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
He took his family to Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y., and as
above-stated, married the widow Horton. The two families, all told,
numbering twenty-two persons. The house in which they lived being an
old-fashioned double log-house, they hired a school-master and made
one part of it a school-house, thus evincing a laudable determination
to have the education of their household properly cared for. The
writer obtained these facts in 1828, from Benjamin Horton, son of
Israel, who was one of the pupils. But this arrangement was not of
long continuance, for in 1786, Sarah, the mother and step-mother
died, and was buried by her first husband in Warwick Cemetery.
Israel Horton had children as follows, the first four born in
Southold, the rest in Goshen, Orange Co.:
1. Israel, born 23 Sept., 1756; married Anna Van Devort.
2. Jason, born 18 Dec., 1758; married Mary Terry.
3. Jeremiah, born 12 Nov., 1760; married Mary Goldsmith.
4. Eunice, born Dec., 1761; married George Howell.
5. John, born 30 July, 1763; married Deborah Terry.
6. Joseph Lee, born 27 April, 1765; married Hannah Todd.
7. Sarah, born in 1767; died young.
8. Mary, born 6 Dec., 1768; married John Clark.
9. Samuel, born in 1770; died of small-pox; unmarried.
10. Benjamin, born 7 Feb., 1772; married Hannah Vance.
Israel Horton and his wife were pious people, active members of the
Southold Church, and after removing to Orange County they became
members of the Presbyterian Church of Warwick. Their children were
trained up to love and fear the Lord and keep his commandments.
He was a soldier in the old French war, and, in 1758, bearing the
commission of Lieutenant, he had charge of Fort Stanwix, N. Y., and
remained there until the close of the war.
II. JONATHAN, son of Jonathan Horton and Elizabeth Goldsmith, born at
Cutchogue, L. I., about 1730; married BETHIA HORTON about 1752, and
moved to Orange Co., N. Y. He was a zealous Whig, and early espoused
the cause of the colonies against the mother country. He was one of
the signers for the Pledge for Independence, in 1775.--_Vide "History
of Orange County," page 499._
Children, probably born in Orange County:
1. John, born 1753, went to Wyoming Valley; married Mary De La
Montayne.
2. Caleb, went to New Jersey; married a Jayne.
3. Benjamin.
III. ZACCHEUS, son of Jonathan Horton and Elizabeth Goldsmith,
born at Cutchogue, 1734; married widow ELIZABETH CASE; moved to
Orange County; lived at Cornwall, where he signed the Pledge for
Independence. He was probably married twice. He had a son, Zaccheus,
who also signed the Pledge, and after the war was over he probably
settled at Penfield, Monroe Co., N. Y., and was appointed Postmaster,
at the first town meeting of that town, in 1811. Some of his
posterity are living in that part of the country yet, and some are
buried in East Palmyra Cemetery, Wayne Co., N. Y.
_Sixth Generation.--Caleb I._
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