Selleck, Charles Melbourne. Norwalk

(Norwalk, Conn. :  The author,  1896.)

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JARVIS   KELLOGG   LINEAGE.
Gen.     I.—Daniel'"- and Bridget (Bouton) Kellogg.
II.—Daniel^''-.
III.—Daniel^''- and Eunice Kellogg.
IV.—Jarvis Kellogg'"-, born   1731.

Jarvis'"- (son of Daniel^''- and Eunice Kellogg), married, first, June 10, 1760, P21iza-
beth Smith, and is supposed to have built the ancient house, still standing, on the north¬
east corner of upper Main Street and the Winnipauk road. He is thought to have twice
married. His children, however, by his first wife, were Sarah and Jarvis^''- Jarvis^''-,
born April 20, 1767, married, P'eb. 19, 1792, Alercie,' born June 12, 1770, daughter of
James and Sarah (Weed) Selleck, and had Jarnes Selleck, born Nov, 19, 1792 ; SalU-, born
Dec. 3, 1794, died young; Sarah, born July 19, 1796 (Mrs, Joseph Scribner'"-); Charles,
born June 17, 1800; Lucia, born AIa\- 28, 1803 (Airs. Stephen Stanle}); Alartin, born
July 3, 1808; Charlotte, born Feb. 15, 1811 (Mrs. Linus St. J. Benedict). Some of these
children were, it is probable, born in the 1896 John Henry Aiken Main Street home, which
was built and occupied by Jarvis Kellogg'''-. Of rhe sons, Charles established his home,
still in the family, near the " New Canaan Bridge", and Martin resided a little west of the
present northwest corner of Alain Street and Center Avenue.

.\ KELLOGG-JAMES DESCENT.
Hard by where serpentine-wound the Canaan Indian way, denominated from of old,
" Ponasses-path", and some two miles northwest of the ancient Whitney Alill (corner of
Main and Wall Street, 1896), stood the old-time home of Epenetus Kellogg^''- (son of
Epenetus'"-and Jemima (Rogers) Kellogg). The domicile remained, browned, bent and
bowed b}- very age. Here was born the owner's little daughter Anna, who first saw the
light during the autumn before the Norwalk Tryon invasion (Nov. 28, 1778). Anna Kel¬
logg had recently passed her twentieth birthday when her hand in matrimony was sought
b}- a captain in the Southern marine service, Daniel, born Sept, 10, 1773, the third son of
Peter and Mercy James. On Jan. 18, 1798, Daniel and Anna were married, and es¬
tablished a home near the commercial center, at that time, of Norwalk.-    This home, on
 

'.Mrs. Jarvis Kellogg-'d- (Mercie Selleck) w-as the
datighter of Jtiines Selleck, born 1742, who was son of
David and Mercie (Waterbury) Selleck. Her father,
Jiavid Selleck, born Dec. 23, 1700, was son of Na¬
thaniel ami Sarah (Lockwood) Selleck. Nathaniel
Selleck, born April 7, 1678, was son of John and Sarah
(Law) Selleck, w-hich John Selleck, born Feb. 21, 1643,
was son of David and Susannah .Selleck the settlers.
Hannah, born June 26, 1776, sister of Mrs. Jarvis Kel-
logg-^d-, married William, son of Eliphalet and Susan-
 

married Sarah, born 1746, daughter of  David, Jr. and
Mary (Waterbury) Weed.

2Ruth, born 1762, older sister of Captain Daniel
James, married Stephen, born 1761, sim of John.^d.
and Elizabeth (St. John) .\bbott. These had two
daughters, Elizabeth, born 1787, who niarried Mat¬
thew Middlebrook of Wilton, and Cynthia, who mar¬
ried David Comstock of Noi-walk, whose daughter
Sarah is the present w-idow of Samuel Comstock^d. of
the Comstock .New Canaan farm (see page .346).   John
 

na Lockwood, and father of the late William S. Lock-       Abbott.sd-was son of John^d.and Emma (Judd) Abbott,
wood of North .Vvenue, Norwalk.                                      j          On Christmas day, 1760, Isaac, son of David and

James Selleck,  father of Mrs.  Jarvis  Kellogg-'d-,   '   Ruth (Lockwood) Hovt, and  grandson  of Caleb and
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