This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Horton, Knapp, Owens, Carr, Perkins, Titus, Lord, Chase, Fuller, Underhill, Sweet Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1792 Message Board Post: SOURCE: History of the Original Town of Concord being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins and Sardinia, Erie County, New York By Erasmus Briggs Picton Press, Camden, Maine (originally printed Rochester, NY, 1883) Every Name Index by June Partridge Zintz, June 1992 HORTON BROTHERS Truman and John HORTON, brothers, came on foot from New Lebanon, Columbia county, N.Y., where they were born, to Concord, in 1817. They located land on the northwest corner lot in concord, which had been articled at the land office several years before by Jacob HORTON, their father, who never resided here, but returned to Columbia county. The brothers, Truman and John, went back on foot, and on Feb 1, 1818, they set out for Concord with their families, with two ox teams. They were twenty-five days in making the journey, and it snowed every day but one, the snow having fallen to such a depth that the last stage of the journey was made with difficulty. When they reached their destination they found by measurement that the snow had accumulated on the fallen trees to the depth of four feet. The only settler in Concord in the neighborhood of their new home was Comfort KNAPP, who had been there four or five years.. Sylvester and William KNAPP came the same year. William OWE! NS lived just across the line in Boston. The first school was taught on Horton hill in 1823, in a log school house. The HORTONS built log houses on their land and lived there four years when they moved across the town line into Boston. Truman died in Boston in 1869. He married Betsy CARR, who now lives in Boston. Their children were: Thurston, Hiram, Eliza A., Sabra, Spencer, Thomas, Mary, Nathan and Asenath. John HORTON died in Eden about 1873. He married Mercy CARR, by whom he had children as follows: John Jr., William, Mercy Ann, Jacob, henry, ira, Edwin, Annis, Maria, Lorenzo, Lafayette. Mercy Ann married Almon PERKINS. Annis married Sterling TITUS Maria died unmarried. By his second wife, Mrs. Rachel LORD, he had three sons: Orando, Elgera and John, Jr. William HORTON, son of John HORTON, was born March 18, 1821 in Concord, and is by occupation a farmer. He was married March 31, 1842 to Miss Amanda M. CHASE, who was born in Girard, Erie county, PA. In 1823, with his parents, he removed to Boston and remained there twenty years. He married and lived in Concord, and after eleven years moved to Boston and settled on the old homestead where he lived seventeen years. March 1, 1869, removed to Concord and settled on the farm where he now resides. Family record: Frank W. HORTON, born Dec. 16, 1843; married Jan. 1, 1866; died Sept. 17, 1878. His wife’s name was Sarah A. FULLER. Irving M. HORTON, born July 16, 1850; married Feb. 19, 1873; died Sept. 2, 1877. His wife’s name was Amelia UNDERHILL Arthur B. HORTON, born Oct. 19, 1859; died Oct. 1, 1878. Mary A. HORTON, born May 4th, 1850, in Columbia county, N.Y., married to L.G. SWEET, December 24, 1874. Her husband died July 15, 1881, aged thirty-five years.