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heavy masonry work. He is a member
of the South Norwalk Club.
Mr. Smith married Kathryn Hoyt Mal-
kin, daughter of Albert R. Malkin, of
Norwalk, a sketch of whom precedes this
in the work. They are the parents of a
daughter, Jane Smith, born April i, 1918.
Mr. and ]\Irs. Smith attend the Congregational
church of Norwalk.
QUINTARD, Frederick Homer,
Mannfactnrer.
Through every branch of an extensive
and honorable family tree, Frederick H.
Quintard, a leading manufacturer of the
city of Norwalk, is a descendant from a
long line of men prominent in the settlement,
government and military history of
Fairfield county. The Quintard family
are of French Huguenot extraction, and
the first ancestor on the paternal side was
Isaac Quintard, of whom further.
(I) Isaac Quintard was born in Lusig-
nan, France. The revocation of the Edict
of Nantes forced him to leave his native
land where he had been engaged in
woolen manufacture. In New York City
he became a merchant and owned vessels
that plied at least in coastwise trade. He
was a man of exceptional business acumen
in his day; was thrifty and indus-
trious ; and at his death left an estate
which inventoried about five thousand
pounds, a large fortune in those days. He
married, in the Chapel of the Gaunt in
Bristol, England, November 26, 1693,
Jeanne Fume, also of a French family.
Their children were : Marie, born in Bris-
tol, in 1695; Isaac, born there, 1696; Abraham,
born in New York City, 1698;
Pierre (or Peter), of whom further. The
births of the children show that the father
must have crossed the ocean after the
birth of Isaac in England in 1696.
(II) Peter or Pierre Quintard, young-
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est child of Isaac and Jeanne (Fume)
Quintard, was born January 14, 1700, in
New York City, was baptized there at
the French Church, and was admitted a
freeman. He was a goldsmith by occupation.
About 1738 he removed to Nor-
walk, Connecticut, where he made sev-
eral purchases of lands and established
his residence in the meadows north of
what is now Marshall street, Norwalk.
Peter Quintard married Jeanne Baller-
eau, born July 3, 1708, in New York City,
daughter of Jacques and Jeanne (O'Dart)
Ballereau, and she died September 2,
1757-
(III) Peter Quintard, second son of
Peter or Pierre and Jeanne (Ballereau)
Quintard, was born in New Ybrk City,
July 22, 1732, and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He was a soldier in the Rev-
olutionary War, and served as a sergeant
in Captain Seth Seymour's company. Col-
onel John Mead's regiment, of Connecti-
cut Militia, enlisting December 24, 1776,
and served two months. In 1781 he was
a member of a Matross Company in Norwalk.
The name of his first wife through
whom this line descends has not yet been
found. He married for his second wife,
May 23, 1774, Ruth Stevens.
(IV) Isaac (2) Quintard, son of Peter
Quintard, was born in 1767, and died
February 5, 1856, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He was engaged in the manufacture
of pottery, and also ran a market sloop to
New York. On November 13, 1793, he
married Elizabeth Pickett, born January
14, 1769, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth
(Benedict) Pickett, of Norwalk. Ezra
Pickett was born July 12, 1740, and mar-
ried, March 30, 1761, Elizabeth Benedict.
He was a son of James Pickett, 2d, and
his wife, Deborah (Stuart) Pickett, and
grandson of James Pickett, ist, who settled
in Norwalk, and married Rebecca
Keeler. The last named James Pickett