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. Sarah Jane, born in Belvale, 2 May, 1807; married Matthew
Mead, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.
7. Eliza, born in Belvale, 19 March, 1809; died of lock-jaw, 18
July, 1815.
8. Hannah Maria, born in Belvale, 7 May, 1811; married James
Galloway Horton.
9. Catharine D., born in Belvale, 13 Aug., 1813; married Enoch
Nichols.
10. Elizabeth R., born in Belvale, 3 Oct., 1815; married Smith
Conley.
11. Eunice, born in Belvale, 6 Oct., 1817; died 8 Oct., 1826,
of dysentery.
12. Eloise, born in Belvale, 19 May, 1822; died 2 Oct., 1843,
of consumption; unmarried.
I. ELIJAH, son of Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy (_Caleb_,
_Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Chester, N. J., 19 Dec., 1756;
married 19 Dec., 1780, MARY ----, born in Roxbury, N. J., April,
1752; died 17 Dec., 1790, leaving two children, Anna and Betsy, who
married and settled in Canada. He married 2. about 1793, MEHITABEL
RUTH COLEMAN, of Goshen, N. Y., and had:
1. Elijah, born 15 Dec., 1794; married Sarah Oberton.
2. Ephraim Coleman, born 1796; died young.
Elijah Horton was a man of correct moral deportment, and a valuable
citizen. He died 29 August, 1799; buried in Chester Cemetery.
II. BARNABAS, son of Elijah Horton and Elizabeth Sweazy, born in
Chester, 27 Sept., 1759; married 1783, ELIZABETH COLEMAN. He died 6
Dec., 1800. She died 26 Jan., 1831. Both buried in Chester Cemetery.
Children, born at Chester:
1. Elizabeth, born 1784; married Nathan Corwin; died 5 May,
1806.
2. Ruth, married Lodwick Horton, of Goshen, N. Y.
3. Patty Coleman, born 23 Sept., 1802; married John W. Thorp.
III. SILAS, son of Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy, born in Chester,
17 July, 1764; married 1. SUSAN CORWIN, who died 9 July, 1790,
leaving Lydia Corwin Horton, who married Isaac H. Corwin, and died
in 1816, childless. He married 2. MARY KELSEY, born in Goshen, 26
Jan., 1770; died 21 Dec., 1803, without issue. He married 3. ESTHER
HORTON, daughter of Dea. Nathaniel Horton, and had
Mary, born 8 Sept., 1811; died 8 Oct., 1811.
On the tombstone of Silas, we find: "Filled the measure of his days
with usefulness, and departed this life 10 Dec., 1842. He was a
consistent member of the Congregational Church for 55 years, and the
loss caused by his death can only be estimated by those who knew him.
One of his last bequests was $3,200, secured by bond and mortgage,
and the interest to be appropriated annually to the support of the
elected Congregational minister of the first Congregational Church of
Chester."
Esther, his 3d wife, died 5 Feb., 1852, aged 70.
JONATHAN BANI, son of Barnabas Horton and Mary Tuthill (_Jonathan_,
_Jonathan_, _Caleb I._), born at Southold, 14 March, 1794; married
1. 20 May, 1815, by Rev. L. Thompson, to DEBORAH OSBORN. She died in
1833, leaving children, as follows, all born in Southold:
1. Emily, born 11 March, 1816; married Gilbert Miller; she died
in 1857.
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