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.