  Children, probably all born in the Old Castle, at Southold: 1. Mary, born 1708; married Edward Mabel; had Moses and others. 2. Eliphaz, born 1710; disappeared mysteriously when 18, never heard of afterwards. 3. Mehitabel, born 1712; married 2 Dec., 1743, to Walter Brown, being his 3d wife. In "New Haven Colonial Records," as furnished by Stuart T. Terry, of Southold, we learn that he was a very prominent man; a merchant, an auctioneer, teacher of a select school, and often drew up legal documents. He also had charge of the church money, and under date of 5 Nov., 1716, he says: "Uncle Joshua Horton came to my house and weighed the church's money, Uncle Wells also being present." To his eldest son, Azariah W., he wills Rawley's History and a small cane, and to his grandson, son of Jonathan Horton, deceased, "my homestead and houses in the first Parish of Southold, also my gun and silver-hilted sword." He gives to the three daughters of his son Lazarus, £15 each; to his grandsons, sons of his son Ambrose, "all the buildings where my son Ambrose now lives—son Ambrose to have the improvement of the land as long as he lives—also the farming implements he hath at Rone Oak." He also makes bequests to his daughter Mary Mabel, and her son Moses. He appoints for his executors "my trusty friend William Horton and my son Joseph Cleveland." Will signed 3 Oct., 1764. We have no other record of Joseph Cleveland. Jonathan Goldsmith Horton, as quoted by Stuart T. Terry, says of him in his epitaph: "Intombed beneath this ponderous load Lies the man who loved and feared the Lord; A husband dear, a father ever kind, To the poor a close and constant friend: Sober, blameless, to charity inclined, Meriting well of all he left behind." He died 16 May, 1762; Anna, his wife, died 8 March, 1783. Both buried in Southold Cemetery. Children, all born in Southold: 1. James, born 1718; married, and had an only child, James, Jr., who died without issue. |
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