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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 I.ucinda (Nash) Cornwall and widow of George F Belden. The Coe family, from which sprang Anna, Mrs. Richard Camp1", 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 Robert21"1 and Hannah (Mitchell) Coe, which Robert Coe2ui 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 CAMP1" Abraham1", son of Jonathan1" and Ann (Piatt) 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 jS, 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), Abraham1" and Miler- son Camp had no male descendant of Camp name. •Levi and Mary Susanna (Adams) Wnmcr had I bercd, a musician. He lived in the old building now Gordon, born April 20, 1866, died July 20, 1.H8B. standing on Xorth avenue, and winch faces the north J side of the Jacob Jennings (McClnre later) place of 'Samuel Jarvis Camp was, as is to-day reman- 1 the last century. n o r:w A L k . ISAAC CAMP1".1 Isaac1", son of Jonathan1" and Ann (Piatt) Camp, married Rhoda Keeler, and had : Isaac2"", 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; Abraham2"3, born November 4, 1787. Isaac2"", son of Isaac1" and Rhoda (Keeler) Camp, married December 21, 1788, Eliza- abeth Nash, of Darieu, 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 Camp'" removed from Norwalk. Abraham Camp2"", youngest child of Isaac1" 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 risaac Camp1 st selected 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 Camp2"''. The house of Isaaclsc stood only a few rods below the house of Abraham Camp2nd, and near the present Hannah Camp bain. Here were born the children of Isaaclst and from thence emeriated his daughters, three of whom, Rhoda, Mary and Elizabeth, became well known Norwalk mothers. Rhoda married Isaac 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 occupied 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. Orcutt. The children of Benjamin and Mary (Camp) Bishop were George Galpin, Henrietta (Mrs. John Aiken), Isaac 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 Mercy (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 Octo- ber 19, 1798. Peter and Mercy-Mary (Nash) James were married March 31, 1757. Mr. Jemmey James married several times. By his second wife, who was a New Canaan Comstock, he had a daughter Catha- rine, who married a Mr. Lucas, formerly of South Norwalk. 2Semanthe Camp married Andrew, son of Jem- mey James by his last wife, and had Nancy 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 children, both of whom died in infancy. 3Abraham St. John Camp married, in 1853, Ann Maria Chapman of Woodbridge, Conn., and had no children. NORWALK. Isaac, born March 17, 1820; William De Grand, born September 6, 1822; Mary Elizabeth, born January g, 1825, unmarried; Hannah Burwell, born July 10, 182S, unmarried. Isaac, son of Abraham2'"1 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, i860, 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 Abraham2'"' 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.,8 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 ^ames Wiseman, born June 2<>, i *.*■.'•;. in Lan- arkshire, Scotland, came in lsos to America and was an honored foster and foreign son of Norwalk. He lived to • ,;• .• -id age and was respected and beloved to the last. He was a thinker and a leader, and one whose candor, whose intelligence, and whose conduct impressed and improved, and was an excellent exam- ple to those who enjoved his acquaintance. His life adorned his adopted America and his worth gave credit to his native Scotland. His children were : Amelia, born May '.). 1823 (Mrs. RnnsfordO. Banks); James H., born September 26, 1S25; Catharine Louisa, born May 24, 1828 (Mrs. Isaac Camp); Maria Cox, born September 2-t, IX.'SO (Mrs. Thomas K, Stout); Sarah Elizabeth, born September 11, Is::.'!; John, born January 23, 1837; Edwin Rutllven, born July 23, William, born July 17. 18+1, 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 infancy, 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 Strickland, born March 26, 1897. -The children of Mrs. Lucian Ferdinand Judd were Robert Silliman, born March ... 1SS7, anil Irene, born April .".0. 1SD1. »Mvrn B. Camp married, August, 1SS4, Charles Frederick Morehouse of Darien, and had no children. ^Antoinette Betts Camp married, May. 1SS2, Frederick Griswold of Brooklyn, X. Y., and had Jerome, born Februbry IS, 1«K(. and Virginia An- toinette, born February, 1SS7. NOR W A L K . his able and admirable uncle, the late Theodore Chichester of Brookl) n and Norwalk, in the care of the large Whitney estate of New York City. Stephen Camp, son of Jonathan Camp-"4 (see page 350), married, September 27, 1792, Rachel B., born July 31, 1771, daughter of John and Lytlia (Kellogg) Hickok, and had: Nathan, born May 22. 1795 ; Harvey, born October 6, 1798 ; Amza, born January 21, 1S01 ; Celiua, 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 Hove) . His children by his first wife were Mary Frances and Ann Eliza. The issue of the second marriage was Lewis, Belle and Henry.