John Houston (1668 - 1739)

Born 2 Feb 1668 in Pocomoke, Somerset, Maryland

Descendants

Died 1739 at about age 70 in Somerset, Maryland

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Biography

Name: John Houston was born in Pocomoke, Somerset, Maryland, on 2 February 1668. ^[1]

He may have been married to Grace Benson

He lived in Cattle Marks, Somerset, Maryland in 1678.^[2]

He died in 1739 in Somerset, Maryland^[3]

He owned property in Maryland that later became part of Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware. Some of the land passed to a grandson named Leonard, who was not the child of Robert Houston.

Research Notes

Gedcom import data shows 1668 marriage to Grace Benson in Carteret, NJ. This is impossible for this profile, who would have been a child. Possibly belongs to a different John Houston, a relatively common name.

Need to find other son who was the father of Leonard Houston.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S0044 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Robert H Houston
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Maryland, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
3. ↑ Source: #S0044 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Robert H Houston

• Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original source: Delaware, Land Records, 1677–1947. Recorder of Deeds, Sussex County, RG 4555, Subgroup 000, Series 030. Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware.

Sussex county: Roll 006: Image 42 [1]

Purchaser: Robert Houston, Esq.

Seller: Leonard Houston, farmer

Date: 4 August 1784 “in the Ninth year of American Independence”

Price £129 ; Property: 200 acres part of a tract called Round Pond in Broad Creek hundred, which contains 860 acres together

Land came to Leonard by his grandfather John Houston in his last will and testament

• Source: S0044 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R0002 Data Changed: Date: 23 AUG 2013 Time: 11:38:16. Repository: R0002 Name: www.ancestry.com.

• "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1600–1995."

• "Ancestry Family Trees," Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry tree link subscription required to view tree.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sheri Lavadour for creating WikiTree profile Huston-517 through the import of Burbank-Carson Family Tree.ged on Dec 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Sheri and others.

Thank you to Jeff Kazules for creating WikiTree profile Houston-754 through the import of Jeff_Kazules_Ancestors_20130823.ged on Aug 23, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jeff and others.