Norwalk

May 24, 1647, and a sister Hannah, baptized June 22, 1661, married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Willoughby, and had : Kbenezer, born 1669. Samuel, born May, 1678. Abigail, born 1672. Jedediah, born Aug., 1681. Samuel Campfield'"- appears to have accompanied his father to Newark, but to have returned again to Norwalk. His house would seem to have been on the west side of the river, near "Campfield Hill," which was evidently the rise of ground southerly of the sum- mit of Flax Hill. The old " Stamford path " ran in its neighborhood. When Matthew Campfield left Norwalk for Newark his landed estate, including his home-lot. fell to his son, Samuel, from whose three sons, Ebenczer, Samuel and Jedediah, the Campfield name spread throughout this part of the Colony. Ebenezer, oldest son of Samuel, and the oldest grandson of Matthew Campfield, the charterer, married, at the age of twenty-five (March 24, 1694), first, a Ilencry, and had a large family, his children being : Patience, born Oct. 8, 1695. Ebenezer,"1- born Aug. 24, 1698. Timothy, born Sept. 16, 1700. Mary,' born Aug. 5, 1701. Elizabeth, born June 5, 1702. Jabez, born Oct. 20, 1705. Lydia, born March II, 1706. Matthew, born Oct. 12, 1707. Ezekiel, born Nov. 6, 1709. David, born April [4, 171 1. Ebenezer Campfield'8'- married, second, Sarah Youngs, of Stamford. The only daughter of Samuel Campfield, Abigail, married Jonathan Rockwell, son of John Rockwell, of Stamford, and brother of Thomas, of Norwalk. These two bro- thers, the etymology of whose name signifies, it is said, "all for God and the King," were ■Solomon Tuttle, who married Marv, daughter of Samuel Campfield, lst- lived in Ridgefield and the Ob- long and was a son of David1"- and Mary (Reed) Tattle. Marv Reed, daughter of John""- and Ann (Derby) Reed, married David Tuttle, Nov. 24, 169S. Catherine, daughter of David, est. and sister of Solo- mon Tuttle, married John, horn Dec. 21, 1704, son of Edmond'st. and Elizabeth ( Bouton ) Warren, and brother of Eliakim Warren. 'st. A letter has been found, subscribed by Solomon Warren and addressed to his sister Catherine's brother-in-law, Edmond War- ren. Jr., of which the following is a copy: "Jan. 11, 1732. " Loving Brother, — I desire you to take ye let- ter subscribed to Mr. Fitch. Esq., (Gov. Thos. Fitch) and carry it to him and desire him to send a bond that he has ill his hands by you for me, and if he de- mands a shilling or so I desire you to pay it and I will pay it von again when ye fetch the bond, but if you can send it up to me pretty quickly, I will pny you for your trouble. "The reason for niv writing to you is the confi- dence which I have of vour doing me ye favor and that speedily for my business requires haste. "This with my humble sen ices for yourself and spouse and all friends is all at present from him that is willing to serve you upon all account* as far as possible. Solomon Tuttle." The Weston Warrens have choicely preserved this document with sundry writing, etc., which thev claim appertain to the family of Joseph Warren, (father of Gen. Joseph Warren) of Mass. John and Catherine (Tuttle) Waring had a son, John, born 1736, whose son, Peter, born 1781, married Esther Crosby, and had John Thomas Waring, born 1820, the heavy Vonkers, N, Y., manufacturer, and who built for his home the elegant establishment now- known as the Samuel J. Tilden mansion on the Hud- son. Mr. John T. Waring married Jeanette Palmer Baldwin and had a daughter, Cornelia Baldwin, who married Jesse, son of Reuben and grandson of James Moody lloyt, formerly of Norwalk. 288 N O R VV A L K . grandsons of John'-'- and Elizabeth (Weed) Rockwell of Stamford. John Rockwell'"- appeared in Stamford from Stonington, in 1639. He was a '-Son of Liberty." His wife was Elizabeth Weed, of Stamford. Thomas Rockwell, brother of Jonathan, married Sarah, daughter of John Rusco,'81- of Norwalk. Samuel,"1- son of Samuel""- and Elizabeth Campfield, married Aug. 1, 1709, Abi- gail, daughter of Thomas Austin, of Stamford, and had Samuel, 3d- born June 4, 1710.' Mrs. Samuel Campfield2d- died seven days after the birth of her son, Samuel, and her hus- band married, second, May 9, 171 1, Abigail, daughter of John Dean, of Stamford. Jedediah, son of Samuel'"- and Elizabeth Campfield, was married in about 1719, as he had a son, Abraham, born in Norwalk, in 1720, who went, when a boy of ten years, to Bedford, N. Y., where he married, Jan. 27, 1748. His father died while Jedediah was in his nonage and Zerubbabel Hoyt was appointed his guardian. OF CAMPFIELD DESCENT. Lydia, born March 11, 1706, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Henery) Camp- field, married Joseph Crofoot, which Campfield-Crofoot union introduces a family chain, the links of which a number of old Norwalk households unite to forge. Ebenezer, son of Joseph Crofoot, married a daughter of Jacob and Experience (Reed) St. John. Jacob St. John was a son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Comstock) St. John, which Ebenezer St. John was a son of Matthias2"1- and Elizabeth St. John, who were son and daughter-in-law of Mat- thias St. John, Sr. Mrs. Ebenezer Crofoot was a daughter of John Reed,21'- son of John1"- and Ann (Derby) Reed. These had a son, Joseph, 2d- who married May 15, 1776, Esther St. John, and had Ebenezer, born May 10, 1777. Joseph Crofoot lived in the old house, still standing, on the Silvermine road, next home, west side, above the Crofoot Corner. Ebenezer, son of Joseph Crofoot, married, Sept. 3, 1795, Sarah Gregory, who was the daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Raymond) Gregory, who were married Dec. 29, 1776. Elias Gregory was the son of Ensign Matthew Gregory, born 171 1, who was a son of Deacon Matthew, born 1680, who was the son of Jachin, (see page 82) son of John,st-and Sarah Gregory, the Gregory settlers. Ebenezer and Sarah (Gregory) Crofoot's children were Esther ( Mrs. Noah Smith, first, and Mrs. Daniel Chase, second,) ; Betsey Ann (Mrs. Darius St. John); Sarah (Mrs. Charles Thomas); Electa (Mrs. Matthew Kellogg); Matilda (Mrs. Rev. Eli Deniston); Abigail (Mrs. Josiah Raymond) and Giles, twins; Catherine (Mrs. Reuben Holmes) and Minot. Matthew, father of Elias Gregory, was brother of the grandfather of Ira Gregory, M.D., late of Norwalk. The late Wiliam Gregory Thomas, of Norwalk and Albany, and his brothers Henry, Charles, James and George, were sons of Charles and Sarah (Crofoot) Thomas. Charles Thomas was a Nor- walk lumber merchant, and his son YTm. G„ a widely known and esteemed Albany, N. Y., business man and citizen. «tl» had S;muiel,5th. born 'Removed to Kent. Conn., and had Samuel,4th. j uel,fith. !)0rn ]an. 3, 1809, who had an adze made in ■n 1770, who had Sam 1731 by Samuel,3i born in Norwalk in 1711 XO R W ALK. HOME- L O T XX 2*<j JONATHAN MARSH. EPHRAIM LOCKWOOD. On the crest of the Earle's Hill of 1896, and embracing the structure known as the Karle summer residence, stood the home-lot of, first, Jonathan Marsh, the early Xorwalk miller, and after Jan. 30, 1664, the hearthstone of Ephraim Lockwood. Mr. .Marsh seems to have hailed from New Haven. He " ran,'" probably with intermittent success, Xorwalk's original mill, but does not appear to have long been an incumbent of the position. Of his Xorwalk residence there is no extended record. He, it is quite possible, removed, anon, from the town and - left no sign." He, in 1664, sold a portion of his property, his house and about one acre, to Ephraim Lockwood, who thenceforth tenanted the property, and there, the next year, founded the cradle of all the Xorwalk Lockwoods. Ephraim,1 born Dec. [, 1641, son of Robert Lockwood, of Watertown, Mass., mar- ried, in Norwatk, June 8, 1665, Mercie, daughter of Matthias St. John, settler, and had : John, born March 19, 1666. Daniel, born Aug. 13, 166S. Sarah, born Xov. 3, 1670. (Mrs. John Platta Ephraim, born May I, 1673, (died "before he came of age") Eliphalet,1"1 born Feb. 27, 1675. Joseph, born April 1, [680. James, born April 21, 1683.-' ■Ephraim Lockwood \va< the fifth child and fourth son of Robert and Susanna Lockwood, of Watertown, Mass., in 1630, and of Fairfield, Conn., in 1646. His father died in Fairfield, in 1658, and his mother, who married, second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Green- wich, Conn., died in this latter town, Dec. 23, 1660. -John Piatt, who married, May 1695, Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Lockwood, was born June 1st, [664, and was the son of John'sc- and Hannah (Clark) Piatt, which John Platt'st. was the son of Richard Piatt,'*1- of Milford, and his wife {Mrs. John Platt's1-) was the daughter of George Clark, of Milford. 3jam.es Lockwood "*l was the founder of the su- called *' Lockwood District," of New Canaan. His father-in-law. Samuel Smith, owned, in 1722-3, ninety acres on the south part, east side, of Smiths Ridge, which parcel was bounded, east, by land of his son- in-law, James LoekwoodIst- (Xorwalk Town Records, Vol. V), James Lockwood and Lydia Smith were married Oct. 23, 1707. Sam'l. Smith married Rachel, born Dec. 30, 1649, daughter of Matthewlst- and Eliz- abeth Marvin, so that Mrs. James Lockwoodl!,t- was a grand-daughter of the Norwalk Marvin progenitor. The children of James Lockwood'^. Were : Lydia, born Dec. 17. 1710. died June i.n, 7712.