I have the IGI sheets for both MD & VA can I look up something? Dorothy Muirhead@inebraska.com ---------- > From: Brassell <bbrassell@mindspring.com> > To: BARTON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] Bartons in NY and MA > Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:50 PM > > > > > > 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.