"Matthew Fitch1st, born, May 1708 (died April 26, 1779) was twice married. His first wife was Jemima, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Comstock) St. John. Ebenezer St. John was the son of Matthias St. John2d and the grandson of the pioneer Matthias St. John, Sr. Mrs. Ebenezer St. John was the daughter of Christopher Comstock the settler. The fruit of this St. John-Comstock alliance was three sons and one daughter, which last married Matthew Fitch1st. To Matthew and Jemima Fitch was born, at Christmas-tide, 1735, a daughter, called for her mother, Jemima. Shortly after Jemima's birth her mother died, and the little one was within a few days of three years old when she became a step-daughter, her father having married, second, Dec. 7, 1738, Lydia, daughter of Nathan, a grandson of Richard Olmsted, Sr. and Norwalk settler. There was a large Fitch family by this second marriage of Matthew Fitch1st."
