Norwalk

Hannah, daughter of Thomas'-1- and Mary Betts, married Samuel, believed to have been the son of Nicholas Camp, of Milford. Samuel and Hannah iBetts) Camp had a son, Samuel, born about 1674. who married Mary Baldwin. of Milford. These last had a son. Jonathan, born 1702, who married Ann, born 1710. daughter of Richard and Hester 1 Buckingham) Piatt, of Milford. Jonathan and Ann (I'lattj Camp had Jonathan,"1- Richard, Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Esther and Mary Camp. From the four sons of Jonathan and Ann Camp have descended the Xonvalk Camps of to-day.' Of the sisters, Mary prob- ably died unmarried and Sarah and Esther, marrying in Xewtown and Milford, had no Xonvalk residence. Sarah, youngest daughter of Thomas"1- and Mary Betts, married, March 15, 1696. Joseph, son of Mark and Elizabeth (Stanley) St. John, and from hence widened out a de- scendant line of vast breadth. Mrs. St. John died at the close of 1731 and left one son, Joseph,-"1- and three daughters, Sarah, Mary (Mrs. John Kversley"1"! and Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Scudderl. Mark St. John (father of Joseph 1 bequeathed his home lot to his son Jos- eph, where the said son probably brought up his children. Joseph,''1- son of Joseph, mar- ried Susannah Selleck and survived his father about twenty-five years. The children of Joseph St. John3'1- were Stephen (Col. Stephen), Hooker, William, Buckingham, Sarah and Susannah (Mrs. Eliphalet I.ockwood.) Till': SONS Or TIIOMAS'-t. AND MARY BETTS. The brothers Thos., John, Stephen, James, Samuel and Daniel Betts were sons of Thos.'"- and Mary Betts, of Guilford, and afterwards of Xonvalk. The boys' sisters, as has been seen, were Mary, Hannah and Sarah. It was a worthy hearthstone, and the 'Alfred II. Camp, of Sorwalk, 1X96, is from the (Mag of a Camp settlement in the interior of the Dm-linni, Conn., Camp branch. There was some State of Crmnertieut, X O R W A L K circle remained for many years unbroken, excepting by the decease, in youth, of Stephen. The girls married well. Mary was probably in the neighborhood of seventeen or eighteen when she wedded John Raymond'*1- and became the Xorwalk Raymond mother. Hannah was married, in 1672, by "Commissioner Olmstead " to Samuel Camp and was the grand- mother, at just fifty years of age, of Jonathan Camp (see Camp lineage ] the first of the name in Xorwalk.1 Sarah, on one of the early spring days of 1695 . became the wife of Joseph St. John, whose grandson. Col. Stephen St. John, w as destined to military and social dis- tinction. The girls' oldest brother, Thomas, was a lad of about ten when his father pur- chased Home-Lot XIII. Directly across the street from his own hearthstone the first meeting house (near I'rowitt residence 1896). The parade ground adjoined the meeting house on the south and next adjoining the parade ground (west) lived Matthew2'"1- and Mary Marvin. These had a little daughter, Sarah, whom the young Thos. Betts grew to admire and whom he signalized the opening of the year 1680 (Jan. 13) by marrying. Thos. had waited (for those days) a long time (almost thirty years) before marrying. The record makes it appear that his father had a home lot other than the Comstock lot, but either Thos.""1- or his son Thomas!'1- built the house in lower France street, which Tryon destroyed, and which was supplanted by the Juliette Betts home of 1896. Capt. Hczekiah Betts, father of .Miss Juliette, was the son of Thos. Betts-,d- just alluded to. John Betts, ,st- second son of Thomas'5'- and Mary Betts, was twice married. His first wife, by whom he had only two children, John-'d- and Hannah, is unknown. His sec- ond wife was Sarah, widow of Samuel Brinsmade and daughter of Daniel Kellogg, the set- tler. John Betts-"1- was born Xov. 17, 1692, and is called in early Xorwalk records "John Betts. Jr.." and "John Betts the carpenter." He probably built the house which stood be- fore 1779. where the late Geo. R. Cowles resided on "Xorwalk Green." which Cowles property has now been bequeathed to the First Congregational Church of X orwalk for a parsonage. The original John Betts home was probably burned by Tryon in 1779. The last use to which it M as put. and the first use of its successor mow the Cowles transformed home, was that of a "a Xew England Inn."' John Betts-"1- had a sister, Hannah, who married Nathaniel Bouton, of Stamford. His (John Belts'" ) wife was Damaris, daughter 'It is possible that Jonathan Camp. ft. ,.ame 1(1 , inferred that Tryon " put up " at '• Arnold's Inn" in Nnrwnik at the instigation of his lieu Norwa'.k. On Saturday, Julv to, 1779, Gen. David Some day. before Christmas. ,;,fi. (December ,4) his Van Home and familv of New York were hoarders trreat uncle, James Betts, soid him ,02 acre* a, West at Betts Inn, beta* it is probable, summer stayers Rock- M . A amp was then twenty-four years old. His thereat. They kept their carriage and horses here (Treat uncle James and wife Hannah were re.pec.ive- and one of the familv was wont, afterward, to tell of • ,J 5,° " ' [tme ",e S!,le «° their young; their proximity to the church. On the date men- nephew, and as the description of the land contained Honed Tryon, at evening arrived in Norwalk harbor. .use where ye house is built," the same may Our citizens had been apprised of the fact and the na\e been their own home. „ 11 , „■ ,„ - - p .... v an Homes, although wet) acquainted with the lint- transient - supposed to have been a ■ ish General (see note page ,7) abruptly vacated the Tr-on whil t , " ^Wshm^ Gen. "inn" and drove to a point in the vicinity of Fair- 1, ,." J 1 '»»' pernor of Xew York visited I field from which they were ferried to Long Island. »aik, bu, from the ,„„,„ „, ,„„„ Adams ,-, h>iim prncPeded to Flatbush. NORWALK. 229 of Eliphalet Lockwood, the oldest child of which John and Damaris Betts was Thaddeus (Dr. Thaddeus) born May 3, 1724. James, son of Thomas'"- and Mary Betts, married Hannah, born 1675, daughter of John1"'- and Mary (Stevenson) Bouton. Their son, Elias, born Aug. 10, 1716, married, March 7, 1745. Abigail, born July 10, 1721, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lambert1) Birchard. These had nine sons and three daughters. Their son, Moses, was born April 5, 175 1, and baptized nine days afterward. Said Moses was married March 7, 1776, to Ann, daughter of Gershom and Mary (Taylor) Sturges, and had a daughter, Sarah, born Dec. 22, 1777, who married, Jan. 1797, Stephen,41''- son of Stephen''1- and Sarah (Piatt) St. John. Samuel, son of Thos.1"- and Mary Betts, married Dec. 10, 1692, Judith, daughter of John Reynolds. These had six children, Mary (Mrs. Richard Olmsted), Samuel''"1- Steph- en, Nathan, Hepzibah (Mrs. Solomon Nobles) and Judith. Daniel, son of Thos.'st- and Mary Betts, married 1692, Deborah,2 daughter of Thos. and Rebecca Taylor, and had Deborah, Rebecca, Daniel and perhaps Hannah. •Elizabeth Lambert was the seventh child of Jesse and Deborah (Fowler) Lambert, of ancient Woodbury. Her sister, Sarah, married John Dun- ning and settled in Norwalk. Her brother I>a\id, who married in Rhode Island, founded the Wilton Lambert house. The children had a stepmother but their own mother was a granddaughter of Magistrate William Fowler, of Milford, and the builder of "the first mill in the colony." Said William Fowler (says Pond) "held the three important positions of Trustee, Pillar of the Church, and Judge." The Lambert name is very ancient. Jesse, the parent of the Norwalk (Wilton parish) Lamberts, was, quoting Cothren, according to tradition, a British naval officer who, before coming to America, had headed a successful engagement against the Turks. His three Norwalk children, Sarah, Elizabeth and David, planted homes of note in this town. The original " Lambert house" (as is supposed) stands to-day on the "Norwalk and Danbm-y road," towards a mile south of the Wilton railway station. This house, which has latterly been devoted to educational use, was probably built about the date of the marriage (Feb. r, 1726 7) of David Lamhert'st- to xJaurana Hill. The son, David, 2d of David'st. and Laurana Lambert, married Susannah, daughter of Nehemtah and Elizabeth (Fitch) Rogers, of Norwalk. The newly married couple lived in comfort-elegance at the Wilton home. The union, on both sides, was a noticeable one, and the house gained a reputation for hospitality. The father of Mrs. David Lambert2'1- died in 1760, but her mother attained long life. This mother, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers, made her home with lvr daughter Esther (Mrs. Archibald Gracie), of New York, but her country visits to her daughter Susannah (Mrs. David Lambert) were of compara- tively frequent occurrence. Such visits appear to have been sort of " state occasions." The mother and daughter handsomely attended and in striking " style," took hill and dale drives over the country, and when their heavy coach wheels' rumbling was heard, people were drawn to the windows. The old care taker of the country home of their son and brother, Moses Rogers, of Shippan Point, lives to- day, at one hundred years of age, to tell of Mr. Rogers' Stamford "splendid black team," also.