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born, James Stuart'^'-, came to gladden  the home in  the spring of 1662-3,     The young
James, in  due time, became a father, and  having settled  about a  half-mile  north of his
parents, (Thomas East Avenue home of 1896) his wife  Experience presented  him with a
son who, named for his paternal grandfather, was Robert .Stuart""'.     Robert"'"'-had several
children:  Bett)-, born   1740;   Sarah, bap. June  3,  1743;   Experience, bap. Alay i, 1751;
Isaiah, bap. Aug, 29, 1748, and Isaac, born  1749.     The last named child, Isaac, married,
Dec. 25, 1771, Olive, born Oct. 20,  1749, daughter of (so it seems) Thaddeus and Abigail
Alorehouse.    Soon after his marriage  Isaac  .Stuart left his peaceful  home on  the Wilton
height, and joining Capt. Comstock's company, "went to war"      He had a brother James
also, and his sister Sarah, marrying Peter  Hubbell, was the  mother of the late venerable
Matthias Hubbell of Main Street, Norwalk,     Isaac Stuart's children were Betty, born Jul)-
9, 1772;   Alartha, born  Dec. 24,  1777;   Moses,  born  March  26,   1780,  and  Sarah,  born
Aug. 25, 1781.     Aloses, the only son of Isaac and Olive Stuart, left at his decease. Jan.
4, 1S52, an imperishable name and record.     He was a Yale man. Class of 1799, and for a
short time a Yale tutor.    He was settled for a few )-cars over the Centre Church, New
Haven, and then was elected Professor of Sacred Literature in the Andover, Alass., Theo¬
logical Seminary.     He married a Miss Hannah Clark of Danbury, and  had several child¬
ren.     It was a long step ftom the quiet portal at the rear of " Drum Hill " to the eminent
pulpit on  the  Elm  City  Green,  but  the  promising  young   Moses   accomplished   it, and
his exceptional attainments and character have conferred glory upon his family name and
his ancient birth-town.     His father died March 23,  1820, and  his mother reached a grand
age, having deceased June 24, 1840.

HO ME - L O T  NNIT

JOHN   STEELE.'

.M.\TT1II.-\S   ST.  JOHN.-i

.\s the head of a great house, the name of Alatthias Sension or St. John, is laurel-
crowned. When this father arrived in Norwalk and chose his cottage-site, the place was
a wilderness. He selected for his home the highest point on the "Towne Street", and,
looking through the "clearings" caught, from his south-facing door, glimpses of the dis-
 

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.,            ,1    ,   „      A       V.-t     .   ,        .                i   '^="-'' Rai^^^'ph Custis (Mrs. Gen. Robert E. Lee).

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■"arried Viscount Sir John, the son of whom took tbe

St. John was ,, name of note in England.    Oliver      name of Sir  John de St. John, which  latter's great-

St   John of Penmarke w.ts step-grandfather of Henry      grandson  Sir Oliver, was'the father of Elizabeth St.

\ II.    Lady Amia, daughter ol Sir John St. John, was   '   John (born ,605, who married, in 1629, a son of John

great-grandmother o,  Gov. Calvert of  Maryland, the   t   Whitney,   Lord   Mayor  of    Boston,   England),   who

iather-in-law o,  John  Parke Curtis,  who was  P.-esi-      came to this country'in  May, Z636, and settled, with