“Elizabeth Hooton, wife of Samuel Hooton, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hillborne, were appointed guardians of Samuel Hooton, when the latter became insane in 1694. Thomas Hillborne and Elizabeth Hooton, both of Shrewsbury, N.J., were married 12th December, 1688, at the house of her mother, Elizabeth Hooton. The original marriage certificate was in the possession of Thomas Darlington, of Birmingham, Pa., in 1863.” Of the Hootons of N.J., Mrs. Kate B. Stillé wrote in the _Jnl. F.H.S._ iv. 50: “Their descendants hold the land near Burlington and Evesham, which was bought from the Indians.” ELIZABETH HOOTON, JR., AFTERWARDS LAMBERT. The marriage of the younger Elizabeth with Thomas Lambert, of Tickhill, 21st of September, 1669, is recorded in the Registers of Nottinghamshire, but there is no entry therein of any children or of the deaths of Thomas and Elizabeth Lambert. We may hazard the suggestion that emigration to the New World removed their names from the Registers of the Old. In the published _New Jersey Archives_, first series, vol. xxiii., p. 236, we read: “1692-3, Feb. 20. Hooton John. Letters of administration on the estate of, formerly granted to Thomas Lambert in behalf of his wife, confirmed, notwithstanding application of Richard & Thomas Hilbourne on behalf of Samuel Hooton for it, based on the order of Gov. Hamilton making Elizabeth, the wife of the said Samuel, Thos. Hilbourne and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel, his guardians during his lunacy (_N.J. Arch._, vol. xxi., p. 193). John White, attorney for Thos. Lambert, submits the affidavit of John Snowden, to whom John Hooton had said, shortly before his death, he did not intend his brother Samuel should have his plantation, while William Black and John Birch attest that deceased had expressed his intention that John, the son of his brother, Thomas Lambert, should have it. (Burlington Records, p. 18.)” OLIVER HOOTON 1. Oliver, son of Elizabeth, is mentioned by Fox in his _Journal_, under date 1672, and he was apparently at home in England at the time (Camb. _Jnl._ ii. 213). His “hystry” is referred to on page 4, also his Certificate concerning George Fox. He was at Skegby in May, 1666 (page 54). 2. Oliver Hooton, living in Barbados, is referred to in sundry places. He wrote a Testimony concerning William Sympson (dropping into verse at the close), on the 16th of February, 1670, printed in _A Short Relation ... of William Simpson_, 1671. In 1674, he was fined 1,592 lbs. of sugar for “not appearing in Arms.”[157] Thomas and Alice Curwen visited him, and wrote a letter from his house, dated the 12th February, 1676.[158] In 1677, with other Friends, he signed an Appeal to Governor Atkins on behalf of sufferers for the Truth.[159]