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
6. Mary, married Benjamin Lyons.
7. Catharine, married Hiram Goff; live in Monroe, Pa.
8. Ann, married Rosin Fox; live on Hollon Hill, Pa.
VII. WILLIAM, son of Elijah Horton and Jemima Currie, born in
Stroudsburg, Pa., 14 May, 1789; married at the old Judge Gore place,
in Sheshequin, 15 January, 1809, by Samuel Gore, Esq., to ESTHER
COWELL, daughter of Christopher Cowell and Rachel Coolbough, and
born in Kingswood, N. J., 19 January, 1789. He settled in 1811, in
Sheshequin, about two miles from the river, where his widow now
resides. She is now (1875) 87 years old, retains her mental faculties
without any apparent failure, and, excepting dimness of sight,
her bodily powers are remarkably well preserved. Her husband died
23d ----, 1858. Her son, Isaac Jackson, with whom she lives very
comfortably, occupies the old homestead.
Children, all born in Sheshequin:
1. _Eliza_, born 29 April, 1811; married _Joseph Tuthill_;
she is dead. They had Lucinda, Arletta, Murray, Josiah, dead,
Jerusha, dead.
2. _Delight_, born 4 February, 1813; married _Albert Tuthill_.
Children: William, who was shot by an Indian and instantly
killed at Elm Grove, Minnesota, Esther, Lucinda, George, dead,
Ursula, Franklin, Florence.
3. _Richard Currie_, born 29 May, 1816; married _Elizabeth
Smith_.
4. _Lucinda_, born 17 October, 1819; married _Guy Smith_.
Children: Ulysses, dead, Ethline, dead, Ward.
5. _William_, born 29 June, 1822; married _Polly Margaret
Rundell_. Children: Relsamon, Mahlon, Alice, Mary, Jane,
Franklin. Mahlon and Alice are dead. The rest live in Iowa.
6. _Esther Jemima_, born 27 March, 1824; married _John Vought_,
son of David Vought and Nelly Huyck. Children: Amanda, Eliza,
Helen, Thomas, John, dead, Eugene, Esther.
7. _Rachel Amanda_, born 5 April, 1826; married _George
Chaffee_. Children: William Dallas, dead, Francis, Mahlon and
Sevelon, twins, Ethline, Jackson, Julia.
8. _Isaac Jackson_, born 3 Dec., 1828; married 3 March, 1852,
in Sheshequin, by Rev. Mr. Gibson, of the Universalist Church
of Sheshequin, to _Elizabeth Rogers_, daughter of John Rogers
and Elizabeth Petit, and born in Litchfield, Penn'a, 26
December, 1834; they reside at the old homestead of William
Horton. No children.
9. _Lucy Ann_, born 12 September, 1830; married, in Sheshequin,
31 December, 1850, by Rev. S. J. Gibson, to _Joseph Franklin
Blackman_, son of Col. Franklin Blackman and Sybil Beardsley,
and born 9 June, 1825; they reside in Sheshequin, near Col.
Blackman's. Children: William Wallace, born 7 October, 1851;
Mary, born 28 July, 1854; Florence E., born 17 October, 1858,
died 26 July, 1861; George, born 17 February, 1863; Grace, born
1 September, 1870.
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