Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 57

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne.
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: The author,
Number of Pages: 553


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1The mother of Samuel Camp2nd was Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Betts, Sr., the foun- ders of the Norwalk Betts family,


2In the center of the triangular space which fronts this text-mentioned building the Norwalk Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution placed, in 1895, a stone in memory of the battle which was fought on July 11.1779, near that spot, and from which point the British, under Tryon and Garth, having


been repulsed by the Continentals, retreated to their boats. The brave Ridgefield Jacob Nash (grandfather of Captain Daniel K. Nash of South Norwalk) fell, mortally wounded, near this place, and was interred in his native Ridgefield. In recognition of the youth's heroism a vine taken from the grounds of Samuel R. Weed, in Rowayton (site of the 17th century home of John Reed, Sr.) was planted, on July 11, 1898, at the base of the east face of the monolith alluded to.


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WEBB-INTERPAGE.


Sir Alexander Webb, born 1484, was an officer of rank in the army of King Henry Eighth and had Henry, Mary and Abigail. His oldest son, Sir Henry Webb, born May 11, 1510, was an usher of the Court of Catharine Parr, Queen of Henry Eighth. He was a gentleman of Worship and mar- ried Grace Arden, sister of Robert Arden. These lived at Hampton Court after 1544 and had Alexander2nd and Agnes. Alexander2nd, born in Warwick- shire, England, December 24, 1534, was the oldest son of Sir Henry Webb of Hampton Court by his wife Grace Arden. He married his cousin Margaret Arden and settled in Birmingham, England, his children being Robert, born in Warwickshire March 5, 1556, Margaret, born June 9, 1558, and Alexan- der3rd, born August 20, 1559.


Alexander Webb&rd, born August 20, 1559, was the youngest son of Alexander Webb2nd and Margaret Arden. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilson, Private Secretary of Queen Elizabeth of England. Their children were:


Richard1st, born in Warwickshire May 5, 1580, came to Norwalk ;


William, born in Warwickshire January 9, 1588;


John, born in Warwickshire October 23, 1597;


Christopher, born in Warwickshire April 15, 1599;


Henry, born in Warwickshire October 12, 1601.


Richard Webb, Sr., born in Warwickshire May 8, 1580, married, first, May, 1610, Grace, daughter of John Wilson, and had one son, Richard Webb, Jr., who may have Norwalk dwelt for a short time, but who went early to Stamford. The mother of Richard Webb, Jr., and first wife of Richard Webb, Sr., died soon after the birth of her son, Richard Webb, Jr., and with his brothers William, Christopher and Henry, Richard WebbIt came to America in 1626. He married, second, in America, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Gregory, Esq., a prominent citizen of Boston, and a sister of John Gregory1st of Norwalk. He went in 1636 to Hartford, Conn., with Rev. Thomas Hooker, where he was a leading man in the church and well known in the state. He died at Norwalk, having accumulated a good property. Richard, Jr., born in Birmingham, England, January 9, 1611, came to America in 1626 with his father. He settled first in Massachusetts. He possibly joined his father at Norwalk, but moved on at once to Stamford, Conn.


The family in England resided mostly in Warwickshire before coming to America. Alexander&rd, settled at Birmingham, while Robert, his older brother, remained on the estate near Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. This estate was also the home of their father, Alexander2nd, and grandfather Sir Henry Webb of Hampton Court from 1544, after his marriage to Grace, sister of Robert Arden, who married, first, Mary, sister of Sir Henry Webb.


The families of Webbs, Ardens and Shakespeares became united by marriage. Abigail Webb, sister of Sir Henry Webb, married Richard


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Shakespeare. Agnes Webb, daughter of Sir Henry Webb and sister of Alex- ander Webb2nd, married Robert Arden, she being his second wife. The first husband of Agnes Webb Arden was John Hill, by whom she had two chil- dren, John and Mary Hill. She was a widow about the time that her Aunt Mary Webb Arden died, at the birth of her youngest daughter Mary. Agnes went to the Arden house to look after the children of her aunt, and finally married Robert Arden, thus becoming the stepmother of the children of her aunt. Richard Shakespeare, who married Abigail Webb, had a son John Shakespeare, who married Mary Arden, the youngest child of Robert and Mary Webb Arden. John and Mary Shakespeare had seven children. The first two died in infancy, but the third child was William Shakespeare, the greatest of English poets. Both of his grandmothers were Webb girls, the daughters of Sir Alexander Webb and sisters of Sir Henry Webb of Hamp- ton Court. Elizabeth Webb, sister of Richard Webb, Sr., married Mr. San- ford and settled in Hampshire, England. Her brother John settled near her. He had one child, a son, whose name was Robert. This son Robert finally settled in London and had a son Benjamin, who also had a son named Ben- jamin, and he also named one of his sons Benjamin. This last son was edu- cated for the ministry, and was an eminent Divine of London in 1877. Christopher Webb died at Braintree, Mass. Henry Webb, his brother, died at Braintree, Mass., having generously left bequests to Harvard Univer- sity. He was a wealthy merchant of Boston. William died in Virginia. All but Henry had a large following of sons. Richard Webb, Sr.,1 oldest son of Alexander Webb&rd, died in Norwalk in 1655. The deed of the town of Norwalk was made in favor of himself and others. He was a well known man in both Hartford and Norwalk. He adopted Sarah, the youngest daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, who with the Rev. Thomas Hooker were in Hartford, Conn., June, 1636. He left behind him Elizabeth, his second wife, the daughter of Henry Gregory, and his thought to be only son, Richard Webb, Jr. Richard Webb, Jr., born in Birmingham, England, January 9, 1611, came to America in 1626. He settled at Stamford, Conn., where himself and family have mention.


1Richard Webb, Sr., and Richard Seymour, Sr., were close Norwalk neighbors (see page 39). Mr. Webb had no Norwalk children-his presumed to be only son, Richard, Jr., lived in Stamford-but Mr. Seymour had several boys with whom their next door dweller, Mr. Webb, was probably well acquainted. Among these boys was John, who with his brothers Richard and Zachary, saw their father buried in 1655, and then with their mother removed (page 154) from Fairfield to Hartford County. John grew to marry in the Hart- ford vicinity and had a son Thomas, who wedded Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth Nor- ton. These had a son Thomas, born July 29, 1705, who married March 5, 1730, Hepzi- bah, daughter of Daniel and Susanna Merrill, and had Thomas, born March 17, 1734-5, who married Mary, daughter of John and Deborah (Youngs) Ledyard. Thomas and Mary Seymour had a son Henry (Major Henry Seymour) who was the father of Governor Thomas H. Seymour (1850) of Connecticut.


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Welch, from whose family the present name of "Welch's Point," in Milford, derives its name. The parting with this cape or point constitutes the farewell Milford transfer of the aborigines to the English.


With reference to the antecedent lineage of Jonathan Camp1-t of Norwalk the author presents the following documentary facts :


Nicholas Camp married Sarah, daughter of Widow Martha Beard. The Widow Beard, whose husband is supposed to have died on the passage, with his family, to New England, appears among the Milford pioneers, She had three sons, James, Jeremy, John, and three daughters, Martha211, Sarah and their sister. Martha Beard2nd married John Stream of Mil- ford and had a daughter, Martha3rd, who married Thomas, born 1657, son of Samuel Coley of Milford. Sarah, sister of Martha Beard2nd, married Nicholas Camp. Mrs Sarah (Beard) Camp died September 6, 1645.


Anthony Thompson, with his wife and two children, arrived in Boston June 26, 1637. He went to Milford, where he died March 23, 1647, leaving a widow, Katharine, who, July 14, 1652, married Nicholas Camp, and had :


Joseph1", born August 11, 1653, died young ;


Samuel1st, born September 15, 1655;


Joseph2nd, born December 15, 1657;


Mary, born July 12, 1660;


John and Sarah, born September 14, 1662 ; Abigail, born March 28, 1667.


Samuel1», son of Nicholas and Katharine (Thompson) Camp, married, November 13, 1672, Hannah, born November 22, 1652, daughter of Thomas1st and Mary Betts of Norwalk (see page 226).


Samuel2md, born May 20, 1675, son of Samuel1st and Hannah (Betts) Camp, was the father of Jonathan Camp1st of Norwalk.


The children of Jonathan1st and Ann (Platt) Camp are noted on page 227, and the line of Jonathan2ud is traced on pages 350 and 351.


RICHARD CAMPI


Richard1st, son of Jonathanbt and Ann (Platt) Camp, married, November 15, 1771, Anna, daughter of Thomas Coe, and had :


Susannah, born September 16, 1772, died young ;


Richard2nd, born November 30, 1774;


Thomas L., born October 10, 1777, unmarried ;


Jeremiah, born September 16, 1781 ;


Susannah2nd, born April 10, 1791, Mrs. Ebenezer Stevens ; Lemuel, born April 16, 1794.


Richard Camp2nd (see note page 13) is represented to-day by his grandchildren, Charles St. John, Miss Sarah E. Clock, Mrs. Dr. C. W. Many, Mrs. John H. Ferris, Mrs. Harry B. Dauchy and Mr. Frederick Camp. Dr. Nehemiah Perry, Sr., of Ridgefield, was wont to visit


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his Richard Camp affinity and kept up the family acquaintance as long as he lived. The great- grand-children of Richard Camp2nd were Susan Virginia St. John, Frederick Warren Many, and John Alden Ferris.


Two of the daughters of Richard Camp2md, Margaret and Sarah Elizabeth, were unmarried. They resided in the home, vacated in 1899 to make room for the new contemplated France Street, home of Wallace, son of the late William E. Dann. Within this old habita- tion the two unmarried sisters named peacefully lived and died. Miss Sarah E. (Eliza) was a woman of strength of principle and purpose, and, with her sister Margaret, old members of St. Paul's Church. Esther Ann, another sister, married Charles G. St. John, brother of Captain Alanson (see page 235), and a resident for some time of the South. Still another sister was found in Ruth Church (Mrs. Charles Clock) a lady of lovable qualities. The only brother was Samuel R. P., who died a few years since. He married Frances E. Keeler, (pages 124 and 246) and had :


Frederick ;


Angenette Penoyer, Mrs. John Henry Ferris ;


Cordelia Dimon, Mrs. Harry B. Dauchy ;


Benjamin, died young.


Jeremiah Camp, son of Richard1, lived near the head of the present Knight Street. He married Charlotte, daughter of William and Nancy (Fitch) Benedict, and had :


Charlotte, Mrs. Charles F Raymond, see page 131;


Mary, Mrs. William Raymond of New Canaan ;1


Ann, Mrs. Lorenzo Hubbell ;2


Emeline, Mrs. David Comstock ;3


Lemuel, son of Richard1st and Anna Camp, married Polly, daughter of Noah and Anna (Keeler) Nash,4 and had :


Julia Susannah, unmarried ; Mary Anna, unmarried ; Sarah, Mrs. Charles Adams.


Mrs. Lemuel Camp was one who had been brought up in the olden school and who had a straightforward way of looking at matters. With her husband and three daughters the


1The children of Mrs. William Raymond were: Mary A., Elizabeth, Charles, William, George, Frank.


2Lorenzo Hubbell was son of Matthias and grandson of Peter Hubbell. His children were Edwin and Frances, both of whom are unmarried.


3David Comstock was of the old Norwalk family of that name. He was a man of industry and integ- rity. He had David, LeGrand, Christopher, Frank, Emily Gertrude (Mrs. Amos Perry) and Elizabeth (Mrs. George Hoagland). He was a brother of Mrs. Samuel Comstock, Jr., of New Canaan (see page 257).


+Noah was the son of John Nash by his second wife. He lived on the road leading from the Connec- ticut Turnpike near Westport to Cranberry Plains. His wife was Anna, born October 8, 1771, daughter of Phineas and Mary (Camp) Keeler. Mrs. Phineas Keeler was Mary, daughter of Jonathan CampIst. Luke, the brother of Mrs. Noah Nash, was born Feb- ruary 15, 1770, married Jemima Benedict, and went


to Norwalk, Ohio, in which place he served as Senior Warden of St. Paul's Church from its foundation until his decease at eighty-nine years of age. The children of Noah and Ann Nash were: Keeler, who died unmar- ried, and Lucinda (Mrs. William Cornwall), and Pol- ly (Mrs. Lemuel Camp), and Clark and Sally, who were unmarried, and Anna, who married Daniel Dar- row (whose son Henry was the father of George Dar- row, the 1899 Westport grocer), and William, now the venerable William Nash of Stratford. William Nash, youngest child of Noah, married, first, Emeline, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Godfrey) Lockwood, of Norwalk, and had Antoinette Kellogg (Mrs. Charles Stratton), and William Henry, and Emeline Lockwood (Mrs. John Wiswall), and Sarah Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Hale). Mr. William Nash mar- ried, second, a Miss Hart of Guilford, and had George and Fanny. He married, third, Elizabeth, daughter of David French of Norwalk. There was no issue by this marriage.


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family made one of the old France Street households. There were no sons, and of the three daughters only one was married. Sarah, the youngest, wedded Charles, son of Isaac and Sally (Nash) Adams. The Adams family is of noticeable descent. Charles of Norwalk was of the line of Edward of New Haven, 1640, who purchased of Andrew Ward his Fairfield home lot, which stood a little south or southwest of the present railway station in Fairfield. He was one of the settlers of Chicago, and an intimate friend of Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper. His mother was a daughter of Dennis and Sabra (Peck) Nash, of the blood of Dennis Wright of Eaton Neck Manor, Long Island. The family of Charles and Sarah (Camp) Adams consisted of Mary Susannah (Mrs. Levi Warner),1 Sarah Esther, Lemuel Camp, Charles Francis and John Edson. Lemuel C. Adams married Belle S. Nash and lives in California. Charles F married Josephine Morrell and lives in Greenwich, Conn., and John Edson married Jane Keeler and lives in Middletown, N. Y.


Charles Adams married, second, Louisa, daughter of William and Lucinda (Nash) Cornwall and widow of George F Belden.


The Coe family, from which sprang Anna, Mrs. Richard Camp1st, is one of New Eng- land's ancient households. Mrs. Camp was a daughter of Thomas, who was a son of Robert and Barbara (Parmlee) Coe. Robert Coe was a son of John Coe, who married the daughter of one of the most influential citizens of Stratford, Joseph Hawley. John Coe was a son of Robert2nd and Hannah (Mitchell) Coe, which Robert Coe2ud was the son of the prominent public officer, Robert Coe, Sr., who was born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1596, and who sailed in the ship Francis, April 10, 1634, from Ipswich, and reached Boston in June. In 1640 Robert Coe, Sr., was one of the purchasers of Stamford. The antecedent Camp-Coe blood of Norwalk is of excellent quality.


ABRAHAM CAMPI


Abraham1st, son of Jonathan1st and Ann (Platt) Camp, married, May 2, 1764, Milerson, daughter of Benjamin Jarvis of Long Island, and had :


Sarah, born June 4, 1765;


Abigail, born March 8, 1767, Mrs. Joseph Clinton ;


Samuel Jarvis, born August 11, 1769.


Samuel Jarvis,2 son of Abraham and Milerson (Jarvis) Camp, married, October 25, 1790, Esther, daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Benedict) Clinton, and had :


Esther, born March 7, 1794;


Betsey M., July 12, 1796; Mary Ann, born September 1, 1798.


With the exception of their son Samuel J. (see note page 129), Abraham1st and Miler- son Camp had no male descendant of Camp name.


1Levi and Mary Susanna (Adams) Warner had Gordon, born April 20, 1866, died July 20, 1886.


2Samuel Jarvis Camp was, as is to-day remem-


bered, a musician. He lived in the old building now standing on North avenue, and which faces the north side of the Jacob Jennings (McClure later) place of the last century.


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ISAAC CAMPI1


Isaac1st, son of Jonathan1st and Ann (Platt) Camp, married Rhoda Keeler, and had :


Isaac2nd, born November 2, 1770 ;


Rhoda, born January 25, 1773, Mrs. Isaac Finney ;


Mary, born September 10, 1775, Mrs. Benjamin Bishop;


Elizabeth, born January 2, 1778, Mrs. Jemmey James ;


Hannah, born March 2, 1780, unmarried ;


Seth Keeler, born August 13, 1782, unmarried ;


Anna, born January 27, 1785, unmarried ;


Abraham2nd, born November 4, 1787.


Isaac2nd, son of Isaac1st and Rhoda (Keeler) Camp, married December 21, 1788, Eliza- abeth Nash, of Darien, and had :


David, born December 19, 1789:


Susanna, born July 28, 1791 ;


Jacob, born June 10, 1793 ; Cyrus, born May 16, 1795 ; Anna Elizabeth, born May 21, 1797;


Charles ; Sally ; Susan, Mrs. Kellogg.


The family of Isaac Camp2nd removed from Norwalk.


Abraham Camp214, youngest child of Isaac1st and Rhoda Camp, married Mary, born June 8, 1789, daughter of David and Mary (Camp) St. John (see page 350), and had :


Samanthe, born December 8, 1815, Mrs. Andrew James ;2 Abraham St. John, born January 12, 1818;3


1Isaac Camp1st selected for the founding of his family seat the slight elevation on the west side of the Silver Mine Street, on which now resides Hannah, daughter of Abraham Camp2nd. The house of IsaacIst stood only a few rods below the house of Abraham Camp2nd, and near the present Hannah Camp barn. Here were born the children of Isaac1st and from thence emenated his daughters, three of whom, Rhoda, Mary and Elizabeth, became well known Norwalk mothers. Rhoda married Isaac Finney, who planted himself quite near his Camp father-in-law and was the parent of the late James Finney of Norwalk.


Mary married Benjamin Bishop and occupied with her husband the still standing home on Silver Mine which fronts the road leading west from the Winnipauk store formerly kept by the late John B. Orcutt. The children of Benjamin and Mary (Camp) Bishop were George Galpin, Henrietta (Mrs. John Aiken), Isaac Camp, Elizabeth Esther (Mrs. Robert Eells), Laura Ann (Mrs. Martin Craw), James, James Gidney.


Elizabeth married, January 28, 1798, Jemmey, born March 23, 1771, son of Peter and Mercy (Nash) James, and brother of Daniel James, who was father of William K. (see page 375). Mrs. Jemmey James1st was short lived. She had one son, Nelson, born Octo- ber 19, 1798. Peter and Mercy-Mary (Nash) James were married March 31, 1757. Mr. Jemmey James married several times. By his second wife, who was a New Canaan Comstock, he had a daughter Catha- rine, who married a Mr. Lucas, formerly of South Norwalk.


2Semanthe Camp married Andrew, son of Jem- mey James by his last wife, and had Nancy Elizabeth, born July 30, 1837, who was unmarried, and Mary Semanthe, born November 10, 1839, who married Wallace, son of Silas Byxbee, who had two children, both of whom died in infancy.


3Abraham St. John Camp married, in 1853, Ann Maria Chapman of Woodbridge, Conn., and had no children.


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Isaac, born March 17, 1820;


William De Grand, born September 6, 1822;


Mary Elizabeth, born January 9, 1825, unmarried ;


Hannah Burwell, born July 10, 1828, unmarried.


Isaac, son of Abraham2nd and Mary (St. John) Camp, married, May 26, 1853, Catharine Louisa, born May 24, 1828, daughter of James and Catharine (Evans) Wiseman,1 and had :


Franklin Abraham, born May 30, 1854;


Catharine Wiseman, born July 30, 1857, unmarried ;


Sarah Elizabeth, born May 8, 1860, Mrs. Lucien F. Judd ;2


James Wiseman, born February 2, 1864, died young ;


David St. John, born June 4, 1866, unmarried ;


William, Edwin, twins, born March 13, 1870, died in infancy.


William De Grand, son of Abraham21 and Mary (St. John) Camp, married, January 12, 1852, Margaret, daughter of Henry and Caroline (St. John) Chichester, and had :


Theodore Chichester, born November 1, 1855 ;


Myra B.,8 born September 8, 1857, Mrs. Charles F. Morehouse ;


Antoinette Betts,4 born November 17, 1859, Mrs. Frederick Griswold ;


Stephen St. John, born October 1, 1864, died unmarried.


Franklin Abraham, son of Isaac and Catharine Louisa Camp, married, July 10, 1877, Jessie Amelia, daughter of Jasper and Annie (Kellogg) Pryer, and had :


Franklin Irwin, born January 18, 1881.


Mr. Franklin A. Camp, now an energetic citizen of Meriden, Conn., has taken a lively interest in the genealogy of the Camp family.


Theodore Chichester, son of William De Grand and Margaret (Chichester) Camp, married, on Easter Monday, 1897, Mrs. Eva Burchard Hoyt, and has no children. Of Mr. Theodore C. Camp's business qualifications, it is sufficient to say that he is the successor of


1James Wiseman, born June 26, 1794, in Lan- arkshire, Scotland, came in 1808 to America and was an honored foster and foreign son of Norwalk. He lived to a grand age and was respected and beloved to the last. He was a thinker and a leader, and one whose candor, whose intelligence, and whose conduct impressed and improved, and was an excellent exam- ple to those who enjoyed his acquaintance. His life adorned his adopted America and his worth gave credit to his native Scotland. His children were: Amelia, born May 9, 1823 (Mrs. Ransford 0). Banks); James H., born September 26, 1825; Catharine Louisa, born May 24, 1828 (Mrs. Isaac Camp); Maria Cox, born September 24, 1830 (Mrs. Thomas S. Stout); Sarah Elizabeth, born September 11, 1833; John, born January 23, 1837; Edwin Ruthven, born July 23, 1839: William, born July 17, 1841, died young.


Mrs. Ransford O. Banks had James W. and Fred- erick Byard.


James H. Wiseman married Maria Louise Beach and had Mabel Ann, and Howard, who died in in- fancy.


Thomas S. Stout had Willis A., Marion Louise, died in infancy, Ada Maria, unmarried.


William A. Stout, son of Thomas S., married Clara M., daughter of William Gould of Westport, and had Bertha M. (Mrs. Alfred William Betts), who has Marion Strickland, born March 26, 1897.


"The children of Mrs. Lucian Ferdinand Judd were Robert Silliman, born March 5. 1887, and Irene, born April 30, 1891.


3Myra B. Camp married, August, 1884, Charles Frederick Morehouse of Darien, and had no children.


+Antoinette Betts Camp married, May, 1882, Frederick Griswold of Brooklyn, N. Y., and had Jerome, born Februbry 18, 1883, and Virginia An- toinette, born February, 1887.


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his able and admirable uncle, the late Theodore Chichester of Brooklyn and Norwalk, in the care of the large Whitney estate of New York City.


Stephen Camp, son of Jonathan Camp2nd (see page 350), married, September 27, 1792, Rachel B., born July 31, 1771, daughter of John and Lydia (Kellogg) Hickok, and had :


Nathan, born May 22, 1795;


Harvey, born October 6, 1798;


Amza, born January 21, ISO1 ;


Celina, born March 19, 1803, Mrs. John Partrick ;


Elizabeth, born October 28, 1805, Mrs. Henry W Smith.


Nathan, Harvey and Amza Camp married, respectively, Areety Raymond, Currence Ilayes and Margaret K. Hovey.


Nathan Camp married, second, Mrs. Phebe Lord. His children, all by the first wife, were Sophia and Henry. Harvey Camp married, second, Harriet Gregory. His children, all by first wife, were Silas, Hiram, Milton, Harriet and Elizabeth. Amza Camp married, second, Olinda Hovey. His children by his first wife were Mary Frances and Ann Eliza. The issue of the second marriage was Lewis, Belle and Henry.


Mary Frances, daughter of Amza and Margaret Camp, was the first wife of the late Lawrence P Mott of Norwalk. Mr. Mott, whose second wife was a daughter of Henry W. Smith (page 363), belonged to the New York city Mott family.


JOHN CANNON.1


The head of the Norwalk Cannon house was John, sometimes called "Commodore" Cannon. He was the oldest child of John, baptized November 28, 1703, and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon. It was his sister Hester, baptized April 26, 1706, who married, November 11, 1727,


1 While the sleeper, John Cannon, in the " full" tomb beneath the pavement which in 1899 conducts from the south gate of St. Paul's Churchyard to the portals of the sacred edifice, was known as John Cannon1st of Norwalk, yet was he, in reality, the third John Cannon of this country. Born in 1725, he married at the age of twenty-five Esther Perry (see page 13) of Fairfield. His father, who was twice married, was a man of large business interests. His dock, which he owned, and store, which fronted the pier, and residence, were not far from the present Hanover Square, N. Y. This residence was valued at "1,300, and its adjoining " house" (also his property) was rated at £900 valuation. He seems to have owned the wharf lots, which were inventoried at $1,400. His first wife, the mother of John1st of Nor- walk, was Jerusha Sands, who died leaving several sons and daughters, and her husband married, sec- ond, a widow Swan. This marriage took place the year that his granddaughter Sarah (fourth child of his son "Commodore" John of Norwalk) was born. Mr. Cannon died in 1761. His sister, Janetze Can-


non, aunt of John1st of Norwalk, married John Goe- lette of the well known old family of that name. Hester, baptized April 21, 1706, another Cannon aunt of the first Norwalk John, married, November 11, 1727, the distinguished Cornelius Kortright, whose granddaughter became later Mrs. President James Monroe. John Cannon, grandfather of John1st of Norwalk, married Mary or Maria LeGrand, whose father's residence was near that of the Rogers, close by the Battery. John Cannon was the son of Andrew and Anne Cannon of Staten Island, whose will was executed March 12, 1711. His great grandson John, who rests in the Norwalk churchyard, followed up the sea inclinations of his ancestor. For some reason (page 303) he chose Norwalk for his home and built a store at the head of tide-water and owned the dock in its rear. His brother LeGrand selected Stratford for a dwelling place and the early Cannons of Bridge- port were of his blood. An old Cannon residence in that city stood where now stands the Park City depot and its tracks belonging to the Consolidated road. A stone wall protected these Cannon grounds,




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