Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Isaac, born March 17, 1820; William De Grand, born September 6, 1822; Mary Elizabeth, born January g, 1825, unmarried; Hannah Burwell, born July 10, 1828, unmarried. Isaac, son of Abraham2'"1 and Mary (St. John) Camp, married, May 26, 1853, Catharine Louisa, born May 24, 1828, daughter of James and Catharine (Evans) Wiseman,1 and had : Franklin Abraham, born May 30, 1854; Catharine Wiseman, born July 30, 1857, unmarried; Sarah Elizabeth, born Ma}' 8, i860, Mrs. Lucien F. Judd;2 James Wiseman, born February 2, 1864, died young ; David St. John, born June 4, 1866, unmarried; William, Edwin, twins, born March 13, 1870, died in infancy. William De Grand, son of Abraham21"1 and Mary (St. John) Camp, married, January 12, 1852, Margaret, daughter of Henry and Caroline (St. John) Chichester, and had: Theodore Chichester, born November 1, 1855 ; Myra B.,3 born September 8, 1857, Mrs. Charles F. Morehouse; Antoinette Betts, 11 born November 17, 1859, Mrs. Frederick Griswold ; Stephen St. John, born October 1, 1864, died unmarried. Franklin Abraham, son of Isaac and Catharine Louisa Camp, married, July 10, 1877, Jessie Amelia, daughter of Jasper and Annie (Kellogg) Pryer, and had: Franklin Irwin, born January 18, 1881. Mr. Franklin A. Camp, now an energetic citizen of Meriden, Conn., has taken a lively interest in the genealogy of the Camp family. Theodore Chichester, son of William De Grand and Margaret (Chichester) Camp, married, on Easter Monday, 1897, Mrs. Eva Burchard Hoyt, and has no children. Of Mr. Theodore C. Camp's business qualifications, it is sufficient to say that he is the successor of ijames Wiseman, born June 26, 1794, in Lan- arkshire, Scotland, came in 1808 to America and was an honored foster and foreign son of Norwalk. He lived to a grand age and was respected and beloved to the last. He was a thinker and a leader, and one whose candor, whose intelligence, and whose conduct impressed and improved, and was an excellent exam- ple to those who enjoyed his acquaintance. His life adorned his adopted America and his worth gave credit to his native Scotland. His children were : Amelia, born May 9, 1823 (Mrs. RansfordO. Banks); James H., born September 26, 1825; Catharine Louisa, born May 24, 1828 (Mrs. Isaac Camp); Maria Cox, born September 24, 1830 (Mrs. Thomas S. Stout); Sarah Elizabeth, born September 11, 1833; John, born January 23, 1837 ; Edwin Ruthven, born July 23, 1839; William, born July 17, 1841, died young. Mrs. Ransford O. Banks had James W. and Fred- erick Byard. James H. Wiseman married Maria Louise Beach and had Mabel Ann, and Howard, who died in in- fancy. Thomas S. Stout had Willis A., Marion Louise, died in infancy, Ada Maria, unmarried. William A. Stout, son of Thomas S., married Clara M., daughter of William Gould of Westport, and had Bertha M. (Mrs. Alfred William Betts), who has Marion Strickland, born March 26, 1897. 2The children of Mrs. Lucian Ferdinand Judd were Robert Silliman, born March 5, 1887, and Irene, born April 30, 1891. 3Myra B, Camp married, August, 1884, Charles Frederick Morehouse of Darien, and had no children. ''■Antoinette Betts Camp married, May, 1882, Frederick Griswold of Brooklyn, N. Y., and had Jerome, born Februbry 18, 1883, and Virginia An- toinette, born February, 1887. 408 N O R W A L K. his able and admirable uncle, the late Theodore Chichester of Brooklyn and Norwalk, in the care of the large Whitney estate of New York City. Stephen Camp, son of Jonathan Camp2'"' (see page 350), married, September 27, 1792, Rachel B., born July 31, 1771, daughter of John and Lydia (Kellogg) Hickok, and had: Nathan, born May 22, 1795 ; Harvey, born October 6, 1798; Amza, born January 21, 1801 ; Celina, born March 19, 1803, Mrs. John Partrick ; Elizabeth, born October 28, 1805, Mrs. Henry W. Smith. Nathan, Harvey and Amza Camp married, respectively, Areety Raymond, Currence Hayes and Margaret K. Hovey. Nathan Camp married, second, Mrs. Phebe Lord. His children, ail by the first wife, were Sophia and Henry. Harvey Camp married, second, Harriet Gregory. His children, all by first wife, were Silas, Hiram, Milton, Harriet and Elizabeth. Amza Camp married, second, Olinda Hovey. His children by his first wife were Mary Frances and Ann Eliza. The issue of the second marriage was Lewis, Belle and Henry. Mary Frances, daughter of Amza and Margaret Camp, was the first wife of the late Lawrence P. Mott of Norwalk. Mr. Mott, whose second wife was a daughter of Henry W. Smith (page 363), belonged to the New York city Mott family. JOHN CANNON.1 The head of the Norwalk Cannon house was John, sometimes called "Commodore" Cannon. He was the oldest child of John, baptized November 28, 1703, and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon. It was his sister Hester, baptized April 26, 1706, who married, November 11, 1727, 1 While the sleeper, John Cannon, in the ''full" tomb beneath the pavement which in 1899 conducts from the south gate of St. Paul's Churchyard to the portals of the sacred edifice, was known as John Cannonlst of Norwalk, yet was he, in reality, the third John Cannon of this country. Born in 1725, he married at the age of twent3'-five Esther Perry (see page 13) of Fairfield. His father, who was twice married, was a man of large business interests. His dock, which he owned, and store, which fronted the pier, and residence, were not far from the present Hanover Square, N. Y. This residence was valued at £1,300, and its adjoining "house" (also his property) was rated at £900 valuation. He seems to have owned the wharf lots, which were inventoried at £1,400. His first wife, the mother of John1" of Nor- walk, was Jerusha Sands, who died leaving several sons and daughters, and her husband married, sec- ond, a widow Swan. This marriage took place the year that his granddaughter Sarah (fourth child of his son " Commodore " John of Norwalk) was born. Mr. Cannon died in L761. His sister, Janetze Can- non, aunt of John1,8' of Norwalk, married John Goe- lette of the well known old family of that name. Hester, baptized April 21, 1706, another Cannon aunt of the first Norwalk John, married, November 11, 1727, the distinguished Cornelius Kortright, whose granddaughter became later Mrs. President James Monroe. John Cannon, grandfather of John1 st of Norwalk, married Mary or Maria LeGrand, whose father's residence was near that of the Rogers, close by the Battery. John Cannon was the sou of Andrew and Anne Cannon of Staten Island, whose will was executed March 12, 1711. His great grandson John, who rests in the Norwalk churchyard, followed up the sea inclinations of his ancestor. For some reason (page 303) he chose Norwalk for his home and built a store at the head of tide-water and owned the dock in its rear. His brother LeGrand selected Stratford for a dwelling place and the early Cannons of Bridge- port were of his blood. An old Cannon residence in that city stood where now stands the Park City depot and its tracks belonging to the Consolidated road. A stone wall protected these Cannon grounds, NORWALK. Cornelius Kortright, and his brother Peter, baptized March u, 171 1, who married a Scher- merhorn. The John Cannon who was the first of the name in Norwalk and hence, elsewhere in this work called Johnlst, was a grandson of John and Mary or Maria (LeGrand) Cannon. This grandfather, son of Andrew and Anna Cannon, the Cannon American ancestors, made his will April 16, 1751, which document remained unprobated until May 13, 1763. The will of Andrew Cannon, the progenitor, was made "12 March, 1711." "Commodore" John Can- which extended on the east as far as the river. The family was interested in navigation, and was inti- mately connected with the old Long Island Sound Bridgeport and Norwalk route, a fact which moves to brief personal retrospection in that direction. The route referred to (page 307) was one of the early steam routes of America. The New Haven line was older (1815) but Norwalk and Bridgeport were not many years in arrears. Daniel Drew, Cornelius Van- derbilt and the Bridgeport Cannon alluded to were interested in the Norwalk steamboat route in opposi- tion to the Pecks' early command of the line (see pages 307 and 308). Drew, Hoffman, Vanderbilt and Isaac Newton were associated in the manage- ment of the North River steamboats, one of which was occasionally put in commission on the Sound. It was made the duty of Drew and Vanderbilt to statedW sail over the course and examine into the condition of vessels, wharfs, docks, offices, etc. Daniel Drew, who started humbly and who persevered until he controlled "Bull's Head" and was one of the steam magnates of the new era, was shrewd and a reader of men. He had two men on the Norwalk route, the older of whom, Alanson P. Sr. John, he knew well, and the younger of whom he came, on this wise, to be well acquainted with. Vanderbilt and he were sitting in the "Fire" or "Boiler room" during that portion of a Norwalk trip in which the Captain and his steward, a young man from the Ely Neck road, were engaged in collecting passage fares. The Steward, with the bank notes held between his fingers, while his palm was filled with silver, opened the fire room door and called out, "Your fares, gen- tlemen." "Don't yon know who we are?" replied one of the two. "I don't know anyone," answered the official, "and Captain Brooks is theonly one who can pass you on this line." The party hastened to the presence of the commander, who at once exclaim- ed, " Why, these are Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Drew. Time passed, and the Steward aspiring to a higher position, determined to call at Mr. Drew's Fourteenth Street residence and ask for an interview. The bell was answered by Mr. Drew, to whom the young man made known his business. The latter was told to be at a certain spot at 9 a. m. the next day. The meeting place was aboard one of the company's boats which was undergoing repairs. " Can you have the Utica ready to leave for Albany to-morrow night?" asked Mr. Drew, addressing one of the com-