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NORWALK.
 

and Abiah (^^Irs. Thaddeus Seymour) of Ridgefield. The Nash family attended the aristo¬
cratic old Second Street Presbyterian Church of Troy.

Micajah, brother of Abraham Nash'"'-, and of Edward and Abigail and Mary (see
note page 105) married, Oct. 9, 1744, ^^-iry Scribner (see page 105)' and had Daniel'"'-,
born Dec. 2, 1747, who married, Apr. 24, 1768, a daughter of Dennis Wright of Eton's
Neck, L. I., (see page 106),

Daniel Nash'"'- removed to Long Island, where he transiently resided, and where
was born. May 12, 1770, his son, Daniel'^ who married, Oct, 9, 1809, Rebecca, daughter
of Jonathan and Hannah (Bouton) Camp" of Norwalk (see pages 106 and 107),
 

HOME-LOT   XX VI IT.

JOHN   BOUTON.3

Whatever may have been the nationality, whether French or English, of the origi¬
nal Boutons, it will hardly be disputed that John Bouton'"'- of Norwalk, deserves to be
classed among the recognized foremost of the town's settlers.

He was proprietor of a home-lot, nearer the water side than most of the other prim¬
itive hearthstones under description. The tracks (in 1896) of the Consolidated road
south-border it, and the present Osborn Avenue of East Norwalk, traverses it. The first
John Bouton of Norwalk (a " sonn of John Bowton ") had a sister (Mrs. Bridget Kellogg)
and a brother (lvichard).+ On Jan. i, 1656, he married, in Norwalk, Abigail, daughter
of Matthew Marvin'"'-, and had by her:
 

William and Edith Loretta (Beers) Mackay had
one daughter, Florence.

'The progenitress of the Scriliners was Hannah,
daughter of John Crampton. The Norwalk settle¬
ment was gettin.i;: fairly under way when this man—
John Crampton—appears upon the scene. He was
probably one of those who, like Christopher Corn-
stock, Thomas Benedict and Thomas Betts, came sub¬
sequently to 1650, to this town. With Jatnes Jupp,
John Belden and Jonathan Stevenson, he had fought
against the pale faces' red enemy, and so far gained
the gratitude of his fellow - townsmen as to receive
from them a special land grant. He had sons John^d.
and Joseph and a daughter Hannah. On Oct. 8, 1676,
John^d. niarried Sarah Rockwell of Stamford, sister
of Mehitable Rockwell who, June i8, 1679, married
John Keeler of Norwalk. Joseph Crampton reinoved
to Ridgefield, where he died in about 1719, and his
widow, Patience, married, second, John Wood. Han¬
nah, daughter of John Ci-an-ipton, married March 5,
1679, Benjamin Scrilmer of Long Island, (see note,
page 106).

^Daniel Xash^d. was a man of strong sense. His
tastes were plain, and he was practical to the letter.
An errand,  when a young man, called   hin-i on one
 

occasion, to a three miles distant household. Having
there arrived, he was impressed with the in-door gen¬
eral "air of things". Thrift seemed there to reside;
it was a home of industry, and he particularly liked
the prompt conduct-manners of the daughters, to one
of whom he afterward so successfully offered himself,
that Rebecca Camp became Rebecca Nash, the good
mother of several very excellent children.

.Ijohn Bouton'st. of Norwalk was, it has been cor¬
rectly discovered by the clever and careful genealo¬
gist, Wm. T. R. Marvin of Boston, Mass., a son of
John,Sr. and Alice Bouton. The widowed mother of
the Norwalk John Bouton'-^'- married, as his last wife,
Matthew Marvin, Sr., the founder of the Norwalk
Marvin family.

4Richard Bouton'st., brother of John Bouton'st^ of
Norwalk, married Ruth, born Jan. 28, 1644, daughter
of Benj. and Mary Turney of Fairfield, and afterward
step-daughter of Joseph Middlebrook, who had mar¬
ried Mary, widow of Benj. Turney of Pequonnock
(Bridgeport, 1896). Richard'st. and Ruth (Turney)
Bouton had one child, Ruth, who was niece of Capt.
Robert Turney of Fairfield, who was eleven years the
senior of his sister Ruth, the wife of Richard'st- and
mother of said Ruth Bouton.