This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lyleborton Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.borton/231.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: James is right about errors in the Mann book... BUT he is also right it is almost indispensable if you are doing Borton Genealogy, and it is surprising there is not more errors. She started with Freeman Mason's 1908 book "History of the Borton and Mason Families in Europe and North America, and considered her book the second volume of that book (see page 4 of Betty's book). Strangely, some of the pictures that she got from Freeman Masons book got mislabeled in her book. My guess is that the mistakes were made by the publisher in their haste to get it out. For instance the pictures purported to be Samuel Borton and Mercy Owen on page 60 of her book are directly from Freeman Mason's book in th epicture page between pages 164 and 165, but in Freeman Mason's book they are listed as Asa Borton and Elizabeth Hazen (I think correctly). Our family collaborated with Betty Mann as much as we could and several items from our collection are in her book. I think she did a splendid job.. ! However mistakes happen. Some areas of the Borton family did not provide much information creating some holes that she could not help, she was also getting a stream of information as the book went to the press, way after her cutoff date, she kept trying to insert data, but eventually she could not make further additions, and often did not have time to prove or disprove information that she received at a late date, she admits that in her book and says ".maybe some future researcher will be able to do the proving" . We owe her a lot! I do not believe that Betty's book is curently available, but several libraries have it. Freeman Mason's book is available on-line from Google Books and Archive.org for free download (Archive.org has the better copy). Freeman Mason's book also has Rhoda Packers 1829 deposition to the supreme court, whitch is a wealth of genealogical information on the first Packers in North America. (She was contesting a will of an estate in England). The other Book that is valuable at least for Asa's family and their decendants is "The Hazen Family In North America" by Tracy Elliot Hazen PHD, Published in 1949. It has Elizabeth Hazen listed and all of her and Asa Borton's children. He traces her linage back to Edward Hazen, who came to America's Hudson Bay colony in about 1638 (and back into England before that), almost 30 years before John Borton came to New Jersey. Additionaly, Elizabeth Hazen's great Grandfather John Hazen was married to Mercy Bradstreet making Elizabeth Hazen a direct descendent of Gov Simon Bradstreet and Gov Thomas Dudley both early Governors of the Mass Bay colony (Founder of Cambridge and signer of the charter for Harvard). Bradstreet and Dudley came to America in 1830 with the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter. For those looking for blue blood this is pretty blue. Ancestry.com has Tracy Hazen's book, but I could only get it to download 1 page at a time (1100 pages). I downloaded the first 250 pag! es and converted it to a searchable PDF. Several libraries have this book also. Lyle Borton Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.