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HOME-LOT   XXXIII.

JOSEPH   FENN.

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The P'enn family Norwalk connection was transient. Joseph P^nn has record in
1665, at which time William Rusco conveys to him his (Rusco) dwelling house. In 1677-8,
this house seems to be transferred by Benjamin'"-, brother of Joseph Fenn, to Thos. Betts,
Jr, Benjamin Fenn, Jr,, son of Benjamin'"-, completed, in 1682, this Fenn-Betts trans¬
action. The Fenns were .Milford folk, Joseph and Benjamin'"- of Norwalk were sons of
Benjamin of Milford. The line of Benjamin Fenn of Milford is plainly traced, Joseph
Fenn of Norwalk was a son of Benjamin of Milford, and (from a Norwalk deed reference)
evidently a grandson of Benjamin and Sarah (Baldwin) Fenn of Alilford, who were the
Fenn Milford settlers. This older Benj, Fenn came, in 1630, to America, and was a co¬
lonial Assistant Gov. froin 1665 to 1672. His son Benj. made his will in 1683, and gave
the Norwalk property which had belonged to Joseph P"enn, then deceased, to Benj. Fenn,
Jr.    Joseph Fenn's estate was inventoried in 1671,

P'or Betts record, see home-lot xiii, page 225,
 

married a daughter of Col. Timothy Taylor of Dan¬
bury, and had, among other children, Timothy T.
Merwin (of the Norwalk bar of some fifty years ago),
who married Hannah B., daughter of Ephraim Moss
and Charit}^ (Tucker) White of Danbury. The Tay¬
lor, Merwin and White stock was principle-titled, and
the Norw-alk North Avenue Merwin home was one of
elevated aims and standards. While two of the Richard
P. Hai-t daughters, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Hon. John A.
(iriswold), and Jane (Mrs. Doughty) of Second Street,
Troy, N. V., were at school in .Norwalk their home
was with Mr. and Mrs. Merwin. Mr. Merwin was a
gentleman of legal parts and prestige and Mrs. Mer¬
win a lady of charming cultivation. One of their
children was the late Augustus, who married a daugh¬
ter of Prof. Edward Olmstead of  Wilton.

Charles H. Merritt, a Troy business man of note,
niarried into the same White family. Mrs. Merritt
was a lady who made her Troy hearth-stone, at the
corner of Second and State Streets, a prized spot to
the faniily members and who extended a welcome to
her visitor. Her son Charles is the present occupant
of the ancestral home in Main Street, Danbui-y.

Mercy, an older, probably the oldest, child of
Peter and Mercy Jatnes, married. May 20,1781, .Aaron
Keeler, whose daughter Laura married Carmi, son of
Michael Lockwood^^'-, and father of Edward Keeler
Lockw-ood of  1896 (see page 117).

KEI.T.OGG-JOTIINt;.

Saniuel Kellogg'st. (see sub-note page 272 and
note page 372), survived his last (Hickox)  marriatre
 

nineteen months and four days, and was laid to rest
in the "Town House Hill" Cemetery, where to-dav
stands his legibly-inscribed tombstone. It is possi¬
ble that his last w ife, who was a Selleck and Hickox
progenitress of remark, was laid near him, but there
is no evidence of the same. His father is looked upon
as having been a French protestant and his descend¬
ants have been many.

John Kellogg'*'-, son of Daniel Kellogg^d., mar¬
ried, Jan. r, 1729-30, Ann, daughter of Saniuel Cole}-
of Fairfield, and had: Ezra, Mary (Mrs. Robert
Smith Jr.); Ann (Mrs. Elnathan Knappof Danbury );
John; Seth. Mrs. Robert Smith Jr. appears to have
been the daughter-in-law of Robert'st. and Judith
(Fountain) Smith (see pages 186 and 263). After the
decease of John Kellogg'*t- the w-idow- married Janies
Haves and lived in Danbury.

Martin Kellogg'^'-, born March 23, 1711, son of
Samuel"^'-, had four sons—Eliphalet, Martin, Jr.,
Samuel and Nathan. He died July 7, 17.^6, and his
wife, w-ho was his junior by six years, overlived him
twenty-seven years. His son, Martin, purchased
a farm in New Fairfield, Mar. 13, 1773, and then left
Norwalk. His wife was Mercy, daughter of James
and Mercy (Knapp) Benedict of Danbury, which Jas.
Benedict was the gr.-grandson of Thos. Benedict'"'- of
Norwalk. Martin and Mercy Kellogg had a son Mar¬
tin, born Sept. 3, 1763, who was a Norwalk boy of
some ten years when his parents quit this town and
removed to their one hundred and ten "apple trees "
acres in New Fairfield. The lad Martin i-eached ma¬
jority, and on Sept. 15, 1785, married Rachel Stevens,