AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
Descendants of Thomas Orton
OF
WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, 1641
( PRINCIPALLY IN THE MALE LINE)
BY EDWARD ORTON, LL. D. Professor of Geology in Ohio State University
State Geologist of Ohio
COLUMBUS, OHIO PRESS OF NITSCHKE BROTHERS r896
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGES CHAPTER I.-lntrod11ctor11 ...... Origin and distribution of tbt: name Orton...... • ...... 5 Ortons of the United States...... 6 Acknowledgments ...... 7 Purpose and aim of the volume...... 8
CHAPTER II.-7he .w~ttlernent of the Ortnns in New England...... 10 Section 1. Thomas Orton, of Windsor, Conn... 11 Removal to Farmington ...... 12 Last will and testament ...... 15 English homes of the Ortons ...... 16 .Section 2.. John Orton of Farmington...... - ...... 21 H1sw1ves...... 22 Children ...... 23 SectioR: 3. Third. generation...... (,i) Thomas of Farmington ...... 28 (b) John of Woodbury ...... 30 (c) Samuel of Litchfield ...... 34
CHAPTER III.-_De~cendants of Thomas of Windsor thro' Thornas of Fcrrro:i-n gto'n ...... Section 1. Fourth ge;neration...... (a) Thro' Thomas of Tyringham ...... 43 (b) Thro' John of Tyringham ...... 45 Section 2. ·Fifth generation ...... (a) Thro' Thomas of Tyringham ...... 47 ( b) Thro' John of Tyringham ...... 50 Section 3. Sixth generation ...... 55 (a) Thro' Thomas of Tyringham ...... 55 ( b) Thro' John of Tyringham ...... 61 PAGES Section 4. Seventh and later generations ...... 64 (a) Thro' Thomas of Tytingham ...... 64 (b) Thro' John of Tyringham ...... 76
CHAPTER IV.-Descendants of 1homas of Windsor thro' John of Wood- 1Yu,·y...... • ...... • ...... 108 Section 1. Fourth generation ...... 108 Section 2. Fifth and later generations...... 111 (a) Thro' John...... 111 (b) Thro' Samuel...... , ...... 11~
CHAPTER V.-Descendants of 1 homas of Windsor thro' Samuel of Litch- :fie,ld . ~ . . . • • • . . . ~ . . . . . • . . . . . • . . . . • . . . • . . . . • • . . • • . . . . . • • . . . • • . . 122 Section 1. Fourth generation...... 123 Section 2. Fifth generation ...... 123 (a) Thro' Samuel, 1724 ...... 129 (b) Thro' Hezekiah, 1727...... 134 (c) Thro' Azariah, 1729 .. : ...... 137 (d) Thro' Lemuel, 1731 ...... 139 (e) Thro' John, 1744 ...... 144 Section 3. Sixth and later generations in line of Samuel, 1729... 144 (a) Thro' Samuel 3d ...... 146 (b) Thro' John...... 146 (c) Thro' Miles ...... _ 152 .. Section 4. Sixth and later generations in line of Hezekiah, 1727. 160 (a) Thro' Eliada...... 161 (b) Thro' Sedgwick ...... 165 (c) Thro' Azariah~ ...... 169 (d) Thro' Darius ...... 177 Section 5. Sixth and later ·generations in line of Azariah, 1729.. 181 (a) Thro' Azariah...... 182 ( b) Thro' Darius, 1770...... 197 Section 6. Sixth and later generations in line of Lemuel, 1731. . . 200 Section 7. Sixth and later generations in line of John, 1744 . . . . . 205 CHAPTER VI.-Revolutionary Service of the Ortons...... 209 The Orton Family in America
CHAPTER I.
J n trobuctorg.
The surname ORTON is neither a common nor an unusual one. It is a name that could be heard without surprise in any community of English descent. It occurs in the directories of many cities of the country and can probably be found in most of the Northern towns of tlie United States that have a population of 100,000 or more; but the list of Ortons is generally confined to a few indi viduals, and in many instances there is but a single family. It is found at the present time in at least tw·enty-si-x States of the Union, and probably in twenty-seven or tw-enty-eight. It also occurs in the _provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada. Postoffices are named for the fam- , ily in at least six States of North .A.merica,. The nan1e seems to hold about the sarne character as to distribution in England that it has in the United States, as will presently be shown. One is not surprised to n1eet it any,vhere, but it is scarcely comn1on in any city or district, 6 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON so far as I have learned. It can be found in the directories of manv of the lar0 ·e Eno·lish towns as London Liverpool ~ t,~ 0 ' ' ' Birmingham, Manehester, Coventry, etc. A Germ·an ~~ork on the derivation of English surnames makes it of Danish origin, and gives its n1eaning as "a round, steep hill." Orton is certainly found as a surname in Norway at the present time, and has recently been brought to the United States as a fresh importation from that country by at least one family. Ortonville, Minn., was named for C. K. Orton, ,v~o_ was born in Bergen, Nor""~ay ..
The Eno·lisho name can easilv~ be accounted for as a con- traction of the name "Overton," and in one family list I find it spelled "Ouertoil." It is also pronounced "Ore-ton"' by some English families. If the name had been con tracted from Overton, its signification and history ,vould be obvious, viz., that of a family residing on a hill, overlooking a town. It would be analogous to many other English surnames, as, Easton, vVeston, Norton (Northtown), Hilton, Seaton, Colton, Milton, Clifton, Fenton, Vinton, Townsend,. Underwood, Gr·eenwood, Black,vood, Churchill, vVhitehill, Whitehurst, Broadbeck, Oliff ord, Horsford, Blackford, Woodbridge, etc. The name has certainly been established in England for a number of centuries. It is found in several minor. oo-eooTaphical o - desio0 ·nations that have presuma- bly come do"~n fron1 early time. If as asserted bv the ~ ' ~ German author already quoted, it is of Danish origin, it probably goes back to the Teutonic invasions of the fifth or the ninth centurv. ,..fhe etv1nolo0 ·v suo·o·ested above is how- .,, 0/ o., 0 ::-, ' ever, so plausible that I a1n inclined to ateept it. In other words, I an1 disposed to consider the name a contraction from Overton. Of the Ortons in the United States at the present. time, a very large proportion, probably not less than ninet.een_-_ OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. twentieths, are the descendants of Thomas Orton, who is recorded as a resident of Winds~r, Conn., in 1641. It is a provisional and imperfect account of his descendants that I here,vith undertake. For fifteen or t\venty years I have been accumulating facts pertaining to this subject, but my work has been confined to the spare hours of a laborious profession and a busy life, and has been carried_ on princi pally by correspondence, ,v hich is far inferior to personal interview both as to the ran ere and accuracv ·of the state- ' b ~ ments secur.. ed. I have, ho,vever, brought together a large number of facts, "·hich, in vie"~ of the uncertainty of life, I have decided to publish, so as to put them beyond the danger of loss. Inadequate as the record "rill be, it will at least form a basis for further ,vor·k in this direction by those who will inherit the name in the vears to come. •J _My wor·k has been greatly aided during the last fe,v years by the zealous .. co-operation of Dr. John Jackson Orton, of Lakeville, Conn. He has added much to the lists that I had p_~·eviously made out, and may ""ell deserve to be counted joint con1piler ,vith me of many of the tables and lists that follo,Y. I am also under obligations to many mem
bers of the f1amily for· such facts as they had in their posses- - sion. In this connection, I must especially name Judge Hober·t S. Orton, of Princeton, Mo.; Judge Philo ...-\. Orton, of Darlington, ,vis.; Charles L. Orton, .. A..• B., ·of North Wal~ den, \ 7t.; lVliss l\Iary Orton }fartin, of \Voodbury, Conn.; i\tlrs. Frances ...:.\.. lliller, of Spring C~ity, Tenn.; and_ Miss Esther M. Orton, of (i-eneYa, Ill. I an1 glad to acknowledge n1y special indebtedness to Cothren's History of Ancient ,v oodbur.v. 'rhe three pages of" his ""ork devoted to the Or1on farnily have proved in,:aluable to me. I take pleasure in nan1ing, also, Hon. Philo .A.. Orton, of ,,:--isconsin; J an1es Douglas Orton, of X e,v Jersey, and Dr. 8 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON
John G. Orton, of New 'York, who, by their guarantee.~, of substantial aid, have made it safe for me to publjsih_ the record which I have compiled. As is usual in such inquir~ies, however, there are: many members of the familv., that find little or no interest in the investigation, and fail to furnish the facts as to their imme diate ancestry, even after repeated solicitation. · Many lines will be found imperfect from this cause, especially in the last two or three generations. The question is often asked as to the object in thus tracing the family history, and when it is learned that the inquiry has no reference whatever to any unclaimed fort1:1ne in England, or elsewher~, some lose all interest in it forth with. There are others who would be glad to learn that they belong to a family th-at has made itself conspicuous by honorable public service, by PFOfessional eminence, or by the accumulation of unusual wealth in this or the old world, . but who see no sufficient reason for laboriously tracing an uneventfu~ and commonplace history. There· are some, and let us hope many others, who find an interest in learn ing the facts of their origin, whatever they may be, in fol- . lowing the fortunes of the successive generations to which they owe their own existence, and while they would be glad ·_ to note any proofs of distinction in their predecessors, are still content if they find but little to mortify an honorable pride. Some one has remarked that one of the first proofs that we are growing old is to be found in the reversion of our thoughts to the lives of our ancestors. It is probable, therefore, that this interest will be developed as the years go by in son1e who find at present no attraction in these facts and feel but little respect for them. In reality, the descendants of Thomas Orton consti tute one of the oldest families of the country. We have an OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 9. unbroken record of more than two hundred and fifty years on this side of the .A.. tlantic, and best of all, the vigor of the stock seen1s unin1paired. 'l"'he family, as a ,v hole, shows as n1uch activity and promise to-day as it has at any time in the entire period through "'"hich it can be traced. Certainly it sho,vs no signs of being in a decadent state. I do not find any clear proofs of commanding or dis- . tinetive qualities of any sort in the Orton line; but it seems to have furnished a good basis on which to build a fair aver age of Ne"'" England or ...L\.merican character. Occasionally it has been happily blended with the blood of other fami lies and men of eminence have, as a result, risen above the rank and file of their day, but the great majority of the bo·ener .. ations that have passed awav~ have led unambitious lives, in peaceful country homes, "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." Every Orton of to-day has at least five generations of New England farmers behind him. CIIAPTER II.
SECTION I.
THE SE'rTLEMENT OF THE ORTONS IN NEW ENGLAND. THOMAS ORTON OF WINDSOR, CONN.
'fhe earliest settlement of the Connecticut Valley, or more· par~icular1y of the to":..ns of Har·tford, Windsor, and W ethers:fi.eld was begun in 1636. There " .. ere two routes by which this beautiful 1·egion 1''"as reached from Boston; one of them, overland, through the " .. ilderness, and the other by the sea, the sound, and the Connecticut River. The over land journey of less than a hundred and fifty miles oceupied t,vo ,veeks or n1ore. The most in1portant party of colonists aeeon1plishe He owned a lot of eight and one-half acres. Part of it seen1s to have been allotted to him by the town after a previous ·allobnent to oDJe L,a:wrence Ellison, who forfeited it by failure to occupy. Another part he purchased of the widow of Goodman Whitehouse. The par1:icular section of the town in ,vhich his lot lay w-as occupied ~y some of the best fa,milies of the town, as the W olcotts, th~ Phelpses, the Loom-ises, etc. 'rhoma1s Orion built a house on the east end of his home .lot, on a g-r-avel terrace overlooking the alluvial pla.in of the Connecticut Valley. In addition to this hom·e lot he o,vned several considerable bodies of land in Windsor, rietaining the ownership of some of them as long a•s he lived. In Stiles's History of Windsor, Second Edition, 1894, a map of the town center a.t this ear'ly tim·e is found, oil which the locations of many of the earliest residents are indicated. Among others, the location of Thomas Orton's lot and house is given. From the size of his home lot and from the neighborhood in which he established himself, it seems safe to infer th'at he was "well to do" and that he held a good social status; He did not, however, become a permanent resident of Windsor. In 1655, he removed to Farming~on, which was his home for the remainder of his life and ,vhich became a much more important center for the Orton family than Windsor. Farmington is a beautifully situated to,vn, fifteen miles west and south of Windsor and ten miles west of Hartford. It lies in the valley of the river of the same nam.e, which is separated from the Connecticut Valley, with which it agrees in having a ~orth and south direction, by a bold range of trap-hills known as T,alcott Mountain. A low ga.p in this range furnishes a natural roadway from OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 13 Hartford westward, and by this road the early settlers of Farmington and of the towns beyond came in. Talcott Mountain, "rhich rises in a steep and almost vertical wall f1~om the valley of the Farmington River to an elevation of seven hundred to nine hundrred feet above the sea, makes the east~rn boundary of the town. A beautiful and for the most part fertile valley, six or eight miles wide, stretches away to the westward, having for a boundary in this direction another range of trap-hill1s, but lower and less regular than Talcott Mountain. The town center of Farmington w,as laid out on ·the lower slopes of the mountain, but was elevated above the valley ~nough to command a delightful view to the west ward. The main street runs north and south, parallel to the mountain and river. Thomas Orton was one of the eighty~four original owners -and settlers of F·armington. He owned two houses at the center, one located nearly opposite the present bank and the other a short distance east of the hotel, just at the bend of the Rartford road. He also O"\Vned many tracts of land in the vallev and on the mountain side and also in the ~ . northern part of the town, which was then called Nod or Little Nod, but which now constitutes the town of Avon. He "ras one of the wealthiest of the original proprietors. In 1672, a list of tl1e estates. of the town was agreed upon by ,vhich the valle3'" lands, at first held in common, .should be divided. The division seems to have been based on the property that eaeh of the original proprietors was already possessed of. Thomas Orton comes eighth in this list. The minister, Mr. Samuel Hooker, was -allowed a double rating and t"ro non-residents, of the capitalist class of their day, Haynes and \Villis, came in at the head of the list; but of the actual r~esidents of the to,vn, only four were set at a 14 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON higher· figure than Thoinas Orton, and two of thes;e four ,vere rated so close to hjn1 that their returns_ "'"ere practi call v identical "rith his. •J In lik~ 1nanner, a division of the com1non lands on the east side of the river in Nod (Avon) was made in 1720 and the rating of Thontas Orton's estate held about the same relative position a.s in the case above described. ....\n1ong .. his neighbors, ,-ve find many familiar names, such as. vVads,vorth, Hawley, Porter, Gridley, Andrus, North, Scovel, Newel, Stanley, Sherman, Norton, Wood _f ord, etc., etc. The good standing which he . held in Farmington is further attested bv the fact that in 1684 he was elected •J - deputy to the General Court (Legislature) of the Colony of Connecticut for· the session that began on October 9 of the year above narned. . His colleague from Farmington was Oaptain William Le,vis.. (Trumbull's Oolonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. IIL, pa.ge 155.) His children g·re"',. up in Farmington, the oldest of them being .only seven or eight years old ,vhen he left ,vindsor. •.\11 of them married and settled in Farmington. Mary n1arried John R-0ot; .Sarah married Jedediah De,vey, by ,vhom she had three daughters and four sons, and Elizabeth married Samuel, son_ of Robert I,e,vis. Thomas Orton's only son, John, 1narried a Ha"\\i'"ley for his first wife, as I infer on rather slender grounds. Thomas Orton lived to a good ag·e, but the date of his death I have not been able to find. "Te kno,Y that it occurred after l\Iay 7, 1688, from the follo-,ving circu1n stanees. From 1685 to 1689, the tyrannical governor, Sir Edmond ....\ildros, ,vas in P◊"\ver in ~ ew England. ...i\.mong his oppressive acts ,vas one requiring that all ,Yills made in ~ew England should be probated in Boston, ,vhere ex- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 15 cessive fees ,vere demanded, in a(ldition to the costs of the journey. To a void this extortionate rule, Thomas Orton disposed of his estate dnring his lifetime by a "deede of · gifte" to his children. 'rhis deed in to_ be fround in the town records of Farmington. It is "To Margaret, daughter of my son, John, £10 in money. "To the three daughters of my daughter, Sarah Dewey, now living, I give £5 apiece in money; to the four sons of my daughter, Sarah Dewey, I give my land in the great swamp, as also my division of the upland in Farmington which lieth against Wethersfield bounds, to be divided in equal pro portions; the remainder of uplands I give to my son, John." To him, also, was assigned the care of his fune:r-tal expenses and also the gathering and pa.ying· of all his just debts. For these -services he furth'er orders £5 to be allowed to hiJ1?:.. "The rest of my estate I give and bequeath to my three daughtP.rs, Mary Root, Sarah Dewey, and Elizabeth Lewis, to be divided among them in equal proportions." The last paragraph contains the only mention in this docnment of the oldest daughter, Mary Root We may infer that she had already received property from her father and that she had no children. The value of the estate thus disposed of was placed at £496. When this deed of gift was made, Thomas Orton w-as already seventy-five years old. I infer that it was signed in his last days and probably in his last hours, for another daughter was born to John Orton in that same month (bap tized May 20, 1688), of whom no mention is made in this document. ....\.s to the English hom·e of Thomas Orton or the social status which ·he held in the old country, we have no· positive knowledge and but little safe ground for inference. The name was a thoroughly respectable one in various parts of England, belonging to "rorthy representatives of the great middle class, who have always constituted the strength and glory of the nation. Burke, in his standard work on Eng lish Heraldry, Third Edition, 1849, enumerates seven fam ilies of Ortons, included in the gentry, each having a coat OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 17 of arms of its o\\~n. But of these seven there are three, and possibly four, that are plainly separate and distinct from one another. The three remaining are as obviously more or less closelv., connected with or derived from one of the three or four fir.st named. The different Orton arms are thus described in the lan guage of heraldry: 1. "Vert, a lion rampant, argent, crowned, and armed, gules." (Cumberland.) 2. · "Azure, a lion rampant, or," 3. "Azure, a lion rampant, argent." 4. "Azure, a leopard, rampant, _argent, crowned, or," 5. " ....t\.rgent, a band sable bet"\\·een a rose in chief and a fleur de lis in base, gules." (Leicester.) 6. Same arms as 5, ,vith the addition of a crest as follows: "To"·er proper, cupola, and flag, gules." (Lei cester.) . 7. "Or, a squirrel, sejant, gules, cracking a nut." (Kent.) -- The first of these. ernblems belonged to a family in Cum- berland, in the north·\vest corner of England. The sole heiress married n1any years ago, and the estate has passed out of the Orton narne altogether. But in the adjacent county of Westn1oreland, eight miles south,vest of ...t\.ppleby, an important village still bears the name Orton, which it seems reasonable to refer to this family. Orton Hall, Orton Con1mon, and Orton Scar a.re situated in adjacent territory. ....\.11 these nan1es can be found on any good map of England. The seventh e1nble1n belongs to a family in Kent, in the extre1ne southeastern eorner of England. The fifth coat of arn1s belon~;s to the ()rtons of Leicestershire. The <... sixth emblem, ,vhich is in reality tlle 1nost elaborate and 18 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON complete of the series, evidently belonged to a branch of the same farnily. There is a large estate in thls county that has been in the hands of the Orton fan1ilv~ for centuries.. Some of its 111en1ber:; have held p9sitions in the Church. SeYeral localities still retain the family name, as Orton on the Hill, Cole (Coal) Orton, etc. The :first-named village is situated on the extren1e "~estern border of I..1eicestershire. Its nan1e in ancient tbnes is said to have been Worton Overton, and it is further ren1arked that the nan1e is derived from the high situation of the village ,vhich con1mands an extensive prospec-t over n1any of the adjaeent villages and towns of Leieestershire, v\i' ar,vick, and Derbyshire. Cole Orton, anciently ,:vritten Overton,· is a large parish, dis tinguis~ed for its collieries and from which it has derived its corrupted prefix (Cole-Coal). It consists of two town ships, called respectively Overton and N etherto,vn. T·he former is also kno,vn a.s Cole Orton Saucy; the latter is sometimes designated Overto,vn - Quartermarsh. Cole Orton is a rectory at the present time. It is laid do,vn on all good n1aps of Leicestershire. The name Orton is also found in the records of another ancient village, ,vhich is adjacent to Orton on the Hill, viz., T,vycross, the reeords of "~hieh go back to feudal times. In the list of six or eight_ freeholders of Twycross in 1630, the nan1e of llichael Orton appears; and in 1719, the name of Thomas Orton appears in a siinilar list. ..A .. t ~eresby, an old village seven ntiles north of Lei cester and ten rniles south of I.Aoug-hboroug-h, thPre is an ancient chureh \\·hh·h has an intPresting history in connec tion ,vitlt the ()rton fa1nil .,Y. The church is dedicated to St. llichael, and arnong the list of rectors appear the names of OF WINDSOR, CON·N., 1641. 19 John Orton, ~I ....i\.., 1675-1715. Joseph Orton, 1715. John Orton, }I. .A.. , 1730-1760. John Orton, fifth, nil .....\., 1760-1791. 1.'hon1as Orton (brother of John), 1799. Contemporary notices show that Rev. John Orton, 5th, "~as greatlY beloved for his "univerisal benevolence and LO •, extended chariti~s." On· flat stones ,vithin the communion rails, inscriptions can still be made out in memory of sev eral of the reetors nan1ed above and their families. .The facts pertaining to T,vycross and Reresby, I have derived from notes taken in England- a -number of years since, by the late l)r. Sain uel H. Orton, of the United States ...i\.rmy. A copy of his notes ha,s been kindly furnished to me bJ:. hi~ ·brother·, ..J arnes Douglas Orton, Esq., of N e"'~ark, N. J. Th_e Orton line of I.Jeicestershire appears t-0 have been the n1ost prolific and persistent of any of which I have found records. ...:.\.t least the name is more frequently met ,vith here than_in any other district of England, so far as I can learn. \\'ithin the last t,vo years I have come upon four different fa1nilies of Ortons in the United States and Oanada, unconnected ,Yith ~ach other so far as I know, the 1nen1 bers of ,Yhic-h ,Yere either themselves born in England # or ,vhose fathers ,Yere born there; and 1vithout exception theY•. con1e fi-0111 thi8 central district, and not one of them fron1 1nore than fifty n1iles frorn the I--'eieestershire center of Cole ()rton, ()rt.on on the Hill, and 'r"~ycross. It has thus been sho"·n thnt. fan1ilies of Ortons of good sta11 do not kno"'\"\r. Probably' every county of the kingdom made some contribution to the Puritan exodus from England t~ the Ne"... v\T orld, ,vhich took place between 1620 and 1640; but the greater nun1ber of colonists came from the eastern counties. ..A. considerable body, " ... e know, came from Kent, just about the date that Thomas Orton reached i\.merica. Leicestershire, also, under the patronage of one of its most noble families, sent out about this time many emigrants to .A.. merica. But, as I have .said, all is guess work here, and there seems but little to encourage the hope that the exact town or familv., from ,vhich 'fhomas Orton of Windsor was derived will ever be settled. Our only hope " ... oul_d seem to be in intelligent inquiry _conducted in England, of the kind quoted on a preceding page, but more extended and minute. It is .certain, ho,vever, that he ,vas "well to do" from the first, that he brought means ,vith him from England, by which he was ranked among the ,vealthier members of the ne,v communities. Several members of the familv in this countrv have ~ ~ adopted the Leicestershire emblem as the "Orton coat of arms;" but, as I have already sho-,vn, there ·are seven Orton arms, and the selection of any one to represent the family of Thoma.s Orton is, of course, purely arbitrary. I am will ing to concede, ho-,vever, that the probabiliti~s rather favor Leicestershire as our ancestral home. The best that can be said with absolute certaintv about Cl Tho1na;s Orton, is that he 1vas one of the t,venty-s.ix thous- and English Puritans that came to this country between 1620 and 1640, and that he "·as one of the pioneer settlers of C'onnecticut. If ,ve give due "~eight to these unques tionable facts, ,ve shall find in them as good a "·arrant for respect and honor as English titles and armorial ensigns could possibly give. One of the early preachers of New OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 21 E•ngland declared that God had sifted and winnowed a whole kingdom that he n1ight send. choice seed into the wilder ness. 'l'homas Orton was one of the grains of choice wheat with which New England was planted. Certainly, no State ,vas ever founded bv co.Ionization in ,vhich a nobler class Oj of motives bore sway than in the foundation of New Eng land. These colonists were not actuated by a love of gain or glory, but they came to set up in the wilderness an ideal State, in ,vhich God's will, as they underistood it; should be done; and t-0 accomplish this purpose they were ready to endure toil and hardship ,vithout encl. We have the best of right to predicate of our common ancestor, Thomas Orton, moral enthusiasm, steadfast courage, and a readi ness to sacrifice the lower ends of life for the higher. The g~nuine respectability of the family in this country is attested by the intermarriages o_f the Ortons for a· number of generations "\\iith some of the best families of Ne,v England, such as the Buckinghams, the Tudors, the Sedg,vicks, tl!e Loomises, the Sn1edleys, the Jacksons, the Bid,Yells, the \Voodruffs, the Pardees, the Clevelands, etc., etc. SECTION II. JOHN ORTON OF FARMINGTON-1647-1694. John Or1on ,vas the onlv.., son of Thomas Orton. He was born in \V,indsor, as already stated, but ,vhen he was eight years old his father re1noved to Far·n1ingi,on. The title "eapt1ain H is given hiln in one fa1nl_y list that I have seen, but I have fou~d no hint of sueh a title in the Farn1ing ton reeords, ,vhere, if it had really been held, it ,vould be almost certa.in to appear. LieutPnant, sergeant, ensign, all are found in use. The higher title ,vould not have been dis- 22 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON regarded. I do not, therefore, feel warranted in adopting it. As John Orton passed all his active life in Farmington and died there, he will be designated in these pages as John of Farmington. .A.. s I have shown in the preceding section, he inherited a consider·able estate from his father and must have held a fairly prominent place in the new community. We know but little of him, ho"~ever. An important gap occurs in his history at the very start. We do not know the name of his first wife, the date of his maniage, or the exact dates of the births of his two older children, Thomas aI?:,d :Margaret Somewhere in the years 1686-7, he married a second wife, whose name is given to us as Anna or Hannah, daughter of Samuel Or·ris. But inasmuch as the name Orris does not occur in the Farmington re~ords, while another name that could very easily be confounded with it (viz., Orvis) wa;s common there, I venture to suggest a cor rection. I think John Orton married Hannah, daughter of George Orvis, for his second ,vife. Hannah Orvis was born in 1655. The Orvis fan1ily was a fairly prominent one in Farmington for several generations. The Orris family" is reported from Charlesto"\\'"n, Mass., in the early days, and not from C~nnecticut. George Orvis of Farmington had a daughter, Hannah, born in 1655, who is not otherwise accounted for. It seen1s to have been hitherto accepted by all who have given attention to the family history that Hannah Orvis was John's first ,vife and the mother of all his children, but this cannot have been the case. In the records of the Farn1ington church, a list is given of "per sons in full communion in the thurch'' for the years 1677 to 1685. In this list the names of "'fhon1as Orton and wife" and of "John Or-ton's wife" are found. A subsequent rec- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 23 ord shows that "John Orton's wife" "joined the church" in 1690. The ,Yives thus named could not be the same. Ag·ain, the four younger of his six children, beginning with Mary, 1688, are found in close succession, viz., 1688, 1690, 1692, and 1694; while Thomas, the oldest son, was probably born as early as 1675 to 1677, as we conclude from the f.act that he was 1narried in 1698. His sister, Margaret, was married in 1699. ..A .. gain, in the subsequent distribution of John Orton's estate, the three young·er children, Mary (1690), John (1692), and Samuel (1694), are counted together, while Thomas and Margaret do not share equally with them in all res.peets, they having been at least partly provided for by their grandfather, Thomas, who named them expressly in the distribution of his estate by deed of gift of 1688. I read the history, therefore, about on this wise. John Orton, born in 1647, reached the age at which the young men of the colonies usually married, viz., twenty-one to twenty-six years, about 1670. He married his first wife about this d-ate. She bore him two children, Thomas and Margaret, and died about 1685-6, her name appearing in the church records of 1685. !n the course of the next year, that is, in 1686-·T, he married Hannah Orvis, his second wif~, and she bore him four children in the quick succession already named, dying herself in 1694, at the birth of her fourth child, Samuel. .A.. s to who the first "rife was, I have no knowledge, but I infer that she ,vas a I-Ia,vley, or a connection of the Ha""' ley fan1ily fr-0111 the fact that Lieutenant Joseph Ha""ley of Far1nington, in an exchange of property ,vith John Orton's son, rrhornas, about 1710, includes in the "consider·ation'' which he ackno,vledges, "the love, good-,vill, and affection "~hi.ch I bear to my friend and kinsman" (Thomas Orton). 24 DESCENbANTS OF THOMAS ORTON But whatever the surname of the second wife, it is cer tain that she made a very important contribution to the Orton family in this country in the two sons that she bore to her husband. The names and dates of birth (baptism) of her four children are as follows: Mary, ~aptized ~lay 20, 1688. Died in infancy. Mary, baptized February 16, 1690. Died in 1710. John, baptized December 4, 1692. Samuel, baptized November 11, 1694. Mrs. Hannah Orton died at the birth of her son, Sam uel, in November, 1694. In the succee4ing year, 1695, John married a third •wife, Mary, daughter of Owen Tudor of Windsor, and before the year closed he hims~lf died. He was but forty-eight years old at the time of his death. He had but recently come into the possession of his property. A list of lands held by him appears in the town records, dated January 26, 1691. Five separate tracts, or parcels, are enumerated, including the home lot with· its dwelling house and farm buildings ",vhich his father did give him by. deed of gift, May 7, 1688." His death must be counted untimely from every point of view. He was in the prime of life, he was happily mar ried, he had five children th~t needed his care and he had but lately come to the consideration which the possession of a large property, then as no,v, "'~ould bring with it. He ,vas ill for some time, as we incidentally learn, and looked forward to a possibly fiatal result. Our informa tion co1nes in this way. During his sickness, he called in a neighbor to ,vhom he expressed the wish that the property which his ne,vly wedded. ,vife, llary Tudor, had brought with her fron1 her father should be turned back to her in case that he died. ...-\.fter his death this neighbor went OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 25 before the Probate Court and testified to the conversation and action was. taken in accordance therewith. He left no "dll and his property "\\'"as divided by order of the Court, .A.pril 8, 1696. His widow held her rights in the property and cel'ta.in rooms of the house and certain parts of the farm buildings were set aside to her, while others were as signed to the several minor heirs. The older children, Thomas and ~Iargaret, had no inheritance in these home buildings, from which I conclude that they were not mem bers of their father..,s household at this time. Ilis widow, Mary Tudor Orton, seems to have been an attractive woman. Five years after her first husband's death, she was married to John Judson of Woodbury, one of the sign ers of the original compact by which thi.s town was estab lished. Her father'" Owen Tudor, as one record puts it, "in hi.s old age made the childish -claim that he was connected · with the royal house of England." W·hatever the merits of this claim, it is certain that there is no Tudor blood in Orton veins... Th·ere ,vas no issue from her marriage to John Or'ton, but to her second hus·band she bore several sons and daughters. It does °:ot seem probable that she took the Orton children "'.'"ith her to Woodbury, but John and Samuel both found their wav... there at a later date. This brings us to the third generation of Ortons in New England. I append a table showing the principal facts in the history thus far reviewed. Table I. I. THOMAS ORTON, 1618-1688 1! M. Mnrgnrct Prntt in 1641. II. .John, 1647-1694. ll-----·-----···--- Mary, 1650. Sarah. 1652-1711, Elizabeth, 1654. Hannah, 1656, 2d. Annn Orvis. M.-John Root. M.-,Tededinh Dewey, M,-Sam uet Lewis. M.-Snmuel Lewis, 3d, Mary Tudor. II. 28 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON SE-C'fION III. THIRD GENERATION-THOMAS (1677?), JOHN (1692), SAMUEL (1694). Thomas, the oldest son of John of Farmington was born, as I have else,vhere shown, pr·obably, bet\veen the vears 1675 and 1678. · ...i\.t anv rate his own eldest child was ~ ~ . born in 1699. Counting him twenty-t"\"\i"'"O years old at the time of this event, and he would scarcely be. less, his ·natal year was 1677. He had- one full sister, Margaret. She married John Thompson, Jr., on November 2, 1699, and lived all her life in Farmd.ngton. Fortune "'.. as kind to Thomas from the beginning. While still a youth he was made rieh by the bequests of h_is grandfather. He thus became the owner of two large tr·acts in Ea.st Wind_sor and of other lands in Farming-ton. In his ear·ly manhood he is shown by the Farmington rec ords to have purchased tracts of land from several parties. Later, he inher·ited from his father's estate and he also bought the house and land rights of his brothers and sisters of the half blood, a.ppa.rently .reuniting the original allot ments and purchases of his grandfather. In 1720, as the representative of his grandfather, who was one of the eighty-four original proprietors of the town, he received a lar·ge allotment of valuable land that had been held in com m·on up to this tin1e. Not more than eight or nine of the original proprietors received a larger allotn1ent than he. This tr"act of land was in that par1 of the to"\"\i"n that s,ince 1830 has been called .A.. von, but that was, in the early time~, known as Nod. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 29 .A.s early as 1698, he married Anna Buckingham of Hartford. The Buckingham name is an honored one in Connecticut history. In 1710 he joined the church. The early church re~ords of Farmington show that "Thomas Orton (Sen., of vV"inds-or,) and wife joined the church De cember 22, 1656. His children, John, Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth, being under thirteen years of age when their father joined, entered '"~ith him." This accounts, in part, for the fact that John Orton's name does not ap,pear with the names of his wives in the list of church members. He was already, in a sense, a member of the church, but not having ratified the acts of his parents, he was not counted, under the stricter rulings that were coming to be enforced in these later years. The younger Thomas, as I have shown, left no open questions in this rega~d. To Thomas and ....i\.nna Buckingham Orton nine chil dren ·were born, three sons and six daughter.s. The names of the children are as follows: S-arc!h, baptized February 7, 1699. M. in 1727, Jonathan Hurlbut. Thomas, baptized January 4, 1701. Died 1706. ....i\.nna, baptized _February 9, 1703. ~{,ary, baptized March 7, 1703. J\ilargaret, baptized July 1, 1707. Died July 3, 170& Thon1as, baptized ....i\..pril. 30, 1709-1780. ~Iargaret, baptized March 31, 1712. Esther, baptized October 11, 1714. Died April 1, 1738. John, baptized September 17, 1717-1795. 30 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON It is seen that there·,were t",.o sons in this line to con tinue the Orton nan1e, viz., Thomas, born 170_9, and John, born 1717. Of Thomas, the eldest son of John, I have now given all the principal facts that I have found on record. ~umerous lines of Ortons trace their ancestr:y to him, probably a full half of all that bear this nan1e in the country, and among them manv., of the most honored and successful of the entire family. I append at this point a tabular statement of the names of his descendants for the next three generations, principally in the male line. But I ·'\\rill treat of the sue.: cessive generations more fully on subsequent pages. JOHN OF WOODBURY, 1692-1763. John, the second son of John of Farmington, by his· second wife, IIannah Orvis Orton, was baptized December 4, 1692. He gre,v up in Farmington and remained there until 1717. On }larch 4 of that .,.vear ,ve find that John and Samuel sold some of the most valuable lands that they had ~ inherited from their father to Timothv and Nathaniel Stan- •1 ley, respectively, "rho seem to have bought them in the inter est of their half~brother, Thomas, reselling the .same to him. For these lands John received £40 and Samuel £43. On November 13 of the same year, John and Samuel sell to Ensign S-an1uel Ne,vell, Sr., their inheritance in the hon1e stead, including portions of the house assigned .to then1 by the Court of Probate and also three acres of land about the house. Their share in the house consisted in the "sou th or hall chamber, both g·arrets, and one-third of the cellar." They received £40 for ,vhat they thus parted ,vith. Ensign :Ne-,vell resells the same to Lieutenant Joseph Ha,vley, the "friend and kinsman" of r~rhomas Orton, for ,vhom the pur chase was no doubt made. Table II. III. IV. v. VI. f James (Judge), Winfield, N. Y. f Thomas (M D.) Thomas ( ~squire). 1774-1821 .. · .. Ham1lton, N. Y. ---- · -- ---! 13!-l,80 j Abiram (Jud~e).-.1776-1837 M. Ann D1x. I Pomfret N y 2d, Sarah Atwood. Philo (Judge)'. --~-1778-1860 (Thomas (Dea.) _ Pomfret, N. Y. I ______1709 LTwo daughters. Tyringham. Mass. :~I. ~izabeth Sedg- David _____ . 1736 f Chauncey: y.1ck, of Farm-,1 Johni:.town, N. Y. l Mrs. Austm. 1ngton. Horatio. ______1782-1832 Timothy ______1784-1813 David ______1790-1851 Roger. ____ 1740-1814 [ A~os ______1792-1847 Geneseo, N. Y. -.1 Eltas ______1794-1850 M. Esther Avery. I Roger ..•. ------.1799-1851 l Thomas ______------1803-1871 Polly .. ____ . ______.1z84-1832 Huldah ______1,87-1822 Il Margaret ---- ______1801-1867 Thomas . _1678 f SamueL ..... ______1763 Fa.rmingt'n.Conn. ( .John. ______1742 i Bennington, Vt., Canada. M. Anna Buck-{ Little Falls. N. Y. LSolomon. ____ ... 1764-1852 ingham. Luzerne, N. Y. Thomas ___ 1746 f Myron (M. D.) . 1784-1873 Harlow N. ,.M. D) __ 17~1837 Ichabod (Rev.) Anna .. _.______. 1787-1844 -----: _____ 1754-1797 {I Am'llilla. ______1788 Brookfield, N. Y. , John B. (Lawyer). _1790-1843 M. Naomi Hard. IDavid ____ ---- ______1791 John ______1717-1795 Clarissa ______.. 1792 Tyringham, Mass.• LPamelia. ______1794 Shaftsbury, Vt. M. Abigail Wood-1 'William __ .1756 ruff' .... 1717-17541 2d, Mary Slaugh- f Mary .... ---- _____ 1791 ter. "G. d on 1""' \ Aar~>n-. __ ... ______.1793-1871 L 59 1 Fai~eic1.' Vt. ~ Lann1a ------.. 1z95 M. Phoebe Oatman I Sarah ______- · ---- · .l,98-1824 I Truman. ______1800-1877 l Charlotte . . . ___ . _. 1803 f Oliver ____ . __ . ___ ... 1797-1866 Ol"v1 r 1"'64-lS46 I Leman W .... ------1799-1870 eD · · --· s' • ~ Elizabeth J .. - ___ --1804 •M · orC'as qmre. I William Squire .... 1809-1867 John Benjamin ____ 1811-1885 Lorenzo ... _... _.. _.1798-1865 - Anna- .Mrs.Joseph Tucker. 1168 I Amos ·:·- · • • • Lovisa-Mrs. Calvin Mills. L M.Lonsa Wllhams~I Amos ______.... l809-l8S8 Angeline ... ______1811-1866 (Mrs. Phf' lps.) IL.5arah J.-Mrs. Irish. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 33 In this last transaction, John and Samuel are described as "of oodburv." In the annals of the last-named town "'r ti also, John is recorded as settling in Woodbury in 1717. He came to his ne"- home full-handed and purchased here some of the 1nost fertile and desirable lands of this · beautiful to,Yn, a large part of which remain to this day in the possession of his direct descendants who are still living there. Several years later, John and Samuel sold other tracts in Farmington, and partic♦ ularly, on November 7, 1721, they sold "for a .. valuable sum of money" four tracts of land, con taining, respectively, one hundred and thirty acres, one., hundred and thirty-four acres, one hundred and thirty-two acres, and fourteen acres. John m-arried not long after coming to vVoodbury. The Christian nan1e of his wife ,va.s Mary, but this is all that we kno,v. This fact "re get from the church records. In the membership lists "Mary, "rife of John Orton," is recorded. She outlived her husband by t,Yenty-one years, dying in 1784, "·hile his--death occurred in 1763,. To John and liary, five children ,vere born. They are named here"·ith: Sarah, 1725-1749. Married John l\'Iitchell. John, October 5, 1729-1808.. Elizabeth, November 15, 1734. liary, February 2.3, 1741. M. Nathan Judson. Samuel, Decen1ber 8, 1741-1819. In 'l'able III. I give a list of the descendants of John Orton, principally in the 1nale line, for three succeeding gen erations. This bran<:h of the fa1uilv is seen to have been fl far less prolific than that of l'homas of Farmington. 34 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON SAMUEL OF LITCHFIELD, 1694-1774. Captain San1uel ,vas the third and youngest son of John Orton. His mother, Hannah Orvis Orton, died hnmediately after his birth. It is supposed that he ,vas reared in Farm ington. In 1718 he follo,vecl his brother John to ,v oodbury and remained there for two .vears..,, W·oodburY._, ,vas at that tim·e the frontier to,vn of the Connecticut settlement on the north,vest. .A.. belt of forest, a hundred miles in breadth, stretched practically: unbroken from the Connecticut Iti,-er to the Hudson. But the tin1e ha.cl no,v come for another little section of this priI_ueval forest to be reclaimed from the sole occupation of savages and wild beasts and to be trans formed into the hon1es of civilized men. In 1718 a company was organized in the older to"\\-ns for the settlement of Ban tam embracincr the territor-v around Bantarr1 Lake· and in ' ~ Oj ' 1719 the General Court set off 44,800 acres for such settle- ment. This tract ,vas divided into sixt~r shares, each covering considerably more tha.n a square mile, three being reserved for "pious uses," under ,vhich head churches and schools ,vere provided for. In the san1e year, 1719, the name of Litch field ,vas substituted for Bantam. In addition to the large farm tracts, hon1e lots of fifteen acres or less ,vere assigned ' . near the meeting house for all the settlers. The price of the land in the large traets \Ya.s fixed by the Court at one and three-fourth penee (1¾ d.) per aere. The name of "Samuel Orton of ,vooclbury~' appears in the list of the fifty-t,vo grantees and original settlers of Litchfield. IIis farru lay at the southeast of Bantan1 Lake, and he dre"~ by lot the fourth <·hoite for the sn1aller, or vil lage, tract. The village lot that he seleeted lies on the east ~ide of To-\Yll Hill Street, near Bantan1 Itiver. 1'hat part of Table III. III. IV. V. VI. r Sarah ------1725-1749 M.-John Mitchell. ( Sarah ... _.. 1765 M.-Ball, Canada. Mary A .....1768 M.- Eli Smith, Orange, Ct. Esther ____ . 1771 M.-Hollister Jud- John --- ... 1,-29-180 8 son. ( Marv A ______--1817 M.-Abiga}ILeaven--{John ____ ...178"..!-1838 J John ______.. 1819 woi:th, 1,63; M. 2d, M.-Betsey E. l Betsey . ______----1824 Patience Warner, Carpenter. LSarah J.-_ --· ____ ----1826 John ____ .1692-1763 1 1782. Woodbury(in1717) ~ M.-Mary-- 1 f James S ____ ------1816-1892 "'"84-l8Sl I Haniet . ___ . _- -_... 181~1854 T 11 1 009 ruman .... Freden·ck C 10 -1880 M P M < ------~ J.: C-rt3:tty ;. 3- Henry _B. __ ---- ____ 1825-1864 u is .... 11 9 1889 I1 Cornelius r. ______1527 L l Walter J_ ------1834-1864 Elizabeth ______1734 (John (M. D.). ___ 1774 · .Samuel (M, D.). { Samuel D. (Lawyer), _...... 1776-1850 New Milford. Elizabeth. Henry (M. D.) .. Samuel (M. D.).. j ...... 1781-1864 ...... 174l-1819, David (M. D.L. l\I.-RuthJud- 1 ------1734-1864 L son .... 1749-lS-..?8 f Man·. (J D l822 • ames oug1 as ------· James (1\1. D.). ______J Newark, N. J. Caldwell, N. J. l Samuel H. (M. D.), 1829-1892 I ______1787-1869 l New York. LSarah ------ OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 37 the villag·e is at present counted far less desirable for resi dence than the higher lands to the north,vard. But at the date of the settlement there "r.as so1ne reason that made the lo\\~ grounds mor·e desirable, a.s is sho1vn in the fact that the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and. seventh choices were all located in this. im1nediate vicinity. His nearest neighbors were the Winchells, the Goodwin.s, the Woodruffs, the Sedg wicks, the Gibbses, the Marshes, the Roots, etc., etc. Out of this gra.nt grew the town and county of Litch field, whieh has had so honorable a part in the history of Connecticut and the nation. Samuel Orton's farm lav_, about five miles southwest of the meeting house of Litchfield, and is still known as Orton Hill. It belonged in what was then and long •afterward known as the South Farms; but fifty or sixty years ago this name was replaced by the name Morris, in honor of James S. Morris, who long maintained an academy·of great excel lence and reputation at this point. The locatiqµ of the original Orton homestead is thought to be marked by a rather indistinct depression surrounded by crumbling walls, in other words by a "cellar hole" on the high gTound, in the center of the tract. The place is eleven hundred feet above the .sea and commands a wide and at tractive vie,v of the surrounding region, but the land is rough and the soil is thin. The gra,nite rocks of the region rise to the surface in many outcrops. To get rid of the rocks as far as possible, the farms ,vere necessarily divided into 8'mall fields, surrounded by hig·h stone walls. But even after this extensive use of the rock, there is a surplus that never shrinks. The farn1 is no,v mainly used for pasturage and meadow land. It is easy to ·see that Samuel did not make as wise a selection of a home as his brothers. The quality of the land that he took up was such as to forbid the accu- 38 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON mulation of "~ealth from tilling the soil. The best that it .. ~ould do was to give a scanty living to those who tilled it. As soon as the town was established, provision was ; made against attacks by the Indians, the threat of ,vhich was constant in those days. The north,vestern boundary of the Litchfield grant, as defined by the General Court, was the "wildernes:s." The first settlers 1Yere accordingly or ganized into two m,ilitary companies, one at Litchfield and the other at South Farms. Of the latter·, Samuel Orton was elected lieutenant, as the town records show. 'l'he tltle seems to have afterwards gro,vn into the next higher, viz., . captain, by which he will be here designated.· : Early mention is also· made of him in the public records a-s follows: "Vote~ to appoint Lieutenant B~rd and Samuel Orton to assist the clerk in perusing the Town Rolls, a1fd to conclude what shall be transcribed into the Town Book and what not~" As stated above, Samuel Orton settled on Orton H~ll in 1720. The first work of course "''"as the clearino· of ' ' :=, awav., the forest and the building of a house from the ~ogs.· · Two or three years seem to have been sufficient for this, and in the fall of 1723 he was able to bring here a wife to share the privations and sacriD:ce.s of the ne"',. settlement. He :r...1.ar ried, at that time, .A.bigail, daughter of Gideon and Sar~h Smedley. The Sn1edleys ,vere a strong and successful fam ilvv of the Connecticut con1n1unitvV and have had an honor-a- ble record for many generations. The name of Gideon is continued in the Orton familv to this dav fron1 the source V ~ indicated above. 'l'he facts here enn1nerated s:eem to sho,v that Samuel Orton held good standing a1nong his pioneer neighbors, and young though he ,vas, he seen1s to have been counted a man of courage and sound judgment. Seven OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 39 children were born to hin1 on Orton Hill. Their names are as follows: Samuel, October 12, 1724-1810. Hezekiah, i\.pril 29, 1727. Afariah, .....\.ugust 17, 1729-1774. Gideon, August 18, 1732. Lemuel, ~larch 24, 1735-1787. Jemima, November 11, 1740. (~Irs. ....\.rchibald McNeil.) John, }larch 4, 1744-1785. The several ... families with "'?hich his children subse quently becan1e connected by marriage afford further confirmation of the honorable place that the Ortons held in the community. Samuel married Ruth Mason, Hezekiah married ....\.nna Sedg,vick, Jemima, the only daugh- . - ter, married Captain .. A.rchibald :NlcNeil, and John married a daughter of Dea.con Joseph Landers, of Sharon. The fam ilies to which these Orton ,Yives belong were among the best in the community. The death of Captain Samuel occurred in 1774. I will here introduce a tabular list of the descendants of Samuel Orton through the fourth, fifth, and sixth genera tions, as in the case of the t"ro older brothers. I n1ake the sixth generation the lin1it of these tabular representations, because every individual up to that time ,vas born in New 0 Eno·landb ' and the ::,o·reat 1naJ· oritv., of the sixth ::, eneration was bor·n in the closing years of the eighteenth century. The latest date of birth in the present list is 1811. .A.t the begin nino·b of the J)resent centurv.., the '<>'reatb dis1)ersion;,' beo-an.b The In(lians ,vere IHHY out of the ""ay, the Revolutionary War "ras over, the country was· independent and " .. as be ginning to recognize its unity; higlnYays and rivers "rere 40 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON opened, and the natural advantages of the better lands of Western Vermont and New York, and a little· later of Ohio and Michigan, could assert themselves as against the stub born rockv hills of western Connecticut and Massachusetts. Cl It came to pass, therefore, that the people of Ne"' England were scattered, almost as if by an explosion, in the course of a few years. Entire familie~ well-nigh disappeared from their old homes during the first quarter of the present cen tury. The Ortons took part in this great movement, and members of the family were a.m·ong the earliest settlers of the Champlain, the Mohawk, and the Genesee Valleys, and the shores of the western lakes in New York, Ohio, and even Canada. Table IV. II!. IV. v. VI. rGideon.--· .1754-1778 Samuel (3d) --·- ---- { Edmund ______1795 John ...... 1764 { A r 0 G 1796 1·Samuel (2d) ... M. Ruth Norton. Hu ~ ···------r·98- . -· ---· ...1724-1810 Goshen, Conn. ora 10 ------, 1876 M. Ruth Mason. Litch:6.~ld, Conn. ;I; AraMu. nLaholS· G--l~b7b69s. J Mo··------1802 ram.eseman ------1805 Morris, Conn. l Orrin A •.....•..... 1806 I .. I Miles. . .•. 1774-1814 f Sa:nuel G. (D. D.) .l'f.97· 1873 I M. Lydia Gibbs. ~ Miles M .... ---- ··- 1,99-18"20 Morris, Conn I William H ...•.•... 1801-1842 !, LEdward $ ______.••. 1809-1832 f Hezekiah .. 1741-1770l · I M.PhrebeJohnson Solom?n ...... , ....1768 1 Williamstown, N.Y. Hezekiah ______....1768 Eliada ..•.. 1748 ( Hosmer. .. ------1773 M. Lucia Hunger-~ Eliacla,Jr ______1;75... 1sso ford. • Zenas. ______1777 Parish, N. Y. LLeman ··---- ,. ____ 1779 ( Heman H •• ____ .••. 1780-1855 Sedgwick - -1750 l .Ed d ,.... . Sarah Tucker. "'i H mun • ...... 1 a.rmon. Hezekiah .. 1727 lDaniel. M. Anna Sedgwick: Litchfield~ Conn. Dennis ______------1781 Sherman ______1783 Capt. Samuel Aza.riah .•.. 1757 . Alfred. ------1694-17'14 ! .M •.:,ybil Cleveland I Azarlah. M. Abigail Smedle!'· lBrainerd ·------1804 Litchfield, South Farm.s rTru,man. (Now Morris, Ct.) l Baruch. Darius .•... 1760 { Darius. - lDennis ..... 1766 I Bronson. lHiram _____ ---· ----1811-1875 .• ( Azariah G. (D. D.) .1789-1864 A.zariah ----1761-1854 I Charles ..•• ------1791-1850 M. Abigail Jack-{ Porter ____ ----·- ...1794-18'!7 son. { Caleb J ______....1805--1850 Azariah ..•• 1729-1774 l John ____ .. ____ .••. 1811-1880 M. Mary Davis ______1738-1831 Reaben. . L_Dari~s. ------· •. 1806-1833 Tyringham, Mass. Danus ..... 1770 { Azariat. .•••.••.•••• 1807 M. Vashti Jackson I Lambert.------: •... 1808 l Albert .• ____ ---- •.••1810 Gideon ..••. 1732 ( John J ------1786-1870 (Lemuel •••. 1762-1831 ~ Burr. Lemuel .... 1785-1787 ~ Gideon. lE. Birdseye. M. Mary Lurvey. 1 John. Litchfield, Conn. l \Villiam. ,Temima.Nov.11,1740 ( M. Captain Arcbi-i Joseph ------1768 Milton P. (M. D.J. bald McNeil. l\-1. Polly Pardee. { Chauncey. John ...••.1744-1785 Alanson. M. Remember Landers. Sharon, Ct. lLuther_ ----1774 { Orrin. CHAPTER III. THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON OF FARMINGTON. . . . I ,vill no"r follow, as be.st I can, the history of ~he de- . . seendants of the three sons, Thomas, John, and Samuel, of the third gener·ation. For convenience sake, I wiJI. keep these families distinct, and will finish "'.. hat I have to say of each line before beginning with a,nother. The several .tables of the pr"'eceding pages can be consulted with profit in fo llo"~ing this history. In fact, they are indispensable to a firm hold on the facts . ..A.s I have already ren1arked, Thomas Orton, of the third generation of Ortons in New England, :spent his life in Farmington, where he was born~ He left two sons, Thomas, born 1709, and John, born 1717, and five daughters. SECTION I. (a) THROUGH DEACON THOMAS ORTON OF TYRINGHAM. Thomas, 1709, the third of this na.me in the New Eng land fa1nily, eontinuing the na1nes of both his father and his great-grandfather, ""as born and brought up at Farming ton, and ,vas 1narried June 18, 1730, to Elizabeth Sedg"vick, of the same to-,vn. In 17 43 he ren1oved fro1n Farming-ton to Corn"rall, of ""hich to-,vn he was the first white settler. 44 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON He bought a large body of land in that par1 of the town which is no,v kno"'"n as Cornwall Hollow, cleared it and built a house ther,e; but after three year..s sold his prop€rty to his br-o.ther.. -in-law, Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick, by whose deseendants the property to the extent of S€Veral hundred acres, is still owned. The house built by Thomas Orton was the ancestral home of General John Sedgwick, of the United States ....\.rmy, ,vho ,vas a descendant in the four1h genera tion of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick. ....\. fine residence built· by General Sedgwick occupies th~ site at the present time.· ,,- In 1749 Thon1as Or1:on removed from Cornwall Hollo"~ to Tyringham, Berkshire County., Mass·., and settled in that part of the to'\\rn "'"'hich ha~ been known as Hop Brook from the earliest time. Here, too, he was one of the first settlers, clearing the land himself and helping to plant civilization in what had before been the unbroken forest He was the :first elected deacon of th~ church of his town, and is re ported in the old records as "a very respectable citizen." He will be known in our records as Thomas of Tyringham, or, better, as Deacon Tho1nas. His wife, Elizabeth Sedg wick, endur·ed with him the hardships of thus making two homes in the wilderness. ·She died in Tyringham, l\'Iay 16, 1758. To the-in ,vere born six children, three sons and three daughters, five .of ,vhom .survived their parents. The names of the children are as f oll·ows (two of second marriage being added): Roger; March 11, 1731-1731. Elizabeth, Noven1ber 8, 1732. Thomas, 1734-1780. Anna, l\'lay 8, 1736. David, 1737 ( ?) Esther, l\'lay 12, 1738. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 45 R,oger, 1740-1814. Margaret, December 6, 1742. The name Roger is probably a fa.mily name ori. the Sedg wick side. .. A.fter the death of his first wife, which occurred May 16, 1738, four days after the birth of Esther, he married, Feb ruary 18, 1741-2, Hephzibah Buel, and two children were born from this union, viz., R-oger (1740-1814) and llargaret (17 42). Deacon Thomas died in Tyringham in 1780. A long line of _Ortons trace their descent from him. He had, beside the church title tha.t I have used in th:ese pages, a military title, viz., sergeant, as appears in the church rec ords of Farming--ton. He is designated as "Sergeant Thomas Orton" in the record of his second marriage. (b) THROUGH JOHN ORTON-1717-17"95. John, the second son of Thomas of Farmington, ·was born, brought up, and married in Farmington, but lived for some time in Tyringham a.nd can be designated, J o.hn of Tyringham. He married Abigail, daughter of Samuel vVoodruff, of Farmingi.o!)-, December 23, 1741. She died October 21, 1754. He married a second ,vife, llary Slaughter, of Simsbury, December 11, 1755. Abigail Wood ruff bore him six children, four sons and t,vo daughters. Mary Slaughter became the mother of four sons and four daughters. A list of all is given below: John, 1742. Phoebe, 1744. Died early. Thomas, 1746. Gideon, 1748. Died June 23, 1759. Abigail, 1751. 46 DESCENDANTS-· OF THOMAS ORTON Ichabod, 1754. ~Iary, 1757. Married Philo Dexter. Gideon, 1759. W... illia.m, 1762. Oliver, 1764-1846. Phoebe, ·1766. Amos, 1768. Anna, 1772. Redome, 1776. ~Iarried Joseph Bacon. I suspect that .. A.. bigail Woodruff Orton di~d at the birfii. of her son, Ichabod. His birth and his· mother's death, at any rate, occurred in_ the same year. If my conjecture is well founded, it will explain the selection of the peculiar and uneomn1on Bible name ·tvhich w.as given to the mother less child. See 1st Samuel, Chap. r\r., verses 19-22. From the loins of John (1717) a much l,arger number of descendants ha.s sprung than from any other Orton of the fourth generation. His family has kept "rell to the northward, being prin cipally found in v... ermont, northern New Y or·k, Canada, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon, and W·ashington. Some of the branches of this stock are among the most distinguished of our entire familv., . In his old age, probably about 1790, John removed from Tyringham to Shaftsbury, v... ermont. At a later date he removed to Fairfield, Franklin County, \Tern1ont, ,vhere he died .A. pril 3, 1795, at the home of his son, Gideon. .A.. grand daughter, ")"ho lived until a few years ago, remen1bered him at this time as "bowed over, like a man reaping grain with a sickle." There are t,vo of his seven sons of " 9 horn I have no record. It is possible that they settled in Canada, and OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 47 · there may be large fan1ilies there of the John Orton stock, of whom I have thus far no knowledge whatever. It scarcelv admits -of doubt that several sons of the •J great household above •enumerated saw service in the Ilevolutionary War, but I find the record of but one, viz., John (I take it to be John, 1742). ..A.JI western }fassachu setts ,vas aflame ,vith military enthusiasm, and Tyringham, the hon1e of John Orton, fur·nished its full quota for service. T,vo sons of his older brother, Thomas, were in the army, and at least one John Orton, either John, 1717, or John, Jr., 17-42, was for seven months and twenty-nine days in the service. The name is found on the Revolutionary pay-rolls • of , ... ermont. ..~n unbroken tradition also declares that another son, Ichabod, was a chaplain in the Revolutionary War, but I find no record to this effeet_ ..Judge Harlow S. Orton, Chief Justice of Wisconsin, and . a· g:r:andson of Ichabod; is authority for this claim. Another family tra dition is that John and three sons, Thomas, Gideon, and Oliver, were in the war. It is not at--an im.probable that they ,vere among the extemporized forces that swarmed from the hills of ,vestern Xe,v England to assist in the capture of Burgoyne at Sara toga. In this case the absence of their names from the State rolls can be accounted for. FIFTH GENERATION OF ORTONS, IN THE LINE OF THQMAS, OF FARMINGTON. (a) THROUGH THOMAS OF TYRINGHAM. Coming no,Y to the descendants in the fifth generations of 1~hon1as of Far-niington, ,ve find ten in the male line, viz., the three sons of Deacon Thomas and the seven sons of John, enumerated on preceding pages. 48 DESCENDANTS-OF THOMAS ORTON rhe first of these to be taken up is Thomas, oldest son · of Deacon ThomaS;-. From collateral records-we learn, or at least infer, that he was a physician. "re accordingly des- ignate him. as Dr. Thomas. He ,vas born in Farmington in 1734, but lived at r_ryringham most of his life. He died at a comparatively ea~·ly ,ige, viz., in ...l\..pril, 1780, in his forty-sixth year. His father also died in the same year, as the records indicate. The life of Dr. 'l'homas wa.s short, but it seems to have not been altogether uneventful. He mar ried for his first wife, :....\.nn Dix, who bo~e him one son, James. But soon afterward he-obtained a divorce from her. There was probably a domestic tragedy here, of "·hich we get only the slightest hint. Divorces in the rural com.muni ties of New England were certainly very unusual at.this time. Thomas soon afterwards married again. The name of his second wife was Sarah ...l\..twood, of Woodbury, Oonnecti cut. She ·was the daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan ....\.twood, · son of Dr. J,onathan, one of the earliest settlers of the town. She bore him three sons and two daughters. She was a superior and attractive woman, and after Tu. Thomas's death, though encumbered with the care of her six chil dren, :five of them her own and one of them t,he son of the divorced wife, she commanded the admiration ,of one of the magnates of western Mas~achusetts at that time, Colonel Giles J-ackson, of Tyringham, a gallant and honored officer in the Revolutionary War. She married Colonel Jackson, becoming his second wife, and to them :five children were born. Bv his first wife Colonel Jackson had fourteen chil- ~ dren. The Orton children gre"'· up in Colonel Jackson's household, and warm affection seems to have always existed bet"'·een them and the Jackson childr·en. Our "Grand mother Ja.ckson is always mentioned with honor and affec~ tion in the Orton records of this branch whenever the op- OF WINDSOR, CONN~, 1641. 49 portunity occurs. · She died in La Fayette, Oneida County, Xew York, May 1, 1&39, in her eighty-ninth year.. I give the list of Dr. Thomas's sons in order, herewith: James, son of first wife. Thomas, of second wife. .,A.biram, of second wife. Philo, of second wife. Belinda (}frs. Brewer-Tyringham). ,Sarah (l\'Irs. Danforth-La Fayette, N. Y.). David, the second son of Deacon Thomas, was born about 1736. He "\\~as reared in Tyringham and married there. But about the opening of the century he removed to Johnstown, New York, in the Mohawk Valley, where he spent the remainder of his days. No records that I have seen show who1n he married, or "·hen; but the fact that he left a son and a daughter is duly chronicled. David ~·as a soldier in the Revolutionary ..A .. rn1y. His name appears in the State archives of Massachusetts. Roger, the third son of Deacon Thomas Orton, was born in 1740. He gre,v up and settled in Tyringham and occu pied his father's far1n for a -number of years. He was a corpor"al in the Revolutionary .A.rmy, as is shown by the n1ilitary records of llassachusetts. Early in the present century he ren1oved to the "Genesee country" of western :Ne,v York, and settled in Geneseo. He had a large family of children, the names of ,vhom are given below: Horatio. liary (also called Polly). Timothv. ·-· Huldah. 50 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON David. Amos. Elias. Roger, Jr. Margaret. Thomas. One of his sons was killed in the War of 1812. Roger himself died at Geneseo -in 1814. It is thought that his death was hastened by the loss of his son. (b) THROUGH JOHN OF TYRINGMAM. - The family of John (1717), it will be remembered, con- sited of seven sons and five daughters, who survived him. The list will be repeated here for convenience: John (17 42), Thomas (17 46), Ichabod (1754), Gideon (1'759), "\\t-ril liam (1762), Oliver (1764), .A.mos (1768). All seem to have been born in Farmington, Connecticut, or Tyringham, lias sachusetts. John (1742) removed to Bennington, Vermont, and has a record of service in the I{evolutionarv vVar from Oi that State. ...~fter the ".,.ar he removed to Little Falls, Herkimer C·ounty, Ne~v York, " ... here he died. He left two sons, Samuel and Solomon, both of whom were born in Bennington, Samuel about 1763, and Solomon in 1764. In 1801 S,amuel removed to Cumberland, Ontario. Solomon settled in Luzerne, ,,rarren County, New· York, and died there in 1852. Each of them has left a. large number of Orton descendants. Ichabod ,vas born in 1754. The death of his mother occurred on October 21, of the san1e year. It is not unlikel~y that it occurred in connection ,vith the birth of this son. If this ,vere so, it n1ight explain the unusual scripture name OF WINDSOR, CONN., 164.1. 51 . which "~as inflitted on the motherless babe. The sign_ifi.- cance of the name Ichabod, it "'"ill be remembered, is "the glory has departed." · He beca.n1e a Baptist minister and served, according to a tradition already noted, as a chaplain in the lleYolutionary .A.. rmy. VVe kno,v but little of him, but there "'"as e·videntlY a stock of moral and mental force •.1 . in him that lifted hin1 quite out of the commonplace. He married Xaonli Hard, of ,rermont, who bore him a large family, as f ollo-\vs: Myron, 1784-1875. (M. D.) Cambria, N. Y. Harlo,v N-., 1785-18-37. (M. D.) Bucyrus, Ohio. .A.nna, 1787-1844. M., 1805, Ozias Safford. ....\..marilla, 1788. M. Theodore England. John B., 1790-184:l. (Lawyer.) Somerset, Ohio. David, 1791. Clarissa, 1792. M. --Barber. Pan1elia, 1794. lI. Foote. .. Rev. Ichabod emigrated fron1 Vermont to Brookfield, lfadison County, Xe"'.. York, "\\"here he died in 1797, while still in the prin1e of life. I do not find data that sho,v ",.hether the children \"\'"ere born in Xe"\\'.. England or N e"r York, but I inc-line to the opinion that they \"\'"ere born in New England and n1ainly reared in X e,v York. His "\\"ido,v mar ried ag~ain. 'l'he nan1e of her second husband "~as Crissey. 'l~he f a1nily of this Ra ptist 1ninister has proved a re n1arka ble one, at least for the Orton annals. The two older sons, J\iiyron and Ilario"~, studied n1edicine, and Harlow liYed by the praetiee of his profession. John B., the next son, ,Yas a la,Y_ye1· of g-ood repute, ,Yho liYed and died in So1nerset, ()hio. Da Yi Gideon 1759), fourth son of John of Tyringham (1717) and the first son of the second ,vife, Mary -Slaughter, was born in the san1e year that his half-brother, Gideon (17 48) died. The nan1e ,vas at once transferTed. He maITied Phoebe Oatman, by "~horn he had six children. Mar'Y, 1791. lI. John Perry. .A.aron H., 1793-1872. lL Polly Hall, 1819. Lavinia, 1795. Sarah, 1798-1824. Truman, 1800-1877. M... AJ ,ira Gleason. Charlotte, 1803. Gideon Iived for· a time in Fairfield, Vermont. His father (John,1717) died at his hon1e. Oliver (1764-1846), sixth son of John (1717), married Dorcas Squire, by ,vhom he had six children. He and his descendants have remained in "\7"ermont. ·The names of his children are as f ollo,vs: Olive, 1797-1866. Lyman W., 1799-1870. Elizabeth J., 1804. Willian1 S., 1809-1867. lI. ..A.nzoletta IJoveland. - John Benjamin, 1811-1885. M. ...i\..daline S. Love- land. ...:-'\.mos, seventh and youngest son of John and Mary S. Orton, ,va.s born in 1768, and ,vas reared in rryringham and southern "\Tern1ont. He n1arried I-'ovisa, daughter of Joseph and Sarah ,,rillian1s, of Belcher, Massaehusetts. Joseph vVilliams ,Yas a near relative, and perhaps a brother, of General Williams, the founder of ,vnlian1sto,vn, Massa ~busetts. ...i\..mos ren1oved to Hadley Falls, Saratoga OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 53 County, New York, where at least two s-ons were born to him, viz., Lorenzo, 1798-1865, and Amos, June 7, 1809-1888, both of whom I am able to trace in their descendants. The complete list of his children is given herewith, viz: Lorenzo, 1798-1865. Anna, 1802-1880. (Mrs. Joseph Tucker.) Lovisa, 1806-1878. (Mrs. Calvin Mills.) Amos, 1809-1888. Angelina, 1811-1866. (Mrs. Benjamin Phelps.) Sarah J ., 1813. (Mrs. L. B. Irish.) Halstead, Kansas. Of Thomas, second son (17 46), and William, fifth son (1762), of John, 1717, we have no further record. SECTION III. SIXTH GENERATION OF ORTONS, IN THE LINE OF THOMAS OF FARMINGTON: (a) THROUGH DR. THOl\lAS OF TYRINGHAM. The names of the Ortons of this generations have been already given in connection_ with the names of their fathers . ...\.!though it involves repetition, they will be given again here, so as to render the tracing of them easy and the identi fication definite. Care must be taken in this respect, be ca use so manv., that are enu1nerated in these lists have the san1e Christian nan1es. Oon1ing into connection "rith our own tin1es, "re can learn more of the personal history of those included in the generation no,y to be considered than of their predecessors. I "'?ill follo,v the sa.n1e order that I have introduced in preceding sections. The sons of Dr. Thomas (1734-1780) come firsit in review. Jam.es, the eldest of the four, "'?as born in Tyringham, and 54 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON probably betw·een 1760 and 1770. He was brought up in the hon1e of his stepfather, 0olonel (}iles ..Jackson, of 'fyring ham. The tr.. aditions of that household speak of him as a "wild" youth, but this designation in the New England of that day, does not necessarily in.vol ve any great amount of moral obliquity. Independence of thought and a.etion, es pecially in matters pertaining to theology, would have been quite likely to be described in such terms. J a1nes left Tyringham in early life and li,ed for a time in ...t.\.lbany, Ne"~ York. He probably studied law "·hile there, but soon after removed to Paris, Oneida County, New York, and finally to Winfield, Herkhner County, where he carried on the business of farming in connection with the pr·actice of law. He was subsequently appointed a judge in the county courts, and is known in our records as Judge James. I do not find the name of his wife, but he married before he left Massachusetts. Thomas, the second son of Dr. Thomas, was born in Tyringham, October 5, 17'74. He gre"~ up in Colonel Giles Jackson's household, as already related. He married Beulah, daughter of Reuben Rockwood, of Tyringham, and removed first to ...t.\. ugusta, N e"r York, and afteMvards to Hamilton, New York, wher~ he died July 21, 1821. He was made a justice of the peace of Madison County, and cau accordingly be designated henceforth as Esquire Thomas. His children are as f ollo"\\rs: Beulah, Septen1ber 12, 1798. Belinda, October 26, 1799-1818. Deborah, January 18, 1802. ~I. Rev. Jason Corwin. Philo Atwood, lfarth 15, 1804-1872. Jason Rockwood, December 7, 1806. Abiram, January 25, 1810-1810. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 57 Charles J.; June 15, 1815-1863. Lyman 0., January 16, 1819. Abiram ,vas the second son of Dr. Thomas and Sally .Atwood Orton. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Chau tauqua County, Ne"\\· York, purchasing from the Holland Land Company a beautiful farm in Pomfret, near Fredonia, and also land in .A.rk,vright, in 1807. This farm has been but recently divided among his heirs. He held several offices of tr11st in to"\\·n and county, and "ras one of the ves trymen of the first Episcopal church of the county. He was appointed an assisitant judge of the county by Governor DeWitt Clinton. He ,vas t\vice married, but left no chil dren. Philo, the fourth and youngest ·son of Dr. Thomas and Sally Atwood Orton, was born September 9, 177&. He was but two years old when his father died and therefore grew up in the Jackson homestead ,vithout knowing any other home. He seems to have been regarded with peculiar affection by all the children of that large and composite hous-ehold. He lived for a little time in Augusta, New York, and then found his way to Chautauqua" County among the earliest settlers: He m.ade the earliest entry of land in the to,vn of Pomfret, viz., in 1806, selecting a farn1 in one of the most fertile and beautiful tracts of the county, on the old Buffalo and Erie road, about four miles west of Fredonia. Here he lived a long and honored life. He ,vas the first supervisor of the town and held the office continuously from 1808 to 1819. He "ras a surveyor, and thus ma V. VI. VII. VIII. ( Horatio . _ .1782-1832 Mary I William P ...•••.•. 1854 Katie A .••...... 18.56 Elias, Jr .••. 1823 ICharles :. ____ ..•.•. 1858-1858 Roger __ .1740-1814 Au~nsta, Ia. Oscar ..... _ _... ___ . 1860 .. M. Virginia ' Ida ...•.. ··---- .... 1866 Geneseo. N. Y. -{ "Elias ...... 1794-1850 Kneeland. M.Esthe,r A very, .l\{. Electa Cbap- Dora ...... 1867 of Tyrmgbam, pel. Charles B. _. _.... _. 1870 Walter . _•••. ___ .•. 1872 Mass. Augusta, Iowa. l (Esther... --·- ...... 1855 I Lyma?- __ --·- .••••. 1860 Palmer..... 1826 ~ Francis. _____ .•••.. 1863 Augusta, Ia. I Lettie...... ••. _.. . 1866 lBert .... ------1869 Thomas A.. d. 1880 f Thom J 1873 Texas (Bill Co.). 1 • • as, r · ·----- M. Emma -- i ~1l11am ____ ·------18!6 ...•...••.. 1842_1862 l Walter ..••..•..••1817 I"William D. l Died in war, 1862. Roger .•... 1799-1851 Margar«!t .. 1801-1863 f M~.M~th.Armstr'ng. )I. Samuel Magee. l L1von1a Sta., N. Y. Thomas .... 1803-1879 ( Lucy. M. Irene Heath. ~ Agn~s. L M.2d, Lucy-. 1 Edwin. LEsther. ----1851 OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 61 kno-\v ledge of that line. The children were born in Tyring ham, but spent most of their mature years in western New York and died there, in most instances, none of them reach ing extreme longevity. 1.'he average age of the seven sons, the life of one having been ended prematurely by violence, was fifty years, and the ages of four ranged between fifty and fifty-six years. I presume that some of them in their later years emigrated to "the west" of their day, viz., Illinois, Io"'~a, etc., just as their father had emigrated from New England fifty years before. At least their sons are found in these western States now. I will review the line in order. Of Horatio (1782-1832) I have found no data. Mary (Polly) (1784-1&38) maITied Oren Heath. One daughter survives from this marriage, viz., .Mrs . .4i\.manda Symonds, of Buffalo, Ne"'~ York. Timothy (1785-1813), as already stated, was killed in the War of 1812. Of Huldah (1787-1822) no record has come down. David, born September 1, 1780, married Ruth Clark and removed to (Jlayton, Illinois, where he died November 24, 1849. They had· a large family. The names of the children will be found in a subsequent section. llargaret (1801-1863) married Samuel Magee, and is represented by a daughter, Mrs. Matthew ...-\.rmstrong, of Livonia Station, Ne"'~ York. Finally, Thomas (180:3-1879) married Irene Heath for his first "·ife, and Luey -- for his second ,vife, and left four children, three daughters and one son. (b) THROUGH JOHN OF TYRINGHAM. Coming to the sixth generation through John of Tyring ham (1717), "~e find t,vo sons of John (17 42) of Little Falls~ 62 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON oldest son of John (1717), viz., Samuel and S1olomon. Where thev., ,vere born I have not learned. In 1790 Samuel n1ar- ried Meriba, niece of General ~athaniel Greene. Samuel resided for a number of years in Bennington, ,:-ermont, and will be designated as Samuel of Bennington. He had four teen children, t"rel ve of "'~horn grew.. to maturity, and in 1801 he removed from ,rermont into Canada. :Fron1 this stock a host of descendants ·has sprung. The name of their distinguished kinsman on their mother's side has been a favorite one in this branch of the family, but it was uni formly shortened to Nathan Greene, and sometimes the final name ,vas omitted altogether. Of the remaining s_ons of John (1717) there are two, . . viz., Thom.as (17 46) and vVillia.m (175-6), of ,vhom I can say nothing more; except that William removed to Sodus Bay, New York, and died at Long Point, Ontario. But Ichabod, Gideon, Oliver, and ...L\.mos, left families that have been traced. Rev. Ichabod, as ,vill be remembered, lived in Brook field, New York, and died there in 1795. His ,vido"'~ su bse quently married again, becoming Mrs. Crissey. Ichabod must have gone to Brookfield soon after the Revolution, for all of his children were reared there. Mvron studied n1edi- e/ cine and established hilnself as a physician and farn1er in early life, in Oa1nbria, Xiagara County, New York, and nu merous descendants of his still reside in that YieinitY. In •J 1811 he married M,ary Hoit, and ten children ,vere born to them, several of ,v horn still suriri ve. Harlow N., lf. D. (1785-1887), "ras also brought up in Brookfield, N e,y York, ancl ,vas married there to (1-raee, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Marsh, a Baptist 1ninister, ,vho, according to the family tradition, "r-as a chaplain in the Revolutionary .A.rmy. Harlow studied medicine and en- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 63 gaged in praetiee in Ciambria, New York, to ,vhic:h plaee he ren1oved in 1817. I-le afterwards came on to Ohio and lived in Bucyrus a f e,v ·years, but he next took a still longer step westw·ard, ren1oving to Io,va, where he died in 18.37, in the fifty-third year of his age. He left three sons, who were just entering manhood at the time of his death. To all these families ,ve shall revert in the f ollo-,ving section. IehabocFs third son, John B. (1790-184.3), became a la"'· yer and settled in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio. Ile died there in 1843, but is still remembered by some of the older residents of the county. He was a man of good gifts and excellent eharacter. Beeause of his uprightness and inde pendence, he commanded the respect and confidence of the entire c:onununity. He n1et on equal terms in his profession such n1en as 'rhon1as Ewing and Henry Stc1.nbery. His kno,vledge of the la"· and his s.oun This completes the' account of the sixth generation of Ortons through 'l'ho1nas of Farmington and his t,Yo sons, Deacon Thomas of Tyringham and John of Tyringham. SECTION I"\T. SEVENTH AND LATER GENERATIONS OF ORTONS, IN THE LINE OF THOMAS OF FARMINGTON. (a) THROUGH DR. THOMAS OF TYRINGHAM. In this section I ,vill trace a'S fullv., as I am able the his- tory of Thomas of Farmingi:on's descendants through the seventh and succeeding generations to _the present time. I shall make use of tables similar to those already introduced, follo"\\·ing, of course, the order which I have thus far used. I begin "'·ith the oldest son of Dr. Thom,as's oldest son, viz., Judge James Orton, of Winfield, New York. He left one son, James Pierpont, who studied medicine and prac ticed his profession for many years in Forestville, Chautau qua County, Ne"\\· York, only a fe"'· miles from the ho1nes of his uncles, ..A.biran1 and Philo. In m.y bo:yhood I often heard his name mentioned by his neighbors and friends. Dr. Jan1es P. Orton left t,vo sons, Thomas Henry and Lym.an S., and three daughters. Thomas Henrv ,vas born in 1&32. He n1arried Geor- •J giana Thompson and lived for a number of years in Erie, Pennsylvania, "rhere he died in 1876, leaving one daughter, Eleeta. Sanford. l\'lrs. Thomas H·. Orton still resides in Erie. Lyman S. Orton married --,veaver, and now resides in Taos, Ne"\\.. ~f exico. The three daughters of Dr. James P. ar·e married and reside in .st Paul, liinnesota. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 65 Esquire Thomas, second_ son of Dr. Thomas, married Beulah, daughter of Reuben Rock,vood, in Tyringham, Mas sachusetts, in 1797. Imn1ediately after p.is marriage, I judge from the records, he removed to central New York, stopping for a fe,v years at ....~ugusta, but afterwards remov ing to:· Hamilton, ·Madison County, "-here all his children ,vere born, and "There he h_imself 'died in 1821. T,vo daughters, Beulah and Belinda, ,vere born in 1798. and 1799, respectively. ..A.. third daughter, Deborah 0., born in 1802, married Rev. Jason Corwin, to whom she bore a large family. The name of one of her sons I find in the rec ords accessible to me, viz., Charlton Convin, Esq., of J ef ferson City,. Missouri. Philo At,vood, oldest son of Esquire 'fhomas, was born in 1804. In 18-30 he "'-as married to Nancy Collins, of Bur lington,_ New York, by whom he had eight children, six of whom, all sons, reached n1aturity. He lived in Hamilton up to 1&39, "'~hen he removed to Eaton, in the same county, ,vhere he remained~~ eleven vears. In 1850 he removed to -.J Beloit, ,,.. 'isconsin, and in 1855 to Darlington, Wisconsin, ,vhere he died in 1872. I met him once at Eaton, in my youth, and have a rather indistinct recollection of his per sonal appearance. I recall him as being a man of large frame, serious and solid-lookinp:, ,vhieh I find to be not out of keeping ,Yith the traditions and inheritances of his family. He is represented as a 1nan of rare intelligence and re:fi.ne n1ent, of irreproachable character, and sterling integrity, and universally respected and beloved. .A.t this point I ,vill introduce all the data I have per taining to the sons of Philo ..:-\t,vood Orton. His oldest son, Gerrit , ... an Zandt, born at Han1ilton in 18.34, married Sarah Genevie-ve Knapp, at Rockford, Illinois, in 1854. He now resides at Berry Creek, Butte County, California~ Ile has a 66 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON family of five daughters and two sons. Several of the daughters reside at }Ionterey, California. -'fhe names of the children are given here,vith: Frances B. (1854), Alice G. (1857), Elinor J. (1859), C-0llins K. (1861), Fred (1867), Faith (1871), Ruth (1873). Collins Knapp Orton is a resident of San :B.,rancisco. He was married March 23/1887, to Mary Elizabeth Larziler, and has three children, vV"illiam Gerrit, born January 3, 1888; Josephine lL, born ·January 10, 1889, and Thomas Knapp, born November 4, 1892. .- The second son, Fred, now resides in London, England. He is represented as a 1nechanical engineer of great ability and promise. A large measure of talent in the mechanical line runs th:r:ough all the family of Philo A. 1st. Philo A. 2d, born at Hamilton, New Yor·k, in 1837, is now a resident of Darlington, Wisconsin. He is a lawyer in active practice and has kept up the traditions of his branch of the family by attaining the title of "judge." He is also at the head of the First National Bank of Darling ton. In 1862 he was married to Sarah M.. Osborn, of Dar lington. They have two children, Susanne, born in 1871, a graduate of Rockford College, and Robert Eugene, born in 1873, now book-keeper in the First National B·ank of Dar lington. April 16, 1895, Robert was married to Harriet Swift, of Darlington. Lyman Osgood Orton, born at Eaton, Ne1v York, 1839, w,as married to Mary Louisa Barling, of Darlington, vVis consin, in 1860. Ile no"r resides at Misha"\'\-~aka, Indiana, where he is engaged in the business of mechanical engineer ing. His son, \Villiam Osgood, born in 1871, is a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, and now resides in ~Iishawaka. He was married, June 20, 1895, to Claribel Ormsby, of Mil waukee, Wisconsin. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 67 Thomas Eugene, third son of Philo A. Orton 1st, of Eaton, New York, was born in the last-named place in 1842. He was captain of Company K, Third l{.egiment of Wiscon sin Vol iln teers, in the vV ar of the Rebellion, and was killed before ....\tlanta in 1864, dying in the dew of his youth. (Jha.rles Jackson (2d), •born in Eaton, 1845, is now a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. He n1arried Elizabeth Woods, of that city, in 1868. Of the five children that have been born to them, four survive, -viz., Carrie, married in 1886 to .A.lbert BurTo,vs }Iorro".. , of Cincinati; Philo A. (3d), born 1873, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and now engaged as an instructor in that institution in the de partn1ent of civil engineering; .,A.lexander, born 1874, and Frances Eugenia, born in 1887. Frank M., the youngest son of Philo ...l\.. (1st), was born in Eaton, New York, 1847, and no"r resides in Syracuse, Nebraska.. He ,vas married there in 1884 to .A.. ugusta }I. Gree~burg, who has borne him four children, three daugh ters and one son, viz., Charles Thoinas, born 1889.· The names of the daug·hters are, Charlotte, 1885; Eunice lI., 1887, and Ruth ...L\.., 1894. Jason Rock".. ood Orto!!_, }I. D., ,vas one of the most gifted members of the family. He "~as the second son of Esquire Thomas of Han1ilton, and ,Yas born in that to,vn in 1806. He studied 111edieine and pra.ctieed for a nurnber of vears at Bin°·han1ton Ne,v York amon°· other places. Ile ., b ' ' b had, hO'~vever, a decided taste for literature, and withdre,v fron1 his profession early to be able to devote his tin1e to the latter calling. Ile ,Yrote verse, and published t,vo or three volun1es of poe1ns. Ife ,vas a eontributor to current litera ture. One of his n1ore an1bitious tasks is a poetico-hi~toric treatn1ent of certain n1Yths., of the· North .A.. merican Indians. It is entitled, "Can1p }"'ires· of the Red l\'Ien." Dr. Orton ,va~ 68 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON interested in the advance of science and in the larger phases of politics and theology, and seems to have been in all re spects a "~akeful-minded and progressive thinker. I have read some very interesting private letters of his, addressed to his uncle, Judge Philo, of Pomfret, Ne,v Pork, which are now in possession of Orton Gifford, Esq., of Chicago, great grandson of Judge Philo. They give a good deal of insight into the mind and character of their author. Dr. Orton married Bophronia Hotchkiss. I do not kno"~ her original residence, but the Hotchkiss name is com]Jlon in Broome County, Ne,v York, ,vhere, as I have said, Dr. Orton resided for a tin1e. He left one s·on by his first wife, Charles G., who was born in 1840, and who resides in Brook lyn, New York. Charles married Sarah T. Jenks, and has three children, one ~aughter and two sons, viz., Beulah ~L\..., 1866; Walter R., 1868; Arthur Vanderbilt, 1872. Charles G. Orton was for a number of years in the employ of the United States government in the New York custom house. Dr. J. R .. Orton, in 1844, married a second ,vife, Sarah 8. Russell, a daughter of Giles Russell, of R-ussellville (now Bell Valley), Erie County, Pennsylvania. She survived her husband, and is no,v living at Yonkers, Ne,v York. Three daughters and t\vo sons "!'ere born of this marriage. The daughters are, Caroline, Sarah, and May Eliza beth, born in Binghamton, and :F'lorence Isabel, born in Brooklyn, Ne,v York. The t,vo sons ,vere J a.son liock,vood, second, and ,valter R,ock,vood; both died in infancy. Caroline S. ,vas first married in 1868, to George Edgar Brown, of Han1pton, llaine, a graduate of Bo,Ydoin College, and a soldier in the Union Army in 1862. I-le after"rards practieed law in vVashington, D. C., ":-here he died in 1873. She after,vards, in September, 1876, n1arried Colonel Irving ,,.... Fuller, of vVisconsin. He died in October, 1892, at .....\.shford Park, OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 69 .A.rdsley, Ne"'.'" York. By her fir-st rnarriage she had one son, her only child, named ··v· erdi Edgar. He "'~as adopted by Colonel Fuller and took his name. Mrs. Fuller now lives at Yonkers. liay Elizabeth married, in 1873, .A..lexander Fitz gerald, at ~.lontreal, Canada. He died in Ne":- York, in 1885. She married heF -seeond husband, Ilev. Harry Van .A.. uken, at Denver, Colorado, in 1887. Florence Isabel married Wil liam H. Whitenect, a,t Boston, in 1873.. He died at .A.. uburn, New York. She married a second husband, George G. Kim ball, of Wells, Maine, a graduate of Bo,vdoin College, no,v a practicing a ttor·ney in Washington, D. C. Their residence is Wheaton, Maryland. Charles Jackson (1815-1863), third son of Esquire Thomas, was born and reared at Hamilton, New York. He married Esther Shappley and passed most of his active life in Ohio._ He was editor and publisher~ of newspapers and was thus engaged for some time in Sandusky and for a shor·ter time in Fremont. I-le died in Sandusky, in 1863~ before his time, ~s we might say, being but forty-eight years old. His ability as an editorial '\\triter was recognized. Ex President Hayes once spoke ~o me of Char·les J. Orton, '\"\i"ith whom he ,vas ,vell acquainted, as a bright and well-read man. He 1\"as elected a 1ne1nber of the Constitutional Con vention of the State that held its session about 1860. He had four children, viz.: Tho1nas Shappley, 1836-1863. Killed at Gettys burg. Jason Rock,vood, 1839-1863. Killed at Stonv.., Creek, Tenn. Eveline, 1844-1868. Jennie, 1847-1888. Died at Chicago. 70 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Jennie Orton "--as' first married to Hiram L. Andrus, .A.. pril 10, 1864, and second, to Charles I. ·wetn1ore, January 11, 1871. She left t"r~ sons, C~harles 0., born October 29, 1866, and Frank 0., born N ove1nber 12, 1867. These sons were adopted by the second husband, and took the narne of Wetmore. They are both in the employ of the First Na tional Bank of Chicago. Frank 0. Wetmore marr,ied, .A.. pril 22, 1890, Miss llaria J~. Barlow. They have one chiia, Orville C. "\i\r etmore, born October 10, 1894. Four descendants of Dr. ~Phomas Orton lost their lives in the service of their countrv., in 1863. Lyman Osgood Orton, lL D. (1819-1884), the youngest son of Esquire Thomas~ wa-s born in Hamilton, studied med icine and settled in Lebanon, Ne"\\-" Yor·k, and afterwards removed to Lincoln, Illinois. He married Julia Cleveland, daughter of General Cleveland, of Madison, Ne,v York. He died in 1884. Three children were born to them at I.Aebanon, whose names are given below: Samuel C. (1842), Kansas City; Julia R. (1850), Os,vego, New Y-ork; :B.,ranklin C. (1852), Lincoln, Illinois. Samuel married .A.. melia vVait and has five children, named as follows: Julia C., 1875; Charles, 1877; William, 1881; Edward, 1882; Henry, 1885. Franklin C. married Caroline Rutledge, of Lincoln, and has six chil dren, viz., Virginia, 1884; Lyn1an 0., second, 1886; :Fr.. anklin 0., Jr., 1888; Willian1 R., 1889; Gladys, 1891; Louis S., 1893. Dr. Lvman., 0. Orton died at his ho1ne in Lincoln in 1884. Judge i\. biram (1776-18:37) left no children. rrhere re- main, ther·efore, only the descendants of Judge Philo (1778- 1860) to be assigned to their places in this record. Judge Philo had three sons: Thomas (1803), ,v ho died in early manhood, but who, according to one account, left several children; Abiram (1805-1820); C~harles lackson 1808-1886), who inherited the fine farm which ,vas first occupietl b.Y his OF WINDSOR, CON~., 1641. 71 father, and spent his life there. He was an influential and respected citizen, representing Chautauqua Oounty in the State Legislature in 1847. He married Hannah J. Hall, ivho was of Quaker parentage. After her death,, he married Harriet Randall. By his first marriage there were born to him a son,, Char·les, and a daughter, Helen liary. Charles e·nlisted in the War of' the Rebellion, and died in the army 1n 1863. llelen Mary n1arti~d -- Gifford, of Fredonia, and bore hhn one son, viz., 011on Gifford, of" Chicago. The Orton name is therefore los!t, as a surnaine, so far as this branch of the family is concerned. This completes the account which I am able to give of the descendants of Dr. Thomas of Tyringham. 'l'he line of his brother, David, is next in order. I have already confessed my inability to furnish many facts in regard to it, but through later investigations, made by Judge Philo A. Orton, of Darlington ,Wisconsin, I can.add a few statements here. David left a son, Ohauncey, and a daughter, who married -- Austin. She left a son, Thon1as S .....\..ustin, who married and had a son, David Orton ....\.ustin, born ....\..ugust 23, 18221. Fred. W. Austin, of Glov ersville, N e"r York, is a son of the last-named, David 0. Austin. T!homas S ..A.ustin died about 1824-5. Chauncey Orton~ son of David, married the ,vido"~ of his nephew, Thomas S . ....\.ustin, and had by her five children, viz., Lorenzo, Clarissa,. Caroline, Lydia, Helen. Lorenzo lived and died at Rock ,vood, New York, and left no sons, as I infer. One of the four daughters n1arr-ied a Lo,vry. ....\. son, ..A .. J. Lo,vry, of Gloversville, ,vas born fron1 this union. I conclude that, though the Or~ton blood is continued in this family, the Orton name is not re-enforced through David's descendants. 72 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Roger's second son;, Tin1othy, enlisted for a short term and was engaged in the battle of Fort Erie._ .A.. few· days after the battle,- -General Porter, ,vho ,vas in comn1and of the troops near Niagara ~""'alls, sent a squad do"1~n to I~ewiston Heights to recover a cannon that had been left behind in the movements of the army. They reached the Heights, but night overtook them and they "1... ent into camp in the woods near by. The British and their Indian allies ,vere known to bein force on the opposite si_de of the river, and the danger of the situation was fully recog--nized by the squad. They SR\Y how easy it ,vould be for a tr--oop of Indians to cross in the night and attack them. The term of _enlistment of sev-· eral memberis -of the squad had expired and they " .. ere merely waiting for their papers of discharge. This was the case with Timothy Orton. Their worst fears were realized. In the early morning the dread war whoop rang out in their little camp. Timo thy Or-ton ,vas shot and scalped and several of his compan ions shared the same fate. The Indians recrossed the river as soon as their bloody work ,vas done. Roger. Orton was notified of the tr·agedy as soon as possible. He came on with a wagon for the corpse of his son, " ... hich had already been placed in a coffin :of rough boards, and carried it to his liome for interment. Timothy left t\\... o sons, Philo and Byron, both of ,vhom en1igrated to Wisconsin and settled there. David (1790) ren1oved to Clayton, Illinois, dying there ~ N oven1ber 24, 1849. He n1arried Ruth ()lark and left five sons and four daughters, ":--hose nan1es are giYen below: Tin1othy, Decen1ber 29, 1815. l\iL .A.. urelia Osborn. D. Februar-y 15, 1849. James C., ~.,ebruary 8, 1817. l\iI. Paulona Mounts, 1850. D. September 19, 1879. OF WINDSOR, CONN.,. 1641. Horatio I.J., November 19, 1820. M. :Nancy Pease (or Bailey), 1847. D. October 21, 1860. Eloda I-I., ....\. ugust 24, 1822. 1\:1. James l\tl. Burtis, --. D. September 13, 1849. Melissa R., September 11, 1824. M. James l\tl. Reaugh, Kansas. Clark, December 23, 1826. M. Mary .....\.. E. Kellar, 1856, Clayton, Illinoi~. ..A.lmira, J urie 17, 1829. M. James l\tiann, Naples, Illinois. l\tlar,y J., August 18, 1833. 11. Robert C-olpitts, No vember, 1886. Elias, ....\.pril 24, 1837. M. Elizabeth ;Davis, Poncha Springs, Colorado.. James Christopher, second son of David, was born at Olean Point, ....\.Ileghany County, New York, February 8, 1817. I-le married Paulona Mounts, emigrated to the West and raised a large family, viz.: Oscar 0., B. Dubuque, Io"\\i'"a, 1852. D. Virginia City, Montana, October 29, 18·79 . ...~lfred "\t\Tallaee. _B. Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 8, 1855. M. Maria DeBooth, at Salt Lake City, 1883. Resides at Bozeman, l\'Iontana. Lee \ran, B. Oouncil Bluffs, Io"\\i"a, February 8, 1859. l\tI., in 1885, Cora ll. Ra"rlins; second, Josephine Garner. Resides at Butte, ~Iontana. Fred Lloyd, B. Council Bluffs, Io"~a, January 15, 1862. Resides at Butte, Montana. William Clark, B. Springfield, Utah, January 7, 1864. Resides at Butte, l\tI9ntaua. 74 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON James ~Iilton, B. ·v"irginia City, Montana, June 16, 1867. Resides at Butte, l1ontana._ 1\ralter Scott, B. ·v"irginia City, Montana, October 28, 1869. l{esides at Butte, Montana. "\riola, B. "\rirginia City, Montana, April 10, 1872. D ...January 16, 1878. Clark, fourth son of David, has the following children: Rosella, December _13, 1856. M. Willia1n B. ~lay, Kans-as. Berinthia, July 8, 1857. M. John D. Black. JJ. September 15, 1882. Charles F., Xov~mber 25, 1861~ D. in infancy. Ida, November 25, 1862. · D~ in infancy. I Eva, June 3, 1865. M. Harvey Williams. Vandeleur, ~June 10, 1868. Clar·k, Februar·y 28, 1870~ p. in infancy. Ells"'·orth C., .A.. pril 13, 1874. Amos, fourth son of Roger and Esther A very Orton, left four children, viz. : Roger. Henry, Shreveport, Texas. George, Palmyra, Missouri. H uldah. Died young. Elias, fifth son of Roger (17 40), (1794-1850), married Electa Chappel, removed to .....\ugusta, Io,va, and left a fam ily of three sons and one daughter, as follo"\\rs: Esther ~l., 1820, __ Geneva, Illinoi~! Elias,. Jr., 1823, ....i\. ugusta, Io,va. Pahner, 182H, _....t\. ugusta, Iowa. Thomas A~, ~830-l~TS; ~ill County, Texas. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 75 0 ~Iiss Esther M. Orton is one of 1nv•,1 n1ost hi0 ·hlv., es- teen1ed correspondents in the line of the Orton genealogy. She has t·aken a deep and intelligent interest in the subject, and has ·spared no pains in eolleeting the facts in regard to Itoger Orton's descendants. "\Vhat I haYe to present in regard to this br.,anch of the family has been largely eon tributed by her. Elias, Jr. (1823), is a successful farmer in .6.~ ugusta, Iowa. He marr·ied \Tirginia H. Kneeland and has a family of eight children, viz.: William P ., 1854. Kittie ....\., 1856. Charles, 1858. Oscar, 1860. Ida, 1865. Dora, 1867. Clara B., 1870. Walter, 1872. Palmer (1826), the younger brother of Elias, Jr., is, like him, a far·mer in .6.-\.ugusta. He has five children, viz.: Esther, 1855. Lyman, 1860. Francis, 1863. Lettie, 1868. Albert, 1869. rrhon1as .A.• , third son of Elias, "\\"as born about 1830. He married En1n1a --, and in 1878 ren1oved to Hill County, Texas, where he died t,vo years later, leaving three sons, . VIZ.: 76 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Thomas, Jr., 18·7'3. William, 1876. Walter, 1877. Roger, Jr., sixth son of I{oger of Geneseo, left four chil dren, viz., Pierpont and John, ,vho reside in Utah; Robert, who died early, and ...!\.lmira, ,vho resides in California. Thon1as (1803-1879),. youngest son of R,oger and Esther .. A.. very Orton, 1uarried Irene Heath, by ,vhom he had four children, viz., I~uc_v, ....\.gnes, Ed,vard, and Esther. This finishes the account of the descendants of Deacon Thomas Orton of Tyringham to date, through Dr. Thon1as, as far as mv~ information °·oes.~ In the lists that have been given there are wide gaps, as all ,vill see, in "'~hic-h ro-0n1 occurs for extended family lines that have now no repre sentation here. ...~ proper examination of Tables I. and VI. "~n1 set the facts th us far p1·esented in their proper· relations. (b) THROUGH JOHN (1717) OF TYRINGHAM. It will be remembered that the gTeat family of John of Tvrino·ha1n br·other of Deacon Thon1as has been alreadv ~ e ' ' ~ f ollo,ved as far as his grandchildren; or, in other ,vords, through the sixth genei·ation fro1n Thon1as of Windsor. I have the nan1es of eleven grandsons and eight grand-daugh ter·s on 1ny lists, ,vith the descendants of t\vo sons, if any, to be heard from, viz., Thomas (1746) and ,,... illiam 1756). John (17 42), oldest son of John of Tyringhan1, left t\vo sons, San1uel, of Bennington, Vern1ont (1763), and Solo111on, of Luzerne, N e,v York (1764-1852). So1ne facts pertaining to the111 I have already given. I an1 no,v to follO"\\'" the line of their descendants. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 77 DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL OF BENNINGTON. Samuel (1763) resided for a time in Bennington, and aftenvards in Fairfield, , ... ermont, but so1ne impulse seen1s to have been ,vorking in this branch of the family, pushing them steadily to the north"carcl. I-Tis gTandfather, John of Tyringham, leaYing his old home, established himself first in Shaftsbury, in southern \T ermont, and died in :B~air:fi.eld, upon the northern border. The grandson, Samuel, left , ... ermont and moYed into Canada in 1801,_settling in Cum berland, on the Ottawa River, ,vhere his fourth son, Sam uel, Jr., "-as born, in 1807. His youngest son, John, ,vas born in 1812, in Otta":--a City, to ,vhich Cumberland is adja cent. Table v... II. 8ho"·8 the line of descent through J" ohn (17 42). I will briefly review the faets in their_ proper order. Oliver, the oldest son, was born in Bennington, V... er mont, in 1794. He ,vas taken "·hen a child, by his father, into Canada, ~~nd in his later years resided at East Hawkes bury. Some of his sons live in Bangor, Franklin (~ounty, :X e,v York (Brushton P. 0.) ...... \.ccording to one record, Oliver married Rebecca Tuttle; according to another he married )Iargaret Tutthill, of Broekville. I incline to the belief that the latter is correct...... \fter the death of his first ,vife, he n1arried 11arv., Hav., ' of .....\berdeen ' Scotland. BvJ his first n1arriage he had a large family. The names and residences of seven sons are here,vith given: Sa1nuel, East Ha,vkesbury, Ontario. LeYi, Bangor, :Xe,v York (Brushton P. 0.). George ,,.... , ,-Yisconsin. Joel, Bangor, X e,v York (Brushton P. 0.). Gardner, Bangor, :X e"\\r York (Brushton P. 0.). 78 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Oliver H., Toronto, Canada. Hanold (may be the son of second wife). Oliver H. resides in Toronto, Canada. He has one son, George W., ,vho, after graduating from the University of Toronto, pursued post-graduate studies in the University of Pennsylvania. He ,vas distinguished in his university course by almost equal success in- scholarship and athletics. In the latter field he held five championships at one time (College .i\.thletics of the United States), an unparal leled record. He was one of the representatives of the N e:w York Athletic Club in the recent contest with the London Athletic Club. (1895.) The later descendants of the families that I have just named have not been furnished, but there would be, without doubt, a large number· of O·rtons to be added her"e if the data were in hand. Henry, sec;ond s·on of Samuel of Bennington, ,vas born in Bennington, in 1798. He appears to have remained all his life in Cumberland, Ontario, to which place he was taken when three years old, and which was his father's home in his later vears. Henrv married Marv Olm.stead and left ~ ~ ~ six sons, whose homes are supposed to be in Cumberland. Their names are a'S follows: Phineas Greene, lfarquis, John, Nathan, Heber, )\rilliam. Nathan Greene, the third son of Samuel of Benning-ton, wes born in Bennington, in 1800, but remained in Canada, to ,vhich he ,vas carried in his infancy, up to 187 4, ,vhen he removed to Oregon. He married liargaret 11cCann, by whom the sons and daughters named belo,v ,vere born to him: Eliza, Mrs. Doolittle, Cleveland, Ohio. Died ~July 1895. William H., Sandusky, Ohio. Died iri 1893. Table VII. v. VI. VII. VIII. ( Samuel ______.1885 Winchester, Ont. ILevi, Bangor, N. Y. 1 Geo. W., Wisconsin. fOliver ______1794 1 Joel, Bangor. N. Y. 1 Gardner, Bangor, N. Y. i Oliver H., Toronto, Ont. LRanold. f Phineas G. I Marqnis. H 1""98 I John. enry. ---- ' 1Nathan. M.-Mary Olmstead I Heber Cumberland, Ont. l Willia~. [Eliza-Mrs.Doolittle. I Wm. H. (Samuel __ .. 1763 Nathan G .. 1800 ~ Nath. S. Benning:on and M.-Margaret Mc- 1 Mrs. Smiley. Fairfield. Vt., and < Cann. I John Nelson. Cumberland and Washington, 1874 I Jane-Mrs. Ellis. Winchester. Ont. l Frances A.-Mrs. Miller. M.-Meriba Greene. ( John. Marquis. Alvin. Samuel ----1807 William. M.-Mary Newton.~I Henry. Canada. ISamuel. John _____ 1742 Nathan. Little Falls, N. Y. 1 Jesse. l Jefferson. John ___ . __ 1812 { John~ I Ottawa, 0. Samuel. LM.-Martha Lough. Nathan. ( Solomon, Jr., ------1796-1891 f Edgar---- ____ . ___ ..1835 Philander_ .1802-1866 J Will~am · ------.1838 1838 M.-Betsey Nimes \Wallace.··-----I Edson W ______---- ..1841 l Reuel W. __ . ___ . __ .1845 Solomon ... l,64-l852 ~ Zenas -- ... 1806-1~ J Joel_____ .---- ____ ----1833-185! l Luzerne, N. y. M.-A.meranca Tin- BenJam1n ______1841-185~ ney. 1l Harmon ___ . ____ ...1~187 .... f Darius S (M. D.), North Luther M .. 1819-1859i Ste;~~tH~•(:~r), l Weeping Water, Nebr. William _.. 1822-1851 LHiram . ____ 1824-1827 OF WINDSOR, CON:N., 1641. 81 Nathan S., Oregon. Mrs. 8-miley, Kalamazoo, Mich. John N., Oregon. Jane, llrs. Ellis, San Francisco. Frances A., l\'Irs. Mill~r, Spring City, Tennessee. vVilliam H., the oldest son, married Olive M. Papineau, by whom he had the following children: William Franklin, 1856. Cleveland, Ohio. Id·a, 1857. (Tieveland, Ohio Arthur G., 1867. Sandusky, Ohio. Leonora, 1862. Sandusky, Ohio. Mrrs. Theodore Taubert. Olive M., 1871. Sandusky, Ohio. N~llie, 1875. Sandusky, Ohio. - Samuel, Jr., fourth son of Samuel of Bennington, was born in ··Cumberland, Ontario-, in 1807. He married May N ewion · and l!~d a large family, including eight sons J oh_n, Marquis, ..A..lvin, ,,··111iam,· Henry, Samuel, Nathan, George Jefferson. John, the oldest of these sons, married Lavonia Erner- - son and has five sons, viz., John, rrederick, Chiarles, Her- bert, Irvin. ~larquis, the .second son, has no children. ....\.lvin n1arried first Lizzie Farrington, and second Sarah J. Orton. He h,ts t\YO sons, George and Samuel. William married Ellen Bigelo"r and has t\YO sons, George Elmer and William Bigelo,v. Henry has no children. Samuel, sixth son, married ~Ieriba Dunning and has six sons-Howard, Gardner, ...:\.lpheus, Herbert, ....\.dna, and John. Princeton, )finnesota, and other points in l\ilille Lacs C-ounty, of that 82 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON State, are the center 'of their present occupation. The Ortons make a notable part of the entire population of some neighborhoods. Nathan, seventh son, married lferiba Orton and has four sons-Milton, Levi, Price, IIerbert Lo raine. George Jefferson, the youngest son, married ....~ddie McCue and has t,vo sons, Jesse and George Jefferson, Jr. John ,the fifth and youngest son of Samuel of Benning ton, was born in Otta"ra City, Ontario, married Martha Lough and left three sons, John, Samuel, and Nathan. I think this family remains, for the most part, in Canada. DESCENDANTS OF SOLOMON OF LUZERNE. Solomon (1764-185~) lived in Luzerne, v\... arren County, New York. The name of his wife has not come down to us. He left six sons, the records of two of whom have been fur nished by Wallace Orton, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. The nam1es of the childr.en are as follows: Solomon, Jr., 1796-1891. Mrs. Benjamin O·gden, 1998-1892. Huldah, 1799-1848. Mrs. Aden ·Stone. Rhoda, 1800-1859. Mrs. Alpha Stone, Defiance, Ohio. . Zenas, 1806-1861. P 1hilander, 1806-1866. Luther M., 1819-1859. William, 1822-1851. Hiram, 1824-1857. Zenas 1806-1861) had a fanrily of eig"ht children, in cluding three sons, but most were swept away in early life, and there is but a single Orton in this entire fan1ily that appears in the ninth generation, viz., \Villiam, a grandson of Zenas and son of Harmon. · OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 83 Philander, the second son of Solomon, ,vas born in Lu zerne, in 1806. He lived, for part of his life, at least, in Blackington, liassaehusetts, and died there in 1866, leaving ten children, viz. : Olive, 1829. M. Joseph C. Place. Fannie, 1831. li. Willard W. Whitney. Eunice, 18.3-3. Edgar, 18..33. M. Rachel Dean...... i\.moranda, 18..37. M. Lyman Ingraham. William, 18..38. M. Catharine Spencer. Wallace, 18..38. M. }!aria Norton. M.. , second, Julia A. Taft. Edson 1841. }I. Lucv Wallace. ,,r., ti Reuel N ., 1845. l\f. Jeannette R .. Jenkins. - Roxana, 1847-1888. ~I.· ·vvilliam H. Benjamin~·· The Orton blood .d~rived from this stock is found in at least thirty children of the sons and daughtQrs named above, . seven of '\\'"horn carry on the Orton name, ,Yhich is further represented by trvo in the tenth generation i:r;i this line from Thomas of \'1~indsor. v\i~alter E. Orton, son of Wallace and Julia Taft Orton, is a promising student in ,,~illian1s College. Luther ~I., third son of Solon1on, ,vas born at Luzerne, liareh 31, 1819. He gre,v up there, and, in November, 18:39, married Sarah ..A ... ,v ard, of Warrensburg. ...t\.fter his mar riage he lived for a fe,v years at Fairhaven, Vermont, but in 1844 1,eturnecl to ::N elv York, ,v here he spent the ren1ainder of his life, dying at X ortli Broadalbin in 1859, ,vhen but forty years old. Six children were born to hiln, four of '\\'"horn are still living, viz.: 84 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Darius S. (M. D~), January 7, 1841. Northampton, New York. ,Stephen W. (Hon.), June 2, 1844._ Weeping Water, ~ebraska. Matilda J., lVIay 22, 1846. Mrs. Shay, }'lillbrook, Michigan. · Chauncey M., October 11, 1851. Cartharne New b ' York. The two older sons, Darius ·and Stephen, eac-h served in the Union .,A.. rm,ies in the War of fue Rebellion, Darius en listing in- the T-enth New Y,ork Cavalry in July, 1862, an-d Stephen in Battery F, ~hirteenth Ne"~ York Heavy Artil lery, in January, 18&3. Both were honorably discharged at the end of the war in 1865. Darius S. began reading m,edicine a:s soon as, or before, the war closed. In 1865 he took a course of lectures in the Medical College of Georgetown, D. C. In 1866, he attended l1ectures at the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, and in 1867 he obtained the degree of M. D. from the Medical College of ...i\.lbany, ~ew York. He entered on the practice of his profession in the same year at Northampton, New York, where he still resides. In December, 1868, he mar ried Anna ...~ustin, of _Union Mills, New York, and five chil dren have been born to them~ viz., P,ercy, George, .A.nna, Van Zandt, Zenas, all of "\\"horn reside in Northampton. Stephen W., second son of Luther M., was born in Hampton, New York, June 2, 1844. ....i\.t the age of sixteen he began a course of study in ·an .academy, famous at the time, in Claverack, :Xe,v York. He continued there for three years, leaving his studies to enlist in the Thirteenth Ne,Y York Heavv ....i\.rtillerv. He remained in the arm.v till the . ~ f) •.1 war ended~ in 1865. In 1867 he set out for the "\\rest, reach- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 85 ing Omaha in July of that year. In the fall of the same year he pre-empted a tract of goviernm·ent land in Elmwood Pre cinct, Casis County, thirty to forty miles south of Omaha. In 1868 he married ~a.rah ..A.. ·Burrows, of Bellevue~ Ne braska. He established his home on the land he had taken up, but divided his time between farm,ing, teaching, and other lines of public service. In 1881 he left his farm and removed to vVeeping· Water, the capital of Cass Oounty, where he engaged in the drug business, in which he still con tinues. In 1894 llr. Orton ,vas elected to the Nebraska Legis1atur-e on the Republican ticket from the Eighth Rep resentative District, consisting of Cass and Otoe Counties. He is still in the prime of life and vigor. He has three chil dren, as follows, viz: Mary L., January 29, 1871. Alice M., November 23, 1873-February 26, 1886. Chauncey S., July 9, 1880. M·ary L. graduated at one of the excellent normal schools of N ebr·aska, and is no,v employed as a teacher in the public schools of v\Teeping Water, and Chauncey is pursu ing his studies in the same schools. llatilda J., ·oldest liying daughter- of Luther 11., was born May 2,2, 1846, at Hampton, Ne"'-- York. In 1864 she married Mich1ael Shay and no-\v resides at Millbrook, ~Iich igan. She has one ch'ild, a daughter. Chauncey S., youngest son of Luther M., horn October 11, 1851, ren1oved to Glen's Fall's, ,vhen reaching maturity. He 1uarrie DESCENDANTS OF ICHABOD, (1754) I come next to the grandsons and great-grandsons of Rev. Ichabod Orton, or, in other words, to the seventh and eighth generations from Thomas of Windsor in this line. A list of the descendants of Ichabod is shown in Table VIII. His oldest son, Myr.,on (1784-1873), was born and reared in Br·ookfield, New York, and settled in Can1bria, as already reported. H·e studied medicine, but never entered on the active practice of his profession, devoting himself to farm ing as his vocation instead. H 1e married ~Iary Hoit. His family, born -and hr.ought up in Cambria, consisted of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, named below: Maria Lucia, 1816-183.S. Heman Hoit, 1818-1838. Clarissa, 1819. Mrs. Sumner Burns. Martha B., 1821. Mrs. Thomas Root. J oihn B., 1822. Gates, 1824-1826. liary, 1826-1883. Mrs. William 0. Rogers. Lois, 1828. !Irs.. A..lbert Latta. Myron, .A.ugust 14, 1831. ~larilla, ....i\..ugust 14, 1831. ~Irs. John Carl. ~faria Lucia, 1840-1853. This family is •one of marked intelligence and refine ment. ~fost of them reside in Niagara County, Xew York, except as hereafter noted. I ,vill give a brief r:ecord of each member, except those that died in early life. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 89 Clarissa, the oldest daughter that reached n1aturity, married, in 1839, Sun1ner Burns and bore him three chil dren, viz.: Heman Hoit, 1842. M. Laura .....\. Root; 2d, Helen Aplington. Romeo G., 1843. M. S-a.bina L. Mabon. Mary C., 1849. Mrs. Horace L. Pinney. Martha B., second daughter, married, in 1847, Thomas Root and five children resulted from this union, as f ollo"'"S: Elias, 1848. M. Carroline Boug·hton. Mary, 1850. lVIrs. Gilbert Duncan. Emma, 1853. Minnie, 1856. Mrs.. Irving Burns. Frank }I., 1860. One of the sons, Elias I think, is a lawyer in good prac tice in Tona,vanda, New York, and Emma, a sister finds employment hr- his office. Charles S. Orton, son of Myron 2d, is a partner in the firm. John B., 1822, married, 1850, Sar.ah C. Mitchell, and re moved to Br-anc.h County,- Michigan, where he has since resided. He and his t,vo older sons are engaged in farm ing. He has had a large family, named below: Clarissa B., 1851-1853. Mary A., 1853-1878. Eva M., 1855. · ~Irs. J ohu C. ~lallory. Harlo-\v S., 1858. lVI. ....\da L. Kelsey. Julius W., 1862. }I. Elida Cornell. John B., 1867. Jesse F., 1870. 90 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON The two older sons are farmers, r.esiding near Hillsdale, Michigan, a~ already noted. John B. is a yioung man of fine business qualifications and exper·ience, and has been, for manv.,., vears ' eno~a,o·ed00 in the book business in New York and else"\\·here. He is at pres•ent employed in one of the largest book :fir·ms ·of Cleveland. Jesse F. is a graduate of ~Iichigan University. He pursued post-graduate studies in Cornell University, and "·as then recalled to a fellowship in political science in his .A.ln1a Mater in 189;5, "'"here he is still engaged. He was married in 1895. He is counted a young man of fine talent and promise. I am indebted to ·the two last-named for the details of the fan1ily history hete,vith presented. Coming to the next in order of the children of Myron, 1784, we find lVIary, 1826. She married William 0. Rogers in 1853 and bore to him four children, viz.: Fanny lVI., 1855-1858. lVlyron A., 1857. M. Lizzie Eggleston in 1890. William H., 1859. Charles S., 1865. lVI. Ber{ha M. Hitzel in 1893. lVI~s. Rogers died in 1883. Lois, 1828, the next d'aughter, married, in 1_845 or 1846, ..A.lbert Datta. 'l'hey h~ve had nine children, as follows: vVillard .A.. , 1848. lVI ..A. ugusta lVliller in 1882. llyron 0., 18.50. lVI ....i\.liee ~1. Goddard in 1878. Susan :F., 1852. lVIDs. vVilliam F. lVIontague. Delacy ...!\..,- 1854. M.... i\.letha lVI. Bell in 1882. Walter L., . 1856. M. lVlina Jones in 1880. ...i\.ddison J., 1859. lVI. Luella B. vVashburn in 1892. lVIary P ., 1861-1863. Clara ...!\.., 1863. Blanche, 1874. OF WI1'IDSOR, CONN., 1641. 91 Myron, Jr., 1831, youngest son of l\tiyr~on, 1784, married, in 1857, Betsey C. l\tludge, by "~horn he had one daughter. In 1871 he married for his second "\i'"if e, S... A.rmenia Wilcox, who has borne him two sons. The names of the children are as follows: Mary .A.. , 1860. llrs. "\\t.... S. F,o":-ler. Charles S., 1862. Frank C. Charles S. is, as already noted, a la"'"yer of the firm of Rioot & Orton, Tona,vanda, Ne"- York. In 1885 he married Estelle v.... Timothy. Frank C. Resides in Pekin, Niagara County, with his father. Marilla, t"\\.,.in sister of Myron, married, in 1879, John Carl and has no children. The next family to be entered in our reco~ds is that of Harlow N., l\il. D. (1785-18.38). This family constitutes, perhaps, the most brilliant. group in our entire record. Dr. Harlow, ·the son of a Baptist minister, m·arried Grace, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Maush, another Baptist ~in ister. She is represented as a lovely woman, with great ambition for her sons, encouraging them and aiding them b-v., heroic efforts in their behalf to secure the best available education. Someho~v, from this union three sons of excep tional talent ,vere born. Some say the sons inherited their ability from their mother, but there was decided talent in the other line, as ,vell, as is sho"'"n in the fact that all the sons of Rev. Ichabod',s family entered professional life. The tr·uth is, "·e kno,v but very little of the la,Ys of heredity. They are, for the most part, past finding out by us. ....\11 that ,ve can say is, that there ,vas in this case a happy blend ing of good qualities, physical an The resolutions passed by the ~{adison bar on the occa sion of his untimely death, express the highest appreciation of his character and attainment'S, and are couched in terms sueh as could be properly applied only to a leading member. vVhile residing in IAa por1:e, Indiana, Mr. Orton married Mary .A.. , daughter of General John Brown, an honored pio neer of norther·n Indiana. By this union three daughters were born to them, viz. : Cordelia, 1842. lirs...... \. R. Jones, Madison, "\\:... is- . cons1n. Diana C., 1843. Mrs. Calvin L. Brown, Big Timber, }Ion.tan.a. Floretta .....\.., 1851. Mrs. W. C·. Williams, Milwau kee, ·wisconsin. llrs. Bro1vn is the mother of five children, three sons and two daughters, viz., Mona, Shirley, Clarke, Sally, Miles. Mrs. vVIlliams has t"ro sons and t,vo daughters, viz., Myron Orton, Mabel, Grace, Clarence. All that I have learned goes to sho-,v that liyron H. Orton was a brilliant and highly-gifted man, born to be a leader and cer-tain to have been advanced in public recogni tion and favor, had his life· been spared...... \.s it "~as, he was cut do-\vn just as the greatest opportunities of his generation ,vere opening before hin1. For the substance of the facts pertaining to him, I an1 indebted to papers furnished by his daughter, Mrs. ,,.... C. vv... illian1s, of Mil,vaukee. The .second son of Dr. Harlo-,v X. and Grace ~Iarsh Orton, John J., was born in Brookfield, :X ew York, .A.pril 25, 1812. When five years old his parents removed to Uarnbria. ..A.t eleven ,,;Years of ao·e0 he was emploved~ as a clerk in a country store in .....\.lbion, Orleans County, New York. Boy OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 95 that he ,vas, he sho-\Yed such -aptitude for business that, at the age of eighteen, he ,vas taken into the firm as a partner. He proved himself thrifty and sagatious. His manners were gracious and pleasant; he ,vas liked by every -one and he established in the cornn1unity a reputation for unusual mathem.atical ability. .A.11 these faetors presently led to his appointn1ent as a comn1issioner to ,vind up the affairs of the Orleans County Bank, an institution that failed at this time. The service ,vas one of prominence and responsi bilitv.., From all this it ,vould have seemed that John J . Orton's career "~as already fixed; that he would be certain to go on in the paths of commercial activity ,vhich had opened so easily and ,vith so good pro1nise before him. But during all this time a deeper purpose held possession of him. He was deterntined to secure a collegiate education, so as to stand o_n equal terms with any that he should ~neet on the stage of life. v\:·11ile seen1ingly engrossed ,vith the several lines of business already described, he ,vas steadily prepar ing himself, as best he could, to enter Yale College. He was t,venty-four years old before he con1pleted this prepara tion, and at the la.st he deemed it necessary to spend a fe,v months, at least, in a fitting school. H~ studied; during part of the year 1836, at Burr Seminary, ~liddlebury, Ver n1ont, and entered Yale College, I judge, soon thereafter. \\:--hile in college he ,vas esteen1ed for his talent and beloved because of his gracious n1anners, and he ,vas regarded by his classn1ates "·ith unusual respect be<.:ause of his maturity and the successful business experience ,vhich he had al ready acquired. He graduated ,vith honor, read la,v, and was adn1itted to the bar in Xe"~ Haven, in ~lay, 1847. But the nioney ,v hieh he had previously accumulated had been consun1ed in his education, and he "'.'as not ,villing to sit down and "\"\r~ai t for legal business to come to his hands. He 96 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON theref ore re-entered the·,commercial world, and finding good opportunities, temporarily took up the luml;>er trade, and ,vhile thus engaged, resided in Buffalo, from 1847 to 1849. His ventures ,vere, as usual, successful, and he seemed no,Y ready to take up his ehosen pro_fession, the law. His two brothers were at that time residing in Mil,vaukee, and he visited them there in 1849. He saw the opportunity for in vestment in that _thriving city, and remained there. For the next two or three years he devoted himself principally to business interests. _ During 1852 and 1853, he made in vestments in the citv., and vicinitv., that eventuallv.., resulted in the accumulation of a large fortune. ..A.. mong the prop- erties in which he became interested was an important water power near the city. But as soon as he had made the purchase, a fierce opposition was begun by other parties, who. had interest in or designs upon the same property. ..A. tremendous legal struggle, that embraced nearly a hundred separate suits in court, and that lasted through thirty-one years, follo,ved. The questions connected there,vith occu pied a large place, for the life of a generation; in '\Visconsin courts of all grades. ~Ir. Orton ,vas his own lawyer, and the legal ,struggle in defense of his o,vn rights is probably the greatest in ,vhich he ,vas ever engaged. Though op posed by the stronge~t lawyers of the State, he finally ,von in every court. He is said to have been espeeially strong in his recognition and statement of first principles. Ile "~as possessed of a resolute and indomitable "'~in and kne,v no such ,vord as fail. He acquired large ,vealth, was charitable in the use of it, defended in courts the rights of the poor and lo-,vly, and ,vas honored and beloved in the con1unitv., ,v here he Ii ved . He married, late in life, Lucinda Keith, by ,v hon1 he had t,vo daughters, Amy, 1869, Mrs. W. H. \Vatkins, New Or- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 97 leans, Louisiana; Eva, 1871, Mrs. Walker Buckner, Jr. Mrs. Watkins has tw·o sons, Orton and R.9bert, and a ~augh ter, Grace. Mrs. l,ucind1a K., widow ·of John J. Orton, still lives in Mil,va ukee, Wisconsin. In his early life, Mr. Ortoii took part in various kinds of public ,vork, united 1\rith the Presbyterian Church, was in terested in music, etc., but a serious disappointment in his plans for domestic life soon after his graduation seems to have worked a great transformation in his disposition and mental tastes, at least, for a number of years. He rallied from the depression after a time, but his friends say that he was never quite his old self again. I have gathered the facts given above from a sketch published, with the appr-oval of his family, in the "liagazine of Wes,tern History," for- December, 1887, Cleveland, Ohio. Harlow S. Orton,_ :LL. D., third son of Dr.-Harlow N. and Grace Marsh Or-ton; was born in Brookfield, New York, November 23, 1817. Ile graduated at ~fadison University, Hamilton, N e"·~-Y ork, in 18:36, "·hen he was nineteen yearis of age. He ,vas employed for the next year (1836-7) in teach ing in Paris, Kentucky, and here he began the study of law. Removing thereafter to Lapgrte, Indi3:na, where his brother, );lyron H., ,Yas established, he completed his legal ,studies, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and began practice in the X orthern Indiana c~ircuit. \\Fhile in the practice of his pro fession at , ... alparaiso, Indiana, in 1&39, he met Elizabeth Cheney, of liaryland, and after a brief acquaintance they ,vere married. In 1840 he ,vas an enthusiastic supporter of General Harrison, the \v"'"hig candidate for the presidency, and made eighty speeches in this interest in the States of llaryland, PennsylYania, ,;irginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. He 98 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON distinguished himself try his eloquence and was kno-,vn in the campaign as the "Hoosier orator." In 1843 he ,vas appointed Probate Judge of Porter County, Indiana, by the governor of the State. In 1847 he removed to Milwaukee, Wis., and entered on the practice of his profession. In 1852 he accepted the office of private secretary and legal adviser of Governor L. J. Farwell, and removed to liadis·on, "~here he continued to reside till his death. In 1854, 1869, and_ 1871, he represented the Madi son district i:n the State Legislature, of which he was, in each session, a leading and influential member. ·up to the dissolution of the vV'hig party in 1854, he acted with it.. A .. fter that date, he "\\·as count~d as an independent Democrat. In 1859 he was elected judge of the Ninth Judicial District, and was re-elected without oppositiop...... l\.fter six years' service in this capacity, he preferred to re-enter the active practice of his profession, "'·hich he did ~n 1865. In 1876 he ,vas ap pointed one of the revisers of the statutes of the State. In 1877 he was elected mavor., of Madison. From 1869 to 1874 he was dean of the L·a"r Sehool of the University and gave instruction in several departments of law during the same time. In 1870 the university conferred on him the degree of LL. D. In 1878 he ,vas elected, on a non-partisan ticket, as a member of the Supr:eme Court of the State, and continued in this office to his death. By seniority he became chief jus tice in 1894. Judge Orton took a deep interest in history, literature, and art. He was active in the organization of the State Historical Society, and "ras its vice president for many years, having declined the presidency. He died in Madison, July 4, 1895, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 100 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON crous, his positive conviction, his powers of invective, his personal n1agnetism, his commanding voice, and his ability to make every fact and circumstance appear favorable to his client, all conspired to secure the attention .of his hear ers the mon1ent he rose in the court roo1n or else,vhere." .A.s a judge, he was pains-taking and thorough in his examination of cases, and pron1pt and clear in his decisions. He "'.. as by nature more of an adv-ocate than a judge, and his . great decisions are probably those into which his feelings were thrown as well as his convictions. Many of these de cisions are said to be mode~s of lucid and cogent argumenta, tion. He took great pride in their form, as well as their .. substance. They are embodied in forty-seven volumes of Wisconsin R-eports, and will remain as a perpetual monu ment to his knowledge of the law and his purpose to make it the best possible expression of what is right and just. They "'"'ill influence the administration of vVisconsin courts for all time to come. i\.s a man, _Judge Orton had n1uch of the 1nagnetic qual ity. He was genial and cordial in manner to a marked de gree, and at the same time wa,s constant and sincere in his friendships. In temper and feeling he was genuinely dem ocratic, as opposed to aristocratic. His sy1npathies "'--ere prompt and generous. - .A.gainst every form of injustice or oppression his indignation "·as ,vont to flame out in unmis takable termis. Such qualities as these, associated ,vith a fine personal presence, and ,vith a frank and engaging address, brought to him the love and adn1ira tion of all "rho kne,v him. Like all n1en n1acle on so large a scale, the great ques tions as to the end and nleaning of life v.·ere often in hi3 mind, and in his conversation he frequently turned to these themes. Especially during the lingering illness which pre- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 101 ceded his death, he was much occupied with the patriarch's problem, "If a man die, shall he live again?" In his domestic life he "ras highly favored. The wife of his youth, "'"horn he had cherished with unlimited devo tion for more than fifty years, soothed his last hours "'"ith her loving 1ninistrations~ and upon them he seemed abso lutely dependent. Six children were born to Judge and Mrs. Orton, two of whom, Odin and Oretta, died in infancy. Orlando B., August 12, 1843. Indianapolis, In diana. Otho H., March 12, 1845. Chattanooga, Ten nessee. Ora 0., November 30, 1846. Mrs. Henry Coe, Indi . apolis, Indiana. Harlow N., July 31, 1858. Minneapolis, Minnesota. I Orlando studied law, gr-aduating from the .A..lbany Law School in 18~4. Otho H. also studied law, completing his course in the I.Ja,v School of Wisconsin University, in 1871. Harlo,v N., the youngest son, studied medicine, taking his degree in the Rush Medical Oollege, of Chicago, in 1879. The daughter, l\lrs. Coe, takes a lively interest in the records of the Orton family. Her aged mother is spending the last ..,vears of her life in l\'Irs. C-0e's home. The t"ro older sons are la,vvers in active practice· the .., ' third is a practicin:::, o- phvsician.•; In my characterization of Judge Orton I have made free use of the n1emorial addresses of Chief Justice Cassoday and Judge E. W. Keyes, delivered before the Supreme Court, at ~ladison, Septen1ber 2, 189·5. I have failed to do adequate justice to our great kinsn1an. Both of these eminent men use stronger· ter·n1s than I have ventured to en1ploy. DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Diana, the only daughter of Dr. Har·lo"~ N. 1st, was born in 1814. She married Hon. ,J. J. Mason, and is now living at Cresson, Io,va. The third son of Rev. Iehabod Orton was John B. (1790- 1843). ..A. .s already -stated, he " ... as born in Brookfield, ~ ew York, studied law and established himself in practice in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, "\\'"here he died in 1843. One, at least, of his more famous nephews studied la":-- in his office. He married ~Iatilda Reynolds (1809,-1879), and left two sons, Julius T. (1830-1858), and i\.lfred Reynolds (1832" Soon: a.fter the death of her husband in 184.3, Mr.s. Orton removed to Monticello, Indiana.- Julius was a young man of excellent gifts and promise~ He was a student in \,Va bash ·College·at the time of his death, which resulted from the falling of a horse ""... hich he was riding. .i\.lfred R. still resides at Monticello. He attended Wabash College and acquired there the profession of civil engineering, which he has followed all his life. He held the office of county surveyor for several years. He married Addie C. Parker, of ~Ionticello, and has a son and daughter. The •Son, I?ev. Julius T. 2d (Octo ber 16, 1869), is a graduate of -~vabash Oollege and of Chi cago Theological Seminary. He is now pastor of a Presby terian Church in Indianapolis. He maITied, in 1893, }Iary Eliza Hills. The daughter, Qra 0., "'"as born October 16, 1863. She resides in Monticello. So far as I kno-,v, Rev. Julius T. 2d is the :first and only des,eendant of Rev. Iehabod to enter the ministerial profession, "~hile lawyers and physicians abound in this line. It would be a pleasure to traee the family lines of the daughters of this same. household, but I have no informa tion bear·ing on their histor·y. OF WINDSOR; CONN., 1641. 103 DESCENDANTS OF GIDEON, 1759. Gideon, fifth son of John, 17-17, "\"\'"as born in 1759. In early life he ren1oved to Fairfield, Vermont. He married Phoebe Oatman, "'"ho died June 19, 1806. His father, John Orton, passed the last days of his life in Gideon's home, dying there .A. pril 3, 1793. So far as I have learned, this family has rernained, for· the most part, in v... ermont. To Gideon the following children were born: Mary, January 14, 1791. Aaron H., March 18, 1793-1872. Lavinia. Sarah, 1798. Truman, ....\.ugust 9, 180~~June 10, 1877. C~harlotte, February 10, 1803. }lary married John Perry and left four children, viz., Gideon, John, ~Elizabeth, and Silas. Some of then1 reside at ~ e,vport, ,r ermont. ...t\.aron H. married, February 28, 1819, Mary (Polly) Hall. Three ehildren were bo!·n to him, viz., }I errill S., June 27, 1822 (he married Sophia Bailey); liary - . H., ....\ugust 23, 1825 (llrs.... .\. P. Webster); Sarah P., May, 1830 (}Irs. R.. P. Blake). Trun1an, the second son, married Elvira Gleason, and had five children, viz., C,ordelia, Diana, Tr:uman, Dorcas, Byron.. DESCENDANTS OF OLIVER, 1763. Oliver, sixth son of tTohn, 1717, n1arried Dorcas Squire (June 4, 177 4-Oetober 7, 1859). The 1nen1bers of this house hold have also n1ainlv., remained in Vermont. Six children " .. ere born to Oliver, viz.: i04 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Olive, May 16, 1797-1866. I"yman S., .A.. pril 7, 1799-1870. Harriet, September 22, 1802-1808. Elizabeth J., August, 1804. .William S., June 4, 1809-September 22, 1867. John B., September 28, 1811-September 27, 1885. William S. married, .September 4, 1836, Anzoletta Love land, who died March 12, 1890. To them three sons were born, Lyman S., G,ardner G., and Herman. The last-named died in childhood. Lyman S. ,vas born June 19, 1837. He was married January 17, 1861, to Ellen M. Stevens, who has borne him six sons and one daughter. 'fhe family home is at North Walden, Vermont_ The names of the children are given herewith: Omer E., December~ 30, 1863. William L., November 22; 1865-November 29, 1868. Laura~-, June 14, 1867-July 11, 1869. Charles L., May 22, 1869. Gardner L., ...t\. ugust 16; 1872. Ernest "r., September 4, 1875. Clayton R., ~L\::pril _l, 1885. Charles L., the third son, is a graduate of the University of Vermont, of the class of 1890. Since his graduation he has spent most of his tin1e in teaching. He has already achieved a marked success in this profession. I-Ie is at 0 Present en°~at:, ~·ed as principal of the ...-\..caclemv ., at Limino·ton0 ' Maine. To his genealogical interest and painstaking, I a1n indebted for all the· details pertaining to the several branches of the family of John (1717) which I am now giving. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 105 Gardner G., second son of W 1illiam S., grandson of · Oliver, the sixth son of John (1717), born December 16, 1840, married l\riaria Hunt, ""ho died .A.. ugust 31, 1863, within a year or t,vo after her marriage. He married a second. wife, September 8, 1875, viz., Electa W. ....Vien, who was born March 6, 1852. By her he had three children, William ...1\.., February 2~, 1877; Alice L., May 22, 1879; and ~label L., September 15, 1881. John B., youngest son of Oliver, ",as born September 28, 1811, and died September 27, -1885.· On February 28, 1842, he married ...L\.daline S. Loveland, who was born ~Jan uary 30, 1818. ~L"'heir six children are named as follows: Myr·on, January 3, 1843-June 8, 1865.. Abbie, September 11, 1844. Edward F., ....L\.pril 18, 1847. Julia ....L\.., December 25, 1848-November 10, 1874. Mrs. C. H. Cobb. Phoe~~ D., July 14, 1851. Mrs. D. B. Smith. Thaddeus :L., October 1, 1844. Edward F., second son of John B., married, November 21, 1876, Clara E. Stuart, -born :i\tiay 2, 1853. They have three children, viz., George L.~ ....L\.pril 19, 1878; Cleon B., Feb ruary 9, 1888; Marg-aret ....\., ....\pril 28, 1891. Thaddeus L., youngest son of John B., m-ar·ried, January 24, 1880, Estella M. Grow, who "'.. as born December 3, 1859. Five sons have been born to them, four of "'.. hom are living. ....\11 of these younger children are in the eighth generation from Thomas of vVindsor. The list is as follows: Ralph ....\., September 12, 1882. Glenn G., January 5, 1886-June 17, 1887. Roy G., July 10, 1888. 106 DESCENDANTS ·OF THOMAS -ORTON Reuel ~T., February 16, 1891. Reed L., October 25, 1893. This completes the account of the descendants of Oliver. DESCENDANTS OF AMOS, (1768.) Of .A.. mos, 1768, I have already given some account. I will here add "'"hat few facts I have been able.. to gather as to his descendants. He left, as "'"ill be rernen1bered, a num ber of children, and an1ong then1 t"ro sons, I--'orenzo, 1798, and ..A.mos, 3d, 1809. '· .,. Amos, :3d, ,va1s born : in Hadley Falls, Saratoga . . County, Ne,v York, June 7, 1809. I-Ie grew up in that region - and married a.t Queensbury, Ne"'" York, Emily R. Prosser (.. A.pr·il 26, 1811-March 14, 186.3). He resided for a tim.e at Fort Ann, New York, but when thirty years old, he removed with his family to Oakland County, liichigan, and estab lished himself on a farm about ten miles north of Pontiac, and about thirty miles a little ,vest of north of Detroit. The townsh'ip in which he settled was named after him, Orton; and the little village which has been gathered about the point where fifty years ago he built a grist mill, a saw mill, and a store, is no,v kno":-n as Ortonville. It is the post office of Orton To,vn~hip, Oakland County. Be ,vas · the leading man in the community, and it 1vas but just and right that his name should be comn1emorated in connection \Yith its settle1nent in the ·"ray above indicated. H·e. was univer~ally respected and trusted among his neighbors. I-Iis word ,vas as good as his bond. ~or was his interest al together confined to the busi ness c-oncerns of the co1nmunity. lle had ,vell-settled con victions on theological and religious questions, as well. He espoused the Universalist creed and became a preacher of that faith in the region ,vhere he lived, viz., in the counties OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 107 of Genesee, 1\iiacomb, Livingston, and Oakland. He devoted ten entire vears to the "·ork of the n1inistrv. He died in V ~ Ortonville, 1\'Iarch 19, 1888, ,Yhen seventy-nine years old. His two older children. ,Yere born in Fort ...... \nn, Wash ington County, Ne,v York. Four others ,yere born after he mov~d to }Iiehigan. 'fhe list is as follows: Laura, February 19, 1&35. Mrs. "V\... olfe, Davison Station Genesee Countv 1"1ichi 0 ·an. ' ... ' e, Elhanan ,,.... , March 30, 18.'38. Petoskey, liiehigan. Lizzie lI., March 2-5, 1839. Mrs. Po"rers, Chadr-:on, Nebraska. Celestia J., October 30, 1840. 1\'Irs .....\Igoe, Thayer, 1\'Iichigan. Celoska B., October 30, 1840. 1\iirs. Pine, Sumner, l\Iichigan. · J. Murr·ay, March 8, 1851. Winona, Minnesota. l\Iy information in regard to this buanch comes mainly· from E. ,v. Orton, -of Petosk:ey. He infor·ms me that all the members of the -family have native m:eehanieal talent, that the men are laro·e0 and str·ono·,e, that lio·hte, complexion and blue eves characterize the entire stock. ~ E. W. Orton married H-annah M. Cummings, by "'Thom he had one son, vVilliam · C., "Tho ,vas born in 1874. 1\'Irs. Orton died in 1888. Of Lo1·enzo, brother of· .A.mos, third, I ha,e but little to say. He lived in Oakland County, ~Iichigan, for many years and left four children, viz., Caroline (~Irs. (}eor-ge C. Baneroft); ,v·illian1 H., ,,:r ashington, D. C.; Sarah E., and ..A.ln1ira. lVillia1n H. ,vas a soldier in the vv· ar of the Rebel lion, and has, "Tit hi n the last f e"~ years, lost his sight. This con1pletes the aceount of the Ortons of the fifth and later generations in the line of John of r_ryringham (John, 1717). CHAPTER IV. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ORTON OF WOODBURY, CONN. SECTION I. FOURTH GENERArioN OF ORTONS IN THE LINE OF JOHN OF WOODBURY. In Table III., Chapter II., I have given the names of the descendants of John Orton of Woodbury, through three generations. I will devote this chapter to an .account of this branch of the family, which makes, numerically, but a small figure beside the families of his brothers, Thomas and Samuel. Of the migration of John (1692) from Farm ington to Woodbury in 1717, and of his settling there, I have given all the facts that are available. Our knowledge of his ,vife ends with the. fact that her Christian name was - ~Iary. The date of the marriage was 1724, or earlier. John joined the church in vVoodbury in 1726, and Mary, his "~ife, in the succeeding year. There were five children born to them, two sons and three daughters. Sarah, 1725-17 49. M. J,ohn Mitchell in 1748. John, October 5, 1729-1808. Eliza beth, November 16, 1734. )Iary, February 22, 1741 (?(. M. Nathan Judson. Samuel, December 8, 1741-1819. OF WINDSOR, CONN .. , 1641. 109 Of the daughters, I can give no further account. John, the oldest of the two sons of John (1692), was born in 1729, and occupied the tracts of land ,Yhieh his father had held before him. His lands la., v on the "'"est side of the town center. In 176.3 he married ...i\..bigail Leavenworth, who died in 1780. In 1782 he married Patience ,v arner. Bv., his first wife he had three daughters, and by his second ,vife two sons. I give the list herewith. Sarah, ....t\.pril 29, 1765. }I. -- Ball. Removed to Canada. llary Ann, July 23, 1768. M. Eli Smith, Orange, Connecticut. Esther, .,.t\. ugust 2, 1777. M. Hollister Judson, vVoodburv. •/ John, December 2, 1782-18.38. vVoodbury. Truman, June 16, 1784-1881. Woodbury. Dr. Samuel, the second son of John (1692), was born and reared in \Voodbury. .,..\.t an early age he began the study of medicine "'"ith Dr. J.oseph Perry, the leading physician of the to,vn. ...i\..fter completing his studies in the practical ,vay of his time, but evidently recognizing the need and advan tage of larger knowledge, lie entered Yale College, from which he received the degree of l\rI. D. in 1765. I think that he is the first of the Orton nan1e to receiYe a degree from Yale. I{eturning to vVoodbury, Dr. Samuel established him self in the pral~tice of his profession, and for a full half cen tury ,vas bnsil>· e1nployed in ministering to the comfort and relief of his to-,vnsmen and n~ighbors. ~Iany young men ac quired a kno,v ledge of the profession of medicine from study in his ofliee, and in this list five of his o,vn sons are to be counted. He was methodical, exact, and thrifty in his busi ness management, as I judge from the books in which his 110 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON accounts are set do"rn, and of the property 1vhich he ac quired. I have had an opportunity of examining his ac count books, through the kindnes'S of the "\Voodbury repre sentatives of the family. He bought numerous tracts of land in and around Woodbury, uniting some of them into small farms. Some of these are still known a;s the Orton lands. He was one of the five leading contributors to the building of the Episcopal Church edifice in Woodbury, in 1778, and from a letter of his that I have seen, I judge that he was not at all in sympathy with the rigorous Calvinistic theolog-y that "\\'"as don1inant in Connecticut at that time and that carried thing~ ,vith so high a hand.. In other words, Dr. Orton was distinctly liberal in his ~eligious_ be lief and in advance of his day and generation. I have been somewhat surprised to find no allusions to contemporary events occurring in any documents "\\?hich he has left us. One would think that the turmoil and excite-· ment of the !{evolutionary War, in which his early man hood· was passed, would sho"? itself in some form in every section of New England life, but I have failed to find the slightest reference in his books and papers. That he was a true patriot and thoroughly trusted by his neighbors, is evi dent from the fact that in 1787, when the ne",. Constitution of the United States v\i'"as submitted to the people of the several States for ratification, Dr. Orton was one of the t,vo repre sentatives sent bv Woodburv to the State convention for this •1 ·~ purpose, and ,vhich met at Hartford, January 3, 1788. His colleague from Woodbury was Hon. Daniel Sher1nan, one of the founders of the great Sherman family, to ,vhich the country o,ves so n1uch for illustrious service in peace and war. This representative office ,vas one of the n1ost impor tant that the to,vn has ever had to give, and it is pleasant to OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 111 find such an expression of esteem for, and confidence in, Dr. Orton. He n1arried Ruth Judson (1749-1828), possibly a descendant of ilrs. Mary 0. Judson, ,vho came to Wood bury in 1699, and who left two sons there, Isaac and Daniel. The Judson family has always been one of the leading fam ilies of the town. From this marriage six sons and three daughters were born, named as follows: Samuel, May 3, 1773-July 19, 1775. John, i\. ugust 31, 1774-1860. Sherman, Oonnecti . cut. Samuel, ..A.ugust 23, 1776-1850. Bridge-water, Con necticut. Elizabeth, ....\..pril 27, 1780-1866. Woodbury, Con necticut. Henry Tudor, ....\.. ugust 17, 1782-1864. ,v ashington, New York. David Judson, ifarch 31, 1784-1864. v,roodbury, C-0nnecticut. ·- Mary, December 7, 1785. M. Ebenezer Finch. James, l\Iay 10, 1787-1869. Caldwell, New Jersey. Sarah, l\tlay 1, 1791-1876. \Voodbury, Connecticut. - The history of these "'.. ill be g-iven in the succeeding section. SEC-TION II. FIFTH AND . SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS IN THE LINE'OF. JOHN OF WOODBURY. (a) DESCENDANTS OF JOHN (1729.) The sons of John (1729) have been named in the preced ing set:tion, viz., John (1782) and Trun1an (1784). Both were born and reared in \iVoodbury, and remained there all their Ii ves. They ,v.ere both farmers and both had their resi- 112 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON dences at the town center. John, born December 6, 1782, married Betsey Eliza Carpenter (1791-1870), _,of \V,oodbury. Their children ,vere: Mary .A... , January 13, 1817. John, February 18, 1819-Octo ber 30, 1822. Betsey, January 23, ·1824. Sarah J., November 2, 1826-October 17, 1828. It will be noted that the Orton name is doomed to drop out altogether from this line. Mary ...i\.. married Frederick Martin in 1837. He died in 1867, but his widow survived him. She and her sister still lead active and useful lives, despite the burdens of age. There were five children born to Frederick and Mary ...t\... Martin, viz. : C~roline E., December 28, 1840. Mary Orton, ...t\.. pril 12, 1842. Ha.rriet E., July 26, 1846-September 3, 1872. John Orton, March 30, 1849. Frederick S., September 1, 1851-...t\.pril 7, 1871. In the eighth generation along this line there are two heirs of Orton blood, but the surna.n1e, as already remarked, has been lost in this line of descent. John 0. l\Iartin married, in 1875, Mary C. Upson, of vYaterbury. Their children are, Clifford, October 28, 1879, and Emily H., July 7, 1882. For the records of the line of John Orton (1782) I a111 in debted to the careful and painstaking ~ervice of Miss Mary Orton Martin, of ,v-oodbury. (b) DESCENDANTS OF TRUMAN, ( 1784-1881.) Truman Orton liYed in Woodbury all of his long life, dying there in the ninety-seventh year of his age. In 1815, he married ~laria M. Curtis (commonly known in the family OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 11:3 as Patty )!aria), and to then1 ~eYen children ,vere born. FiYe sons and one daughter gr·e1v to maturity, \Yhose names are as follo"·s: Jan1es S., Xoven1ber 26, 1816-.July 4, 1892. Harriet, Septen1ber 8, 1.818. )Irs. Sa1nuel ,i ance. Frederiek r., 1823-}Iarch 2, 1880. Henry B., 1825-1869. Cornelius T., .July 31, 1827. -W"'" alter .J., ...\. pril 20, 1834-Oetob~r 7, 1~64. James S. grew· up in Wooclbury, but in 1844 he removed to Geneseo, Livingston County, Ne,v York. In 1843 he mar ried Emily Stanley; originally of Goshen, His sister, Harriet, n1a.rriecl San1uel V~nce, of Grove land, in the same county, in 1854. Three daughters were born to them, Eva lf. (1855), lfary J. (1857), and Harriet 0. (1859). Mary and Harriet died in ....\ ugust, 1863, but a few clays apart. Eva lI. n1arried Ira IL Hilliard in 1879, who lived but a n1onth after his marriage. Frederick 0., second son of Truman, was never married. He spent his ,vhole life i~ Woodbury. He died ~larch 2, 1880, aged fifty-seven years. Henry B., the third son, removed to X ew York City .and bec-a1ne engaµ:ed in the hard"\"\-"'"are business there. In 1851 he n1arr-ied ~I'ar·garet J.;. H nntley. In 1~~4 he died, leaving tw·o children, Emma ...-\. (... ~pril, 1852), and Harry B. (... ~pril 1, 1856). In 1880 Emma married Jeremiah Smith. In ·1881 Harry married Fanny l\'I. Spencer. He resides at Livonia Station, LiYingston County,, Ne"'.'" York, and has five chil dren in the eighth generation of Ortons, viz.: Ella 11., January 21, 1882. Blanehe )11., February 9, 1884. Henry J., l\ilarc-h 17, 1886. Pearl E., June 8, 1889. Frederick C-., October 16, 1891. l 1orneli us T. lufs been engaged most of his life in busi ness in X e,v York City, but residing in Brooklyn. He has been with one business firm for n1anv.., .,vears and is one of its most valued en1ployes. In 1857 he married ~lary .A... Low- eree, by· "·hon1 he has three sons, viz.: Charles ...\., ()ctober 14, 1858. lf. ~Iary L. ~Ierrill (1881). V\i"'"alter J., June 11, 1868. Clarence Tudor, Septen1ber 14, 1873. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 115 W·alter J., youngest son of Truman, grew up in Wood bury and n1arried Jane J nelson, of the sanie to,vn in 1856 ( ?). He enlisted in the ·\var of the Rebellion, was made sergeant of his company, ancl died O·ctober 7, 1864, from the effect of a gunshot ,vound, received at the battle of ,vinchester, Vir ginia. He left t,vo children, Florence L., born February 27, 1858, and Trun1an, born llay 18, 1861. Florence married Ed"rard S. Farrar in 1878, and resides in Chicago. Truman resides in Elnnvood, Peoria County, Illinois. (c) DESCENDANTS OF DR. SAMUEL. The children of Dr. Samuel and Ruth Judson Orton, eight in number, ,vere named in the preceding section. ]Jr. Samuel's five sons, as there noted, all studied medicine with their fa th.er, and all became practicing physicians. Dr.- John established hin1self in Sherman, Connecticut. He n1arriecl ....\bigail DeForest, and left one daughter, lfary E. (l\ilrs. Ste,vart). Dr. Samuel, Jr., ren1oved to Bridge,vater, Connecticut, where he "~as the leading physician for many years. He had t,vo children, a son, ;San1uel D., who entered on the profession of la"', but died_ -at a co1nparatively -early age, leaving no children. The daughter, Sus.an, married a J[ethoclist elergyn1an nan1ed Collins. Dr. Henry Tudor Orton rerno,ed to ,va.shingion, Dutchess County, Xe,v York, and spent a long and active life in the praetice of his profession. Ile accumulated a large for-tune, for his tin1e, and, leaving no children, his estate "~as divided anH)ng- his brothers and sisters. It is interesting- to note the reintroduetion of the rrudor naine in t,Yo instan~es in this fan1il Y. ., Dr. l)ayid Judson Orton reinained in ,,.. ooclbury, lead- ing a some,vhat less active life than his brothers. I pre- 116 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON sume that his narne, DaYid Judson, is that of his mother's father, but I have no certain infor1nation. He ,vas never married. Dr. James Orton established himself in Oald "~ell, Ne\\.. Jersey, about 1810, ,vhere he becan1e a prominent and influ ential citizen. He can1e on horseback from C-0nnecticut, bringing his "~or-Idly ,Yeal th in a pair of saddle-bags. He married, in 1814, Hester l\'Iaria, daughter of ~athaniel Doug las, a representative of an old and honored family of New Jersey, and one of the leading business men of the comll?-_u nity. Five children ,vere born to Dr. James in Caldwell, three daughters, Sarah, Mary, and Julia, and t,vo sons, James Douglas and San1uel Henry. Two of the daughters, Sarah and M·ary, died in early life. Julia lived to a good age in her father's family and surviv-ed him for a number of ..,vears . James Douglas Orton was born December 19, 1822. When he ,vas thirteen .vears., old he ,vas sent to Holt and Sargent's school, at ~Iontclair, by far the best school of the neighborhood. It ,vas four miles from his home to the school, and this distance he "·alked t"·ice a day, summer and winter, for four years. He made good progress in his studies and ,vould 0 ·ladlY ha ,·e 0 ·one for"-ard to a col- ' ~ ~ ~ legiate course, but he-felt that his father~s condition did not "·arrant this, and consequently, at the age of seventeen, he set about finding a place for hin1self in the business "'"orld . ...~fter unsuccessful applieations in various quarters, he at last secured a position in the State Bank of X e,vark, through the aid of his unele, ~Iareus B. Douglas, ,Yho ,vas connected ,vith this institution. The position "chich Jarnes secured ""as at the foot of the ladder, but a chante to nu1ke his ,va~· ,vas all that he needed. He ,vas advanced from grade to grade, and at the end of three years ,vas 1nade book-keeper iiS DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ·, On January 14, 1846, he ,Yas n1arried to his cousin, Hester Maria, daughter of Marcus B. Douglas, of ~ewark. Six children have been born to them, as f ollo,Ys: ...1-\.nna, October 11, 1876-February 11, 1851. Lucius F., September 26, 1848-j\rlarch 6, 1850. Mary ...i\.dele, June 16, 1851. }Irs. Samuel Lord, New York. James Douglas, Jr__ , Decen1ber 2,5, 1852. lI. Eliza beth K. Bovian., . Marcus B. D., }lay 16, 1858-1861. Helen, July 5, 1862. Mrs. Frank Bliss Colton, East Orange; Ne":-- ~Jersey. It will be seen that three are now Ii ving. On the 14th of J anuar-y last (1896), the golden ,vedding· of Mr. and }Irs. Orton was celebrated. 'l'he oc-c-asion ,vas a happy one in every respeet, but there were t,vo features in particular ":--hich added much to the enjoyn1ent of all, viz., a poem "\\"'ritten for the celebration by Rev. Wil liam James Tilley, Rector of Christ Church, Xewar-k, revie"... _ ing· some of the n1ore striking historic events that have taken place in the half century just passed, and a souvenir, in the shape of a bea~1tiful little volun1e, entitled, "Pen Pictures," prepared and published by Mrs. Helen Orton (Jolton, of East Orange. The volu1ne is deYoted to the family history for the fifty years of lir. and llrs. Orton~s "\\"'eddecl life ,vith manv interestin°· fac-ts bearino· on the o·enealoo·v ' ., ::--, ~ ~ ~OJ of both fan1ilies, the Ortons and the Dong-lases. The idea of a souvenir in sueh a forn1 for the- oc-easion ,vas adn1irable, and the execution of the ,v-ork left nothing·- to be desired. The volume sho,vs literary skill on every page. The dedica- tion to Dr. Jan1es Orton, inspired by the reeolleetions of her childhood, is especially pleasing and graceful. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 119 J-ames D., Jr., married Elizabeth K. Boylan, :F'ebruary 7, 1882, and has three sons, Yiz., Benjamin Douglas, July 17, 1883; Henr·y B., February 6, 1885, and Raymond, July 5, 1892. · Sa.muel Henry, second son of Dr. James, was born in September, 1829. He gre,v up in Caldwell and was, in due time, sent to the same exeellent school ,vhich his brother had attended before hin1, but his earliest tr·aining in I"'atin he received fron1 the pr·iva te tuition of a learned clergyman of the neighborhood, I{ev. Dr. v\Tilson, of Fairfield. All through his life Samuel possessed an unusual share of lin guistic ability. I-Ie spoke French and German fluently, and could also use Spanish and Italian to some extent. E•arly in life he decided to adopt his father's profession, and his studies were largely devoted to this end_ He pur sued hjs professional studies in the medical d~partment of the University of the lity of :New York, and·con1pleted them in Jefferson liedical College, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began prac_!iee in Tarr-ytown, New Y or·k. He married ~Iary Nash, of Norwalk, Connecticut,· on ...;\. ugust 4, 1852. Since Dr. Orton's death, Mrs. Orton h~~s returned to her old hon1e. · No children ,vere born to them. ...;\.t the outbreak of tri.~ -Civil \\iar in 1862, Dr. Orton was appointed assistant surgeon in the regular arm~y. He was first assigned to duty under l)r. Jane"~ay in the the army hospital of X e,Yark, but "·as soon pron1oted by being placed in charge of St. J a1nes Hospital, in Xe"· Orleans. ...i\.fter remaining here for several years, he "~as transferred to the ~IcDougal Hospital, Fort Schuyler, Xe"· York. In all of this service he displayed great energy and effieiency. In fact he possessed n1arked executive abilitv ,vhieh ,vas rec- ' . ~ ' ognized by his superiors in offiee, as ,vas sh(nvn by the con, ferring of the rank and title of brevet-major upon hhn on the OF WINDSOR, CONN.,. 1641. 121 Near..... the house is a .private burvino·•.1 e, e,o·round, in "\\~hich. are the graves of Dr. Samuel and u1any of his deseendants. .A. comely and apropriate n1onu1uent .,Yas erected by funds supplied for the purpose by tlle estate of Ilr. Ilenry 'f. Orton. 'rwo of the daughters ·of Dr. Sa1nuel, viz., Elizabeth and Sarah, remained unrnarried and n1nde their hon1e in \V. ood bury through long and useful lives, Elizabeth dying at the age of eighty-six and Sarah at the ag-P of eighty-four. Miss Sarah Or-ton ,vas greatly beloved in ,vooclbury for her kindness to the poor and her readiness to help them, particularly in sickness. She kne,v as much of medieal practice as most physicians, and her presenee in the sick room was helpful and comfor-ting to an unusual degree. The "\"Veather was never so bad as to prevent her from going out on errands of mercy. . Her death ,vas universally lamented in the town. Mrs. Colton, in the "Pen Pictures,:-, noticed on a pre eeding page, speaks thus of her: "lVIy great-aunt, Sarah, I remember- perfectly. Black hair, in spite of her seventy odd years, piercing dark eyes, and a soft "~rinkled cheek, with a faint, pretty color, like a ,vinter apple." llary married, in 1812-, Ebenezer Finch, and bore four children, viz., Sarah, lVIary 0., Henry, Julia .A.. Sarah mar ried R-ev. Jonathan Brace, of Litchfield, and after,vards of lVlilford, and left t,vo daughters, one of ,vhon1 is lirs. E1nily Patton, of ~onkers, and the other, ~lrs. J,;ucy Chittenden, of Xe,v York City. ~lary 0. married Benja111in De,Yell. Julia .:\.. nu1rrie DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. SAMUEL ORTON OF LITCHFIELD. SECTIO:N I. FOURTH GENERATION OF ORTONS IN THE LINE OF SAMUEL. Of_ the migration of Captain Samuel, you:p.gest sion of John, from Farmington to Woodbury, in 1718, and from ,,... oodbury_ to Litchfield in 1720, of his purchase and occu pation of a lar_ge tract of land at the south end of Bantam Lake, of the home that he built there, of his marriage to ...:\.bigail~ daughter of Gideon ,Smedley, and of the family that "'"as born to him on Orton Hill, I have alr·eady ,vritten. I am no"· to traee the historv., and fortunes of his five sons. Reference to Table 1,---. "·ill make plain many of the details of the present chapter. SAMUEL 2d. San1uel, Jr. (1724-1810), "·as born on Orton Hill, inher ited the northern and older part of his father~s farm, and lived on it eighty-six years, dying there }larch 31, 1810. 'rhe land that he occupied has been sinee di\·ided among several neighboring farn1ers. Bradford l{oot O"\Vned a part at one time, and J an1es llorgan is a n1ore recent owner of another 124 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON part. To the old residents of Litchfield, the location of the farn1 ,vill be best described as opposite to \V"illian1 Ray's. Sa.n1uel married Ruth, daughter of Joseph ~Iason, of Hart ford. She died :Xoven1ber 10, 1798. The late lirs. Ruth Co-\v"les of ~!orris the best bv far of the recent authorities on the local' histor·y' of the to,vn,' 0/ ,vrote' me a f e,v years since that she remembered ~Irs. Orton "'"ell; that she was a ,von1an of beautiful char~aeter and g1·acious "rays, and that she ,vas beloved bvo: all ,vho kne"\\'" her. Fifteen children were born to then1: Levi, November 6, 1750-May 1, 1776. .A.bigail, ....\pril 19, 1752-Iv.lay 6, 1771. Gideon, ....\ugust 26, 1753-September 9, 1753. Gideon, July 14, 1754-September 29, 1778. Huldah, ....\pril 9, 1758. Samuel, December 27, 1759. liiranda, .....\pril 16, 1761. Esther, ....\ ugust 22, 1762. John, March 24, 1764...... \raunah, December 17, 1765-June 21, 1766. Dan1aris, July 15, 1767. ....\raunah, June 24, 1769 . ...-\.bigail, ~larch 26, 1771. }Iiles, liarch 21, 1774-1814. Olive, }lay 12, 1777-September 14, 1778. HEZEKIAH. Hezekiah (1727), the second son, took another part of his father's land. I-le settled on the hill south,Yest of Orton Hill. His farm after"\vards passed out of the ha.nus of his familv and came to be kno,vn as the "\\i.,.hittlesev farm. Part ~ ~ OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 125 of it is no1v oceupied as the infirmary farm of the to"rnship. Hezekiah built a fran1e d,velling on his farm, and a small portion of the original structure is said, by ~irs. Cowles, to be included in the buildings that are still standing here. It is perhaps the oldest d,velling in ~Iorris. Hezekiah married .A.nna Sedg,vick in 1745, and nine children "~ere born to them here: Hezekiah, Jr., September, 1745-!Iay 25,1770. Wil- liamsto"·n, Se"'~ York. Eliada, May 29, 1748. Parish, Xew York. Sec!g,vick, .A.. ugust 11, 1750 . .A .. nne, December 1, 1752. Eleanor, July 28, 1756. Azariah, September 25, 1757. Williamsto"-n, New York. Darius, May 18, 1760. Williamsto"~n, Ne"~ York. R.hoda, ~lay 2'1, 176.3. Olive, -·!Iarch 17, 1765. Dennis, 1766. ..A .. large number of Ortons of the present day trace their descent to Hezekiah. AZARIAH. :.A.. zariah (1729-1774), third son of C-aptain Samuel, re moved fron1 Litchfield to Tyringha1n, }Iassachusetts, "~here, as "·ill be ren1e1nbered, a colony of Ortons ,vas already es tablished. He n1arried liarJ· Davis (1738-1831), and three sons and seven daughters ,vere born to the1n. ()ne of the n1ost distingnishetl bran<:hes of the fan1ily is deriYed from this stoek. ~~ron1 the fa<:t that the younger sons left Litch field for a ne"·er country, it ,vould appear that the farm of DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Captain Samuel had been divided bet,veen the t,vo older sons, above named. The three sons of .A.. zariah are named belo,v: i\.zariah, Jr., 1767-1854. lVI .....\.big-ail (Polly) Jack- son. Reuben. Darius, 1770-1838. M. v~ashti Jackson. LEMUEL. Lemuel, the fifth son (1735-1787), lived in LitchfieJ.d. He married }Iarv Lurvev. To Lemuel and ~Iarv Orton ten t, t, V children "'~ere born: Lemuel, Jr., March 5, 17611-September 29, 1831. ,,... orthingion, Ohio. Mary, January 11, 1762. Gideon, December 31, 1768-July 12, 1846. Eden, New York. James. Sarah, December 14, 1765. lI. Jonathan Mason, Jr. John, December 4, 1770. vVilliam, June 22, 1772 . ....\.nne, January 20, 1776. Ruanna, March 22, 1779. Marianne, March 3, 1784. }I. Loudon V\t ebster. JOHN. Lieutenant John, youngest son of Captain San1uel, re moved in his tw·entieth year to Sharon, establishing hiin self there in 1764. He bought a far,n, located on Mill Brook, one and a half miles south of the center of the to,Yn, and ,v hich had been f ormerl., v o-\vned bv., John Davis. Ilis farm OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 127 has remained in the hands of his descendants almost to our own day. It is no,v in the possession of Mr. George R. Wood ward. The site of the log house "~hich Lieutenant John built and occupied, can still be identified. But at a later date he erected a fran1e dwelling nearer the highway, which "ras replaced, in its turn, by the present farm house, ,vhich "ras built by Joseph Orton seYenty-five years ago. The last house is but a few feet distant from the frame dwelling built by Lieutenant John. 'l'he farm, on its eastern border, abuts against Ells"rorth Mountain, along the foot of which is a beautiful _stream, liill Brook, ,vhich flo-,vs to the south ward. 'fhe site of the present house is 10n a hill of drift clay and gravel, sev-enty-five feet above the valley. The place can be further identified as adjoining, on its northern bound ary, the fine property of Dr. Deming. Lieutenant John married Remen1ber, daughter of Dea con ~Joseph and ~Irs. Sarah. Landers, of Sharon, and several children were born to them "in the old log house in the valley. The probable date of his marriage is 1765-7. The oldest child that "·e know "·as born in 1768. I have the names of four sons, t,vo of who·m died in early life: Joseph, 1768. Luther, 1774. Calvin, 1778-1783. .A .. ugustus, 1779-1783. One 1nile beyond the old Orton homestead, to the west and south, is an old and some,vhat neglected burying ground, in ,vhich several n1en1bers of the fan1ily ,vere laid. ,.rhe Orton and Landers fan1ilies ,vere buried on adjacent lots in the central portion of the ground. The gravestones, ornamented after the fashion of a hundred years ago, have retained part of their inscriptions in fairly legible condition, 128 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON but cannot hold them distinctlv for manv inore decades. ~ ~ Both Lieutenant John and his ":-ife died before their time, Mrs. Orton in the forty-third year of her age and her hus band in his forty-first year. On his tombstone the inscrip tion reads as follows: "In memorv.., of Lieutenant John Orton, ,vho departed this life ...~pril 9, 1785, aged forty-one years." Belo,v the name the follo,ving verse was cut in the stone, but it will scarcely be legible much longer: "In prime of life he yields his breath, ,,... hne ""'·eeping friends lament his death; But death must yi,eld, his dust restore, Where friends shall m~et, but weep no more." The stone that marks Mrs. Orton's grave· is thus in scribed: "Sac-red to the memory of Mrs. Remember Orton, consort of Mr. John Orton, and daughter of Deacon and Mrs. Sarah L-anders, ,vho died May 18, 1779." T,vo smaller stones mark the graves of Calvin and Augustus, ""''"ho died in the fourth and fifth years of their lives, respectively. The inscriptions are alike, ,vith the ex ception of their names. They read as follo"rs: "Sacred to the memory of --, son of I~ieutenant John and Mrs. Remernber Orton." The dates connected with the inscrip tions are not free from uncertaintv. ·- Lieutenant' John's nan1e-does not appear in the military records of Connecticut, but it is ,vell kno,vn that there are manv cases of honorable R-evolutionarv service that never ~ ~ found record. The 1var broke out ,vhen John Orton ,vas a bout thirty years of ·age, and all the n1en of ,Yestern X e,Y England of that age and under, ,vere, at one time or another, in the service of the country. The inscriptions on the graYe stones, repeated three times, renders it probable, in my judg ment, that John "~as a Revolutionary soldier. The title, OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 129 "lieutenant," " ... ould scarcely have been given just after the close of the "rar unless it stood for actual service. It is a pleasure to me to believe that John Orton was in the l{e,olutionary .i\.rmy, because he was the only son of Captain Samuel that "~as fairly due there. ,Samuel, the oldest son, "~as, at the breaking out of the war, :fifty-t,vo years old; He½ekiah was forty-nine; .A.. zariah, forty-seven, and Lemuel, forty-five years old. ...i.\:s I will show in the suc ceeding section, one or more sons from each of these families "\\... ere engaged in the military service of the country 1n the war. Of Jemima, the only daughter of Ca.ptain Samuel, we only kno"\\... that she ,vas born in 1740, and that she married Captain ....\.rchibald 3'IcXeil, Jr. Xo 1nore desirable family connection than this was .open to the most ambitious young ,voman of Litchfield in 1760. SECTIOX II. FIFTH GENERATION OF ORTONS IN THE LINE OF SAMUEL OF LITCHFELD. For the sake of con venie.nce, in tracing the several lines of descent, the nan1es of the fift11 generation.. _ have been al- ready given in eonneetion ,vith the reeords of their parents, of the four·th gener,ltion. The fh ... e sons of Captain San1uel, ,vhose records I have been able to tr·aee, left, or rather had born to then1, in the fifth generation, at least forty-t\vo chil dren, of ,vhom one-half, t\\... enty-one, ,vere sons. (a) SAMUEL. The large fa111ily of ,San1uel, oldest son of Captain Sam uel, con1es first in re,... ie,Y. Of his fifteen children, eight were sons, but only six of then1 reached man's estate, and t,vo of 130 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON these died early. These were Levi (1750-1776) and Gideon (1754-1778). San1 uel (1759), John (1764), .A.ra unah (1769), and Miles (1775), ,vere the others. .A.II that ,ve know of Gideon is, that he ""as in the army ,vhen t,venty-three years of age. He saw service in the Hudson Vallev., in the sum1ner of 1777. He ,vas a 1nember of Captain .A.. mos Barns's company, which _belonged to Colonel Noadiah Hooker:-s regiment, "\\"hich was in the brigade of General Erastus vVolcott~ Gideon died at Litchfield the next .,vear. Son1e fatalitv., seems to have n1arked the lives of several of the older children of Samuel, Jr. From the list already given, it ,vill be seen that Levi died at the age of t,venty-six, ...\bigail at~ the age of nineteen, and Gideon at the age of twenty-four. Samuel, 3d (1759), performed the same amount of militarv service in 1777 that has been recorded above for •.J his brother, Gideon. In 1778 he ,va.s again in the army for three months, in defense of the ,~,alley of the Hudson. In this campaign he ""as under Captain Joel Gillett, of Colonel Roger Enos's regilnent. He wa.s but eighteen years old when he entered on this service. Samuel lived all his life in Litchfield C,ounty, and raised a family there, but of his children, I have the name of but a single one, viz., Ed~uncl Orton, of Northeast, Penn sylvania. I fear that there is-no probability that anything more can be learned in regard to this branch. The next son ,vas John (1764). He ,vas but t""el ve years old ,vhen the ""ar broke out, and a ,var record is, conse quently, an in1possibility in his case. It seems probable that John n1igrated, in his early life, a few· n1iles to the north,vard of his father~s hon1e. ...i.\.t least he found a ,vife in the to-,vn of Goshen, in the person of l{uth X orton, a men1- ber of a well-kno-\vn family. She brought a distinct vein or OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 131 talent into the Orton line. One of the foremost nam·es in the family lists, viz., that of William Orton, president of the ,v·estern Union Telegraph Company, comes in among the descendants of John and Ruth. They had eight children, six daughters and t,vo sons, as follows: Clarissa, February 23, 1787. •. Demas, June 2'5, 1788. Betsey, January 10, 1790. Polly, l\'1arch 12, 1791. ...t\.bigail, ...-\pril 21, 1794. Aurora G., June 22, 1796. Horatio, November 2, 1798. Ru th, l\i1arch 3, 1802. .A.raunah (1769), four-th son of Samuel, liyed in Litch field, about t,vo n1iles south of the town center. The farm on ,vhich he lived is now kno,vn as the Harrison farm. The house that he occupied "~as situated nearly opposite to Charles Ensign ;ts house, but not a vestige of it no"~ remains. ....\.raunah married Lois Gibbs in 1793. I think she ,vas the daughter of Eliakin1 Gibbs, a soldier ,vho died in the army in 1778. The c-hildren of Ara unah and Lois "~ere t,velve in number, and are named belo"~: Irene G., Oetober 13, 1795. Esther R., Decen1ber, 1796. l{aehel, September 18, 179-8. l{uth :NI., Nove1nber 15, 1799. )fary .A.. , :F'ebruary 25, 1801. '!J a1ues 3-f., OettJber 5, 1802. lT tica, X e,v York. Elizabeth )!orris, January 17, 1804. Leman G., '!Tune 22, 1805. 132 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Orrin A., November 25, 1806. Lucy S., October 22, 1808. Phoebe ,v·., May 27, 1810. Rhoda 'f., July, 1812. I have not been able to follo"\\· anv of this familv. w ~ Miles, the youngest son of Samuel and Ruth Mason Orton, was born on Orton Hill, March 21, 177 4. He ,vas reared in Litchfield, and in ·1795, married Lydia, daughter of Eliakim (libbs. She ,vas born about 1770 and died Octo ber 10, 1852, at the residence of her son, l{ev. Dr. Samuel G. Orton, in Ripley, N e"\\r York. The Gibbs fa1nily, to which she belonged, was one of the best kno,vn and 1nost numerous famHies _of Litchfield, and especially of that part of the to,vn kno"'·n as the South Farms. Manv., men1bers of it ,vere dis- tinguished for stentorian voices. ...i\. ,vag of the neighbor- hood declared that he could al\vavs., tell "'"hen he can1e into the South Farms because he could hear some of the (}ibbses "holler." The Gibbs voice has been an inheritance of at least three generations from Eliakim. Lydia's father was drafted into the Revolutionarv .A.rn1v in the "·inter of 1778. ~ 0/ To prepare him better for the exposures ,of army life in win ter, his ,vife undertook to knit a pair of long stockings for hiln that reached to the hips. He ,vas to report ·at a stic1tion near by, probably Litchfield, on the evening of a tertain day. Hi,s ,vife had .set up all the nig·ht before ":-orking at the task, but did not finish it until the last day ,vas far spent. The sun ":-as sinking and he ,Yas obliged to take his departure. Lydia ,vas fi,e years old at the tin1e. She had t"·o sisters older than herself and a brother and sister younger. There ":-as a long hill that her father had to a.seend on his road to the appointed station, and ,vife and children ,vere ,vatch ing at the ,vindo,vs as he slo,vly made his ,vay. .A.. s he OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 133 i·eacheci the top of the hill, his :figure was outlined sharply against the evening sky. 1-Ie stopped and gazed for some minutes at his hon1e in the Yalley bel(nv, and then passed over the bro,v of the hill and ,vas lost from the sight of the children. "That ,vas the last I ever saw of my father," Lydia "'"as ,vont to tell lier grandc-hildren. He ,vent into tan1p on Lake George, and in the course of a few weeks, died of that dreadful scourge of the Revolutionary .A.. rmies, the sn1allpox. His death occurred so soon after his entry upon the service that no pension could ever be obtained, and the household suffered privation and hardship from the withdrawal of their natural supporter and protector. Miles Orton ,vas an exceptionally companionable and popular young n1an, but he lacked the instinct of accumula tion and thrift, which we generally assoeiate ",.ith the ~ e,v England, and particularly ,vith the C-onnectieut character. He was about five feet seven inches in height, and ,vas re markably "rel] proportioned. On the days "-hen trials of strenoih and ao·ilitv ",.ere in order on the villa0 ·e 0 ·reen t, ~ 0/ t, t, ' Miles ,vas the reeognized ehampion of the to1',.n. 'l'he rec- ords of some his feats of activity ,vould put to shame many of our modern athletes. :f!e died in 1813, ,vihen but thirty-six years old, leaving a fan1ily of eight children, as follo"\\,.s: San1uel G., June 6, 1798-.A.. pril 12, 18,3. Sandusky, Ohio. liiles lVf., June 4, 1799-1820. \V.illian1 H., Mareh 20, 1801-1842. R-epublic, Ohio. Ruth E., )larth 19, 1803-18:37 (?). Eliza beth l\il., ...-\. pril 13, 1805. 11. Hon. Levi Baxter. Jonesville, l!iehigan. .A.bbie l\I., July, 1807...... - . ,. - 134 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Ed,vard s:, Decen1ber 25, 1809. Probably died in 1830. James. Died in infancv. C.' Of the daughters of San1uel 3d, I have no kno"'1edge beyond their names. The record implies that five of then1 'grew to womanhood. (b) HEZEKIAH. The family of Hezekiah, second son of Captain Samuel, has been already nam•ed. · His oldest son, Hezekiah 2d (17 45), n1ar-ried P 1hoebe Johnson in 1767, an ~Iarv.., }1. J an1es \\.,. ebster. Daniel. ...-\. eonsiderable nun1ber of Ortons, descended fron1 Sedg ,vick through his oldest son, IIeman, are on record. 136 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON In regard to some of the· other n1ernbers of the family, I have niot been able to obtain anv., facts ,vhatever. - .A.zariah 2d, fourtih son of Hezekiah, ,v-as born Sep tember 25, 1757. He served in the Iievolutionary ,,7",ar ,Yith the Connecticut Continental troops, ·and received a pension_ from the government for sueh service. He is duly named in the Congressional List of Pensioners for 18.34-5.. He ,vas at that time reported as seventy-five years of age, and as re siding in Oneida County, Ne".. York. c,roI. II., p. 365.) In 1780 he married Sybil Cleveland, and in 1801 re1noved to Camden, Oneida C"-Ounty, Ne")' York, and after a fe")' years to the adjoining town of Florence, "'"here he died in 1835. His wife died in 1807. - To them were born eight children, viz.: Dennis, November 7, 1781-1855.- Shelby, Ohio. Sherman, .A.pril 17, 178.3. Farm,ington, Illinois (?). Rhoda, ....L\.pr·il 17, 1786. Olive, November 10, 1788. ...-\.zariah. Farmington, Illinois (?). Anna. Nancy. Brainerd, 1804. Ster~ing, Illinois. ...L\.11 were born in -c-0nneetieut, exeept the youngest son, Brainerd...... \ long list of Ortons can be traeed to this line. Darius, fifth son of Hezekiah, ,vas also a R.evolutionary soldier and pensioner, and as he served in the Connecticut n1ilitia, ,ve are better able to follo,v his military record than •.1 that of his brother. He entered the serviee ,vhen but sixteen years old. In 1776 he served in Captain Sinith's con1pany, presun1ably in defense of the l-I udson , .... alley. In 1777 he was in Captain Enos Barns's eompany, under Colonel Xoa diah ·Hooker, "~hose headquarter-s ,v-ere at Peekskill on the OF W lNDSOR, CONN., 1641. 137 Hudson. In 1778 1he was in the same army, in the same service, and in C-aptain Joel Gillett's company. In 1780 he ""'"as enrolled in the Fifth Connecticut line. His name ap pears in Vol. IL, p. 387, C-0ngressional List of Pensioners, 1834-5. I do not find.the name of his ,vife, or the date of his mar riage, but about the opening of the eentnry, he, too, removed to "'.'"illiamstown, N e\\r York, and -some of his deseendants are still living there on their aneestral aeries. 'l"'he greater number of his descendants, ho,vever, h1aye emigrated to the ,,T estern States. The names of his children are as follows: Truman. Baruch. Luna. Ruth. Hiram, 1811-1884. Ortonville, Iowa. Darius, 1816. ....\.11 ,vere born and reared in Williamsto,Yn, Ne"'.,. Y or~. -- . Of the youngest son, Dennis, born 1766, I have no fur ther account. He "'... as too young for the Revolutionary .A.. rmy. His name was repeated in the next generation, as has already appeared in fhe list of his brort:her, .....\.zaria:h's sons. (c) AZARIAH. I come next to the descendants of ....\.zaria'h (1729), of the fourth generation, third son of Captain iSamuel. As stated above, he removed. to 'l'yringham, Massa eh usetts, some "'" here about 1760. His oldest son, ...~zariah, Jr., was born in Tyringham, in 1761, and "ras reared there. He inherited the lands ,vhich his father had eleared and oecupied, and ,vhich are still, in part, at least, in the possession of his descendants. Though 138 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON but a lad of sixteen, he enlisted in the army in 1777, and 1vas present, under General (}ates, at the surrender of Burgoyne, at Saratoga. ,,... hen he ,vas twenty-sev•en years old, viz., in 1788, he did the best thing possible in n1arrying .A.bigail, sometin1es called Polly, daughter of ( 1olonel Giles Jackson, of Tyringham. Calonel Jackson ,vas one of the n1ost promi nent and influential men of tbat par·t of the State. Mention has been rnade of hin1 in another connection with the Orton fan1ily, on a previous page..... i\.bigail J1aekson Orton was her father's daughter, and ""as easily the leading "\\"Oman of Tyring·han1, in all of its interests, social, educational, a·nd religious. She had :a striking faee and figure, and the au thority whieh she exeretsed beean1e her ,vell, and ,vas read 0 ilv., acknO'\Yledo·edb bv., her neih ·hbors. She brought._ a fresh- stock of energy and talent into the Orton line. Se-veral of the most -distinguished scholars of the fan1ily are found in the list of her deseendants. ...i\.zar-iah lived to an extreme age, dying in 1854, at the age of ninety-three. His " ... ife, born in 1768, died in 1851. 'fhey left five sons, viz.: .A.zarfah Giles, 1789-1869. Lisle, N e,v York. Thomas Porter, 1794-1847. Charles, 1791-1850. Caleb Jackson, 1805-1850. Sarah ...'-.., 'ryringha-m. John, 1811-1882. Of the second son of ...'-.zariah (1729), viz., Reuben, I have no record exeept the name; but of t4e third son, Darius, lVIay 26, 1770, I can give a brief aeeount. He n1arriecl "\Tashti Jackson, a younger daughter of c~olonel Giles Jack son. She ,vas born in 1771, and (d) LEMUEL. I come next to the children of Lemuel, 1735, who mar ried :ltlary Lurvey, and " ... ho resided in Litchfield. Their oldest son ,vas Lemuel, Jr., ,vho " ... as born in 1762. He seems to have learned the shoemaker's trade, though he "~as a far-n1er in all his later life. ....\t the age of fifteen, in 1777, he enlisted in the Revolutionary ....:\.rmy, and remained in the servh·e to the c-lose of the " .. ar. In his later ..,vears he re- eeived a pension for his service by the Congressional ....\.ct of 1818. Ile belonged to Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Light Dra goons, ,vhieh ,vere reeruited in 1777, in ,vestern Connecti eut, and ,vhich ,vere employed during the ,var along the ,,.,.estchester front and in Xe,v J·ersey, in eonstant and arduous service. In ,vinter the troops " ... ere o·enerallv s.cat- o 0,/ 140 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ·, tered in small squads through the regions from ,vhich they "'"ere reeruited, "·ith the double object of -defending the to"'"ns from British raids and of reducing the expense of maintenance of n1an and beast. 1.'he con1pany in ,vhich Lerr1- uel serYed seems to have been under the im.mediate com mand of I.Aieutenant (after~vards C-olonel) Kirby, of Litcih :fieltl. Major Benjamin Tallmadge ,vas one of the officers of the regiment. Len1uel ,vas shot in the head on one occa sion, but not entirely disabled. He ,vas the Revolutionary hero of the Orton fa1nily, at least in the Litchfield branch. -- 0 0 He brouh ·ht back fr·om the· war a b ·reat stock of adventures and "hair-breadth 'scapes,'' the rehearsal of ,vhich, in after days, furnished the greatest delight to the youthful mem bers of the family and of the comn1unity at large. One of his adventures, to the relation of "'"hich my father listened "'.'" hen a boy, runs as follows: The squad of Light Horse to 1vhich he belonged was ,vintering, as usual, in southern Connecticut, and ,vas kept on the qui vive in repelling British raids planned by the traitor .A.rnold. One evening, after hard :service for several days, the comn1and to ,vhich he ,vas attached came to a large barnyard, at "~hieh it was deemed safe to stop for a night's rest. :X o Br·itish troops \\'"ere kno-,vn to be in the im mediate vicinity, and- the offic-er in charge felt a sense of security that proYed to be un,v·arranted. He gaYe orders to unsaddle the horses, and allO\\'"ed his men to n1ake them sel Yes con1fortable in the hav-mo"'"., for a mueh-neeJed rest. Len1uel retired ,vith the rest, but in an hour or t,vo ,vas ,vaked by a vivid dream. He drean1ed that a British troop "--as eon1ing at full speed do-,vn the road ,vhieh they had just left, and that he had only time to n1ount his horse and ride out as the ene1ny entered. 'fhe dream made such an impres sion on hin1 that he could not go to sleep again, at once. He OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 141 got up from the hay-loft and ,vent do-\vn to the yard where the horses ,vere fastened. It was a typical New England ,vinter night. The ne,vly-fallen sno,v lay deep on the gTound, covering everything that the eye could see with a mantle of ,vhite. The air was still and keen. The full moon rode high in the heavens, and ,vhat ,vith its light and the reflecting surface of the snow, the night was almost like the day. He listened, but the only sounds to be heard ,vere of the horses feeding from the racks to "'hich they were fastened. He "·ent out into the road,vay, looked up and do,vn, but nothing ,va:s to be ,seen to warrant the least sus picion or uneasiness. ....\shamed of himself for giving heea to a dream, he ,vent back to his place in the •hay and dropped asleep once more, but presently was again awakened by a ~in1ilar dream, n1or-e vivid, if an~rtihing, than the first This time he aroused .some of his con1rades and told them his . - experience, but they only berated him for dis,turbing their sleep ,vith such childish tales, but he ,vas so much excited and disturbed that he could not rest. He ,vent down to the yard again and '"repeated the examination that he had made before. The conditions "·ere exactlv... as he had found them at first. But ·he ,Yas so in1:pressed by the repetition of his drean1 that he examined-the-gates of the yard to see by "'hat ,vay he should eseape if his dream should come true, and he also saddled and bridled his horse, a trusty blaek, of ,vhose speed and endurance he had often n1ade trial, and of "·hich he \YHS justly proud. He left hhn ready to mount at the shortest notic-e. I-laving thus quieted his n1ind, he again retired to rest and fell asleep onee n1ore. But fron1 this he "'as presently a,Yakened, not by a dream, but by the near approa<:h of the enen1y. ...-\.. troop of British eaYalry had fol lo"·ed the track of Le1nueFs company all nif.?:ht and ,vere no"· coming do"·n the road at full gallop. He mounted his 142 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON trusty black and rode a,vay, as he had planned, out of one gate ,vhile the advanl"e line of the enemy ,vas entering the other. He ,vas hotly pursued for several n1iles. To the speed and endurance of his horse and to his perfect kno,Yl edge of the country he o,ved his escape. .A.s he rode a-,vay, the flame of the burning barn and hay-stacks lighted up the heavens behind hin1 ,vith their lurid glare, and "the voice of them that strive for the masterv and of them that crv for ~ ~ being overcon1e'' startled the still air of the "'... inter night. But one or two of the con1pany beside hin1self escaped from .. - . the disaster. ,~vhether it was in this engagem,ent that he "'... as shot in the head, I have not learned. Lemuel ,vas just t,l:enty-one " ... hen the war ,vas closed. He " ... as married in Litchfield, in 1785.. The name of his· "\\... ife ,vas Sylvia P(),·k (17~1). He settled in Kent, Connecti cut, to the northf\vest of Litchfield. There was born to them there a f.amily of sev,en children, three sons and four daughters. They are named belo"r: Charlotte, July 10, 1785. Mrs. ~Iills, Kent. John Jamison, March 14, 1787. Painesville, Ohio. Lemu~l, January 27, 1789. Clarissa, December 15, 1790. Orange To-,vnship, Dela-\vare County, Ohio. Harriet, June 5, 1793. Orange Township, Dela ,vare County, Ohio. Polly, ~larch 2, 1794. !Irs. Gale, Dela",are County, Ohio. Burr, February 5, 1797. Kent, Connecticut. E. I1irdseye, June 16, 1799. Delaware County, Ohio. Lydia, May 25, 1801. ~lrs. Reed. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 143 In his later life he remoYed from Kent to Ohio, seYeral of his children accompanying him, but some re1naining behind in Kent. H,e settled on a farm seYen miles north of Worthington, and seYenteen rniles north of Columbus, and died there. Septen1ber 29, 1&31, in the seventieth year of his ag·e. Gideon, the s·econd son of I"'emuel, ,vas born in 1768 and died in 1846, at Eden, Erie County, ~ew York. He en1ig1-ated to Canada, and m,arried there, and several children " .. ere born to him in that country, but ,vhen the War of 1812 br~oke out, he found himself in danger of being forced into the British arn1y. He sacrificed his property and n1ade his esea pe across Lake Erie, near Buffalo, N e,v York, bringing his family "~ith hin1, but the excitement and· hardship proved too n1uch for hi~ ,vife, and she died soon after-".. ards. Gideon took up a farn1 in Eden T,ownship, Erie County, Ne".. York, about hventy mil~ due south of Buffalo. Here he n1arried a·gain, ,vrought out a ne,v home for himself from the ,vilderness, and reared a seeond family of children. He dietl in Eden, in 1846. His children seem to have all disappeared fron1 the region, and I have not been able to find any.,, trace of them. John, third son of Lern uel, born 1770, seen1s. to have spent his life in the Yicinity of his early hon1e. He n1arried Sarah Jones, and one son and three daughters ,vere born to then1, viz., Ira, Sarah J. (l'Irs. ,,.. orden), Julia (llrs.... .\.lex ander Bickney), and Ellen (l\frs. Xickerson). Ira. born in 1812, n1arried ~Iartha Disbro"·, and by her had one son and three daughters, viz.: Jan1es .A.. , 1833. :\iary .A.• , 1837. .A.da C., 1846. Mary D., 1854. 144 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ·, James ...i\.. married his c-ousin, Mary ...i\.. Orton. They had one son, Charles, 1868-88. James died in 1870. His lvido"'"r resides in X ew ~Iilford, Connecticut. liary ....\. died, as it a p pears from the repetition of the name, in early life. .A.da C. married ....i\.lbert Shern1an, and has one daughter, Lena. "'\\Tilliam (1772-18H8) spent his life either in ,vestern Connecticut or eastern New York. He married Ruanna Lewis and had a family of three sons and hvo dc:1ug~hters They are named as follo"'·s: J,ames, ~Iary ·.... .\., Sally, Le,vis, and Harrv. e; (e) JOHN. Lieutenant J-0hn, of _Sharon, Connecticut, left two sons, as will be remembered, Joseph and Lut1her. O·f the latter I have little kno,vledge, but a few facts pertaining to .J.oseph are at hand. He inherited his fiather's picturesque, but not over-productive_ far1n in Sharon. He married ~Iary (Polly) Pardee, of Sharon. The Pardees ·of Sharon begin ,vith Lieu tenant ~John Pardee, born 1691, ,vho c-ame from ~ or,valk to · Sharon at an earlv.., dav.., His house sto·od near the stone bridge.north of the meeting house. He became a large land holder in the town, owning several places on the main street. He ,vas a leading man in the to-,vn, as is shown by the fact that he represented it for six terms in the Colonial Legisla ture. He died in 1860, leaving six sons, Thomas, Jehiel, John, Joseph, George, Moses. Several of their descendants have been verv., suecessful business men, accumulating large f.:n1unes in Xe"? York and else"\"\.,here. Fron1 ,vhieh one of the sons Polly, ,vife of Joseph Orton, ,vas descended, I have not learned. Joseph Ort.on built the house no,v standing on his old farm, and which is occupied by the present o,vner, Mr. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 145 George R. Wood,vard. Here Joseph's three sons w_ere born, viz., Milton Pardee, 179·5-1864; Chauncey, Alanson. ..Joseph and his wife had a hig,h appreciation of the advantages of education, and at the expense of great effort and self-denial on the part of the family, sent their oldest son, 11ilton Par-dee, to Yale College. Joseph died in 1864. Luther, January 23, 1774, removed to Vermont and married there N aon1i -- (born June 2, 1774). To them one son, at least, 1vas born, viz., Orrin. He removed to western New York early in the century and reared a family of children there, viz. : Alphonso. Zelinda. Mrs. Bingham, Albion, New York. Delphina. Mrs... Birch. J a.mes Volney. lVIoline, llichigan. Died i895. This com,pletes tthe account of the fifth generation through S-amuel of Litchfield. SECTION III. SIXTH AND SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS OF ORTONS IN THE LINE OF SAMUEL. - In the present section I ,vill follo,v the descendants of Samuel in the sixth gene~ation, a.s laid do"'.'"n in Table IV., and I "·ill also trace, in each ease, sueh lines of desrent as I ean follo,v, through the se,enth, eighth, ninth, and tenth generations. I remind the reader once more of the necessity or advantage of constant reference to the table above re ferred to. Bv n1eans of it .the true order can easilv be fol- ~ ~ lo,ved. (a) DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL 3d. There is but one Orton in the sixth generation in thi~ line, of ,vhom I have any kno,vledge, viz., Edmund, of North- 146 DESCEND1\.NTS OF THOMAS ORTON east, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He owned a beautiful farm in this townshjp, jusJ.: west of the N e,v York State Line, and four miles east of the village of Northeast. H-e must have emigrated fI~om Ne,v Englana to "'~estE~rn Pennsylva nia bet,veen the vears 1820 and 1sao. He cleared the land •J himself and built the house in ,vhieh he lived all the re- . . niainder ·of his life. His farm is included in the fa1n-0us grape . ' section along the shores of Lake Erie. He married Sarah (?) Can1p, ,vho came ,vith him from Connecticut and helped to establish the new· home in the "\Vest. Five or six children. were born to them here. 'Tiheir names are as follo"1·s: Maria, born about 1825. M. -- Coleman, Marti nez, Californfa. Sarah, born about 1827. M. Stillman Belknap, Northeast, Pennsylvania. Elah, born about 1829. Northeast, Pennsylvania. Alvira, born about 1~0. Samuel, born about 1sa,5. Occupies the home farn1~ Northeast, Pennsylvania. . I knew Edmund and his familv well in mv childhood. ~ ~ He was an industrious, economical, thrifty farmer, true, in .every particular, to the N e,v England type 1of the first q uar ter of the centurv.•; Children and children's children can be counted in this line below· the list I have been able to give. (b) DESCENDANTS OF JOHN. In connection with a few facts of John Orton's life that I have been able to gather, and ",jhieh are found on another page, will also be found a list of his children in the sixth generation. Clarissa, the oldest daughter, born February 23, 1787, married Nathan Sanford, ·of Morris, Connecticut, and has OF WINDSOR, co·NN., 1641. 147 several descendants now living. Of the other daughters, I have no record. 1'here ~'"ere two sons, Aurora G. (1796) and Horatio W. (1798). Of the former I have no trace. Ho ratio vVoodruff (September 13, 1798) removed from Connecti cut in the first quarter of the century to Cuba, ..A..lleghany County, Ne,v York, where he spent the reD?-ainder of his life, dying there liay 31, 1876. In 1825 he married Sarah Car son. He owned a farm of good acreage and of fair, average quality for the region, t"-o miles ,southeast of the village, which he "\\rorked out by his o,vn toil. There, in a fra.me house that he built for himself in his early days, and that is still st~nding in reasonable preservation, his large family was born. 'The list appears below: William, June 14, 1826-....L\. pril 22, 1878. Thomas, March 2, 1828. Lucy, February 2, 1&30. Robert, l\'Iarch 23, 1832. Jane, ....L\. pril 8, 1834. Susan, November 12, 18.36-January 3, 1854. Franklin, March 20, 1839-March 8, 1840. Frederick, March .20, 1839-September 25, 1839. James, January ~8, 1842-M·arch 31, 1869. ~iartha, June 21, 1844. l\'Iary E., July 3, 1847. Horatio~s family gre"r up in a plain way in the qui etest of country hon1es; but there ,vas a :fire within that made it certain that thev "-ould not stav contented at the ../ •J level and ,vith the outlook to ":-hich thev ,vere born. Their Of . talent and an1bition can1e, I think, principally fr,on1 their father··s side, and his seen1s to have been an inheritance fron1 his mother, Ruth X orton, of Goshen. l\ilost of the f arnily ha Ye the large fine eyes of their father, ":-hich I take to be characteristic of the Ruth Norton line. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 149 If he had done so, he "\\'"ould have been as brilliantly suc cessful in this calling as he after"rards became in other lines. He ,vas not ho\"\rever allo"~ed to teaeh n1any vears after ' ' ~ his graduation. His fine presence and his marked executive ability attracted to the young schooln1aster the attention of business men, and he was soon led to exchange the teach er's desk for.. a situation in the publishing house of Qeorge Derby & Co., Geneva, Xe,v York. He rose rapidly in the esteem of the firn1, and "ras presently ad1nitted as a part ner. The business was then transferred to New York, but met "\\dth rever-ses, and "\\'.'"illiam ,vas, for a short time, in the firm of J. B. Gregory & Co., publishers. ....t\.s soon as he reached :X e,v York, he began to take a~ interest in p11blic affairs, ;and especially in the newly forme~ Republican pa~-ty, to "rhich he ,vas a staunch adherent all his li~e. He rose rapidly in public favor, an City, -~pril 22, 1878, w 1hen nearly fifty-h\'"o years of age. William Orton ·"rould have been a striking and leading personality in any community and in any line of work. In the matter of executive ability, he rose to the rank of genius. In 1850 he married ..A .. gnes J. Gillespie, of Buffalo, and a large family was born to them. The names of the children are as follows: Jessie, Irvington-on-Hudson. ..t\.lice. Mrs. Dr. Richards, New York City... William, Jr., June 18, 1858-February 20, 1891. James, Irvington-on-Hudson. Agnes, Irvington-on-Hudson. \Tir-ginia, Irvington-on-Hudson. l{obert, Irvington-on-Hudson. Grosvenor, Irvington-on-Hudson. \1Tilliam's oldest son, Willian1, ..Jr., born in Brooklyn, 1858, married C-orinne, daughter of E. F. Shields, E-sq., )lo- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 151 bile, .A.labama, and died in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1891, leaving three children: Corinne, 1885. "\"\.illiam 3d, 1887. .A.gnes Gillespie, 1889. The re1naining sons of William are engaged in business in Ne":-- Y-ork. Thomas, the second son of Horatio, ,vas born in Cuba, New York, March 2, 1828. He left the farn1 as soon as he could oo·et aw:av., from it' and was eno-ao·ed00 in tJhe book busi-. ness in Lacon, Illinnis, and elsewhere for a number of years, and afterwards was made general n1anager· of the supply department of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in Chicago. He made fortunate investments in real estate in that city and has acquired a cons-iderable fortune. In 1855, he married Sarah C., second daughter of Rev. Dr. Sa.muel G. Orton, of l{ipley, New York. She died in Chicago in 1873. I-le next mar·ried Minnie vVood,vard, by who1n he had three daughters. -She died in 1894. Fle resides in Ohicago and has married a third wife, who ha.s bor·ne ·him a fourth daughter. Lucy, oldest daughter- of Horatio, married, in 1855, P. W,. Huffstader, of HornellsYille, :N"ew York. She has sev eral children. R-obert, born in 1832, died in 1876, in Brooklyn, Ne,\r Yor·k. He ,vas a young man of brilliant parts, fro1n "'·horn much was expected by those "~ho kne,v him best, and ·especi ally by his brother, \Villia111, who was devotedly attached to hin1. ·Jane n1arried H ..A ... Mead, of Cuba, Ne":-- Y or-k. She had three ehildr·en, of ,vhon1 two survive, viz., Robert, in busi ness in Cuba, Ne"'· York, and a daughter, ~Irs. Henion, of Chicago. 152 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON · James, born 1842, died in 1869. He ":--as a young man of energy and good business pron1ise. In 'his younger days he was a locomotive engineer·. He married, in 1867, Rose Hitchcock, but left no children. Martha married Edwar·d .....\.. Bartlett, of Cuba, New York, and ha;s several children. Mary E. married Frank E. 'rracy, of Toledo, and has five children now living, viz., Frank, Jr., who entered on a course of mechanical ~ngineering at Cornell University; Martha, Thom.as, Fred, and Cwtherine. This completes the record of Horatio W. Orton's de scendants. ....\. few of the names already given require to be counted in the ninth generation. Of .....\.raunah Orton's large family I have scarcely .a trace. They were poor and do not seem to have had the force neces sarv to overcome the obstacles that obstructed their ascent. ti The oldest son, James lVIorris, was cr·ippled. He is said to have found 1his way to Oneida County, Ne,v York, in early life. (c) DESCENDANTS OF MILES. Miles Orton, as "'·ill be seen on another page, left eight children, four sons and four daughters. Samuel G., the oldest son, born June 6, 1797, g·re,v up in Litchfield (South Farms). The early death -of his father occurred ,vhen •Sam• uel was a lad of sixteen, and before any suitable provision had been made for the care of the household. The fan1ilv.,, felt the pressure and restrittion of poverty, and Sa1nuel, in particular, "'·as n1acle able to syn1pathize ,vith a large side.of life of which the uniformly fortunate and prosperous kno,v and care but little. He ,vorked for a f arn1er of the to"\"\i'"n, named Benton, for a ilun1ber of years. But when he ,vas eighteen years old he ,vas for the first time seriously and OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 153 personally interested in religion, as it "'"as at that time uni versally understood and set forth in. S e,v England. He "ras "converted'' under the 1ninistrv of Dr. Lvni-an Beecher who •J •1 ' was then in the prime of his splendid powers; and forthwith. San1uel felt the desire to preach the faith which he had accepted "dth all sincerity. His gifts were approved by the local church, and he was encouraged and aided to pre pare for the ministry of the Congregational (~hurch. This preparation was a serious under-taking, for Samuel had en joyed but little prelin1inary education. He entered, ho-\v ever, the famous academy of Jan1es Morr-is, then established at South Far•m;s. Among the students with whom he was associated, he recalled in his later life a serious-minded, rather taciturn young man, somewhat older.. than himself, who ,vas hard at work learning the elements of land survey ing. This young man afterwards came to be kn~wn. as John Brown· of Ossa,vatomie, the hero of Harper's Ferry. Samuel gave all diligence to the work of preparation, and ,vhen twentv-one vears old he was admitted to the ~ ~ . Freshman class of Yale College. He had to look for-ward to self-suppor·t for- his entire college course, and learning of a new.. ly founded college in Oneida County, New York, "'"hich ,vas counted an off-si1oot of Yale, its president being one of the fa111ous D"'"ight family, and thinking that he could support hin1self more easily in the ne,v college than in Xe".. Haven, he deeided, before the end of the first year, to ex change Yale for Hamilton College. There ,Yas no public conv~yanee that he could afford to patronize, and he ,valked fron1 Ne,r Haven to Clinton, Xe,v York, carrying on his shoulder· his books, and, in fact, a~l his earthly possessions.. \Vhen he reached his destination he had seventy-five cents in his poeket. By dint of tireless energy and the elosest economy, he graduated ,vith his class in 1822, ,vithout the OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 155 New York. In January, 1826, he ",.as ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Sidney Plains, a pleasant village in the lovely Susqueh-anna ,.,.alley. In the eourse of a few years he ,vas called to the Presbyterian Church of Delhi, the capital of the county; but his health failed here to sucl;i an extent that he was peremptorily ordered by his physi cians to seek a change of climate. He set out on horseback for western ~e,v York, .and rod~ through the entire breadth of the State, reaching its ,vestern limit, in Chautauqua County, in 1833. For some time he preached as an evangel ist among the ,veaker· churehes of Chautauqua, Erie, and Cattaraugus Counties, New Yor·k. For this service he was peculiarly fitted. He had a pastorate of several years in the Par·k Street Church, Buffalo; but in 1837 he became the pastor of the Presbyterian Chur·ch of Ripley, the ",.estern- - most town of New Y or·k, on the lake shor·e. It is a beautiful to"1,.nsli.ip, the surface of ,vhich has been, ,vithin the last few vears laro-el v transformed into vinevards and or·chards to ... ' 0 .., .... ' the great advantage of the farm-owners. Here ~Ir. Orton remained for sixteen year-s, interested in and serviceable to every phase of the life of the people, religious, mor-:al, intel lectual, and material. He fitted a number of the young men of his parish for college. -He established and maintained in the town a private school, which was the equivalent of an academy, and which exer·cised a refining and uplifting influence upon the entire comniunity to a notable extent. The church prospered greatly under his ministr·y, and dur ing all these years he spent m_ore or less tin1e every year in the evangelistic ,vork to ,vhiC'h, as I have said he ",.as partic ularly adapted. Retiring fron1 active service when ab_out sixty-fl ve years of age, he bought a home, ,vith thirty acres of land attached, in the to-,vnship adjacent to ·Ripley, viz.~ _Northeast, Pennsylvania. He died May 12, 18'73, at the 156 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON hon1e of his son-in-la".. , Hon. J. H. Hudson, Sandusky, Ohio. ~1r. Orton ,vas a man of excellent gifts in many direc tions. He was not ,vhat would be called a great or pro found preacher, but he was an unusually persuasive and successful one. He was sincere and earnest. He had a won derful kno"\\rledge of hurnan nature, by n1eans of which he al,vays adapted himself to the audience-which he was ad dressing. H1e had the practical talent of the genuine Ne-\V Englander; had as n1uch knowledge of farming as any farmer in his parish, and almost the same could be said of him in manv other.. lines of business. To the end of his da:vs ~ . ~ he had an eager love of knowledge of nature and of man; ,vas hospitable to all new thought, so far as it did not seem to be inconsistent with his theological tenets, ,vhich were, to him, the ·most vital and important facts in tlie universe. His kind and sympathetic nature made him universally beloved. He recejved the deg·ree of D. D. from a western college in 1845. In person he was about five feet eight inehes in height and exceedingly well propor·tioned. In his• early life he ,vas very strong and act,ive. rrhe Gibbs voice, full, strong, and musical, to ,vhich I 1have before -alluded, was one of the in heritances ,vhieh served specially well in his profess1ion. His ,vife, Clara Gregory (Orton), was born in Dover Plains, Ne".. York, February 17, 1799·. She was the young est daughter of R-ev. Justus Gregory. Her grandfather was, for a time, a resident of Sharon, Connecticut, but the orig inal family hon1e of the Gregorys in Sew England, ,vas Nor walk, Connectieut. Their English hon1e was ~ ottingham. One of l\:Irs. Orton's brothers was l{ev. David D. Gregory, a Presbvterian cler()'vn1an for manv vears settled in Bino·- .., t,., ' •J .., 0 han1ton, Ne,Y York. ...\.nother brother "'"a,s Major General Edgar ~I. Gregory,,a gallant and hon·ored officer in the ,var of the Rebellion. The Gregory family held a son:1ewhat OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. higher ~ocial position than the <)rtons, according to the un detined and indefinable standards ,vhieh we accept in such 1natter8. )!rs. ()rton died suddenly, at her hon1e in ~orth ea:o;t, PennsylYania, ..July 2fi, 1863, in the sixty- fourth year of her age... :Four- children survived then1: Elizabeth, ..June 16, 1827. l\{rs. J. H. Hudson, San dnskv, Ohio. «, • Ed"·ard, )lareh 9, 1829. (;olumbus, Ohio. Sarah C., ~larch 4, 1833-1873. llrs. Thomas Orton, · Chicago. San1uel G., .A.. ugust 13, 1837. Kirk,vood, liiss(>uri. Elizabeth n1ari-ied Hon ...J. H. Hudson, and has lived in Sanduskv ()hio for the hu;;t t,ventv-five vears. She iR a ladv ., ' ' ., ., ., of unusual inteilectual activitv., and force and does not allo"\v the burden of year~ to ,veigh dO",vn her vivacity or depress . - her arnbition. Ed,vard ,vas fitted for college by his father and in the acuden1ie~ of ,,:-estfield and Fredonia, ~ e,v York. He en tered the Sopho1nore (Jlass of IIamilton C,ollege in 1845, 0 !!radt1-c11.in.!!·~ ~ in 1848. I-Je tau~·ht for several vvears ' 8tutlie<1 in Lane and .A.n Thev., are na1ned belcnv: 158 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Charles Jennings, October 22, 18Q6. Marietta, Niinnesota. C-la~a Gregory, December 31, 1859. Columbus., ()hio. . Ed".. ard, Jr., October 8,.1863. Columbus, Ohio. l1ary Jennings, ,June 12, 1868. Columbus, Ohio. Louise Taft, ~June 6, 1877. Columbus, Ohio. Samuel Torrey, October 15, 1879. Charles ~J enning-s is a farn1er in ~Iarietta, Lae Qui Parle County, liinnesota. He n1arried Florence Bell in January, 1881. 'fhey haye t,yo children, George Ed,Yard, 1882, and Claribel, 1895. Ed,vard, Jr., is _a graduate of the Ohio State University, "dth the degree of Engineer of liines. He is at present pro fessor of Cera1nics in the sa1ne institution and is a young man of great energy and great promise. In 1888 he 1narried l\Iary F ....\.nderson, of (~olun1bus. Clara (1. is a teaeher. She i8 ,Yell trained and suteess ful. She devoted a ypar to the study of art in Europe. liar_y Jennings is a graduate of \Vellesley, 1890, and has been teaching a year or t,vo. Louise Taft is a student of vv... el lesley. San1uel T. is fitting for college, and expects to study either n1edicine or n1ecl1anical engineering. Sain nel (}regory, young-est son of l{ev. Sa1nuel (]. (>rton, has follo,Yed vai-ious line~ of busine~~- He is an excellent mechanical eng·ineer, i~ a successful contractor on public "~ork, but prefer~ to be called a farn1er. In this c.~alling he has a large and intelligent_ interest. He n1arrie William H. married, fo'r his second vf-ife, Louisa Boughton, and had another daughter, Mary J., born ...~pril 19, 1828. She grew up in ,v·aterbury and "·as married to Willard Tompkins. Sihe died :November 19, 1892, leaving two sons, no""" residents of v\1 aterburv. "\tv"'"illiam removed from Con- •/ necticut to Ohio about 1835. He lived for a time in San- dusky, and then removed to Republic, Seneca County, ,vhere he died N ovem1ber 21, 1842. Edward S., the youngest son of Miles and Lydia Orton, was born December 25, 1809.. He, too, learned the carpen ter's trade and ,vas called a young man of excellent charac- · ter and promise. He set out for the West, but from the day he left Litchfield, in 1832, he· ,vas never heard of again. His brother, Samuel, follo-~ved every possible clue ,vhich a wide acquaintance in the Western States could afford, but to no purpose, and he was finally disposed to believe that Edward had died 'suddenly and soon after leaving home, a stranger in a strange land. The Orton name comes down from ~Iiles's family only through Samuel, and through Samuel only by Edward. SECTION rv·. SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS, IN LINE OF HEZEKIAH. \Ve con1e next to Hezekiah Orton's descendants, in the sixth and later generations. .A.. s is seen in the chart, Heze kiah left four s1ons, "'·hose fortunes h,a ve been briefly de-. scribed. Hezekiah, Jr., died in his youth in the ,vilderness of Ne"· York, five years before the beg;inning •of the Revo lutionary v,7ar, leaving a "·ife, twin sons and a daughter. One of the t"'"ins, Hezekiah 3d, as has been already stated, married, and four children "'·ere born to him. The Orton name is continued in this line through his son, liorgan, 179·4, OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 161 "rho ,vas one of the earliest .settlers of the Western R.eserve of Ohio. He established himself at ...~uburn, Geauga County, Ohio, and reared a family there. He had at least one son, ,,r esley H., born Xoven1ber 1, 1842, ,vho is no,v a resident of Fullerton, Nebraska. (a) DESCENDANTS OF ELIADA (1748). The second son of Hezekiah (1727) and ...~nna Sedg "'.'"ick, his ,vife, "·as born and grew up in Lit0h:field (South Farms. The rather unusual scriptural name, Eliada, was given to him. It ,vas taken, ":--ith little doubt, from a worthy. physician of Litehfield, Dr. Eliiada Osborn. In spite of its oddity, it has been kept up in the family :for three genera tions. Eliada married Lucia Hungerford in 1770, and within the ne~t ten years four sons ,vere born to them.. But in spite of the demand of his gro1\·ing household upon him for de fense and support, he responded once and again to the c1all of his country __ and sa,v a good deal of service in the Revo lutionary .A.rmv during the vears 1777-8-9. For his services ..... ,...,. C. - ..__,; he after,vards reeeived a pension from the general govern ment. .. A..fter the ,var he n1ust have removed, tempo~arily, - r to , ... ern~ont, for in the Congressional I~ist of Pensioners, he is enrolled as "a pensioner of 0onnectieut, residing in the State of , ... ern1ont:' In 1804 he ren1oved to the east end of Lake Ontario, ,YherP his older brother, Hezekiah, had set tled thirty years before. He took up land in the town of Parish, Os,Yeg-o County, X e,Y York, ,Yhere some of his lineal descendants still reu1ain. 1,he nan1es of his four sons are as foll .A.. dele, February 3, 1861. Mrs. Oharles Isbell, ~ochester, N e1v York. Chauncey, ~lay 10, 1864. Mrs. Gottschalk has three sons, Roy, Frank, and Earl. Stephen has had three c·hildren, Pearl, ,villiam, and Ethel. William died in February, 1894, at the age of nine years. David H., Jr., has two children, Bernard and Lola. ....\.delbert _ studied medicine and entered on the practiee in northern Michigan, but died prematurely; in 1891. ...L\.dele married Charles Isbell, and two children have been born to them, Roy ,and Lula. She resides in R,ochester, New York. -(2a) ZENAS. The third son of Eliada Orton (1748) ,vas Zenas, born in Connecticut in 1777. Zenas removed to Vermont ,vhen he arrived at man's estate, but, after a little time, crossed over into Canada, ,vhere the rest of his life was spent, and "-here a large and prosperous family of Ortons, derived from him, has gro,vn up. He had t,vo sons and one daughter, named as follows: Zenas, Jr., ...i\.lvin, Zada. Zenas, Jr., oldest son of Zenas (1777) left a large family, many of ,vhom are still living in Canada and else,vhere. Their names are as fol low-s: Zenas (3d), 1830. 0 linda, Onta1io . . Theodora, 1832. Cwsnovia, l\ilichigan. Oather·ine, 18.34. ~Irs. Bourne, Chicago, Illinois. J·ohn, lS:36-72. Pradieux, 18:38. Olinda, Ontario. ,,lilliam, 1840. Mount Dora, Florida. ..A.lvin, 1842. Cottam, Ontario. Lucinda, 1842. ~frs. ,vhitsell, Casnovia, ~fichigan. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 165 Olga, 1856. }Irs. Hyslop, Olinda, Ontario. Euria, 1858. J\'Irs. ,,rright, Hann, Ontario. Several n1embers of this fanrilv... are residents of Essex County, Ontario, ,vhith Hes bet,veen Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. .A.lvin and Pr·adieux are both eounciltors for their respective to-,vns in the county board of control, which is a 0 ~o·uarantv . ~ that thev~ are held in esteem as n1en of sound Judo--0 men.t and honorable character. ....\.lvin, second son of Zenas (1777), and brother of Zenas, Jr., ,vas born X ovember 21, 1809, n1arried ....\.lzina Bullis in 1833, and left three sons and three daughters. The children . . are named belo"y: Mary, 1834. Mrs. James Cumming, Cottam, On- tario. Celsus, 1835. I-'angdon, North Dakota. Jane ....L\.., 1837. llrs. Joseph Robeson; liorris Cuvier, 1839, Juneau City, ....\laska . ....\1 vin and ....\lzina, March 22, 1843 . .. In 1843 ....\lvin married a second wife, Erne Benedict; ,vho bore him a daughter, Lucy (~Iris. Or·ofton J. Gilroy, Glenn Buell, Ontario). ....\.lvin (1843) has a son, Herbert, who is no,v a resident of ~..,indla Y Ohio. . ~ ' From this vigorous stock there are a large number of the descendants of 1.~homas Ort1on of "rindisor, in the eighth and later generations, settled n1ainly in Canada and the north,vestern States of the Union. (b) DESCENDANTS OF SEDGWICK. Sedg"\\yick, third son ,of Hezekiah, born in 17,50, bore the honored name of his n1other's fan1ilv... He liv-ed in Litch- field and n1arried there Sarah Tucker. He left four sons, " ... hose names, though already given, "-ill be repeated here: Heman, Edmund, Harmon, Daniel. 166 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON (lb) HEMAN. Heman was born May 11, 1780, in Connecticut. He married Sarah _(Sally), daughter of .A.ar~on Hull, of Meriden. In 1803 he removed to Livingston County, Ne"\\r York, where Mrs. Orton died t,vo years after,v,ard. He married, for his seeond wife, Cecilia Briggs. By the first ,vife he had two sons, James Morris, born M,ay 8, 1802, and Heman Hull, born March 30, 1804. By his second "1'"if e he 1had seven chil drr·en, named below: Sarah A. (Sally). Died June 15, 1887. J. Trumbull. Died March 9, 1866. Tvler. el Juliette. Mrs. Samuel Taylor, Forestville, Con necticut. Died 18~. • Elizabeth. ..A.deline. Mrs. P. T. Wood, San Francisco, Cali fornia. Ora 0., a miner in California, died ...~ugust, 1865. James Morris, the oldest son of Sedg"1'"ick and Sarah T. Orton, wa.s bor·n in Litchfield, May 28, 1802, ·and lived there until he was twenty-one yeaTs of age, "rhen he emigrated to Livingston County, N e"1? York. In 1826. he m,arried Eunice M.arsh who lived onlv five vears after her marriao·e dvino- ' . ,o, ~ < .:) ' OJ ::, June 24, 1836. For his second ,vife he mar!·ie Alice S., January 15, 1840. Albert W., October 5, 1842. Rome, New York. Frederick M., December 23, 1844. Rome, Ne,v York. ..A.delaide L., March 15, 1848. Mrs. T. C. Hoyt, l{ochester, Ne"r York. ....\.nna 11., May 5, 1857. Mrs. ·Frank Sessions, Keo kuk, Iowa. Mrs. Ruby H. Orton died at Rome, Ne,:v.. Y·ork, June 3, 1893. I am able to trace the framily of the second son, viz., the late General Richard H. Orton, of Oakland, California. He "\\'"as the oldest -son of James Morris bv.., his second wife. He ,vas born in Rome, N e"r York, in 1&38, and removed to Califor-nia in 1858_ In 1863 he enlisted in the Union .A.. rmv.., and ~as soon thereafter appointed second ~ieutenant _of Company F, First California C,avalry. He presently rose to the rank of eaptain and sa"'" a great deal of active servic;e, both on the ~-exican frontier and in holding the Indians :of the plains in check during the early years of the war. He was cons1tantly on the mareh or in exposed positions, where hardships " .. ere sure to be encountered. He ,varS the last man of his force to be n1ustered out, the date of his discharge being ~J anuar·y 7, 1868. He then took up the insurance busi ness in San Fran<"isco. I:Ie ,vas also active in the organiza tion of the X a tional Guard of C'alifornia. Jle "'.. as commis sioned major in this organization and discharged the duties pertaining to the ·office until 1878, ")' hen, at his o,vn request, he ,vas placed on the retired list, but the title of 1najor of cavalry for life "·as given him at the same tiine. In 1888 he ,vais appointed adjutant general of the State of Califor·nia, and held the office for the regular ter1n of two years. His adn1inistr~ation " .. as highly efficient and popu- i68 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON lar; but soon ,after this ueneral Orton's health began to fail, his const,itution pr·-0bably having been uncle1·n1ine Frederick ~I., youngest son of James M. and Ruby H. Orton, "'"as born Decen1ber 23, 1844, and has al,vays resided in Ron1e, N e"r York. He has been t"·ice n1arried, first to Mattie Barnard, in 1874. She died in 1887. E"'-0r his seconcl ,vife he married Sarah La-,vton, in 1889. Of the sisters I have the partial record of t,vo. ..A.. de laide L. "ras married to '11homas C·. Hioyt, in 1866, and Ii ved in Rochester, :N" e,v York. lir. Hoyt died in Denver, in 1879, leaving one daughter, Margaret E., ,vho ,vas brought up in the fan1,ily of her g"I·andfather, at Ron1e, N e,v York. She was recently mar·ried to George Keyes, of Rochester. ...t\..nna M. m•arried Frank Sessions, in 1886, and has had two sons, viz., Frederick Orton Sessions (.A.ugust 16, 1878- ...t\..ugust 22, 1880) and James Milton (September 20, 1882). Mr. and Mrs. Sessions reside at Keokuk, Iowa. Heman H., second son of Hem,an and,Sarah Hull Orton·, was born in I.Jitchfield, in 1804. He "·as three times mar ried, and left five daughter~s, four of "1..,hom are married. They are named belo".. : Elizabeth (Mrs. George Brown), Helen (llr-s. Cornelius Day), Mary .&.\.. (died 1857, aged nine teen), Sarah (Mrs. Oliver Bro"\\rn), Jeannette C. (Mrs. ...t\..r th ur lliller). Of the remaining sons of Heman and Sar.ah· H. Orton, "\'"iz., Edmund, Harmon, and Daniel, I can give no account. X,or do I kno,v anything except the names of the children born to Heman bvV his second n1ar-riao·e.~ (c) DESCENDANTS OF AZARIAH . .A.zariah, f.ourth son of Hezekiah (1727), married Sybil C~leveland in Qonnecticut -and emigrated to Oneida County, " Xe"'.'" York, in his old age. He had a family of five sons and several daughters. The names of the sons .are as follows: 170 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Dennis, 1781. S-hern1an, 1783-1881. .i\.zariah, 1793. Brainerd, 1804-1886. ...i\.lfred . ...:\.zariah was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. See Congressional List, 1834-5, v... ol. II., page 365. (le) DENNIS. Dennis, the oldest of nhe fan1ily, ,vas born in Litth- . field, Connecticut, .September 25, 1781, emigr'lated to .F'lor enee, Oneida County, New York, and a few years later, to Riga, llonroe County, Xe".. Y.or·k. Finally, in 1822, he re rnoved to Ohio, entering public land in Richland County. He took up a considerable tract two miles west of "That is no,v the village of Shelby, and here he . reared a large family. Dennis Or-ton was a man of keen and independent mind and " .. as always a " ... ell-marked figure in the community. He married in Connecticut, Sarah Treat, and seven sons and three daughters were born to then1. The sons are named belo"... : Miles, died in 1878. ....\.lbany, ~Iissouri. Treat, June 1, 1804-1884 (?). West Unity, Ohio. - ...:\.lfred. C,alifornia., Ira. Oregon. .A.zariah. ~lis-souri. Benjamin. Shelby, Ohio. Oliver. ....\.1 ton, Illinois l'liles, the oldest of the br~others, married Lucy (lamble, of llansfield, and ren10,ed to Gentry CountJ'", ~lissouri, in 1838, and died there forty years thereafter. O'f his descend• ants, if any, I have no kno,vledge. OF WIN_DSOR, CONN., 1641. 171 'freat Orton, born in Connecticut, emigrated " .. ith his father to Florence and R1iga, Ne,Y York, and then to Shelby, ()hio. He there n1arried R.osette DuBois, of that to"\\rn, and in 1865 he removed to '\\... est lTnity, "fVillian1s County, Ohio, ,1nd died there a few years ago. He " ..as a candid, eo~sci entious man, respected and honored in all the circles in ,vhich he n1oved. He left t,vo sons and hYo daughters. Oharlotte .. A... ,vas born in Shelby January 16, 1833, and 1narried, in 1854, to Dr. W. H. Bunker, of Hartwell, Ohio. They have t"'"o daughters, ~f.ay (1856) and Rosa (1861). l)r. Bunker has been .superintendent of l,ongv}e'\\'" ...t\..sylum and has also been placed by his neighbors and fellow-citizens in other positions of honor and trust. He was in the ar·my during the W.ar of the Rebellion. He is still engaged in the practice of his profession. His younger daughter, Itos.a, is married and resides in Ur·bana, 0-hio. Ebenezer C., ~larch 22, 1834, lives in West Unity, Ohio. He married ...i\.nnie Y. Orr, and has fiour children, viz., Min nie (1861), "\Villiam (1864), Leoniard (1870), and ....\.dd,a (187 4). - -- Hobart G., March 2, 1838, ,vas reared on his father's far1n at Shelby. He entered the preparatory department of Oberlin College in 1856. He was a Freshman when the "\"\Tar of the l{ebellion broke out, and enlisted in Company C, Seventh Ohio ·v.. olunteer Infantry. On ...~ugust 26; 1861, he ,Yas seYerely ,v-0unded in an engagen1ent at ·Cross Lane, ,vest \"irginia. He "'"as left upon the field an.d captured by the Confederates. S.ome_ m·onths elapsed before his friends received any ,vord fron1 hin1, and it ,vas confidently believed by the1n that he ":as killed in the engagen1ent. Returning fron1 the arn1v at the expiration of the ,var he studied la,v 0,1 ' ' and ,vas a 1893. In his early life he ,vas engaged in 1nercantile business and had miore or less to do with that line of ,vork all his daYs. He ")"as als·o a land survev.or and attended to va- ~ ~ rious kinds of public business for his friends and neighbors. He ,v~s kno,vn among them as Judge Orton, but I am not sure as to ho-,v the title came. He was a bright, quick-,vitted man, full of anecdote and ready in repartee, and "ras counted the best of company wherever he appeared. He had un usual mathematical ability, which ,vas inherited by his chil dren, and in one case a son "bettered his instructions" in a remarkable "ray. He married Sarah Hooker, the daughter of a successful merchant of Fredericktown, Ohio. Three children ,vere born to them "'-hile residing in Ganges, a· small village of the county: ....\Ibina, ...i\. ugust 1, 1841. Mrs. D. M. Garrett, Brook line, Massachusetts. I-Toy D., ...L\..pril 19, 1843-1877. Baltimore, liaryland. Sabinus, December 27, 1845. The elder son, Hoy D., "\\-as a born genius. His gifts in the field of arithmetie ,vere phenomenal, and he had talent, also, in other divisions of ~thematics. He had a fine mem ory and unusual command of language. He "·as a natural orator, but in the science of numbers his most marked talent seerned to lie. ...:\.11 the subjects and problems that can1e to hiru in this line throughout his school days "·ere equally simple and transparent to hin1. ...:\.s he gre,v to manhood he developed a n1aster~· of numbers that "·as marvelous and beyond eon1prehension. lie beearne "·hat is kno,vn as a "lightning calculator.,, He could apply the fundamental proeesses of arithn1etie, viz., addition, subtraetion, n1ulti plieation, and diYision; to long columns and series of figures ,vritten do"·n as fast as the figures could be made and would 174 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ·, give the correct results instantly. He "'.'"as the a utho.r of an arithmetic, and sold the book at exhibitions; "'"here his al m·ost n1iraculous gifts could be publitly demonstrated and tested. His great talent did not, ho,vever, serve him "'.'"ell. The highest position he ever held "'"as a professorsl;lip in Bryant & Stratton·s Commercial College, Baltimore. Though in receipt of a large income for several years, he failed to accumulate any property, and died in 1877, in Bal timore, lfaryland. He 1vas--only thirty-four years old " .. hen he died. He left t"""O children, a son and daughter. 1]1e son, Forest H., born in 1865, is a dentist, taking his degTee with the highest honors of his class in San Francisco, in 1892, and is no-,v in successful practice in St. Paul, Minne sota. The daughter, Xellie, born in 1867, has educated her self and is no,v in business as a stenog-:r-a.pher· in West Supe rior, v\... isconsin. She is also publishing \U real estate record. The second son, Sabinus, "'.'"as in his early :years counted a young man of great promise, but the expectations of his friends have not been realized in his case. He has dropped out of all conection "'"ith his family. If alive, he is probably in Oalifornia . ....\lbina (.. A.ugust 1, 1841) " .. as brought up in Shelby, Richland County. She " .. as a bright and ,vakeful-!Ilinded student, tur·ning to the best. account all her opportunities. She " .. as married to Daniel M. Garrett, X ovember 2:3, 1865. llr. Garrett "'.'"as, on his father's side, of \\!elsh deseent, be longing to the same family to "'.'" hieh the Garrett fa1nily of Baltimore belong. He had a marked capacity for business and his talent proYed to have a recognized n1oney value. He " .. as for many years in the e1nploy of the ,,~1iitn1an & Barnes )lanufacturing Company, of Syracuse, Xe,v York and ..A .. kron, Ohio. He rose from a humble position in their great business to an interest in the firm, together ,vith a OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 11""'!',n large salary, but he "ras cut d-o-,vn in the height of his po"rers and in the full tide of business success. He "ras sent to Bos ton, ~Iassachusetts, in 1879, to superintend the interests of his company in Xe,v England. His untimely death occurred liarch 17, 1889. T-o lfr. and ~frs. Garrett three children "-ere born, viz., Orton (1870), Fred. Carleton (1873), and }liriam (1883). But one of these survives, viz., Fred. C., "rho is at present living ,vith his mother at her home in Brookline, liassachusetts. (2c) SHERMAN. Sherman Orton (1783-1881), second son of ...t.\.zariah (1757), of Hezekiah (1727), " ... as born and reared in X ff\Y York, n1arried Dolly (¾ifford, of Booneville, Ne"... York, and at an early day moved to c-~ntral Illinois, ·'t\rhere he died at an ad vanced_ age. He had eight children, named bel?"~: ...t.\.daline. Mrs. vVard . ...t.\.zariah. Deceased. ...t.\.ugustus I..i. R. ...t.\.lta ,.,..ista, Kansas. ~Iarv ...t.\.. C. Mrs. "rilkeson. Deceased. • •J C1ara T. llrs. Munsha"', South Omaha, Nebraska. Dennis L. Farmington, Illinois. Sylvester. Bedford, Io"'a. ~la tthe,v S. Bedford, Io"\"\-a. (3c) AZARI AH . ...i\.zariah, fourth son of .A.zariah of Hezekiah, "·as born in Florenee, Xe"· York, X oven1ber 25, 1792. He had three sons and t,Yo daughters. One of the sons is na1ned Dennis L. and resides at or near Farn1ington, Illinois. He has a eousin of the saine nan1e residing in the san1e to,vn (son of Sller1nan Orton). Dennis L. of ...t.\.zariah has a son, ~Villiam B., "·ho is engaged in business in Farmington. 176 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON (4c) BRAINERD. Brainerd ·or-ton (1804-86) ":--as the youngest son of ....\.za riah (1757). He \\'"as born in Os,vego C-ounty, N e":r 1:-ork, July 21, 1804, and died in Sterling, Illinois, in October, 1886. He lived for a time in l{ome, Ne".. York, and while a resident of that to,vn married, in 1832, Hannah ·Smith (Septen1ber 11, 1807-December 31, 1884). Ten children were born to them, several of ,vhom died in infancy. The nan1es of the sons are as follo\\.. s: Brainerd E., Henry, ...t.\.lbert, LaRue P., Mathew c~ llr. Orton removed to Sterling, Ilinois, where he was engaged in a large and successful milling business. Brainerd E. was born in Rome, X ew York, in 1834, and died in Denver, Colorado, ....\.pril 27, 1877. In 1855 he mar ried Julia Maine and five ehildren were born to them, viz., LaR.ue, ....\. pril, 1860; Ralph, May 13, 1862; lVIiles, December, 1865; Grace, O·ctober, 1868. LaR.ue and Robert, sons of Brainerd E., reside in Law rence, Kansas. In October, 1892, Robert married ~lay Bond. Grace married Thomas Cornlv and has t,vo children. She «I resides in Sterling, Illinois. ...t.\.lbert and Henry, next sons of Brainerd (1804), died in infancy, and LaRue P., born in 1840, died in 18.59. Matthe":r C-., youngest ·son of Brainerd (1804) was born _in R.ome, ~ew York, ....\.ugust 10, 1844, and ";-as brought up in Sterling, Illinois. In December, 1867, he married ...<\.lice D. Clifford, by ,vhom he has three daughters, viz., Maine ....\.lice, September 17, 1868; Genevra C., i\.pril 25, 187-!; Be atrice H., September 17, 1879. Mr. M. C. Orton no,v resides in \Vebster Groves, St. I.Jonis County, llissouri. I-le is in active business in connection with large enterpris_es. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 177 (d) DESCENDANTS OF DARIUS (1760). Of the descendants of Darius (1760) in the sixth and later generations, the follo,ving account can be given: Darius, as "~in be remembered, was a Revolutionary pensioner, duly reported in the Congressional List of Pen sioners of 1834, ,;ol. II., page 387. He settled in vVilliams town, Os,vego County, X ew Y•ork, and reared there a family of fl v-e sons and t"\\·o daughters. Their names· are as follows: Truman, Baruch, Darius, Luna, Ruth, Bronson, Hiram. (ld) Truman married and removed to llarbor Creek, Pennsylvania, ":-here he died. He left t,vo sons, .A.shbel and William...... \.shbel had a son, Wi~liam, "·ho is now living at Sargent's Bluff, Io"\"\,a. From Baruch, Darius, and Hiram, long lists of Orlons can be traced. (2d) Barueh remained in Williamsto"\\-·n, -and to him seven sons and t,vo daughters ,vere born. The names of the family are given below: .Joseph, 1809. ,,rnliamsto,vn, New York. llartha. l\'Iarried. Removed to Racine, Wisconsin. .A.shbel. v\~illiamsto,vn, Ne,v York. Lent. \\:illiamsto-,vn, Xe", York. Died young. Betsey. l\iirs. Henry Hamlin, Hanna, Indiana. Erastus, born 1820. ,r enango, Pennsylvania. ,,.illian1, born 1820. Venango, Pennsylvania. Baruch, 1824-1894. ,,enango, Pennsylvania. Of the succeeding descendants of this family in the eighth generation, the follo,ving reeord has been furnished to me: Joseph left eight children, viz., Joseph, Jr., Henry, Lvdia .A.. , Jacob, Jireh, "\v:illiam, Ethel, Millison. 178 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Ashbel left three sons and three daughters, named as follows: Baruch, Bronson, Ellen, Zipporah, William, Martha. Darius, born 1816, third son of Baruch 1st, left fou~ sons and four daughters, viz., .i\.shbel, llercy, Eliza, Falinda, Minima, Lester, Frank, Lent. Erastus and ,~~illiam, t,vin sons of Baruch, left Oswego Countv earlv and settled in the hill countrv of northeastern ~ •.J el Pennsylvania, t,venty to thirty n1iles south of Lake Erie. ,r enango To1'·nship, Erie County, has been the home of m~~t of this household. The children of Erastus are as follows: Chauncey, ilary F., Truman, Zipporah, Sarah, Baruch, ....\.lmerion, Lydia. ,vnliam's children are ....\.lma, ~ancy, . Dennis, Martha I)., Henry, Lydia D. Of the family of Baruch (2d) (1824-1894), no record has been obtained. He also lived in the same region with his brothers, Erastus and William. (3d) Hiram, fourth son of Darius (1760), "ras born in 1811, and t,vice n1arried. The nan1e of his second ,vife "'.r"as ~arah E. Mer,vin. She bore hin1 five children, "\'"iz., Miles (1838), Dennis (1840), Hattie (1842) (~Irs. Mann), Lester (1846), R. Z. (1855), Irene, Sylvester. Hiram e1nigrated._ earlv., from :Xe"· York and his chil- dren ,vere reared n1ainly in Io~va. He took up a considerable tract of land in Dallas c~ounty, in the central portion of the State; and ,vhen later a railroad can1e through, the station near him and the village built up around it "·ere named Orton ville. SeYeral of the f an1ily reside at .A.dell, in the same vicinitv. ~ Miles, his oldest son, ,vas born in Pa,v Pa,v, ~Iichigan. He attained consi sides in that eitY.., She has four children. Bv~./ a second mar- riage l)r. ( 'harles also has one daughter. ,,.. illiarn L., the seeond son, rnarried Helen Hicks, and tln·ee sons and t,Yo daug~hters 1vere born to them. The daughter;_; died in infaner or childhood. The sons are named c~harles L., Lester D., and Frederick ,v. Charles L. married 180 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Ida Johnson, and ren1oved to Nebraska, where his first ,vife died several years since.- She bore him one son, "-ho died in infancy, and two daughters, viz., ....\.ndra and ,vinni~red. Andra ,va-s brought up in the 1hon1e of her great-aunt Louisa. Charles L. married again, and has another daughter, Esther H. He now resides in ....\.ngola, Indiana. Lester B., second son of lVilliam L., resides in Denver, Colorado. He is married ~nd has one son, Lazelle. Frederick ·"r· resides in Kansas. He is married and has two sons and one daughter. George D., third son of Darius, Jr., wa,s born in Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and was taken, when four years old,"to ..A .. ngola, Indiana. He married Mary ....\nn Sowle and they have one daughter, Mrs. Eugene Carver. George D. resides in ....t.\.ngola, Indiana, as does also his daughter's family. Of the daughters of Darius, Jr., but one, viz., the oldest, Louis-a J., is now living. She resides in ....\.ngola, and to her I am principally indebted for the record of this branch of the family. Of the three other sisters, one died early. Nancy married a. lawyer named May, and died in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving no· children. Cordelia, the youngest, married vVilliam Car~huff and left two daughters, Mary and Olive, both of "'horn are living. Mary n1arried Dr. Thomas B. ,~villiams, of ....\.ngola, and has one son, ,,rilliam. Olive married Flen1ing Bodley, ,vho died in 1895, leaving a son and daughter. This family also resides in ...i\..ngola. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 181 SECTION V. DESCENDANTS OF AZARIAH (1729) IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS. Of ....\zariah, third son of San1uel of I..,itchfield, who was born in 1729, who married ~Iary Davis and removed to Tyringham, Massachusetts, settling in that part of the town now called l\Ionterey, I have already given account. I am no-,v to follow the line of his descendants to the present time. ....\s will be remembered fron1 the record on a previous page, ....\zariah died in the prime of life at the age of forty fi.ve, leaYing a family of four children, viz., ....\zariah (1767- 1844), Reuben (1768), Darius (1770-1831), Jemima (1773) ...... \zariah, the oldest son, gre"\\'" up in Monterey and 1nar ried there ...'-\.bigail, daughter of Colonel Giles Jackson. ,v... hen · but a lad of sixteen, he shouldered his- musket and enlisted in Gener,al Gates's army and took part in the ,several engagements that led to the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. To ....\zariah and ....\bigail Jackson Orton, five sons ·and as many daughters " .. ere born, viz.: - .. A.zariah Giles, 1789-1864. Charles, 179,1-1850. 1."hornas Porter, 1794-1847. ....\.bigail, 1796-1879. ~Irs. Henry P. Clark. ....\nna, 1798-1864. Beulah, 1800-1851. Mrs. Captain vVilliam Churchill. Sophronia, 1803-1833. l\1rs. Stephen B. Fairchild. Caleb Jackson, 1805-1850. llary .....\.., 1807-1882. ~lrs. Dar,vin Dean. John, 1811-1882. i82 DES~ENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ,, (a) ...i\.zariah G., the oldest son, gre1''" up on the ances· tral for1n in llonterey, but early evinced such an aptitude for acquiring kno,vledge,. ~nd such intellectual and moral force that college training 1''"as provided for him "pithout a question, "rith the 1ninistry in vie,v. He prepared for col lege at Lenox .i\.cademy, and in 1811 entered- ,,rilliams Col lege, then but recently establis1hed, in the northern exten sion of the Berkshire Hills, and graduated there ,vi th the highest honors of his class, -of ,vhich "\V"illia1n Cullen Bryant was a member, in 1815. In 1817, Mr. Orton began his ~!~o fessional studies in Princeton Theological SeminarY. Dur- . ~ w ing his course of study it would appear that he had imbibed a measure of missionar:y zeal, and ",. hen he left the se1ni narv ·he offered himself to the B-oard of llissions of .the "' Presbvterian., Church for service in the hon1e field. Ile was sent by the Board "to preach in destitute places in Geor- gia," and passed a year in this service. He then retur·ned to the north, and after a year of missionary ,v,ork in western New York, was ordained, in 1822, pastor .of the Presby terian Church in Seneca Falls, New York. He remained here for thirteen years and then-spent three years as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lisle, Broome County, Xe"'" York, and aftern:-ard fourteen years i_n Greene, C·henango Countv Ne"... York after "'"hich he returned a 0 ·ain to the .,, ' ' ~ church at Lisle for eight years, ,Yhieh finished his public service. In 1822 he mar·ried llinerva Squire, of I.isle. The f aet that this "'"as his ,vife's ho1ne ,vas "'"hat brought.. hiln once and again to this to"rn. He had a pleasant residence here> with a small farn1 attached, on the banks of the C'henango River, and in it he spent his last years, dying there Dec-en1- ber 28, 1864. ~rhe place is still in the hands of his descend ants. 184 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON he was invited to a profess·orship in Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1847 he received the degree of Doctor of Divin ity from the University of the City of New York, and in 1850 he received the same degree from Union College. He "'"as called to a pastorate in "\\i.,. ashington D. C., but preferred a less conspicuous field. He was always counted by those who knew him best as adequate to the authorship of some great work, but he never published any extended treatise to justify ·OI" disprove this estimate. He left, ho"\"\t--ever, a large amount of manuscript to testify to his mental activity and industry. He .furnished numerous articles to the peri odicals of his time. .A.mong them a reply to Professor Moses Stuart on "The C-0nstitution of the United .States as !{elated to Slavery," was counted especially able. In 1842 he wrote a memorial addressed to the ,Senate of Ne"~ York, in behalf. of citizens of Chenango County, protesting against the abo liton of capital punis·hment, whieh ,vas then under discus sion in the Legislature. This paper is supposed to have had great weight in shaping the action of the State at that time. He did not confine himself entirely to the grave studies and serious topics of his profession, but he possessed, also, an imaginative vein, and occasionally turned off poems that were counted admirable b,.., the fe"~ that had a chance to see them. Taken all in all,-Dr. Orton makes a remarkable figure in ,our family records. He can be ,veil set do,vn as one of the n1ost highly end.o-\ved n1en1bers of the fan1ily, for the genera tions that I have undertaken to record. His n1odestv was •; equal to his merit. Four sons ,vere born to him, viz.: Charles, 1824-1884. Lisle, Ne"... York. John G., M. D., 1827. Binghan1ton, Ne,v York. James, Rev. Prof., 1830-1877. Poughkeepsie, Ne"'· York. William J., M. D.. , 1838-1875. Lisle, New York. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 185 Charles, the eldest son, was possessed of an excellent n1ind, but ,vas singularly diffident and self-distrustful, and through his life he avoided publicity of all kinds as far as possible. He ,vas never married, and he died of a fever in 1884, at his home in Lisle. John G ., M. D., the second son, "\\'"as born in Seneca Falls, December 5, 1827. He took an academic course of studv.#, and then entered the lTniversitv./ of the Citvft/ of New York as a student in the medical department, obtaining his degree there in 1853. He entered at once on the practice of his profession in Binghamton, Ne,v York, where he still resides. In 1856 he married Helen M., daughter of Dr. ..A.mmi Doubleday~ of Binghamton, and to then1 three daugh ters have been born, named as follo"\"\rs: Helen D., .....\lice (Mrs. Dunsmore), May (Mrs. F. E. Barnes). ....i\.11 reside in Binghamton. Dr. Orton stands high in his profession and in the· com munitv arid has been in everv " ... av successful. He has been ~ ~ ~ honored ,vith th-e presidency of the State Medical Society of New York, of ,v,hich he "ras one of the founders...... \ suburb of Binghamton has been laid out in town lots from lands owned by ,him, in which th_e family name ,vill be perpetu ated. He has always taken great interest in philanthropic enterprises. He " ... as one of the founders .of the Binghamton Orphan ...-\.sylnm, and also of the City Hospital. He has also served the State Blind .....\sylum as trustee, secretary, and treasurer. In the establishn1ent of the State Board of Health he took an active part. His contributions to the lit erature of his profession have been ntunerous. He has been lTnited States exan1ining surgeon for" n1ore than a qua:r;·ter of a century. In a ,vord, he has filled a conspicuous and honorable place through a long and useful life. 186 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON J an1es, third son of R.ev. Dr. Orton, was born in Seneca Falls, .A.pril 21, 1830. He ""'as fitted for college 1nainly at hon1e and in 1851 entered Williams College, from which his father had graduated bef.ore him. He took his baccalau reate degree there in 1855. He selected the ministry as his profession, and in 1858 completed a course of theological instruction in .A.. ndover Seminary. During his collegiate course he ,von a good deal of reputation as a writer·, and even at this early date, ente!·ed the ,vorld of letters as a suc cessful author, supporting himself, at least in part, in college and seminary, by his pen. .A.. fter his graduation from the sen1inary, he spent two years in travel and study in Europe. On July 11, 1860, he was ordained pastor of the Presby terian Church of Greene, Ne"'· York, of which his father·'.had ~een pastor· a quarter of a centur·y ear·lier·. He remained here but a year, when he accepted a call to Thomaston, liaine, where he remai~ed two years. ....\ strong interest in natural history "ras native to his mind and was developed during his eollege course, though there was little in the traditions or training of Williams College to ar1ouse or sustain such an interest. He devised and carried f or,var"d successfully a students' expedition to Labrador, during one of his vacations. This is the first in stance, so far as I can learn, of that mode of ,vakening in terest in and enriching 1p.useums ,vhich is so eomm·on at the present tilne. By travel and by close observation he ,vas 0 constantl•.: v extendin h°· his kno,v ledt, ·e of natural historv•.,, and particularly of geology and zoology. In 1866 he was a p- pointed instruetor in natural history in the University of R,oehester, but he ,vas obliged to continue his clerieal duties at the san1e tin1e. In 1867 he organized a scientific expedi tion to South .A.n1eriea, under the auspices of ,villian1s Col"' lege.. _.:Eie crossed the continent by way of Quito and made 188 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON pedition, he crossed the continent from Para to Lima, by Lake Titicaca. His notes and observations covered the whole field of natural historv..,, Proba.blv.,, no South ..A.meri- can traveler since ·Humboldt had been so well prepared for such an exploration, and Professor Orton can1e hence forth to be counted as one of the hig•hest living authorities on the central region of this "''"onderful continent. This ,vork undoubtedlv.,, constitutes his best claini to be remem- bered bevond.,, his brief dav~~ Xot long after· his return his health began to fail. _ful monarv.., trouble manifested itself in unmistakable form . He fought manfully against the dread disea.se, and in 1876, as a last resort, he determined to return to the high plateau regions of Peru and Bolivia, in hope that change of air and station would arr·est the progress of the disease. He spent the ,vinter months of 1876-77 in the region already named; but early in 1877 he undertook another task, to ,vhich, as the event proved, his strength "\\"as unequal. He proposed, as his special line of inquiry on this journey, the exploration of the basin of the Beni River, am important tributary of the lfadeira, "'·hich itself belongs to the gr·eat ....\mazon sys tem. He had in view a preliminary survey for a railroad to connect the navigable waters of the ....\mazons ,v'ith the railroad that had been already built from the Pacific Coast to I ... a Paz, the capital of Bolivia. The river basin ""hich he proposed to explore, embracing.. at least fifteen thousand square miles of territory, ,vas almost ·entirely unkno"~n, and he ,vas full of ambition to detern1ine its character and re sources. Dr. Heath, an .A.n1eriean physician, "~ho had for several years resided in Peru, joined hin1 in La Paz in l\larch, 1877, to aid in this exploration. Professor Orton's strength "\\'"as being steadily depleted by his disease, but his hope and cour- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 189 age never gave way, and ,vith his companion, he set out on a journey do,vn one of the branches of the ~Iadeira ,vhich was, even ,v here it "~as first struck, at the foot of the mountains, a great river, three-quarters of a mile "·ide, eighty or ninet.~ feet in depth, and fl.o-\ving ,Yith a current of several miles an hour. The natives that he ,vas obliged to employ proved treacherous and refractory, and after advancing for t"'.'"o 1veeks into a ,vorld unkno,vn to them, they deserted him in a bodJ·, and obliged him to change his entire plan. He.turned back_ to the "·est"'.'"ard, striking across the mountains to Lake Titicaca. Re had over-rated and ,vas constantly overtaxing his strength; and in the excitement caused by the mutiny and desertion of h~s native helpers, he had brought. on a hemorrhage, by which he ,va$ greatly prostrated. The crossing of the m-0untains, which he had now to undertake, "..:as ma_de by him ,vith the gTeatest difficulty an_d suffering. He kept on horseback until he ,vas too ,veak to sit in the saddle, and then struggled along on foot through the thin, cold air of the -~no-\vy passes, making son1etimes but three miles a day. ..A. .t last his strength failed, so that he could advance only by being carried on the backs of natives fron1 station to station. On the 24th of Septen1ber, he reached the eastern shore of the lake and took passage in a little sailing vessel of t"·enty tons, the ·.A.. urora, for Puno, on the Peru- -Yian or ,vestern shore of the lake. Puno is also on the line of the railroad alreadv., referred to. ,v·hen he ,vas car- ried to the de<:k of the little vessel, he felt that his toils and sufferings ,vere no,v at an end. "~o";-- ," he said, "I have nothing to do but to lie still and ride into X e,v York harbor.'' The journey a<:ross the lake required but t,venty-four hours. It ,vas begun at three o\~lock in the afternoon, but before it "~as completed Professor Orton had reached another harbor. He died before noon, September 25, 1877. 190 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON ..A .. t Puno unexpected difficulties confro_nted Dr. Heath in providing interment for his friend. · The only cemeteries in that part of the ,Yorld· ,vere under the control of the Cath olic Church, and the priests absolutely refused to allow a heretic to be buried in consecrated ground. Finally, an in telligent, ,vealthy, and influential citizen, Sigrnor Esteves, indignant at the bigotry of the church authoritieRr a lthoug-h a Catholic hin1self, gladly gave pern1ission to bury the re mains of the great naturalist on a little island of six or eight acres "~hich he O-\vned in Lake Titicaca. .A. mound of stone was piled upori the grave, "'·hich is within easy sight of the shore, and its location ,vas otheMvise definitely marked.. On this quiet island, in the sacred lake of the ill fated ..A .. ztecs, James Orton sleeps "\\-ell, surrounded by as grand scenery as the sun looks down upon in its daily course. Through the n1arvelously clear air of the plateau a half dozen sno1v-clad mountains, some of theni tw·enty thousand feet above the sea, can be counted from his grave. Cut off in his prime, just as t'he "\\"Ork of his life "·as opening· before him, he still has.left a record of achievement which "·ould be counted honorable even to one ,vho should fill out the normal number of vears. •.1 He began his career as an author, even before he en tered college, publis-hing, in 1849,. a little book called the l\Iiner's Guide and lietallurgist's Directory. The publica tion of such a "·ork by one entirely untrained in the subject treated of, "~as, of eourse, audatious, but it n1arked the taste and ambition of the lad. In 1852, ,Yhile in his senior year in college, he publish~d a ,York of an entirely different character, entitled, "Proverbialist and Poet.'' It ,vas issued as a gift book and brought the author ren1uneration enoug-h to help complete his course of study. In 1870 he published "The .A.. ndes and the .A.. mazons," which, though made up OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 191 mainly of hurried sketches of travel, ,yas recognized by the discerning as a valuable contribution to geographical and geological kno-\vledge. Successive editions of it "~ere pub lished by the Harpers, and it has been translated into the Ger111an language in a ser·ies of books of travel. In 1872 he published a little ,vork that has had a ,vide circulation, and every copy of it has been kept in use until ,vorn out. It ,vas entitled, "Underground Treasures and Ho"~ to Find Them." In 1873 1he brought out a vigorous defense of the scheme of education represented in "\:"assar. It was enti tled, "The Liberal"Education of Women." Finally, in 1875, he published a text-book on Comparative Zoology, which has enjoyed for many years a wide popularity. In fact, it hais not been replaced to this day by any better book cover ing the sau1e ground. Professor Orton ,vas married in 1859 to Ellen E. Foote, of vVilliamsto,vn, ~Iassaehusetts. Four children ,vere born to then1, three of ,vhon1 are living, viz., .A.nne, June 23, 1862; Susan, January 27, 1865, and ....i\.lbert L., ...i\.ugu-st 4, 1872. ...i\. third daughter, ~Iary B., born November 4, 1866, died at the age of seventeen. ':ehe daughters have a successful school at Riverside, California. ...i\.lbert graduated, in 1895, fron1 C'?rnell lTniversity, "·ith the degree of Electrical Engi• neer, ancl is no,v engaged in profes8ional ,vork in :X e,v York Cit~·- He is counted a young nu1n of fine pron1ise. "\Yillian1 J., youngest son of R-ev. Dr. Orton, ,vas born in Greene, in 1838. He studied n1edicine and began practice in his old hon1e, Lisle, ,vhere, in 1866, he n1arried llelen E. :\IcCall. ()ne son ,vas born to the111, viz., John J., 1867. Dr. ,,.. i1Iian1 died of eonsun1ption in 1875. His ,vido"· and son ren1ain in Lisle in the old hon1e that can1e do,Yn to the1n fron1 l{eY. Dr. Orton. ('fhis house " 1 as consumed bY fire in Febru- . ~ ary of the present year, 1896.) 192 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS. ORTON Charles Orton (1791-1851), second son of .A.zariah, 1761, took up his residence in Xew York and married, in 1816, Melinda Richards. The · following children ,vere born to them there: Charles Henry, 1817-1819. Abigail 11., 1819-1853. Mrs. Edward Crolins, Brooklvn.., . Elizabeth B., 1821-1866. Mrs. William Foster, Hillsdale, New York. Sophia J., 1825. Mrs. Dr. Reuben S. Chapin, New York. Julia P., 1827. _ New York. Charles, 1831-1848. New York. _George, 1834-1851. New Yprk. Mrs. Crolins, second •of this list, " ... as married in 1844 and had five children. She died in 1853. Mrs. Chapin, fourth of the list, has had three thililren, but only one is now living, viz., Julia A., 1850 (Mrs. Ed:w-ard Ingersoll), Kent, C-0nnecticut. Thomas Porter Orton, third son of .A.zariah, 1761, ,vas born in 1794 and died in 1847. In 18.31 he married Marv.., Heath and established himself in Ne"'- York. The following children were born to them -there: Mary L., 1826. Mrs. Le,vis VanDeusen, Hillsdale, New York. Thon1as Porter, 1829. Caribou, California. Frances, 1831-1865. Mrs. George Bushnell, Hills dale, New York. Alice, 18.35-1880. Mrs. Ed"~ard ·Crolins, l{ahway, New Jersey. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 193 .A.. bigail, oldest daughter of ..A .. zariah (1761), was born in 1796 and died in 1879. ·rn 1825 she married Rev. Henry Porter Clark, of ,,7 ashington, D. C. Their children are as follows: Henry James, 1826-1873. Thon1as Ed,vard, 1828. lVilliam 0., lS.30-1865. Henry Jan1es Clark was one of the best zoologists that this country has yet produced. He took his baccalaureate degree in the University of the City of New York in 1848. For two ,ears he tau0 ·ht in an academv at White Plains New .., ~ ., ' York. In 1850 he began the study of botany ,vith Professor ....\.sa Gray, at Harvard, but soon transfeITed his interest to zoology, under the elder ...-\.gassiz, receiving the degree of .. B. S. from the T..ia,vrenee Sc-ientific School of Harvard Uni versity, ·in 18.54. For several yea:rs he served as assistant to Professor ...-\.gassiz, and espeeially during the preparation of the monun1ental "~ork of the latter, "Contributions to the Xatur-al Historv.. of the lJnited States." In 1860 he was made adjunct professor of natural history at Harvard, a po sition ,vhieh he held for five .,vears. In 1864 he delivered a course of lectures before the T..10,vell Institute of Boston, ,vhich "~ere aftei~vards publis·hed under the title, "~Iind in X ature. '' The volun1e sl1 He then went to Harvard l1niversitv..., to studv..., natural his- tory under ...i\.gassiz and Gray. In 1853 he ,vas appointed assistant to ...i\.gassiz. In 1854 he received the degree of B. S. from Harvard. In 1855 his eyes failed him to such an - 'ti extent that he was no longer able to continue the mic1·oscop ical work required in his ~oological investigations. He there fore turned to chenlistry and, to prepare himself properly for teaching this subject, he spent several years in special study, first under Liebig'.' at Munich, and a.fte:nva1·ds at Goettingen, receiving the degree of Ph. D,. from the latter university in 1858. In 1859 he ,vas appointed professor of chemistry in ,vnlian1s College, and held this position for six ~vears. He "~as then attraeted to the studv~ of medicine.. , and in 1866 he received the degree of M. D. from Columbia College, New York._ He began practice in this last-nam-ed city, but soon abandoned the profession as a business, and, for the last fe,v years, has been a resident of California. In 1872 Dr. Clark married Mary E. Niles, in Munich, Gern1anJ. William Churchill Clark, 1830-1865, married and left a fa mil .,v in New York. Beulah, third daughter of ...i\.zariah, married, in 1830, Captain William C'hurthill, a sea eaptain and the o,vner of t\vo vessels that plied bet"'~een ~ e,v- York and Europe. 'fhe name of Tyringhan1 "~as given to one of these vessels in OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 195 honor of the birthplace of his wife, 1vho crossed the Atlantic ,vith hin1 t,ventv-t,vo., tin1es . Caleb J., fourth son of ...L\.zariah (1761), ,vas born in 1805 and died in 1850. In 1833 he married Sarah .A.. Fairchild (1808-1872) and settled in N e-,v York City. Five children · "'... ere born to them there, viz.: Helen S., 1834-1835. Harriet ~I., 1839-1880. Mrs. .A..lexander Howard, N e"\\i... York. Beulah, 1838-1839. Josephine .A.• , 1840. Boston, lfa_ssachusetts. .. A.. zariah J., 1842. Brooklyn, ~ew York. Josephine ...I\. developed, at an early age, decided talent for the stage·-and adopted the theatrical profession while yet a girl. S'he rose rapidly to distinction, and was for many years kno,Y'.n as a highly gifted and versatile actress, being equally successful in comedy and tragedy. ...i\.fter a career of unusual success in the leading cities of the country, she left the stage in 1872,. In 1864 she married Benjamin E. v\r oolf, ,v ho ,vas born in I.iondon, England. Mr. Woolf is a n1usieian by profession, -but for some years has devoted himself to jonrnalisn1. I-Ie is rec-ognized as ·one of the lead ing dra1natic and musieal erities of the country, but in addition to this, he is also the author of a large nu1nber of plays and operas. .A.1nong the plays, it is enough to n1ention "The ....\ln1ighty Dolla.r/' ,vhich "\"\... as made so pop ular by the :F'lorences. S.on1e of his operas have been equally sneeessful. )Ir. and ~Irs. "\\roolf have resided in Bost.on for n1-an ..,v .,Years . ..:\.zariah J., youngest son of (~aleb J., married, in 1878, Sarah ...:\.. Shattel. His resiclenee is in Brooklyn, ~ e"- York. 196 DESCENBANTS OF THOMAS ORTON He was a soldier in the ·civil ,var, entering the army during his last year in college. He has six children, viz.: Joseph A., 1879. Adelaide M., 1881. liilton J., 1883. Edith, 1885. Benjamin J., 1887. Henry C., 1889. John Orton, youngest son of ....\zariah (1761), was born in 1811 and died in 1882. In 18.38 he married Louisa ~I. Bid well, of Monterey, Massachusetts. His ,vhole life ,vas passed on the farm ":--hich he inherited from his father, and ,vhich - before that had been the homestead of his grandfather, Colonel Giles Jackson. It n1av~ be of interest to note that he. had decided. talent for n1usic, and that "~hile still a youth under twenty years of age he constructed a piano ,vith his own hands, the first ever introduced into his native town. He was also a musical composer in a small ,vay. He had six children, viz. : Josephine L., 1840-1866. M., in 1865, James R. Hicks, Denver, Colorado. John Jackson, l\f. D., 1842. Thomas B., 1844-1867~ Died in the army in War of Rebellion. Beulah C., 1846. ~I., 1868, James R. Hicks, Denver, Colorado. Charles A., 1849. ....\lice S., 1853. B·oston, ~Iassachusetts. Mr~s. Beulah C. Iij.cks, ,vho no,v resides in Denver, has had three children, none of "~ horn are living. ~fiss ...L\..lice C. Orton, the youngest daughter of John Orton, 1811, is a refined and cultivated lady, and at the same OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 197 time has the courage and independence of the stoc~ from ,v hich she con1es. John Jackson Orton, ~I. D., obtained an academic edu cation in the schools of Salisbury, Connecticut; ~ ew Marl borouo·h l\'Iassaehusetts and '''inchester Center Connecti- o ' .... . ' ' cut. In 1860 he began the study of n1edicine under the tu- torship of his great-uncle, Dr. Benjamin Welch, of Lake ville, Connecticut. He studied further with Dr. Willia1n B. Welch, of ~ orfolk, Connecticut. He attended one course of medical lectures at Pitts-field, ~Iassachusetts, and two course·s at Ilellevue Hospital Medical College, N e,v ·York, fron1 ""hich he graduated in 1866. He began the practice of n1edicine in Nor-folk, Connecticut, in 1866, in connection with Dr. "'\"\i... illiam B. °"r elch. In 1868 he became associated in practice with Dr. Benjamin vv·elch, of Lakeville, Connecti cut, ""here he has since resided. He has excellent business judgment and is accumulating a handson1e 001npetence, and in fact is already independent. Dr. Orton has never married. He is greatly interested in the genealog:r of the famili1es from "" hich he is descended, and particularly in that of the Jack sons. In 189·5 he took a prominent part in placing a ~uitable monument to the memory 1895, "Tith appropriate exercises, in "Thich the entire, com- munity took part, even the schools of the to-\vn being dis- missed for this purpose (b) DARIUS, OF AZARIAH. Of Darius, youngest son of .A.zariah, 1729, I a111 not able to give an extended account. I-le was born l\tiay 26, 1770, and died December 23, 1838. He ""as brought up in Tyringham and married there, in 1791, ,~ashti, youngest daughter of i98 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON Colonel Jackson. Her older sister, .A.bigail, J~ad previously married ....\zariah, older brother of Darius. To Darius and his " ... ife, "\Tash ti, four children ,,,.ere borh> as follows: .A.. urilla, ....\ ugust 23, 1792-187 4 (:Nlrs. Thomas ....\lford); Mary (Polly), October 20, 1794; Darius, July 4, 1797- July 30, 1801; "\Tashti, December 9, 1799 (lVIrs. Charles Brook ins). lirs. Vashti Orton died prematurely, in Tyringham·, in 1803. In the same vear her husband removed to Broome o./ County, in southern Ne,v York, purchasing a farm and set tling at Center Lisle. In 1805 he married a second "'... ife, Catharine Bu.rghar-dt (1770-1847), and by her he had seven other children, viz. : Darius B., June ~3, 1806-June 19, 1833. Azariah, May 30, 1807. Lambert, Decem-ber 26, 1808. Albert, January 25, 1810. Catherine, September 3, 1812. Ann; September 14, 1815. Frederick. ....\urilla, the oldest daughter, married Thon1as ....\lford, of Center· Lisle, and ab_out 1830 removed ":-ith him to central Ohio. T·hev finallv settled in ....\lvada Seneca C'-ount,· and .J OJ ' •I ' bought a fine farm, ,vhich is .still in the hands of their lineal descendants. Several children "·ere born to then1, four of whom are still living, viz., "\V"illiam C., lVIary, Hannah, and ...i\.llen. The three first na1ned reside at .A.lvada. ..A.llen is a resident of California. ~Irs.... .\ urilla ....\lford was, I judge, a superior ,voman, ful1 of vivacity and courage and a natural leader in the quiet community in ,vhich her n1ature years ,vere spent. Her children seem to have inherited, in good degree, her charac- OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 199 teristics. Though counted old, as years go, they bear their burdens lightly and display unusual energy and spirit in their everv-da v life. ~ " 1 vVilliam ( ., the oldest son of ...:\.urilla, still holds and manages a large farm and finds tin1e and strength every year for a n1onth's camping- and hunting in the for·ests of }lichig·an or ,\'... is,consin. rrhough numbering four-score ..,vears ' he is alwavs., the recoo·nizedt, leader of his camp. He has four children, all happily settled in life. One of his sons is college-bred and is no"r in successful practice as a lawyer in Duluth, Minnesota. (E. F .....\lford.) Mary, second daughter of Darius, married David Ste phens, of Broome County, Ne,v York, and left two children, David, Jr., and ...~urilla (lVIrs. Bennett, both of ":--hom reside at Harpersville, :N e":r York. Vashti, third daughter of Darius, married, in 1819, Charles Brookins, of Center Lisle, and bore to him eight children, viz.: George W. lfary A. Sarah. Susan. Janette. .A..lbert B., ~I. D. Charles F. Frederick 0. The four elder ehildren reside in Rh·hf ord, ~ e"? York. Janette be(·a1ue, by her first n1ar1·iage, J\Irs. I{ood, and has one son, Dr. (}eorge Rood, Etna, Xe,v York. By her second marriage she beeame }Irs. Elliott, and resides at lientor, lfinnesota. ..A.lbert B. is a physician, and resides in Florida 200 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON for the "?inters, his ho1ne being at Burton, in that State. Durino· the rest of the year he resides at Bluefield ,,rest "\Tir- h ~ ' ginia. (lliarles 1?. is a resident of Green"\\?ich, Ohio. He is a bright, intelligent n1an, but ":"ithin the last fe"~ years he has lost his eyesight, and is thus withdra-\vn fron1 active life to some extent. Frederick 0. ":-as killed in the Civil ~... ar, at Red River, Louisiana. ....\.zariah (3d), 1807, ren1ained in Center Lisle all his life, and left two children, Frederick and Frances (J\ilrs. Pulver). Both. reside at Tunnel, Broome County, Xe,Y York. Lambert, 1808, left t,Yo sons, Porter and Darius, who occupy the original home of their gTandfather, at Center Lisle. .A..lbert, 1810, resided at the same place and his ,vido-\v is still living there. He left tw-o sons, viz., Dr-. George, ,vho is practicing medicine in Elmira, :N e"r York, and Cyrus ....\.., who lives at Jamestown, New York. Catharine married a Baptist minister. Frederick, youngest son of Darius, 1770, lived at Cape ,rincent, New York, and died there in 1862. His "'"if e's name was Sarah Bennett. He left no children. ...t\.t least six of the descendants of Darius ,vere engaged in the Civil War. There are three physicians and one la1'- yer in his line. SECTION ·v1. DESCENDANTS OF LEMUEL, 1731, IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS. a. Of the fan1ily of Len1uel, 1731, and of his four sons, Len1 uel, Jr., Gideon, John, and ''"'"ill ian1, I have g-i ven as full a record a.s I have been able to obtain. I take up here the sixth and later generations, beginning ,vith the line of Lemuel, Jr. (1761). I "?ill repeat here the list of his children: OF "\VINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 201 Charlotte, July 10, 1785. John J an1ison, ~{arch 14, 1787. Lemuel (3d), June 27, 1789. Clarissa, I>ecember 15, 1790. Harriet, January· 5, 1793. Polly, ~larch 3, 1794. Burr, February 5, 1797. Birdseye (E. B.), June 16, 1799. Lvdia Mav 25 1801. .., ' ., ' Charlotte, the oldest ehild, gre"r up in Kent, and was married there to I.Je"·is llills, by ""hon1 she had t"·o children, viz.,Le"\\'.'"is 1\1. and Charlotte. Le,vis ~I. married .A.. nna Smith, and had t"ro children, viz., Char·les and Louisa. Charlotte married James l\tl. Pratt, of Kent, and had four children, viz., Charlotte (~Irs. John D. Pratt), Mary (l\Irs. iSeth. Hop son), Jane (Mrs. Sheldon \Vheaton), Peter l\tI., ,vho married Julia Stowe, and Sophia (l\tlrs. Walter Can1p). .A..11 were born and reared in Kent and most of them still reside there. The descen_dants of John and \Villiam ·have been given on a preceding page, out of their true order. John J. "\\"as brought-up in Kent. He married Beulah Cald,vell, of Canaan. He learned the carpenter's trade and "\\"as all his life recog·nized as a fir-st-class "\\"Orkman. In the autumn of 1827 he left the old home for the ,vestern Re serve, or Ne".. Connecticut, in northern Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. He can1e through "\\"ith his o,vn tean1. By the tin1e he reaehed ""-estern Xe".. York the "·eather had become so bad that he stopped over for a fe,v ,veeks at Eden "\\"ith his great-unele, (}ideon, ,vho ,vas living there. Starting for,vard again, to,vard the end of Decen1ber, he drove up the beaeh of Lake Erie, the o~ly road in those days, to Painesville, ,vhich he reached about January 1, 1828. He bought a 202 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON house and lot in the village forth"Tith, and "·ent diligently to 1vork at his trade, for V{hich there 1vas an tirgent den1and at the time. His "\\"orkm.anship was so good that he was kept steadily and profitably employed, and in the course of a 0 fe"r ,;years he ~·ot ahead enouo·h~' :fi.nanciallv~, to pav~ for a 0o·ood farm three or four miles south of the village, and on this far·m he spent the remainder of his days, dying there in 1870. His children, except the t""O younger ones, ,vere born in Connecticut. 'l'heir names are: Wayne, ....a\.pi·il 12, 1816. Ir1vin, January 6, 1819-February, 1888. Frederick, }lay_ 12, 1822. C-harlotte, November 2-9, 1824. Milo, 1828-1834. · Mary, September 17, 1830. Wayne, the oldest son, ,vas eleven years old \\"hen he was brought to Ohio. }!any of the incidents of the long journey remain to this day firmly fixed in his men1ory. . He grew up in Painesville on his fathe1~'s farm, but having a natural taste for mechanical work he became a o·ood car- ' t, penter and learned the blacksmith's trade, as well. He 1''"orked at this last-nan1ed trade for a dozen vears and accu- - ~ mulated enough to buy for himself a farm of one hundred and thirty aeres in Perry To"rnship, in the "\r alley of Grand River, six n1iles south of Painesville. He built his o,vn house and f arn1 buildings, and here he i~ passing a serene old age,. enjoying the esteen1 and good ,vill of all ,vho kno,v hin1. ...\.bout 1840 he 111arried ...a\.lvira ,,... right, ,vho bore him one son, '\'1.,.illian1 ....\leott, ,vho no,v resides in l)ehnage, Lake County, South Dakota. ,Villiam ....\. is married to Doretta Kretch, "" ho has borne him three children. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 20:3 vVayne's first ,vife, ...:\.lvira, died soon after the birth of 1846 ~I. ,villian1 ' and in he married ~ancv•.1 l{vder., ' bv.... ,vhom he has two sons and one daughter, viz., IIorace Elw·ood (1847), Miriam (1850), John J. (1858). )1rs. Orton is still living, as are also the children of this n1arriage. Horace married Georgia, daughter of Judson B. Whip ple, who bore him one son, William Judson. He removed to Virginia a number· of years since, and resides at Itea111s Sta tion, Dinwiddie County. Here his "~if e died, and he has since n1arried Minnie Perkins, of ,.,.irginia, by "-horn he has two daughters. Miriam E. married Judson B. Whipple, of I.,eRoy, a town au.joining Perry, and ·has one son and two daughters. John J. was brought up on his father's farm, and ex pected to remain on it and take care of his aged parents, but beino- incapacitated for a time for farm ·,vork bv a 0 ' ' .., temporary lameness, he fitted himself for teaching, and was thus occupied for a fe"r years. But presently he felt dra,v11 to the study of. n1edicine. He pursued his professional stud ies in the medical department of W... estern Reserve TJ niver sity, Cleveland, and is no"r established in successful practice in Randolph, Portage County, O'hio. He married, several years since, Rose Glossner, of ·Canton, Ohio. Ir,vin Orton (1819-1888), pas_sed his life as a farmer in Perry To":-nship. He lived unmarried, and his farm fell to his brothers and sisters, in ,v hose hands it still rernains. Frederick (1822), third son of John J., lives in , ... inton: Benton County, Iowa, "rhere he has accun1ulate Returning no,v to the family of r~emuel, Jr., ,ve find next in order the nan1e of Lemuel 3d, "1-ho ,,/as born June 7, 1789. He left Connecticut in early life and the family lost all track of him from the date of his departure. Clarissa (1790) ,vas tw"ice ma1.. ried. The narne of her first husband was James Judd, " .. ho can1e with his father-in law to Dela1'.. are County, Ohio, "·here he died soon after " .. ards. She n1arried a second husband, --Co,vgill, of the same neighborhood. Harriet, born 1793, married ....;\.Iba Peet, of Kent, <:~on necticut, and emigrated 1''"ith her father to Delaware County, Ohio. She left t,vo children, vVilliam and Orpha. Orpha n1arried -- Ci·onkhelton, and her daughter, lits. Dr. Welsh is now living in Delaware, Ohio. Polly; (1794) came ,vith her father to Ohio and was mar ried there, becon1ing iirs. Gale. She died ....;\. u~ust 4, 1847. Burr (1798) remained behind, in Kent, when the rest of the family emigrated to Ohio. He married Ruby Church (1792-1884), and had six children, viz., Phoebe, Lucy, John, Charles, Charlotte, Lewis. Phoebe (1818-1879) n1arried Ho mer Edwards, of Kent, and left four _sons and one daughter. Lucy married Isaac Wedge (1820-1877). She is still living, 1''"ith a 0 ·ood n1easure of health and vi0·or at Cornwall ~ - ~ ' Bridge, Connecticut. She 'had five children, viz., ....;\nna, 1849 (J\llrs. Merrit Slade, Corn,vall Bridg·e, Connecticut); Flora L., 1846, Corn,vall Bridge; lVIark, married Linnie Rupert, and had one daughter; ....;\.lice, 1852-1870; ....;\rthur E., ,vho n1arried Grace P. Logan. lVIiss Flora L. "\Vedge is an esteemed correspondent of n1ine, to ,vhom I o,Ye the entire list of Burr Orton's deseend ants. lVlark and ....:\.rthur Wedge reside in Bridgeport, ljon necticut. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 205 John, oldest son of Burr, married Mary Bassett, and had two sons and four daughters, viz., John C., .A.bby (Mrs. Linus vVing), Helen (Mrs. Cook Darling), Harriet (}Irs. ~Iott Darling), ..A .. ndre"r, and Clarissa (Mrs. George Durfee) . ..John C. married ...L\.nna Birch, and has four sons and two daughters, viz., ,vndman, Inez, Charles, John, Edith, Frank. Charles, second son of Burr, married Jane Gregory, and had eight ehildr.. en, viz., Elizabeth (Mrs. Luther Bennett); Polly (Mr~. Sa-muel Luke, afterwards Mrs. Henry Kelly); Helen (Mrs. Frederick Gibson); Henry (married Helen Bro,vning, and had t,vo daughters); ...L\.~asa (married first, Cornelia Jones; second, Madeline Huffman); Ida (Mrs. John Cramer); Mary (Mrs. Charles Walker); C-harlotte (Mrs. James ,,... edge). Le,vis, youngest son of Burr Orton, married Sarah Jane Norton, and has two sons, viz., Horace and Darius. Horace married ...L\.nna "rashburn, and has four children, viz., Sarah E., George L., Minnie S., and Herbert "T· SECTION VII. DESCENDANTS OF LIEUTENANT JOHN (1744-1785) IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS . .A.s "~ill be seen by reference to preceding pa~es, Lieu tenant John left t"'"'° sons, Joseph and Luther. Of the latter, I haYe recently found a trace, ,Yhieh I have already incorpo rated.. Joseph left three sons, Yiz., Milton Pardee, Chauneey, and .A.Janson; but of the last t,Yo, I ha Ye no further data, though I have found reason to believe that 4L\.lanson n1ar ried and r.. en1<>ved to ,,'."isconsin. )1:ilton P. Orton, as previously noted, gre"~ up in Sharon, Uonnecticut. He ,vas a bright and handsome lad 206 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON and early attracted the attention of General John Sedg wick, of the same to,Yn, who encouraged hiin to seek a ~ol legiate education. The lad and his parents both responded to the suggestion. He ,vas fitted for Yale in the neighbor ing schools and entered on his college course in 1820, gradu ating in 1824. .A.s "~as often the case ,vith the college gradu ates of those days as ,vell as of these, Milton Orton ,vas obliged to teaeh for a time to earn means for carrying his studies further. He seems to have com1nanded the confi dence and good "'·ill of the Yale faculty; for when an appli cation presently came to this body for a competent sch61ar to take charge of an academy in vVilkesbaITe, Pennsylvania, he "'·as selected for thi~ post. He taught here ,vith success for three vears and then entered on the studv of medicine - . ~ . in the office of a "·ell-known physician of that to"1·n. He returned to New H.aven to com-plete his medical studies and took his medical degree there in due time. Returning to v\Tilkes-barre, he took up the practice of bis profession, and soon after,vards married Maria Lindsley Ford, of Lawrenceville, who belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent families of that region. Mrs. Orton having large landed interests near La,vrenceville, Pennsylvania, Dr. Orton presently took up his residence in the beautiful val ley of the Tioga, at this point, and here he s·pent most of the ren1ainder of his life. In the War of the R-ebellion, Dr. Orton ,vas early appointed a regin1ental surgeon, antl "·as stationed, for a time, at Hatteras Inlet, on the X orth Caro lina coast. His constitution ,Yas not adequate to the strain in1posed and he died there after a brief illness, in 18n4. He ,vas a leader in the eontmunity in every respeet, adding to his professional duties, at times, those of instructor of I.,atin and Greek at hon1e, and thus giving a higher tone to the young people that ";"ere gro,ving up around him. OF WINDSOR, CONN., 1641. 207 To Dr. Orton and his ,vife, children were born as fol~ lo-,vs: James Ford, 1832. Maria Lindsley, 1835. Stella S., lS..37. Charles Ford, 1839. Benjamin Ford, 184.3-1895. Ellen B., 1848. James F. Orton is a resident. of Philadelphia, ~·here he has resided for n1anv.., .vears., 't,t, en°·ao·ed in. insurance ao·enciest, . He has been twice n1arried, but has no children living. He is a_ man of wide range of reading and has a tenacious mem ory, so that he is able to apply to everything that arises some apt sentiment in poetry or in prose, and more likely in the former. Maria L. is the accomplished ,vife of Colonel E. F. Beau mont of the United States ....\.rmv. ., C-olonel Bea11n1ont is now on the retired list and resides in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Beaun1ont is so loval to her honored father's memorv ~ ~ that she extends her interest to the entire Orton line. Stella S. n1arried, in her early life, ~Ir. J. S. Rusling, who has been for forty years a pro-minent figure in many large business transactio~s in ,v· ashing~on, X e-u· York, and Philadelphia. ::\tir. Rusling has a Yein of 1nechanic-al inge nuity, ,vhieh has served him in good stead in a number of inYentions of considerablP n1erit. He no,v occupies the old family hon1e in La~·renceville. ~fr. and ~Irs. Rusling have six children, four sons and t,vo 0 0 41voun°· ~ n1en of unusual ener~-/·v and san ·acitY._ in business. (]harles S., the oldest, eon1pleted a college course in Rutgers Colleg-P, Xe,v Rrnns,viek, Xe,v Jersey, graduating- there in 1882. l◄..,or THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS OF THE ORTONS. In the preceding pages I have given account of all the militarv service in the Revolutionarv War that I have found ~ ~ duly accredited to various members of the ;Orton family. I have also indicated certain claims of service rendered, for ,vhich documentary proof has not been found, but which can still be-accepted, at least by the family, with full confidence, because of the character of the persons through whom the several traditions come. For convenience, I "'... ill gather up the facts above given and "~ill restate them here in compact and consecutive order. 1. Of the descendants of Thomas of Farmington we have t\vo lines, one, viz., through Thomas of Tyringham (1709) and one through J o·hn of Tyringham (1717). In the_ first ~ine, Thon1as 3d (1709) gives us two soldiers, duly accredited in the records of the .A.djutant General of llassachusetts, viz., David and Roger. Roger ,va.s a non con11nissioned officer, \Yith the rank of corporal. There was but one other Orton in this fan1ilv that could have taken O! part in the ,Yar, and he ,vas 1nore than forty years old when the struggle began. The second fan1iIJ· (John, 1717) gives us one duly ac credited soldier, viz., John, 1742. John Orton's name is 210 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON found in the records (pay-rolls) of the .A.. djutant General of Vermont. I have put this staten1ent stronger than the facts warrant. :No record of residence or age occurs in the Ver mont pay-rolls~ above alluded to, but as we kno"~ of two John Orlons in residence in that State at the date of the war, one of whom, John 1717, was too old for service, and the other, John 1742, of suitable age, I have inferred, ,vith con siderable confidence, that the latter is the person named in the record. He served seven months and twenty-nine days, from May 4, 1780. Judge H. S. Orton, of Wisconsin, declares that his grandfather, l{ev. Ichabod Orton, was a chaplain in the army. .A.nother tradition, that is. less direct and· less author itative, makes Thomas, Gideon, and Oliver, other sons of .. John, 1717, Revolutionary soldiers_ I credit this report to this extent, that they were very likely volunteers, enlisted for a short term of service in the capture of Burgoyne, at Saratoga. The able-bodied young men of ,vestern ~ew England were mainly present on this occasion. 2. Of the deseendants of John of Woodbury, 1692, none are reported as having taken part in the ,var. There were, in fact, but t\vo living at the time, viz., John (2d), 172,9, who, consequently, ,vas very near the limit of exemption on ac count of his age, and -Dr. Samuel, 1741. The latter was the principal and perhaps the only physician of his town, "1.,.ood bury, C-onnecticut, at the time, and it is easy tio see ,Yhy he ,vas held at home. 3. Of the descendants of Samuel of Litehfield (1694), a larger number ,Yere of suitable age for military serviee, viz., between sixteen anc~ fifty. There "·ere eight in the fifth gen - eration from 'l'homas of ,vindsor that ,vere at least sixteen years old, and seven of them were in the armJ·. Of the five sons of Samuel, 1724, Gideon, 1754, and Samuel, 1759, were OF W~INDSOR, CONN., 1641. 211 the only ones old enough for service. Both were in the army in the summ,er of 1777, under Captain ..A .. mos Barns, in the defense of the Hudson "\Talley. Gideon died in 1778, but Samuel "~as again in service in 1778, under C-aptain Joel Gillett, in the same field. Of the five sons of Hezekiah living .at the time of the war, four ,vere of suitable age for military service. Three of them were in the army and all of them long enough to n1ake them entitled to pensions from CongTess. Eliada, 1748, r~eceived a pensi,on by the · Act of 1818. . The name of ....c\.zariah, 1757, appears in the Congressional List of Pensioners of 1834-5, Vol. II., page 365. He served with the C,onnecticut Continental troops. Darius (1760) served in the vears 1776-1777-1778 and 1780. His name is also to o; be found in the Congressional List of 1834-5. Of the three sons of Azariah, 1727, the oldest, ....\.zaria1b 2d, ,vas born in 1761. He ,vas in the army t_o which Bur goyne surr·endered in 1777. His name is found in the rec ords of the ....\djutant General of Massachusetts. ~- Of the four sons of Lemuel, 1731, but one, Lemuel, Jr., 1761, was old enough to enter the army. He enlisted in 1778, when seventeen years old, and fought _thrt0ugh the war. He received a pension by the .. A.ct of 1818. The list of dulvI.I accredited Revolutionarv.,. soldiers in the fa mil v is therefore as f ollo-\YS: .,, ' ' NAME. AUTHORITY . .D·avid, 1737. ....\.djutant Gener·al of lVIassachusetts. R.oger, 1740. ....\.djutant General of ~Iassachusetts. John, 1742 (?). ....\.djutant General of Vermont. Gideon, 1754. .,,.A.. djutant General of Connecticut. San1uel, 1759. ....\.djutant General of C;onnecticut. Eliada, 1748. ....\.djutant General of Connecticut. 212 DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ORTON NAME. AUTHORITY. Aza.riah, 1757. Congressional List o·f 1834-5-. Darius, 17.60. Adjutant General of Connecticut. Azariah, 1761. Adjutant General of Massachu- setts. Lemuel, 1761. Adjutant General of Connecticut. Tradition adds the names of Thomas, 1746; Gideon, 1759; Oliver, 1764, and Rev~ Ichabod, 1754. It seems probable to me, further, that John, 1744-17§5, who held the rank of lieutenant, as is shown by the inscrip tion on his tombstone, attained his title in the Revoluti,onary War, but for this suppositi,on I have not been able to find documentary support. GENERAL INDEX, PAGE PAGE Aberdeen, S. D. . . . . • . . 163 Caldwell, Beulah ...... 201 Alford, Aurilla (Mrs.) . . . 139 Cambria. N. Y...... • . 86 Alford E. F. . . • . . • . . . . 199 Camden, N. Y...... 136 Alford, Thomas ...... • . 139 Camp, Wallace H...... 159 Alford, W. C...... • 199 Carpenter, Betsey E...... 112 Allen, George P. . . . . • 121 Caribou, Cal...... 192 Anderson, Mary P. . . 158 Carson, Sarah ...... 147 Andros, Sir Edmond . . . 14 Casnovia, Mich...... 164 Angola, Ind...... 179-180 Cheney, Elizabeth ...... 91 Antioch College ...... 157 Chicago ...... 180 Armstrong, Mathew (Mrs.) . • 61 Churchill, William (Capt.) .. 194 Athletic records ______78 Clark, Henry J. . _ ...... 19& .Atwood, Jonathan (Lieut.) . . 48 Clark, Thomas E. . . • . . . . 193 Atwood; Sa.rah • • • • • • • • • 48 Cleveland, 0. . . . -...... 81 Auburn, 0...... • • 161 Cleveland, Marilla D. • • . . . 163 Avon, Ct. . . • . . • . . . • 13 Cleveland, Sybil ...... 136, 169 Cole-Orton, England . . • . . • 18 Bantam, Ct. . . ·- ..... • • 34 Colton, Frank B. (Mrs.) •••. 118 Bantam Lake . . . . • . . • . 34 Connell, Fanny . . . • . . . . 162 Bartlett, E. A. . . • . • • • • 152 Copenhagen, N. Y ....•••. 162 Beaumont, E. F. (Col.) . . . . 207 Cornwall, Ct...... • . . . . 43 Beaumont, Maria L. · (Mrs.) • • 207 Cottam, Ont...... • • • • 164 Bedford, Ia. . . • . • .. . • . 175 Cowles, Ruth (Mrs.) ...... 125 Bell, Florence . . . . . • . . 158 Cuba, N. Y. . . . • . . •• 147-151 Bidwell, Louisa M. . • •· . . . 196 Cumberland, Ont...... 81 Binghamton, N. Y. • . • 184, 185 Curtis. Patty M. . . • . • • . . 113 Blackington, Mass. • -. . . • • • 83 Boylan, Elizabeth K. . . . • . 118 Brace, J. (Rev.) . . • . • . . . • 121 Darlington, Wis...... • . 66 Briggs, Cecilia .•••••... 166 Davis, Mary ...... 125 Brookfield, N. Y. • • • • • 92 DeForest, Abigail ...... 115 Brookins, Charles ...... 199 Dix, Ann ...... • . . 48 Brooklyn, N. Y. • • • • . • • 195 Derr, Fanny ...... 163 Brown, Mary A. . • . . . • • 94 Doubleday, Helen M. . . . 185 Buckingham, Anna . . • . 28, 29 Douglas, Hester M. . . . . 116 Bucyrus, 0. . • • . . . . • 63, 92 Douglas, Marcus B. . • • . 116 Budd, Etta . . . • ...... 158 Douglas, Nathaniel ...... 116 Burghardt, Catherine .•.•• 138 Dustin, Mercy • • • • • • . . • 179 214: GENERAL INDEX. PAGE PAGE Eaton, N. Y ...... 65 Indianapolis . . _. . . . 104 East Windsor, Ct. . . . . 28 Jackson, Abigail . . . 181 Eden, N. Y...... 143 Jackson, Giles (Col.) . . . . . 127 Ellsworth Mountain . . . . 48, 181, 196, 197 164 Essex Co., Ont...... Jackson, Vashti ...... 197 Farmington, Ct...... 12 Jennings, Mary M...... 157 Farmjngton, Ill...... 175 Johnson, Ida ...... -. . . 180 Finch, Ebenezer ...... 121 Johnstown, N. Y. . • . 49 Florence, N. Y...... 170 Judson, Hollister ...... 109 Foote, Ellen E...... 191 Judson, Jane ...... 115 Ford, Maria Lindsley . . . . . 206 Judson, Jo.hn ...... 25 Fort Erie, N. Y. • . . . • . 72 Jud~on, Nathan . . . . . "' 108 Fredonia, N. Y...... 57 Judson, Ruth ...... -111 Fuller, Margaret . . . . . 208 Juneau City, Alaska ...... 165 Fullerton, Neb...... 161 Keith, Lucinda ...... 96 Kent, Ct...... 143, 201 Garn ble, Lucy ...... - 170 Kirkwood, Mo. . • 157 Garrett, Daniel M. . . . . 173, 174 Gaylord, John ...... 15 Laporte, Ind. . . . • . . . 92 Geneseo•, N. Y...... • 49, 113 Lakeville, Ct...... 196 Gibbs, Eliakim ...... 132 Landers, Joseph (Dea.) . . 39, 127 Gifford, Dolly ...... 175 Lawrenceville, Pa...... 206 Gifford, Orton ...... 68 Lewis, Elizabeth ...... 15 Gillett, Ruby H...... 166 Lewis, Robert ...... 14 Goshen, Ct...... 130 Lewis, Samuel ...... 14 Gregory, Clarissa ...... 154 Lewis, William ...... t 4 Gregory, David D. (Rev.) ... 156 "Lightning Calculator" . . . 173 Gregory, Edgar M. (Maj. Gen.) 156 Limington, Me...... 104 Lisle, N. Y...... 182, 184, 191 Hamilton, N. Y. . . . . ·• . . . 65 Litchfield, Ct...... 34 Hamilton College . . . . . 153, 157 Little Falls, N. Y. . . 61 Harbor Creek, Pa...... 177-179 Loekport, Mich...... 163 Harvard University . . . : . . 193. Loweree, Mary A. . . 114 Hawley, Joseph (Lieut.) . 23, 30 Lowry, A. J...... 71 Hazen, Estella ...... • 163 Lurvey, Mary ...... 126 Heath, Dr...... • . . 188 Luzerne, N. Y. . . . • . . 82, 83 Hicks, Helen ...... 169 Hills, Mary E...... 102 Madison, Wis...... 93 Hillsdale, Mich...... 90 McCall, Helen E...... 191 Hooker, Samuel (Rev.) . . . . . 13 McNeil, Archibald (Capt.) . . 129 Hooker, Sarah ...... 173 Marsh, Eunice ...... 166 Hotchkiss, Sophronia . . . . . 68 :Marsh, Nathaniel (Rev.) . . . 62 Hoyt, Thomas C...... 169 Martin, Frederick ...... 113 Hudson, John H. (Hon.) . 156, 157 Martin, Mary 0...... 7 Hull, Sarah ...... 166 Martin, John 0...... 113 Hungerford, Lucia • . • . • . 161 Mead, H. A. • . . . . • • . . . 151 GENERAL INDEX. 215 PAGE PAGE Millbury, Mass...... 157 Pleasants, Adair (Gen.) . . . . 208 Miller, Frances A. (l\ilrs.) . . . 7 Princeton, Minn...... 81 Mobile, Ala...... 147, 150 Princeton, Mo...... 172 Moline, Mich...... 208 Puritans, English ...... 20 Monterey, Cal...... 66 Monterey, Mass.. 181, 182, 196, 197 Randolph, 0...... 203 Monticello, Ind...... 102 Reynolds, Matilda . . . . 102 Reresby, England . . . . 18 Na.sh, Mary ...... 119 Reresby, rectors of ...... 19 Newark, N. J ...... 117 Ripley, N. Y...... 132 Newell, San1uel "(Ensign) 30 Riverside, Cal...... 191 New Haven, Ct...•..... 179 Root, Mary ...... 14 New York ...... 192 Root, Thomas _...... 89 North East, Pa ...... 146 Ru~.ling, Charles ...... 207 Northampton, N. Y. . 81 Rusling, Ford ...... 207 North Walden, Vt. . . . . 104 Rusling, J. S...... 207 Norton, John ...... 15 Rutgers College ...... 207 Norton, Ruth ...... 130, 147 Ryder, Nancy M. . • 202 Sandusky, 0...... 81 0 berlin College ...... 171 Saratoga, N. Y...... 181, 182 Olinda, Ont...... 164 Sedgwick, Anna ...... 125 Orris, H_annah ...... 22 Sedgwick, John (Gen.) . . 59, 125 Orton.arms...... 16 Seneca Falls ...... 182, 184 Orton, England ...... 18 Sessions, Frank . . Orton family in England . . 17 Sharon, Ct...... · . . 126, 205 Orton, surname ...... 5-6 Sharon, 0...... 104, 162 Orton, Thomas, ofWindsor . . 10 Shelby, 0 ...... 172, 174 Deed of gift ...... 18 Sha.ttell, Sara.h A...... 195 List of descendants of, see sub Sherman family ...... 110 index. Shields, E. F ...... 150 Orton Hill _...... 12-3 Smedley, Abigail ...... 38 Ortonville, Ia...... 178 Somerset, 0...... 92 Ortonville Mich...... 106 Squire, Dm-cas ...... 103 Ortonville, Minn.. . . . 6 Squire, Minerva . . . . 182 Orvis, Hannah . . 22 St. Joseph, Mich...... 162 Stanley, Nathaniel . . . 30 Pa.inesville, 0. . . . . • • Z0l Stewart, Angie C. . . . . 171 Pardee family ...... 14-4: Symonds, Amanda (Mrs.) . . 61 Parish, N. Y ...... 135, 161 Pattou, Emily (Mrs.) ...... 121 Talcott Mountain ...... 12 Peck, Sylvia ...... 142 Three Rivers, Mich...... 163 Pekin, N. Y...... 86 Tompkins, Willard . . . 160 Petoskey, Mich...... 107 Torrey, Anna Davenport. . . 157 Platt, Caroline 0...... 159 Tracy, Frank E...... 152 FI~ tt, Irving G...... 159 Treat, Sarah ...... 170 Platt~ William S...... ~ . 159 Tucker, Sarah ...... 135 216 GENERAL INDEX. "PAGE PAGE Tudor, Mary . . • . . . . . 23, 24 Western Union Telegraph Co. 155 Tudo•r, Owen ...... 25 West Superior, Minn. . • . . 174 Tyringham, Mass. . . 44, 137, 197 West Unity, 0...... 171 Twycross, England . . . . . 19 Wilber, Albert (Dr.) . . . . . 172 Wilkesbarre, Pa. ..•..... 206 Vance, Samuel . . . ~ . . . . 113 Williams, Joseph ...... 52 Van Petten, Amelia ~ ..... 168 Williams College ..... 182, 194 Wadsworth family . . . . . 113 Williamsto:wn, N. Y. • 134, 162, 177 Wager, Eva ...... 163 Williamstown, Mass. . . 52, 81, 191 Waterbury, Ct...... 160 Windsor, Ct...... 7, 10, 11 Webster Groves ...... 176 Woo.dbury, Ct...... 25, 108 Wedge, Isaac ...... 204· Worthington, 0 ...... 126 Wedge, Flora L. . • • • . • • 204 Wright, Alvi-ra ...... 202 SUPPLEMENTARY INDEX-LIST OF ORTON NAMES. Aaron H ...... •... 103 Aurilla ...... ·. . 198 Abiram (Hon.) ...... : 57 Aurora G. • • . . . . . • 131, 147 .Adelbert (Dr.) ...... • 163 Baruch ...... • . . • . . • ·137 Adna ...... 81 Baruch (1824) ...... • . . • 177 Alanson . • . . • . • • • . • • 205 Benjamin (1808) ...... 170 Albert • ...... • . . . . 139 Benjamin D...... 119 Albert (1810) ...... 198 Benjamin F...... 208 Albert L. (1872) •.•••••.• 191 Benjamin J ...•...... 196 Albert W...... • . . . . 162 Brainerd (1804) ...... 176 Albert W., Jr...... • 168 Brainerd E. • ...... 176 Alfred R...... 102 Alfred W. . . • • . . • . . . • . 73 Caleb Jackson ...... 138 Alpheus ...... • . 81 Carroll • ...... 168 Alphonso ...... • . • 145, 208 Celsus ...... 165 Alvin (1809) ..••••.••. 81, 164 Charles (1791) ...... • . . 192 .. Alvin (1842) •..••.•...•. 164 Charles ...... 204 Amos (1768) . . . • . . • . • - • • 52 Charles (1824) ...... 184 Amos (1809) (Rev.) ..... 74, 106 Charles (1831) ...... • • 192 Araunah ...... 24, 131, 152 Charles ...... 81 Arthur G. (1867) . . • . . • . • • 81 Charles A. (1849) ...... 196 Ashbel (1850) ..•.. ,...... 162 Charles A. (1858) ...... 114 Ashbel ...•....•..•. 177 Charles Ford ...... 207 Azariah (1729) ...... • . • . . 39 Charles H...... 179 Azariah (1757) ...•... 125, 136 Charles H. (1817) ...... 192 Azariah (1761) ...... • 137 . Charles Jackson (1815) . . . . . 69 Azariah (1793) ...... 170, 175 Charles Jackson (2d) (1845) . . 67 Azari:ah (1807) . . • 139, 172, 200 Charles Jennings (1856) .... 157 Azariah Giles (Rev.) ... 138, 181 Charles N. (1865) ...... 162 Azariah (1842) . • . . • . . . . 195 Charles L. (1869) . • 7, 104, 179 Augustus, L. R .•.•.•••.. 175 Chauncey • . . . . • . . • . . 71 GENERAL INDEX. 217 PAGE PAGE Chauncey (1864) .. -. . • • . . 164 Frank M...... • • • • • 67 Chauncey ...... 205 Frank C. . . . . • . • • • • • • 91 Chauncey M...... 84 Frederick ...... • . . 200 Chauncey S. . . . · ...... 85 Frederick ...... • . . 202 Clark ...... 73 Frederick C...... 113 Clarence T...... 114: Frederick W. . . . . • • . . . 179 Clayton R...... 104 Fred...... 66 Clyde ...... 179 Fred. L...... • . . 73 Collins K...... 66 Criley ...... 179 Gardner ...... • . . • 77 Gardner ...... • • • • . . 81 Daniel ...... 135 Gardner L. (1872) . • • • • . • 104 Darius (1760) ... 125, 136, 177, 211 George ...... • . . • . . 74 Darius (1770) . . . . . • . . . . . 126 George . . . . ·. . . . . • . . 81 Darius _(1816) ...... 137, 178 George (1834) . . . . • • • • • . 192 Darius B...... : . . . . . 139 George B...... 162 Darius S. (Dr.) • . • . . . . • . . . 84 George D...... • 179 · David ...... 49, 71 George W...... • . . 77 David· H...... 163 George W...... • . • • • . 78 David J...... 111, 114 Gideon (1754) . . • 124, 130, 210 Dennis (1766) . . . • . . • . • • 125 Gideon (1759) . . . . . • • 52, 63, 103 Dennis (1781) • . . . . . • . 136, 170 Gideon (1768) . . • .- • • . • 126, 143 · L 1,..,:::;: D enn1s ...... • . . . . . u Glenn G...•...••••• 105 Grosvenor ...... • • . . 150 Ebenezer C. • . • • • . • . . 171 E. Birdseye ...... 142 Harlow N. (1785) (Dr.) .... 62, 91 Edgar ...... 83 Harlow N. (1858) (Dr.) ..... 101 Edmond ...... •.... 135 Harlow S. (1817) (Hon.) . . 92, 210 Edmund ...... 130, 145 Harlow S. • . . • . • • • • • • 89 Edward (1829) (Prof.) . . . . . 157 Harmon ...... •..... 135 Edward, Jr. (1862) (Prof.) . . . 158 Heber ...... • . . . • 78 Edward M...... • . 166 Heman (1780) . . . • • & • 135, 166 Edward S. (1809) ...••.. 134 Heman Hoit ...... • • . 89 Elah ...... 146 Heman Hull ...... • . . . 166 Eldon ...... 172 Henry ...... 74 Eliada (1748) . . 125, 134, 161, 211 Henry (1798) . . . . • • . • 78 Eliada (1775) ...... • • • 161 Henry ...... • . . . • . • 81 Eliada (1861) ...... • • • • 162 Henry B...... •...• 114 Elias ...... , ...... 74 Henry B. (1885) ...... • • 111 _Elias ...... 74 Henry C. (1889) ...... • 196 Ellsworth C...... • . . 74 Henry J...... 114 Emory D...... 163 Henry T. (1782) . . • . . . 111, 115 Erastus ...... 177 Herbert ...... 81 Esther M...... 7, 74 Herbert ...... • • . . . 85 Herbert ...... 165 Forest H...... 174 Hezekiah (1727) • 41, 124, 134, 161 Frank ...... 179 Hezekiah (1741) • 41, 134, 160, 210 218 GENERAL INDEX. PAGE PAGE Hezekiah (1768) . .,, . . . . 41, 134 John (1811) ...... • . 181, 196 Hiram (1811) ...... 137, 178 John . . . . . -...... 81 Robe~ G. (Hon.) ...... 7, 171 John A...... 162 Horace E...... 203 John B. (1790) ...... 63, 102 Horatio L...... 73 John Benjamin ...... 104 Horatio W...... 131, 147 John B. (1822) ...... 89 Hosmer (1773) ...... 135 John B. (1867) ...... · . 89 Howard ...... 81 John G. (1827) (Dr.) ..... 7, 185 Hoy D ...... 173 John Jackson (1858) (Dr.) . 7, 197 Joh]?. Jamison (1787) ...... 203 Ichabod (Rev.) ....50, 62, 87, 210 John J. 1812) ...... 92, 94 Ira D...... 172 John N...... 81 Irvin ...... 81 Joseph (1768) . . . . 127, 144, 204 Irwin (1819) ..•...•... 202 Joseph (1809) ...... 177 Julius T. (1830) ...... 102 James (1787) ...... 111, 116 Julius T. (1869) (Rev.) . . 102 James (Hon.) ...... 49, 53 Julius W. (1869) ...... 89 James (1842) ••...... : . 147 James (1830) (Prof.) •••.184, 186 Lambert ...... : . 139; 200 James (1860) ....•.... ~ 150 Lawrence ...... 179 James A. (1833) ••••.•••• 143- Lee Van ...... 73 James Douglas ...... 7, 116 Leman ...... • 135 James Douglas, Jr. • . . . . . • 118 Leman Gibbs ...... 131 James Ford . . • . • . . . . . • 207 Lemuel (1735) ...... 126, 139 James Christopher ...... 73 Lemuel (1761) ...... 126, 200 James Morris (1802) ... 131, 152 Lemuel, (1789) .... 139, 142, 204 James Morris (1802) ...... 166 Lester ...... 179 James Milton ...... 74 Lewis ...... 204 James Pierpont . . . . • . . . 64 ·Levi ...... 77 James S ...... 113 Louisa J...... 180 James Volney ...... 145, 208 Luther (1774) . . . . 127, 145, 208 Jason R. (1839) ...... 67 Luther M. (1819) ...... 83 Jedediah .•...•...- .. 162 Lyman ...... 75 Jesse Francis . • ...... 89 Lyman Osgood (1819) (Dr.) . . . 70 Joel ...... 77 Lyman Osgood (1839) . . 66, 70 John (1648) ...... 11, 15, 21, 26 Lyman S...... 64 John (1675) ...... 19 John (1692) ...... 26, 30, 108 Marquis...... 78, 81 John (1717) ..•... 29, 45, 103 Marvin ...... 162 John (1729) ...... 108 Maitthew C...... 176 John (1782) ...... 109 Matthew S...... 175 John (177 4) (Dr.) . . . . . 111, 115 Miles (177 4) ...... 124, 132 John (1742) ...... 76, 79, 212 Miles (1802) ...... 170 John (1770) ...... 126, 143 Miles ...... 179 John (1744) (Lieut.) .. 126, 205, 212 Miles M...... 133 ;T Qhn (1808) • . . • • • . . . . • 162 Milto-n J...... 196 GENERAL INDEX. 2t9 PAGE PAGE Milton Pardee (Dr.) ...... 205 Robert Eugene ...... 66 Morgan ...... 134, 161 Roger ...... 49, 211 Morris C...... 165 Roger ...... • . . . . . 74 Myron (1784) (Dr.) ...... 62, 86 Roger ...... 76 Myron (1831) ...... · . . . . . 91 Roswell E...... 162 Myron H. (1810) . ~ • . . . . 92 Sabinus ...... 173 Nathan ...... 81 Samuel (1694) . . . . . 23, 34, 41 N a:than Greene (1800) . . . 78 Samuel (1724) . ·...... 123, 129 Nathan S...... 81 Samuel (17 44) (Dr.) . . . 111, 115 Newell W...... 162 Samuel (1759) . . . . 124, _130, 211 Samuel (1776) (Dr.) ....•.. 115 Oliver (1764) ...... ·. . . 52, 103 Samuel (1763) .. ·...... 50, 77 Oliver (1794) ...... - . 77 Samuel (1807) ...... 81 Oliver H...... 78 Samuel Henry (1829) (Dr.) . 19, 119 Omer E...... •..• 104 · Samuel G. (1797) (Rev.) . . . . . 152 Ora 0 .....· ...... 166 Samuel ...... • . . . 77 Orlando B. . . . • ...... 81 Samuel (1835) ...... 145 OITin .•...... • 208 Samuel Gregory (1837) . . . • • 157 Orrin A. (1806) •••••••.• 132 Samuel Torrey (1879) • . . . • 15& Orville D...... • . . . • . 179 Sa.rah ...•....•...•.. 121 Oscar .....· . . . . • . . . 75 Sedgwick (1750) . -..... 125, 135 Oscar O ...... • • . . . 73 Sherman (1783) . . . . 136, 170, 175 Otho H. . . . . • . • . . . . 101 Solomon (1764) •..•• 50, 76, 82 Solomon (1768). . . . • . . . . 134 Palmer ... 75 Solomon (1796) ...... 82 Philander . . . :- ...... 83 Stephen (1857) . • • . . . • . 163 Philo (1778) (Hon.) ...... 57 Stephen W. (Hon.) • • . . . . 84 Philo Atwood (1804) ...... 65 Sylvester ...... • . . .• 175 Philo Atwood (1837) · (Hon.) . . 66 Philo Atwood (1873) ...... - 67 Thomas of Windsor, Ct.(1613), 7, 10 Phineas G...... 78 Thomas of Charlestown,; Mass., 11 Pierpont ...... 76 Thomas of Farmington, Ct. Porter ...... 200 . (1768) ...... 15, 23, 28 Pradieux ...... 164 Thomas of Tyringham, l\iass. (1709). (Dea.) . . . 29, 43, 47, 53 Ranold ...... 78 Thomas of Tyringham 2d Ransom (1805) ...... 162 (1734) (Dr.) . . . . . 44, 47, 55 Ransom H...... 162 Thomas (17 44) (Esq.) . . • . 54 Ransom J...... 162 Thomas (1828) ...... 147, 151 Raymond ...... 119 Thomas (1803) . . . . • . . . . • 61 Reuben ...... 126 Thomas (1873) ...... • 76 Reuel N...... 83 Thomas A...... • . . . 75 Richard H...... 166 Thomas E. • ...... • 67 Robert (1832) ...... 151 Thomas Henry ...... • 64 Robert ...... • . . • . . . 150 Thomas (177 4) (Esq.) • • • • 54 220 GENERAL INDEX. PAGE PAGE Thomas Porter (1794) . . . 138, 181 William (1803) . . . . • . • . • 162 Thomas Porter (1829) • . . . . 192 William (1820) ...... 177 Thomas S...... 69 William (1826) (Pres't West. Timothy ...... 72 Union Tel. Co.) • . . . . . • . 148 Treat ...... 170 William (1858) . . . . . • • . 150 Truman (1784) . • . . . . . 109, 112 William (1887) • ...... 151 Truman (1800) • . •.•..... 103 William (1838) . • ...... 82 Truman ...... 137 William A. . . . . • ...... 202 Truman ...... 177 William B. . . . · ...... 162 William C...... 73 Vandeleur ...... 74 William J...... 191 Wallace (1838) • . • • • • • • • 83 William L...... 104 Walter E...... 83 William Osgood ...... 66 Walter J...... 113 William S...... 104 Walter S...... • . 74 Wayne ...... 202 Zenas (1777) • • . . . 135, 161, 164 Wellington ...... ~ 162 Zenas 2d ...... 164 William (1772) • . • • • 126, 144 Zenas (1830) • • • • • . • • ~ • 164 Table ·V. v. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Thomas Henry ______1887-1876{ Erie, Pa. Elect& Sanford. [ M. Georgiana Thompson. f James (Judge). - {James Pierpont (M. D.) i I Winfield. N. Y. Forestville, N. Y. LymanS. Taos, N. M. l M.-Weaver. Beulah ------1798 Belinda------1799-1818 Deborah C ______l802 Cbarlton- M. Rev. Jason Corwin. { Je-fferson City, Mo. f Frances Belinda ----1831-1835 f F~ces B_ ----185t-Monterey Alice G ____ ----1857-Monterev Gerritt Van Zandt __ 1834 IElinor J ______1859- Berry Creek, Cal. -{ Collins K------1861-8an Fran- M. Sarah G._Knapp. lF¥------1861- [cisco. FSJ.th ______---1371-Monterey Ruth ______----1873-Monterey Philo Atwood (Judge)-1837 {Susanna __ ----1871 Darlingten, Wis. Robt. Eugene-1873 M. Sarah M. Osborn. f Nannie Thurber___ --1866-1888 Philo Atwood______18M-1872 ILyman Q ______l839 l Wm. Osgood (A. B.)_1871 Hamilton and Eaton, N. Y., 1 Mishawaka, Ind. Darlington, Wis. I M. Mary Louise Barling. M. Nancy C-ollins. Thos. E. (Capt.) -----1842-1863 Killed at Atlanta.ineivil war_ Thomas (Esq) __ Tliomaa --l'ZM-1780 ------1774-1821 CharlesJ ______1845 f Carrie. T.Yrin2ham, Mass. Hamilton, N. Y. I Philo A. (Prof.) -----1873 .- M. Ann Dix. M. Beulah, d. of Cincinnati, 0. i Alexander ______-----1874 2d, Sarah At--{ Reuben Rock M. Elizabeth Woods. I Frances Eugenie ____ l8fr/ .- · wood, ofWood wood, ofTyring- l CharlesJ ______------18-1890 ham, Mass ______bury. ______1776-1846 '!Ir 10A.... ( Charlotte __ ------1885 Frank .ID.------1 c,z, EUDJ.·ce ''yrtle 1-00 Syracuse, Neb. : .w. ------, M. Augusta M. Greenburg. l Charles ~omas _____ l889 l RuthAVlS------1894 Jason Rockwood (M. D.) f f ------1806-1867 ! Charles Giles._ ------1840 I Beulah A------1888 Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 Brooklyn, N. Y. i Walter Rockwood. M. Sophronia Hotchkiss, of l M. Sarah J. Jenks. I Arthur V------__ ----1872 Binghamton, N. Y. l Charles Jackson_ ---.1815-1863 rThomas Shappley- --1~ Fremont and Sandusky, O. -{ Jaso!l R ------1~1863 M. EstherShappley. lEveli_ne ______------1844-lses Jennte ______------1847-1888 ( Julia C------1875-1881 rSamuel C .• ------1842 I Charles------1877 Kansas City, Mo. ~ WUl:iaro ------1881 M. Amelia Wait. I Edward ______-----1882 l Henry------1885 { Julia R. • • • Lyman O.JM. D.) ___ 1819-18851 Oswego, N. Y. f Virgima_ ------1884 Lincoln, Ill. I Lyman o ______------1886 M. Julia Cleveland. Franklin 0. J F. C., Jr. ______----1888 l Lincoln, Ill. I William ------1889 Abiram (Judge) I Gladys ______---- _____ 1891 ------.1776-1837 tLouis G------1~ Pomfret, N. Y. Philo (Judge) IThomas ____ ------1803 ______177~1860 Abiram ______1805-1820 ICharles. Pomfret, N. Y. Died in the army, 1863. M.Irene Hurd; i Charles Jackson. --. _1808-1886 I d.1817. I Pomfret, N. Y. { L 2d, Clarissa Sage. M. Han~ J. Hall. IHelen MUY.. l 2d, Harnet Randall. M. - Gifford. J Orton Gifford. L Pomfret, N. Y. l Chicago,111. Table VIII. v. ICHABOD (Rev.), 1754-1795. Brookfield, N. Y. H.-Naomi Hard~ (Four sons and four daughters). Myron (M. D.J------...... ---·------1784-1875 Harlow N. (M. D.).------1785-1837 John B.(lawyer),1790-1842 David _____ 1791 VI. Cambria, N. Y. Bucyrus, 0. Somerset, 0. Cambria, N.Y. M.-Mary Hoit. M.-Grace Marsh. M.-Matilda Reynolds. IO ~ ~ Ii ao I ! 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RomeoG., (Mrs. uncan). Mary A., Myron A •• Myron 0., 1850. Charles S., Diana c., 184a. Eva, 1871. OrlandoB., OmC., 1863. VUI. 1843. Emma, 1853. 1~1878. 1857. Susan A., 1852. 1862. (Mrs. Brown). (Mrs. Buckner) 1843. Mary C., 1845. .Minnie, 1856. Eva M., 1865. William H., Delacy A., 1854, FTankC• . Flor.etta A. Otho H., 1845. (Ml'B.. Pinney). (Mrs. Burns). (Mrs.fMallory). 1859. Walter L., 1856. {Mrs. Williams). Ora C., 1846. FrankM., Harlow S.,1858. Charles S., Addison J., (Mrs. Coe.) 1860. Julius W ., 1862. 1865. 1859. HarlowN., John B., 1867. Mary P., 1858. Jesse F.(Prof.), 1861-1863. 1870. Blanche, 187... OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF QEOLOQY COLUMBUS, :Pet: z.o /?G 189 )$ .. ~ ~ .. -6,~ a_~ ~ ~@rY>t7~-~9""1 k h ~ · a=.-----.. ttVe.~ I I-, r-~/r ~ ~ ~ Tiu:- 'F~ f ------~- , ·... cl ~ ~-- /k_ ~~ ~ ~ 'I ./k ~ r ~------._.--~- ., ""-----1.~;.r,;,r.- ~-----611'----/AP; .A~/-----·· 5'---·· __ ------,, /J&~_/7£ ad~ ~ J--