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VOLUME ONE.
GENEALOGY
( IN ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCE.)
Of Ancient Non-original Home-Lot Households.
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BELDEN -- ST. JOHN-SELLECK HOMESTEAD. (See Page 386.)
BELDEN.1
WILLIAM BELDEN1st and his brother RICHARD1st (2) appear to have together settled (1635-6) in Wethersfield, Conn. From William1st and his wife Thomasine (spelled by William Belden1st Commacine), who were married in 1646, all the Norwalk Beldens have descended.
William Belden1st lived in Wethersfield, and there died in about 1660 leaving these children :
Samuel1st, born July 20, 1647, removed to Norwalk ;
Daniel1st, born November 20, 1648;3
John1st, born January 9, 1650, removed to Norwalk ;
Susannah, born November 5, 1651 ;
Marie, born February 2, 1653 ; Nathaniel, born November 13, 1654.
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1 Anciently spelled " Boyldon."
2 Richard1st, brother of William Belden1st, was in Wethersfield in 1635, where his estate was invento- ried in 1665. He had a son John, who had a son Joseph, who had a son Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of Stephen Mix of Wethersfield. Thomas and Mary (Mix) Belden had a son Thomas, born August 9, 1732, who married August 1, 1753, Abi- gail Porter of East Hartford, Conn. Thomas and Abigail (Porter) Belden had a daughter Mary, who married Frederick Butler of Hartford. These had eight children, the youngest of whom was Norwalk's distinguished Dr. Thomas B. Butler, who died June 7, 1873. (See page 255.)
3The story of Daniel Belden1st, oldest brother of John1st and Samuel1st of Norwalk, is pathetic. In September, 1696, (see pages 156 and 160) his wife and several children were killed by the Indians in Deerfield, Mass., where he lived. He was sold to the French and compelled to stay in Canada, where he was found, with other captives, by Cols. Peter and Abraham Schuyler, who were the Commissioners delegated to bear to Canada the copy of the articles of peace between England and France. The Schuylers took Daniel Belden1st to Albany and cared for himself and children until the arrival, from Norwalk, of his brother John1st, who paid his bills and arranged for a three weeks' Norwalk visit of Daniel1st. This visit of the sufferer and his children ended, Daniel1st returned to his former Deerfield home, where he mar- ried, second, Feb. 17, 1699, Hepzibah Wells. His first wife, who was Indian-slain in 1696, was Eliza- beth Smith, granddaughter of Samuel1st and Elizabeth Smith (the ancestors of the Ebenezer Smith family
line of Norwalk, sce note column, page 363) and a grandchild, also, of Nathaniel1st and Elizabeth (Dem- ing) Foote of Wethersfield. The children of Daniel Belden1st (by his first wife) were:
William2nd, born Dec. 16, 1671, came to Norwalk ;
Elizabeth, born Oct. 8, 1673, Mrs. Ebenezer B. Brooks ;
Nathaniel, born Jan. 26, 1675;
Mary, born Nov. 17, 1677, Mrs. James Trowbridge; Sarah, born March 14, 1682, Mrs. Benjamin Burt;
Esther, born Sept. 29, 1683, Mrs. Ephraim Clark of Stratford ;
Abigail1st, born March 10, 1686, died in infancy ; Samuel, born April 10, 1687;
John, born Aug. 24, 1689, died one day old ;
Abigail2nd, born Aug. 18, 1690;
John, born Feb. 28, 1693;
Thankful, born Dec. 21, 1695, died in infancy.
Ebenezer Burt Brooke, or Brooks, who married Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Daniel Belden1st, was a son of William and Mary (Burt) Brooks. Mercy, sister of Ebenezer B. Brooks, married, as his first wife, Dec. 4, 1690, Samuel Carter of Deerfield, Mass., and later of Norwalk. (See note columns, page 366.)
Ebenezer2nd, son of Ebenezer1st and Elizabeth (Bel- den) Brooks, is probably the individual mentioned in the Ridgefield Town Records who married, Aug. 27, 1730, Jane St. John. His cousin Christopher, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Belden) Burt, married Dec. 21, 1727, Joanna, sister of Jane St. John. The Burts came from Deerfield to Norwalk, and went afterward, about 1713, to Ridgefield.
Nathaniel, next child of Daniel Belden1st, was one of thic Deerfield Indian-captured Beldens of Sept. 16, 1696. He died at the age of eighteen.
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Samuel Belden1st and his brother John1st came to Norwalk. Samuel was unmarried, but John1st here founded a family.1
John Belden,1st son of William1st and Thomasine Belden, was, with his brother Samuel,1st, a resident of Norwalk, where he married Ruth (see page 88), daughter of Samuel1st and Ruth (More or Moore) Hayes, and had :
John2nd ; Samuel2nd , removed to Stamford ;
Ruth, born 1690 ; baptized October 7, 1694 ; died 1704.
Ann, Mrs. Justus Bush, of Rye.2
John2nd, son of John1st and Ruth (Hayes) Belden, married May 9, 1728, Ruhama, daughter of Capt. John Hill of Westerly, R. I., and had :
John3rd, born April 26, 1729;
Thomas, born March 25, 1731, unmarried ;
Hezekiah, born April 25, 1736, unmarried ; Mary, born January 26, 1739; Samuel&rd.
John Belden3rd, son of John2nd and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, married Rebecca,3 daughter of John1st and Mary (Betts) Bartlett (see page 296), and had :
Mary Belden, daughter of Daniellst, married James Trowbridge April 19, 1698.
Daniel2nd, namesake son of Daniel1st, was one of the victims, at the age of sixteen, at the Deerfield slaughter of 1696.
Sarah, third daughter of Daniel1st, married Ben- jamin, son of David Burt, and grandson of Henry Burt of Roxbury and Springfield. Sarah Belden was married to Benjamin Burt December 16, 1702. Her husband was born November 17, 1780.
Samuel, son of Daniel Belden1st, was wounded in the 1696 attack but lived to marry, February 26, 1724, Anna Thomas. She died in a few months and her husband married, sccond, September 26, 1726, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Ingraham of Had- ley, Mass. Samuel Belden died December 17, 1750.
Abigail Belden2nd, daughter of Daniel1st, was, it is thought, wounded by a shot from the fort in Deer- field.
John Belden, son of Daniel1st, fell with his mother by a savage blow in 1696, and his sister Thankful also.
1John Belden1st and his brother Samuellst have maiden Norwalk registration 1671-1673. The first was, at the first date, twenty-one and the second twenty-four years of age. John was an active man, and an early Norwalk soldier, whose services were acknowledged by the settlers. He evidently grew in influence, as on April 30, 1690, he was town ap- pointed as one of a committee of four to fortify the meeting house, and on January 16, 1694, was chosen
a committeeman to call a minister in the place of the Rev. Thomas Hanford, then deceased. Some of the strongest men in the plantation were put upon this committee. John Belden1st was also one of the purchasers, in 1708, of Ridgefield. He died in 1713-14 and his widow married John Copp, originally from the eastern part of the colony. Mr. Copp was a public man, who continued to occupy his Strawberry Hill home until his decease.
Mr. Copp made his will October 12, 1749, which instrument, probated June 4, 1751, bequeathed his "physical books, drugs, roots," to his stepson, Samuel Belden. He left to Rev. Moses Dickinson £100 and to the First Congregational Society £100 additional. He also left £400, the income of which should be expended in the interest of his two negroes, and at their death the same was made to fall to the ecclesiastical society before named. Samuel Fitch, brother of Gov., and Isaac Hayes were his chosen executors, to each of whom he left £50, " reasonable wages."
2Had sons Justus, John, Bernardus, Isaac and Abraham. The will of Mr. Bush is dated June 24, 1737.
3Rebecca, Mrs. John Belden3rd, was a daughter of John Bartlett by his second marriage. John Bart- lett was born October 15, 1677, at "5 of the A. M.," and died August 5, 1761. His first wife was Eliza- beth, born 1684-5, daughter of "Mr. William Haynes," (see page 206). Mrs. Elizabeth Bartlett
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John+th, unmarried ; Isaac1st ; Amos, born July 13, 1764 ;
Henry ;
Mary Esther, born 1753 (Mrs. William St. John) ;
Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Cannon).
Samuel3rd, son of John2nd and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, married March 9, 1774, Ann, believed to have been born January 28. 1754, daughter of Joseph and Alithea (Wetmore) Lampson and had :
Thomas, born January 17, 1775;
Samuel, born October 27, 1777 ;
William (Colonel) born September 15, 1780; Hezekiah, born January 27, 1783.
Isaac1, son of John1st and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, married Esther, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Reed, and had :
Esther Mary, (Mrs. Rev. Augustus Summers first,
and, second, Mrs. Socrates Squires) ;
"deceased (per Bible record) February, 6, 1722-3, in the 39th year of her age at 11 A. M." Mr. Bartlett married, second, Mary (see page 96), daughter of Thomas2nd and Sarah (Marvin) Betts, and had Ann and Rebecca, the second of whom, Rebecca, was the second Mrs. John Belden3rd. The children of Mr. Bartlett by his first wife were: Elizabeth (Mrs. Eben- ezer Smith); Hannah (Mrs. Elnathan Hanford); William; Isabel (Mrs. Ephraim Smith); Mary (Mrs. Lyndal Fitch); Sarah (Mrs. Nathaniel Satterly); John; Samuel. From the Ephraim Smith son-in-law of John Bartlett descended the New York Captain Isaac Bell line. (See note, page 167.)
1 Isaac, son of John3rd and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, was a Belden son who, as was true of his brother, John4th, Norwalk remained. It is inferred that his house, now the West Avenue club property of St. Mary's parish, was built by himself after the British burning. He was a farmer, and as did Stephen St. John, used the "garret" of his house for grain storage. Traces of the elevated doorway for grain elevation are still discerned in the north gable of the old West Avenue House. Mr. Belden worked (see page 146) the Belden Point farm and the harvest trips to and from the shore with, quite likely, lunch- eon under the shade and a dip at high tide in the salt water, to say nothing of the ever changing sea-scape novelty, possessed such attraction that two youths, at least, were happy escorts, occasionally, of Mr. Belden. One was the young clerk, L. O. Wilson, afterward Mr. Belden's son-in-law, who in those days was seen hastening down the Ely Neck road with horse under saddle and rider holding a grain cradle, and the other a nephew of Mr. Belden, John,
son of Henry Belden, a society young man, but who professed that he preferred association with "Uncle Isaac in the Neck " to college ehumming.
Mrs. Isaac Belden, whose parents rest a short distance from the southwest door of St. Paul's Church, was a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Reed. Matthew Reed was a genius, a fine specimen of whose hand-craft stands to-day in a Stamford home in the lower part of Summer street. It is an old clock, across the face of which Mr. Reed's name is plainly inscribed. Its maker was born in 1739, in Norwalk, and was a son of William and Rachel (Kellogg) Reed and grandson of John2nd and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, which John2nd was the old- est son of John Reed, Senior and settler, whose grave is marked by a granite slab which stands on the grounds of Samuel R. Weed of Rowayton, Conn. Mrs. Matthew Rced, born 1746, was a daughter of Samuel Kellogg2nd (son of Samuel1st and grandson of Settler Daniel Kellogg, see page 372). Her daughter Esther was a woman of stability. Polly, Esther's sister, born 1768, married, April 3, 1789, Seth, son of John and Ruth seymour, whose son Uriah is repre- sented to-day by his children who occupy, in 1899, the interesting South Norwalk Seymour premises, a little distance north of the new and handsome First Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. Hannah Reed, a sister between Mrs. Seth Seymour and Mrs. Isaac Belden, married, January 5, 1804, Asa, son of Nathaniel and Anna (Raymond) Benedict and father of the late George W. and William H. Benedict (see note, page 378) of South Norwalk. Matthew Reed died December 4, 1797, leaving children other than those named.
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Harriet (Mrs. Lewis O. Wilson) ;1
Amos, son of John3rd and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, married Elizabeth, born October 12, 1770, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Scudder) Isaacs (see pages 96 and 331), and had as per page 96, none of whom, excepting Julia,2 belonged in Norwalk.
Henry, son of John3rd and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, married Esther, born October 14, 1773, daughter of Goold and Elizabeth (Dimon) Hoyt, and had as per page 358. A description of the home of his parents (John3rd and Rebecca Belden) and afterwards that of his brother, John Belden4th, here naturally follows.
BELDEN-SELLECK HOUSE, 1899.
(See plates pages 382 and 387.)
This is one of the only few remaining ante-revolutionary Norwalk homes, and its history repays perusal. At the Tryon visitation General Garth caused it to be fired, but his men were seemingly too much in haste to tarry until it was completely flame underway, con- sequently the fire was extinguished just as its destruction had commenced. The premises were purchased by the Beldens before the Revolution. John Belden3rd here brought up his children, John#th, Isaac, Amos, Henry, Mary Esther, and Sarah.
The family of John3rd and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden were tenants of the home3 in 1779. Thomas, son of John211, had a hearthstone of his own (afterwards Governor Bissell place), and Samuel his brother resided in Wilton. The John Beldenth barn for many years after the Tryon conflagration bore an oak inscribed fire-record. Accepting the Moses Webb statement
1 Lewis O. Wilson, when young, came to Norwalk as a clerk. He became afterwards a Norwalk mer- chant, and finally a heavy business man of New York city, where he was energetic, enterprising and success- ful. His country home at Belden's Neck was a lovely site. Mr. Wilson liked well kept highways. He was much interested in the Wilson Point Road and seemed to be fond, at leisure hours, of himself having a part in the work. After he had quit "The Neck," and given up business, and buried most of his family, he was wont, in old age, to be seen, in kid protected hands holding a rake and indulging his old incli- nation. He was well known in Metropolitan mer- chant circles and made his country seat inviting. (See page 66.) Mrs. Wilson was a devoted mother, and enjoyed, with her children, the attractive proper- ty, her father's bequeathed patrimony, at "the Point." The children of L. O. and Harriet Wilson were Capt. Henry, U. S. N., Charles, Oliver, William and Victor B. Charles and Victor were the only married sons. The first married Charlotte Tillotson, of N. Y., and the second Sarah Searles of Norwalk.
2Julia (see last note pige 96), daughter of Ainos Belden1st, married, March 13, 1816, Hooker, born January 30, 1792, son of William and Mary Esther (Belden) St. John. She had one son, Frederick
Augustus, born January 15, 1817, who died unmar- ried, June 13, 1839. Both second cousins, Frederick A. St. John and John (son of Henry) Belden, died young. John Belden had commenced a business en- gagement in New York city, but soon came home to close his days. He was a social favorite and had much to live for. Mrs. Hooker St. John survived the birth of her only child one day short of eight months. 3 This home was established prior to the Revolu- tionary war. At the Tryon visitation General Garth caused it to be fired, but his men, who on their march from "Old Well" northward had almost reached the crossing place to the east side of Norwalk river where the Tryon and Garth forces were to unite, were seemingly in haste and did not tarry until sure that the building was fully fired. The fire was extinguished ere the structure wasdestroyed. It was afterwards repaired and continued the property of John Belden3rd, father of John4th, Isaac, Amos, Henry, Mary Esther, and Sarah Belden. The same (14 acres area) was sold, March 18, 1796, by the heirs of John3rd and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden to John4th and his brother Isaac. John4th took the north portion (Selleck house and land of 1899), and Isaac occupied, with the adjoining grounds, the present St. Mary's Assembly House, opposite St. Mary's Church, on West Avenue. After the day of John Belden4th his
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BELDEN-SELLECK HOME, 1899.
as correct, the true war story of the spot would seem to be that General Garth, who had been repulsed at "Old Well," possibly feared an attack upon his return thither to his boats and hence prudently determined to reserve a portion of his ammunition, leaving it on the west side of the river before crossing the same to join forces with Tryon in the work of the burning of the east side. The soldier Webb declared that the Belden house was used as a storage for ammunition. If so, Garth would not have ordered the building to be consumed until upon his return march, which is the probable explanation of the matter. Moses Webb1, who was a
house and gronnds passed into the possession of said Belden's nephew, Frederick St. John1st, son of William and Mary Esther (Belden) St. John. Frederick St. John1st married Harriett, daughter of John2nd and Sarah (St. John) Cannon. These occupied the prem- ises (they had no children) until Mr. St. John's de- cease. He died in the house, which was afterwards sold (see page 44) to Mrs. Eliza Selleck. Mrs. Fred- erick St. John left her property largely to her name- same niece, Harriett, daughter of Senator Thaddeus and Antoinette (Cannon) Betts.
The Belden family, scattered as its members are, over the length and breadth of the country, may with pride salute the old Norwalk birthplace.
THE WEBB FAMILY.1 See pages 149, 398 to 402, and 470.
Albeit the Norwalk settlers were probably too
industriously employed to have greatly indulged family speculations, still we may reasonably imagine that rigorous conditions did not entirely drive their thoughts from the theme. Richard and Elizabeth Webb, who occupied a plain dwelling close by the 1899 East Norwalk R. R. Station for west bound trains, could hardly have been altogether unmindful of their European kinship. The Gregory claim has mention on page 82, but the Webb Genealogy (page 149) merits additional remark. It is noticeable that neither Richard Webb nor Richard Seymour, whose homes adjoined each other and who were together elected "townsmen" (in 1655), were Norwalk long lived. Mr. Seymour died in office, and Mr. Webb somewhat later, possibly. His family was small and he left no locality designation, with the exception of that of "Webb Meadow," to perpetuate his name.
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young soldier of twenty-three when Norwalk was burned, lived to see his farm divided by the tracks of the New York and New Haven railroad, and just as the road was opened to peace- fully end his days at the old Rowayton home, from whence he was carried, at his decease, to the Warren burial ground, near the late Bigelow premises. Before two of his grandchildren he, shortly previous to his death, brought out a stocking lined with gold, and made a loan.
Mrs. John Belden3rd survived her husband and the property (14 acres) continued her ownership and that of the children until March 18, 1796, when it was sold by the heirs of John Belden3rd to John4th and his brother Isaac.
He was a public man and appears, like his neighbor Richard Olmstead, to have been a surveyor. His home lot almost backed upon the mill pond, which because of its capacity insufficiency was, at the close of Mr. Webb's life, abandoned. The town elected himself and Thomas Fitch and Nathaniel Richards as a com- mittee to advise with one Swayne of Stamford in re- lation to the mill situation (see page 35) in Norwalk. Richard Webb, Jr., resided in Stamford, where he had quite a family. It is possible that he came with the senior Webb to Norwalk, but if so his tarry here was short. He was early identified with Stamford inter- ests and in 1651 made purchase of a residence in that town.
Richard Webb, Sr., who came with his fellow ad- venturers to Norwalk, was, according to careful rec- ord investigation (see page 398), of the fourth gener- ation (Richard of Norwalk IV., Alexander, Jr., III., Alexander, Sr., II., Henry I.) from Henry Webb, who was usher to the Privy Council of Katharine (Parr), Queen Regent of Britain in the XVIth century. This Henry married an Arden, while his sister married one of the identical family and had a daughter who mar- ried, May, 1562, John Shakespeare, father of (April 23, 1564) William Shakespeare, the great poet. There seems to have been a double Webb-Arden connection which amounts, perhaps, to relationship. The Nor- walk Webb father valued, it may well be supposed, this ancestry and affinity, but he could not foresee those of his name who were to succeed him, among whom, to the credit of Norwalk fatherhood, were the honored Col. Charles Webb of the Revolution, Gen. Samuel B. Webb, Washington's private secretary, William Henry Webb, the distinguished ship builder of New York, Hon. James Watson Webb, the notable New York Editor, Gen. Alexander S. Webb of Gettys- burg fame, Dr. W. Seward Webb, President of the Wagner Palace Car Company, Henry Walter Webb, Vice President of the New York Central Railroad. Lawyer William B. Webb of Washington, D. C., Dr. George F. Webb, the Ohio inventor, Rev. Henry Webb Johnson, D. D., of the west, and Rev. Harvey Webb, D. D., of Cleveland, Ohio.
Richard Webb, Jr., the names of whose children are given on page 150, was a Stanford progenitor. Norwalk can hardly claim him, but its sister city may well register his offspring. One of these, at least, has
a distinct place in Norwalk annals. When the New York and New Haven railroad was laid out there lived, at Rowayton, an aged man who took comfort in his Rowalton-side home, and with some reluctance parted with a portion of his tarm for the company's use. This veteran, Moses Webb, born February 18, 1756, son of Epenetus and Deborah (Ferris) Webb, lived, as before stated, at Five Mile River, now Rowayton. He owned the tract in that section through which the Consolidated road is built, and upon which its present Rowayton passenger stations stand. His still existing home was built somewhat south of the stations referred to near the point of the highway branching to Five Mile River Landing. He was a Revolutionary soldier and a brother-in-law of the soldier John Street, who was the father of William Jarvis Street, the daughter of whom, Mrs. George R. Cholwell, still beautifully presides over her honored parents' remodelled hearthstone in the High Street of 1899.
Moses and Polly (Street) Webb were the parents of Epenetus Ferris Webb, who was the father of Mrs. James A. Tyndall, now of the Connecticut Turnpike, near the State Armory, and who formerly resided in the ancient Main Street house in which Henry J. Ray- mond, founder of the New York Times, was born. The late Martin S. and William T. Craw are of the same Webb blood as the patriot Moses Webb, who died in 1850. Mr. Webb married, second, a widow Jarvis, an instructress, whose school was kept in the Eseck Kellogg (now Edward Bradley) West Norwalk home. His descent from Richard Webb, Sr., of Norwalk, ap- pears to be as follows:
Gen. II. Richard Webb, Jr.
" III. Joseph1st and Hannah (Scofield) Webb.
" IV. Joseph2nd and Mary (Hoyt) Webb.
V. EpenetusIst and Deborah (Ferris) Webb (second wife).
VI. Moses and Polly (Street) Webb.
Moses Webb's grandmother, Mary, was a daugh- ter of Benjamin and Hannah (Weed) Hoyt. Mr. Webb was a Revolutionary soldier and he is the au- thority for the statement that Gen. Tryon's officers temporarily quartered arms or ammunition, or both, in the old Belden barn as per cut fronting page 383. It is known that said barn contained one or more timbers which were war-inscribed, but the exact na
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The homes of the Norwalk John Beldens were situated thus: John Belden1st, on Strawberry Hill; John2nd, Bissell corner of 1895; John3rd, West Avenue and Berkeley Street of 1896; Jonn4th, same as John3rd; John5th, with his parents Henry and Esther Belden, site of Grace Church, 1896.
Thomas, son of Samuel3rd and Ann (Lampson) Belden, married, December 24, 1798, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. George Ogilvie, and had as per page 253.
Samuel, son of Samuel Belden3rd, married Laurany, daughter of David2nd and Susan- nah (Rogers) Lambert, and had no children. He, as was the case with his father, was town clerk of Wilton.
William (Col.), son of Samuel Belden3rd, married, August 16, 1801, Rebecca, born May 2, 1781, daughter of Joshua, born June 8, 1750, and Sarah (born August 26, 1756) Adams, and had :
Henrietta1, born May 16, 1802, died February 13, 1843 ;
ture of the inscription is unknown. Mr. Webb lived to the age of ninety-four, and was an esteemed Nor- walk veteran. The late William K. James, a Norwalk financier, knew him well and would direct a riding companion's attention to the patriarch as he chanced to overtake him in his driving trips over the country. Moses Webb's great uncle, Joseph Webb3rd, born Jan- uary 26, 1700, was the grandfather of Gen. Samuel B. Webb, whose son, Hon. James Watson Webb, is of hemisphere wide fame, and whose children, Dr. W. Seward Webb of the New York Central Railroad, and Gen. Alexander S. Webb of national renown, the town of Norwalk gathers honor to itself in naming as its descendants. Nor does the Webb memorabilia here cease. Richard Webb1st of Norwalk drew his last earthly breath in the dew-pearly precincts across which, in the East Norwalk of to-day, pass the long and heavy laden trains of the four-track Consolidated road. Samuel Webb, son of Richard2nd, had a name- sake son born on the first Sunday of November, 1692, who had a brother Charles, whose son, Charles2nd, was Connecticut's eminent Col. Charles Webb. The little Lord's day born Webb (Samuel2nd) was also a first cousin of William Webb, who was a great grandfather of Isaac Webb, the naval architect. Isaac Webb, who hailed from Shippan Point, was a no distant neighbor of the family of Isaac Bell, and his son, William Henry Webb, became the ship mod- deler and builder of the western continent, who was knighted, and thereafter known as Sir William Webb. These all refer back to this county for parentage, and, as elsewhere stated, embrace in their notable kin- circle the Webb historian, Dr. George F. Webb, an in- ventor and distinguished medical specialist of Cleve- land, Ohio, and his cousin, the Rev. Dr. Henry Webb Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend, Indiana.
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