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the membership of. Of Mercy, third daughter of Nathan Fitch Ist., and who took her name, in all probability, from her aunt, who was the niece and most likely namesake of Mercy, wife of Moses St. John, it is sufficient to say that her children could scarcely, on their father's side, be more conspicuously descended. She married, Dec. 29, 1791, Adam Swan, (see foot note, page 104) born, June 28, 1768, and through "Capt. John Gallup" of Ston- ington, of royal descent. The children of several king's (including the Emperor Charle- magne) blood, of this Norwalk-Canaan Fitch daughter, were :
Maria ; born, April 25, 1793, married Chester Stebbins.
John "t .; born, March 24, 1795, died in infancy.
John 2d .; born, July 25, 1796, died, Sept. 26, 1859, unmarried.
Adam : born, May 13, 1799, died, June 9, 1861, unmarried. Henry ; born, Sept. 12, 1802, married, Maria Mills ; died, Aug. 3, 1867.
Cynthia ; born, April 25, 1805, married, John Williams ; died, Oct. 9, 1881.
Nathan Fitch; born, June 1, 1808, married, Juliette Smith ; died, Oct. 12, 1875; had : Hattie M., who married Charles F. Cadle of Muscatine, Iowa, 1896.
Erasmus D. ; born, Oct. 8, 1810, died, July 10, 1878.
Mercy Ann. ; born, Feb. 10, 1813 ; died, Dec. 8, 1877, unmarried.
DeWitt C .: born, May, 14, 1817, died, 1879, unmarried.
Roswell N. : born, April 6, 1820, died, June 9, 1864, unmarried.
Adam Swan died in 1835, and his wife, Mrs. Mercy Fitch Swan, June 28, 1850.
Asahel Fitch 2d. of Canaan parish, son of Nathan Ist., married, in 1793, Martha, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Denison. They took up their residence in Cayuga County, N. Y., and had :
William Reed; born, Oct. 10, 1794, married, Aurelia Dunning. Alvah; born, June 7, 1797, married, L. U. Morse.
Charles D .; born. April, 5, 1800, married Flo' Smith. Cynthia ; born, Oct. 27, 1802, married Eli Smith.
Matthew Fitch2d., born, June 17, 1744, son of MatthewIst. and Lydia (Olmsted) Fitch, and next brother to Nathan'st., married, Dec, 27, 1770, a Reed, and had five sons (Matthew 3d., Samuel, Enoch, Simeon, Silas) and three daughters, viz : Esther, who married Ansel Ford; Sarah, who married, first, a Vandeveer, and second, a Champlain ; and Eliza- beth, who married a Graves. From Matthew Fitch 2d., through his son Silas, born, Jan. 28, 1773, who married, Sept. 7, 1795, Clarissa, born, Jan. 4, 1774, daughter of Isaac and Abi- gail Howell, has descended his great grandson, Theodore Fitch, born, March 30, 1844, who married, Feb. 4, 1869, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Goodrich and Grace Ingersoll (Hawley) Coe. Mrs. Theodore Fitch is a cousin of Mrs. George B. St. John (1896) of Norwalk.
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FITCH-WHITNEY MENTION.
Hon. Samuel Fitch Ist. had (see page 175) seven children. Of these, Daniel, one of his three sons, married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Marvin 2d. (son of Samuel "-", who was son of Matthew 2d., who was son of Matthew Marvin "). Daniel and Rebecca Fitch had (the same number of sons as had Samuel Fitch 1st., their father) Samuel, Henry and Jona- than. The three brothers resided, the first in what is now known as the Gov. Fitch house, the second about where the present Myrtle Avenue opens into East Avenue, and the third in the house, built by himself, and occupied, in 1896, by Oscar W. Raymond of East Nor- walk. Henry, the middle named brother, born, Jan. 29, 1773, married, July 19, 1796, Abby, born, June 8, 1775, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth (Raymond) Whitney. Mrs. Henry Fitch's mother was a daughter of the patriot Simeon Raymond of "Old Well," and her father (a mariner) was the son of David Whitney who was proprietor of the Silvermine "Whitney Mill," which David was the second son of the first (recorded) vestryman of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, Hezekiah Whitney (son of Joseph, who was son of John, who was son of Henry Whitney, the settler). The brother of Abby (Mrs. Henry Fitch) was Eben Whitney, for many years the well recalled silversmith of New York. To leave a watch for repair at Eben Whitney's Pearl Street store, or to purchase an article from his shelves was to be dealt by as agreed upon. He was a faithful man and closed an honored city and country life (in Norwalk) May 22, 1869. Henry and Abby Fitch had seven children. Daniel, their oldest son, born April 2, 1799, a man of solid integrity, married, Sept. 15, 1822, Sarah, daughter of Zechariah Whitman and Sarah Fitch. He lived on the old Mar- vin property at the foot of Strawberry Hill, where the ancient "Fairfield path" rounded, in coming from the east, into the Fort Point path. His house is still standing at the head of Fitch Street. The children of Daniel and Sarah Fitch (barring two who died early) were :
Henry W .; married Mary Dykeman, had : Charles H. and Birdena.
Sarah Elizabeth ; unmarried.
Edwin W .; married Almira Nickerson, had Mary E., who married Lewis Hanford. Rebecca E .; unmarried.
Nancy E. ; married Dan. L. Hanford of North Salem, N. Y., had : Edwin W., Jas. L., Frank H., George W.
D. Warren ; married Sarah, daughter of James and Sally Percival; had, Florence. George W .: married Frances Beardsley : had, daughter, Lulu.
GOV. FITCH NORWALK, 1896, BLOOD).
Several of Gov. Fitch's children (see page 208) were Norwalk non-married and non-resident ; which fact numerically narrows this town's descent from His Colonial Ex- cellency, whose children Thos., Mary and Timothy (mainly Timothy) transmitted the local gubernatorial blood, the following allusion to which fittingly finishes this Home-Lot record.
Hannah, oldest daughter of Timothy Ist. and Esther (Platt) Fitch, was the second wife
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of Capt. Azor Belden 2d. of Wilton. Through this marriage there was a Norwalk grandson, George F. Belden 2d., (son of George F. 1st., and brother of Henry H., and nephew of Platt Belden) who married Louisa, daughter of William and Lucinda Cornwall, and had, Charles Fred'k, George Wm., Robert Henry, Thos. Fitch and Catharine J. (Mrs. Edson K. St. John.) Of these sons of George F. 2d. and Louisa Belden, Charles Frederick, married Frances Marsden, (no children); George William, married Katharine Loomis, (had, Arthur, Louisa, Henry, Frederick); Robert Henry, is unmarried, and Thomas Fitch, married, first, June 14, 1888, Elinor Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Perry, (had, Ward P .; George F.) and married, second, Mamie Josephine, daughter of John McDonnell (had, Florence.)
Mrs. Samuel Marvin Fitch Ist. (Esther, daughter of Timothy and Esther (Platt) Fitch) married her third cousin. He was the grandson of Gov. Fitch's brother Samuel, and she was the Governor's grand-daughter. She, like her sister Sarah, (Mrs. Jabez Raymond) possessed virtues which were the natural outcome of a benevolent disposition and was an interesting woman. Her home beneath the "Governor Fitch Tree" (her husband bought the Governor's property) was a fond habitation. Their children were:
Betsey ; married (second wife) David Roberts; no children.
Edward ;
Samuel Marvin 2d. born, Sept. 18, 1800.
Mrs. Jabez Raymond (Sarah, daughter of Timothy and Esther (Platt) Fitch) was a genuinely "whole" character, the charm of whose hearthstone was cordiality rather than conventionality. She was social and well knowing what good things were and how to make things such, her hospitable table, fifty or sixty years ago, spread with substantials and supplied with golden butter and snow-light and almost snow-white bread, was irresisti- ble. Her husband was of true Raymond stock. He attended to the farm and left house- hold matters to the direction of his capable wife. The children were :
George A. ; married, Huldah Finch : no issue.
Platt F .; married, Huldah Ann, daughter of Hezekiah and Emma (Meeker) Smith. Mary Esther; died, 1881, unmarried.
Edward, son of Samuel Marvin Ist. and Esther (Fitch) Fitch, married, first, Sarah, daughter of David and Tamar (Gedding) Roberts, and had :
Edson ; married, Mary Ann Bowen; no children.
Elizabeth ; married, as his second wife, James Bowen, had: Bessie, died young ; Jessie Fitch, unmarried. James, died in infancy.
Thomas; died unmarried.
George (Hon.); married Helen Porter, had: Joseph ; Esther, died in infancy.
Edward Fitch (son of Samuel Marvin'st. and Esther) married, second, Julia Silliman,
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daughter of Hezekiah and Emma (Meeker) Smith, and had, Sarah, who, in 1896, occupies the Governor Fitch home.
As George, son of Jabez and Sarah (Fitch) Raymond, had no children, and as his sister Mary E. was unmarried, it follows that Jabez F., only child of Platt F. and Huldah A. Raymond, and the children of said Jabez F. are the only lineal descendants of Gov. Fitch through his grand-daughter Sarah, daughter of his son Timothy. The Jabez Fitch Ray- mond here referred to (son of Platt F. and Huldah A. Raymond) married, first, Sarah, daugh- ter of Franklin and Mary Peck, and had no children. He married, second, May 31, 1887. Augusta Sophia, daughter of Augustus and Maria (Skeels) Peck of New Haven, and had :
Augusta ; born and died, March 7, 1888. Richard Platt ; born, Oct. 11, 1892. Eugene Fitch ; born, July 14, 1889. Theodora ; born, April 27. 1897.
Samuel Marvin 2d., son of Samuel Marvin'st. and Esther (Fitch) Fitch, married, Nov. 23, 1828, Mary, born, Mar. 29, 1808, daughter of Paul and Nancy Coffin of Nantucket ; had :
Henry ; b. Sept. 29, 1829, died young. Rebecca I .; born, Oct. 6, 1832.
Henry R .; born, Aug. 20, 1830. Emily F. Ist .; b. Sept. 9, 1834, d. young. Emily Fitch 2d .; born, Jan. 25, 1838, married, first, William, son of John Mallory of Norwalk, no issue ; married, second, (Sept. 20, 1862) as his second wife. Henry D. Carroll of Springfield, Mass. She died, Nov. 24, 1866, leaving one son, Charles H. Carroll, born, April 17, 1864.
William E .; born, July 18, 1849, married, first, Nov. 14, 1873, Sarah Long, and had one child, George, born, Jan. 26, 1875. The mother died, Feb. 3, 1875, and her husband married, second, Oct. 1876, Agnes McQuhae.
Charles Ist., son of Timothy Ist. and Esther (Platt) Fitch, married Sally Nash, and had : Sally Ann ; born, April 27, 1815.
Betsey ; married, Jacob Scribner of Wilton, had, Ann, Harriet, Emma.
Timothy B; born, May 6, 1821, married, Oct. 6, 1844, Anna E. Stevens of North Stamford ; no children.
William ; died young and unmarried.
Henry R., son of Samuel M. d. and Mary (Coffin) Fitch, married, first, Oct. 1854, Eliza, daughter of John and Betsey (Hoyt) Knapp. No issue. He married, second, Fran- ces E., born July 6, 1838, daughter of Ebenezer and Esther Weed of Darien, and had :
Charles M. ; born. April 3, 1863. Unmarried. Mary Bell ; born, Jan. 19, 1867. Unmarried.
Elbirt W .; born, June 15, 1869. Unmarried.
Rebecca I, daughter of Samuel M. 2d. and Mary (Coffin) Fitch, married, Sept. 18. 1854, Burr, son of John and Betsey (Hoyt) Knapp, and had :
Frederick Marvin ; born, June 27, 1856. Unmarried.
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Emily Fitch ; born, April 9, 1858. Unmarried.
Edward Fitch ; born, July 5, 1860. Married, Nov. 28, 1885, Nellie, daughter of James and Ellen W. Cotter ; had Edwina, born, Nov. 28, 1886.
Mary Elizabeth ; born, Aug. 9, 1862 ; married, Sept. 22, 1887. Herbert Mat- thewson. No children.
William Henry; born, Feb. 10, 1867 ; unmarried.
Henry Burr ; born, Aug. 21, 1879; unmarried.
Burr Knapp died Aug. 26, 1881.
Sally Ann; daughter of Charles'st. and Sally (Nash) Fitch, married, Charles, born, March 18, 1809, son of Charles Fox of Wilton, and had :
Ann E .; born, Oct. 4, 1834, died, Aug. 20, 1841. Clarissa ; born, Oct. 15, 1835, died, Sept. 25, 1836. Jeanette; born, Oct. 31, 1836. Charles; born, May 20, 1838. Edwin; born, Aug. 18, 1839. George A .; born, Sept. 4, 1840, died, Sept. 14, 1869. Ann Elizabeth ; born, Feb. 4, 1842, died, Sept. 21, 1842. William H .; born, Feb. 21, 1843, died, July 7, 1869. Theodore; born, May 22, 1845, died, Jan. 11, 1896. Harriet A. ; born. Jan. 9, 1849, died, March 1, 1851.
Jeanette, daughter of Charles and Sally Ann (Fitch) Fox, married, April 9, 1856, Samuel B., son of Daniel and Nancy (Raymond) Sherwood of Greenwich, and had :
Frank Fitch ; born, Feb. 20, 1857. married, Dec. 1885, Annie Coughlin of Brook- lyn ; had, Frank C., born, Nov. 24, 1886.
Sarah E .; born, April 11, 1860, married, Dec. 24, 1879, Theodore K. Purdy; had, Harry, born, Feb. 10, 1880.
Charles Fox 2d., oldest son of Charles"" and Sally Ann (Fitch) Fox, married Cor- nelia Kidney, and had :
Cornelia Isabel; (married, Chas. L. Wood of Stamford, had: Maud, born, 1886; Lester, born, 1889); Charles4th., deceased ; Kate, unmarried; Lucy, died in infancy ; George, died in infancy; Bertha, died young.
Edwin Fox, son of Charles "s". and Sally Ann (Fitch) Fox, married, June 11, 1863, Harriet Kidney, and had : Harriet, deceased ; Florence, married, William Arrance, (had one child, living in Jersey City.)
Theodore Fox married, Nov. 27, 1867. Anna A. Provost, and had :
Farnham C .: born, Jan. 1869, of Bridgeport, Conn.
Albert Lester ; born, June 1877.
It will possibly be observed that reference to claimed-Fitch-baronial-connection has been refrained from in the foregoing Home-Lot XII description. The author does not ignore the claim, but has chosen the rather to fill the designated description-space with the registration of the Norwalk Fitch family facts. The Fitch descendants comprise a great company, and the important household has notice in different portions of this work.
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HOME-LOT XIII.
NATHANIEL ELY THOMAS BETTS, SR. CHRISTOPHER COMSTOCK.
The two oldest public thoroughfares in Norwalk (naming them in their probable order of construction) were, paradoxical as the order may seem (see page 34). " The Other Highway " and " The Towne Highway." The first of these " ways" was, as is else- where in this work intimated, marked out by, it is to be presumed, the Stamford settlers in their pre-Norwalk pilgrimages between Fairfield and New Haven. Nathaniel Ely of Cambridge, in 1632, a resident in 1635 of Hartford and an Hartford official in 1637, but afterward a Norwalk constituent, constable and a committeeman to set the Golden Hill boundaries of Nimrod and other Pequonnock (now Bridgeport) Indian lands,' had allotted to him the eligible home-site bounded by the " Other Highway and the Town Highway." or at the northwest corner of the present East avenue and Fitch street. From the old world Mr. Ely proceeded to Cambridge and Hartford from which latter place he came, in 1650, to Norwalk, having been one of the "Ludlow agreement " signers. Whether he bore any kinship to Samuel Ely (see page 78) or to Richard Ely,' is not ascertained. He
1About 1657-9 large numbers of the Shore In- dians removed nothward from the Sound into the country, so that there remained only about one hun- dred wigwams on " Gold," now Golden Hill, Bridge- port. A wigwam is said to have represented some six souls, and if so, it follows that in the neighbor- hood of six hundred red men were left in the vicinity of " Pequonnock " to be cared for. The General Court, consequently, in 1659, ordered that this rem- nant should occupy the height in question, and, for some reason, constituted a committee of Norwalk men to carry out its order. The Court selected four of this town's staunchest settlers, viz. : Matthew Campfield, Thomas Fitch, Richard Olmsted and Na- thaniel Ely, to mark out eighty acres of the elevation referred to and return a report of their doings dur- ing the ensuing autumn. The committee did so, signing the document thus: "Narwoke, Nov. 2, 1660." After report made the Indians proceeded, forthwith, to occupy the premises.
2Of Lyme, and thought to have been the pro- genitor of the late Dudley P. Ely, one of the saga- cious and successful citizens of the present city of South Norwalk. On May-day, 1861, Mr. Ely took up his residence in the thriving section of the Norwalk township known formerly as "Old Well" but latterly as South Norwalk, and such was his influence that when the village had grown into the municipality he was the chosen candidate for the first mayoralty. His brother, Nathan C., was also a Norwalk resident, the two having been the last representatives of their
generation of the family. Mrs. Dudley P. Ely was a daughter of Judge J. O. Phelps, of Simsbury, Conn. The late Hon. Jon. E. Wheeler, of the extensive Wheeler manufactory, of Westport, married Harriet P., the oldest daughter of 1). P. Ely. She died in the spring of 1868, leaving one child, Harry E., who died the following fall. Mrs. Wheeler's sisters-she had no brothers-were Charlotte, died unmarried; Mary E. (Mrs. Millard) ; Augusta A. (Mrs. Gen. Russell Frost) ; Dudline (Mrs. Charles T. Raymond). Mr. Wheeler married, second, Mrs. Henrietta V Ells, of New York city, by which union there were no children. He died Feb. 7, 1886. With his brother Elonzo S. he came. in the spring of 1860, from Central Conn., to Westport, and purchasing the already standing Sau- gatuck brick building from Ger-hom B. Bradley, there founded, under the firm name of E. S. Wheel- er and Co., an important manufacturing plant. Mr. E. S. Wheeler is still living and is president of the establishment which in 1896 is known as the Sauga- tuck Manufacturing Company. The two brothers, Hon. Jon. E., and Elonzo S. Wheeler resided in ad- joining homes on the banks of the Saugatuck and a little north of the ancient "Rocky Neck." E. S. Wheeler married Caroline Smith, of Naugatuck, Conn., and had Robinson H., Clarence L., Kate W., Bertha C. (Mrs. John Hazelton) and Elonzo Sterne, who married Elsie, daughter of Thos. R. Lees, of Westport. Robinson HI., son of E. S. and Caroline Wheeler, married, first, Sarah F., daughter of Burr Smith, Saugatuck, and had Robinson L. and Caro-
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was a delegate in 1656 to the Conn. General Assembly, but he retained his Norwalk lot transiently, parting with it in 1660 to Thomas Betts, Sr., at about which time he removed to Springfield, Mass., and had no after permanent appearance in Norwalk.1
THOMAS BETTS, SR., (Second Occupant. )
This ancestor of a long descendant-line was born in England in 1615-16. He was enrolled (seventeenth in number) on the Guilford, Conn., settlers-register. Accompanied by his wife Mary he came to Norwalk in about 1660. Mrs. Mary Betts may possibly have been married before her Betts union, as in the will of Thos. Betts, Sr., executed May 10, 1688, he refers to "her children." The Betts estate was appraised Dec. 4. 1688. The children of Thos."-" and Mary Betts were:
Mary, born 1646; married John Raymond.">t. Thomas, 2d. born June 3, 1650; married Sarah Marvin. Hannah, born Nov. 22, 1652 ; married Samuel Camp. John, 1st. born May 10. 1655 : married twice. Stephen, born Oct. 4, 1657 : died young. Daniel, born Oct. 4. 1657 : married Deborah Taylor. Samuel, born April 4. 1660; married Judith Reynolds. James, born 1663 ; married Hannah Bouton. Sarah ; married Joseph St. John. It.
The curtain rises and the brothers and sisters above tabulated take their places upon the Betts stage. Of the daughters of the notable group Mary, the oldest, was the
line M., who died young, and Edith M., Charles E., Sarah H., and the twins, Harry and Herbert, both of whom died in infancy. Mrs. R. HI. Wheeler died Feb. 24, 1877, and her husband married, second, Helen, daughter of Capt. Francis Sherwood. of Greens Farms. Clarence L., son of E. S. and C'aro- line Wheeler, a Norwalk school youth of some years since, is married and lives in Marion, Ind.
'He was alive in 1675 and seems, by a Norwalk record of that date, to have had still an open account with Thomas Betts, Sr., to whom he sold his home estate. One of his last Norwalk performed deeds was to secure assistance, in 1657, to " raise the meet- ing house." This was doubtless the first framed place of worship in Norwalk. The pioneers' original sanctuary was, probably, a log structure, floored and roofed, but hastily constructed and unfurnished and uncomfortable. Its site and the site of the building of 1657 (see page 3%) were the same, and it served only a tentative purpose. Matthew Marvin, Sr., Samuel Hales and Isaac More were constituted by the proprietors, a committee to see that the frame of this first permanent structure (probably the old
structure enlarged) was properly put in place. They were instructed to provide a luncheon "with a bar- rel of good beans" for " the helps" on that occa- sion. They, it is believed, lined the building with the street and most likely entered it from the south. It is inferred that for prudence sake there were no windows in the east end, and, for the same reason, no door, possibly. Soon after his mission in relation to the meeting house was accomplished Mr. Ely vacat- ed his Norwalk home, leaving the " Ely's Neck " of 1896, which was called for him, to perpetuate his name. Elv's Neck was the earliest designation of the Norwalk southwestern coast-adjacent land, a good portion of which was subsequently called " Belden's Neck." It was approached by what is now known as the " Ely Neck road." To the east of the " Neck " there put up a small salt water estuary as far in- land as the ancient " Stuart Landing," the neighbor- hood of which locality came, in time, to be denomi- nated " the village." There seem to have been pot- tery works in the vicinity, and there was, unquestion- ably, at high tide, water communication thereat with outside ports.
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foremother of the Norwalk Raymonds, Hannah of the Norwalk Camps and Sarah of many of the St. Johns and Lockwoods. From the sons sprang the long roll of those of Betts name, who by their faithful discharge of public and private responsibilities, have proven a valuable Norwalk constituency. Mary was about seventeen when the family came from Guilford, which household had here resided for a short time when there arrived with his father to the new plantation a Saybrook young man, John, son of Richard Raymond, who married the said Mary on Dec. 10, 1664. The elder Raymond (Richard, tarried only about two years in Norwalk and left his house and estate to be occupied and managed by his son and daughter-in-law, who there brought up their sons John, Samuel and Thomas Raymond and the boys' sister Hannah. Thomas, the second Betts child, married Sarah, daughter of Matthew"d and Mary Marvin, six months before the groom had reached his thirtieth birthday. The parents of Thomas and Sarah Marvin Betts were close neighbors. and the union, Jan. 13, 1680, was that of two good families. They had six children. viz., Thomas, 3d. John, Sarah, Matthew, Mary and Elizabeth.
Hannah, daughter of Thomas's". and Mary Betts, married Samuel, believed to have been the son of Nicholas Camp, of Milford. Samuel and Hannah (Betts) Camp had a son, Samuel, ad. born about 1674, who married Mary Baldwin, of Milford. These last had a son, Jonathan, born 1702, who married Ann, born 1710, daughter of Richard and Hester (Buckingham) Platt, of Milford. Jonathan and Ann (Platt) Camp had Jonathan, "". Richard, Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Esther and Mary Camp. From the four sons of Jonathan and Ann Camp have descended the Norwalk Camps of to-day.' Of the sisters, Mary prob- ably died unmarried and Sarah and Esther, marrying in Newtown and Milford, had no Norwalk residence.
Sarah, youngest daughter of Thomas'". and Mary Betts, married, March 15, 1696, Joseph, son of Mark and Elizabeth (Stanley) St. John, and from hence widened out a de- scendant line of vast breadth. Mrs. St. John died at the close of 1731 and left one son, Joseph,2d. and three daughters, Sarah, Mary (Mrs. John Eversley") and Elizabeth ( Mrs. Isaac Scudder). Mark St. John (father of Joseph) bequeathed his home lot to his son Jos- eph, where the said son probably brought up his children. Joseph, 2d. son of Joseph,'". mar- ried Susannah Selleck and survived his father about twenty-five years. The children of Joseph St. John2d. were Stephen (Col. Stephen), Hooker, William, Buckingham, Sarah and Susannah (Mrs. Eliphalet Lockwood.)
THE SONS OF THOMASES AND MARY BETTS.
The brothers Thos., John, Stephen, James, Samuel and Daniel Betts were sons of Thos."". and Mary Betts, of Guilford, and afterwards of Norwalk. The boys' sisters, as has been seen, were Mary, Hannah and Sarah. It was a worthy hearthstone, and the
'Alfred II. Camp, of Norwalk, 1896, is from the Durham, Conn., Camp branch. There was some-
thing of a Camp settlement in the interior of the State of Connecticut.
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circle remained for many years unbroken, excepting by the decease. in youth, of Stephen. The girls married well. Mary was probably in the neighborhood of seventeen or eighteen when she wedded John RaymondIst, and became the Norwalk Raymond mother. Hannah was married, in 1672, by "Commissioner Olmstead" to Samuel Camp and was the grand- mother, at just fifty years of age, of Jonathan Camp (see Camp lineage) the first of the name in Norwalk.' Sarah, on one of the early spring days of 1695, became the wife of Joseph St. John, whose grandson. Col. Stephen St. John. was destined to military and social dis- tinction. The girls' oldest brother, Thomas, was a lad of about ten when his father pur- chased Home-Lot XIII. Directly across the street from his own hearthstone the first meeting house (near P'rowitt residence 1896). The parade ground adjoined the meeting house on the south and next adjoining the parade ground (west) lived Matthew2nd. and Mary Marvin. These had a little daughter, Sarah, whom the young Thos. Betts grew to admire and whom he signalized the opening of the year 1680 (Jan. 13) by marrying. Thos. had waited (for those days) a long time (almost thirty years) before marrying. The record makes it appear that his father had a home lot other than the Comstock lot, but either Thos. 2nd. or his son Thomas3d. built the house in lower France street, which Tryon destroyed, and which was supplanted by the Juliette Betts home of 1896. Capt. Hezekiah Betts, father of Miss Juliette, was the son of Thos. Betts3d. just alluded to.
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