TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}. All changes noted in the ERRATA (at the front of the book) have been applied to the etext. As the ERRATA states: "Errors in spelling, and occasionally discrepancies in dates may be found, but their correction will readily suggest itself to the reader." Errors in dates, even seemingly obvious ones, have not been corrected. The lists of children in the book are predominantly given in a compact run-on format, probably to save printing space. All lists have been unwrapped, indented and presented on separate lines in this etext. The two Indexes are incomplete and contain many errors. With a few exceptions these errors have not been adjusted; one valid page number has been added to an entry when none was present in the original Index. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. More detail of changes made can be found at the end of the book. "GATHER THE CHILDREN." HORTON GENEALOGY; OR CHRONICLES OF THE DESCENDANTS OF BARNABAS HORTON, OF SOUTHOLD, L. I., 1640. COMPILED BY GEO. F. HORTON, M.D. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY THE HOME CIRCLE PUBLISHING CO. 1876. _ERRATA._ Page 11, line 25, for _Zenia_ read _Zeruiah_, and in the same line read _case_ instead of _cose_. Page 18, line 13, for _Elizabeth_ read _Elijah_, and in the same line read _Pamela_ instead of _Jarnella_. Page 26, line 6, for _Elizabeth_ read _Jemima_. Page 68, line 4, for _1698_ read _1689_, and in the 9th line instead of _1776_ read _1767_. Page 100, line 32, read _Rowena Nancy M., Capt. Familton, Harry M., unmarried_. Errors in spelling, and occasionally discrepancies in dates may be found, but their correction will readily suggest itself to the reader. [Illustration: Horton.] _HORTON ARMS. DERBYSHIRE._ A stag's head cabossed, _silver_; attired, _gold_; and, for distinction, a canton ermine. Crest, out of the waves of the sea _proper_, a tilting spear erect, _gold_; enfiled with a dolphin, _silver_, finned, _gold_, and charged with a shell. [_Cabossed_ means cut off short so as not to show the neck; _attired_ denotes the horns; _canton ermine_, means the black spots upon the white field in the left-hand corner. In the picture the artist has not given the shell upon the dolphin.] Motto.--"QUOD VULT, VALDE VULT,"--_What he wills, he wills cordially and without stint._ Arms are hereditary, but the mottoes are not, and may be changed to suit the taste or fancy of any family. There are other Arms of the Horton family, varying somewhat from the above. The date of the grant of the arms I have not found--probably many centuries ago. PREFACE--INTRODUCTION.