Horton Genealogy: or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.Horton, Geo. F. (George Firman)
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Horton Genealogy: or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.
Horton, Geo. F. (George Firman)
Horton family
1. Isaac, born in 1778; married Margaret Odell.
2. John, born 1780.
3. James, born 1782.
4. Cyrus, born 1 June, 1784; married Sarah Mead.
5. Jasper, born in 1787.
III. GILBERT, son of Joshua Horton and Asenath Mapes, born in
Southold, 1753; married and settled in Shenandoah Valley, Dutchess
Co., N. Y.
IV. WILLIAM, son of Joshua Horton and Asenath Mapes, born in
Southold, 1755; married MARY WRIGHT, in 1795; moved to Orange Co.,
and thence to Oneida Co., N. Y., and settled at Rome, N. Y. He was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, served during the war and came out
unharmed.
Children, probably all born in Rome, N. Y.:
1. Anannias, born 1796; resides in Oriskany, N. Y.
2. Liberty, born 1798; resides in Whitesboro, N. Y.
3. Jeremiah, born 28 Oct., 1800; married Abigail Brownell.
4. Richmond Wright, born 30 Jan., 1803; married Martha McNall.
5. Irene, married ---- Knaggs; lives at Little Falls, N. Y.
6. Rhoda, married ---- Streetor.
7. Mary Shields, died in Rome, 9 Aug., 1855.
I. DEA. JOSEPH, son of Joseph Horton and Mary Hallock (_Joseph_,
_Ephraim_, _Joshua I._), born about 1761; moved to Orange Co., N.
Y., in early life, settled in Wallkill; married SALLY DECKER. After
her death he married the widow Sally Cox. He was a Deacon in the
Presbyterian Church of Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y.
Children, born in Wallkill:
1. Joseph, married Mary Cox.
2. Polly.
3. Benjamin, married Phebe Vail.
4. Levi Decker.
5. Anna, born 1789; married Isaac M. Gillett.
6. Hannah.
7. Phebe.
8. John.
"In the year 1824 or 1825, Dea. Joseph Horton, with his horse
and buggy, left home in the morning and went to work in a field
about two miles from his house alone. Not returning, his family
made search for him, and going to the field they found him
dead, lying upon his face on the ground, and the bridle in his
hand, indicating plainly that his horse had been turned into
the pasture-field in the morning, and that he had finished his
day's work, and started to get his horse to return home when he
fell dead."--_Letter of L. D. Horton, August, 1874._
His residence was in Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y. He was about
sixty-three years old at the time of his death, and living with his
2d wife, who was the widow Sally Cox.
_Seventh Generation.--Joshua I._
I. JOSEPH, son of Dea. Joseph Horton and Sally Decker (_Benjamin_,
_Joseph_, _Ephraim_, _Joshua I._), born in Wallkill, in 1776; married
in Wallkill, N. Y., about 1806, MARY COX, born in Orange Co., N. Y.,
in 1779. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and he was one
of the Deacons. They settled in Newfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y., in
1813, and there they died, he in 1823, and she in 1862.
Children, 1. and 2. born in Wallkill, the rest in Newfield:
1. Solomon.
2. Lewis.
3. Harry.
4. Stephen.
5. Joseph.
6. Mehitabel.
7. Sally.
8. Fanny.
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