NORWALK.
 

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Charles Edwin, son of Edwin and Emily (Olmstead) Lockwood, married July i,
1875, Mary Amelia, only daughter of George W. and Emily (Gregory) Smith. There are
no children by this union.

LOCK WOOD-BO ALT   DESCENDANTS.
LOCKWOOD.

Gen.     I.—Ephraim and AIercie (St. John) LocKwtioD.
IL—JcsEPH'*'- AND Marv (Wood) Lockwood.
"     III.—Joseph"''- and Rebecca (Rogers) Lockwood.

IV.—David and Martha (widow Trowbridge) Lockwood.
v.—Ruth Lockwood,  born Jan. 9, 1780.

BOALI'.

Gen.     I.—John'^'- AND P:lizabeth (Clemence) Boalt.
II.—Richard Boalt,^'-''-born April 30,   1696.

HI.—David, b. March 31, 1740, and Sarah (Alott or de la Mott) Boalt.
IV.—John and Ruth (Lockwood) Boalt.

The generation-difference, numerical-wise, between the Lockwood and Boalt de¬
scendants is accounted for from the fact of the latter fai-nily's fifty years later Norwalk ar¬
rival than the family of the Lockwoods.

The progenitors of the Norwalk Bolt or Boalts' appear early in this land as occu¬
pants (see page 188) of that territory-portion which forms at the present time the border
line, on Long Island Sound, of the States of Connecticut and New York. Here, near the
ancient " Horseneck," we seem to find the ancestors of the Norwalk Boalts and Reeds
who, having, it is claimed, belonged to the English Cromwell party, came afterward to
this country and settled as before mentioned, where they were, presumably, agriculturists
and built their vegetable vaults" similar to those, the remains of which were, until within a
few years past, distinctly traced along the banks of the "Neck" referred to. The Reeds
and Boalts, both, came to Norwalk and founded farms in the same section of the town¬
ship. John Reed brought his Rhode Island and John Boalt his Stamford bride to this
town, and the two families were not distant neighbors.     Airs. Boalt was the daughter of a
 

'Bolt or Boalt is a family patronymic of recog¬
nition across the sea, and " Bolt's End " and " Bolt's
Court" are English Channel and London City desig¬
nations. John Bolt or Boalt,'st. of Norwalk, was
what might to-day be termed a topographical engin¬
eer. He married into a minister's family, and his
brother-in-law, if .Stamford registration is correctly
interpreted, was a Colonial physician.

^These stone receptacles were, in the old Norwalk
and Stamford steamboat days, a curiosity to the trav¬
eler whose eye caught them from the vessel's deck as
 

it turned in from the Sound to make a landing at
"Sawpits" or "Horseneck." It was the custom on
the boats, as these points were approached, to ring the
steamer's bell (steam whistles were at that time un¬
known) as an announcement that a "stop" would
shortly be made, and anon a porter's bell warning
"passengers who are going ashore" to "get their
baggage ready." The near-by green slope, dotted
now and then by the "Rocky Neck" and "Horse¬
neck" ancient potato vaults, furnished a fine echo-
bank for the steamer's musical-toned monitor.