Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Susannah, born September 16, 1772, died young; Richard2"4, born November 30, 1774; Thomas L., born October 10, 1777, unmarried; Jeremiah, born September 16, 1781 ; Susannah2"'1, born April 10, 1791, Mrs. Ebenezer Stevens; Lemuel, born April 16, 1794. Richard Camp2"" (see note page 13) is represented to-day by his grandchildren, Charles St. John, Miss Sarah E. Clock, Mrs. Dr. C. W. Many, Mrs. John H. Ferris, Mrs. Harry B. Dauchy and Mr. Frederick Camp. Dr. Nehemiah Perry, Sr., of Ridgefield, was wont to visit 4°4 N O R W A L K his Richard Camp affinity and kept up the family acquaintance as long as he lived. The great- grand-children of Richard Camp2nd were Susan Virginia St. John, Frederick Warren Many, and John Alden Ferris. Two of the daughters of Richard Camp21"1, Margaret and Sarah Elizabeth, were unmarried. They resided in the home, vacated in 1899 to make room for the new contemplated France Street, home of Wallace, son of the late William E. Dann. Within this old habita- tion the two unmarried sisters named peacefully lived and died. Miss Sarah E. (Eliza) was a woman of strength of principle and purpose, and, with her sister Margaret, old members of St. Paul's Church. Esther Ann, another sister, married Charles G. St. John, brother of Captain Alanson (see page 235), and a resident for some time of the South. Still another sister was found in Ruth Church (Mrs. Charles Clock) a lady of lovable qualities. The only brother was Samuel R. P., who died a few years since. He married Frances E. Keeler, (pages 124 and 246) and had : Frederick ; Angenette Penoyer, Mrs. John Henry Ferris; Cordelia Dimon, Mrs. Harry B. Dauchy; Benjamin, died young. Jeremiah Camp, son of Richard18', lived near the head of the present Knight Street. He married Charlotte, daughter of William and Nancy (Fitch) Benedict, and had: Charlotte, Mrs. Charles F. Raymond, seepage 131; Mar}', Mrs. William Raymond of New Canaan ;: Ann, Mrs. Lorenzo Hubbell ;'2 Emeline, Mrs. David Comstock ;3 Lemuel, son of Richardlst and Anna Camp, married Polly, daughter of Noah and Anna (Keeler) Nash,4 and had : Julia Susannah, unmarried ; Mar}' Anna, unmarried ; Sarah, Mrs. Charles Adams. Mrs. Lemuel Camp was one who had been brought up in the olden school and who had a straightforward way of looking at matters. With her husband and three daughters the iThe children of Mrs. William Raymond were: Mar}' A., Elizabeth, Charles, William, George, Frank. 2Lorenzo 'Hubbell was son of Matthias and grandson of Peter Hubbell. His children were Edwin and Frances, both of whom are unmarried. 3David Comstock was of the old Norwalk family of that name. He was a man of industry and integ- rity. He had David, LeGrand, Christopher, Frank, Emily Gertrude (Mrs. Amos Perry) and Elizabeth (Mrs. George Hoagland) . He was a brother of Mrs. Samuel Comstock, Jr., of New Canaan (see page 257). 4Noah was the son of John Nash by his second wife. He lived on the road leading from the Connec- ticut Turnpike near Westport to Cranberry Plains. His wife was Anna, born October 8, 1771, daughter of Phineas and Mary (Camp) Keeler. Mrs. Phineas Keeler was Mary, daughter of Jonathan Camplst. Luke, the brother of Mrs. Noah Nash, was born Feb- ruary 15, 1770, married Jemima Benedict, and went to Norwalk, Ohio, in which place he served as Senior Warden of St. Paul's Church from its foundation until his decease at eighty-nine years of age. The children of Noah and Ann Nash were : Keeler, who died unmar- ried, and Lucinda (Mrs. William Cornwall), and Pol- ly (Mrs. Lemuel Camp), and Clark and Sally, who were unmarried, and Anna, who married Daniel Dar- row (whose son Henry was the father of George Dar- row, the 1899 Westport grocer) , and William, now the venerable William Nash of Stratford. William Nash, j'oungest child of Noah, married, first, Emeline, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Godfrey) Lockwood, of Norwalk, and had Antoinette Kellogg (Mrs. Charles Stratton), and William Henry, and Emeline Lockwood (Mrs. John Wiswall), and Sarah Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Hale). Mr. William Nash mar- ried, second, a Miss Hart of Guilford, and had George and Fanny. He married, third, Elizabeth, daughter of David French of Norwalk. There was no issue by this marriage. NORWALK 405 family made one of the old France Street households. There were no sons, and of the three daughters only one was married. Sarah, the youngest, wedded Charles, son of Isaac and Sally (Nash) Adams. The Adams family is of noticeable descent. Charles of Norwalk was of the line of Edward of New Haven, 1640, who purchased of Andrew Ward his Fairfield home lot, which stood a little south or southwest of the present railway station in Fairfield. He was one of the settlers of Chicago, and an intimate friend ot Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper. His mother was a daughter of Dennis and Sabra (Peck) Nash, of the blood of Dennis Wright of Eaton Neck Manor, Long Island. The family of Charles and Sarah (Camp) Adams consisted of Mary Susannah (Mrs. Levi Warner),1 Sarah Esther, Lemuel Camp, Charles Francis and John Edson. Lemuel C. Adams married Belle S. Nash and lives in California. Charles F. married Josephine Morrell and lives in Greenwich, Conn., and John Edson married Jane Keeler and lives in Middletown, N. Y. Charles Adams married, second, Louisa, daughter of William and Lucinda (Nash) Cornwall and widow of George F. Belden. The Coe family, from which sprang Anna, Mrs. Richard Camplst, is one of New Eng- land's ancient households. Mrs. Camp was a daughter of Thomas, who was a son of Robert and Barbara (Parmlee) Coe. Robert Coe was a son of John Coe, who married the daughter of one of the most influential citizens of Stratford, Joseph Hawley. John Coe was a son of Robert'21"1 and Hannah (Mitchell) Coe, which Robert Coe'2"'1 was the son of the prominent public officer, Robert Coe, Sr., who was born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1596, and who sailed in the ship Francis, April 10, 1634, from Ipswich, and reached Boston in June. In 1640 Robert Coe, Sr., was one of the purchasers of Stamford. The antecedent Camp-Coe blood of Norwalk is of excellent quality. ABRAHAM CAMPlst. Abraham15', son of Jonathan1"1 and Ann (Piatt) Camp, married, May 2, 1764, Milerson, daughter of Benjamin Jarvis of Long Island, and had : Sarah, born June 4, 1765; Abigail, born March 8, 1767, Mrs. Joseph Clinton ; Samuel Jarvis, born August 11, 1769. Samuel Jarvis,2 son of Abraham and Milerson (Jarvis) Camp, married, October 28, 1790, Esther, daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Benedict) Clinton, and had: Esther, born March 7, 1794; Betsey M., July 12, 1796; Mary Ann, born September 1, 1798. With the exception of their son Samuel J. (see note page 129), Abraham1" and Miler- son Camp had no male descendant of Camp name. iLevi and Mary Susanna (Adams) Warner had Gordon, born April 20, 1866, died July 20, 1886. 2Samuel Jarvis Camp was, as is to-day remem- bered, a musician. He lived in the old building now standing on North avenue, and which faces the north side of the Jacob Jennings (McClure later) place of the last century. 406 N O R W A L K ISAAC CAMP181.1 Isaac1", son of Jonathan13' and Ann (Piatt) Camp, married Rhoda Keeler, and had : Isaac2'"1, born November 2, 1770; Rhoda, born January 25, 1773, Mrs. Isaac Finney ; Mary, born September 10, 1775, Mrs. Benjamin Bishop; Elizabeth, born January 2, 1778, Mrs. Jemmey James; Hannah, born March 2, 1780, unmarried; Seth Keeler, born August 13, 1782, unmarried; Anna, born January 27, 1785, unmarried ; Abraham2"11, born November 4, 1787. Isaac2"'1, son of Isaac15' and Rhoda (Keeler) Camp, married December 21, 1788, Eliza- abeth Nash, of Darien, and had : David, born December 19, 1789: Susanna, born July 28, 1791 ; Jacob, born June 10, 1793; Cyrus, born May 16, 1795 ; Anna Elizabeth, born May 21, 1797; Charles ; Sally; Susan, Mrs. Kellogg. The family of Isaac Camp2"'1 removed from Norwalk. Abraham Camp2u(1, youngest child of Isaac15' and Rhoda Camp, married Mary, born June 8, 1789, daughter of David and Mary (Camp) St. John (see page 350), and had : Samanthe, born December 8, 1815, Mrs. Andrew James;2 Abraham St. John, born January 12, 1818;8 Msaac Camplst selected for the founding of his family seat the slight elevation on the west side of the Silver Mine Street, on which now resides Hannah, daughter of Abraham Camp2nd. The house of Isaac1 st stood onlj' a few rods below the house of Abraham Camp2nd, and near the present Hannah Camp barn. Here were born the children of Isaaclst and from thence emenated his daughters, three of whom, Rhoda, Mary and Elizabeth, became well known Norwalk mothers. Rhoda married Isaac Finney, who planted himself quite near his Camp father-in-law and was the parent of the late James Finney of Norwalk. Mary married Benjamin Bishop and occupied with her husband the still standing home on Silver Mine which fronts the road leading west from the Winnipauk store formerly kept by the late John B. Orcutt. The children of Benjamin and Mary (Camp) Bishop were George Galpin, Henrietta (Mrs. John Aiken), Isaac Camp, Elizabeth Esther (Mrs. Robert Eells), Laura Ann (Mrs. Martin Craw), James, James Gidney. Elizabeth married, January 28, 1798, Jemmey, born March 23, 1771, son of Peter and Mercy (Nash) James, and brother of Daniel James, who was father of William K. (see page 375) . Mrs. Jemmey James1 st was short lived. She had one son, Nelson, born Octo- ber 19, 1798. Peter and Mercy-Mary (Nash) James were married March 31, 1757. Mr. Jemmey James married several times. By his second wife, who was a New Canaan Comstock, he had a daughter Catha- rine, who married a Mr. Lucas, formerly of South Norwalk. 2Semanthe Camp married Andrew, son of Jem- mey James by his last wife, and had Nancy Elizabeth, born July 30, 1837, who was unmarried, and Mary Semanthe, born November 10, 1S39, who married Wallace, son of Silas B}'xbee, who had two children, both of whom died in infancy. 3Abrabam St. John Camp married, in 1853, Ann Maria Chapman of Woodbridge, Conn., and had no children. NORWALK