Norwalk

supporter and faithful senior warden of St. John's Church, Salem, and its Chapel, St. Paul's Lewisboro. His decease, (the week before Easteri 1894, was a great loss to the parish. Kliakim Raymond, the grandfather of Gen. Sherman's mother, had a brother, Samuel, four years younger than himself. This Samuel married Abigail, daughter of David' and Abigail Bates of Stamford, who had a son, Samuel, Jr., born on New Years day, 1752. Capt Samuel Raymond lived, as did his second cousin, an active patriot. James Raymond,' in Bedford, N. Y., and had a son, Munson G., born Sept. 26, 1777. This son married Sally Smith of Stamford, and was the father of the late widely-respected Charles F Raymond of Knight Street. Mr. C. F Raymond married. May 16, 1826, Charlotte, daughter of Jeremiah and Charlotte (Benedict) Camp. Jeremiah Camp, born Sept. id, 1781, was a son of Richard and Anna 1 Cue 1 Camp and a grandson of Jonathan and Ann ( Piatt ) Camp. He was of direct descent, through his great grandmother Esther, from Thorn is Buckingham, the American ancestor of that name, and his wife, through her grandmother Fitch, was of the lineage of Win. Haynes of Haynes Ridge. The children of C. F. and Charlotte Raymond were : Charlotte. Harriet X. Munson J.; died young. Cornelia Isabelle: mar. D. Seymour Curtis. Frances A., mar. Walter B. Hoyt. Charles. M. Emily Augusta, mar. A. H. Keith. Kliakim Raymond of the preceeding paragraphs, had two brothers, Samuel and Sands, and three sisters, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Ann. After the birth of the last child, Ann, the mother died, and the father, Samuel, married, second, Man' Kitto. There was now a daughter Ruth, born in 1732, who married, in 1751, Nathaniel Sears. Mr. Sears lived only about two years and his widow married, Nov. 1755, second, Ebenezer Church'"-, the parent by his first wife (Susanna Fitch) of Daniel, born March 1, 1746, and Richard, born Oct. (747 ; and by his second wife (Widow Sears) often children. 3 See Church lineage. •David Bates, born May 23, 1702. appear* to hioe < Ebenezer Church, found temporary shelter in tills been the son of John and Elizabeth Bates, anil Mrs. shop. The Ebenezer Church premises were set on Elizabeth Hates to have been the daughter of Joseph fire by the British soldiers, but said men being in and Elizabeth Lwkwoud of Stamford. haste, left the spot as soon as the torch was applied, 'Janu s Raymond of Bedford was the son of and the house was saved. Joshua and Elizabeth Fitch Raymond, and colise- The second Mrs. Ebenezer Church >«. (Mrs. Ruth ifueutly a nephew of Gov. Thus. Fitch. He married Sears) had a son Thatcher Sears, who went finally to Susannah, daughter of Moses and Mercy St. John of reside in the province of New Brunswick. There he Norwiilk. Mrs. Raymond's brothers, James and had three sons, the oldest of whom, Robert, was the Moses Si. John, were Bedford residents, also. publisher of "Sears' Illustrated Bible.'' Robert ■lEbenezer Church •«». built and occupied the Sears took pleasure in visiting his Norwalk relatives house, on the Weslpoit Road, which still bears his and in corresponding with, particularly, the late Miss name, lie was a hatter, and his shop was at the east Mary Church of the Westport Road, end of his premises oil the "North Brook." It is In the old home that stood a few rods directly -aid that after the hurtling of the town by Trvc Mis. (,ov. KIli'li, who was aunt to the first Mr east of the Ebenezer Church place lived, years ago, " Wily Button, »' an honest, hard working, saving man ,32 X OR WALK ASCENDANTS AND DESCENDANTS OF EI.ItIRT A. RAYMOND. Upon the first preserved record made, it is probable in 1672, of the youth of Xor- walk, John Raymond is registered as having one child. This child, John2'1-, and at that date about seven years old, had, up to this time, probably been educated by his mother, Mary, the daughter of settler Thomas Betts. The lad ranged the homestead grounds near the East Xorwalk school of to-day and grew to be a citizen of consequence. His name is affixed to man;' an old record and he acquired large possessions. At the age of twenty- five he married into the St. John family, and in the beginning of the eighteenth century his wife bore him a son who was named Lemuel. At the age of twenty-eight, Lemuel Ray- mond married .Sarah Squires, and made New Canaan his home. The first child born to this pair became the owner of large tracts upon the sightly heights known to Xorwalk's first settlers under the name of "Canaan Ridge," but familiar to us as the high ground next north of Hayncs Ridge, the seat of the Brinkerhoff, Abbot and contemplated Harlingworth resi- dences. This son's name was Luke, and the forest between Lewisboro and New Canaan, now known as Luke's Woods, perpetuates the name. In 1765, Luke Raymond married a sister of the Revolutionary veteran, Capt. Stephen Betts, and had a son called for his grandfather Squire. This son, born six years before Xorwalk was burned, was the father of the late Elbirt A. Raymond of Xorwalk. Squire Raymond brought up his family in the Raymond home some two miles northwest of Xew Canaan village. His son Klbirt A. removed, in 1845, to Xorwalk and his grandson, George IL, is a merchant in this town. The family genealogy stands : Gen. I. — Richard Raymond. II. — John and Mary (Betts) Raymond. •• III.— John and Elizabeth (St. John) Raymond. IV — Lemuel and Sarah (Squires) Raymond. V —Luke and Lvdia (Betts) Raymond. VI.— Squire and Sarah (Seelcyi Raymond. " VII.— Elbirt A. and Mary (Tryeri Raymond.' Klbirt A. Raymond married Man- Fryer, Oct. 21. 1838, and had : Marcellus, born Aug. 6, 1S39; died in infancy. George H. Cornelia. Mary E. Klbirt H. who after,, nrd died in Witton. - BUI, ■ kept hi- ,El,,irt A. R,„ mond's grandmother, Lvdia, was . ™"l7-o„Hed ,„ a handsome sister „£ Capt. Stephen Betts of militia fame in ouidi ™m ■7,?°? ,1>is a"Cient Ge"- T'r°"'» lav. Lvdia was married when her building, and when the old Slute ianke «-p,» ^ i . .. , , into Natinnil K.„t- ,i r , , " soldierbrother was only nine rears old. This brother into National Banks, the owner ot the hoarded treas aftmv.rH j ,% "n-j • at:. i,,anl re-ided on Canaan Ridge, in the now re- lln -r was with difficulty prevailed upon to so exchange eonstructed l.onse occupied in- the Seliecks, on the :JZ v.J dePOSited S'dc »' "«M »^-t "nd not far from the summer residence of Dr. Chas. R. Abbott. Mr. Raymond's NOR \V A L K '33 George H., son of Elbirt A. and Mary Raymond, married April 20, 1864. Mar- garet, daughter of David and Mary (King) Whitehead, and had : LeGrand; Cornelia M. ; David Whitehead. Mary K , daughter of Elbirt and Mary Raymond, married, Dec. 16, 1884, Charles E., son of George and Sarah Jane Barrett, and had : Raymond D.; Ralph ; an infant. Elbirt H., son of Elbirt A. and Mary Raymond, married July 22. 1890, Minnie, daughter of Franklin and Jeanette (Fillow) Gregory. LeGrand, son of George H. and Margaret Raymond, married, Feb. 7. 1895, Sally Nelson, daughter of James Hezron and Mary (Nelson I Ayres. David W. son of Geo. H. and Margaret Raymond, married. Nov. I r, 1896. Alice G., daughter of Jacob M. and Mary Augusta (Gardner! Layton. SHERMAN SE<4l'EL-.STORY OF A NOR WALK TOMB-STONE. At the time of the Ludlou -Mahackemo treaty, several remarkable pilgrims plodded through this town's wilderness and made their tangled way over the thickly bramble-strown hill now known as West Street, South Norwalk. Two of the adventurers, one scheduled and the other actual, hailed from Wethersfield and were bound for Stamford. One, John Nott, was the progenitor of the later Dr. Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College and grand- father of Henry C. Potter. D.D., LE.D., D.C.L., the Bishop of New York, and the other, Samuel Sherman, was the ancestor of the subject of this mention. Samuel Sherman, a Dedham youth of twenty-four, when, in 1640-1, he made his way up the future Norwalk rise, was well connected, and his English wife was the sister of a Harvard scholar who kept his college diary in Latin, Jonathan Mitchell, minister of Cam- bridge. Mass. During the winter in which the settlers were clearing the Norwalk woods, there was born in Stamford, to Hon. Samuel and Sarah Sherman, a son to whom was given the name of the lad's uncle. Rev. John Sherman. This boy, John"1-, born Feb. 8, 1650-1, went to Woodbury, Conn., where at length his name was "Hon." prefixed. He lived to pass eighty winters of life and left at his death, Dec. 13, 1730, a son, John3d\ who had been baptized in June, 1687. John "1' married, July 22, 1 7 1 4, Emma Preston, sister of earliest lietts foremother was born in 1646 in Guilford, 1826, a younger brother of Mrs. K. A. Raymond, and was the daughter of Thos. Bens, the first of the married, Jan. 28, 1849, Ann Elizabeth, born Feb. 9, name in Norwalk. Mrs. Elbirt A. Raymond, born | 1832, daughter of the late Henry Kellogg of Belden June 12, lKt7, was a daughter of Marcellus and Mary | Avenue, whose wife (Currence Bundy) was a minis- (Inglis) Fryer. The Fryers came from Holland in tering daughter of mercy. Henry Kellogg was of 1674 and went, first, to Bergen Co., N. J. Thos. and Long Island Kellogg stock. The children of Jasper Marguerite L'rvcr were the fore-parents. These had and Ann Elizabeth (Kellogg) Fryer were: Henry Andrea-, who had Casparus 'su, who had Casparus2d-, Marcellus, born March 19, 1850, died 1855; William who had Marcellus, who was the father of Mrs. E. A. Augustus, born March 9, 1852, married Mabel LaDue; Raymond. Mrs. Raymond's sister, Hannah, married Emma Josephine, born March 17, 1S54, married Frank Alonzo Nickerson, a well-known Norwalk artizan, | Sutherland Fancher; Jessie Amelia, born Jan. 15, whose son. Jasper P., was of the 1896 grocery firm of I 1858, married Frank A. Camp; Hattie B., born Aug. Nickerson & lietts. Jasper Fryer, born March 23. : 30, 1864, married Edgar Fremont Fancher. N'ORW A L K