Ed, McCracken wrote that there is no evidence that Roger was a brother of Rufus and/or Marmaduke. Dr. Joshua Lindley Barton wrote, "The Descendants of Solomon Barton of Dutchess County, New York, and Monkton, Vermont," published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1928. Solomon Barton is a descendant of Roger Barton of Westchester County, and this piece is mentioned in McCracken's article. Dr. Joshua Lindley Barton wrote the following in his 1928 article. "It has been stated that the original ancestor in America of Solomon Barton was Edward Barton, a sea-captain, who brought his family from England and settled in the Barbadoes Islands. No printed record of this has been located, although it is said to exist in the Barbadoes. The same uncertain source is responsible for the statement that two sons of Edward, namely Roger and Rufus came to the Island of Manhattan about 1641 from Barbadoes. Rufus, very shortly afterwards went into the English colony at Providence, R.I., and was the founder of the Barton family of that section. Roger settled amongst the Dutch and in August, 1642, leased land of the Reverend Everardus Bogardus, ..." Thus the Solomon Barton article presents the story as heresay without any documentary evidence. From 1928 to 1952 no one found any evidence to support that, for McCracken wrote in the July 1952 issue: "Pending completion of investigations now in progress or in prospect, it would be dangerous to say more about Roger Barton's English ancestry than to assert, with considerable conviction, that as yet no evidence having the slightest validity has been presented by anyone." In the January, 1954, issue of the NEHGR, McCracken added a note of correction to his article, the note having nothing to do with the ancestry of Roger Barton. He added nothing new from what existed almost two years earlier with regard to Roger's ancestry. McCracken became Publisher and Editor of The American Genealogist, but, to my knowledge, printed nothing that would change what was in the 1952/1953 article with regard to the ancestry of Roger Barton. To the contrary, McCracken points to a July 1951 article in The American Genealogist, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1951, pages 126-8, that it was Rufus Barton, not Roger, who signed a lease in 1642 with Reverend Everardus Bogardus. Thus the first record of Roger Barton was in Brookhaven in 1662. That further separates Roger from Rufus in both time and place. I will be very pleased and happy if someone can present documentary evidence that Roger, Rufus and Marmaduke were brothers. I have an old family letter which has such a story, the three brothers, and the source in my family takes us back almost 200 years, two-thirds of the way back to Roger Barton. But having the story in any form from anyone is one thing. Providing evidence is another. We have other family stories which can be proven to be incorrect. That's not unusual. It is fine to look for the descendants of Rufus and Marmaduke. It is another thing to claim they are brothers of Roger Barton of Westchester County. If anyone has evidence they were brothers, please let all of us know about it. Almost anyone can put almost anything into the FTM World Family Tree, or into the LDS Family Ancestral Files, or into the IGI sheets. Those are not evidence. Those are unsupported repetitions of the story. Jim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EDWARD SMITH wrote: > Can anyone assist me in determining the descendants of Rufus and Marmaduke > BARTON. They are brothers to Roger BARTON, who is referred to in George E. > McCracken's material "Roger Barton of Westchester County, N.Y., and Some of > His Earlier Descendants", published in the New England Historical and > Genealogical Register, 1952. Any information will be greatly appreciated. > My e-mail is < e.e.smith.com@worldnet.att.net > > Ed Smith > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > No copyrighted materials are permitted on this list unless by the copyright owner themselves.