Address at the Centenary of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, Conn.

James Stevens, of Pew No. 65, was from Hartland, Connecticut. He married Miss Fanny Whitlock, and was an officer of high rank and reputation in the Masonic body. He was associated in business in New Canaan, with Ebenezer Ayres, and was subsequently proprietor of “Whitlock’s”, afterwards the “Connecticut Hotel.” His children were Georgianna, (Mrs. Henry Bailey), Mary (the late Mrs. Eli S. Quintard), and Susan J. (Mrs. Frederick T. Betts). Charles Stevens, of Pew No. 66, does not appear to have been of either James or Lawrence M. Stevens’ families. Mr. Elwood, of Pew No. 68, may possibly have been of the Elwood family, whose home was in upper France street. Mr. Grumman, of Pew No. 70, was Samuel Edwin, son of Samuel and Maria (Cholwell) Grumman. The Grummans were frem Fairfield, and the Cholwells from the east side of the upper Hudson portion of the state of New York. In the days of the old church there were several Norwalk young men who took pews together. Noah Nash, of Westport, had a daughter whose name is unmentioned in the address; viz. Anna (Mrs. Darrow). Lieutenant Asa Hoyt’s daughter Esther married Captain Moses Gregory, vestryman, and Mr. Hoyt’s sister Eunice married Noah Smith, of Norwalk Island; the ancestor of which Smith (Kilyard) emigrated, with nine child- ren, from Devon County, in south-western England. He located, on the east bank of the Connecticut river, below Middletown. One of his sons, Eiiakim, came to Norwalk, and, with Abigail, his wife, occupied a dwelling which stood opposite to the residence of Mrs. Eben Hill, in South Norwalk. Noah, of Smith’s (Norwalk) Island, was a son of Eiiakim and Abigail. Noah’s son Asa, was the father of Stephen, Asa E., Henry W. and George E. Smith, of Norwalk ; Rufus, of Texas; Ward, of Brooklyn; Sidney, of California, and Eliza Jane (Mrs. George St. John), of Wisconsin. Mr. Morgan T. Smith, of St. Paul’s, is not of the aforesaid family. His mother, Anna, was sister of Mr. Jess Smith, of Westchester County, New York, and Morgan T. is cousin of Jess Smith 2d., formerly of Winnipauk. Mrs. Morgan T. Smith was Clarissa Crane, a daughter of Thaddeus Crane, Sr., of Somers, New York, and a neice of the late John D. Lounsbury, who planted an industry in this town, the developments of which have in all probability far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of this benefactor of the place. One communicant of St. Paul’s whose name does not appear on the list as a pew proprietor, but who has been a faithful Christian woman, remains to be mentioned here. We refer to the aged Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, of Ely’s Neck. She is an English woman who, nearly forty years ago, came with her husband to this country. He was doomed to early death, but she, solitary in her retired cottage, has never parted with her faith. She spent a portion of her early life at Fulham, the residence of the Bishop of London, knew Hannah More, and 60 years later, by another, which had for its object the building of a new glebe house, or parsonage. On February 4th, 1806, Josiah was brought in contact with those whose influence over her has been helpful and happy. Until Trinity Chapel, South Norwalk, was built, she was a regular attendant at St. Paul’s. Through summer and winter she walked, neatly attired, and with prayer book wrapped in kerchief in hand, from her distant home to the parish church. She has now arrived at the age of eighty-five, and is not seen at service as often as of yore. She is alone in this land, as far as relatives are concerned ; her husband lies in the church yard, and her son, whom she has not seen for about a half century, lives in Australia. The curious will be pleased, perhaps, to find as supplemental to the schedule on page 56, what purports to be the first pew schedule of the church of 1786. It bears date 1792, but it must be borne in mind that the church of 1786 was not completed at the time of its consecration, and was not permanently seated until after the passage, in October, 1790, of the resolution, “that the inside of the church should be finished by building a pulpit, pewing, and finishing the galleries, etc.” Pew No. l, LeGrand Cannon. Pew No. 2, Thomas Belden. Pew No. 3, Goold Hoyt, Pew No. 4, Ebenezer Church. Pew No. 5, Jonathan Camp.* Pew No. 6, Isaac S. Isaacs. Pew No. 7, John Saunders, and Holmes Saunders in 1799 Pew No. 8, John Belden. Pew No. 9, Isaac Camp. Pew No. 10, Daniel Nash. Pew No. 11, Samuel White. Pew No. 12, John Platt. Pew No. 13, Asa Hoyt. Pew No. 14, Stephen Betts. Pew No. 15, Richard Camp. Pew No. 16, Reuben Mott.I [p. 61] Pew No. 17, Barnabas Marvin. Pew No. 18, Matthew Reed. Pew No. 19, Nehemtah Hanford. Pew No. 20, Esaias Bouton. Pew No. 21, Peter White. Pew No. 22, Nathan Jarvis. Pew No. 23, Lemuel Brooks. Pew No. 24, Paul Taylor. Pew No. 25, Nathaniel Street. Pew No. 26, John Cannon, Jr., after- wards Eliakim warren. Pew No. 27, David Boult. Pew No. 28, Pew No. 29, HEZEKIAH JARVIS. Pew No. 30, Isaac Hoyt. Pew No. 31, Hezekiah Belden. These pews were sold , and the names, affixed to the numbers of the same, were the names of their owners. Thomas Keeler, also, seems to be assigned to pew No. 50, and Abraham Hanford and son, to pew 43. *The name of Jonathan Camp is one of the first names which appear upon St. Paul’s parish records. It is believed that the family took its rise in France, and that three Brothers first came to this country, and settled, two in Connecticut (Milford and Nor- walk,) and one in New Jersey. Jonathan, the founder of the Nor- walk family, came hither from Milford, and purchased at once in Norwalk to the amount of nearly three thousand dollars, a large sum at that time. Himself and Ann, the forefather and mother, had four sons, viz. : Jonathan, Jr., Isaac, Abraham, and Richard. Jonathan, 2d, or Jr., was born in 1735, and married Mary Burwell, in 1759. From him descended Jonathan, 3d, born in 1768, and married, in 1792, to Hannah Boukm. Jonathan, 3d and Hannah were the parents of Jonathan, 4th — the late Jonathan — who was born in 1801, and who married Miss Mary Newkirk, a granddaugh- Pew No. 32, Samuel Belden. Pew No. 33, MICAJAH NASH. Pew No. 34, JACOB JENNINGS. Pew No. 35. Joshua Bouton. Pew No. 36, STEPHEN MARVIN. Pew No. 37, James Kellogg to David Lambert. Pew No. 38, Benja. Isaacs. Pew No. 39, Stephen Kellogg t [p. 61] Pew No. 40, Seth Keeler. Pew No. 41, David Lambert (gave it up.) Pew No. 42, Edward Wentworth. Pew No. 43, Samuel Raymond and Mrs. Nash. Pew No. 44, AARON ADAMS. Pew No. 45, Obadiah Wright. Pew No. 46, Eliakim Warren. Pew No. 47, John Lockwood. § [p. 62] Pew No. 48, John Nash. Pew No. 49, Peter James. Pew No. 50, Daniel Adams. Pew No. 51, James Crowley. Pew No. 52, William Jelliff. Pew No. 53, John Saunders, Jr. Pew No. 54, Seeley Squires. Pew No. 55, AARON KEELER. Pew No. 56, Pew No. 57, HANFORD FAIRWEATHER. Pew No. 58, Josiah Thatcher, Jr. Pew No. 59. Stephen Abbott. Pew No. 60, Nathan Wilson. 61 Thatcher, 2d, was appointed to take charge of such a paper, and that he was successful in his endeavors is evidenced from the action ter of James Cannon. Jonathan, 5th, was educated at the Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute, and practiced civil engineering in New Jersey. He died in 1882, and left a son Jonathan, the sixth in the line. Isaac, son of Jonathan, 1st, and Ann, mai’ried, in 1769, Rhoda Keeler. Their youngest child was Abraham, who was born in 1787, and who married a sister of the late David St.. John, senior warden of St. Paul’s. Abraham, another son of Jonathan, 1st, and Ann, married a Miss Jarvis, of Long Island. They had one son Samuel Jarvis Camp, the former choister of St. Paul’s. Richard, the remaining son of Jonathan, 1st, and Ann. married a niece of Rev. Dr. Learning, from whom descended Richard Camp, (who married a Perry,) and Lemuel, whose widow yet survives. It would appear, from an old record, that Jonathan, 1st, married a second time; but the afore mentioned children are those of the first wife. Stephen Camp, son of Jonathan, 3d, and Hannah, was the father of the late Mrs. John Partrick, and of the first Mrs. Henry W. Smith. Esther Camp, the second daughter of Jonathan, 2d., and aunt of the late Jonathan, married James Fitch, grandson, it is probable, of James, the brother of Thomas (governor) and Samuel. tThe first New England Motts were from Wethersfield. Mark, the original Mott, son of the Rev. Mark Mott, of Chelmsford, Eng- land, (who was cousin of Rev. Dr. Mark Mott, Rector of Rayne, and of large estate in England,) married Barbara, daughter of Thomas Ady, M. D., of Wethersfield. Mark Mott died in Connecticut, in 1694, and left eight children. The Motts (New England Motts,) were from the same county and same town, in England, that sev- eral of the Norwalk fathers were from, and from the same hamlet whence the principal planter of this town emigrated. JStephen Kellogg, of Pew No. 39, was about three generations from Daniel Kellogg, the settler. Nathaniel Kellock, and Joseph Kelodg are named in the colonial records as far back as 1649 and 1654. Daniel, forefather, lived in East Norwalk, where James L. Ambler, of modern date, built, and William G. Thomas has now purchased, and he owned the tract which extended from the coast bank on the north, as far south as the present street which runs parallel to, and is a few rods north of, the New Haven railroad, and as far west as the tract which Selectman Joseph P. Hanford (father of Captain Joseph P. Hanford), and his heirs since his day, have for nearly seventy years had the use of. The Kellogg ances- tress was daughter of John Bouton, and granddaughter of Matthew Marvin, Sr., and Elizabeth; Daniel, the first, having selected his wife from the Bouton family whose home lot lay on the other side of the street, directly opposite his own.