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a quartette of sturdy, sensible N orwalk sons, viz.. Stephen, Josiah, Marvin and Thomas M. Stephen married Amelia, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Cannon) Fitch, and lived in the house erected by his father-in-law- and now occupied by his son-in-law, Oscar W Raymond. Josiah, who lived in Westport, married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Crofoot of Silver Mine, and sister of the motlirr of the late Wm. G. Thomas of Kasi Avenue. Marvin married, May 3, 1831, Laura Morehouse and brought up a large family in Silver Mine. Thomas M. wa* twice married and lived on Belden Mill. Jonathan Fitch, the father-in-law of Stephen, son of Merwine and Phoebe Raymond, was the son of Daniel who was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Fitch. This Daniel Fitch had three sons. Jonathan, Samuel M. and Henry, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married Henry Betts and was the mother of Daniel Fitch Belts and bis sisters Rebecca (Mrs. Charles Isaacs, ) Susan (Mrs. Thomas Benedict, ) Harriet < Mrs. Thomas C II an ford, > Henrietta, (Mrs. Charles Mallorv. *\ N.irwolk M-htHi! lad, afterward a Wall direct New York City bunker, and subsequently an Italian author. Ctutrle* Kiske Bound, con-in of the historian and Ilariard profes^.r. John Kiske, made his way. by being let through the flour of the nil! i-onveiit in the province of La Touraine, France, to the tomh of the renowned ■■Abbe," "Agent general," - Bishop of Autumn" and "Prince" Talleyrand, who. three years before bU visit, in iJWfc to the United States declined nomination for the Arch- bishopric of Paris. The province in which the remain* of Tal- leyrand repose dUlinguKh«*ff for the purity of its din Int. 128 NOR \V A L K . the social comfort that therein reigned and especially at the close of the father and mother's lives, when the X. Y and N. H. Railroad contractors or their coadjutors were there wel- comed at the time of the construction of said road and after the diligent efforts in its inter- ests on the part of Dea. Algernon E. Beard, who had more or less to do in the matter of the Xorwalk "right of way" thoroughfare purchase.' ASCENDANTS OF HON. HENRY J. RAYMOND. Founder of the New York /*. ».-. -. Gen. I. — Richard Raymond the settler. II. — John and Mary (Betts) Raymond. III. — Samuel and Judith (Palmer) Raymond. " IV. — Joshua and Elizabeth (Fitch) Raymond. V — Uriah and Sarah (Paddock) Raymond. " VI. — Jonathan P. and Hannah (Jarvis) Raymond. " VII. — Jarvis and Lavinia ( Brock-way) Raymond. " VIII. — Hon. Henry Jarvis Raymond. Henr)- J. Raymond, of generation VIII, as above, and born Jan. 24, 1820, was one of the typically talented men of the middle nineteenth century. He was also a man of indomitable industry and a writer and editor of great distinction. His Norwalk great- grandfather, Uriah, was born after the decease of said Uriah's father, Joshua. Joshua Ray- mond's wife, Elizabeth Fitch, was the only sister of Gov. Thomas Fitch. After she had given birth to Uriah Raymond (great-grandfather of Henry J.) she married, as his second wife. Rev. Elisha Kent, the grandfather of Chancellor James Kent. H. J. Raymond's Betts foremother (generation II) was the daughter of Thomas Betts of Guilford and Xor- walk. The Palmer blood, introduced in the third Henry J. Raymond generation, is that of Kphraim Palmer of Greenwich. RAYMOND AND IIOYT PEDIGREE of thf. Sknator and Soldier John and William T. Sherman. John-, son of Richard and Judith Raymond, married, Dec. 10, 1664, Marv, daughter of Thomas Betts-, and had Samuel, born July 7. ,673, who married April I, ■ 695, Judith daughter of Ephraim Palmer of Greenwich. The oldest son, Samuel * born 'People in the day*, when the N. Y and N H h,f , , . Railroad vra, first projected were but imnerfe,.,, ' contemplated thoroughfare, but developed railway wise The late M, rri 111 ' Kreeted "-v * ver-T sma11 representation. A. E. made, at that time, an appoint™ , 0^,^ ™ ^ °1 ^ 1°™*' ™ °" °' ~ »' N — lk »<* reference ,0 the route tough „ erpZ "* ^ °' ** N'ORVVAI.K 129 May 7. 1099. of Samuel '-*- and Judith Raymond, married about 1719. Klixabeth. second ■laughter of Joseph and Sarah Hoyt Samuel "* and Klizaheth Raymond had Ixirn Feb. 20. 1710. a son. Kliakim. who mjrric I. Nov. ^7. 1740. Hannah. horn Sep. ;. 1722. •laughter <if Nathaniel and Mary I Raymond 1 Strict Kliakim and Hannah R.nmnnd had a diughtcr Mary, born May 13. 17;?. «h" married June ?o. 1776. Isaac, born 1754. son of |,mu- and Hannah 1 Gould 1 Hoyt Isaac and Mary Hoyt lived in a house that stood a little nest of the new Congregational t luirch in South Xonvalk. These had a daughter. Mary, born Dec. JS. 17S7- lv»" married in M.n 1K10. Charted Robert, born Sep 2ft. 17SS. son of Taylor land Klizaheth 1 Sherman, the Nnrualk lawyer. Charles |J and Mary Sher- man, the one from upper and the other from lower mow Southi Xnrualk. moved to Ohio and were the parents of Hon. John and Maj. tien. William T. Sherman. Kliakim ami Hannah Raymond, the parents of Mrs. Isaac Hoyt, of "Old Well." were remarkable progenitors. Their daughter was. ax has been seen, the grandmother n( the two distinguished Shermans. Their daughter Ksther. born Feb. It, \yyj, married Itc/ckiah Rogers, who belonged to a family of note. A portion of his later life w as spent in Washington. 1). C. where he died in tSia His Xonvalk home adjoined the Shermans. TUB stiEttu l.V mit:sn.< OB the present Main Street. The tea parties given in that house are referred to in a fool note, page 4:. Mr. Rogers was of the Xonvalk branch of the Rogers family repre- Tin- >ltiTiiiun tii.ii^. »ii|| in rxlM.'iii'i' Miiin >lr,-i'l. lut.l 001 fj«- -tniilr* within llif IkkiuiI- * pt 1'arlicr V.rHulL. Thr prrjMIBI "(nhl.-" hoof* fltrlwr fl wio ullrmlj in Knislil -irt-ri unci the Man In liuiisr iirar Cumuli, -liith.n fit Wllt.il*. u.-ri- of likt' imtUTti a! i.oI.t mil atmnmti Chart.-* K. -itinw'i bonw *'"•» I"- ■*■!» |<IBI|>|(»A Wllr-ll Churlr- K >lM-riiimi l.tl l.ir I hi »«■»! a riuwuir^ >■! |«-.i|>lr trjlli .-ml 10 hIuiisk tin- iU'pHrllirf [ruin tin* nlil plan- Tlu- fmlirr bwl btftrli 11 c«-ntul metal figuri- ano du- inotlirr MDtf fnmi w hijihh ri'tr,mli*ti "DM NVH" fnmllr - A lew nnl. fr*nn Mr >lit-rni.iir* »t>H*l, j- i* ^•'*-ii r<>,l,iv, the fttttpv UD tin- s; \v. .-.,mrr of rhr pr.-«-nr V.irlh BWjHW ami Camp «tr*s-l. Hmntwl Jani- Camp llier,- taught die \urtulL i.juth »»f llic- (Mttud inusii-. and hi- r.«jm- »rtr ihf <*■"■». r*.-Tt '3° sented by the Moses Rogers brothers, (see Rogers lineage) old-time merchantmen of Xwv York. Elizabeth, born Dec. 20, 1743. an older daughter of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, married Uriah Rogers, Jr., M. D., son of the renowned Uriah. Sr., M. D., whose home-lot was the site of the residence of the late Mrs. James Mallory, and who w as grandfather of Chancellor James Kent. Elizabeth and her accomplished partner, Dr. Rogers, Jr., sleep side by side in two of the graves on Town House Hill. The marble which marks her own mound is fast becoming inscription-obliterated, but the memory of her family will last. Still another daughter of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, Hannah, born Dec. 1745, married Sept. 19, 1764, Lemuel Brooks, who lived in what was anciently called "The Village," a hamlet not a great distance from "Stuart's Landing," and between "Old Well" and "Belden's Point." Anna, daughter of Lemuel Brooks, married Dec. 29, 1796, Dr. Phineas Miller of (North Avenue 1896) Xorwalk. These had Charles, born Aug. 27, 1797. and Mary Ann, born Eeb. 23, 1802. The last child, Mary Ann, never married. She was a resident of New Haven, but in later years, and until her death some few years since, has been a visitor at the home of Mrs. Mary (Bissell) Betts on The Green. Sands Raymond, brother of Eliakim and Hannah Raymond, removed, as did the Brow ns and Isaacs before him, to that part of The Oblong, known as Lower Salem. His son Asa. born Feb. 20, 1770, there married Sail}' Northrup, and was the father of Asa X. Raymond, born Max- 31, 1801, who married, Oct. 19, 1826, Lucy Ann Abbott, born April II , 1807 These good people, who were intimately identified with the interests of St. John's Church, Salem, now rest within a few rods of the stone church in South Salem. Mrs. Asa X. Raymond long survived her husband. She was a woman of unusual energy, and after a life of purpose comfortably ended her days in the commodious home of her daughter. Mrs. Stephen E. Keeler of Smith's Ridge, New Canaan. Another daughter of Amos X. Raymond married Thomas Cole of Troy, X. V., and another, William Lock- wood of New Canaan, whose widow resides in the fine lawn-skirting home on the New Canaan and Bedford highway A fourth Asa X. Raymond daughter is the present widow of Seeley Brown of X. V , and the youngest is Mrs. Gardner Kellogg of South Salem. These five sisters had four brothers. Ward, who married Melissa Jane Austin; Charles Asa. who married Mar)- Denman ; Amos, who was A. T Stewart-associated and who died whilst making a tour of Switzerland and Seth who lives in Stamford. Samuel O. Raymond, another son of Sands, married Deborah, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca (Daunt Canfield. and had Ebenezer Wilson, born July 14, 1822, who married Betsey I. Turtle, who now survives him. E. W. Raymond was for many years the staunch T ""d '" eV!n'nf "P^;isi"K " Hither Mr. and „>n_were v!llued NorwK,k H<lopted citizens, and Mi, rinail, accompanied In- hi- l^s than six months , 1, ,u . , ' • montns when the parent ol the future soldier son, William rounger companion. Ihaudeu> U nited Slates s™. r , ... ;,„,„„„.',, . .. . siatts Stna- 1k.cl.mskh, came to "break up and pack up'' for Ohio tor) Betls would occasionally repair tor a liltle "simr ih» VI, „ . . ,„..,. 1 h„r ...t,„„p- „„ii,,„,„ . ' ., * slnK- the Sherman "prairie schooner" with ts honored tilt tiool enm enmeut. 1 he S ici nri n's full,.*,- i i man s— father burden received from far and near a regretful adieu. \ OR WALK.