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of Counts of Toulouse, several of whom
participated in the Crusades, and in other
ways played important parts in making
the history of their times. It is stated on
unquestioned authority that Raymond
Berenger was one of the earliest Frenchmen
to bear a double name. He was slain
by the sword of the first Simon de Montfort,
presumably in the Albigensian War,
the Raymond family being among the
prominent supporters of that persecuted
sect. The names of Stephen and Pierre
Raymond are found on the rolls of the
first Knights Hospitaler of the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem early in the twelfth
century. Prior to that, the persecutions
of the Albigenses had scattered many of
the Raymond families to the surrounding
countries, some of them going to England
about the time of the Conquest and
settling at a place in the Hundred of Wye,
in Kent, which became known as Raymond.
The Essex families of the name
claim descent from the settlers in Kent.
Richard Raymond, founder of the Con-
necticut branch of the family, probably
came from Sussex, England. The reason
for this statement is found in the fact that
he lived in the territory included in the
Captain John Mason colony, and that the
members of that colony came from Sus-
sex. Richard Raymond, who on May 14,
1634, was made a freeman in Salem, Mas-
sachusetts, was granted on January 2,
1636, half an acre of land at Winter Har-
bor (now known as Winter Island in
Salem Harbor) "for fishing trade and to
build upon." The same year he received
a grant of sixty acres at what is now Man-
chester, Massachusetts. In 1660 he sold
a one-fourth interest in "the good Ketch
called the 'Hopewell of Salem,' " and on
October 20, 1662, he purchased a house
and lot in Norwalk, Connecticut, prob-
ably becoming, shortly after, a resident of
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that place. Two years later he moved
to Saybrook, where he was rated a "mar-
iner" and engaged in coastwise trade with
the Dutch and English settlers on Manhattan
Island. It is also said that he
made voyages to the Barbadoes. He and
his wife Judith were members of the First
Church in Salem prior to 1636, and all his
children save John were baptized there.
In 1676 he gave by will all his lands in
Norwalk "unto those children which my
son, John Raymond, already has, or may
have, by Mary Raymond, his present
wife." He died in Saybrook, in 1692,
aged about ninety.
William H. Raymond, Sr., son of
Charles Lewis Raymond, and father of
William H. Raymond, Jr., was born in
Rowayton, Connecticut, and at the time
of his father's death was still a child. At
the age of fifteen years and ten months he
enlisted for service during the Civil War
in Douglas Fowler's company. After the
war, Mr. Raymond returned to Pine Orchard,
where he made his home with an
uncle and aunt by the name of Cook.
Later he became a locomotive engineer on
the New Jersey Central Railroad, afterward
filling the same position on the Oswego,
Ontario & Western Railroad. Still
later he was employed in the railroad
shops at Kokomo, Indiana, settling finally
at his native place and engaging in the
oyster business. He retired in 1912, and
in June, 1920, passed away.
Mr. Raymond married Elizabeth Marshall,
whose father was a native of Eng-
land, and who emigrated to Canada, tak-
ing up his abode in Ottawa. The follow-
ing children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles L., of South Nor-
Raymond :
walk ; Irene, married Thornton Friel, of
Brooklyn, New York ; William H., Jr., of
E., of Newark,
Homer further mention ;
New Jersey ; Stephen O., of Yonkers,