Lieutenant Willaim Barton of Morris County, New Jersey. and His Descendants
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OF MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. BY WILLIAM ELEAZAR BARTON, D. D. PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR. PRIVATELY PRINTED. Tbe Vaile "Press, Oak Park, Ill. IQOO. SUTRO BRANCH CALIFORNIA &TATE LIBRARY CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE NAl'dE AND FAMILY OF BARTON 9 II. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON 21- III. ENSIGN ELEANOR BARTO:S . 49 IV. DR. JACOB BARTON 79 V. THE FAMILY OF JACOB 8. BARTON 9 I have gathered this material for n1y o,:vn family record, collecting what I deemed of probable interest to n1y immediate relatives and of futur_e value to my children. l\'Ieager as it is, it has not been ob tained without much effort, and I print it to secure at once its preser vation and its enlargen1ent. In presenting copies to a limited number of correspondents and n1ore distant relatives, I offer no apology for its lack either of con1pleteness or proportion. Such as I have I give, hoping that it may be of service to some outside the circle of those for whom it is primarily intended. The record is much more full in the family of Eleazar than in that of the other sons of vVillian1 Barton, and I am able to present an excellent portrait of hirn by n1y friend lVIr A. M. Willard, as well as a portrait of each of his children who married. I have included such portraits as I could obtain of other descendents, together with brief biographical notes of collateral lines. I shall be glad if those receiving this book will send me further inf6rmation on any subjects relating to the Barton or allied famlies. vVILLIA1VI ELEAZAR BARTON. 'l'he Study First Congregational Church Oak Park, Illinois, September I, 1900. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. vVilliam Barton's Fight for Freedom From painting by A. M. Willard Frontispiece The Barton Arms 11 The Barton Crest 13 General Willian Barton 19 Bible and Table of Lieut. William Barton 23 Site of Lieutenant William Barton's Home . 24 Site of Old Hibernia Furnace 27 Book Plate vVith William Barton's Sword and Eleazar Barton's Bible 34 Kettle, Tongs, and other relics of Lieut. William Barton 35 Margaret Henderson Barton's Spinning Wheel 36 Graves of Lieutenant vVilliam Barton and Wife 38 Congregational Church, Sublette, Illinois 42 The Sublette Public School 42 The Zeek Cemetery, Marcella, N. J. 45 Portrait of Eleazar Barton 48 The Old Swimming Hole, Bureau Creek 49 Site of Eleazar Barton's New Jersey Home . 51 Portrait of Lewis Read Barton 54 Portrait of Eleazar and Hannah L. Barton . 55 Portrait of James and Susan Barton 58 Portrait of Stephen Barton 59 Portrait of Daniel Barton . 61 Portrait of Dr. Jacob B. Barton in 1887 62 Portrait of Rachel Barton Pratt 65- Portrait of \Villiam Newton Barfon . 66 Portrait of Maria Hastings Barton n7 Portrait of Nellie Barton Bastian 68 Portrait of Fred K. Bastian 70 Esther T. Batton in the Woods at Foxboro . 77 Portrah of Dr. Jacob B. Barton in 1900 . 78 Portrait of Helen Methven Barton 81 The Sublette Drug Store • 83 Portrait of Rev. William Methven 86 7 LIST OF JLLl"STRATIONS. Portrait of Mary Sim 1\1 ethven 87 Portrait of Dr. Jacob B. Barton 1888 • Dr. Jacob B. Harten Among his Grandchildren . 90 The Children ot Jacob B. and Helen l\1. Barton 91 Birthplace of Bruce F. Barton 96 Birthplace of Charles W. and Helen E. Barton 97 Portrait of Rev. William E. Barton D. D. 98 Portrait of Esther T. Barton 99 Esther T. Barton and Her Children . 101 Portrait of Lewis Bushnell • 102 Portrait of Elizabeth A. Treat Bushnell . • 103 Esther T. Barton and her Great-Grandfathers Clock 104 Birthplace of Esther. T. Barton Congregational Church, Robbins, Tenn. Congregational Church, Litchheld, Ohio . 10f5 First Congregational Church, \Vellington, Ohio 107 Shawmut Congregational Church, Boston . 108 First Congregational Church, Oak Park 109 The Children of Rev. William E. and Esther T. Barton Ill Corner of Study, Jamaica Plain, Boston 115 The Parsonage, Oak Park, Ill. • 116. The Wigwam, Foxboro, Mass. 118 Inside the \Vigwam • 119 \Villiam £ •. and Esther T. Barton, Silhouette . 122 Portrait .of John and ~larietta Treat • . 125 Portrait of George M. Patterson • 134 Portrrit of Mary Barton Patterson . 13t, :\lary Barton Patterson and Daughter Grace 136 Portrait of John Jacob Barton • 13.7 Portrait of Grace Barton McLar~n 138 Portrait of Ira Loren :\1cLaren • • 139 8 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON OF MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. CHAPTER I. THE NAl\IE AND FAl\llLY OF BARTON. ARTON was a fan1iliar fan1ily nan1e in 1nost, if not all, of the An1ericau colonies, and the inuuigrants who bore the name had con1e fro1n various parts of Great "!"\: Britain. The nan1e moved \Vest with the tide of itn tnigrdtion, and has been brought over by 1nany more reeent in1n1igrants~ so that it is now found in probably every State of the Union. To prepare a complete genealogy of this widely sea Ut>red fan1ily would be a task quite beyond the 1eisur~ of a busy pastor. I ha,~e undertaken, howe~er, a brief and all too frdgmentary <J.ccount of thP dP :,;,·1·!11lants of u1y own immigrant iU1t•estor, Lieutenant \Yilliatn f '.,trton of l\:lorris County, New Jersey adding some infonuatiou w11i,•11 has cotne to me <.'oncerningother branches of the family, : , !d of families which have intermarried... with our own . THE NAME OF BARTON I I) Tl.1e name of Barton is believed to have been derived from l,ur, c1 h,i-rrier or defense, and totmi, and to mean "defender ,A th,· t, ,w:i." Some authorities derive it from the Anglo-Saxon ber1·.har li·.,. nnd tun, a plot of ground enclosed by a hedge; hence. in o!d Eu~lish.usage, t-he-deme8-ne indoE-ures altaehed to a manor. Th1:-• • i I l'hese prt-fatory pages have been tmbmitted to )(r. Edmund Mills Jfart,,n ~ . ~ :hr:-1dirn ofthe •.\1uerican .Antiquarian Society,Worcestn. Maes., to wbou, I 1tm iH d- ht,·1i for suggestions and corrections. 10 LIEUTENANT H'ILLIAi:lf BARTON. former derivation has in its fa,·or the analogy of other old Eng· lish names ending in ton, tnost of which are derived front towu. lfi, BARTON OF BARTON. Old fatnilies of the ua1ue of Barton are found in England, &~otland and Ireland. The hon1e of the Barton faruily was in the targe countv of Laru.--ashire in the North of England. hounded on the west by the Irish sea, and lying near the S(~ottish border. making it easy for en1igrdnt-s to find their way into both J rel and and Scotland. l\lost of the Irish Bartons are Protestants, and probably carne originally frotn England. The Barton family dates frmn the 12th century, and takes its name fro,n a great tnanor in Lancashire. The original na1ne of the present fan1ily was Nottun, and the present name was ac· quired with the estate of Barton through n1arriage into the fan1- ily of Grelle. The rnauor of Barton had no less than twenty sub ordinate tenures, Aspul, Brunsop, Halachton, Hulton, Hali well, Brighhnere, Farnwood, Northende, Eecles, l\Iarwinton, \Vorke· deh, Westwode, ,vithington, Newan1, lrwilhatn, Bro1nihurst Hulme, Dotnplinton, Quickleswicke, and Cron1pton, all of whi<·h are named in two charters at Trafford, in the reign of Edward I. One of these conveys to Robert Grelle and his heirs the entire estate, with all its privileges, which of <·ourse induded the na1ne, the deed being executed by John de Barton, ~'son and heir of Gilbert de Barton, quondan1 tnilites," with all the right of dower derived from his n1other, Cecelia de Barton. The date on one of these deeds is "Apud }Iamcestr die Jovis in festo S'ci Barnahi, Apli, Anno regis Edwardi quarto." 1 A. D. 1276.) ct, By this transfer the estate passed to the baronial house of Grelle or Gredle, whose daughter Edit.ha was endowed with the great manor, and became L:1d y of Barton. She married Gilbert de Nottun, founder of the farnily of Barton. The earlier fan1ily of the name, descendants of Gilbert de Barton, doubtless assu1ned other names. The Bartons have long since disappeared frorn Barton, and the parish registers there show nothing of pre.-"en t value to the An1erican inquirer. ( lJ See the ,~isitation of Lancashire, 1~3:3, J>p. il-t-SJ. THE N.4AIE Al\"D FAi\llLr' OF BARTOi'l. 11 THE BARTON ARMS. The use of heraldic <le,·ices dates f ron1 the rise of closed artnor. The Anglo-Saxon poet, ,v ace, mentions devices wo1·11 by Nor1nans in the latter part of the 12th century, "that. no Norman might perish by the hand of another." Used at first only as badges by alt the members of an army or detach1nent, they soon developed differentiation, as clans and then families adopted sytnbols which were displayed on the outside of a coat of n1ail or on t.he heln1et. By the 13th century the trausn1ission of arms from .\.r.\l'- ••F BARTON OF BARTON. father to son was a recognized cus• • i:, :1 1; Id argent. tbrt-t> boars· ht>ads •-;,,11<-. ,: · 1ed or; crt-st. a boar·s btc>ad tom. At first the armorial devices c":!,·•·. 1, '.lpf'd. arnwd argt-nt: motto, .: , · .. : F rtitude. · were very crude, but in time a regular systenl was evolved, and t 11,~ !ao1ily bearings were emblasoned upon the hauberk~ or coat iii Ltail, and later the hehuet crest was added. · ·1 .1ese devices, evoked at first fro1n the exigencies of the battle iidd and for sin1ple recognition, came in tin1e to be ·u1atter of L-nn1ly pride; and the coat and helmet, hung in the baronial hall, i:t' lorned with rec-ognized and hereditary marks of service on the l iil ttle field, attained a derived significance as the family badge.