Simeon Horton (1749 - bef. 1795)

Born 1749 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

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Biography

Simeon was born in about 1749 probably in Swansea, Massachusetts, the son of Moses Horton and Rebeckah Church.^[1]

Simeon passed away sometime between 1790 and 1795, since he was enumerated at Barrington in the 1790 US federal census, but was recorded as deceased when his father's estate was distributed on 28 November 1795.^[1]

Research Notes

Simeon's father was a boatman of Newport, Rhode Island in 1747 when he bought land in Swansea from Nicholas Thomas. The births of Simeon's younger siblings were recorded at Swansea starting in 1752, so it seems probably that the family moved shortly after 1747 and that Simeon was also born at Swansea.

Simeon appears as head of household in Barrington in the 1774 census of Rhode Island^[2]. His household distribution and inferred attributions are

• one white male over 16: Simeon
• one white male under 16: unknown
• one white female over 16: unknown
• two white females under 16: unknown

In the 1790 federal census, Simeon is head of a household at Barrington with the distribution:

• two males over 16
• four males under 16
• two females

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mayflower Families, Richard Warren v.18 part 2, page 291
2. ↑ 1774 Census

• Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Silver Books, Volume Eighteen, Part 2, The Descendants of Richard Warren Through His Children Mary, Anna, and Elizabeth, 2011 Edition, Published 2016.

Censuses

• 1774 Rhode Island Census, Barrington, Page 2, Entry 23 -- Simeon Horton; citing transcription by Annie Austin in Rhode Island Roots 33 p.91, June 2007.

• 1790 federal census -- "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYY1-SSDN?cc=1803959&wc=3XT9-M26%3A1584071118%2C1584070714%2C1584071128 : 21 May 2015), Rhode Island > Bristol > Barrington > image 1 of 3; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).