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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 :
Joseph1st, 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.
Samuel1st, 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).
Samuel2nd, 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 Jonathan2nd is traced on pages 350 and 351.
RICHARD CAMPIst.
Richard1st, son of Jonathan1st 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 Camp2nd, 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 Richard1st, 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.
2 Lorenzo Hubbell was son of Matthias and grandson of Peter Hubbell. His children were Edwin and Franees, both of whom are unmarried.
3David Comstoek was of the old Norwalk family of that name. He was a inan 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 Comstoek, Jr., of New Canaan (see page 257).
4Noah was the son of John Nash by his second wife. He lived on the road leading from the Connee- tieut Turnpike near Westport to Cranberry Plains. His wife was Anna, born Oetober 8, 1771, daughter of Phineas and Mary (Camp) Keeler. Mrs. Phineas Keeler was Mary, daughter of Jonathan Camp1st. Luke, the brother of Mrs. Noah Nash, was born Feb- ruary 15, 1770, married Jemima Benediet, and went
to Norwalk, Ohio, in which place he served as Senior Warden of St. Paul's Church from its foundation until his deeease ateighty-nine years of age. Theehildren of Noah and Ann Nash were: Keeler, who died unmar- ried, and Lueinda (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 groeer), and William, now the venerable William Nash of Stratford. William Nash, youngest ehild of Noalı, married, first, Emeline, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Godfrey) Loekwood, of Norwalk, and had Antoinette Kellogg (Mrs. Charles Stratton), and William Henry, and Emeline Loekwood (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 CAMP1st.
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 28, 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.
1 Levi and Mary Susanna (Adams) Warner had Gordon, born April 20, 1866, died July 20, 1886.
2 Samuel 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 CAMP1st. 1
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.
Isaac2m, 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 Camp2m, 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
1Isaae Camp1st seleeted 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 Isaaelst stood only a few rods below the house of Abraham Camp2nd, and near the present Hannah Camp barn. Here were born the children of Isaaelst and from thenee emenated his daughters, three of whom, Rhoda, Mary and Elizabeth, beeame well known Norwalk mothers. Rhoda married Isaae 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 oeeupied 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. Oreutt. The children of Benjamin and Mary (Camp) Bishop were George Galpin, Henrietta (Mrs. John Aiken), Isaae 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 Merey (Nash) James, and brother of Daniel James, who was father of William K. (see page 375). Mrs. Jemmey James1 st was short lived. She had one son, Nelson, born Oeto- ber 19, 1798. Peter and Merey-Mary (Nash) James were married Mareh 31, 1757. Mr. Jemmey James married several times. By his second wife, who was a New Canaan Comstoek, he had a daughter Catha- rine, who married a Mr. Lueas, formerly of South Norwalk.
2Semanthe Camp married Andrew, son of Jem- mey James by his last wife, and had Naney 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 ehildren, both of whom died in infaney.
3Abraham St. John Camp married, in 1853, Ann Maria Chapman of Woodbridge, Conn., and had no ehildren.
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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 Abraham2nd 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.,3 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 respeeted and beloved to the last. He was a thinker and a leader, and one whose candor, whose intelligence, and whose eonduct 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 O. 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 infaney, 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 Striekland, born March 26, 1897.
2The children of Mrs. Lueian Ferdinand Judd were Robert Silliman, born March 5, 1887, and Irene, born April 30, 1891.
3Myra B. Camp married, August, 1884, Charles Frederiek Morehouse of Darien, and had no children.
+Antoinette Betts Camp married, May, 1882, Frederiek 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, 1801 ;
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 Hayes 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, Jolin Cannon, in the "full" tomb beneath the pavement which in 1899 conduets from the south gate of St. Paul's Churchyard to the portals of the saered 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 residenee 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 ehild of his son "Commodore" John of Norwalk) was born. Mr. Cannon died in 1761. His sister, Janetze Can-
non, aunt of Jolin1st 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 John1 st of Norwalk, married Mary or Maria LeGrand, whose father's residenee was near that of the Rogers, elose by the Battery. John Cannon was the son of Andrew and Anne Cannon of Staten Island, whose will was executed Mareh 12, 1711. His great grandson John, who rests in the Norwalk ehurehyard, followed up the sea inclinations of his aneestor. For some reason (page 303) he ehose Norwalk for his home and built a store at the head of tide-water and owned the doek 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 traeks belonging to the Consolidated road. A stone wall protected these Cannon grounds,
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Cornelius Kortright, and his brother Peter, baptized March II, 1711, who married a Scher- merhorn. The John Cannon who was the first of the name in Norwalk and hence, elsewhere in this work called John1st, was a grandson of John and Mary or Maria (LeGrand) Cannon. This grandfather, son of Andrew and Anna Cannon, the Cannon American ancestors, made his will April 16, 1751, which document remained unprobated until May 13, 1763. The will of Andrew Cannon, the progenitor, was made "12 March, 1711." "Commodore" John Can-
which extended on the east as far as the river. The family was interested in navigation, and was inti- mately connected with the old Long Island Sound Bridgeport and Norwalk route, a fact which moves to brief personal retrospection in that direction. The route referred to (page 307) was one of the early steam routes of America. The New Haven line was older (1815) but Norwalk and Bridgeport were not many years in arrears. Daniel Drew, Cornelius Van- derbilt and the Bridgeport Cannon alluded to were interested in the Norwalk steamboat route in opposi- tion to the Pecks' early command of the line (see pages 307 and 308). Drew, Hoffman, Vanderbilt and Isaac Newton were associated in the manage- ment of the North River steamboats, one of which was occasionally put in commission on the Sound. It was made the duty of Drew and Vanderbilt to statedly sail over the course and examine into the condition of vessels, wharfs, docks, offices, etc. Daniel Drew, who started humbly and who persevered until he controlled "Bull's Head" and was one of the steam magnates of the new era, was shrewd and a reader of men. He had two men on the Norwalk route, the older of whom, Alanson P. St. John, he knew well, and the younger of whom he came, on this wise, to be well acquainted with. Vanderbilt and he were sitting in the " Fire" or "Boiler room" during that portion of a Norwalk trip in which the Captain and his steward, a young man from the Ely Neck road, were engaged in collecting passage fares. The Steward, with the bank notes held between his fingers, while his palm was filled with silver, opened the fire room door and called out, "Your fares, gen- tlemen." "Don't yon know who we are?" replied one of the two. "I don't know anyone," answered the official, "and Captain Brooks is theonly one who can pass you on this line." The party hastened to the presence of the commander, who at once exclaim- ed, " Why, these are Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Drew. Time passed, and the Steward aspiring to a higher position, determined to call at Mr. Drew's Fourteenth Street residence and ask for an interview. The bell was answered by Mr. Drew, to whom the young man made known his business. The latter was told to be at a certain spot at 9 A. M. the next day. The meeting place was aboard one of the company's boats which was undergoing repairs. "Can you have the Utica ready to leave for Albany to-morrow night ?" asked Mr. Drew, addressing one of the com-
pany's men standing by, "I can." "Then take command of the same and make the trip; and you, Wilcox, see to the repairs on this boat and put it in shape for sailing." Drew and Vanderbilt are dead but the steward lives, hard on to ninety, to tell with eagerness of the matter and wonder whether his adherence to passage orders on the old Norwalk boat may not have had something to do with his promotion.
Alanson P. St. John, just mentioned (see page 142), commenced his conspicuous steamboat official career on the Vanderbilt boat Citizen. The duties of clerk, freight master and steward, even in those primi- tive days, were of account. On the morning of the steamer's sailing from New York some hundreds pounds of breakfast beef was ordered aboard by the steward, and a like quantity for dinner. As in the early days seven o'clock A. M. was the hour of de- parture from the city, and one P. M. from Norwalk, the "up" passengers breakfasted and the "down" company dined on the boat. Anon Mr. St. John was advanced to the captaincy and assigned command of of the Hudson River Rochester, in which position he distinguished himself and grew in great favor. One of his North River stewards was Abraham Banks of Sawpits, and eventually of Norwalk. Mr. Banks' Rochester tables were taste models. Delmonico's and Martenelli's may be rare and remarkably elegant refreshment resorts of to-day, but the older Hudson steam lines supper table, spread with snow white damask, centered with boquet-interspersed rows of silvered candelbra holding brightly burning tapers and dextrously set in gold monogramed china and crystal glassware, was a life remembered vision. The Captain at the table's head, with the western statesmen and the northern Saratogians on cither hand constituted a sort of social zodiac. Dinner was the principal repast on the day, but supper on the night boats. The steamer's steward was also often commission-intrusted. There were three Bridgeport citizens, one of them a noted divine, who always ex- pected the steward of the Nimrod to make hat pur- chases for them at the large 118 Broadway estab- lishment of Charles St. John of Norwalk (see note 2, page 143), and to pay ten dollars each, the standard price of the silk article. After his Rochester connec- tion Captain St. John was put in charge of the Alba- ny night boats and achieved fame. He lived in the days of the Powells, Pecks, Tuppers, Farnhams,
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non came to Norwalk and married and settled as per note, page 13. He was a wide awake citizen evidently, and largely interested in Norwalk's commercial development. His home was on the East Avenue of 1899 and immediately south of Gruman's Hill. This acreage was partially or altogether the gift of his wife's uncle, Samuel Cluckstone. He was one of the A. D. 1774 committee of twenty appointed by the town to take action in relation to the measure inaugurated in the Continental Congress at its sitting in Philadelphia September 5, 1774, and he was also one of a committee of three delegated by the town to receive relief donations for the Boston poor a few months prior to the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a sufferer by the burning of Norwalk, and the smoke of his consuming domicile would seem almost to have enveloped Tryon as the latter sat, only a few rods away, overlooking the sorry scene. The "Commodore" does not appear to have rebuilt after the conflagration, but to have resided at or near "The Bridge." The Cannon-Perry descent is as thus exhibited :
CANNON.
PERRY.
Gen. I. Andrew and Anna Cannon. Gen. I. Richard Perry.
" II. John and Maria (LeGrand) Cannon. " II. Nathaniel and Hester (Lyon) Perry.
" III. John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon. 66 III. Joseph and Mary (Cluckstone) Perry.
Gen. IV. John Cannon.
Gen. IV. Esther Perry.
John Cannon and Esther Perry were married December 1, 1750, by Rev. Noah Hobart, "V. D. M.," and had
John, born July 7, 1752; Samuel, born July 28, 1754 ;
James, born June 19, 1757 ; Sarah, born March 21, 1759 ;
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