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Shakespeare. Agnes Webb, daughter of Sir Henry Webb and sister of Alex- ander Webb2"", married Robert Arden, she being his second wife. The first husband of Agnes Webb Arden was John Hill, by whom she had two ch.l- 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 ministr}', 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 Webb8,d, 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, 161 1, came to America in 1626. He settled at Stamford, Conn., where himself and family have mention. iRicliard 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 Marv Seymour had a son Henry (Major Henry Seymour) who was the father of Governor Thomas H. Seymour (1850) of Connecticut. +o3 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. W ith reference to the antecedent lineage of Jonathan Camp1"' 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, Martha2'"', Sarah and their sister. Martha Beard2"" married John Stream of Mil- ford and had a daughter, Martha3'4, who married Thomas, born 1657, sou of Samuel Coley of Milford. Sarah, sister of Martha Beard2"", 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; Samuel1", born September 15, 1655; Joseph2"", 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 Thomas1" and Mary Betts of Norwalk (see page 226). Samuel2"", born May 20, 1675, son of Samuel1" and Hannah (Betts) Camp, was the father of Jonathan Camp1" of Norwalk. The children of Jonathan1" and Ann (Piatt) Camp are noted on page 227, and the line of Jonathan2"'1 is traced on pages 350 and 351. RICHARD CAMP1" Richard1", son of Jonathan1" and Ann (Piatt) Camp, married, November 15, 1771, Anna, daughter of Thomas Coe, and had : Susannah, born September 16, 1772, died young; Richard2"", born November 30, 1774; Thomas L., born October 10, 1777, unmarried: Jeremiah, born September 16, 17S1 ; Susannah2"", born April 10, 1791, Mrs. Ebenezer Stevens; Lemuel, born April 16, 1794. Richard Camp5'"1 (see note paKe 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. Neheniiah Perry, Sr., of Ridgefield, was wont to visit 4°4 NORWALK his Richard Camp affinity and kept up the family acquaintance as long as he lived. The great- grand-children of Richard Camp2"1 were Susan Virginia St. John, Frederick Warren Many, and John Alden Ferris. Two of the daughters of Richard Camp2"'1, 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"1, 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 Ann, Mrs. Lorenzo Hubbell ;2 Emeline, Mrs. David Comstock f Lemuel, son of Richard1" and Anna Camp, married Polly, daughter of Noah and Anna (Keeler) Nash," 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 wayof looking at matters. With her husband and three daughters the !The children of Mrs. William Ravmond \v< Mary A., Elizabeth, Charles, William, George, Frank. -Lorenzo 'Hubbell was son of Matthias and grandson of Peter Hubbell. His children were Edwin and Frances, both of whom are unmarried. "David 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 Airs Samuel Comstock. Jr., of New Canaan (see page 237). JXoah was the son of John Xash bv his second wife. Hi lived on the road leading from the Connec- ticut Turnpike near Westport to Cranberry Plains His -wife was Anna, born Octobers, 1771, daughter of Phineas and Mary (Camp) Keeler. .Mrs Phineas Keeler was Mary, daughter of Jonathan Cam„u. Luke, the brother of Mrs. Koah Nash, was born Feb- ruary lo. 1 ,70, 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. Thechildren of Noah and Ann Xash 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 18'.)'.) Westport grocer), and William, now the venerable William Nash of Stratford. William Xash, youngest child of Noah, married, first, Emeline, daughter of Nathan and Alary (Godfrey) Lockwood, of Norwalk, and had Antoinette Kellogg (Mrs. Charles Stratton), and William He lirv, and Emeline Lockwood (Mrs. John Wiswnll), and Sarah Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Hale). Mr. William Xash mar- ried, second, a Miss Hart of Guilford, and had George and Fanny. He married, third, Elizabeth, daughter of David French of Xorwalk. There was no issue by this marriage. XORWALK.