General Notes

The following narrative generously provided by Debbie Krauss at AWTP "Franklin Family Tree":  "In the book `HORTON`S OF AMERICA` ,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, Mass. Jeremiah also settled in Massachusetts. 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.

The following narrative generously provided by "Hammond & Bowman Genealogies", Judy Hammond at AWTP (no email address).
"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, Mass., was witness and signer of the Indian Deed, was town officer and proprietor. "

"The Arms claimed by this House are given below, and were obtained from the Heraldic College, London, Eng., 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 Ride 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, 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.  "



SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestal File # 4HWR-L7, "Franklin Family Tree", Debbie Krauss , "Hammond & Bowman Genealogies", Judy Hammond Bowman Rhodes, jbowrho@@mchsi.com, and "Yerks, Yerkes, Yerxa, etc." david earl yerks deyman@@dc.rr.com. (AWTP).