Nathaniel Norton (abt. 1639 - 1685)

Born about May 1639 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 7 Nov 1685 at about age 46 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York

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Biography

Nathaniel , son of George Norton and Mary (birth surname unknown) was baptized in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 19 third month (May) 1639.^[1]

Nathaniel and Mary Mills (daughter of Richard Mills) were married in 1664.^[2]

The 1684 will of Nathaniel Norton of Brookhaven names his "beloved wife Mary" and their unmarried children.^[3]

1. Isaac (eldest son)
2. Nathaniel (one of his "eldest sons")
3. George (one of his younger sons)
4. Jonathan (one of his younger sons)
5. Mary (eldest daughter)
6. Sarah
7. Hannah

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Salem Births, page 113. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/41254_265598-00649?pid=80665834
2. ↑ Ullman, Helen Schatvet. "Richard Mills, Seventeenth-Century Schoolmaster in Connecticut and New York," The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000), volume 154, page 204. Indexed by Ancestry.
3. ↑ "Will of Nathaniel Norton 1684 Brookhaven, NY". Transcription, https://web.archive.org/web/20160402055547/http://www.nortonfamily.net/ny-nathaniel-brookhaven.htm

See also

• Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. Richard Mills, seventeenth-Century Schoolmaster in Connecticut and New York, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 204.

• "In 1662 Nathaniel was still in Salem, but moved to Brookhaven, Long Island, by 1668 when he purchased the homestead of Captain John Platt there."