Benjamin Horton (abt. 1627 - 1690)

Born about 1627 in Mowsley, Leicestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Unknown) Horton — married 22 Feb 1659 (to about 1685) in Southold, Long Island, New York

Died 3 Nov 1690 at about age 63 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

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Note: There was more than one Benjamin Horton at Southold in this time period.

(1)Benjamin Horton-6298; dod 1723; m. Ann Budd; at least 2 children.

(2)This profile: Benjamin Horton-193; dod 1690; m. Ann Tucker, widow ; no children.

Take care, do not conflate them.

Biography

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

Benjamin, the second son of Barnabas Horton and Ann (Smith) Horton was born in 1627 in Mosley, Leicestershire, England.^[1][2]He was baptized in Mowsley, on September 16, 1627.^[2]He was baptized on September 16, 1627 at Mowsley.^[3]

He married (1st) Ann, widow of Mr. Tucker, on February 22, 1659/60 in Southold, New York.^[2][4][5]She died between 1683 and 1686.^[2]They had no known children.^[2]

He married (2nd) Mary (Hampton) Mapham,^[2][6]who died after 1712.^[2] They had no known children.^[2]In his will he gave his wife’s clothes to his sisters. They were his first wife's clothes as his second wife, Mary (Hampton) Mappom Horton was still alive and living with her daughter Abigail and her husband Charles Booth 0n the 1698 census.

Benjamin was a wealthy farmer who did not serve in public office.^[2]

He made his will on 19 Feb. 1686 and died on 3 Nov. 1690 in Rye, New York.^[1]In his will, Benjamin left the bulk of his estate to his siblings, the church, and the poor.^[2]. [1]

Benjamin Horton died November 3, 1690.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Adaline Horton White - The Hortons in America : being a corrected reprint of the 1876 work by Dr. Geo. F. Horton ..., with the history and some lines. Seattle. 1929. Page. 1. Available at Ancestry.com.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} Dinan, Jacqueline. "In Search of Barnabas Horton" Pynsleade Books, New York. 2015. pp 278, 279.
3. ↑ Dinan 2015 p. 278
4. ↑ Southold Town Records copied and Explanatory Notes added by J. Wickham Case Vol. 1, printed by order of the Towns of Southold and Riverhead, 1882, Vol. 1, (Liber B, p. 117) p. 465: 1659—Benjamin Horton & Ann the widdw of Mr Tucker deceased were married 22d ffebruy 1659.HathiTrust.org
5. ↑ Torrey."New England Marriages to 1700." (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (Marriage of Benjamin Horton andthe widow Ann Tucker.
6. ↑ Torrey."New England Marriages to 1700." (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (Marriage of Benjamin Horton and Mary Mapham).

* southold Town Records, V 1, p,.465 (widow Ann Tucker)

• Long Island Source Records, p. 153
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• Pelletreau, William. Early Long Island Wills of Suffolk County, 1691-1703 (Francis P. Harper, New York, 1897) Page 23-4
• Dinan, Jacqueline. "In Search of Barnabas Horton" Pynsleade Books, New York. 2015. pp 278, 279.
• Horton, George Firman. Horton Genealogy (Home Circle Pub. Co., Philadelphia, 1876)
• Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, 1867-1949 of Elmira, New York, USA. by Jesse Howell Finch
• Torrey."New England Marriages to 1700." (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (Marriage of Benjamin Horton and Ann Tucker.)see at American Ancestors
• Torrey."New England Marriages to 1700." (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (Marriage of Benjamin Horton and Mary Mapham).see at American Ancestors
• 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. F[isher]