Leo, thank you for sending me copies of he material on your branch of the family. Very interesting. Barbara B. -----Original Message----- From: Leo K. Barton <lbarton@wizzards.net> To: BARTON-L@rootsweb.com <BARTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] Bartons in NY and MA >Dear Barbara >Below is a copy from a Paul Barton web site click on it and it will take you there. >http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~pwbarton/barton/i0000097.htm#s1 >As you can see the Edward Barton moved around and on some Genealogy pages they refer to the Barton's >being from different parts of New England. Hope this helps. Leo > >First Generation > >1. Edward1 Barton was born circa 1620. Edward died June 1671 in Cape Porpoise, York, ME, at 50 years of >age.(1) > >He married Elizabeth 1639 in Marblehead, MA.(2) (Additional notes for Elizabeth(3)) Elizabeth died after >1671/1672. > >In 1671 Elizabeth the widow of Edward, along with Griffin Montegue, gave bonds for L200 as security for >Edwards estate >which was valued at L81 with the house, lands and marsh valued at L40. > >Edward is the founder of our branch of the Barton family in America. His origins are unknown at this >writing but he was >established at Portsmouth, NH by 1646 when in August of that year Reynold Fernald was granted four acres >of marsh at the >great house at Little Harbor, on the Piscataqua and his grant mentions that he was bounded on the east by >goodman Barton. He >served in 1650 at Portsmouth as a trial juryman and in 1651 was brought to court for beating his wife. He >received additional >grants of land at Portsmouth in 1652 and 1653 and served as a grand juryman in 1656 and as a coroner's >juryman in 1657, the >same year in which he took the oath of fidelity at Exeter, NH to the Massachussetts Bay government. At >the town meeting of >March 20, 1656 James Johnson, William Seavey and Anthony Bracket were directed to settle a land dispute >between Edward >and Nicholas Row. In June of 1656, at Portsmouth, Susannah Trimmings, wife of Oliver Trimmings of Little >Harbor, >complained that she had been bewitched by Jane Walford, wife of Thomas Walford, formerly the first >settler of Charlestown >and among the witnesses was Eliza Barton, Edward's wife who testified to Susannah's unusual physical >appearance. At the town >meetings between 1658 and 1666 he was among those who subscribed to the minister's salary in the amount >of 15 shillings. >Probably about 1666 Edward moved from Portsmouth to Cape Porpoise, ME and settled on a farm of about 300 >acres which >he bought from Anthony Littlefield. The move may have been occasioned by Edward being a loyalist to MA. >The Maine farm >was situated on Montague's Neck bounded by the sea, Cape Porpoise River and Montegue River. Indian >troubles forced >Edward, his wife and family to abandon the Cape Porpoise farm for safe haven at Salem where he purchased >a house and land >which later were exchanged for a house and lands at Marblehead. His estate with the house, lands and >marsh at Cape Porpoise >and other property was valued at £ 81. > >Edward Barton and Elizabeth had the following children: > > + 2 i. William2 Barton. > > 3 ii. Benjaman Barton. > >He was at Kennebec in 1672 when Ruth Berry claimed land to the East of his. > > 4 iii. Joshua Barton. > > + 5 iv. Matthew Barton was born circa 1640. > > 6 v. Edward Barton was born circa 1647. > >In 1672 Edward and brother Benjamin (see below) Barton were among the petitioners at Cape Newagen, ME to >the >Massachussetts Bay Goverment for protection; and in 1674 Edward took the oath of fidelity both at >Pemiquid and at Salem. >He was a soldier in King Phillips war and was mentioned as being at the garrison at Mendon, now in >Worcester County. In >1674 the General Court ordered that he be allowed to "keep a house of public entertainment and to retail >beere, wyne and >liquers at Cape Bonewagon in Boothbay Southport. He was jailed in Boston for resisting the draft for a >Maine expedition and >filed a suit there in 1682. > > 7 vi. Elisha Barton was born circa 1655. Elisha died after 1688/1689 in Kittery, York, ME. He married >Mary Crockett. >Mary was the daughter of Thomas Crockett and Ann Lynn Gunnison. > >Elisha and Ephriam Crockett registered an agreement at the Court of Sessions 28 October 1684 in York >whereby for the sum >of 12 pounds Elisha discharges his wife's right to her father's estate. The sum was payable over three >years at 4 pounds a year. > > + 8 vii. Mary Barton was born circa 1657. > > >Brassell wrote: > >> Have any of you researched the 17th Century Bartns of MD and VA? No link? >> Barbara B. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Leo K. Barton <lbarton@wizzards.net> >> To: BARTON-L@rootsweb.com <BARTON-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 3:38 PM >> Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] Bartons in NY and MA >> >> > >> >Dear Sheila >> >You have some very good info,so don't give up. We just need to connect the >> dots. >> >Here is a link to the passenger list of the ship " Fortune " that landed in >> >Plymouth in 1621. The Master of the ship is named Thomas Barton. Click >> here or >> >go to: http://istg.rootsweb.com/v2/1600v2/fortune16211109.html >> >So far it is unknown whether or not this Thomas Barton has any link to our >> Edward >> >of 1620,but it would be nice to find what line of Barton' he is linked to. >> We >> >hope someone out their can help the rest of us. Thank you very much for >> >responding .......................Leo >> > >> >Sheila328@aol.com wrote: >> > >> >> Thank you to all those who responded, even third-hand--I really seem to >> have >> >> triggered something. But I think I am still left with more questions >> that I >> >> started with. >> >> >> >> Betsey (Perra?) has the original Barton settler coming from Holland to >> New >> >> Amsterdam, with four brothers, three of whom stayed. One of these was >> Roger? >> >> Then Leo Barton cites the Alvin Barton text that suggests the Bartons >> >> originated in Wales (at least there are still four brothers). We won't >> even >> >> get into the discussion whether Barton is an Irish name. My family >> thought >> >> it was English. >> >> >> >> Someone else suggested my Daniel was descended from Roger. Does anyone >> have >> >> any detail on that line? I have access to the IGI, but I'm still not >> sure >> >> which Daniel I'm supposed to be following--and did he have a brother >> William? >> >> Dorothy Muirhead suggested that my Daniel was the son of Peter Barton. >> But >> >> that line leads back to Edward (Edward1, Matthew2, Benjamin3, Joseph4, >> >> Caleb5, Peter6, Peter Jr.7, then Daniel and William?) >> >> >> >> And, to go back to my original question, are there any descendants of >> Mary >> >> Anne, Robert Loveland, William F., Charles B, Willard Allen, Henry Byron, >> or >> >> Daniel Moody Barton lurking out there? I did check all the middle names >> >> against the Barton Index and found none of them. >> >> >> >> My family did pass on a number of stories, but I have a sneaking feeling >> they >> >> tended to get mixed up over time. The reference to the slightly murky >> >> background of the Barton side of the family was attached to an early >> ship's >> >> captain who was reputed to have a wife in England and in the colonies >> >> (presumably the English one came first)--but the name my family >> associated >> >> with that little myth turns out to have been a military captain (no >> ship), >> >> and have a clean record. So was it a Barton story? >> >> >> >> All suggestions welcome. >> >> >> >> Sheila Connolly >> >> >> >> P.S. I have a lovely photo of Silas Abbott Barton, in case anyone wants >> to >> >> compare features. >> >> >> >> ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== >> >> All messages posted to this mailing list are the property of their >> writers. >> >> Please obtain permission from all parties before forwarding or publishing >> >> any message from this list. >> > >> > >> >==== BARTON Mailing List ==== >> >Please visit the surname mailing list homepage at: >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/barton.html >> >for information on this list, it's member's pages, queries and other >> helpful genealogy pages. >> > >> >> ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== >> Please visit the surname mailing list homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/barton.html >> for information on this list, it's member's pages, queries and other helpful genealogy pages. > > >==== BARTON Mailing List ==== >All messages posted to this mailing list are the property of their writers. >Please obtain permission from all parties before forwarding or publishing >any message from this list. >