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driver and a general favorite with the traveling pub- lic. Mis reputation was at its height at the time of the Peck's command of the Norwalk and New York steamboat route, prior to the construction of tile New York and New Haven railroad. 2John White and jemima Tyler were married in Bedford, Aug. 23, 1733. They had three children, John, Sarah and Jemima. Sarah, born March 19, 1741, married Peter Betts, born Oct. 31, 1739, son of John-', born 1692, and Damaris (Lockwood) Betl>, which John Betls2d- was a son of John Betts 's'-, born 1650, who was a son of Thomas Beits the settler. Peter and Sarah Betts' son I Ienry, born Nov. 23, 1766, married Feb. 12. 1794, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Fitch and sister of the three brothers, Samuel M., Henry and Jonathan, who built the three near-by homes, two of which (Gov. Fitch and Oscar W. Ray- mond houses) remain. The third stood next south of Mr. O. W. Raymond's home. 3This unmarried Retts daughter was an intimate friend of Catherine, daughter of Thomas Benedict, who, with his Waterbury wife, were the highly re- garded tenants of the old "Benedict House" which stood on the present West avenue a little southwest of the 1896 residence of Hon. E. J Hill. It being, in Miss Betts' day, customary to sail by sloop to the city, this lady on one occasion asked a Norwalk friend to make the trip with her. The vessel, however, was for three days becalmed, and albeit the Saugatuck packet, which was in the same predicament, was lashed to the Norwalk boat, thus affording opportunity for a de- lightful interchange of civilities, still the ladie< grew weary of the long voyage to town. NORWALK. 149 Mary Hanford, born Nov. II, i860; married April 15, 1885, Arthur G. Karle, who died March 5, 1894. Sarah Lucia, born June 29, 1866; married Nov. 1, 1893, Frederick W. Hoyt. Anna Burr; born Jan. 2, 1870. Harriet Isabel, born March 17. 1872; married Apr. 30, 1890, Howard de Forest Earle, who died May 23, 1896. Louise Brinckerhoff; born July 23, 1874. George Lucius; born Oct. 7, 1878. Mrs. Asa B. Woodward died June 24, 1882. Arthur G. and Mary H. Earle had: Alice Louise, born Nov. 15, 1886. Howard de F. and Harriet L Earle had: Harry Woodward, born June 21 , 1893. Children of John T. and Mary E. Henderson : Harriet B. ; Charles Hanford ; one died young. Charles and Rebecca Ostrom had one daughter. Thomas Cook Hanford, Jr. left one son. Henry B. Hanford married Alice Browning of Camden, N. J. HOME-L O T IX. (See pages 3S7 to 3S9 and 3gS to 402 arid page 441.) Richard Webb, Sr.. of Home-lot ix, with Elizabeth, his wife, came with the pioneers to N'orwalk. One of the same name embarked in July, 1635, on board the " Primrose", at Gravesend, England, who, born in 1599, started from the Old World for Virginia. Rich- ard Webb of Norwalk was found in Hartford in 1639. He was a 1650 Ludlow "Agree- ment" Xorwalk settler, and had assigned to him four acres in the near vicinity of what is now the East Norwalk site of the Consolidated road's station for west bound trains. Mr. Webb was one of the earliest of the pioneers to be removed by death. He left a second wife, Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb. He seems to have had a namesake son, Richard Jd-, 1. see pp. 387 and 388) who was early found in Stamford. In 1654 Norwalk mill, No. 1 (p. 35) proved a failure, and Richard Webb was one of a committee of three to whom was intrusted the re-arrangement of mill matters. Richard Webb 2d- died March 15, 1675, some five years before the senior Mrs. Richard Webb's death, January 24, 1680. Mrs. Elizabeth (Gregory) Webb made no legacy mention of Richard of Stamford, nor of his wife Mar- gery nor children. She named Bartholomew Barnard, "by virtue of right of his wife, her father, Birchard, having right to both deceased, Elizabeth Webb and her husband Richard ", and named, in addition, Richard Holmes, by reason of his wife's right. She also remem- bered her pastor. Rev. Thomas Hanford. After Mr. and Mrs. Webb's decease the name is an infrequent one in Xorwalk, but from the Stamford Richard some of the most influen- tial of that town's families have sprung. The Court appointed, March 16, 1 68 1 , Mrs Webb's NORWALK. "beloved brother", John Gregory, Sr., administrator of her estate. Richard Webb, Jr., of Stamford, left Margery (probably seeond wife) and children Richard, William, Joshua, Joseph, John, Samuel, Caleb, Sarah and Jonathan. The youngest was born April 12, 1675. HOME-L O T X. Matthew Marvin, Sr., of Home-lot No. x, was one of the most distinguished of the Norwnlk fathers. He was born in England in 1600, and died in Norwalk in 1680. With his wife Elizabeth and five children, Matthew, Jr., Elizabeth, Maria, Sarah and Hannah, he embarked in 1635 for the New World, and after a residence in Main Street, Hartford, where were born Abigail, Samuel and Rachel, he came, accompanied by several of his children, to Norwalk. Here be was assigned the New England home-lot of honor, the lot viz., nearest to the sanctuary, (H. M. Prowitt [8961. He was "assistant" magistrate and an influential citizen. His daughters Elizabeth, Maria and Sarah had elsewhere married, and did not, consequently, accompany their parents hither. Elizabeth had married Dr. John Olmsted of Hartford,' Maria, Richard Bushnell of Sax-brook,* and Sarah, William Good- rich3 of Wethersfield, and were non-Norwalk located. Matthew, Jr., the oldest child, had set out to him the home-lot that adjoined his father's on the rear, and extended south to the present Fort Point Street. The children of Matthew, Sr., became at once identified with the new settlement. Hannah, who was an infant of twelve months when her father and mother stepped from Capt. Lea's ship "Increase" upon American soil, and who was a miss of about sixteen when the family reached Norwalk, married Thomas, son of Richard Seymour. As every one of the early Seymours, except Thomas, left the new Norwalk colony, Hannah Marvin, wife of Thomas Seymour, became ancestress of the town's Sey- mour constituency. Abigail, sister of Hannah Marvin, married in Norwalk, on the first day of Jan., 1656, the supposed Huguenot, John Bouton, and was an American progeni- tress of that numerous and notable family. Rachel, youngest of Matthew Marvin, Sr's. children, and who was two or so years old when the Marvins located in Norwalk, grew to marry Samuel Smith of Norwalk. These were all of Matthew, Sr's. girls, and they con- stituted a "host" Of the two boys, Matthew, Jr. and Samuel, the second probably filled a 'Dr. John Olmsted is supposed to have been own brother to Richard Olmsted, the Norwalk settler. J)r. Olmsted was a Hartford settler, hut he removed to Norwich, where he died. His wile, Elizabeth Mar vin, survived him, and at death left two thousand Nor- wich acres to her two Norwalk nephews, Lieuts. |ames and John Olmsted, the founders of so many of this town's families to-day. 'Maria Marvin was twice married. On Oct. 11, 164+, she married Richard Bushnell, and had four children. She was nineteen years old at her fir- 1 mar- riage 111 1660 -he married, second, Deacon Thomas Adgate of Saybrook. She survived her la>t husband five years and died at the age of eighty-four. SFrotn this union sprang a goodly portion of the large Goodrich family. Sarah Marvin was married just before her lather came to Norwalk. Her son, David'"-, born May 4, 1667, married Hannah Wright. Their son, David"!., born Dec. 8, 1694, married Hepzi- bah Hoardman, who had Eiizur, born Oct. 18, 1734' who married Katharine Chauncey, who had Samuel, born Jan. 12, 1763, who married Elizabeth Ely, and had Samuel G., born August 19, 1790, w ho was the notc.l Petf.k 1'ahley. NORWALK. child's grave, but the family did not permit him to altogether die, and the old house,' still standing, (the late Daniel Fitch house in East Norwalk) preserves the child's scriptural and excellent name. Little Samuel's brother, Matthew, Jr., lives all over Norwalk to-day. Matthew Marvin, Sr., married, late in life, Alice Kellogg. All his children, however, were by Elizabeth, his first and English wife. His homestead went to his namesake grandson, Matthew 3<1-, son of Matthew*1-, which Matthew married Rhoda, daughter of Mark and Elizabeth (Stanley) St. John. Of the father of Matthew2'1-, viz., Matthew Marvin, Sr., the founder of the Norwalk Marvin house, it may safely be affirmed that he was one of the colonial "Roll of Honor" men ; men concerning whom it has been justly said : " They had no model, but they left us one ; On their strong lines we base our social health ; The man, the home, the town, the commonwealth." A NOR WALK-MARVIN DESCENT.