My great-grandfather Francis Marion MARVIN, age 3, appears with his parents Edward Kemp Marvin and mother Lucy Ann (COOPER) Marvin in the 1860 census in Mill Creek, Williams County, Ohio. He is in the household of John and Margaret CLAY in Franklin Township, Richand County, Ohio, at the 1870 census. According to family records Francis Marion MARVIN married Ella Lucretia KIME (of Mahoning County, Ohio) in 1874. (I have not found a marriage record.) The 1919 obituary of Francis Marion Marvin says, "Left fatherless at the age of six, he made his home first with Mr. John Clay, near Shelby and later with Mr. John Barton of Williams County, O." I am trying to learn about "Mr. John Barton of Williams County." I am now wondering whether Francis Marin Marvin lived with a BORTON family rather a BARTON family. In particular, a biographical sketch of Job Borton and wife Mary Cliffton says, "They have four children by adoption." Does anyone on this ist know anything about the children raised by Job and Mary Borton? Frances Van Scoy, FrancesVanScoy@aol.com Van Scoy-Knapp reunion, vsk03@aol.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Karen Borton <silence@bright.net> Subject: [BORTON-L] JOB BORTON, son of Bethuel and Rebecca (Cliffton) Borton, Williams Co, OH Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:43:33 -0800 Posted on: Borton Biographies Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/surnames/bor/BortonBios/10 Surname: BORTON, CLIFFTON ------------------------- - County of Williams, Ohio Historical & Biographical by Weston A. Goodspeed & Charles Blanchard, published in 1882. Page 655 in chapter for Brady Township. JOB BORTON, son of Bethuel and Rebecca (Cliffton) Borton, was born in Burlington County, N.J., November 29, 1818, the eighth of a family of eleven children. He traces his genealogy back to one of three brothers who came from England to this country before the Revolutionary war. In the fall of 1836, Job Borton, in company with mother, four brothers and two sisters, came West in wagons, and located in Fulton County. Here Job bought some land, but soon after sold and selected the farm on which he lives in this township, but for seven years resided with his brother John, until he had paid for his land, engaged in raising peppermint and distilling its oil. September 9, 1845, he married Mary R. Cliffton, daughter of Samuel Cliffton, of Welsh ancestry. They have four children by adoption. The family are Quakers, and Mrs. Borton, at a monthly meeting at Rollin, Mich., four years ago, was appointed an Evangelist. The patent to Mr. Bortons original land was signed by Andrew Jackson, and the farm was increased to 400 acres, all of which have been deeded by Mrs. Borton to his children, with the exception of eighty, on which he and Mrs. Borton are now living in retirement.