[Ancestor] Horton

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Husband [Ancestor] Horton

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1 M Abraham Horton ¹

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           Born: 16 May 1825 1
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         Spouse: Hannah Crouch (1834-1875) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Horton

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The word Horton in the Anglo-Saxon language means an enclosure or garden of vegetables. It is said to be a compound derived from ort and tun, ort meaning plant, and tun, enclosed. The Hortons of England and their descendants in America have generally been cultivators of the soil. They have been almost universally in the middle class of society and it is not known that any royal blood has ever coursed in their veins. They are and have always been producers rather than consumers, and for industry, integrity and piety they will lose nothing in comparison with the renowned of the earth, either in the new or in the old world.
The family bearing the name that emigrated to this country, of whom we have any authentic record, came over from England during the years from 1633 to 1638. Thomas, Jeremiah and Barnabas were among the early immigrants, and old tradition says they were brothers. Thomas came over in the "Mary and John" in 1633, and settled permanently in Springfield, Massachusetts. Jeremiah also settled in Massachusetts. There was a John Horton in New York in 1645, but no one has been found claiming descent from him. He probably returned to England. It is not known from what place in England either Thomas or Joseph came, nor is there any certain evidence that they were brothers of Barnabas, but the fact of the three of them coming at the same time would favor the tradition that they were brothers. The name in olden time was fre-quently written Orton, and it is highly probable that the Ortons and Hortons bear what was originally the same name and perhaps also the Nortons. The antiquity of the Horton family is established by the fact that one, Robert de Horton, manumitted a bondsman to his manor of Horton, long before the time of Henry Larey, Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310. It is also mentioned that the Hortons had a manor house in Great Horton, with a mill and certain demense lands therewith, belonging to a very remote period.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 409.