On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:05:46 EDT, Betsey Barton Perra, BBPERRA@aol.com wrote: >These are the RI Bartons as I know them. Betsey, After I finally decoded the text, I have a question about 8ii Rufus Barton below: Children of RUFUS BARTON and SARAH ROBINSON are: 8. i. ROWLAND4 BARTON, b. April 7, 1709, WARWICK, RI; d. September 25, 1769, WARWICK, RI. ii. RUFUS BARTON, m. PRUDENCE COLE. iii. SARAH BARTON. iv. MARGARET BARTON. v. WILLIAM BARTON. Quite a few documents show the marriage of Prudence Cole to Rufus Barton. However, they show his birth as 20 August 1749 in Warwick. This would make him a little too old to be the brother of Rowland4 who was born in 1709. This would have also been in the 45th year of the marriage of Rufus Barton and Sarah Robinson. My wife descends from Rufus Barton and Prudence Cole. I have not yet confirmed this Rufus' parents. Please take a look at some of the notes I have for him: ========================== Rufus Barton's Parents============================= I am not sure who are the parents of our Rufus Barton. However, because this Rufus Barton named one of his daughters Lillis Turner Barton, I am assuming his parents are Samuel Barton and Lillis Turner. >From the fact that Warren was once part of Swansea, Massachusetts, I found something in the Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 that might be a lead to Rufus Barton's ancestry. Book B: Marriages 1705 - 1775 indicates that Samuel Barton and Lillis Turner were married March ye 23: 1737/8 by Samuel Maxwell minister. Since our Rufus named one of his daughters Lillis Turner Barton, based on time and place, I would suspect that Samuel and Lillis Barton may be his parents. Book B: Births 1705 - 1775 indicates Lillis the Daughter of William Turner and of Patience his wife was Born February the 26: 1714/5. The source of this Rufus Barton's birth date, birth location, marriage date, and marriage location is the 1994 RI IGI. Page 22 of the Barton Family manuscript in the Rhode Island Genealogical Society in Providence lists Rufus and Prudence (Cole) Barton, Mar. Apr 7, 1771, and their eleven children. However, there is neither a link to this Rufus nor reference to his parents in the manuscript. (Nearly every other entry in the manuscript has both a to and from reference for every family head.) It does list the eleventh child, Ebenezer Cole Barton b. Aug 14, 1799 Cambridge, N. Y. As stated above, it appears Samuel and Lillis Turner Barton may be the parents of this Rufus. In July 1997 I ran across an Internet web page sponsored by David Cole. In it, there is circumstantial evidence that Rufus's parents are David and Susanna Barton, married about 1735, or Samuel and Lillis Turner Barton, married in 1737. While at the NEHGS in 1997 I had a personal tutorial with Gary Boyd Roberts and he confirmed that there was certainly circumstantial evidence to support this assumption. At least, there must be a close relationship if Lillis Turner is not Rufus's mother. ============================================================ I would appreciate help from anyone who can shed some light on this Rufus' real parents. By the way, I have all of my wife's Barton ancestry online linked to my web page at http://angelfire.com/tx/royc/. It includes quite a few of the early generations of descendants of the immigrant Rufus Barton (1606-1648) along with a lot of relative documentation and references. My wife's great grandmother was Emily Barton (1848-1934.) The online database contains many of her collateral lines including Gorton, Low, Rhodes, Turner, Hale, Bullock, Cole, Luther, Abell, Millard, and Arnold. Take a look. Roy Leggitt, full-time RVer just completing our summer trek through NV, northern CA, OR, WA, ID, and UT. Back in southern CA for a few days.