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
VII. REV. EZRA, son of Dea. James Horton and Anna Goldsmith, born in
Southold, 25 Dec., 1733; married in the town of Hempstead, L. I., in
1757, MARY HEMPSTEAD, daughter of Robert Hempstead, and born in 1736.
He graduated at Princeton College, N. J., in the class of 1754. He
studied for the ministry in Princeton, and the honorary degree of A.
M. was conferred upon him by Yale College, in 1772. He was ordained
at Union, Ct., 14 June, 1759, and from that time until 1783, he was
pastor of the Congregational Church at Union. After twenty years of
faithful service, his health failing, at his own request, 6 August,
1783, he was dismissed from his charge. He died at Union, 13 Jan.,
1789. His wife, remaining his widow, died at the residence of her
son-in-law, Rev. Calvin Ingals, West Stafford, Conn., 23 Jan., 1815,
aged 79.
Children, all born in Union:
1. Ezra.
2. Anna.
3. Mary.
IV. AZARIAH, son of Jonathan Horton and Mary Tuthill (_Jonathan I._),
born in the "Old Castle," at Southold, 20 March, 1715; married EUNICE
----.
He was educated at Yale College, graduated in the close of 1735,
being only twenty years of age.
Children, probably all born at Southold:
1. Mary, married Jacob Morrill, Esq.
2. Hannah, married Lewis Woodruff, son of the Mayor of
Elizabeth, N. J.
3. Charles, a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army; died in the
service.
4. Forster, a very prominent man in the Parish; a merchant in
Chatham Village, N. J.
5. Charlotte, married a Christy.
The Rev. Azariah Horton was a missionary among Long Island Indians
from 1741 to 1750. He kept a very interesting diary of his labors
from day to day, a part of which is published in PRIME'S History of
Long Island. In 1751, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Bottle Hill, now Madison, N. J. In Nov., 1776, at his own
request, he was dismissed from his charge, and on 27 March, 1777, he
died. He was an active and faithful minister, and he was one of the
prominent men in founding the College of New Jersey. His wife kept a
store at Bottle Hill. She was an energetic and successful business
woman--active in the work of the church and highly esteemed.
About 15 or 20 years ago, some unknown gentleman came to Madison and
put up a very pretty monument at the grave of the venerable Azariah
Horton.
We are indebted to Mrs. Cuyler, mother of the Rev. Dr. Theodore S.
Cuyler, of Brooklyn, for the above facts. She being a grand-daughter
of Jacob Morrill, Esq., and great-grand-daughter of the Rev. Azariah
Horton.
I. DEA. WILLIAM, son of William Horton and Christiana Youngs
(_Jonathan I._), born in 1708; married 21 Jan., 1730, to MEHETABEL
WELLS, daughter of Joshua Wells and Hannah Tuthill, and born in
Southold, about 1709. He died 26 Sept., 1788.
Children, all born in Southold:
1. William, born 1731.
2. Jonathan.
3. Mehetabel, born 29 Sept., 1743; married James Corwin.
4. Hannah.
5. Asenath.
6. Bethia.
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