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. Mary Jane, born 5 Jan., 1829.
2. John William, born 8 August, 1830.
3. Hannah Matilda, born 26 May, 1832.
4. James Edwin, born 13 Jan., 1835. 5. Amzi Spencer, born in
1838; died 28 August, 1849.
IV. BETHIA, daughter of Thomas Horton and Hannah Moore (_Thomas_,
_Dea. James_, _Jonathan I._), born in Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.,
25 Sept., 1789; married 1. BENJAMIN C. MCCLURE in 1811; married 2.
WILLIAM DALES.
Children, all by her first husband, and probably all born in Hector,
N. Y.:
1. John, born 17 July, 1811; died 10 April, 1862.
2. Oliver Perry, born 17 Nov., 1813.
3. Daniel, born 17 Sept., 1815; died 6 Feb., 1868.
4. Thomas Horton, born 16 Oct., 1817.
5. Almena Cully, born 18 Sept., 1822; died 19 Aug., 1827.
Under date of Feb. 22d, 1873, "Aunt" Bethia writes:
"My Dear Friend and Cousin, Dr. Geo. F. Horton:
"Yours of the 5th came to hand on the 10th inst. I was away
from home when it came, or I should have replied sooner. I
thought I would write to-day, and let you hear once more from
your old cousin, now nearly 83 years old....
"My father's name was Thomas Horton. My mother's maiden name
was Hannah Moore. My grandfather's name was also Thomas Horton.
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and he and his
brother-in-law, Nathan Moore, were taken prisoners when the
British captured Fort Montgomery, and they were imprisoned in
a vessel in New York Harbor, called 'a prison ship.' I never
heard any other name for it. In that prison, by hard treatment
and starvation, they were reduced so low that when set at
liberty they both died before they got home. There were several
other prisoners on that prison ship who lost their lives by the
same cruel treatment.
"My father had ten children--4 sons and 6 daughters--all lived
to be heads of families. I have often heard my father speak of
a certain cup with the name of a bank on it, where a large sum
of money was left by his father. When that cup was taken to the
bank they could draw money. He said the cup was lost and how
much money with it he did not know."
_Seventh Generation.--Jonathan I._
I. JOSEPH HAZZARD, son of David Horton and Mary Case (_"Good"
Jonathan_, _Dea. William_, _William_, _Jonathan I._), born in
Southold, 25 Jan., 1796; married 28 Nov., 1816, by the Rev. Jonathan
Huntting, to MEHITABEL HORTON, daughter of Jonathan Horton and Mary
Goldsmith, and born in Southold, 17 June, 1796.
Children, all born in Southold:
1. Orinda McGee, born 20 Feb., 1816.
2. Jonathan Azariah, born 7 April, 1821.
3. David Philander, born 31 Aug., 1827.
4. Martha Day, born 10 Oct., 1836; married Jonathan Horton
Boisseau.
Mr. J. H. Horton is well preserved--still active upon his farm--very
industrious, and always temperate. He and his family are esteemed
members of the Presbyterian Church.
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