The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn ... - Hay genealogy

NORWALK.
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ny in 1639 ; constable in '41 and '49, orderer of the
town in '44, deputy in 43.
" Senchion, or St. John, Matthias, 1640.
" Seymour, Richard, Hartford, 1639, chimney
viewer in '46.
" Webb, Richard, Hartford, 1639,— on the first
Grand Jury at the General court in the Colony in 1643.
Also a juror in '43-4, selectman in '48^ surveyor of high
ways in '49. He soon after removed to Stamford, was
made free there in '62."
The following
additional particulars concerning some
of the first settlers are taken from the 1st book of
Grants and Deeds.
'*
Elizabeth Webb, relicke of Richard Webb," in
1677, employed her '' Beloved brother John Gregory
to make an agreement with Thomas Butler of Hartford,
and his wife,'' they *' laying claime to the estate of
my deere husband, Richard Webb, deceased,— "fol. 51.
Richard Homes, of Stratford, Oct. 12, 1657, bought
of Alexander Bryan, of Milford, the home-lot which was
Thomas Smith's: and March, 1663, the lands of Stephen
Beckwith, planter, of Norwalk.
Matthew Campfield, late of Norwake, now resident
in Newarke, in the Colony of New Jersey (gave a
deed) to his son Samuel, April 1, 1669.
Samuel Hales, now of Weathersfield, late of Norwake,
sold to John Piatt, May 14, 1669.
Thomas Barn am, of Fairfield, had agrant before 1663.
Joseph Smith, late of Long Island, bought of Samuel
Campfield the north part of his home-lot in 1675.
Samuel Smith, in 1672, a parcel of land in Indianfield.