Jemima Hughson died 3 Oct., 1842. Her husband survived her six years. The children nearly all had families. Phineas had Elizabeth, Emeline, Theodore, Sarah, Mary, John and Lura; Julia married a Leek; Lydia married a Messler.

IV. Col. Nathan, son of Capt. Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case, born in Chester, N. J., 25 Feb., 1757; married in New York City, 10 July, 1783, to Elizabeth Eagles, daughter of John Eagles and Hannah ——, and born in the city of New York, 1 Dec., 1766. They moved to North Carolina about 1785, and settled on New River, then Wilkes, now Watauga Co., N. C.

Children, probably, all born at New River, except—

Col. Nathan Horton was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was on guard at the hanging of Major Andre. The gun which he then carried has been carefully preserved, and is now in the possession of his grandsons, who live near Elkville, Wilkes Co., N. C.

The Colonel was a farmer, a prominent man and for many years a Colonel of a regiment of militia of his county. He represented the county of Ashe in the Legislature in 1800–1–2. He was one of the first settlers in the county, and became wealthy in lands and other property. He died at his residence on New River, 22 July, 1824, and there his wife also died, 19 May, 1854.

V. Bethia, daughter of Capt. Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case, born in Chester, N. J., about 1759; married Caleb Terry, of Chester.

Children, probably, all born in Chester:

VI. Sarah, daughter of Capt. Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case, born in Chester, N. J., about 1761; married Daniel Sweazy.

Children, probably, all born in Chester:

VII. Zephaniah, son of Capt. Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case, born in Chester, N. J., 13 Nov., 1760; went to North Carolina when a young man, soon returned to Chester, and 25 March, 1788, married Jane McCurry, daughter of Malcolm McCurry, Esq., of Chester, and soon afterwards moved to Wilkes Co., N. C., and thence in 1793, to Burke Co., and thence to Tennessee, where he remained only a short time, and then returned to North Carolina, and settled in Buncomb, now Yancey Co., where he lived, and where, 5 April, 1844, he died. He was a magistrate for many years, and also represented Buncomb Co. in the Legislature, in 1810–1812, and 1815.

On the day he was seventy years old he had his funeral sermon preached by Rev. Goodson McDaniel, of the Holston Conference. His wife died at her residence, 13 August, 1857. Her father was born on the Island of Ila, Highlands, Scotland. He was kidnapped when a small boy and brought to New Jersey, where he obtained a good education, became a lawyer, and practiced law at Morristown, N. J.

Children, 1. and 2. were born in Wilkes Co.; 3. born in Burke Co., and the rest in Buncomb Co., N. C.:

VIII. Phineas, son of Capt. Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case, born in Chester, N. J., 17 Feb., 1774; married 1. 19 Oct., 1797, to Bethia Luce (Lewis), she died 20 August, 1809. He married 2. the widow Esther Horton, daughter of Daniel Horton, and widow of Silas Horton.

Children, all born in Chester, 1, 2, 3, 4, by first wife; 5 and 6 by 2d wife:

Phineas Horton died 8 Feb., 1857. Esther is still (1874) living, resides at the homestead with her son Daniel.

I. Barnabas, son of Barnabas Horton and Abigail Parshall (Barnabas, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Goshen, N. Y., about 1747; married 1. 8 Nov., 1767, to Abigail Dickerson, she died about 1777, he married 2. Rachel Bostwick.

Children, all born in Goshen, exact order of births not known:

I. Samuel, son of Richard Horton and Elizabeth Harrison (Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Radnor, Delaware Co., Pa., about 1752. He moved to Huntingdon Co., Pa., married and raised a large family, but no family record has been found. He was a blacksmith, and had the reputation of being a first-class workman.

II. Nathan, son of Richard Horton and Elizabeth Harrison, born in Radnor about 1754. He settled in Huntingdon Co., Pa., and was a blacksmith by occupation, a very skillful workman, and a man of good character and standing. He married Rebecca Priest, and lived in West Chester for a short time before he went to Huntingdon.

Children:

V. John, son of Richard Horton and Elizabeth Harrison, born in Radnor in 1762; married Elizabeth Thomas.

Children, all born in Newtown, Chester Co., Pa.:

I. Lieut. John, son of Jonathan Horton and Bethia Horton (Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born in Southold, L. I., 1753; went in early life to Chester, N. J., and thence to Wyoming Valley, where about 1782, he married Mary De La Montagnye, daughter of John De La Montagnye. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was a Lieutenant at the battle of Wyoming, July, 1778. He and his wife both died in Wyoming.

Children, all born in Wyoming:

I. Silas, son of Silas Horton and Experience Vail (Barnabas, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Goshen, 24 Aug., 1756; married about 1777, Mary Danes. Settled in Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y. He died 25 Dec., 1816.

Silas, though young, like his father, was truly patriotic, and signed the Pledge of Independence for the Colonies in 1775.

Children, probably all born in Wallkill:

This family were all dead in 1873, except Mehala.

IV. Matthias, son of Silas Horton and Experience Vail, born in Goshen, in 1765; married about 1800, Sarah Rumsey, born in Goshen, about 1765.

Children, probably all born in Goshen:

Matthias Horton died 1815; his wife in 1842.

V. Elihu, son of Silas Horton and Experience Vail, born 1758; married, about 1779, Hannah Coleman. He was a zealous Whig in Revolutionary times, and signed the Pledge of Independence for the Colonies in 1775.

Children, probably born in Goshen:

VI. Barnabas, son of Silas Horton and Experience Vail, born in Goshen, 30 June, 1770 (Mrs. Lee says 3 Jan.); married in 1794, Milicent Howell, of Southampton, L. I., born 18 Sept., 1770; died 13 Jan., 1849. He died 24 Oct., 1823, both in Minnisink.

Children:

XI. Abigail, daughter of Silas Horton and Experience Vail, born in Goshen, in 1773; married in Goshen, in 1794, Capt. Daniel Stringham, born in Wallkill, N. Y., in 1765. They moved to the State of Indiana in 1816. He died in 1841. She died in 1842.

Children, all born in Middletown, N. Y.:

X. Hannah, daughter of Silas Horton and Experience Vail, born in Goshen, about 1770; married in 1790, Isaiah Vail, Jr. Settled in Goshen.

Children, probably all born in Goshen:

I. Israel, Jr., first son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee (Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born in Cutchogue, Southold, 23 Sept., 1756. He died at Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., 22 July, 1813. She died Jan., 1842. He moved with his father from Southold to Goshen, N. Y., in 1762. At the death of his father he was about 15 years old, and he being the oldest of the family, remained with his mother, and assisted in taking care of the family. On the 23 Feb., 1780, he married Anna Van Devort; she was the daughter of Thomas Van Devort, and was born in Orange Co., N. Y., 29 Nov., 1763. He removed from Orange County to Owego, N. Y., about 1801 or 1802, and in 1816 from Owego to Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., where he settled permanently, and spent the remainder of his days. They were pious people and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Children:

II. Jason, son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born at Cutchogue, Southold, L. I., 18 Dec., 1758; married in 1783, to Mary Terry, daughter of Uriah Terry and Abigail Cleveland, and born in Southold, L. I., in 1760. He was a clothier by trade, served his apprenticeship in Chester, and then settled for a short time at Boskenridge,—it is now Basking Ridge,—New Jersey, and then moved to Somerville, New Jersey, where he settled permanently and where he died. He was one of the most pious and exemplary men that ever lived, a zealous, active, intelligent Presbyterian. He was a very strict observer of the Sabbath, and violation of it by his neighbors always gave him great displeasure. Observing one of his neighbors frequently chopping firewood on the Sabbath, he went one Saturday afternoon and took his neighbor a load of wood prepared for the fire, telling him it was to save him the trouble of chopping his firewood on the Sabbath. His neighbor took it kindly, and was careful afterwards to see that his fuel was all ready beforehand for the Sabbath. It was a common remark of one of the most reckless men of Somerville, that "If all professors of religion would live like Old Jason Horton, he would believe there was some reality in religion."

Jason Horton never failed to exert a strong influence for the Christian religion as long as he lived. And his wife also was a true help-meet for him in this regard, possessing genuine piety and Christian activity. She died at Somerville, on Sabbath morning at 5 o'clock, 22 Aug., 1841.

Children:

These children were all members of the Presbyterian Church, except Elizabeth, who is a member of the M. E. Church.

III. Jeremiah, son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born at Cutchogue, L. I., 24 Oct., 1759. He lived with his grandfather Lee on Long Island, until he was sixteen years old, and then came to Orange Co. On the 16th of Jan., 1783, he married Mary Goldsmith. One of his hips was injured by sciatic rheumatism in early life, causing him to be a cripple all his days. He was a stone-mason and farmer, and notwithstanding he was lame, he still performed a great amount of manual labor. He was a man of good judgment, and a Justice of the Peace for many years, and was a man greatly beloved and respected in the community. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church. They settled in Blooming Grove, about a mile and a quarter south of the present village of Washingtonville, and he built, mostly with his own hands, the venerable old stone mansion now occupied by the widow and family of his only son Benjamin G. Horton. Jeremiah Horton died 17 Sept., 1841. His wife died 10 June, 1833.

Children, all born in Blooming Grove:

IV. Eunice, daughter of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born at Southold in 1761; married George Howell. They moved from Orange Co., in early life, and settled at Peach Orchard, Seneca Co., N. Y.

Children:

V. Maj. John, son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born in Goshen, 30 July, 1763. He married in Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y., 9 April, 1785, Deborah Terry, daughter of Parshall Terry and Deborah Clark, born in Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y., on the 25 day of May, 1766. She was one of the inmates of the famed Forty Fort the night after the Indian battle and massacre of Wyoming. She was the tender and affectionate mother of eleven children, and raised them all to maturity. They moved to Wyoming Valley in 1787, and in 1792 moved to Terrytown, Pa., where he bought land and settled permanently, and where he died on the 28th day of April, 1848, aged almost 85 years, and where she died on the 25th day of May, 1844, aged 78 years.

Major Horton built the first framed dwelling-house on the west side of the river in the township of then Wyalusing, now Terry. He was the owner of the first two-horse wagon ever brought into Terrytown, and that wagon not only cheerfully bore the burdens he put upon it, but also those of several of the neighbors. He also owned the first fanning mill ever brought into the place. He built the first frame barn that was ever built in the township. It was built in 1805, and is still in a good state of preservation, and is owned by Edmund Horton.

The framed house mentioned above, built by Major Horton in 1806, accidentally took fire on the 23 Sept., 1861, and was burned up. Major Horton was a wagoner in the Revolutionary War, towards the close of the war, and was stationed in Mamakating Hollow, and afterwards on the Neversink Creek, not far from the present Port Jervis. He was Major of a battalion of militia in Wyalusing, frequently held township offices, and was one of the leading men of the place. He was not a public professor of Christianity, but his life in the main was in harmony with its teachings, and he loved, and was successful, in promoting good order in society. He was universally esteemed, and at his funeral a larger concourse of people were gathered than had ever before been witnessed in this part of the country on a funeral occasion. Deborah, his wife, was a woman distinguished for her eminent piety, unwearied industry, and good economy; she knew well how to guide the house. Their children were all born at Terrytown, except Ebenezer, who was born in Little Britain, N. Y., and Anna and Lydia, who were born in Wyoming Valley.

Children:

VI. Joseph Lee, son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born in Goshen, N. Y., 27 April, 1765; married in Sugar Loaf, N. Y., 27 Feb., 1791, to Hannah Todd, daughter of Joseph Todd, of Sugar Loaf, and born there on the 31 Aug., 1771. He died in Palmyra, 10 July, 1831. She died at the same place on 9 Aug., 1827.

He moved from Goshen, N. Y., soon after he was married, to Owego, N. Y., where he remained until 1803, and he then removed to Palmyra, N. Y., and took up land and settled about four miles north of the village, where Mrs. Sarah Durfee, one of his daughters, now resides.

Joseph L. Horton and his wife were very pious people, both worthy members of the Baptist Church, beloved and respected in the community. He was a farmer and shoemaker. He had feeble health for several years before his death, wasting away gradually by consumption. He was a very patient and industrious man, and towards the close of his life, suffering from the ravages of disease, and much enfeebled, he would still work at his occupation, making sometimes one shoe in a day, and at others only half a one, according as he had strength and breath. His end was peace.

Children:

VII. Mary, daughter of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born near Goshen, N. Y., about 1767; married John Clark. Settled in Spencer, N. Y.

Children:

VIII. Samuel, son of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, born in the township of Goshen, N. Y., in the year 1770. He was a master builder in the city of New York, when quite a young man. He was said to possess a mind peculiarly adapted to mechanical pursuits, and he engaged in them before his majority. When about 23 years of age, he took the small-pox, in New York, went home to his father's, in Orange County, where he died in a few days.

IX. Benjamin, youngest child of Lieut. Israel Horton and Sarah Lee, was born at Sugar Loaf, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1772. He was married in Belvale, Orange Co., N. Y., 29 Jan., 1795, by the Rev. Mr. Stevens, to Hannah Vance. She was born in Belvale, N. Y., 28 March, 1777. He bought a farm and settled there, but by indorsing for a friend, he lost his farm and all that he had. He then, about 1822, removed to New York, and entered largely into the business of a master builder. In 1834 he moved to Milan, Ohio, where, on the 18th Feb., 1856, he died, of congestion of the lungs. His wife died at the same place, 25 June, 1860. He and his wife were both members of the M. E. Church.

Children:

I. Elijah, son of Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy (Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Chester, N. J., 19 Dec., 1756; married 19 Dec., 1780, Mary ——, born in Roxbury, N. J., April, 1752; died 17 Dec., 1790, leaving two children, Anna and Betsy, who married and settled in Canada. He married 2. about 1793, Mehitabel Ruth Coleman, of Goshen, N. Y., and had:

Elijah Horton was a man of correct moral deportment, and a valuable citizen. He died 29 August, 1799; buried in Chester Cemetery.

II. Barnabas, son of Elijah Horton and Elizabeth Sweazy, born in Chester, 27 Sept., 1759; married 1783, Elizabeth Coleman. He died 6 Dec., 1800. She died 26 Jan., 1831. Both buried in Chester Cemetery.

Children, born at Chester:

III. Silas, son of Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy, born in Chester, 17 July, 1764; married 1. Susan Corwin, who died 9 July, 1790, leaving Lydia Corwin Horton, who married Isaac H. Corwin, and died in 1816, childless. He married 2. Mary Kelsey, born in Goshen, 26 Jan., 1770; died 21 Dec., 1803, without issue. He married 3. Esther Horton, daughter of Dea. Nathaniel Horton, and had

On the tombstone of Silas, we find: "Filled the measure of his days with usefulness, and departed this life 10 Dec., 1842. He was a consistent member of the Congregational Church for 55 years, and the loss caused by his death can only be estimated by those who knew him. One of his last bequests was $3,200, secured by bond and mortgage, and the interest to be appropriated annually to the support of the elected Congregational minister of the first Congregational Church of Chester."

Esther, his 3d wife, died 5 Feb., 1852, aged 70.

Jonathan Bani, son of Barnabas Horton and Mary Tuthill (Jonathan, Jonathan, Caleb I.), born at Southold, 14 March, 1794; married 1. 20 May, 1815, by Rev. L. Thompson, to Deborah Osborn. She died in 1833, leaving children, as follows, all born in Southold:

Jonathan Bani married 2. in 1838, Jerusha Edwards, she died, and he married 3. Jerusha Peorney, she died, and he married 4. Hannah Blonvette, she died in 1870; he died in New York, 19 Feb., 1871, and was buried at Cutchogue, L. I. Mr. Horton was emphatically a servant of God. We here re-produce a portion of his obituary, which appeared in the Presbyterian, of Philadelphia, shortly after his decease:

"Mr. Horton has been for forty years the indefatigable and successful Tract Missionary of the Seventh Ward, New York City. When he first assumed the important task of laboring for the spiritual interests of this portion of the city, it was known as one of the most wicked and wretched wards. The 'Sailor Boarding-houses' of olden times, with their numerous 'land-sharks,' and temptations to sinful indulgence, swarmed here.... In process of time, the greater part of this territory was occupied by dwellings of opulent merchants. Then after another period of years, a new generation found the older inhabitants of the Seventh Ward crowded out, and their former homes became filled with a population of the dregs of old country emigrants, or gave place to shops and manufactories. Mr. Horton adapted himself and modified his work to meet these successive changes, and calling to his help a faithful band of distributors, teachers and visitors, made a Christian influence to be felt, increasing its power by every available means. A great multitude of conversions from year to year were the result of his faithful labors. Admonished by the approach of old age, he resigned his position as missionary, made all arrangements as to his worldly affairs, wrote farewell letters, and quietly looked forward to the close of his earthly career."