NORWALK
 

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HO ME-L O T XXI V.

STEPHEN   BECKWITH.
Stephen Beckwith seems to have come, a mere lad, to America.     He found his
way, -vvith the settlers, to Norwalk, and John Gregory, Sr., assigned to him property.     He
appears to have been useful, and to have founded a family.     He has Norwalk record down
to the going out of the seventeenth century.
 

HO ME-LOT  XXV,

MATTHIAS  ST. JOHN.
The St. Johns have mention in connection with the description of home-lots iii and
xxii.     (See pages 93 and 334 to 336).
 

HOME-LOT XX VT.
GEORGE ABBOTT.'
George Abbott, Sr. of Norwalk appeared in Windsor in 1640. He had there been
somewhat indiscreet, probably, in that he sold ammunition to the red men. This was a
serious colonial offence, and he was fined ^^'5 for his imprudence. He afterward (1647-8)
went to Hartford, where he fell into some trouble, but he found his way to Norwalk, where
he has mention in 1655. His home-lot was not on the "Towne Street", but comprised a
territory-slice just north of the present LeCount home in East Norwalk. He was twice
married, and his children were by the first wife, who is unknown. The family was thus
made up :

John'"'-                                               Mary, (Mrs. Jackson).

Dorothy, (Mrs. Darius Root).          Jonathan'"'-.

Priscilla, (Mrs. Slauson).                  George^''-, (born 1669).

Daniel, (born 1672).
The second  Mrs. George Abbott'"'- was a  Mrs. Johanna Williamson of  Boston.
There were three Williamson children—James, Elizabeth and Sarah.    George Abbott'"'-,
died in 1689.
 

'Geo. Abbott'st. of Norwalk, has Windsor, 1640,
mention as "servant" This signifies, possibly, that
he was an "indenture" emigrant; that he came, that
is, to this country, at another's charge, in acknow¬
ledgment of which he bound himself to service, as
an artisan or otherwise, for a definite period.    The
 

Orchard family of  Darien  has in its possession an
ancient document of interest in this direction.

When younger George Abbott (before he came
to Norwalk) became, in some .way, fire-arms impli¬
cated. Guns rose afterward, in the colonies, to the
dignity designation of " King's arms".
 

ter of Joseph and Betsey (Nash) St. John, and had Mary (Mrs.
Chas. Day); Charles; Nathan (died unmarried); George (mar¬
ried Eliza, daughter of Charles and Chary Olmstead); Edwin F.
(married Mary Esther, daughter of Charles and Chary Olm¬
stead); Elizabeth (died young); Frank (married, first, Julia F.
 

Allen, and second, Susan E. Scofield; no children). Edwin F'.
and Mary Esther (Olmstead) Beers had Elizabeth; Ida (Mrs.
George Albert Smith; Edalena (Mrs. Edward Ernest Bossa).
The grand-children of Edwin F. and Mary Esther Beers
are Reginald Lincoln Smith and Madeline Esther Bossa.