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Notes on tfje iFamils of lie WioU
and prominent original proprietor of Norwich, was of the same high
descent which we have given in our Griswold monograph as that of Fanny
Rogers wife of Governor Roger Griswold.
14' Simon's son DanieP married Phoebe daughter of Capt. Reynold
Marvin, grandson of Reynold Marvin the first, from England, who
belonged to one of the wealthiest of the early leading families in Lyme.
He died very soon. His young widow afterwards married Nathaniel
Kirtland of Saybrook, son of John Kirtland who was one of the principal
early settlers of that town. This second marriage of Daniel's widow led
to those of Nathan and Simeon DeWolf of the next generation, after-
wards of Nova Scotia, who married two sisters of the Kirtland family.
15 John^ DeWolf, second son of Simon, gave his share of " the land from
[his] honored grandfather Balthasar and [his] honored father Simon to
[his] brother Josiah ;" and probably died unmarried.
Josiah's marriage to Anna Waterman brought still other property to
16 him. His eldest son, known as "Josiahf*^ Jun.," married Martha daughter
of William Ely, the social standing of whose emigrant grandfather
Richard Ely, who married the widow of Major John Cullick, a sister
of Col. Fenwick, and held a high position in the colony, is well known.
Josiah's wife seems to have brought with her, as the natural effect of
17 her good blood, a higher ambition; her youngest son, Daniel,* was sent
to Yale College, and graduated there in 1 747 ;
and
she may be supposed
to have influenced the father of Nathan De Wolf, who was graduated at
Yale in 1743, to give his son a college-education.
Daniel son of Josiah married Azubah Lee, whose father William Lee
was a grandson of Lieut. Thomas Lee, the important first settler of Lyme
of whom we have sj)oken. He died very soon after his marriage, leaving
18,19 two little boys, Elias^ and Daniel. ^ He lies buried next to his mother,
near the Griswolds, in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme. Their
epitaphs are as follows :
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Anna the wife of Mr. Josiah DeWolf, who died
Dec. 21" 1752, In the 63'' year of her age."
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