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  "GATHER THE CHILDREN."

  HORTON GENEALOGY;

  OR

  CHRONICLES

  OF THE

  DESCENDANTS OF BARNABAS HORTON,

  OF SOUTHOLD, L. I., 1640.


  COMPILED BY GEO. F. HORTON, M.D.


  PHILADELPHIA:
  PUBLISHED BY THE HOME CIRCLE PUBLISHING CO.
  1876.




_ERRATA._


    Page 11, line 25, for _Zenia_ read _Zeruiah_, and in the same
    line read _case_ instead of _cose_.

    Page 18, line 13, for _Elizabeth_ read _Elijah_, and in the
    same line read _Pamela_ instead of _Jarnella_.

    Page 26, line 6, for _Elizabeth_ read _Jemima_.

    Page 68, line 4, for _1698_ read _1689_, and in the 9th line
    instead of _1776_ read _1767_.

    Page 100, line 32, read _Rowena Nancy M., Capt. Familton, Harry
    M., unmarried_.

Errors in spelling, and occasionally discrepancies in dates may
be found, but their correction will readily suggest itself to the
reader.


[Illustration: Horton.]

_HORTON ARMS. DERBYSHIRE._


    A stag's head cabossed, _silver_; attired, _gold_; and, for
    distinction, a canton ermine.

    Crest, out of the waves of the sea _proper_, a tilting spear
    erect, _gold_; enfiled with a dolphin, _silver_, finned,
    _gold_, and charged with a shell.

[_Cabossed_ means cut off short so as not to show the neck; _attired_
denotes the horns; _canton ermine_, means the black spots upon the
white field in the left-hand corner. In the picture the artist has
not given the shell upon the dolphin.]

Motto.--"QUOD VULT, VALDE VULT,"--_What he wills, he wills cordially
and without stint._

Arms are hereditary, but the mottoes are not, and may be changed to
suit the taste or fancy of any family. There are other Arms of the
Horton family, varying somewhat from the above. The date of the grant
of the arms I have not found--probably many centuries ago.




PREFACE--INTRODUCTION.


We give BARNABAS HORTON as the _Preface_ and Introduction to this
little volume of Chronicles. He was probably the son of Joseph
Horton, of Leicestershire, England, and born in the little hamlet of
Mousely of that shire. Of his history before he came to America very
little is known. He came over in the ship "_Swallow_" in 1633-38.
He landed at Hampton, Mass. How long he remained at Hampton is not
known. But in 1640 we find him with his wife and two children in New
Haven, Conn., in company with the Rev. John Youngs, William Welles,
Esq., Peter Hallock, John Tuthill, Richard Terry, Thomas Mapes,
Matthias Corwin, Robert Ackerly, Jacob Corey, John Conklin, Isaac
Arnold, and John Budd, and on the 21st day of Oct., 1640, assisted
by the venerable Rev. John Davenport and Gov. Eaton, they organized
themselves into a Congregational Church, and sailed to the east end
of Long Island, now Southold. They had all been members of Puritan
churches in England, and all had families with them except Peter
Hallock. They doubtless had been on the island previous to this time
and looked out their homes. On nearing the shore they cast lots to
decide who should first set foot on the land. The lot fell on Peter
Hallock, and the place where he stepped upon the land has ever since
been known as Hallock's Landing.

On coming ashore, they all knelt down and engaged in prayer, Peter
Hallock leading, as had been determined by the lot. These were the
first persons of any civilized nation that had ever attempted to
settle on the east end of Long Island. _See Griffin's Journal._

Barnabas Horton was a man of deep-toned piety, and a warm advocate
of civil and religious freedom. He was one of the most prominent and
influential men of Southold. He was for many years a magistrate, and
several times a member of the General Court at New Haven and Harford.
He built the first framed dwelling-house ever erected on the east of
Long Island, and that house is still (1875) standing and occupied. It
is a shingle-house, that is, shingles are used for weather-boards,
and the sides have never been reshingled, and the roof but once,
according to the statement of Jonathan Goldsmith Horton, the last
Horton occupant of the old house.

It is said that Barnabas Horton I. was large in stature, and of a
ruddy complexion, and of fine social qualities.

His tombstone is of English blue marble, five feet long and about
three feet wide. It is placed horizontally over the grave. The stone
was re