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It is barely possible that Richard Webb, Sr., whose settler home was erected close to the corner of the ancient Stamford-Fairfield path, was visited ere his death (1656-60) by John Webb (son of Richard, Jr.) of Stamford. This younger Webb, born April 12, 1640, was still a young man when the oldest Norwalk Webb was carried on a July day to his burial, one of the earliest of the pioneers of this old plantation to be removed hence. John Webb lived in New Haven. His wife was Sarah Bassett. John is not mentioned in his father's will because, perchance, of his New Haven citizenship, but his mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert Bassett, testamentarily remembered him. He married early and by his first and third wives had fourteen children. John Webb, son of Richard Webb, Jr., had a son, John, Jr., who resided in Northamp- ton, Mass., and was brother of Ebenezer and Henry, as per note pages 387-389. The Henry Webb here referred to, and whose name occurs in the Norwalk Town Records, married, October 10, 1695, Mary, daughter of Samuel Hurlbutt, and had a son Ebenezer, born November 20, 1697, who married a Terrell and had a son Orange, Sr., of Southold, L. I., who married Frances Sandyforth. These had a son, Orange, Jr., who was a New York city merchant, having, as old Norwalk bill-heads show, prominent "Gotham" patronage. Orange Webb2"* married Eliza Cebra and his children were: James Cebra, Fanny Maria (Mrs. Rev. Alexander G. Fraser), Augustus Van Horn, Catharine Cebra (Mrs. Renssalaer Havens), David Sandyforth, Eliza Cebra and Sarah Ann (Mrs. James H. Leverich). Orange Webb, Jr., died, and his widow married, second, William Lockwood (father of William S.) of Norwalk, and dignified the old North Avenue Lockwood mansion (page 441). The children of Renssalaer and Catharine C. (Webb) Havens were Howard, Frances Maria (Mrs. Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk), Sylvester Dering, Charles and Catharine Eliza- beth. The last, Catharine Elizabeth, now resides in Willow Street, Stamford, near the home of her niece, Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood, Jr. The foregoing submitted Richard Webb, Sr., antecedents are presented as the results of extended investigation. The facts seem to be as set forth and the author, while he Earned after a particular friend of his father, James Watson of Litchfield Co., Conn. See note page 441. NORWALK declines to unreservedly vouch for genealogical claims and statements of date prior to that of the settlement of Norwalk, is yet pleased to here (inter-page) recapitulate the inter-topic, Webb lineage. (See inserted sheet.) JONATHAN CAMl11" Just what brought the founder of this honored Norwalk household to this town is not known. Foot note page 228 furnishes nothing more than a "supposition" in this direction. Jonathan1", son of Samuel Carap,,i of Milford,1 came, however, and with seemingly a well lined purse, and made, at the age of four and twenty, a handsome Norwalk acreage purchase. The settlement at the date of Mr. Camp's appearance had considerably outgrown its original limitations, so that the Camp farm at "the Rocks" appeared, doubtless, much nearer town to Governor Thomas Fitch than it would have done to Thomas Fitch the planter. What appears to have been the first home of Jonathan Camp1-' and his young bride Ann stands to-day, a cottage picture, near the upper end of France Street, to which point8 it was years ago removed from its native foundation at the early Camp farm. There tenanted the two foreparents with their four sons and three daughters who were bred to industry and because so to independence. Even a lad who visited the premises during their occupation by a de- scendant of the third generation was impressed by what he saw. (Note, page 348.) Mrs. Ann Camp, wife of Jonathan1" and foremother of the large Norwalk family which bears that name, was descent-derived as mentioned on page 350. As inferred from the Nor- walk land records she was probably married quite young and not far from the date of her husband's maiden purchase at "East Rocks." She lost an unmarried sister (Esther) at about the time of her Norwalk-adoption, but had at least one sister and two brothers left. Her grandmother on her father's side was a daughter of Thomas Campfield of New Milford, and a niece of Matthew, of Norwalk, who was the only settler of this town nominated in His Majesty's charter. She had also a Norwalk great-aunt, Mrs. Christopher Comstock of Home lot XIH, page 250. Under the coping of the Milford stone, memorial to her great-grand- father, is cut the following inscription : "Goi> SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND Choicf Grain into the Wilderness." Her maternal ancestry was also colonially conspic- uous. Her mother was the ninth child and sixth daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Baldwin) Buckingham, and she took the name of a Buckingham aunt, Ann, who, it is believed, never married. Her Buckingham grandmother was Sarah, daughter of Timothy, trie old Baldwin settler of Milford. Samuel Buckingham, her grandfather, was son of Thomas Buckingham, the foreparent, and her great-aunt (sister of her grandfather Samuel) was Mrs. Thomas 1The mother of Samuel Camp2"-} was Hannah daughter of Thomas and Mary Betts, Sr., the foun- ders of the Norwalk Betts family. been repulsed by the Continentals, retreated to then- boats. The brave Ridgefield Jacob Nash (grandfather of Captain Daniel K. Nash of South Norwalk) fell, Hn the center of the triangular space which ' mortally wounded, near this place, and was interred fronts this text-mentioned building the Norwalk ! in his native Ridgefield. In recognition of the youth's Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution placed, heroism a vine taken from the grounds of Samuel R. in 1st).-,, a stone in memory of the battle which was Weed, in Rowavton (site of the 17th century home of fought on July 11.1, , U, near that spot, and from which j John Reed, Sr.") was planted, on July 11, 1898, at point the Bntish, under Tryon and Garth, haying I the base of the cast face of the monolith alluded to. NOEWALK. 4°3 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 Alexander2"" and Agnes. Alexander2"3, 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- der*3, born August 20, 1559. Alexander Webb8", born August 20, 1559, was the j'oungest son of Alexander Webb2"d and Margaret Arden. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilson, Private Secretary of Queen Elizabeth of England. Their children were: Richard1", 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 Webb1-' 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 Gregory1" 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 Stamfsrd, Conn. The family in England resided mostly in Warwickshire before coming to America. Alexander8"1, 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, Alexander2"', 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 402 NORWALK.