Joseph Horton (1625 - bef. 1696)

Born 22 Apr 1625 in Mowsley, Leicestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Budd) Horton — married about 1650 in Southold, Suffolk County, New York

Descendants

Died before 13 Jun 1696 before age 71 in Rye, Westchester, New York

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Biography

Joseph Horton immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Joseph Horton of Rye, New York, was the son of Barnabas Horton^[1] and Ann Smith.^[2] He married Jane Budd,^[1][2] daughter of John Budd.^[1]

Jane Budd's 1633 baptismal record has been found since the books mentioned here were written. She married Joseph Horton, most likely in Southold, New York about 1650 when both the Horton and Budd families were living there. If she was between 17 and 22 when she married that would put a marriage date between 1650 and 1655. Their children are likely all born after 1650.

Her father John Budd's 1669 will mentions Jane and joseph Horton and their 2 sons John and Joseph, which suggests that other sons were not yet born. john Budd did not mention any granddaughters.

Horton Genealogy by George Firman Horton states the following:^[1]

Joseph, the first son of Barnabas I., was born in Mousely, England exact date of his birth has not been found. Probably 1635. He came to this country with his father. He married, about 1655, Jane Budd, daughter of John Budd, one of the original thirteen Puritans, who settled in Southold in 1640. He resided near his father in Southold for several years after his marriage; but about the year 1664, he moved to Rye, Westchester County, New York, to which place his father-in-law, John Budd, had previously gone. He was admitted a freeman of Connecticut Colony in 1662. In 1663 he witnessed a deed of Tucker and Brush to Mapes. He sold his house, and lot of four acres of land, to his father, Barnabas Horton, and also deeded land to John Youngs, in 1665.

In 1666, just before King Phillip's War, he was a Lieitenant in the Rye militia.^[3]

In 1671 he was chosen one of the Selectmen of Rye, and about this time he is one of a Committee of three to procure a minister. In 1678 he was a Justice of the Peace, and about this time he was a Lieutenant, and then a Captain of a Militia Company, and also authorized by the General Court to issue warrants, and to unite persons in holy matrimony. In 1690-91 he was devisee of his brother Benjamin, and his brother Joshua was executor. In 1695 he was chosen one of the vestrymen of the church, and in 1699 he was licensed to keep a public house of entertainment. In addition to all these dignities, he also filled the office of miller, and in this useful calling he was succeeded by several of his descendants. He had five sons and several daughters, only one of whom is mentioned.^[4][5]

Children, all born at Southold:

1. Joseph, born about 1654; married, perhaps, Mary Hallock.
2. John, born about 1656; married, perhaps, Sarah Vail.
3. Samuel, born about 1658.
4. David, born about 1661.
5. Abigail, born about 1663; married Roger Park.

Jacqueline Dinan, in her book In Search of Barnabas Horton, lists the following children:^[2]

1. John, born ca. 1648 and died before 4 August 1707; married Rachel Hoit
2. Joseph, born ca. 1648-1650; his death date is unknown
3. Samuel, born ca, 1652-1656
4. David, born ca. 1654-1660 and died after 1733
5. Benjamin, first appeared in Westchester County records in January 1699/1700 (Note: The Benjamin Horton, jr. who married Anne Budd in the late 1680's does not appear on the 1698 Southold Census. They may have moved to Rye.)
6. Hannah, married (1) Thomas Robinson and (2) Miles Oakley

Early Hortons of Westchester Co., New York compiled by Edson Salisbury Jones lists the following children:^[6]

Joseph Horton certainly had issue:

1. John, b. by 1647, probably
2. Joseph, b. by 1649, probably (note: Jan. 20, 1699-1700 sold land to his sister Hannah)
3. Samuel, b. 1652-56, probably:
4. David, b. 1654-60, probably.

Probably he also had issue:

5. Jonathan (see notes)

6. Benjamin (note: Jan 20, 1699-1700 sold land to his sister Hannah)

7. Hannah, m. Thomas Robinson.

Notes on Jonathan:

1. No mention of Jonathan in author's later book The Ancestors and Descendants of Isaac Horton of Liberty, N.Y. published forty years later - per Dinan page 278^[2]

2. Bolton's History of Westchester Co., N. Y.: "Jonathan has been placed as a son of Joseph because of Mr. Bolton's quoted statement, that in 1694 two men 'were chosen to lay out the land at the White Plains granted to Jonathan Horton by the town of Rye.' The date of this item makes Jonathan a contemporary of Samuel and David and seems quite certainly to place him in the third generation, though no writer about the family has given Joseph a son Jonathan."

Note: The book titled The ancestors and descendants of Isaac Horton does not state location other than England for his christening on page 11. However it does give Mowsley, Leicestershire, England for his father's birth place, whose wife Ann Smith's birthplace is given as Stanion, Northampton. That they married in 1622, place not stated. Further this book states that Ann died in England prior to 1640 and that Barnabas re-married to a Mary Unknown.

When Joseph Horton was born in 1625 in Mowsley, Leicestershire, England, his father, Barnabas, was 25 and his mother, Anne, was 25. He had a son with Jane Budd in 1654. ^[7]

Death

Before 13 Jun 1696, at Rye, Westchester, New York when” I, John Horton, son of Joseph Horton, deceased, of Ry” sold property to Charles Booth of Southold.

Joseph was born about 1622. He was the son of Barnabus Horton and Ann Smith.

According to Helen Brundage Fisher, Joseph was b 1625 Eng w Jane Budd moved to Rye.

Sells Home lot to his Father, Barnabas Horton 10 July 1665, Southold, Suffolk, New York "with consent of my wife Jane Horton"^[8]

12th day of June 1696. Know all men that I, John Horton, son of Joseph Horton , Dec'd of Rye in New York...sell unto Charles Booth of Southold a certain parcel of Salt Meadow being on the East Side of Corchaug Neck ... Witness my hand and Seal this 12th day of June 1696.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Horton Genealogy; or, Chronicles of the descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640 by Horton, Geo. F. (George Firman Horton, 1806-1886) https://archive.org/details/hortongenealogyo00hort_0/page/n25
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Dinan, Jacqueline In Search of Barnabas Horton, From English Baker to Long Island Proprietor, 1600-1680 Pynsleade Books, New York. 2015, page 275-278
3. ↑ Bodge, George Madison, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 1906, p. 468
4. ↑ Moore, Charles Benjamin, Town of Southold, Long Island; personal index prior to 1698, and index of 1698. New York: J. Medole, printer, 1868. Pages 22-23. Digital Image
5. ↑ Baird, Charles Washington, Chronicle of a border town : history of Rye, Westchester county, New York, 1660-1870, including Harrison and the White Plains till 1788. New York: A.D.F. Randolph and Company, 1871. Page 404. Digital Image
6. ↑ Early Hortons of Westchester Co., New York compiled by Edson Salisbury Jones, Port Chester, N. Y. in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1905, Volume 36, pages 40-41
7. ↑ The ancestors and descendants of Isaac Horton - PDF - see Isaac Horton & Barnabas Horton available to ancestry.com subscribers
8. ↑ link. SOURCE DETAILS SOUGHT
9. ↑ Southhold Town Records, Vol. ?, Page ?

• Southold Town Records, copied and explanatory notes added by J. Wickham Case, printed by Order of the Towns of Southold and Riverhead, 1884, Published 1989 by Heritage Books, Inc.,Bowie, Maryland. In Two Volumes. (Index not complete) Vol. 1, p. 140
• Southold Town Records, Vol. 2, page 282 - "Know all men by these presents that I, John Horton, son of Joseph Horton deceased, of Ry in New York" https://archive.org/details/southoldtownreco02sout/page/282
• See also FSFTID L7JV-PSF and Ancestral File Number: 9JVP-M8 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MBJ4-CF3 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:93GN-K71
• Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, 1867-1949 of Elmira, New York, USA by Jesse Howell Finch
• Paper written by Helen Brundage Fisher entitled 7 Great Grandparents [for her grandchild], which was enclosed in a larger document entitled Fisher & Brundage for Tova A. Fisher