Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Mrs. Ann Camp, wife of Jonathan181 and foremother of the large Norwalk family which bears that name, was descent-derived as mentioned on page 350. As inferred from the Nor- walk land records she was probably married quite young and not far from the date of her husband's maiden purchase at "East Rocks." She lost an unmarried sister (Esther) at about the time of her Norwalk-adoption, but had at least one sister and two brothers left. Her grandmother on her father's side was a daughter of Thomas Campfield of New Milford, and a niece of Matthew, of Norwalk, who was the only settler of this town nominated in His Majesty's charter. She had also a Norwalk great-aunt, Mrs. Christopher Comstock of Home lot XIII, page 250. Under the coping of the Milford stone, memorial to her great-grand- father, is cut the following inscription: "God sifted a whole nation that he might send Choice Grain into the Wilderness." Her maternal ancestry was also colonially conspic- uous. Her mother was the ninth child and sixth daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Baldwin) Buckingham, and she took the name of a Buckingham aunt, Ann, who, it is believed, never married. Her Buckingham grandmother was Sarah, daughter of Timothy, the old Baldwin settler of Milford. Samuel Buckingham, her grandfather, was son of Thomas Buckingham, the foreparent, and her great-aunt (sister of her grandfather Samuel) was Mrs. Thomas iThe mother of Samuel Camp2,ld was Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Betts, Sr., the foun- ders of the Norwalk Betts family, '-'In the center of the triangular space which fronts this text-mentioned building the Norwalk Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution placed, in 1895, a stone in memory of the battle which was fought on July 1 1,1779, near that spot, and from which point the British, under Tryon and Garth, having been repulsed by the Continentals, retreated to their boats. The brave Kidgcfield Jacob Nash (grandfather of Captain Daniel K. Nash of South Norwalk) fell, mortally wounded, near this place, and was interred in his native Ridgefielcl. In recognition of the 3'outh's heroism a vine taken from the grounds of Samuel R. Weed, in Rowayton (site of the 17th century home of John Reed, Sr.) was planted, on July 11, 1898, at the base of the east face of the monolith alluded to. NOEWALK WEBB— INTERPAGE. Sir Alexander Webb, born 1484, was an officer of rank in the army of King Henry Eighth and had Henry, Mary and Abigail. His oldest son, Sir Henry Webb, born May it, 1510, was an usher of the Court of Catharine Parr, Queen of Henry Eighth. He was a gentleman of Worship and mar- ried Grace Arden, sister of Robert Arden. These lived at Hampton Court after 1544 and had Alexander2"4 and Agnes. Alexander2"4, born in Warwick- shire, England, December 24, 1534, was the oldest son of Sir Henry Webb of Hampton Court by his wife Grace Arden. He married his cousin Margaret Arden and settled in Birmingham, England, his children being Robert, born in Warwickshire March 5, 1556, Margaret, born June g, 1558, and Alexan- der3"''5, born August 20, 1559. Alexander Webb3rd, born August 20, 1559, was the youngest son of Alexander Webb2nd and Margaret Arden. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilson, Private Secretary of Queen Elizabeth of England. Their children were : Richard15*, born in Warwickshire May 5, 1580, came to Norwalk ; William, born in Warwickshire January 9, 1588; John, born in Warwickshire October 23, 1597; Christopher, born in Warwickshire April 1 5, 1 599 ; Henry, born in Warwickshire October 12, 1601. Richard Webb, Sr., born in Warwickshire May 8, 1580, married, first, May, 1610, Grace, daughter of John Wilson, and had one son, Richard Webb, Jr., who may have Norwalk dwelt for a short time, but who went early to Stamford. The mother of Richard Webb, Jr., and first wife of Richard Webb, Sr., died soon after the birth of her son, Richard Webb, Jr., and with his brothers William, Christopher and Henry, Richard Webblst came to America in 1626. He married, second, in America, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Gregory, Esq., a prominent citizen of Boston, and a sister of John Gregory15' of Norwalk. He went in 1636 to Hartford, Conn., with Rev. Thomas Hooker, where he was a leading man in the church and well known in the state. He died at Norwalk, having accumulated a good property. Richard, Jr., born in Birmingham, England, January 9, 161 1, came to America in 1626 with his father. He settled first in Massachusetts. He possibly joined his father at Norwalk, but moved on at once to Stamford, Conn. The family in England resided mostly in Warwickshire before coming to America. Alexander31,4, settled at Birmingham, while Robert, his older brother, remained on the estate near Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. This estate was also the home of their father, Alexander2"4, and grandfather Sir Henry Webb of Hampton Court from 1544, after his marriage to Grace, sister of Robert Arden, who married, first, Mary, sister of Sir Henry Webb. The families of Webbs, Ardens and Shakespeares became united by marriage. Abigail Webb, sister of Sir Henry Webb, married Richard 4-02 NORWALK Shakespeare. Agnes Webb, daughter of Sir Henry Webb and sister of Alex- ander Webb2Bd, married Robert Arden, she being his second wife. The first husband of Agnes Webb Arden was John Hill, by whom she had two chil- dren, John and Mary Hill. She was a widow about the time that her Aunt Mary Webb Arden died, at the birth of her youngest daughter Mary. Agnes went to the Arden house to look after the children of her aunt, and finally married Robert Arden, thus becoming the stepmother of the children of her aunt. Richard Shakespeare, who married Abigail Webb, had a son John Shakespeare, who married Mary Arden, the youngest child of Robert and Mary Webb Arden. John and Mary Shakespeare had seven children. The first two died in infancy, but the third child was William Shakespeare, the greatest of English poets. Both of his grandmothers were Webb girls, the daughters of Sir Alexander Webb and sisters of Sir Henry Webb of Hamp- ton Court. Elizabeth Webb, sister of Richard Webb, Sr., married Mr. San- ford and settled in Hampshire, England. Her brother John settled near her. He had one child, a son, whose name was Robert. This son Robert finally settled in London and had a son Benjamin, who also had a son named Ben- jamin, and he also named one of his sons Benjamin. This last son was edu- cated for the ministry, and was an eminent Divine of London in 1877. Christopher Webb died at Braintree, Mass. Henry Webb,1 his brother, died at Braintree, Mass., having generously left bequests to Harvard Univer- sity. He was a wealthy merchant of Boston. William died in Virginia. All but Henry had a large following of sons. Richard Webb, Sr.,1 oldest son of Alexander Webb3rd, died in Norwalk in 1655. The deed of the town of Norwalk was made in favor of himself and others. He was a well known man in both Hartford and Norwalk. He adopted Sarah, the youngest daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, who with the Rev. Thomas Hooker were in Hartford, Conn., June, 1636. He left behind him Elizabeth, his second wife, the daughter of Henry Gregory, and his thought to be only son, Richard Webb, Jr. Richard Webb, Jr., born in Birmingham, England, January 9, 161 1, came to America in 1626. He settled at Stamford, Conn., where himself and family have mention. 1 Richard Webb, Sr., and Richard Seymour, Sr., were close Norwalk neighbors (see page 39). Mr. Webb had no Norwalk children — his presumed to be only son, Richard, Jr., lived in Stamford — but Mr. Seymour had several bo3rs with whom their next door dweller, Mr. Webb, was probably well acquainted. Among these boys was John, who with his brothers Richard and Zachary, saw their father buried in 1655, and then with their mother removed (page 154) from Fairfield to Hartford County. John grew to marry in the Hart- ford vicinity and had a son Thomas, who wedded Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth Nor- ton. These had a son Thomas, born July 29, 1705, who married March 5, 1730, Hepzi- bah, daughter of Daniel and Susanna Merrill, and had Thomas, born March 17, 1734-5, who married Mary, daughter of John and Deborah (Youngs) Ledyard. Thomas and Mary Seymour had a son Henry (Major Henry Seymour) who was the father of Governor Thomas H. Seymour (1850) of Connecticut. NORWALK. Welch, from whose family the present name of "Welch's Point," in Milford, derives its name. The parting with this cape or point constitutes the farewell Milford transfer of the aborigines to the English. With reference to the antecedent lineage of Jonathan Camplst of Norwalk the author presents the following documentary facts : Nicholas Camp married Sarah, daughter of Widow Martha Beard. The Widow Beard, whose husband is supposed to have died on the passage, with his family, to New England, appears among the Milford pioneers, She had three sons, James, Jeremy, John, and three daughters, Martha2nd, Sarah and their sister. Martha Beard2ud married John Stream of Mil- ford and had a daughter, Martha31'4, who married Thomas, born 1657, son of Samuel Coley of Milford. Sarah, sister of Martha Beard2lld, married Nicholas Camp. Mrs Sarah (Beard) Camp died September 6, 1645. Anthony Thompson, with his wife and two children, arrived in Boston June 26, 1637. He went to Milford, where he died March 23, 1647, leaving a widow, Katharine, who, July 14, 1652, married Nicholas Camp, and had : Joseph15', born August 11, 1653, died young; Samuel18', born September 15, 1655; Joseph2nd, born December 15, 1657; Mary, born July 12, 1660; John and Sarah, born September 14, 1662 ; Abigail, born March 28, 1667. Samuel1", son of Nicholas and Katharine (Thompson) Camp, married, November 13, 1672, Hannah, born November 22, 1652, daughter of Thomas13' and Mary Betts of Norwalk (see page 226). Samuel2nd, born May 20, 1675, son of Samuel15' and Hannah (Betts) Camp, was the father of Jonathan Camp1" of Norwalk. The children of Jonathan1" and Ann (Piatt) Camp are noted on page 227, and the line of Jonathan2nd is traced on pages 350 and 351. RICHARD CAMPl5t. Richard15', son of Jonathan15' and Ann (Piatt) Camp, married, November 15, 1 77 1 , Anna, daughter of Thomas Coe, and had :