Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Jonathan, son of Richard, Jr., and Margery Webb, married Judith Chamberlain and had Richard, born January 12, 1722, who married Abigail Hoyt and had Silvanus, born October 5, 1745, who married Mary Wood and had Silas, born July 31, 1784, who married Mindwell Hoyt and had Silas, Jr., born November 9, 1815, who married Rachel Sherman and had George Francis (Dr. G. F. Webb of Cleveland, Ohio), born August 20, 1851, who married Nancy Allen Hill and had, Leroy Arthur, Pearl Edith and Faith Eva. Dr. George F. Webb of Cleveland, Ohio, has distinguished himself as a Webb genealogist. Silas Webb, the son of Silvanus and Mary (Wood) Webb, had eleven children. Matilda, xIt is stated that young Wm. Shakespeare fre- quented the forests of Arden and therefrom drew some of the pictures which his genius so wonderfully por- trayed. The wood lay but a short distance from Stratford-on-Avon. 2It is strict truth to say that Dethick and Cam- den supported this claim because of the strong pre- sumptive evidence in its favor, not because of posi- tive proof. The argument, however, in defense of the claim is not easily challenged. 4-oo NORWALK. his youngest daughter but one, married John Johnson and was the mother of Henry Webb Johnson, D. D., of South Bend, Indiana, 1899. OF WEBB GENERATION. At the lower end of the road leading from the center of the present city of Stamford to the seat of the Sachem Wascussue at peninsular and Indian Shippan stretched, in early New England history, a fine piece of territory, a goodly section of which was appropriated by some of the former members of the large Scofield family. Daniel Scofield appears to have been the Stamford founder of this influential household, and his granddaughter, Hannah, to have taken to herself, the year after the decease of said Daniel, the name of Mrs. Joseph Webb. Joseph Webb, the husband of Hannah Scofield, was a son of Richard Webb2ud (Richard184 was the Norwalk resident), and named his first born for himself. The junior Joseph Webb, born January 5, 1674, was probably cradled near the sheet of water which is now approached by Broad Street in Stamford. At the age of twenty-four (February 23, 1698,) he married Mary, born September 20, 1673, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Weed Hoyt. Mrs. Benjamin Hoyt (Hannah De Grasse anciently) was the youngest child of Jonas and Mary Weed. Her sister, Mrs. George Abbott, (so believed,) resided in Norwalk, and her father was of Huguenot extraction. It was this parent whose house in 1651, (while the family worshipped "on a Sabbath Day in the meeting time") was entered by an Indian servant and despoiled. The Weed grandfather of Mrs. Joseph Webb, Jr., came (see Genealogies and History of Watertown, page 963,) with Sir Richard Saltonstall to this land and (see Winthrop's Journal, page 340) accompanied Sir Richard to Watertown, where he was admitted, May 18, 1631, as freeman, and from which place he was church-dismissed May 29, 1635, to Wethersfield. He sailed from Yarmouth April, 1630, arrived in Salem June 12, 1630, and appears in Stamford in 1642. The Hoyt blood of Mrs. Joseph Webb21"1 coincides with that of the Norwalk Hoyt family. She was a niece of Walter Hoyt of Norwalk and second cousin of Zerubbabel, grandfather of James, from whom the families of Goold, Jesse and Isaac Hoyt, and also the Shermans (Gen. W. T. and Hon. John) sprang. (See pages 354-361.) To Joseph'2'"' and Mary (Hoyt) Webb was born, January 26, 1700, Joseph Webb3"1 (Lieutenant), who married, first, August 23, 1726, Sarah, born November 7, 1702, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Finch) Blachley. These had a son Joseph, born December 8, 1727, who married, February 2, 1749, Mehitable Nott of Wethersfield, and had a son, Samuel Blachley, born December 13, 1753. Samuel Blachley Webb (General)1 married, second, September 3, 1790, Catharine, 1 General Samuel B. Webb, an elite-leader and an elegant man, was not alone Norwalk related, but his name is here well recalled, and is Norwalk incident- associated. He is alluded to to-da}' as an acquaintance of the Broad Street Willinks, so many of the valuable effects of which family have been sent from this town to England. The family library of his intimate friend, Gouverneur Morris, was, for a season, preserved in this town. The exact duplicate of the chair to which he aide-conducted Washington at the ceremonies of April 30, 1789, and which belonged, originally, to the grandfather of the late Rear Admiral Francis H. Gregory, now stands in the Dr. John Cannon hall on Norwalk Green. The General's striking feature-fine- ness singularly accorded with that of several of the same Cannon connection — Kortright-Pintard- Brasher. (Note, page 303.) There is no ground, however, for affinity-supposition in this direction. NORWALK. 4oi daughter of Judge Hogaboom, and had, February 8, 1802, James Watson1, who became the Hon. James Watson Webb, of editorial renown. Hon. James Watson Webb married, first, July 1, 1823, Helen Lispenard Stewart, and had Robert Stewart, born August 12, 1824, who married Mary Van Home Clarkson of old Norwalk family association (see notes pages 17-23). General Alexander Stewart Webb, born February 15, 1835, son of Hon. James Watson and Helen L. S. Webb, married, November 28, 1855, Anna Elizabeth Remsen. William Seward Webb, half brother of General Alexander S. Webb, married Lilia Osgood, daughter of William H. Vanderbilt of New York. Mr. William S. Webb is President of the Wagner Palace Car Company, and Secretary of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His brother, Henry Walter Webb, is Third Vice President of the New York Central railroad. George Creighton Webb, born December 4, 1853, is a younger son of Hon. James Watson Webb. WEBB— HAVENS. It is barely possible that Richard Webb, Sr., whose settler home was erected close to the corner of the ancient Stamford-Fairfield path, was visited ere his death (1656-60) by John Webb (son of Richard, Jr.) of Stamford. This younger Webb, born April 12, 1640, was still a young man when the oldest Norwalk Webb was carried on a July day to his burial, one of the earliest of the pioneers of this old plantation to be removed hence. John Wrebb lived in New Haven. His wife was Sarah Bassett. John is not mentioned in his father's will because, perchance, of his New Haven citizenship, but his mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert Bassett, testamentarily remembered him. He married early and by his first and third wives had fourteen children. John Webb, son of Richard Webb, Jr., had a son, John, Jr., who resided in Northamp- ton, Mass., and was brother of Ebenezer and Henry, as per note pages 387-389. The Henry Webb here referred to, and whose name occurs in the Norwalk Town Records, married, October 10, 1695, Mary, daughter of Samuel Hurlbutt, and had a son Ebenezer, born November 20, 1697, who married a Terrell and had a son Orange, Sr., of Southold, L. L, who married Frances Sandyforth. These had a son, Orange, Jr., who was a New York city merchant, having, as old Norwalk bill-heads show, prominent "Gotham" patronage. Orange Webb'2"'1 married Eliza Cebra and his children were: James Cebra, Fanny Maria (Mrs. Rev. Alexander G. Fraser), Augustus Van Horn, Catharine Cebra (Mrs. Renssalaer Havens), David Sandyforth, Eliza Cebra and Sarah Ann (Mrs. James H. Leverich). Orange Webb, Jr., died, and his widow married, second, William Lockwood (father of William S.) of Norwalk, and dignified the old North Avenue Lockwood mansion (page 441). The children of Renssalaer and Catharine C. (Webb) Havens were Howard, Frances Maria (Mrs. Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk), Sylvester Dering, Charles and Catharine Eliza- beth. The last, Catharine Elizabeth, now resides in Willow Street, Stamford, near the home of her niece, Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood, Jr. The foregoing submitted Richard Webb, Sr., antecedents are presented as the results of extended investigation. The facts seem to be as set forth and the author, while he 1Named after a particular friend of his father, James Watson of Litchfield Co., Conn. See note page 441. 4-02 NORWALK. declines to unreservedly vouch for genealogical claims and statements of date prior to that of the settlement of Norwalk, is yet pleased to here (inter-page) recapitulate the inter-topic, Webb lineage. (See inserted sheet.) JONATHAN CAMPlst. Just what brought the founder of this honored Norwalk household to this town is not known. Foot note page 228 furnishes nothing more than a "supposition" in this direction. Jonathan1"', son of Samuel Camp2nd of Milford,1 came, however, and with seemingly a well lined purse, and made, at the age of four and twenty, a handsome Norwalk acreage purchase. The settlement at the date of Mr. Camp's appearance had considerably outgrown its original limitations, so that the Camp farm at "the Rocks" appeared, doubtless, much nearer town to Governor Thomas Fitch than it would have done to Thomas Fitch the planter. What appears to have been the first home of Jonathan Camplst and his young bride Ann stands to-day, a cottage picture, near the upper end of France Street, to which point2 it was years ago removed from its native foundation at the early Camp farm. There tenanted the two foreparents with their four sons and three daughters who were bred to industry and because so to independence. Even a lad who visited the premises during their occupation by a de- scendant of the third generation was impressed by what he saw. (Note, page 348.)