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. >