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Eleanor Andrews of Fairfield. These had a son, Ebenezer, born Jan. 1, 1768, who, at the age of twenty-one, married Sarah, daughter of Obadiah and Sarah Wright of Westport. The Wright's came from Eaton Manor, L. I., and made purchase of a handsome property on the west side of the Saugatuck. Ebenezer and Sarah Jessup had a son, Francis Wright Jessup, born Jan. 14, 1800, who married May 19, 1834, Mary Ann, daughter of Capt. Richard and Mary Bontecou Hanford of Lansingburgh, N. Y. Capt. Richard Hanford,' (father of Levi C. Hanford of Norwalk) was a lineal descendant, through his grandfather, of "Mr. William Haynes" of Haynes' Ridge. Angeline Jessup, born Nov. 11, 1802, a sister of Francis Wright and Mary Ann Jessup, married, June 19, 1827, Edward M. Morgan, cashier, formerly, of the Fairfield County National Bank, Norwalk, and a brother of Henry T. Morgan, son-in-law of Col. Buckingham Lockwood of Norwalk, and a N. Y. City banker.
Charles Jessup, a senior brother of Francis Wright Jessup, married Sept. 9, 1821, Abigail, daughter of Hon. Samuel Burr and Charity Sherwood of Westport, and a sister of Sally Sherwood, who married Hon. Clark Bissell, LL.D. of Norwalk, and at one time Governor of the State of Connecticut. Clark Bissell, born Sept. 7, 1782, and only about twenty-five years of age when he came to Fairfield County, yet contributed to this County's valuable legal stock by his sound thought, and by his apprehension, advocacy and appli- cation of the principles of sound, solid jurisprudence. He was a man of inviolate integrity, and his home, as its to this day finely preserved appearance indicates, was one of the choice hearthstones of New England ; a hearthstone at which the distinguished father and his children were blest by the reaching, rearing and remaining influence of a wife and mother who had no ambition to shine in the world of glitter, but who, in the world of goodness, was a bright, particular star.2
The brief story of Robert Beacham, as one of the enterprising founders of Norwalk, is not altogether interest-destitute, and it is somewhat of an annals lesson-loss to drop the pioneer's memory-testimony to his few year's service and sympathy in their perils and pains by discarding the appellation of "Beacham's Lane " and " Beacham's Bridge."
Gen. D. N. Couch, married Aug. 31, 1854, Mary Caroline Crocker, of Taunton, Mass., and had :
ALICE L. b. July 6, 1855, died July 5, 1884. LEONARD CROCKER, b. Sept. 26, 1856.
Alice L., daughter of Darius N. and Mary C. Couch, married, June 8, 1881, H. LeRoy Randall, of New Milford, Conn., and had :
ALICE N., b. May 5, 1882.
CHARLES COUCH, b. June 21, 1884, died July 29, 1885.
Leonard Crocker, son of Darius N. and Mary C. Couch, married, Apr. 25, 1882, Cecilia M. Francis, of Taunton, Mass., and had :
CECIL THOMAS, b. May 20, 1883;
CAROLINE Avis, b. Apr. 11, 1885 ;
DARIUS NASH, b. July 26, 1890, died July 8, 1893. Mrs. Leonard C. Couch, died May 20, 1894.
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'The grandmother of Capt. Richard Hanford was Sarah, daughter of Joseph Ketchum, the founder of the Norwalk and Westport Ketchum families, which triple Haynes, Hanford and Ketchum alliance was a strong union.
¿Judge Bissell was born in Lebanon, Conn., but came from Westport to Norwalk. He first resided upon the ( 1896) Cowles place on The Green. In 1816, he bought of Amos Belden, heir of Thomas Belden, the latter's homestead, which has since been known as Bissell's Corner and occupied by the family. The law office, a part of the old Belden house, and now converted into a Cranberry Plains dwelling, stood in the west yard. Here its owner, who was an assiduous student, was engaged by day, while about the last light to be extinguished on The Green at night was that of the library lamp in his near-by-dwelling.
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HOME-LOT IT
RICHARD HOLMES, of Home-Lot No. 4, son of Francis, 1648, of Stamford, than whom there was hardly a more important man in the settlement, was seemingly the iron and brass-monger of the new colony, and lived next neighbor north of Mark St. John. His grounds and the site of the ancient "Smithery " are now partly covered by the East Norwalk Methodist Episcopal Church. His industry-that of nail, gun, lock and possibly blacksmith-was held in estimation by the proprietors. On May 30, 1655, town meeting action was taken whereby two of Norwalk's principal men were deputed " for the fetching of the tools pertaining to the Smith from Stratford." Mr. Holmes was a thrifty man, and his history is of interest. It is inferred that he was not actually the first " smith," but he must have succeeded, by only a short time, that primus artisan. Himself and wife Sarah,' had at least two children, but no mention of these is made in his will. This deed was drawn Oct. 31, 1704, in which he names his wife and his " near kinswoman," Mehitable
Judge Bissell died Sept. 15, 1857. He completed his early professional preparation under the direction of Hon. Roger Minot Sherman, LL.D., the " Cicero" of Fairfield County and of whose attainments the Connecticut bench justly boasted. Mr. Sherman, who established himself at about five-and-twenty years of age in Norwalk, was one of the most brilliant young men in New England. He was born in Woburn, Mass., May 22, 1773, his father being Rev. Josiah Sherman, his mother a daughter of Hon. James Minot of Massa- chusetts, and his uncle ( Hon. Roger Sherman) a Connecticut signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence. He married, Dec. 19, 1796, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Dr. William Gould of Branford and New Haven, and the home, in this town, of the newly-wedded two held, probably, the youngest bride that Norwalk has ever known. Twins, named William Gould and James Minot, were here born, one or both of whom here died. The parents removed, in 1807, to Fairfield, where the father, having achieved legal eminence, died in 1844, and the mother four years later.
Martha, sister of Judge Roger M. Sherman, married Rev. Justus Mitchell, pastor of the New Canaan Congregational Church, and whose name is to this day there held in veneration. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, the latter of whom was distinguished for exceptional personal excellence, resided on Haynes Ridge (now Owenoke avenue) and in the house still standing, but recently improved by Mr. W E. Bond, on that almost peerless New Canaan street. The children of Rev. Justus and Martha Sherman Mitchell were ELIZABETH born in 1780, who married Charles Thompson of New York, whose son, Charles Chaun- cey Thompson, was the father of Mrs. Charles D. Matthews of Norwalk; SHERMAN, who married Hannah Fitch of New Canaan, the daughter of whom
wedded the well-known Joseph Silliman of that town; Mixor, the White Plains jurist of wide reputation, and CHAUNCEY ROOT, born 1786, of signal gifts, who, marrying a daughter of Hon. Robert Johnson, had Martha, born I810, who in 1833 married Isaac Depew, the father of Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, LL.D. and President of the Hudson River and New York C'entral Railroad.
Taylor Sherman, who came to and who practiced law in Norwalk contemporaneously with Roger Minot Sherman, and whose remains are interred in the "Town House Hill" cemetery, was the youngest child of Judge Daniel and Mindwell Sherman of Woodbury, Conn. The Mitchell-Shermans, before referred to, sprang from Capt. John Sherinan of Essex Co. England, 1634, and Taylor Sherman from Capt. John Sherman's cousin, Hon. Samuel Sherman. The children of Taylor and Elizabeth Sherman were CHARLES ROBERT, born Sept. 26, 1788; DANIEL, born March 28, 1790; BETSY, born Dec. 7, 1791.
Charles Robert Sherman married May 8, 1810, Mary, born Dec. 28, 1787, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Raymond) Hoyt of "Old Well." These had Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Reese of Ohio; James Sherman; Mrs. Amelia McComb of Ohio; Mrs. Julia Whitlock of Ohio; William Tecumseh Sherman, born February 8th, 1820, General U. S. A .; Lampson R. Sherman of Iowa; Hon. John Sherman, U. S. Senate; Mrs. Susan Bartley, Ohio; Hoyt Sherman of Iowa, and Mrs. Frances Beecher Moulton of Ohio.
Mis. President Porter of New Haven, claims Judge Taylor Sherman as a descendant, through his mother ( Mindwell Taylor) of the Norwalk Taylor father.
'A daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Webb. Probably no children survived their father. --
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Warner, (subsequently Mrs. Jos. Olmsted, Sr.1) to whom he made a certain bequeathment, and after his wife's decease, gave all his movable estate. He also remembers Jonathan Slau- son, "whom I brought up from a child," and Samuel Hayes, and Thomas and Richard Bouton, whose father's house-lot cornered upon his own, and the nine daughters of his two brothers, Stephen Holmes of Stamford and John Holmes of Bedford. In connection with this Holmes-Warner mention, the following as yet unexplained transaction, in which one of the partners was John Pell, nephew and heir of Thomas Pell, "Gentleman of the bed- chamber to King Charles I, and first lord and Proprietor of the Manor of Pelham," is recorded in Norwalk Town Records, Vol. I, and reads thus :
".1 true copy of a deed of sale between John Pell unto Ralph Warner. recorded this 10th of May, 1675."
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, that I, John Pell, proprietor of the Manor of Ann Hook's Neck,2 have sold unto Ralph Warner, Blacksmith, all those my horses, mares, colts and horse kinds that are now being or belonging to Norwalk bounds, in the County of Fair- field and the colony of Connecticut, he, the said Warner, paying all charges that have been out recordings and markings the said horses, and does hereby acknowledge the satisfaction received, and does hereby acquitt, discharge and quit-claim all my right and the interest I might or ought to have unto the said horses of Norwalk aforesaid."
" IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this fifth day of March, 1675."
JOHN PELL." "Signed and delivered in presence of " SWESSELL SWESSELL. CHARLES RAVEN."
John Pell, whose livery was located in ancient Norwalk, was a grandson of ". John Pell, Esq., Master of the King's cup and Lord Mayor of Lyme Regis," whose memoria sacrum is erected at the end of the south aisle of St. Nicholas Church, Derringham, Eng- land. The New England John Pell's mother-Mary Holland-was of royal descent. He was an acquaintance of Ludlow, but how and why Norwalk was selected as the seat of his stock establishment is a matter upon which light may yet be thrown. Mrs. Richard Holmes survived her husband about two years. Her estate fell to the children of Robert Warner of Middletown, " who are next of kin."
Richard Holmes, originally from Yorkshire, England, bought his Norwalk lot on Oct. 12, 1657, from a real estate agent of that day, Alexander Bryan of Milford. He was the home- lot successor of one Thomas Smith,3 and his calling one of the most highly
'The son of Joseph Olmsted, Sr., was Joseph Jr., of Farmington. In old times the husband controlled the wife's property. The estate that Richard Holmes left Mehitable Warner fell finally to Joseph Olmsted,
Jr. See Norwalk Land Records, Vol. VII, folio 256. 2Near New Rochelle, N. Y.
3Perhaps the first blacksmith of Norwalk. He probably belonged to the Long Island Smith family.
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respected colonial occupations. Besides this, he was probably the head of the iron-ware establishment of the period. The Holmes' of America may be proud of their Norwalk kinsman. He was a brother of the founders of the Stamford and Bedford' Holmes families, and Col. James Holmes of the Revolution was his grand-nephew .? He left no male issue.
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EDWARD NASH, who succeeded Joseph Fitch and Mark St. John as proprietor of Lot No. 5, was the fore-parent of the large Norwalk Nash family. He was a son, it is claimed, of Edward Nash ist. who was born in Lancashire, England, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in 1592, and reported to have had two sons, Edward 2d, and John. Edward Nash "d. came early to Norwalk, and immediately followed Mark St. John as owner of one of the eligible house-sites (directly south of the East Norwalk school of 1896) in the new plantation, and as Jos. Fitch was unmarried while he remained in Norwalk, and Mark St. John was possessed of two additional lots, it seems probable that Mr. Nash was the earliest heartstone occupant of the spot. There appears to be no mention of the first Mrs. Nash. By her was a son John, born 1652. who, so runs the family tradition, was the first English child born in Norwalk. Another child of Edward Nash, by his first wife, was Hannah, who married, Dec. 3, 1678, Deliverance, son of Henry Wakeley of Stratford, and an early Hartford lawyer.3 Here is a possible hint as to the locality-antecedents of the original Mrs. Nash. The second Mrs. Edward Nash was the wife, first, of Thomas Rumble of (as the record shows) the ancient town of Stratford, and second, of Thomas Barlow of Fairfield.+ Mrs. Nash had no children, it is probable, by her last marriage. She was
Two Holmes sisters lived in Bedford (south part of town on road leading east) some seventy or so years ago, one of whom, Amy, married as his third wife, Nathan Selleck, and was the mother of Jesse Selleck, lite of Norwalk.
2John Holmes, nephew perchance of Richard, was killed by the fall of the first church bell that was raised in Stamford. See Huntington's Stamford.
3An interesting genealogical fact is divulged through a clause in the inventory, Aug. 2, 1699, of the Norwalk estate of Edward Nash, 2d. Allusion is there made to " Deliverance Wakeley, son-in-law " of said Nash. This establishes the claim that the " Han- nah Nash " who married Deliverance, son of Henry Wakeley, the noted colonial lawyer of Hartford, was a daughter of Edward Nash of Norwalk, rather than of Sergt. Joseph Nash of New Haven ; and as Nathaniel Ketchum, who married June 12, 1710, Sarah, born Dec. 1, 1683, daughter of Deliverance and Hannah ( Nash) Ketchum, was the probable ancestor of Amos and Hiram and Morris Ketchum as well as of Maria Ketchum Averill, wife of Chancellor Reuben Hyde
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Walworth of Saratoga Springs, it gives to these kins- folk an additional Norwalk lineage.
+Thomas Barlow is believed to have been a near relative of John Barlow, ist, both early settlers of Fairfield. The six acres granted him in 1653 by the Fairfield fathers are to-day a coveted portion of that handsome and historic town. He appointed in his will the celebrated Thomas Pell, of King Charles I. staff and lord of the Manor of Pelham, overseer of his three children, two of whom, Phoebe and Mary, married in Norwalk. Phoebe (Mrs. James Olmsted) had a son Nathan, born, April 27, 1678, who married, Dec. 17, 1702, Sarah, daughter of Ralph Keeler. By this union there was evidently a son, Nathan 2nd, (afterward of New Fairfield, Conn., ) but this Nathan's half brothers, Samuel and James, and his half sisters, Mercy and Lydia, were the issue, it seems, of his father's second marriage to Mercy, daughter of Christopher Comstock. Mercy Olmsted, daughter of Nathan, married Moses St. John, who is well represented in Norwalk to-day, and Lydia Olmsted, through her marriage to Matthew Fitch, became a fore-
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the daughter, presumably, of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield. Her daughter, Bertha Rumble, married Robert Stuart Ist and her daughters, Mary and Phoebe Barlow married, respectively, John Nash (her step-son) and Lieut. Jas. Olmsted, both of Norwalk. Edward Nash was a tanner, which fact may account for his home-lot choice. This lot lay close to Mill Brook, No. 1, and after said brook's condemnation for mill purposes, it naturally recom- mended itself for "vat" and kindred conveniences. It is suggested that John Nash, born in England, in 1630, son of Edward Ist. of Lancashire, may have been the Virginia imi- grant of that name. The Norwalk Nash's all proceed from John, son of the first Edward of this town. This John married, May 1, 1684, his step-mother's daughter, Mary Barlow, and had :
John and. b. Dec. 25, 1688; Mrs. John Nash died Sept. 2, 1711.
Nathan, b. Jan. 26, 1692-3.
ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL NASH, 20. OF WESTPORT.
Gen. I .- Edward Nash.
" II .- John "st. and Mary ( Barlow ) Nash.
" III .- John 2nd, and Abigail ( Blakeley ) Nash.
" IV .- Micajah and Mary ( Scribner ) Nash.
" V -Daniel 1st. and Freelove ( Wright ) Nash.
" VI .- Daniel 2nd, and Rebecca (Camp ) Nash.
John Nash 2nd. married, May 19, 1709, Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Blakeley of New Haven, and had :
MICAJAH.
Micajah Nash, having " come to years," married Oct. 9, 1744, Mary,' born March, 1711, daughter of John and Deborah (Lee) Scribner, and grand-daughter of the Huguenot
mother of remark. Matthew and Lydia Fitch were married Dec. 7, 1738, and had a son Nathan, born in New Canaan, Oct. 12, 1739. This son married' Mary Reed, to whom a little one, Mercy, was born, who was baptized June 4, 1775. On Dec. 29, 1791, Mercy Fitch married Adam Swan of the Stonington Swan family. As Adam Swan descended from the Stoning- ton Gallups ( See Browning ) it follows that Lydia Olmsted's great grand-children could claim Louis IV King of France, and the princess Edgina, grand- daughter of Alfred the Great, for ancestor and ancestress.
James Olmsted, son of Nathan ist. and brother of Mercy ( Mrs. Moses St. John ) and Lydia ( Mrs. Mat- thew Fitch) had a son, James, who married Sept. II, 1754, Sarah Trowbridge. James and Sarah Olmsted had a son, Aaron, born March 4, 1770, who married June 17, 1792, Sarah Hawley. These were the parents of one, born Dec. 17, 1793, a man not alone of learning
but of talent, the cultured and memory-cherished Hawley Olmstead of Yale College fame.
John Barlow Ist. the kinsman of Thomas, had a son, John, who married Abigail, sister of Ephraim Lockwood, the founder of the Norwalk Lockwood household. These had a son, John, who was great- grandfather ( Samuel 2nd. and Ist.) of Dr. Joel Barlow of Redding, a class-mate of Noah Webster, of con- spicuous rank as a scholar, statesman and poet, and of affinity to Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill of Washington, D. C., and Norwalk, 1896.
'The only recorded " Mary Scribner" of Micajah Nash's day is Mary, daughter of John Scribner. There are complete lists of Thomas and Benj. Scribner 2nd. ( sons of Benj.) children, but all efforts to find their brother Joseph's family have failed. It is possible for Mary ( Mrs. Micajah Nash ) to have been a daughter of Joseph Scribner, but as said Mary has documentary registration as the child of John Scribner,
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settler, John Ruscoe. Through the veins of Mrs. Micajah Nash ran, consequently, the Beebe blood of early New London. Micajah and Mary Nash lived in the to-day orchard lot on the Westport road opposite the residence of William Marvin of that town. To them was born, Dec. 2, 1747. a son Daniel Ist. who married Freelove', daughter of Dennis Wright, and moved to Patchogue, L. I., where was born to Daniel's". and Freelove, May 12, 1770, Daniel 2nd. who in his first teens accompanied his father upon the family's return again to Westport. Daniel Nash 2nd. married, Oct. 9, 1808, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah ( Bouton ) Camp of Norwalk, and had:
Edward Hawks, b. Aug. 6, 1809 ; Andrew, b. June 24, 1811 ;
Julia Ann, b. July 13. 1813 ; Hannah, b. Feb. 6, 1816.
Edward Hawks Nash, son of Daniel2dl. and Rebecca Nash, married, first, Oct. 9, 1836, Abigail Gorham, who died Jan. 16, 1861. He married, second, September 17, 1861, Margaret Newkirk, daughter of Reuben A. and Amelia Williams, and had :
Adelaide, b. Dec. 7, 1862; mar. Oct. 5. 1881, Elbert N. Sipperly .-
Lloyd, b. Feb. 18, 1865.
Louisa, b. Jan. 11, 1868 ; mar. Oct. 5, 1886, Theodore D. Robinson.3
Fannie, b. Nov. 15, 1870 ; mar. Dec. 16, 1891, Thomas Stearns.+
there is no reasonable probability of her belonging anywhere else.
Benj. Scrivener ( afterward Scribner ) came from Huntington, L. I., to Norwalk. He here married, March 5, 1679. Hannah, daughter of John Crampton, a soldier in the Indian wars. He planted his home in Norwalk in which were born as follows: Thomas, March, 1680; Benj. 2nd. May, 1682; John, June, 1684; Hannah, July, 1687; Ruth, March, 1689; Joseph, Sept. 1692; Lydia, Dec., 1697; Elizabeth, July, 1699; Abigail, Jan .. 1701.
Thomas Scribner, 1st, the oldest son, had a daugh- ter, Sarah, who married Gershom Bradley. This union suggests an interesting Bradley family investi- gation. Benj. Scribner, 2 .. a brother of Thomas, was the father of Matthew Scribner, whose son, Rev. Matthew Scribner, married three years before Norwalk was burned, Abigail, daughter of Dr. Uriah Rogers of "Town House Hill" Norwalk. These had only one child, Uriah Rogers Scribner, who married a Norwalk miss, his cousin, Martha Scribner. These had two children, one of them, Matilda, married Geo. W. Schuyler, the Ithaca, N. Y coal dealer. The first Mrs. Uriah R. Scribner died early, and her husband married, second. Betsy, born June 20, 1787, daughter of Thomas, a grandson of Rev. Thomas Hawley, of Ridgefield. The sixth child by this marriage, was the late Charles Scribner who founded the large metropolitan publishing establishment now known as that of " Charles Scribner's Sons."
Mary, the daughter of John Scribner, brother of Thos. and Benj. and. married Micajah Nash, the descent, in one time, from whom is mentioned in the text.
"She overlived her husband but was faithfully cared for by her son and grand-children. Her father came from Eaton Neck Manor, L. I., and was a large land-owner on the west side the Saugatuck. Her parent's house (still standing on the ancient upper Fairfield road at the top of the hill directly east from the present Lloyd Nash home) was, after her husband's death, vacated by herself and she made her home with her son at the foot of the hill ( Lloyd Nash's home.) llere she interested and entertained others by her recital of Indian life as it had been related to her by those who had gone before. She was wont to make distinct allusion to the natives who tented a little west of the Saugatuck, and described as existing in one place, north of Peat Swamp, a line of Indian huts and the customs of their dwellers. These particular ones, as she remembered being told, were distinctly savage. The young listened eagerly to her. She is buried beside her husband at the north end of the church wall of St. Paul's church.
2llis children are Elbert N .; Irving H .; Onona Christabel; Everitt L. ; Lena A. ; Elliott Hawthorne. 3llis children are Lloyd N .: Fances M .; Ruth Williams; Rebecca Camp.
4Thos. Stearns was formerly principal of Staples' School, Westport. His child is Harold Calhoun.
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Edward H. Nash,' married, third, April 17, 1872, Mary Elizabeth, widow of Clark Marvin Tuttle, and daughter of Lewis and Maria Partrick.
Andrew Camp Nash, son of Danielad. and Rebecca Nash, married, Jan. 18, 1835, Eliza A., daughter of Jabez and Anna Adams, and had :
Mary Francis, b. Feb. 26, 1837, mar. George B. Bouton, M. D.2
Daniel Camp, b. Sept. 13, 1839.
Edward Adams, b. Dec. 25, 1841.
Andrew Sherwood, b. Oct. 8, 1843 ; d. Apr. 29, 1875 ; unmarried.
Celestia Annie, b. Dec. 28, 1846 ; d. July 15, 1847.
Eliza Anna, b. May 15, 1849 ; mar. Oct. 5, 1870, Albert Wilkins.3 Amelia Rebecca, b. March 14, 1854.
Julia Ann, dau. of Daniel Nash 2d. married Joseph Wood, and had Ann Rebecca, who married Joseph Hill, whose children were Joseph Wood Hill,4 (Principal of the Bishop Scott Grammar School of Portland, Oregon) and Julia Isabella, who married George S. Brooks5 of Washington Territory.
Hannah, dau. of Daniel Nash2d. married Ezra Morgan of Newtown, Conn., and had :
Elizabeth Sanford.6
Mary Camp, b. July 17, 1842 ; d. Aug. 6, 1890.
Hariet Louise.
Cornelia Jane. Daniel Nash ;7 Treasurer of the United States.
Frederick Ezra. Hannah Sophia. Edward Kemper.8
1Edward H. and Andrew C. Nash, (near neighbors all their days) attended school in the old building that stood a little west of their father's house on the opposite side of the street from where dwelt " the man at the turnpike-bar," but their irreproachable lives have attested to the truth of the poet's line that " the best acadamie is the mother's knee." They have been diligent in their day and generation and merit the comfort and competency that now crown their long life story. Their two sisters in the days of their youth made the Nash home inviting, and cher- ished memories cluster around the still existing fire- side.
2Dr. Bouton, b. Apr. 27, 1828, is son of Stephen and Harriett ( Bradley) Bouton of Troy, N. Y., and grandson of Stephen Ist. and Hannah ( Camp ) Bouton of Norwalk, and great-grandson of Esaias Bouton of page 55. He was born in Troy, in which city his father was a prominent merchant. He is a Yale 1856 graduate and was a New York medical college student.
After an extensive Metropolitan practice he removed in 1866, to Westport, having previously (April 28, 1861) married one of the truest of New England daughters, now of noble memory, Mary Frances, old- est child of Andrew C. Nash. Dr. Bouton has earned the leisure which his culture and fine taste enable him to improve and enjoy.
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