Horton Genealogy / or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.

Fourth Generation. Joshua I.

I. Joseph, son of Ephraim Horton and Martha Vail (Joshua I.), born in Southold in 1708; married perhaps Deliverance Reeves.

Children, all born in Southold:

1. Joshua, born in 1733; married Asenath Mapes. 2. Benjamin, born 1735; married Anna Horton. 3. Joseph, born 1737; married Mary Hallock. 4. Mary, born 1739. 5. Martha, born 1741; married 6 April, 1769, Recompense Howell. 6. Lydia, died young. 7. Lydia, born 1744; married 13 Feb., 1775, to James Overton. 8. Deliverance, born 1747; she was sent to a wind grist-mill when 11 years old, and venturing too near the wings, she was struck by one of them and fatally injured; she was taken to the house of Joseph Reeves and died the same day.

II. Benjamin, son of Ephraim Horton and Martha Vail, born in Southold, about 1710; married.

Children:

1. Joseph, born 1735. 2. Jeremiah, born 1738. 3. Joshua, born 1740. 4. Eliza, born 1742; married 20 Nov., 1763, Josiah Gibbs.

III. Jeremiah, son of Ephraim Horton and Martha Vail, born in Southold, about 1712; married.

Children:

1. Joshua, born in 1747. 2. Justus, born in 1749. 3. Joseph, born 1757. 4. John, born in 1760; married and settled in Rhode Island, and had John, Benjamin and Joseph.

VII. Simon Grover, son of Joshua Horton and Eliza Grover (Joshua I.), born in Southold, 30 March, 1711.

"He graduated at Yale College in 1731; was bred a Congregationalist, but he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Connecticut Farms, L. I., between Sept., 1734 and Sept., 1735. In 1746 he accepted a call to Newtown, L. I., where he labored until 1772, when he resigned and remained in retirement till his decease, 8 May, 1786, at the residence of his son-in-law, Judge Benjamin Coe. He was a man of unquestioned purity, and always sustained a good character and standing. He was of middle size and solemn deportment."—Hatfield's History of Elizabeth, N. J.

He was twice married; his first wife, Abigail Howell, died 5 May, 1752, and 7 Jan., 1762, he married Elizabeth Fish, daughter of Samuel Fish, Esq. He had but one child:

Phebe, who married the late Hon. Benjamin Coe.

He was an exile during the Revolutionary War, with his son-in-law, at Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. They returned to Newtown, L. I., in the fall of 1783, and there he died, as stated above. He was a zealous and active Whig, and early espoused the cause of the colonies against the mother country.

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