General Notes

Note:
In the book " Horton'S OF AMaineRICA" ,Seattle, 1929, published privately, by Adaline Horton White, Call#CS71.H822 page xvii, the author states: 'The first of the family who emigrated to this country, of whom we have any authentic record , came over from England 1633-1638. Thomas, Jeremiah and Barnabas, were among the early emigrants, and old tradition says they were brothers. Thomas came over in the "John and Mary" , 1633 and settled permanently in Springfield Massachusetts. Jeremiah also settled in Massachusetts. There was a John Horton, in New York, in 1645, but no one has been found claiming descent from him. He probably returned to England. It is not known from what place either Thomas or Jeremiah came, nor is there any certain evidence they were brothers of Barnabus, but the three coming over at the same time would favor the tradition that they were brothers.'
The author goes on to mention Leicester, and Mousely, where he believes all the above Hortons came from, and certainly that Barnabus came from that place.
Joseph Horton b. abt 1578,....Burke's Landed Gentry, vol 1, page 345, is held to
have settled in Mousely, Leicester and was the father of Barnabus Horton. It is
thought that Barnabus was a younger son and did not inherit which is why he came to America. The author also mentions a genealogy 'Descendants of Thomas Horton' the Springfield founder and proprietor (1636) by Austin Jay Horton of Hamburg, New York. Author states that all information contained in 'Horton's of America' on Thomas and descendants was taken from 'Descendants of Thomas Horton'.

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THOMassachusettsS  Horton

THE HISTORY AND SOMaine LINES OF THE POSTERITY OF
THOMassachusettsS  Horton, IMMIGRANT, AND ONE OF THE
FOUNDERS OF SPRingFIELD, MassachusettsSS.,
1636.

Thomas Horton, once thought to be a brother of Barnabas Horton, who settled in the eastern end of Long Island, 1640, was born in England, 1602.

From Burkes Landed Gentry, vol. 1, p. 345, (1) William, of Barkisland or Bark Island Hall, who purchased in the 15th year of the reign of Charles I. the estate of Howroyde, was born 1576; (2), his brother, Joseph, born 1578.

Thomas Horton was the son of Joseph, born 1602.

Thomas Horton, who had married in England, Mary Eddy, came to America in the ship Mary and John, 1632-33.

They sojourned at Windsor, Connecticut, two or three years, where their first son, Jeremiah, was born. They were educated people, the report says. Their signatures are still to be seen in the "Pyncheon Papers" that have to do with the land purchase from the Indians.

Thomas Horton was one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts., was witness and signer of the Indian Deed, was town officer and proprietor. His lands are minutely described in History of Springfield, Massachusetts., by Mason Green, p. 45: A map is shown, minor matters of record in the same show that Thomas Horton was party to a trivial suit at law with one Mirick. Another entry shows that his levy for ministerial support was 1. He died 1641, before he had time to make much history.

From "Pioneers of Massachusetts 1636-1736" by Pope, p. 231, there is a line or two: "Robert Ashley, proprietor of Springfield, Massachusetts., town officer and keeper of an ordinary (tavern), made marriage contract with Widow Mary Horton, Aug. 7, 1641, who was possessed of much property and guardian of the children of Thomas Horton."

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It is explained that the women in those times were not safe without male protection and also that they were fewer in number than the men and therefore in much demand. There is record of further allotment of land to Widow Mary Horton.

Thomas Horton left three sons: Jeremiah, born 1636; Thomas, born 1638; John, born 1640.

There were other children of Mary Horton Ashley. The children of Thomas Horton are likely to have been scattered as they grew up and were found in other
localities--Braintree, Milton, Reheboth, Charleston, Dorchester and Templeton show records of Hortons in church and historical documents. One of them of a later generation is recorded as the heaviest taxpayer and man of affairs in his community.

The Arms claimed by this House are given below, and were obtained from the Heraldic College, London, England., by us in 1928.

This Arms design was granted and confirmed, 1725, to Anne, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Horton of Barkisland in the west riding of County York, and to her descendants and the other descendants of her great grandfather, William, of Barkisland, as follows: Gules, a lion rampant, within a bordeure engrailed argent, charged on the shoulder with a boarhead, couped, azure, and crest, a rose, gules, seeded barbed, and surrounded with two laurel branches, proper. The grant goes on to recite that Anne descended from the family of Horton of Horton, in the parish of Bradford, who were seated there in the times of Eadward I. (early English king, A. D. 890), and that the arms appear to have been in Barkisland Hall, Howroyde House and Sowerby, all in the parish of Halifax.--From report of Heraldic College, London, Middlesex, England, 1928.
As a matter of history, Anne Horton, the heiress (above) married the Duke of Cumberland. The Cumberland river and mountains were named for the Duke of
Cumberland in 1766.

In 1909 there was about to be published at Bloomfield, N. J., a record of Thomas Horton, the immigrant to Springfield, Massachusetts., 1636, and the posterity of the same. It was compiled by Marcus Nelson Horton, one of the descendants of Thomas. It seems that he died before it was finished. It is believed that the data gathered and arranged by him is yet in existence. Every effort has been made, without success, to bring it to light. Future historians of Thomas Horton may yet accomplish it.

(This book mentions 'the early Hortons of Westchester  County New York' and also Hortons
in Pennsylvania) [niknik007.ged]

This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
    Joseph / Horton/ (AFN:8MHC-20) and