Tami, I have not corresponded with you for over a year. Glad to find you. I have studied all of the Bartons in MA, RI, VT and I have the IGI sheets for all of them. I chased John Nicholas around MA for years and I really felt I was related until I got the MA Census for 1850 & 1860 and it plainly states that my John Barton Jr. was born RI so back I came to R.I. and am busy compling FGS for all of Benjamin & Susannah Gorton's children and on down the line. I have studied the Oxford Bartons and did find even a John Barton m. Abigail Dana and they had a son John who m. Persis Eddy and came to Providence where they had another John III. I have never found any real fact that bound these families together, if so it has to be in England or Wales, way back. But yet my R.I. John went to Wrentham to marry and I have come to feel that therelll surely is a tie to both R.I. & MA Bartons. Maybe its just a feeling having worked so long and hard on them. Dorothy Scott Muirhead muirhead@inetnebr.com I am on the trail in Chicago now. Emily L. Barton m. Samuel A. Briggs and Catherine Arnold Barton went with them. Catherine m. John in 1816 in Providence and I sure hope this is one of my GGGGM's. Emily was the sister to a John, which I hope is mine. ---------- > Hello cousins, > Rosemary posted this site and place a letter written by Alvin Barton on it. > What a wonderful treat of information to find. It was at: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6804/rosemary.html > I have read and reread the letter and have placed it in my notes for my > family with her permission and passed it along to fellow cousins of my > family. Thanks again Rosemary. > > What I would like to discuss is this part of the letter: > > "Grandfather's grandfather or great grandfather emigrated from > Wales. There were four brothers of them; one settled in New York, one in > Rhode Island, one in Mass. and the fourth went back. They were shipwrecked > coming over. I sprang from the Mass. Bartons. I know nothing of these > ancient Bartons except one was Penuel Barton. My great grandfather's name > was Joshua Barton." > > Now he spoke of there being four brothers. If you went as far as his > Grandfather's G-Grandfather that would get you to Matthew born in ME, son of > Edward who came from England. This story of 4 brothers may have been passed > down from the previous generations. Penuel was about 15 years younger (born > in 1712) than his G-Grandfather Joshua, born in 1697. > > I have only found this next article thus far before the hand written letter > of Alvin Barton surfaced: > > "The surname of Barton first appears in New England records among the early > Puritan settlers at Salem, in what is now Essex County, Mass., and Edward > Barton is the first-mentioned of the name. It is possible, but not probable > that he was related to Roger Barton, who settled in New Netherland (New > York), and to Rufus Barton, who settled in Rhode Island about the same time. > In the seventeenth century there were several families of Bartons in the > American Colonies, but it is doubtful if all the early Bartons in America > were related, or all the earlier Bartons in England, Scotland, Ireland, and > Wales." > from The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Vol. 84 Issue 4 > October 1930, pg 401 Fredrick A. Virkus > > What are your thoughts to this and has anyone found any other pieces that > might connect these Barton families together? > > Thanks, > Tami Barton > TAMI KAYE11 BARTON (RONALD JAMES10, HARLEY WALTER9, HORACE BYRON8, OZIAS > PRESTON7, ALPHEUS6, TIMOTHY5, JOSHUA4, SAMUEL3, MATTHEW2, EDWARD1) > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/a/r/Tami-K-Barton/ > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please support the Rootsweb Genealogical Cooperative by becoming a member, > sponsor, or donor. For more information, visit Rootsweb at > http://www.rootsweb.com >