Dorothy, My Houghton's/Haughton's were in Westmoreland Co, Va. by about 1630, then in Edenton, (Chowan Co) NC, an early town in te 1700's as well as Perquiman's Co.. Some of my descendants are Thomas, William Sr., William Jr., Jonathan (all Chowan Co.) then Jeremiah who moved to Huntsville Ala. in the 1800's, then to Jackson, Tenn..where he started a college. His descendants were Andrew Jackson Haughton, (Tenn. and Miss.) James Daniel Haughton, (Tenn. and Miss.) William Jackson Haughton (Miss.) my grandfather, my father James Curtis Haughton ( Aberdeen, Miss. and Ala..Fayette, Ala.)Then my brother, James Curtis Haughton, and myself Rosalyn Haughton Martty. Think this is accurage..mostly from memory, so don't count it as authentic. Supposedly our family came from upper Mass...then from England. I have researched family tree in England..and the Haughton/Houghton/Hoghton/DeHoghton in Leyland, England, near Preston..and LIverpool..some buried there. This is from research in the DAR library in Washington, and about 40 years of research. I am not sure about the connection to England, and have never discovered exactly who it was that migrated to America. I am still researching that. I applied for the DNA information, but so far don't understand how to interpret it, so havent' followed up on that. I have been too busy with other projects to research, and my office is in disarray after Katrina..so don't have the facility of looking up information now. It doesn't sound like to me that we are from the same line, though. Thanks for the note, Rosalyn Martty **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489