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one of the progenitors of Stamford, Con-
necticut. He married .
(VII) Joseph Webb, son of Richard
(2) Webb, was born March 30, 1636. He
married
.
(VIII) Joseph (2) Webb, son of Jo-
seph (1) Webb, was born January 5,
1674. He married, February 23, 1698,
Mary Hoyt, born September 20, 1673,
daughter of Benjamin ' and Hannah
(Weed) Hoyt.
(IX) Epeneutus Webb, son of Joseph
(2) and Mary (Hoyt) Webb, married
Deborah Ferris.
(X) Captain Moses Webb, son of
Epeneutus and Deborah (Ferris) Webb,
was born February 18, 1756, and died in
1850. His home was in the Five Mile
river tract now known as Rowayton.
Captain Moses Webb was one of the gallant
soldiers of the Revolution. He mar-
ried Sally Street.
(XI) Sally Jarvis Webb, daughter of
Captain Moses and Sally (Street) Webb,
became the wife of William W. Craw
(see Craw I).
HICKEY, Daniel Francis Bray,
Lawyer, Served in World War.
The old belief that merit is not appre-
ciated until death claims those who are
deserving of it is now changed. In this
age of progressiveness and great business
interests, with the world on the outlook
for men of merit, once found, they are
quickly rewarded. No better opportunity
was found to learn of these men than during
the recent World War, when so many
of our finest type of young manhood
freely gave of themselves and their services
in the interest of a common cause. The
city of Stamford, Connecticut, is proud
of its many sons who nobly responded to
the call, but its pride in the achievements
of Captain Daniel Francis Bray Hickey
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is a thing in itself. Captain Hickey is a
native of Stamford, born there, October
25, 1887, son of Daniel and Mary T.
(Bray) Hickey.
The name of Hickey was originally
O'h-Icaigh and Maclocaigh. The Hickey
family descends from Eochy Baldearg of
the race of Cormac Cas, Ing of Munster,
Ireland. The Hickeys were formerly
chiefs of a district in the vicinity of Kil-
laloe, County Clare, also of a cantred in the
barony of Upper Connello, in the County
of Limerick. James Hickey, in the Barony
of Tulla, County Clare, had his es-
tates confiscated in 1652, and granted to
Cromwellian settlers. This confiscation
was confirmed by act of settlement, in
1666. Several members of the family
have been notably distinguished in the
legal and medical professions. Nichol
O'Hickey translated into Irish from the
Latin, the medical work, "The Rose."
Patrick Hickey, grandfather of Daniel
F. B. Hickey, was born in County
Queens, Ireland, and died at the age of
ninety years. He married Mary Mc-
Veigh, a native of the northern part of
Ireland. The youth of Patrick Hickey
was spent in his native land, and when
about thirty years of age he came to
America, locating in Stamford, Connecti-
cut. There he spent the greater part of
his life and was long engaged in working
for Colonel Holly, a well known sidewalk
contractor of that time.
Daniel Hickey, son of Patrick and Mary
(McVeigh) Hickey, was born in Stamford,
Connecticut, May 8, 1856. He was
educated in the public schools of that city,
and at an early age became an apprentice
to a local blacksmith, and after learning
the trade engaged in business on his own
account. His ambition did not stop there
and Mr. Hickey began to take contracts
for the excavation of foundations for
buildings, work in which he met with