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The next younger brother of Thomas Benedict. Jr., was Johnist., who married, Nov. 11, 1670. Plæbe, daughter of Johnist. and Sarah Gregory (see p. 82). This son, John, born Mar. 3, 1676, was the grand- father of John Benedict, who married, Apr. 4, 1792, Jane, daughter of Samuel Raymond, and had: Bet- sey (who married Rev. Zenophon, son of patriot Capt. Hezekiah Betts of Norwalk), and Amanda, who married, Dec. 16, 1847, as his second wife, the late George W. Benedict of South Norwalk, father of the deceased Homer of California, and of the brave Theo- dore of the Civil War, and of Dr. George W., post- master in 1895, of South Norwalk. George W. Bene- dict, father of Homer, Theodore and George W.2d., was himself a descendant ( gr .- gr .- gr .- grandson ) of Johnist. and Phoebe (Gregory) Benedict. He, as was the case with his brother William Henry. was a strong character. The brothers were manufacturers, whose establishment sent out workman-like work, and the intelligence and enterprise of its managers contrib- uted, not alone to the local community's weal, but was an element in the antecedent success which has helped to make possible the closing century's crown- ing material progress.
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Upon that "over river " plain, the site in 1896 of Armory Square, and of the Van Buren, Chichester, Hyatt, Osborn, and other adjoining Street and Avenue residences, was reared the home of Thomas Benedict4th., from whose four children-Thomas, Deborah, Ne- hemiah and Hannah-have emanated a number of the best known men and women of their time. Thomas5th., the eldest of the quartette, a Norwalk merchant, officer, civil engin- eer and land proprietor, was the ancestor of the Coles, Earles, Keelers and Woodwards, as well as of several of the Benedicts now upon the stage. He had succeeded his father in the ownership of the antique second-story projecting house alluded to, from whence he liberated, after Independence was declared, and the autumn before the town was burned, Lucy, Cecil, Nancy and Dorcas, four of his slaves, mercifully, it is inferred, caring for the same until their arrival at twenty-one years of age. The story of his occupancy of the old house at the time of the town's burning is told on page 367.
The description-completion of the forefathers home-lots-see diagram page 39- brings these founder-record pages of " NORWALK " to a logical period.
Striking to this town's progenitors must have been the contrast betwixt the hearth- stones of Fatherland' and those of the New World of their choice, but still their ruggedly
'The copy of the will of Thomas Fitch of Eng- land, father of Thomas Fitchist. of Norwalk, is here subjoined. In the interests of genealogy and in veri- fication of what has been previously hinted in relation to the "worldly estate " of Thos. Fitch, Sr. of Nor- walk the document will repay perusal. The instru- ment, dated Dec. 11, 1632, was proven " 12 Feb. 1632." " To the poor of Bocking three pounds. To my Eldest son Thomas that Chief Messuage wherein I now dwell in Bocking, and the Messuage adjoining, now in the occupation of the said Thomas, and all the lands tenements &c which I purchased of William Collin in Bocking, and the lands and tenements in Bocking which I lately purchased of Edward Peppen, gent. and his wife and John Amptill and his wife, and the barn in Bocking by Panfield Lane, which I lately purchased of Thomas Trotter upon condition that he pay my sister Stracy twenty shillings yearly during her natural life."
"To my son and his heirs the Message in Bock- ing, late of Richard Usher deceased, and which I lately purchased of Paul Usher and Peter Kirby and Ursula Bond, widow, and the little garden or orchard in Bocking, now in the occupation of Richard Skin- ner or his assigns, and the tenement in the occupa- tion of Thomas Laye in Bocking by Panfield Lane and the great orchard adjoining which I purchased of Mr. Thomas Trotter, to enter upon the same at his age of one and twenty years."
" To my son John two hundred pounds at one and twenty."
"'Item. I give to my sonne James one hundred pounds to be paid him when he shall be a bachelor of Art of two years standinge, in the University of Cam- bridge, for I desire he should be bredd up a scholler. And I also give him and my minde is that he shall have thirtie pounds a year paid him by my Executrix out of lands and tents., (tenements) from the tyme of his admission to be a scholler in Cambridge until he be or have tyme there to be a Master of Arts." To my sons Nathaniel and Jeremy, to either of them a moiety and half part of the farm, messuage, lands and tenements both free and copy, lying and being in Birch or Elsewhere, in Essex which I lately purchased of Wm. Brock, gent. to be equally divided between them and they to enter upon the same at their several ages of one and twenty. My Executrix shall lay out six hundred and fifty pounds within one year after my decease and shall purchase with the same as much lands and tenements within the county of Essex as the same will buy in a frugal and good manner, to be assured to the use of my two younger sons Samuel & Joseph. And my wife Anne shall have the lands and tenements in Birch which I have given to Nathaniel and Jeremy, and the lands &c. to be purchased for Samuel and Joseph until these four sons shall sever- ally accomplish their ages of sixteen years &c. To my three daughters Mary, Anna and Sara three hun- dred pounds apiece, whereof two hundred pounds apiece are to be paid at their several ages of Eight- een. And the other hundred at one and twenty. To my loving friends Mr. Hooker, Mr. Nathaniel Rogers,
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Indian-cleared " four acres " constituted the pioneers' home which, despite its environment- severity was a cherished spot to parents and children. It would have been absurd, under existing disadvantages, to have expected luxury and inconsistent to have attempted dec- oration-display ; nevertheless those quaint structures, lighted by their diminutive six-by- nine panes, were pervaded by a tranquil atmosphere and held in affectionate regard. Peace, truth and love of liberty there focussed and they were the hallowed abodes of purity and piety. All honor to the lordly depositories of old family trophies abroad and the castellated shrines of valor beyond the sea. All honor, also, and all honor forever to the virtue-roofs of Norwalk days departed. These were humble abodes, but within them disquieting doubt was not a hearth-plant, and their reverent dwellers read and believed their Bible, and read and recognized "God in Nature," God in the Nation, "God in History," and GOD IN THE HOME.
Mr. Daniel Rogers and Mr. Collins twenty shillings apice as a token of my love. To son Thomas my great oil cistern of lead, so as he give and deliver to my son John, the little cistern of lead for oil which I late bought and gave to Thomas. To my brother John Malden and my sister his wife twenty shillings apiece. To Henry Stracy, my kinsman five pounds. To my brothers John Reeve and William Stacy (Stra- | cy?) forty shillings apiece, and to my brother Jeremy Reeve twenty shillings as a token of my love."
"The residue to my wife, whom I make sole ex- ecutrix, she to enter upon a bond of two thousand pounds to my said brothers John Reeve and William Stacy (Stracy?) with condition to prove this will within two months after my decease and to pay all the legacies and perform all things contained therein, My said brothers to be Supervisors."
" W. Lyngwood one of the witnesses."
" Russell, 20."
END OF VOLUME I.
Supplement
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VOLUME ONE,
GENEALOGY
( IN ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCES
Of Ancient Non-original Home-Lot Households.
BELDEN - ST. JOHN - SELLECK HOMESTEAD, (See Page 386.)
BELDEN 1
WILLIAM BELDEN1 and his brother RICHARD1- (2) appear to have together settled (1635-6) in Wethersfield, Conn. From William1 and his wife Thomasine (spelled by William Belden1 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;
Daniel1-, born November 20, 1648;3
John14, born January 9, 1650, removed to Norwalk ;
Susannah, born November 5, 1651 ; Marie, born February 2, 1653 ; Nathaniel, born November 13, 1654.
1 Anciently spelled " Boyldon."
2Richard1st, 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 3, 1873. (See page 255.)
8The story of Daniel Belden1-1, oldest brother of John1-t and Samuellt 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 Belden1 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, Daniel1- 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 Samuel1-t and Elizabeth Smith (the ancestors of the Ebenezer Smith family
line of Norwalk, see note column, page 363) and a grandchild, also, of Nathaniellt and Elizabeth (Dem- ing) Foote of Wethersfield. The children of Daniel Belden1- (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;
Abigail1-t, 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, horn Dec. 21, 1695, died in infancy.
Ebenezer Burt Brooke, or Brooks, who married Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Daniel Belden1-t, 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.)
Ebenezer2 11, son of Ebenezer1-t 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 the Deerfield Indian-captured Beldens of Sept. 16, 1696. He died at the age of eighteen.
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Samuel Belden1st and his brother John1 came to Norwalk. Samuel was unmarried, but John1-t here founded a family.1
John Belden,1-t son of William1 and Thomasine Belden, was, with his brother Samuel,1", 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 :
Johnard, born April 26, 1729;
Thomas, born March 25, 1731, unmarried ;
Hezekiah, born April 25, 1736, unmarried ;
Mary, born January 26, 1739; Samuel3rd
John Belden3rd, son of John2nd and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, married Rebecca,8 daughter of Johnbet and Mary (Betts) Bartlett (see page 296), and had :
Mary Belden, daughter of Daniellt, 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 Belden1-1, 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, second, September 26, 1726, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Ingraham of Had- ley, Mass. Samuel Belden died December 17, 1750.
Abigail Belden2ud, daughter of Daniellt, 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 Samuel1st 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."
"Had 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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John4th, 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.)
1Isaac, 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 chumming.
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 Reed, 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 John2ud, had a hearthstone of his own (afterwards Governor Bissell place), and Samuel his brother resided in Wilton. The John Belden#h barn for many years after the Tryon conflagration bore an oak inscribed fire-record. Accepting the Moses Webb statement
1Lewis 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 scat 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 p ige 96), daughter of Amos 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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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 Webb!, who was a
house and grounds passed into the possession of said Belden's nephew, Frederick St. JohnIst, son of William and Mary Esther (Beldlen) St. John. Frederick St. Johntit married Harriett, daughter of Jolment 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 Wenn FAMILY .! No quan- 140, 200 to , and 174
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 Bast 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 Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.