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Behind a family name lie generations of marriages, children, moves, and memories waiting to be traced.
In Horton Genealogy, Geo. F. Horton gathers the names and relationships of the Horton family into a lasting record. Marriages and children connect one generation to the next. As you follow those connections, a family line becomes a way to see how people move, work, and settle over time.
This is family history in record form, not a story driven by plot. It belongs to a nineteenth-century American tradition of preserving ancestry in print. Names, marriages, and children offer a path through the family’s past, keeping connections between relatives available for later generations to explore.
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- A family in writing See how names, marriages, and children preserve the connections that hold a family history together.
- Paths through the generations Follow relationships across generations and find your way through the branches of the Horton family.
- Lives beyond the names Look beyond individual entries to discover patterns of movement, work, marriage, and settlement.
- The work of remembering Explore why family connections matter to descendants who want to understand where they belong.
- Clues for your search Look for towns, periods, and spellings that may help guide your own family research.
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Readers tracing family trees and lovers of local history, early American settlement, Puritan faith and frontier life will enjoy this genealogy. It also appeals to readers drawn to old letters, wills and the journeys of a surname.
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- A family begins with remembrance
- Barnabas joins a new settlement
- One house holds generations together
- Everyday objects carry family memory
- The family takes pride in work
- The children establish separate branches
- Caleb's descendants move into wider worlds
- Local roots lead to varied callings
- Ordinary work gives the story meaning
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Horton Genealogy
by Geo. F. Horton · 1876
A Puritan carries his own tombstone to Southold, and six generations of his family live in one house.
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Picture a man who carries his own tombstone across the Atlantic. Barnabas Horton, a Puritan from Leicestershire, does exactly that.
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- 99,700 words
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1876by Geo. F. Horton
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Barnabas Horton crosses the sea to Southold
Barnabas Horton opens the family story in America. He was born at the hamlet of Mousely in Leicestershire in 1600. Tradition says he sailed in the middle of the 1630s on the Swallow, a ship commanded by Captain Jeremy Horton.
By 1640 he stands in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife Mary and their two small sons, Joseph and Benjamin. He is one of a company of Puritans. On October 21, 1640, they form a Congregational church. Then they sail for the eastern end of Long Island, the place now called Southold.
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Horton, Geo. F. Horton Genealogy. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/horton-genealogy.
Horton, G. F. (2026). Horton genealogy. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/horton-genealogy (Original work published 1876)
Horton, Geo. F. Horton Genealogy. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/horton-genealogy.
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What is Horton Genealogy about?
It records the descendants of Barnabas Horton, a Puritan who settled Southold, Long Island, in 1640. Entries run generation by generation, with stories, wills, letters and obituaries added along the way.
Who was Barnabas Horton?
He was an English Puritan born at Mousely in Leicestershire. He settled at Southold in 1640, served as a magistrate, built the first timber-framed house at the eastern end of Long Island, and died in 1680 aged eighty.
What is the old castle in Southold?
It is the house Barnabas began in 1659 and 1660, later extended by his son Jonathan. Six generations of Hortons lived and died there, and the author thinks it is probably the oldest wooden house in America.
The author
Geo. F. Horton
American physician and genealogist
George Firman Horton (1806–1886) was an American physician and genealogist who lived in Sheshequin, Pennsylvania. He compiled Horton Genealogy, which was published in Philadelphia in 1876. The book records the family and descendants of Barnabas Horton, who settled in Southold, Long Island, in the seventeenth century.
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