Norwalk

The descendants of Geo. Abbott18'- of N'orwalk 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'8'- and Jonathan18'-, the issue from whom is distinctly traced to this day. John'8'-, who married Ruth Rusco, the young Huguenot, was a wheelwright. His son, John*d-, married Eunice Judd of Farmington, and had John3'd-, 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 1S11, 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 Jonathan'8'-, son of George Abbott'8'-, is also distinctly followed down. Jonathan'8'- and Sarah (Olmsted) Abbott had Jonathan2"-, born April 6, .697, who married Jan. 16, 1729, Lydia Young of Branford, and had Jonathan3d-, who married,' Apr. 18, 1765, Jemima, daughter of James Rusco, and had Jonathan*'*-, 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.1 Jemima, born June 14, .766, oldest child of Jonathan3d. and Jemima (Rusco) Ab- bott, married Edmund, born April 9, ,768, son of Daniel and Abigail (Dikeman) Beers, and had Jonathan, born May 22, .789. This Jonathan Beers married. April ,0 ,8,0 Anna Waterbury, and was the father of Alfred Beers of Bridgeport, who was for many yean, connected with the Xaugatuck Railroad. Alfred Beers was born Sept. 26, ,8,7 and ■Rev. Charles Riiev Abbott, Ph. I) of Brooklyn Li-hl-h „ L. I., and of Ne«- Cnaan, Cu„„., is a man of «„ „d been ™lued »"d *°«°"*- "e and (Highly imelli.e™ mind. II, has f,„- manv'vears T "™" taste' and has ■>«" of important service been connected with the Brooklv, Citv Scl 1 \ Z ° " °f "« *** " ' 1 bren Wee married, and ha* no children. NORWALK. 34; 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, 181 2, (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. 185 1 (Mrs. Alexander St. George);1 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 I, 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 Nash2d- John Nash2d- and his brother Nathan, were the only sons of John1-"- (son of Edward Nashlst-). 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 Nash2d-, viz. : Abraham 3d- (son of Abraham Nash'"-) 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 (Airs. Silas St. John) '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: Jiessie 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 IdaM. (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. 34» N O R W A L K . 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 Nash"*, and of Edward and Abigail and Mary (see note page 105) married, Oct. 9, 1744. Mary Scribner (see page 105)" and had Daniel'51-, born Dec. 2, 1747, who married, Apr. 24, 1768, a daughter of Dennis Wright of Eton's Neck, L. I., (see page 106). Daniel Nash'"- removed to Long Island, where he transiently resided, and where was born, May 12, 1770, his son, Daniel2d, who married, Oct. 9, 1809, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah 1 Bouton) Camp1 of Norwalk (see pages 106 and 107). HOME-LOT XXVITI. 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'5'- 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 1 Richard).4 On Jan. 1, 1656, he married, in Norwalk, Abigail, daughter of Matthew Marvin'"-, 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 t'airlv under way when this man — John Crampton— appears upon the scene. He was probably one of those who, like Christopher Corn- stock, Thomas Benedict and Thomas Betts, came sub- sequently to 1650, to this town. With James Jupp, John lielden and Jonathan Stevenson, he had fought against the pale faces' red eneniv, and so far gained the gratitude of his fellow - townsmen as to receive from them a special land grant, lie had sons John*d- and Joseph and a daughter Hannah. On Oct. 8, 1676, John*!, 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). 'Oaniel Nash^ 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 Boutomst. of Norwalk was, it has been cor- rectlv 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 Norw alk John Bouton'--'- married, as his last wife, Matthew Marvin, Sr., the founder of the Norwalk Marvin family. 4Richard Bouton"'-, brother of John Bouton'*'- of Norwalk, married Ruth, born Jan. 28, 1644, daughter of Betvj. 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). Richard's'- 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 Richard15'- and mother of said Ruth Bouton. NORWALK. 349 John2d\ born Sept. 30, 1659. Matthew'*1-, born Dec. 24, 1661 ; (went to Danbury). Elizabeth ; (Mrs. Ed mond Warren). Joseph""'. Rachel, born Dec. 16, 1667 ; (Mrs. Matthias St. JohnV Abigail, born Apr. 1, 1670 ; (Mrs. Ebenezer Smith""'). Thomas ; lan incorporator of the Wilton Parish in 17261. Hannah, born 1675 ; (Mrs. James Bettsi. Richard. Mrs. John Bouton""- (Abigail Marvin) having died, her husband married, next, Mary, the widow of Jonathan Stevenson '"•, a Norwalk soldier of colonial times service, who died "the last of November, 1689". It seems probable that the youngest daughter,' Mary, of John Bouton,st-, was the offspring of this last union. She married Lemuel, baptized Nov. f, 1696, son of Thomas 2d- and Martha (Hobby) Morehouse of Fairfield. The first wife of Thomas Morehouse 2d- was Isabelle, daughter of Ralph Keeler""' of Norwalk.