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Richard Seymour'"- executed his will July 29, 1655, and died within the next three months. He had appointed his wife and his "faithful friend" Richard Olmsted adminis- trators, leaving everything to his aforementioned children, and commissioning his wife to take charge of the estates of the three younger boys " until such time as they shall be fit to receive and dispose of" the same. Mrs. Steele sought the welfare of her Seymour off- spring, as did also her second husband. On Oct. 13, 1668, thirteen years after the decease of Mr. Seymour and four years after that of Mr. Steele, the three lads, now arrived at ma- jority, were paid the "full and just" amount due them, and acknowledged before Samuel Steele and their brother Thomas that they were "fully satisfied." From the first of this trio of youths, bereft at an age when they most needed it, of a father's counsel, but still judiciously cared for, have descended well-known New England and New York families. John,15'- the oldest of the three and quite probably in his teens when he left Norwalk, married in Hartford. His first son, John, born June 13, 1666, had several children, among whom was Moses, born Feb. 17, 17 10- 1 1, This son, Moses, was the father of Major Moses Seymour of Revolutionary note, who, marrying Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Marsh of Litchfield, had Ozias, born July 8, 1776, who was the father of Origen Storrs Seymour (a Litchfield lawyer and U. S. Congressman) and of Horatio Seymour, LL.D , and of Henry Seymour, born May 30, 1780, who was the father of GovTHoratio Seymour of New York. Thomas, first born of Richard Seymour'"- remained in Norwalk, and married, as has been stated, Hannah Marvin, who was marriage-linked with such families as the Bushnells, Adgates, Goodriches and Curtises of Connecticut. The children of Thomas'"- and Hannah Seymour, from whom the Seymour blood in Norwalk to-day is derived, were : Hannah, born Dec. 12, 1654, married Francis Bushnell. Abigail, born Jan. 1656, married Thomas Pickett. NORWALK. 155 Thomas 2<\ born 1660; probably died young. Elizabeth, born Dec, 1663. Maria, born 1666. Matthew •'«-, born May, 1669. John 2d\ born 1672. 1 Rebecca, born 1675. It will be seen that the only two sons of Thos. Seymour who Norwalk-perpet- uated the Seymour name, were Matthew and John 2d- The lines from these two brothers are distinctly traced. Matthew "u, son of Thomas ,st- and Hannah Seymour, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel (see page 88) Hayes, and had : Matthew bap. (see page 88) in Fairfield, Oct. 7, 1694; went to Ridgefield.2 Samuel, bap. Nov. 17, 1694; went to Stamford. Thomas ad-; went to Canaan parish. Jehiel ; went to Huntington, L. I.3 Hannah ; married Nathan St. John of Ridgefield. Elizabeth; married Eleazer Ronton of Stamford. Ruth ; married Jabez Smith of Ridgefield. Sarah ; married, presumably, a Bouton. 'John Seymour 'st., left Norwalk in 1655 with his mother and stepfather Steele. "The child (Matthew Seymour 3d-) son of Mat- thew 'st- and Sarah { Hayes) Seymour, and whose bap- tism is mentioned in the last text line on page 88, settled in Ridgefield, of which place his father was one of the purchasers in 1708. Here he appears to have had several children, among whom was Thomas who married Sarah, born March I, 1733, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Benedict) Rockwell. This son, Thomas, had a farm on the west side of the old Ridge- field and Norwalk road, but a short distance from the present Ridgefield Fair Grounds. Thomas and Sarah Seymour had: Thomas, Matthew, Abijah, Jeremiah, Ruth, Hannah and Sally, the last of whom died un- married. Thomas married an Olmsted, Matthew a Gregory, Abijah a Bine, Jeremiah a Kellogg, Ruth a Scott and Hannah a Lockwood. Mrs. Hannah (Sey- mour) Lockwood's husband, (Gershom Lockwood) was a son of Michael Lockwood, Sr., and a brother of Michael, Jr., who was the father of the late Carmi Lockwood of Norwalk. Gershom Lockwood and his riiw wife planted themselves in the still standing old fashioned comfortable house somewhat east of the Lewisboro, N. Y., St. John's Chapel on the road lead- ing to Bald Hill. They had two children, Rufus and Betsey. Betsey, born May 28, 1799, married Samuel, son of Cornelius and Rebecca (Dann) Campfield and grandson of Jabez Campfield. These had : Rufus L., Mary (Mrs. Peter Hoyt), Emily (unmarried), Samuel A. and Eli, who died in infancy. Mrs. Betsey (Lock- wood) Campfield resides in Lewisboro with her wid- ower son, Rufus L., and her grandson Frank A. Campfield. She is (1896) ninety-seven years old and her faculties are remarkably preserved. Rufus Lockwood, brother of Betsey (Mrs. Samuel Campfield) and son of Gershom Lockwood, married Sally Maria, born July 12, 1819, daughter of Samuel O. and Deborah (Campfield) Raymond. Sally Maria Raymond was the sister of the late Ebenezer W. Ray- mond of Lewisboro, N. Y. The children of Rufus and Sally Maria Raymond were : Samuel, John, Jo- seph and Frances, mother of the 1896 Justice Stephen G. Seymour of Lewisboro, N. Y. Stephen G. Sey- mour is a son of Rufus, who was a son of Samuel, who was a son of Thomas zd- (of Ridgefield), who was a son of Thomas 'st. and Sarah (Rockwell) Seymour of Ridgefield. Mr. S. G. Seymour has two children, a son, (who married a daughter of Joseph Crawford of New Canaan), and a daughter. 3jehiel Seymour, on March 13, 1738-9, sold for £457. 12s. to Peter White who had recently removed i56 Catharine ; died probably unmarried. Susanna ; married Josiah Rusco. Daniel >«• Note that the only two sons of Matthew '»>• and Sarah Seymour who remained in Norwalk were Thomas Seymour*1' and Daniel }ohn"\ son of Thomas and Hannah Seymour, married Sarah, daughter of Jachin and grand-daughter of John Gregory, Sr., and had : John .Mary : married Thomas Hanford. Sarah ; married Daniel Trowbridge. Abigail; married, Nov. 5, 1729, John Selleck of Stamford. Rebecca ; married first July 6, 1734, Elijah Whitney; married second John Ronton of Danbury. Martha; married Samuel Jarvis.' John Seymour**-, son of John "L and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour, married Ruth, daughter of William and Margaret Belden. This Seymour-Belden alliance was not only the mingling of strong New England blood, but on account of the Belden sufferings and sacrifices in King William's French, Indian and American troubles, entitles ever)- descend- ant to " Colonial Wars " recognition. William Belden, born 1 67 1 , (nephew of the first John and Samuel Belden of Nor- walk) was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Foote) Belden of Deerfield, Mass. Daniel and Elizabeth were married Nov. 10, 1660. Mrs. Belden's father was Nathaniel Foote "\ son of Nathaniel Foote ,st- who had married, in 161 5, in England, Elizabeth Deming, sister of John Deming, Sr., one of the fathers of Wethersfield, Conn. Nathaniel Foote "*■ died in this country, in 1646, and his widow married Gov. Thomas Wells. She died, July 28, 1683. Her grand-daughter, Mrs. Daniel Belden bequeathed Deming-Foote (a notable union! blood to a large number of Norwalk citizens to-day. On Sept 16, 1696, a company of •• French Mohawks" made an attack upon Daniel and Elizabeth Belden's Deerfield homestead. It was " lecture day," and the people, in from St ::;':.!•;! to Norwalk some twenty-six and one- half c- of land occupied at present in part '-v the Norwalk Armory and also the now vacant lot on West Avenue southeast of the Armory. A harn and the frame of ,i dwelling house stood upon the land at the lime of its purchase by Mi . White, w ho there erected his home and also a shop for the manufacture of sil- verware. The -hop stood where now i- built the Con- necticut turnpike. The year of s.iid Sevmour's sale to said White was the year of the hitler's marriage to Elizabeth Jarvis. The olde-t child by this union was Samuel, horn July 13, i7+o. This son married Nov. i;oc|, lluldah Sanford and had two sou- (Samuel -'il.. horn Feb. 6, 1772; and Stephen, born May 13, r, 7;. i lie had three daughters (Elizabeth, b. Dec. 12, 1772; I Sarah, born Jan. 27, 1784; Huldah,born July 6. 1785.) James was born Jan. 21, 1790. After the birth of the two sons and daughter first named, the senior Mrs. Samuel White died, on June I, 1778, and Mr. White married, second, in Jan. 1781, Rebecca Pickett. To the three daughters of Samuel White, their grand- father, Peter, bequeathed on April 9, 1802, the twelve front acres of his purchase of March 13, 173S. H|S oldest grand-daughter, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel, had married Noah, son of llezekiah and Mary Jarvis. 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