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
V. EUNICE, daughter of Maj. John Horton and Deborah Terry, born at
Terrytown, 14 Jan., 1796; married in the old log meeting-house at
Merry All, Pa., 20 July, 1817, by Rev. Minor Manasseh York, to THOMAS
INGHAM, ESQ., son of Joseph Ingham and Pamelia Ellicott, and born in
Bucks Co., Pa., 1 April, 1794. The ancestors of Thomas Ingham came
from England. Jonas Ingham, the first known ancestor, came to this
country about A. D. 1700. By trade he was a clothier. He married a
Cheshire woman, who often told her grandson that she landed on the
ground where the city of Philadelphia now stands before there was a
house on it. They settled in Trenton, N. J., where their son Jonathan
was born, in 1709 or 1710. They also had three daughters. Jonathan
Ingham resided in Bucks County, at a place known as Ingham's Springs,
where he owned a farm and woolen factory. He was a rigid Quaker. A
cotemporary, who was well acquainted with him said, "He did not
belong to the old aristocracy who governed Bucks County before the
Revolution, but his position in life and high intelligence put him
in their society." They made him a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of
the Court, and a member of the Assembly. He died in 1798 or 1799,
aged 89. He had 3 sons and 2 daughters. Jonas, his youngest son,
was born in 1746. He learned the business of a clothier. January 3,
1771, he was married to Elizabeth Beaumont, and soon after leased his
father's fulling mill, and was running it when the Revolutionary war
commenced. When the contesting armies came near, he enlisted, and
served first as a Lieutenant and then as a Captain in the militia.
He was in service in 1777, and in the battle at Gulf Mills. In the
early part of the year 1778 he was taken with a fever and sent
home. He afterward purchased land and built a fulling mill near the
Delaware River; he there lived some years and educated his children
himself. In 1789 he commenced a settlement on the Wyalusing Creek,
being the first settler above Lewis', on that stream. He was an
ingenious mechanic, and invented the machine for shearing cloth,
which afterwards came into general use. He was a good writer and
public speaker. In 1804 he was elected a member of the Legislature
from Luzerne County. He died October 28, 1820. He had three sons and
three daughters.
[Illustration: Thos. J. Ingham.]
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