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
5. James, born 4 April, 1809; died 12 May, 1809.
6. and 7. William and Elizabeth, twins, born 17 February, 1811.
8. Debora Ann, born 5 March, 1813; resides at Mason, Michigan.
9. Esther, born 27 December, 1814; married John Radaker;
resides at Mason, Michigan, and has Sophia, who married Isaac
Miller.
10. Peter Williams, born 9 September, 1816; died at Colchester,
April, 1843.
VI. ISAAC, son of the Hon. William Horton and Lizzie Covert, born at
Sommers, 13 April, 1780; married at Colchester, 1 January, 1807, by
Elder Woolsey, to PRUDENCE KNAPP, daughter of Enoch Knapp and Esther
Wright, and born in June, 1787.
Children, all born at Colchester, except Emily, born at Liberty,
Sullivan County, New York.
1. Homer, born 28 June, 1809; married Jane Davidge.
2. Ray, born 8 April, 1811; married Martha A. Radaker, and has
Agnes.
3. James, born 5 June, 1813; married 1. Elizabeth Krimer, 2.
Eliza Ann Clements.
4. Charles, born 25 February, 1815; married Betsey Grant.
5. Esther, born 4 August, 1817; married Nathaniel Gildersleeve.
6. Clarissa, born 11 May, 1819; married John C. Smith.
7. Ovid, born 7 May, 1821; married Catharine Holliday.
8. Annis, born 16 January, 1824; unmarried.
9. Webb, born 24 February, 1826; married Elizabeth Ann Radaker.
10. Emily, born 11 Dec., 1829; married Nicholas M. Young; died
5 Jan., 1875.
"Isaac Horton moved from Colchester to Liberty, Sullivan Co.,
N. Y., 4 and 5 of April, 1826. The snow fell in April, after
they moved, about two feet deep. He had a large stock of cows,
sheep and hogs. In his flock of sheep were twenty-two ewes,
the finest that could be found in Colchester, nearly all of
them only two years old. He drove them to Liberty. Wolves
were seen on the way near Parkesville. He arrived at Liberty
Falls--salted his sheep in the evening. The next morning the
sheep were gone, and Isaac and his son Roy, went up the hill
at Liberty Falls to look for them. Before they got beyond the
clearing they found dead sheep scattered along the log fence,
and others dying. Nearly all the flock were killed. They even
killed a lamb in the pen adjoining the house.
"In 1837, Isaac Horton had thirty-seven grandchildren, all
living but two. His children all lived to maturity."--(_Letter
G. B. Horton, 1871._)
Isaac Horton was a member of the Baptist Church, of Colchester; but
after he moved to Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y., he usually attended
the Episcopal Church. He built a grist-mill at Liberty Falls, in 1827
or 1828, another in 1841-42. He was quite extensively engaged in the
manufacture of bed-posts and other turned work, including wooden
bowls; also in shipping curled and birds-eye maple. Politically he
was a whig, and an ardent supporter of Clay and Webster. He died 10
May, 1855. She is still living.
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