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Eunice Barnum, daughter of Matthew 2d., (Matthew1st, Ephraim, Thomas 2d., Thos Ist.) and sister of Samuel (who was father of Rev. Henry S. Barnum of Constantinople), mar- ried William Green 2d. (son of William)? of Wilton parish, and had :
Eliakim Nash, who married Elizabeth Whitlock, June 13, 1770, was the son of Ebenezerist. and Sarah (Gregory) Nash. Said Ebenezerist. belonged to a large family of brothers and sisters. His father was a grandson of Edward Nash the settler, and his mo- ther was a gr .- daughter of Thos. Lupton of New Haven and Norwalk. His brother Edward was a genius whose inventive faculty was remarkable, and his sis- ter Abigail, Mrs. Moses Beers, was a woman of olden school wit. The perpetuation of the odd designation of "Squash Hollow " is probably due to her sense of humor, albeit, she little dreamed, possibly that her playful promptings concerning a neighbor's fondness for the succulent mentioned would attain to such im- mortality. Micajah, another brother of EbenezerIst. and of Abigail and Mary, (Mrs. Wm. Reed) was an old chorister of St. Paul's Church, Ebenezer Nashist. was thrice married. The names of his wives were : Phæbe Olmstead, Martha Smith and Sarah Gregory. The last, who appears to have been some years older than himself, was the daughter of Thomas Gregory, a grandson of John Gregory the settler. By her he had three sons, Eliakim, Azor and Ebenezer, Jr., the first named of the trio being the father of Alice, who married Samuel T. Barnum of New Fairfield. Conn., (see page IoS).
2The history of the Norwalk Green family is in- terestingly intricate. The oldest of this town's Green hearthstones was that of Jacob and Elizabeth (Reed)
Green. John Reed2d., son of John Reedist., whose granite monument stands, all alone, in the rear yard of the present storied Rowayton home of Samuel Richards Weed, married, March 28, 1687, Elizabeth, daughter of John Tuttle of New Haven (see p. 454). Johnd. and Elizabeth Reed had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Jacob Green, and had Elijah, Eleazer, Ash- ael and Elizabeth. The boys seem to Norwalk-disap- pear, and to become, eventually, Stamford citizens.
John Green of Fairfield (1662) owned a good slice of what now bears his name and is known as "Green's Farms". He died about 1703, leaving John2d., who (see Schenck) left Fairfield and was of uncertain where- abouts. A John Green, however, ("late deceased" in 1758), has Norwalk record. This John Green had a "son Ebenezer of Fairfield " and (see Norwalk land records) sons Joseph and William of Norwalk.
It is a tradition that William (father of William Geen2d., who married Eunice Barnum) came from Rhode Island. If the supposition be correct, there was probably no relationship between said William and William, brother of Ebenezer, of Fairfield. The lack of family registry upon this point adds to the difficulty of connecting the links in the Norwalk Green-pedigree chain.
The father of William Green2d., married Hulda Squires. He lived in Weston, and had : Thaddeus, Stiles P. and William2d., Thaddeus was unmarried. He seems to have led a busy life, but was somewhat
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Lewis, born April 16, 1813, (unmarried).
Stephen, born May 23, 1815.
William Henry, born July 3, 1817, (died young).
Charles, born July 24, 1819, (married Mary A. Dudley) Matthew Starr, born Jan. 23, 1821, (married Betsey Ann Northup).
Hiram, born June 15, 1823.
Ammon, born Aug. 8, 1824, (settled in Bethel).
Robert Gregory, born Dec. 8, 1826. Mary Ann, born Jan. 5, 1830. Erastus, born May 5, 1831. Margaret, born March 27, 1833. Platt, born Dec. 30, 1834. (died young ). John J., born July 12, 1838.
migratory. Stiles P., born March 28, 1789, married, Nov. 20, 1814, Nancy Inglis, born Nov. 28, 1794, and had: George, born Mar. 31, 1822; Mary, born Dec. 23, 1825, died young ; Hudson I., born June 26, 1827, married Julia A. McGill (no children); Marcellus, born Feb. 25, 1832; Rachel I., born Feb. 17, 1834, died young.
George, son of Stiles P. Green, married, August 1854, Martha Ann, daughter of Clark and Amanda (Adams) Grumman, and had : Charles (married Jane Foote) ; Georgiana (died young) ; Esther (unmarried).
Marcellus, son of Stiles P. Green, married, Feb. 21, 1854, Susan Frances, daughter of Harry and Bet- sev Partrick, and had : Frank, married, first, a Bedi- ent, and second, Amber Gregory; Elizabeth married Henry Bennett of Westport.
William Greenzd., born Aug. 31, 1791, youngest son of Williamist. and Hulda Green, married, Dec. 15, 1811, Eunice, born Nov. 11, 1794, daughter of Mat- thew and Rhoda (Starr) Barnum. He was a business man, and carried on a large hat manufacturing estab- lishment in Wilton (Hurlbutt Street). The force em- ploved by Mr. Green constituted something of a local
settlement, and when the large market-wagons from the northern section of the county, piled with tubs of butter and boxes of cheese, and later in the season, with country beef and pork, were driven to the Wil- ton street, and their owner disposed of his produce to Mr. Green's journeymen, and took back to the Sherman and New Fairfield districts wallets lined with the bank notes advanced by Mr. Green on ac- count of his men, there was gained something of an idea of the plant's monied help to the community.
Stephen, second son of William2d. and Eunice Green, married Dec. 9, 1832, Orilla, daughter of Ja- bez and Betsey Sturges of Wilton, and had : Alfred, born April 26, 1834, died young; Caroline, born Dec. 19, 1837, died young; Eunice, born Apr. 17, 1844.
Hiram, son of William2d. and Eunice Green* mar- ried, Dec. 29, 1850, Adeline, daughter of Lewis F. Grumman, as per page 92.
Robert G. Green married, Dec. 23, 1847, Cynthia, born Oct. 29, 1826, daughter of Giles and Cynthia (Scribner) Gregory (see p. 467), and had : Henry, born May 1, 1849, who married, Dec. 8, 1870, Cornelia Lounsbury.
*Eunice, daughter of Stephen and Orilla (Sturges) Green, married Oct.6, 1861. Bradley S., born Sept. 27, 1837, son of Samuel and Harriet (Sturges) Keith, and had: Simeon Royal, born May 18. 1866; Ida May, born Oct. 24. 1870; Charles Edward, born June 4. 18;2; Harriet Louise, born Sept. 20, ISSI.
John Green of Norwalk, 1750 (possibly John Green 2d. of Fairfield-see Schenck's History of Fairfield) had sons Ebene- zer, Joseph, Hezekiah and William. Joseph married, May 15, 1746, Sarah Beer -. There are several Wilton -Green marriage record- at this period. The author, barring the Rhode Island William Green tradition. ventures the strong suspicion that William Green ist .. of Weston, father of William Green 2d. of Wilton, was of the John Green of "Greens Farms" line.
John and Anthony Beers appear in Norwalk in 1723 and 1725. They were very possibly, grandsons of James ist. and Anthony ist of Fairfield, who are supposed. by Cothren, to have
been sons of Capt. Richard Beers of Watertown, Mass., who was killed in King Philip's war. John Beers ist. of Norwalk, married Martha, Daughter of David Munroe, and had Sarah, who married Joseph Green, and John (Dr. John of Greenwich). and Samuel, Anthony ist. of Norwalk lived at "Old Hill" ( Westport 1896, not distant from the old Fairfield line). His children were: Anthony, Elnathan, Nathan ist., Moses, Olive ( Mrs. Richard Partrick ), Mary ( Mrs. Nathan Bennett), Rebec- ca (Mrs. Elijah Morehouse ), Elizabeth ( Mrs. Eliphalet Slaw- son ), and perhaps others.
Nathan ist., son of Anthony Beers, married Lydia, daugh- ter of Rev. Thos. Hawley of Ridgefield (see page 296) and had Nathan 2d, born Sept. 8. 1745. He was unmarried, and was a business partner at one time of Peter Lockwood. Nathan ist. and Lydia Beers had also Ezekiel, born Mar. 9 1758, who mar- ried Sarah Platt.and had Nathan3rd., who married Esther,daugh-
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HOME-LOT XXIV.
STEPHEN BECKWITH.
Stephen Beckwith seems to have come, a mere lad, to America. He found his way, with the settlers, to Norwalk, and John Gregory, Sr., assigned to him property. He appears to have been useful, and to have founded a family. He has Norwalk record down to the going out of the seventeenth century.
HOME-LOT XXV
MATTHIAS ST. JOHN.
The St. Johns have mention in connection with the description of home-lots iii and xxii. (See pages 93 and 334 to 336).
HOME - LOT XXVI. GEORGE ABBOTT.1
George Abbott, Sr. of Norwalk appeared in Windsor in 1640. He had there been somewhat indiscreet, probably, in that he sold ammunition to the red men. This was a serious colonial offence, and he was fined 65 for his imprudence. He afterward (1647-8) went to Hartford, where he fell into some trouble, but he found his way to Norwalk, where he has mention in 1655. His home-lot was not on the "Towne Street", but comprised a territory-slice just north of the present LeCount home in East Norwalk. He was twice married, and his children were by the first wife, who is unknown. The family was thus made up :
John1st.
Mary, (Mrs. Jackson).
Dorothy, (Mrs. Darius Root). JonathanIst.
Priscilla, (Mrs. Slauson).
George 2d., (born 1669).
Daniel, (born 1672).
The second Mrs. George AbbottIst. was a Mrs. Johanna Williamson of Boston. There were three Williamson children-James, Elizabeth and Sarah. George AbbottIst., died in 1689.
Geo. Abbottist. of Norwalk, has Windsor, 1640, mention as "servant" This signifies, possibly, that he was an "indenture" emigrant; that he came, that is, to this country, at another's charge, in acknow- ledgment of which he bound himself to service, as an artisan or otherwise, for a definite period. The
Orchard family of Darien has in its possession an ancient document of interest in this direction.
When younger George Abbott (before he came to Norwalk) became, in some way, fire-arms impli- cated. Guns rose afterward, in the colonies, to the dignity designation of " King's arms".
ter of Joseph and Betsey (Nash) St. John, and had Mary (Mrs. Chas. Day); Charles; Nathan (died unmarried); George (mar- ried Eliza, daughter of Charles and Chary Olmstead); Edwin F. (married Mary Esther, daughter of Charles and Chary Olm- stead); Elizabeth (died young); Frank (married, first, Julia F.
Allen, and second, Susan E. Scofield; no children). Edwin F. and Mary Esther (Olmstead) Beers had Elizabeth; Ida (Mrs. George Albert Smith; Edalena (Mrs. Edward Ernest Bossa). The grand-children of Edwin F. and Mary Esther Beers are Reginald Lincoln Smith and Madeline Esther Bossa.
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John'st. married Ruth, daughter of John Rusco1st .. This gave the Abbotts rather a wide connection. The children of John'st. and Ruth Abbott, were : John 2d .; Esther (Mrs. Ebenezer Jackson); Mary (Mrs. Joseph Scribner).
Jonathan1st., the second son, married, June 5, 1696, Sarah, daughter of Lieut. John and Mary (Benedict) Olmsted, and grand-daughter of Richard Olmsted, the settler, and had Jonathan2d., born April 6, 1697, who went to Ridgefield; Mary; Lemuel; Sarah ; Deborah; Jane; Eunice; Keziah; Mindwell.
The children of George " and Hannah Abbott were : George 3d .; Ebenezer; Jemi- ma ; Benjamin (went to Woodbury); Samuel; Hannah (Mrs. William Pearson); Rebecca ; Israel (went to Middletown); Elizabeth ; Dorcas (Mrs. Beers) : Daniel 2d.
Daniel was the youngest son of George AbbottIst ..
The descendants of Geo. AbbottIst. of Norwalk are many, and can, without great difficulty, be followed down through successive generations. The first two sons named in the will of the founder of the family are John'st. and Jonathan'st., the issue from whom is distinctly traced to this day. John'st., who married Ruth Rusco, the young Huguenot, was a wheelwright. His son, John2d., married Eunice Judd of Farmington, and had John3rd., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthias St. John and sister of Mrs. Joseph Marvin and Mrs. Lemuel Rogers. John 3d. and Elizabeth Abbott had a son Stephen, born 1761, who married, Mar. 7, 1780, Ruth James, and had Cynthia, born July 2, 1788, who mar- ried, in 1811, David Comstock of Comstock Hill, lower Silver Mine, and had Sarah, born 1812, now the venerable widow of Samuel Comstock of the handsome New Canaan Samuel Comstock farm (see page 257).
The descent from JonathanIst., son of George Abbott1st., is also distinctly followed down. JonathanIst. and Sarah (Olmsted) Abbott had Jonathan 2d., born April 6, 1697, who married Jan. 16, 1729, Lydia Young of Branford, and had Jonathan 3d., who married, Apr. 18, 1765, Jemima, daughter of James Rusco, and had Jonathan4th., born April 14, 1770, whose children by his first wife were Harvey, Hazor and Cynthia. He married, second, Polly Olmstead of Pound Ridge (the mother of Lucy Ann-Mrs. Amos N. Raymond) and had, by his Olmstead wife, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward DeForest); Nathan B .; Eliza ; Lydia Ann ; and Charles Riley.'
Jemima, born June 14, 1766, oldest child of Jonathan 3d. and Jemima (Rusco) Ab- bott, married Edmund, born April 9, 1768, son of Daniel and Abigail (Dikeman) Beers, and had Jonathan, born May 22, 1789. This Jonathan Beers married, April 10, 1810, Anna Waterbury, and was the father of Alfred Beers of Bridgeport, who was for many years connected with the Naugatuck Railroad. Alfred Beers was born Sept. 26, 1817, and
Rev. Charles Riley Abbott, Ph. D., of Brooklyn, L. I., and of New Canaan, Conn., is a man of sound and highly intelligent mind. He has for many years been connected with the Brooklyn City Schools, in
which position he has been valued and honored. Ile has historian taste, and has been of important service as a gatherer and dispenser of history-facts. He has been twice married, and has no children.
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married, Sept. 15, 1840, Mary E. Bishop, and had Alfred B. Beers, at the present time a Bridgeport lawyer.
The late Ambrose A. Beers of Lewisboro, born Oct. 30, 1812. (died June 11, 1897) was a son of Jonathan and Anna Beers, and brother of Alfred of Bridgeport. He married, first, Loretta Brown, and had Oscar ; Alonzo; Lester and Emmet G. Oscar married Mary Waterbury, and had one child; Alonzo died young. Lester, intended for the ministry, died in the army, unmarried, at Newbern, N. C. Emmet G. married Lucy J. Caldwell, and had Edith Loretta and Ernest, the first of whom married Wm. Mackay of Ridgefield.
Ambrose A. Beers married, second, Jan. 30, 1850, Betsey Ann, born Sept. 22, 1825, daughter of Samuel Monroe. The children by the second marriage were: Emogene Waterbury, born March 7. 1851 (Mrs. Alexander St. George);' Harriet Frances, born Dec. 28, 1852 (Mrs. George Edward Raymond); Clarissa Ada, born Dec. 8, 1854; Ida Lavinia (Mrs. Elmer Ellsworth Holly) born March 13, 1857; Franklin Babbitt, born May 1, 1859; Julia Anna (Mrs. Herbert William Kemp) born Nov. 16, 1861; Arthur, born July 1, 1864 (unmarried); Lester Irving, born July 10, 1869.
HOME-LOT XXVII. THOMAS LUPTON.
Thomas Lupton of New Haven early appears and almost as early disappears as a factor in Norwalk concerns. He was made a freeman in 1664, but the ancient Town Records make name-mention of him prior, by a few years, it would appear, to that date. His home-lot was at the rear, somewhat, of the main line of hearthstone appropriations, but one emanated from thence who became the progenitress of a large family. His daugh- ter Hannah married Ebenezer Blakeley, and had a daughter, to whom was given the mother's name, Hannah, who married John Nash 2d. John Nash 2d. and his brother Nathan, were the only sons of John'st. (son of Edward Nash'st.). Nathan, it is believed, had no children, which fact would constitute John Nash2d. (whose wife's mother was a Lupton), progenitor of all of Norwalk Nash name.
A grandson of John Nash 2d., viz. : Abraham 2d. (son of Abraham Nash1st.) was the Abraham Nash of Troy, N. Y. fortune-fame. He married Sally Benedict of Ridgefield. His brothers were Jared and Samuel Nash, and his sisters were Sally (Mrs. Silas St. John)
1 Alexander and Emogene W. St. George were married April 21, 1873, and had : Elmer Leland, born June 6, 1874; Harold Beers, born July 15, 1888.
George E. and Harriet F. Raymond were married Aug. 29, 1878, and had : Percy Edward, born May 30, 1879; Howard, born April, 1881.
Elmer E. and Ida L. Holly were married July, 1883, and had : Bessie Ida, born Aug. 22, 1886; Anna May, born June 27, 1890; Alice Winnifred, born Sept. 1891.
Franklin B. and Mary Jane (Livesay) Beers were married Oct. 1888, and had: Mabel Clarissa, born Dec., 1889; Earl Livesay, born Dec. 1895.
Herbert William and Julia Anna Kemp were mar- ried Dec. 6, 1885, and had : Herbert Oliver, born Oct. 14, 1886; Julia Marjorie, born Mar. 8, 1889.
Lester I. and Ida M. (Keeler) Beers were married Feb., 1890, and had : Myrtle, born June 6, 1891.
Elmer Leland St. George married, Sept. 7, 1896, Ada Street, and had : Leland Elmer, born Oct. 23, 1897.
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and Abiah (Mrs. Thaddeus Seymour) of Ridgefield. The Nash family attended the aristo- cratic old Second Street Presbyterian Church of Troy.
Micajah, brother of Abraham Nash1st., and of Edward and Abigail and Mary (see note page 105) married, Oct. 9, 1744, Mary Scribner (see page 105)' and had DanielIst., born Dec. 2, 1747, who married, Apr. 24, 1768, a daughter of Dennis Wright of Eton's Neck, L. I., (see page 106).
Daniel Nash1st. removed to Long Island, where he transiently resided, and where was born, May 12, 1770, his son, Daniel 2d., who married, Oct. 9, 1809, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Bouton) Camp2 of Norwalk (see pages 106 and 107).
HOME-LOT XXVIII. JOHN BOUTON.3
Whatever may have been the nationality, whether French or English, of the origi- nal Boutons, it will hardly be disputed that John Bouton'st. of Norwalk, deserves to be classed among the recognized foremost of the town's settlers.
He was proprietor of a home-lot, nearer the water side than most of the other prim- itive hearthstones under description. The tracks (in 1896) of the Consolidated road south-border it, and the present Osborn Avenue of East Norwalk, traverses it. The first John Bouton of Norwalk (a " sonn of John Bowton") had a sister (Mrs. Bridget Kellogg) and a brother (Richard).+ On Jan. 1, 1656, he married, in Norwalk, Abigail, daughter of Matthew Marvin'st., and had by her :
William and Edith Loretta (Beers) Mackay had one daughter, Florence.
'The progenitress of the Scribners was Hannah, daughter of John Crampton. The Norwalk settle- ment was getting fairly under way when this man- John Crampton-appears upon the scene. He was probably one of those who, like Christopher Com- stock, Thomas Benedict and Thomas Betts, came sub- sequently to 1650, to this town. With James Jupp, John Belden and Jonathan Stevenson, he had fought against the pale faces' red enemy, and so far gained the gratitude of his fellow - townsmen as to receive from them a special land grant. He had sons John2d. and Joseph and a daughter Hannah. On Oct. 8, 1676, John2d. married Sarah Rockwell of Stamford, sister of Mehitable Rockwell who, June 18, 1679, married John Keeler of Norwalk. Joseph Crampton removed to Ridgefield, where he died in about 1719. and his widow, Patience, married, second, John Wood. Han- nah, daughter of John Crampton, married March 5, 1679, Benjamin Scribner of Long Island, (see note, page 106).
2Daniel Nash2d. was a man of strong sense. His tastes were plain, and he was practical to the letter. An errand, when a young man, called him on one
occasion, to a three miles distant household. Having there arrived, he was impressed with the in-door gen- eral "air of things". Thrift seemed there to reside; it was a home of industry, and he particularly liked the prompt conduct-manners of the daughters, to one of whom he afterward so successfully offered himself, that Rebecca Camp became Rebecca Nash, the good mother of several very excellent children.
3John Boutonist. of Norwalk was, it has been cor- rectly discovered by the clever and careful genealo- gist, Wm. T. R. Marvin of Boston, Mass., a son of John, Sr. and Alice Bouton. The widowed mother of the Norwalk John Boutonist. married, as his last wife, Matthew Marvin, Sr., the founder of the Norwalk Marvin family.
4Richard Bouton st., brother of John BoutonIst. of Norwalk, married Ruth, born Jan. 28, 1644, daughter of Benj. and Mary Turney of Fairfield, and afterward step-daughter of Joseph Middlebrook, who had mar- ried Mary, widow of Benj. Turney of Pequonnock (Bridgeport, 1896). Richardist. and Ruth (Turney) Bouton had one child, Ruth, who was niece of Capt. Robert Turney of Fairfield, who was eleven years the senior of his sister Ruth, the wife of Richardist. and mother of said Ruth Bouton.
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John 2d., born Sept. 30, 1659.
Matthew'st., born Dec. 24, 1661 ; (went to Danbury).
Elizabeth ; (Mrs. Edmond Warren).
Joseph Ist ..
Rachel, born Dec. 16, 1667; (Mrs. Matthias St. John).
Abigail, born Apr. 1. 1670 ; (Mrs. Ebenezer Smith1st.).
Thomas ; van incorporator of the Wilton Parish in 1726).
Hannah, born 1675; (Mrs. James Betts). Richard.
Mrs. John Bouton1st. (Abigail Marvin) having died, her husband married, next, Mary, the widow of Jonathan Stevenson1st., a Norwalk soldier of colonial times service, who died " the last of November, 1689". It seems probable that the youngest daughter,' Mary, of John Bouton1st., was the offspring of this last union. She married Lemuel, baptized Nov. 1, 1696, son of Thomas 2d. and Martha (Hobby) Morehouse of Fairfield. The first wife of Thomas Morehouse 2d. was Isabelle, daughter of Ralph KeelerIst. of Norwalk.
John Bouton 2d. married a daughter of Nathaniel Hayes of Norwalk.2 He lived in Danbury, and had (will-mentioned) John 3d .; Sarah ; Abigail, born 1689; Mary, born 1693; Nathaniel, born 1695; Eleazer, born 1701.
Joseph, son of John'st. and Abigail Bouton, married Mary, born Dec. 5, 1677, daughter of Jachim Gregory'st. and grand-daughter of John Gregory the settler, and had Jachim ; John ; Dinah (Mrs. John Benedict); Sarah (Mrs. Theophilus Hanford).
John, son of Joseph'st. and Mary Bouton, married Sarah, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Hayes) Seymour. His cousin Eleazer (son of John Bouton 2d.) married Elizabeth, "(sister of Sarah) daughter of Matthew and Sarah Seymour.
OF JACHIM BOUTON LINE.
Gen. I .- John1st. and Abigail (Marvin) Bouton.
" II .- Joseph and Mary (Gregory) Bouton.
" III .- Jachim and Mary Bouton.
" IV .- Esaias Bouton, born Nov. 28, 1730.
Esaias Bouton, of the fourth Norwalk Bouton generation, married, May 30, 1753, Phœbe, daughter of Moses and Phœbe (Hopkins) Byxbee, (see note, page 276) and had :
Phobe, born March 5, 1754, (Mrs. Eliakim Warren 2d.).
Nathan, born Sept. 30, 1756.
Lydia, born Jan. 21, 1759, (Mrs. Stephen Kellogg).
IThere was a Norwalk Wait Bouton of this early period who married Robert Lockwood.
2Nathaniel Hayes makes (see page 85) no will- reference to a Bouton child. There is, nevertheless,
distinct 1699 Norwalk Land Record mention of such a daughter. The Fairfield Probate Record of the choice of Mary Bouton in 1706 of a guardian also infers Hayes relationship.
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Stephen, born July 4, 1760. Samuel, born July 14. 1762.
Hannah, born May 16, 1767. (Mrs. Jonathan Camp 3d.). Josiah, born June 26, 1768.
The above children of Esaias and Phoebe Bouton lived at the water-side, (see page 55) and formed a numerous household. The father was a man of force and a large land- owner. Acre joined acre, and his domain embraced from the head of the Wilson Cove of 1896, quite a distance toward the old road from " Old Well" to " Middlesex" (South Nor- walk and Darien 1896). He was a mariner, known as Capt. Bouton, and amassed some- thing of a property. Of the children, Phoebe, (Mrs. Eliakim Warren 2d.) has mention on page 270. Nathan, her brother, married Abigail Burlock, as per page 272. Lydia mar- ried, Nov. 24, 1778, Stephen, son of Epenetus and Jemima (Rogers) Kellogg. Stephen married, May 26, 1792, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan 2d. and Mary (Burwell). Camp. Samuel married, May 1, 1787, Eunice, daughter of Noah Smith. Hannah married, May 19, 1792, Jonathanbd., son of Jonathan 2d. and Mary (Burwell) Camp, and Josiah was un- married, (vide pages 56 and 57).
BOUTON-CAMP ALLIANCE.
The Bouton-Camp union-Hannah Bouton and Jonathan Camp3d. was the ming- ling of New England blood of note. Through the veins of the wife ran the life-tide of the Norwalk Marvins and Gregorys, and on the part of the husband that of the old colo- nial Baldwins, Buckinghams, Campfields and Platts. Ann, grandmother of Jonathan Camp3d. was a grand-child of Samuel' and Sarah (Baldwin) Buckingham. Samuel Buck- ingham, baptized June 13, 1641, married, Dec. 14, 1663, Sarah, daughter of Timothy Baldwin of Milford. These had a daughter Hester, born May 4, 1677, who married, Nov. 7, 1706, Richard, son of Josiah and Sarah (Campfield) Platt. Josiah and Sarah Platt were married Dec. 2, 1669. Mr. Platt was son of Richard Platt the settler, and his wife was a daughter of Thomas, brother of Matthew Campfield of Norwalk (see page 286).
Ann, daughter of Richard and Hester Platt, married Jonathan CampIst. of Nor- walk,? and had Jonathan 2d .; Richard; Abraham; Isaac; Esther; Sarah; Mary.
Samuel Buckinghamist., who married Sarah Bald- win, was the second son and third child of Thomas Buckingham, the American Buckingham settler. Samuelist. and Sarah Buckingham's grand-child Ann ( Mrs. Jonathan Campist.) was born Nov. 10, 1770. Thomas, born Nov. 8, 1646, grandfather of Rev. Ste- phen Buckingham of Norwalk (see pages 203, 210 and note page 242) and Samuel, grandfather of Mrs. Jona- than Campist. were brothers.
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