of Lewis J. and F'ranees
Curtis, married, Oct. 20, 1885, Charles Kversley, son
of Stiles W'. and Harriet (Bennett) Curtis, and had:

Anna Eversley, born Aug. 29, 1890.

Captain Azor Belden married, second, Hannah,
daughter of Timothy and Esther (Platt) Fitch, and
had Geo. F and Platt Belden. Platt Belden became
.1 citizen of .New Vork.     His  brother's ((M-orgc  F..)
 

children were Henry H., of Westport, and the late
George F. Belden, Jr., of Norwalk, who married
Louisa, daughter of William and Lucinda (Nash)
Cornwall, of Norwalk. . The second Mrs. Capt. Azor
Belden was a grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas Fitch.
Captain Belden was the grandfather of the before
named brothers and sisters, Stephen, Saml. E,, Belden,
Sarah Ann, Jane, Henrietta and Frances Olmstead.

'The grandchild of Samuel E. Olmstead, child of
his daughter, Rebecca Camp (Mrs. Frank W. Wood¬
ward), is Warren Olmstead, born May 2, 1891.

2There is a Hartford or Farmington record of
" Ruth Moore, born, Farmington, Jan. 5, 1656, bap¬
tized at Norwalk; " also

Sarah  Moore, b. Feb. 12, 1661, bap.  Farmington.

Mary       "        "   Sept. i.s. 1664,   "

Phcebe     "        "   Apr. 25, 1669,     "

These were probably the children of Isaac Moore,
the last three of whom seem to have been baptized
after Mr. Moore left Norwalk. He sold his Norwalk
home-lot in 1660 to Mark St. John, who also married
a .Stanley.