> >I know lots about this family. Actually it is one of the oldest and best > >researched of the Barton lines. Benjamin was the direct descendent of Rufus > >Barton who came in to the new world to what is now New York via Holland (he > >was a quaker) with a couple of brothers. Rufus ended up in Rhode Island where > >he signed the charter creating the area known as Warwick. I will be glad to > >give you more names and dates if you need them. Best always Lea I've always thought that the three Barton brothers story (Rufus, Roger and another) was unproven legend. Adoph Voge refers to it as such in his paper "Roger Barton and his kinsmen". He in effect says that old family legends assert that the three came from Lancastershire England - perhaps by way of the West Indies but admits that there was no proof (at least at the time his papers were presented - in the 1930's). Both Roger and Rufus were in New Amsterdam (New York) by 1660 or so. However, I've heard of no proof that they were brothers. Does anyone have definitive proof of this? Douglas Losty