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 • 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 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. From this it was easy to prooeed to the use of the sanie device 1.1p)11 the family plate, and carriage, and to use the crest on the family seal, which often was a substitute for, and still accompan it>:-:. the official autograph, as seen in the legal phrase, "hand ii w i seal." By the tin1e the science of Heraldry was de,,.eloped, many fa mi lit•'- were using coats of aims who had no· hereditary right to ~ k·in, and there were few records. In 1528 began the st1ries of p1:·riodical "visitations" by the king's heralds, to record the arn1s 12 LIEUTE1VANT 1t·JLLIA.Z\I B.4RTON. of the gentry. This ~eries of visitations continued till 1686, and under it son1e pedigrees were recorded as late as 1704. The Barton arn1s are very ancient. From the tin1e that Gilbert de Nottun, who had formerly sealed with a shield of three pales, n1arried Editha, Lady of Barton, the family took arn1orial bear ings fron1 the estate. ,vhether the earlier Barton family had used then1 or uot does not appear, but the arn1s of the Nottun fon1ily were diS<'ardt:d, and instead the coat employed was of three boars' heads erected and erased. Almost all the earlier coats of arn1s were "canting"; that is, they were based upon s<.,me play upon the family nan1e. Often the pun was very far fetched. tl • The use of the boar's hPad seems to have been suggested by the na1ne Barton, quasi Boar ton. The boar's head is one of the principals of henlldry, and was a~sumed by warriors aud huntsmen. No chase was 111ore excit ing than that of the wild boar; no feast was more merry than that of the Yule-tide when the boar's head gral~ed the table. Tl~e boar's head cr€st was a favorite with our Teutonic ancestors, botb Sllandinavian and German, and it is prominent in litera-hrre frotn the tinie of Beowulf, in which we read, h\\""hen we in battle our 1nail-hoods defended, \Vhen troops nu~h~d together, and boars'-heads clashed." The Bartons of Barton used their arms for two and a half cen turies before the college of arms was established. By the time of the visitations they had become slightly modified. A boar's head crest was added, and the motto, '' Fide et fortitudine," " With faith and courage," was added, and the boars' heads no longer stood erect. In the Lancashire Visitation in 1567 by \Villiam Flower, King's Herald, the am1s shown were, "Argent, 3 boars' heads couped, sable (gules), armed or, (argent). Crest, a boar's head, couped, gules, armed argent." This, with the motto "'Fide et Fortitudine,'' stands as the his toric Barton coat of arms. {lJ ~ee the article on Heraldry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. THE NAME AND FAMILY OF BARTON. 13 BARTON CRESTS. Tiw earliest coats of -arn1s had no crests, but crests were in common use whtn the visitations began. pitfer ent Barton fan1ilies en1ployed different seals with crests in part as follows, as shown in the ''Book of Family Crests." Lancaster: A boar's head, couped, gules' Motto, ''Fide et Fortitudine." Lancaster: An acorn or, leaved proper. La ,waster: An oak branch, vertical, acorned or. ~ ()rfolk: A griffin's head erased ppr. Motto, "~.,ortis et veritas.' Kent: An owl, proper. ~ orfolk: A dragon's head couped. Kent: Au owl argent ducally gorged or and another purpure. Kt•nt: A wolf's head erased ermine, and another erdsed or. Kent: A dn1gon's head couped or, crowned of the same. Bt>.iides these and others, there was a Scotch fan1ily named Bart:1n or Bartane whose crest was a tent, azure, flag gules. The arm.; of the Burtons were, I suppose, originallv those of some fa m: i ies of Barton. • OTHER ANCIBNT BARTON FAMILlBS. ,-\ t least twenty-eight families of the nan1e of Barton have r,.,~·i~tered coats of arms. To give them all ,vould far trdnscend ~ !"' purpose of this pamphlet, and I have no records which con i ,t •• ·t. our family with any of them. I mention three of these fatuities, however, because their arms, while doubtless later, are n•ry early, and two of them were recognized earlier even than tho~e of the Bartons of Barton. BARTON OF WHENBY, Yorkshire, (also spelled Borton). The Visi tatinu of Northern Counties by Thomas Tongue, 1530, shows the f ulluwing arms: "Quarterly, I, IV, Argent, on a fess gules three aunulets of the first, the center one enclosing a crescent; II, III, Gu lf_•-5, three lions rc1mpant in bend argent between two cotises of the ~econd and azure. 14 LIBUTEN.4NT IVILLJA.\l B.4RTON. BARTOS OF SllITHELLS, Lancashire. The Visitation of 153H shows· tJ1e arnis fron1 which are derived those of the Bartons of StapieifG>n, as contained in Burke's Cou1n1oners, iv, 405. "On a fesse 1->°etween three bucks' heads 01·, a n1artlet gnles, between two acorns lea,·ed ppr. Crest, An acorn or, leaved Yertical. Motto, ''Crescitur cultn." This fan1ily lived in Notinghamshire. Their ancestor had been a 1nerchaut and dealt in ~beep. He built "a fair stone house" at Holn1e near Newark. and '~a fair chapel." In the window of his house was the n1otto, ··I thank God and ever shall, It is the sheepe hath paid for all." No Bartons now live at Sn1ithells. The fan1ily ceased there in 1689, and the parish register begins in 1801. BARTO:S OF CAwTu~, a branch of the Bartons of \Vhenby, Visi tation by \Villiam Dugdale, 1665. Arn1s of the Bartons of Whenby, with '"crest of a wolf's head argent, a crescent gules for difference." .. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The following references to printed pedigrees in Great Britain are fron1 The Genealogist's Guide, London 1879, p. 31. BAnToN 8urtef's Society xxxvi, 124. Burke"s Commoners (of Stapleton Park) IV 405, Landed Gentry, 2, 3, -l, 5; (of ;rhrexton House) Landed Gentry, 2snpp. 3, 4,5:(of Hrove 2, :3, 4, 5: (of Clonelly1 2, 3, -t, a: (of tbP. "'"aterfoot, 2, 3, 4, 5; (of Straffan) 2. 3, 4, 5; 1 of Glendalough, 2, 3, 4, 5; • of Green fort) 4, supp. 5: (of Rochestown) 2. 3. 4. )liscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. new series, i. li4. Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire 5, 13.'i, 1S2. Chetham Society, bxxi, 21, :17; XC\', 87. Foster·s Lancashire Pedigrees, Dickinson"s History of Southwell, 2d Ed. 170. llamshire Visitations, printed by Sir T, Phillil)l>S, :3; Whitaker's History of Whalley, ii, :n9. Abram's History of Blackburn, 2:,2, io-i. Omurod·s Cheshire, ii. 749. 'i•o the foregoing I add, Visitation of Leicester, Uil\t, pp. 83, 165, ~. Visitation of Notinghamshire. l~'W-161-l, 110 lt8, 2!J6-7. Lancashire Visitation, 1567 28, ti-I. Lanca shire l.3:33, 79, SO. In foregoing Si:>e also Booth, Ratcliffe and Ashton .•\lso Dugdale·~ Vit1itation of ltifi!-, and Yisitatirms of ~otinghamshire and Yorkshire. Also ._Burials in W~:;~minst.,-r .\!:>!:>~y;' for Sam11d Barton, D. D. d. 171:i, and others. THB NA.\lE ANIJ F •.\MILl:~ OF B ..\RTON. 15 BARTONS 11' AMERICA. l[y knowledge does not euable 1ne to eouuect our family, or any of the An1erica11 Bartons, with any of the earlier Bartons of ( ~ rt"'at Britaiu. So old a fan1i1y could but be widely scattered, and the American Bartous are descended fro1n many original an ee:-;tors. A sketch of Clar<1 Barton, written by her grand niece, Myrtis Will n1ot Barton, begins iu this interesting way: "'The story goes that toward the end of the sixteenth century there lived in Lancashire five brothers, ,~ho decided that not only was Lancashire too small, l,ut England not quite large enough, to hold then1. all; so one \\"t'Ut to Ireland~ and from hin1 coine the 1·artons of Grove; an other weuded bis way to the laud of the canny Scots~ where in ti me the uan1e became changed to Partan; a third crossed over to France, where his descendants bear the name of Bartin; a fourth ~t-ttloo in southern England, under the name of Burton; and, al !Pr fifty years, the younger son of that E?artou who reruained in t lw old home, one Aiarn1aduke by name, was seized with the \\'ii ndering spirit of his rdce, and, eon1ing to America within a t 11 ;zen years after the landing at Plymouth, founded the family ;)f which Clara Harton is ·the brightest light. Thus she comes fn,rn a race of sturdy pioneers and volunteer soldiers; the very 11 a rne t arton in the Anglo-Saxon means 'defender of the town.' " --The Outlook, Jan .. 2r,, 1896. 'Vhether this is historical or u1atter of tradition, it is eertain t ~ i:, t P.artons with stroug family resen1blant-U pushing out fron1 Lancashire for three hundred years. Lieut. Bernard Barton Vassall, of ,v orcester, Mass., who had t•oi lected much material for a Barton genealogy, and whose la- 1w nted death cu.t short his plau. wrote: ··As early as 1650- there were at· least four separate heads of ht1i.1ilies.located in Arnerica. Christopher B~rton had come to the \ \ 1 ~st lodes and settled in Virginia; Roger Barton had purchased 16 LIEUTENANT H''/LLIAA1 B.4RTON land of the Dutch in New York and located at Rye. New York, and his descendants are found today in New York and Connet~ ticut; Rufus Barton had settled at Warwick, Rhode Island, frorn whon1 rnany of the Rhode Island Bartons are descended; a.id Marmaduke Barton bad become pron1it::?1t in Essex County, Massachusetts. In addition to these, there were separate fatni lies. Edward, (who may have been a son of Mar111aduke), was in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1644: Col. Thomas Barton was iu Salem, Mass., in 1710; James Barton was in Newton, Mass., in 1668 Rev; Thon1as Barton was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, about 1760. The Bartons in this country today are probably de scendei from more than twenty.. in1migrant ancestors.,, NOTES ON illERICAN BARTONS. The following fra~mentary notes n1ay be of service to repre sentatives of other branches of the Barton family. MASKAl'HUSETTS BARTONS. ,James Barton, 1688, of Newton. was a rope maker, had a good estate, d. 17'29 aged 86. By wife, Margaret, he bad ".Margaret, elohn, 1686, anc" others. Se,_a Jackson·s Hist. of Newton, p. ~7. 1.'he Salem Bartons dt>scendoo from Dr. John Barton, who came to New England, 1672. See lieraldric Journal IV, 30-l:J2. Essex Co. Hist. Coll., xx\'ii. 1S6-7. America Heraldica 118. Soo also History of Ox ford, Mass., and special articles on Clara Bart.JD in Encyclopedias, various maga ~ines for 1899. These Bartons are de~cended froY!l Samuel of Oxford, Mass. Joshua Barton came to Leicester from Oxford,172J; moved to ~penci::,r 17:-37. Phint>as, Caleb, both from Oxford to Leicester. William, b. England, came to America before 168:S. soldier in Indian and 14.,rencb Wars, d, Leicester 17~2. Washburn"s History of Leicester, 3-145; Draper's Hist. 8pen· cer, 173. Samuel, one of the original settlers of Sutton. Benedict·s Hist. of Sutton, J>. :t86. Sfffl also Barry"s Hist. Framingham, rrn. Robert Calif of Boston. son of Robert, famons as the opponent of Cotton Matht>r in the witchcraft trials. m. Dec. Zl, lh"99, Margar~t, daughter of ,James Barton of Watertown, Mass. Her 1>11r~nts gave them a war..-honse on Barton·s wharf, Boston. They had ,James, Elizabeth, Ann, Margaret. MAINE BARToNs. Asa Barton came to Norway, !\le., in 18'l6, published ··Oxford Observer." Lapham·s Hist. Xorway. lie., -150, and JJethel, Me .• -l7-l. NEw HA•PSHIRE BARTON~. Bezaleel, Benjamin and Peter Barton, brothers, frorn Sutton, Mass., moved to Croydon,~- H., during the Revolution. Bezaleel was on" of the patriots who disperaed the lfassacbnsetts legislatnr~. See Croydon Cent.. n• nial, pp. 73•7. Hist. ot ~ew1>ort, N. H., pp. 29t5. VERMONT BARTONR. See History of Barton, Yt. CONNECTICUT BARTONs. See Whittemore·:-, Middlesex Vo. p. too. Hinman 's furitan Settlers of Connecticut. etc. THE NAZ~lE AND FAi\llLl:. OF B.4RTO.V. H·1•1 1 1E lsusu .)AnT0N:l, Rufns Binton of Providence fled from N. Y., and th~ r,,. 1 ··•'(' :1tiou of :he Dutch and settled. 16&0. at Portsmouth. R. I. Ill"> had Elizabeth, !h·n.1a11lin, Msrgart-t and others. See Austin'~ R. I. Gt>n. l>ic. 230. Austin's Ancestries I f. ,ee 11.lso £1pt>cial articles on Oen. William Barton. Sr,, YoRK BARTo,rs. Roger Barton was a ctJnsiderable landed proprietor under li,• Pu~cb in ~ew ~etherland a~ early a~ 1Ia2. Ills son was an early st>ttler of Rye. hml·"' Hist. of Ryt-, ~ -'l: ·).A.Rundall of Brew:.ter, ~- Y.,ha~ compiled from public rt>eord:. the follow ia:: tlata conc~rning the family of Uogt>r Barton. lit~. _\o.f!. 18. Lease. R'""· Everardus Bogardus to Roger Barton. 1,;1i+. ,I 1me 10. Re-cordt-r of Brookhavt-n, I.. I. l :·,.-r) :'ilar. 1. Deputy Rt General Assembly from Brookha,·en. l :,;1;_ :\fay 21. At Brookhaven ordered summoned by HO\·. :Xicolls. t,,•;;. Witn1;>ss to a deed at Rye. I·~"'- ·•Sr.;• aged 00, deposed as to a riot. town of Westche-ster. ; : 11. Mentioned as former owner of tract of land at Ryt>. ;-;-,;•! 1;_ Sheriff, Westchester ('ounty. _ !~,¥1 . Captain of company of men from Westchester of which Noah Barton was 1st Lieut. !';\:(•. :-- ➔pt. 2"..?. Patentee. with Col. Peartr~.et al, at East Chel'l!e-r. l • •.1_ In list of inhabitants gi\'en as aged -U. . .. . ·'Jr.:' aged 17. ; 7.:\ l. \lar. 18. Mae-istrate of Wt-stchester. - /; ,,-as ?Jarton of Rye, in his Will dated Sept. 1113, mentions his brothers "\\.,.illiatn • 1:(: 1 ·:seph, his sister Rachel and his father Joseph . . . , ,,,, ?Jarton, in his will dated 1762, be then of Dntcbes~ Co., ~ew York, (whither 11 - 1 n,• way many of the families of Rye, Westchester, Greenwich. etc., went at or ah1 .. ·t ,;hat time,, mentions sons ~enjamin, IUigey. William, Joseph. Lewis. Caleb, H, •-·•r. and daughtt>rs Millicent,~arah, Rachel.and grandson Josepb,son of Benjamin. --- - ·. also Bolton's Westchester Co. II 350; N. Y. Gen. and Bio~. Reg-. III 30. i :-.•: • •n, Caleb, of St11nford\'ille, b. 17j(), d. 1827, •married Damaris Hull). American . ,.. ,• ry. II ll, "/. See -S. Y. Gen. Biog. Rec. III, :-JO: Y, H7. Bolton's WestchestAr ·. I'. 300. i : . ·,sn.vANIA BARTON8. See Pa. 1\lag. XIV,214, also biographies of Dr Benj. • , , ; : i: Barton, Re,·. Tbos. Barton and others. ·, ·· ,, JERSEY BARTON8. (.'ounty histories and Force's ''American Archh·es.. show .: • · • i•~ pre\'iousto or during the Revolution, in Monmouth, Sussex and Hunterdon \_ · ::- £NIA .HAttTONS descended from Re,·. Thomas Barton of Lancaster, Pa., b. in ',' -·:.,:han. lr1;>land, 1700, d. in New York, May 25, 1780. (See American Ancestry • • : 1. :'• 129, also At>pleton·s Ency. of American Biography.) • ;;. i,l Walker. grandson of Rt-,·. 'l'bomas-the Marshall family p. 256. : i."1 ~01s BARTON8. Re\'. 'ritns T. Barton. b. <::ranby, Mass .• Feb. 17'.1166, a soldier '! 'h" Revolution, grad. Dartmouth, 1790, m. ~frs. Ruth II. Wood,dau. of Stephen : l tl"-•· ,,f Methuen, lla~fl .• moved to •rennessec> in 1817, and in 18Z1 to Illinois. A brief :w<·\•'lut, of the family has been 1>rintE'd by Rev. Charles B. Barton of Jackson\'ille,the old••.~r living grartna~e of Illinois college. This family is distinct from the lllino1s fiart11,1 ➔ descended from Ele-a?.ar. ~on of Lieut. William Barton. ~I, .. Lfa.1• .-\NEnus. See ~avagP!-'. (ien. Diet. for the families of Benjamin of ·warwick, H. l .. d. Jh7t: Edward of P,•m,qniu 167-l: .James of ~ewton; llarmaduke of )tas:1.: 18 LIEl.JTE.NA.NT ll'ILLIA2\l BARTOJ.V. ~fRttht•w of i:-.alt>m: Stt>phen of Bristol: Thomas of )las~. :John of !--alem,antl Hufu~ of Pro\"idenC'P. ~ee also \\.hitman Gen. 153. Amer . .-\n<·estry. II,,. IX, : 21t. Paxton'r MarshaU. <:en 2:'">ti.358. ~.Eng.Hist. and Gen Rec.1112!3. U7'. Bactzer·s Cataret. Hen 1, ~et> Hotton·e Emigrants to America. p.1ge srn. tor Parton. l'hristopht-r. in the ~hip Barbados )1 ercbant, for Virginia. Jas. (.'ook. (.'ommandt>r, Ort. 3, Jti7'\1, Harton. Isaac, ~hip Expectacion, l'ornelins Billings, C'ame to Pro\"i 1o. ·l◄.,ifer \Villian1 Barton of Pennsylvania. lie was a member of "The Guards, kept up in tht Bourough of l .,incaster for Rreserving the peace of the Bourough, keeping the I ,risoners in order and protecun~ the magazine, etc.," and his nan1e i~ horne on the records at \Vashmgton as a fifer. ! I. Private Willian1 Barton of New Jersey. ·1 he New Jersey records simply show him as a n1ember of Capt. \\·m. B. Gifford's Co. 3rd N. J. regt .• commanded by Col. Elias I J :yton 2d. Estah. The \Vashiugton records are confused, and \. \ e two different dates for his enlistment both different still from th· New Jersey date He was missing April 10, 1777, and there is 1H: further record that enables us to identify hin1. l:!. Capt. Willian1 Barton of the First New Jersey. T!:e War Departn1ent at \Vashington has furnished me with the f, · ;owing concerning one, and possibly more than one, Capt. Wm~ I :: 1 rton of New Jersey. .. It is shown by the records that one \Vm. Barton served as an P!:::cer of the 4th New /ersey Regin1ent (2d establishment 1776-7). <.:( .•nn1anded by Colone Ephraim Martin, Revolutionary War. His n:1 ·ne first appears on the pay-roll for the month of April, 1777, of l .. ~tain Abrahan1 Lyon"s company, with the rank of second lieuten .1 ! t. [The records of the adjutant general at Trenton show that he \' ·, 5 commissioned ensign of the 4th battalm, N-ov. 28th, 1776.) The i;, :ster roll for May, 1777, bears his name with the rank of ensign, c rnmissioned Nov. 23, 1770, with remark: 'Promoted to be 2d 1 :;, 1t., Feh. 18, 1777.' He is borne on subsequent rolls to Nov., 1777,. .... second lieutenant. He was appointed first lieutenant, Nov. 1. ~, :·7, in Captain Holme's comrany, and is borne on rolls of that ,_, npany (sometin1es designated as Lieut. Barton's Company) to .i ;1 '. :uary, 177~, as first lieutenant, with remark on roll for l\1arch, 1778: ·:- 1.:k, absent;' on the roll for April, 1778, with remark, 'Sick at Valley t· ; ~ge;' on roll for Sept., 1778: 'Absent on furlough;' and on rolls for I ,,_ c., 1778, and Jan., 1779, with the same remark. His name also a p f t ,us on the rolls of the field and staff of the regiment from August 1 ~ ~8, to January, 1779, with remarks on rolls for December and Jan u:i r·y, showing hin1 absent, sick. "It is also shown by the records that one (probably the same) \\·m. Barton served as an officer of the 1st New Jersey Regi1uent , :::d establishment 1777-83), commanded by Colonial l\latthias Og den. On the pay-roll of Captain Mead's Company of that regi ff!t·nt, tor the month of February, 1779, he is oorne-as. lieutenant ► and his name also appears on the muster roll of the field and staff of the regiment for the month of February, 1779, with the grade of lic,1tenant, 'con1missioned Nov. 1, 1777.9 His name also appears on the rolls of the company with rank as lieutenant and first lieu~ tenant to July, 1780, and on subsequent rolls of the field and LIEUTENAlvT 11' ILLIAJ.l BART01V. s!aff of the __ reg~ment to l\lay, 1782, as 4uartermaster, commi~; swned July 8, 17~; on roll for October, 1779, ..(?n furlough; on the rolls for the per10d from May to July, 1780, 'S•~~• absent_;' and 0;71 rolls from July, 1781, to l\lay, . 78'.:'., 'On recruumg servJce: Hts name does not appear on subsequent rolls. "A return of the officers of the 1st ~ew Jersey Regiment, in sen·ice January 6, 1786, shows \Vm. Barton, lieutenant, with remark: 'Time of service February 1, 1777, to August 1, 1780,' and \Villiam Barton, quartermaster, with remark: 'Time of service, Mch. 11, 1780, to August 1, 1780.' His nan1e also appears with theJank of captab on the list of the officers of the New Jersey line 'as they stand commissioned this 14th of June, 1782.' "It is also shown by the records that one \Vm. Barton served as a captain of the 2d New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Colone' Elias Dayton. His name appears on the roll of the 8th company. for the month of June, 178'J, which reports him captain, commis- sioned December 27, 1781, absent with leave, and he is borne 011 subsequent rolls to February, 1783, the last roll on which his name appears. On the roll for Noven1ber, 1782, he is reported absent with leave; and on roll for January, 1783, •Furlough Jersey.'" Through the courtesy of Gen. \Vm. S. Stryker, New Jersey, I am able to add the following facts. He had part in Sullivan's expt dition against the Indians in 1779, and his diary, covering :May 1.L to October 9 of that year is in the library of the N. J. Hist. Society of Newark. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was transferred from the 4th to the 1st in 1778 and the N. J. records seem to show that he continued with the 1st regiment till the close of the \Var. He was an original men1ber of the Cin cinnati and attended its 1neetings in 1785, H, 7, 9 and 98. His eldest son, Gilbert, succeeded hin1 in that society in 1806, and died 1812. His third son, Joseph L., succeeded him in 1812, the second son having died without admission. He has no living descendant in the Cincinnati. His fourth son was George, of whom I have no record, and he had a dau~hter Sarah. His wife Meribah and his n1other Isabel survived hnn. His will was dated at Monmouth, 180'2, in which year he died. He received a grant of land in Knox Co., Ohio. The records of this grant are in Vol. 1, p. 121 of U. S. Military patents in Ohio, Washington Land Office. 13 \Villiam Barton of the New Jersey Militia. Of him I shall have occasion to write at length, quoting in this place only the official record of the Adjutant General of New Jersey that the \Villiam Barton here referred to, who was distinct from all the foregoing twelve, "served as a Minute. Man in the Monmouth County, New Jersey l\tilitia, during the Revolutionary \Var." 14 Prh·ate \Villiam Barton of New Hampshire. The records of the War Department repcrt hin1 as Private in Capt. Benjamin Sias• Co., Col. Gilman's regt. N. H. militia. En listed Dec. 3, 1776. Time in service, 3 mos. I 1 days. 1 1·111·. ~ ..\ ·l.. ''/d: •l.,i · 1 /·.;•· • \/• J'/ ,i ,· (J'/' /l,.· \}'1'\ (). \. 23 15 Fifer \Villian1 Barton of \Vilton, New Ha111pshire. Possibly identical with the above. Enlisted for 3 years April 8. 1777. in Capt. Isaac Frey's Co., 3rd N. H. regt., commanded hv Col. Alex. Scaminell: promoted Fifer July I, 1778; died in service Aug. 1, 1778. BIBLE .-\SD TABLE OF LlEU'T. WILLIAM BARTON. It is little wonder that the foregoing n1en are 1nore or less 111ixed, and it is not at all in1possible that s01ne one of the above im.•ludes 111ore than one n1an's service, or that there are others of the nan1e who111 I have not found. I I l I ~IT.I-: OF LIEUTE::-;ANT WILLI..\~I B..\kTO:-.i's HO~JE CHAPTER II. LIEUTE:N'ANT \VILLIAlf BARTON. Lieutenant \Villia1u Barton cau1e from England shortly be fore the Revolutionary \Var, and~ at its t>lose, n1ade his borne in Pequannock township, lforris CJuuty, New Jersey, where his children were born, and where he die:l, Deceu1ber 27, 18.29. Morris County was forn1ed fron1 a part of Hunterdon Co. iu 1738-9. It was noted in early days for its iron mines, which are still in operation, and William Barton, in clearing his large farm, pro duced charcoal, whfoh he sold at the furnaces . • As early as 1713 stnall furnaces were established in Morris C-0unty. The~e were later operated by ·'The London Co1npany" and managed by John Jacob Faesch. These were the leading in du&try prior to the Revolution, and a n1uch needed source of supply during the \\..,. ar. [21] LIEUTENANT H"ILLIAM BARTON. 25 P, •q,: -tnnock township is nan1ed from the Pequannock tribe of llldii111..:. It is the largest township in the county, being 16 miles ltm.~· l>y 11 wide. The surface is n1uch broken. Green Pond on t bt: :-.t11un1it of a mountain is a picturesque body of water, and near it \\'ill iam Barton 1nade his home. A famous swimmer himself, he aud his sons and his grandsons found joy in this clear, cool ~ht-'Pt <>E water; and my father has often told me of his frequent drt-au1s. after removal to the prairies of Illinois, of the chestnuts of ~Pw Jersey and the clear, beautiful water of Green Pond. Of the early life of my great grandfather I know very little, a w.l that little is derived from tradition. Even in an honest fam ily~ tn;.dition,while faithful to certain general truths,varies widely fron1 f•xact fact. I give what is preserved~ which is the most exact inf( ► rn1,Ltion now available. \Vil Fam Barton's father is believed to have been named James Bartou. All our traditions assert that he was a British soldier in thi- FrH1ch and Indian War and killed in Braddoek's defeat,July H. r;;,i), I have no data beyond this. An incomplete list of offi~ l·t>r~ n nd n1en killed in this battle is given in the Gentleman's :\fag(1zine for August 1755, and copied in the l\lemoirs of the I{i:-;torical Sooiety of Pennsylvania Vol. V. It does not contain tht- 1H1111e of Barton. The British \Var office has no record for t hi.1 t war, and no muster rolls of any war before 1789. The State and P,_,nsion offices at \\~ashington have no records that assist t hi:- inquiry,and if there were any at Richmond, Va.,they were de ;-;tn,.~ !_.d in the Civil War. It is possible that he was killed in .~, n ,t' t ther battle with the French. The important thing is i i1nt h1, came to America as a soldier against the French and • • I . t: u•. 1 1,t,re. ~·,f:· uncle Stephen writes, ''Grandfather was born in England, au, l hP>ther James, who remembers grandfather, says he was liv ing 111 England with a sister n1uch older, at the time of the battle nf ,\luuongahela. Grandfather knew that his father was in the B,·a idock Expedition, and that his sister 111arried a man named Cia.v. ;, ad this was about all he knew to a certainty." This sister i!'i- l >t~li1 \Ted to have (lome to America and to have niarried in Vir- 26 LIEUTEN.4NT WILLIAM BARTON ginia, ,vhere she bore children and died. I have been unable as yet to trace her connection with the Clay family there. William Barton was born October 2!, 175!, and died Dec. ~7, 1829. My uncle Stephen believes him to have been born near Whitehaven, England, but n1y father has a distinct impression that his family was among the Protestant refugees in Ireland and that he was born there. I find that the regiments under Brad~ dock were called Irish regin1ents, though composed of Scots and English as well as Irish. Father says that \Villiam Barton never liked to adn1it his Irish birth. He was almost certainly not born at Whitehaven. The parish registers of St. Nicholas begun in 1693 and those of Holy Trinity begun in 1721 do not show the name of Barton. All our traditions agree that William Barton grew up with a love for the land in which his father was buried. When a youth of about sixteen he enlisted in the British army. As he is said to have served six years in the British army, he probably spent two yaara or more in service in England. That he was drafted into the service is not known, but for some reason he looked upon his enlistment as an inju:,tice. In 177.J, probably, he left England, and arrived in Boston in June with one of the four regiments commanded by General Thomas Gage. Of his life in Boston no account is preserved except the fact that he participated, but with little heart, in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, and that he found himself in growing sympathy with the colonial cause. Of those anxious months when the strained relations between the colonies and the crown were bringing on the war, and thence on till he found himself doing his duty as it then seemed, though with a growing conviction that the cause was wrong, there is preserved no definite information, but his sons heard often from him and told to their sons how hateful and odious the service became to him. When Boston was evacuated, he went with the army to Hali fax, and registered a vow that, at whatever hazard, he would fight no more against the side in which now he had come to be lieve. On Howe's return, in July, he sought some opportunity SlTI<: OF OLD HIBERNIA FURNACJ;:. LIEUTE1VANT .U'ILLIAM BARTON. 29 , , •:--( ·a ,,e from the servi(le which had grown irksome ar.d false to l;!1u. in1t found no chance for several weeks. There followed t ln t L lug S€-ies of disasters to the colonial arms, the battles of l., i:1.1· i:.;}and, Harlem Heights, \Vhite Plains, and the surrenrJer · it Furt~ Washington and Lee. It was the darkest hour, except ,. (illey Forge in all the history of the Revolution. Fort \Vash· : u.~·t, ,:1 had fallen, and Washington was about to give up Fort Lt't· and begin his long retreat through the Jerseys. The Hud• ... , •!1 Hi,·er divided the armies. Then seemed his first desperate 11pp 1.,r1 unity. Taking a bucket, he made his way through the ii Ht ~ to the river. Ou the way he met a mounte l officer, who H\1t·red him to return. Too eager now to be thwarted, he re· fu, 111 L and the officer drew his sword and struck at him. He i,. ·at the horse back with his bucket, and for a time kept the , )iH,•:·r at bay, backing rr1eantime toward the river. At length the 'illi,·tr struck him across the face, leaving a deep scar for life; h 1 11 lw got the return blow with the bucket, and dismounted 1 Lv ··,tEcer, captured his sword .. swam with it to the other side, ·,\.:t,nded as he was, entered the Continental army, and served 1 \\ tl, honor to the close of the war. The sword which he wore, i!itd -.\·hich I have, is said to be the one which he captured, and 1,np;. 1 n his teeth across the Hudson. I like to go to the Fort Lee ferry in New York and look at the broad river, and think of that Lirw;t-> fellow, wounded but desperately courageous, making his way across. Surely that was a bold and heroic struggle for con '"'l.'it-rc.:e and for liberty. ~ir. A. 1\1. Willard, the noted painter of revolutionary scenes, lias inade this incident the subject of one of his strong paint iugs. The sturdy soldier, armed only with his wooden "piggin", or hucket, stands at bay. Bis red coat, hastily thrown off, lies n11 the ground, never to be worn again, and he stands brawny · nd agile, striking the perilous blow that is to release him at f , l • • risk of his life-from a detested senice. Behind him the ri 1·1;•r flows wide and deep, but beyond it is freedom--with priva t il}ll and danger. The picture is full of life and spirit. The plunging horse, and falling red-coated rider, give, with the 30 LIEUTENANT U'ILLIAM BARTON. autumn foliage, a rich color effect. The painting is owned by the writer, and its frame is decorated with the precious sword whose capture it depicts. Arriving with his captured sword, on the west bank of the Hud son, as our family tradition declares, \Villiam Barton surrendered himself to the colonial troops, and asked to see Washington. According to our family tradition, General Washiugton re ceived him kindly, remembered his father with who1n he had fought at Fort Duquesne, and gave him a pass in his own hand writing. This pass ,,·as in possession of the family within the 1nemory of my father's older brothers, and was given to William Barton's oldest grandson, William Holloway Barton, who lost it at school. Of the pass, my Uncle James says, "It was signed by Washing ton, written on parchment, authorizing him to go or come at any time through the American lines. In it he was called Lieutenant \Villiam Barton. It was a special favor fron1 Washington, and not an ordinary pass." Uncle Stephen writes "I think it was not wholly his 111ilitary record which gave hin1 favor with Washington and secured that pass. I think that to this was added Washington's acquaintance with his father. It passed hhn through the lines at all tin1es." lly father was too young to ren1en1ber the pass, but remen1- bers well a conversation in 18!8 or 1850 between his own f,:ther and the boy-then grown to manhood,-who lost it, n1y gra ,d father blaming the boy's mother for letting hin1 take it to s<.·hool. His impression of the contents of the pass agrees with thr.t of the two brothers Jarnes and Stephen. The relatives ha,·e been scattered so long from New Jersey to California, where Ja1nes and Stephen live, that the tradition cannot have been greatly changed from fact. He participated at the battles of Trenton, Princeton and l\Ion mouth, and spent a winter at Valley Forge and another at llorristown. Of his later experiene,e in command of a guard at Hibernia Furnace the tradition is unanimous and consistent. These traditions, too many and too direct and too consistent to LIEUTBRANT WILLIAM BARTON. 31 he untrue, must stand in place of more exact knowledge; for ex c:epting his family Bible and its record, I do not know of a sin gle scrap of documentary evidence which has come down in the fan1ily. This fact is easily accounted for. His own father died in what was to him a foreign land, while he was iu the cradle. He left hi~ hotne and native land while yet a lad, and entered the army hefore he had a local habitation or a name in America. .He was as likely to enlist fron1 one State as from another, and while all the s?r\·ice of whieh we have definite tradition was performed in or near New Jersey, it is by no means certain that his first en listment was from that State. This surely involves difficulties unough, but when to this _are added a fire in the night, burning his son's house and all its contents; and a removal of the family to a new State, far from the older men whose knowledge and t•on \'P-rsatiou would have supplied to the grandchildren the facts whieh they were later to recall with great difficulty, the only wo11der is that anything should have survived and that traditions gatllt'red from New Jersey to California could after so many year-- be pieced into a consistent narrdtive. F'ur reasons which are apparent, it is extren1ely difficult to give t ht- official record of my great gnindfather's service. Through t lw kindness of General Willian1 S. Stryker, Adjutant General t)f :\' ew Jersey, I an1 able to give what was probably his initial Pnli:'."tn1eut with reasonable certainty, but I still lack the date and record of his con1mission. General Stryker writes n1e: .. r am of opinion that the 111an you are seeking is \Villiam Barton, a llinute Man of the Moun1outh County New Jersey llilitia and I enclose a certificate of his service. I think you will find that \Villiam Barton left Monn1outh County and moved t,> ~!orris County, aud that is where his son, Eleazar Barton, :-;tarted his n1ilitary life. Monrnouth County was the headquar h .. rs of Toryism in this State. The l\finute Men had to fight what were called the "pine robbers," and frequent incursions wen• n1ade in that county fron1 General Howe's and Gener-<11 Carleton's headquarters in New York City. If William Barton cli~l duty in protecting the furnaces of lforris Count.y, he could readily have done so as a llinute l\fan of the llonmouth CountJ 32 LIEUTENANT H'ILLIAl\1 BARTOl\:". Militia, for Johu Jacob Faesc-h, a Gerruan and a patriot Arneri can, had a large ntuuber of the Hessians captured at Trenton iu his en1ploy, making shot and shell for the Continental Arruy. It is quite likely that after doing duty during the war he n10,~e<.l there, and the stateruents you rnake in your letter seen1 to be quite in harmony with the records. The William Barton whose record I give you so briefly,-and this is all we have concerning hiru, -had a very honorable service, but I cannot say that he re ceived a con1n1issio11 as LieutenaQt. It is very possible, but our records ·eannot prove it. For the purpose you desire it, however, I do not think it makes 1ntmh difference." . For traditions which supplement this record I have reeour.-;e to the 1nemory of his older living grandsons, Lewis, Ja1ues, and Stephen. James was 1nore than ten years old at the tin1e of his grandfather's death, and ren1e1nbers distinctly his funeral. He and Stephen agree in their recollection that Rev. Jacob Bostedo preached the sern1on. In a letter dictated to his son Orlando, Jan1es says, "At Lieut. Barton's funeral there was a large assent bJage of his relath·es and olrl friends and conu-ades of the ReYo lution. Both in the sern1on and in their con,·ersation there was n1ueh said of the life and acts of Lieut. Barton, his desertion, and his high standing in the American Ar1ny." Stephen, also, ren1e1nbers that in his own boyhood tales were current of his exploits. He writes, "I was present at an inforrnal sort of reunion of sons and daughters of Revolutionary refugees, and heard a great rnany anecdotes which have mostly slipped 1ny mind; but the idea ren1ains that grandfather rendered son1 ,·ery important service on reaching the C.-0ntinental lines." He further ren1embers that his n1other had a distinet impres sion that this special service was the capture of a notable pris oner. I find that one Giles Williams, the leader of a band of Tory maun1uders, known as the "Pine Robbers," was captured May 18, 1777, by Lieut. William Barton. The incident accords essentiallv with n1y grandmother's recollection. (See Correspon dence of N. J. Executive 1776-1786, pp. 60, 61.) A relic which my uncles ren1ember well, but which was destroyed by fire when grandfathtr Barton's house burned dur ing the infancy of my father, was a large book presented to LIEUTENANT 11'/LLIA.1.\l BARTON. 33 !,i111 l!Y Lord Stirling, for defense of the Hibernia Iron \Yorks , 111 wbit·h the l~olonial 'ar1ny depended for cannon balls. Lord 1 ~t irling (Gen. \\ illia1n Alexander) he.d a special interest in the .f°l,q;1dry, being part owner of it, besides needing its output. t · nde Stephen writes: "After the death of grandfather, father w1•1it to the old ho1ne, and brought back with hin1 a large book tu ht, preserved as a keepsake. It was burned in our house when I wa~ seven or eight years olcl Ja1nes._says the book had on the tly lt·af soruethiug like this, 'Presented bj'- Lord Stirling to Lieut. \Vm. Barton.' Lord Stirling was owner of the Hibernia blast f nnwce, and grandfather com1na11ded the guard there." The 1uost cherished souvenir of Lieut. \Villian1 Barton is his :-;wunl. U'ncle Jan1es, who remembers his funeral, and the story <>f the est·ape as told _then, is confident that he brought this ~W•Jrd with him frotn the British arn1y, and later earned the right, to bear it, and this agrees with n1y own boyhood impres ~11_111 as I gathered the story fron1 my elders. Cncle James was tt-·u years old at the time of the funeral, and thinks the sennon """ ~ preached by great-great-grandfather Bostedo. \\'hen n1y father (born 1834) was· an infant, his father's house hn rued, destroying all relics of Lieut. \Villian1 Barton in our hrauch of the fatnily. Grandfather built a new house and l ,htained the sword from his youngest sister l\largaret, to whom it. had been given before her father's death. Uncle Stephen writes: "I nel.. er saw the scabbard. After our house burned, father went to Aunt l\farg-c1ret's and brought home the naked ~word. I think your father, when about two years old, thrust the hilt into the fire and burned off the leather." The leather is eertainly missing, and there is no scabbard, but the sword is well preserved. Grandfather brought this sword to Illinois. \\"bile the fainily prized it, it was put to use. In winter eYenings grand fot,her had his boys shell corn by hand as they sat about the fire, and he, with the sword, cut out the first row from eat·h 1-•~ir. But the sword in its new prairie hon1e had other uses than 34 LIEUTE1VANT l-VILLIAM BARTON. these akin to the plowshare. It participated in certain modest prairie. parades and celebrations, a:Qq:•the story of its vario.us: adventures \Yas ·recounted. It was used as a decorative S,Ymhol at 4th of July celebrations, and as badge of ra.qk in wolf hunts. My father ren1en1bers one of these latter in which Shabbona, the Pottawattan1ie chief, partici pated. The Knox Grove Cap• &,.t:.~ tain, Dr. Heath, rode up to the door of John Clink~ whose fife was one of the most stirring ff~,,--~--~~ 111emories of my boyhood, and called to hhn to come and join in the hunt. "This sword," said he, "helped drive the British fron1 America, and to day it's going to help drive the wolves to Halifax!" The sword and Shabbona see1n to have divided the honors of the c:·•a?'y day. ¢/~ d ::rn:ti-~ Grandfather gave the sword . to 1ny Uncle Daniel, who BOOK PLATE WITH WILLIA:\! BAKTON 1 S SWORD AND ELEAZAR BARTON'S BIBLE. loaned it to the Sublette Ma- sonic Lodge, where i t w a s used for a ti111e by the tyler. He then brought it to his home in l{uox Grove and used it in the barn in its forn1er service of corn shelling. ,vhen Uncle Daniel moved to Iowa he lost and left the sword behind. My Uncle Elea-zar undertook to find it, and after a long search discovered it thrust into an old strawstack behind grandfather's barn. He took it to his hon1e and kept it for years. Having no son of his own, he pron1ised it, in 1883, to William Eleazar Barto'""' ~ldest son of his next younger brother. In 1895 he loaned him t.he sword, and in Decen1ber 1898 presented it to hin1. It is the desire of the present owner that this sword together with the Bible of Eleazar Barton shall descend together along the line of the eldest surviving son, and that they shall LIEUTENANT ltVILLIA.lvI BARTON. 35 -eYer ren1<_1in in the Barton fan1ily. A picture of these two, with the 1notto of the ancient family 9f Barton, forn1s the bookplate . of. the -present owner. The motto is strikingly in accord with the tv:o emblems. Besides these relics, the following, among others, are still in existence: Th•: "large kettle" mentioned in the inventory of his estate; the table, a ve1·y neat walnut tab1n with drop leaves; a pancake griddle, made by a blacksmith to hang trom a crane over an open fire; and several minor relics are owned by WiUiam B. Hentforson. His daughter stood ont beside the old kettle, with her great-grand mo.ther 's tongs in hand and the griddle suspended from a tree above, while l photo gmphet1 h~i beside the extemporized fireplace. I pre.-ent the picture herewith. The :.:rid(U~ is a very interesti11g l)ieee of kit.eben wa-re. William H. Henderson told me . 1.hat great-grandmother was famous for the short-cakes sl1e made on that gridcUe Th•~ edge of the griddle shows in the JJicture. On the rock is half a cannon ball mold from Hibernia furnace. )fa.r!.;,;aret, Henderson Barton's spinning wheel is owned by Mary Ann ,vinters at Hib~>rnia. 'i.\'illiam Barton's razor, his ax, the crane from his fir\,'place, the flatiron· and tong-s shown in the picture,and :, can non ball from Hibernia rn rnn ce 1 are owned by the 1\· rill' l', \V illian1 Barton's fan1- il y Bible, containing the record of birth of hin1 - self and his children ap parently in his own . nandwriting, is still in uo:-:sessiou of vVillia111 rsa rton Henderson. The . fol lrn'Zing r e C Or d i S ., 1nade in another hand, :~. probably that of his son, . .: ·_., ·•·:::::/f]t~:}:}J~t;::~ttff.(f~+;~ff.;~?-~~~,·~?>~( . John Barton: ~ " ..;'"' ~·vVi11ia111 Barton was THE KETTLE, TONGS, GRIDDLE, AND horn October 24, 1754, OTHER RELICS. and died Decen1ber the 27th, 1829. Aged 75 years, 2 n1011ths nnd 3 days." ·'lHartha Barton departed this life the 2nd day of Noven1- ber 1!:129, aged 35 years and 20 days." · After the death of ,villian1 Barton, the Bible was taken by 36 LIEUTENANT WILLJAl\ll BARTON. John Barton. A later record, 1nade by his son David L. is, "Eleanor C0bb, wife of John -Barto~1, born Dec. 8, 1793, and died August 6th, 1844.. David L. Barton's book." The book passed, however, fro111 David to his Aunt 1\1:argaret, and so to her son, ,villian1 Barton Henderson, who still has it, and has pro111ised it, on his decease, to Rev. vVillia111 E. Barton. The. book is a sn1all 8vo. and on its title page reads, "This Bible was published in the year 1815. Second New York Edition. Published by E. Duyckinck, Collins & Co., T. & J., Swords., Peter A. Mesier, Sa111uel A. Burtus, T. A. Reynolds, and C. & R. Vvaite. G Long, Print. 1815." On the reverse of the fly-leaf is ·written: "Drink, child, of the water contained in this river, "For the sake of the author, and not of the giver. Sanz' l Young. "P. S. NOT the giver; June 24, 1843," Rev. Sa1nuel Young was a Congregational 111inister, remein bered by 1ny father, and often at his father's ho1ne about 1840- 184:3 ... A very·t:Sretty and ron1antic story ren1ains to be told of "\Villiarn. Barton's courtship and 111arriage. _ I have this story fro1n Or lando D. Barton, who says, "l have heard 111y father[,Ja1nesJ, 111other,and Uncle Stephen al1. rehearse this story, and I knov •. that it is true." Toward the close of the Revo- 1u tion. there was a guard at. Hibernia, con1111anded by c, '1}\ ,' lieutenant with a deep scar on ' \: his face. He was tall and ·1o. gaunt and awkward and sen I sitive about the scar. Not till ....:.:.:.==. later w er e s u c h t hi n gs - - ---:... ~..:,.,._.~_~~ counted a source of honest •' I. ~~ ------,- ;• pride. There was a 1?1erry- 1naking at Hibernia, and the SPINNING WHEEL. LIEUTE.NANT vVILLIAlvI BARTON. 37 belle of the evening was one Margaret Henderson, a plurnp, vivaciou~ little woman, .and just a bit coquettish. She was de°f;;_ceuded fron1 the Scotch-Irish hn1~1igrants to that region in the clays shortly before the Revoiution. The apples had been peeled and put on to cook, and the apple butter was stirring,and the room. was cleared for a gan1e. It was "Drop the handker chief:" an ancient and innocent gan1e that has had no sn1all share in settling the social destiny of a considerable part of the people of the republic. As they were beginning to play, the lieutenant ca1ne in and took a seat on a bench near the door. They pressed hin1 to join the game, but he refused. He was cn)er twenty-five, and was considered a hopeless bachelor. He eyed i\_[argaret Henderson a little; but there were a half dozen youpg fello,vs there, son1e of them his own soldiers, who were fully intending to see.her ho1ne thl:1t· night. He dre,v hts long lt:!gs under the bench to keep the1n out of the way, arid watched the game. The handkerchief.was dropped behind 1\1:argaret. She took it~ and ,valked slovdy around the ring,_ debating in her coquettish Iittle head behind whie.h of the young 111en she .should drop it. She walked entirely around :the ring, and still could not make up her n:.\1.nd. She started a second time, and got half way round. Bless ·her heart,-·she did not know how 1nuch was hanging on her decision! But she decided, and, turning on her het>l, she .Hung the handkerchief full in the face of the lieutenant, and ran. The lieutenant was a brave 1nan. He was taken by surprise; hut he rallied his forces, got hi~ feet out from under the bench ln an astonishingly short time, caught her half way rouad the ,ring, saw her home that night, proposed to her next day, and :'-married' her two weeks . afterward. ·' .It w:.as a shocking thing for :Margaret to do no doubt, and I hope1.tha·t her 111other scolded her properly for it. But I am glad: that she did it. Lii:~ut. Willian1 Barton and lVIargaret Henderson. were n1arried prob'ably in 1780. The next year they made their hon1e a half LIEL'TES.4ST 11'"/LLIA.\f BARTON. THE GKAVES OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAll BARTON AND WIFE. dozen miles from Hibernia. The Marcella postoffice is now on land owned by him and afterward by his son Eleazar. He was a farmer, and burned charcoal as he cleared his land, selling the charcoal to the furnace at Hibernia. He died in his own house, a large, double log cabin, Dec. 27, 1829. Bis wife survived bin: only a few weeks. She had grown stout in her later years, and her death resulted from a fall on the doorstone which is still in place. They are buried in the Zeek cemetery, near }Iaroella,N. J. In 18H6 my father visited Marcella and identified the graves. The following summer I visited the place, and with the aid of William Barton Henderson and Ira Zeek marked the grave8 ,,·ith unhewn granite stones, cut '·W. R." and "M. H .. B/' Before his grave is a marker of the Sons of the American Revolution bearing a bronze tablet marked, "WILLIAM BARTON 1754-1829 A SOLDIER FROM NEW JERSEY I~ THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.'' LIEUTENANT n~ILLIAM BARTON. 39 Tht- graves are near the corner of the cemetery toward l\lr. Zeek'!-; house and away from the road. Furthest up the hill is great-grandmother's grave, then \\'"illiam Barton's, then their son ;James, who died in 1823. Still toward the road and down t hf> sfnpe, are. the gra,,.es of the two infant daughters of grand f at hPr. who died 1843, 1848. La·nt. \Villian1 Barton was about 5 feet and 10 inches high, !xmy. erect and muscular. Be weighed 160 to 170 pounds He was a famous swimmer, an athlete, and could carry a bucket of wuter on his head and one in each hand. He was clean· slu1n•a and had blue eyes and reddish· brown hair. He had a THE CHILDREN OF LIEUT. WILLIAM BARTON AND MARGARET HENDERSON WBRE: .JA~IES BARTON, born }larch 17, 1782, d. July 22, 1823. \r. Jan. 27, 1803, Elizabeth Van Houghton, by whom he had one \\'illiam Holloway (who lost the pass) m. Hannah Shanger (dau. 11 f Rev. Abraham Shanger, a local Methodist preacher) by whom she had a son James and one daughter. James Barton sr. had also two or three daughters, who went to Pennsylvania after their father's death. He is buried with his parents in the ze~k cemetery. EL11,ABETH BARTON, born Oct. 7, 1783. She m. 1st Jeremiah B. Finch, who entered the army in 1812 and never returned; m. 2d Cumn1ins Oliver; m. 3d Jan1es Scott, an lrish Presbyterian, by whom she had \Villiam, who m. Delia, dau. of Richard R. Smith. 40 LIEC'TENANT U"ILLI.t.\l RARTO.V. RosAxXAH BARTos, born Dec. 20, 1786. 1\1. \Yilliam Bowen of :\lornstown by whom she had at least a sons, :\lahalla, Arthur (m. Jane Hopkins), Barton; and a daughter who m.-Skillhorn, by whom she had one son, Stephen Barton Skillhorn. Joss BARTON, born :\larch 15, 1789. 1\1. Eleanor or Nellie Cobb (b. Dec. 8, 17H8, d. Aug. 6, 1844) by whom he had 5 children, \Villiam Jesse (d. ab. 1895) Eliza Eiea nor,m. - :\Josher. David L. (d. 1847), Ebenezer (d. 1897), Albert Horace. ELEAZAR BARTON, born Jan. 12, 1791, d. No,y. 30, 1865. l\lore extended mention will be made of him and his descendants. ANs BARTON, born Aug. 5, 1794, d. l\Iay 18, 1796. R1cHARD BARTox, bon1 Jan. 20, 1793, d. llart•h 19, 1795. )fARTHA BARTON, born Oct. 18, 1796, d. Nov. 2~ 1829. l\l. Aug. 17, 1817, Daniel Leary. Leary did not own a home and his father-in-law provided one for him. Their one child was burned to death. MARY BARTON, born Oct. 27, 1789, d. Aug. -1. 1826. MARGARET BARTON, born Xov. 7, 1800, d. l\larch 9, 1801. RAcHtL BARTON, born Jan. 2, 1803. 1\1. /ohn Smith, by whom she had Ph<.ebe (m. William Gustin), A £red, Mary Ann, \Villiam, Lizzie, Margaret. John Smith had other childrtn by a second 1narriage. \Villian1 Barton never liked his son-in-law Smith, who "killed his geese" and otherwise misbehaved. l\lARGARET BARTON, born Oct. 16, 180!. l\I. 1st, James Stephens, by whom she had one daughter l\lary Ann b. Aug. 31, 1826, m. Abraham \Vinters, and died leaving two daughters, one of whom, l\1ary Ann \Vinters, has Margaret Henderson Barton's spinning-wheel. They live at the foot of Green Pond Mountain on land that grandfather Eleazar sold to David Barton. l\f. 2d, David Henderson, (son of her mother's youngest brother) by whom she had Eleazar, John tdrowned in infancy, and William Barton Henderson, who still lives on the old \Villiam Barton homestead. 1\1. !Jd, David Smith, by whom she had,inter alia, a daughter, '"Sis." LIEUTEN.4NT WILLI.L.\f BARTO/\ 41 WILLIAM PARTON,S WILL. Following is the w~ll of \Villimn Barton as recorded on page .:.! of Liber D. Morris Couuty \Vills. This will, executed just be· for1-1 his death, is signed with a cross, evidently beeause of his :--1ckndss. On llarch 13, 1812, he signed his name to a deed. Tin: LAST WILL ASD TESTAMENT OF \VILLIA.M BARTOS OF PE- QUANNACK TOWNSHIP, l\10RRIS COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW JEKSE\. I. \Villiam Bartont considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, ;i ,HI hdng of sound mind and memory blesse·d be Almighty God for t11e s;ime, do make and publish this my last will and testament in 1 f• )rn_1 !ollo'":ingt, that is to say • I will t~at all my just debts as shall hy !11·· ti. owemg at my death together with my funeral expenses and all 1: 11;1: :-.:cs touching the proving of or otherwise concerning this my last ,\ ; ·; ,md testament, shall first he fully paid and satisfied out of the • 1 v 1, .. of the eleven acre lot adjoining the property of my son Eleazer J;,1 n, ,n which I direct to be sold for this purpose, and all the over- 1il1::-, if there should be after paying all my just debts, to be put to in tl"rL·~1 and appr«lpriated as afterwards herein named . .-\ 11 my remainmg property whether personal or real estate I direct to tk given into the hands of my beloved wife, :Margaret Barton, ~h• ,11ld she survive me, to be hers during her life time and after her dtatL to be disposed of in the following manner, namely: Fi r,;t I give and bequeath unto m v daughte.r l\1argaret Stevens all ; h:.· h,>mestead lot on which I now dwell containing twenty-two acres : , ·:< r !1er with a lot adjoining on the west side containing seven acres .1 ·, , -, - or less. n-1 give and bequeath unto my son, John Barton, the one half i ,: 1 . · thirty-four acre lot more or less which lies adjoining the home- -~r, ' t3gether with a lot called the bog meadow. ' n-1 give and bequeath unto mv son, Eleazar Bartont the re ng half of the above lot of thirty-four acres more or less. · TI-I give and bequeath unto my grandson, \Villian1 Barton, the f my son James Barton, dee. thirteen acres· of the lot called the I. . v lot. m-1 give and bequeath unto the children of my daughter.Patty J', dee., the remaining fifteen acres of the lot called the Larey · ,. 10re or less. m ~--1 give and bequeath unto my daughter, Elizabeth Scott, fif- . ('( : dollars. .. m I give and bequeath unto my daughtert Rachel Smith,fifteen <1 ·, rs. 42 LIEllTENAl\.T ll"ILLIAJI BARTON. Ite1u----l give and bequeath unto 1ny daughter. Rosa11naUowcn, fif teen dollars. I give and be1.1ueath unto the children of my daughter, l\lary Os borne, dee., fifteen dollars. Item--1 give and bequeath unto my daughter,Susanna, thirteen dol lars. . ... ·\ f ' ' . J... 4 '.~ ,.: . • ·~ i . • ,I,""~• (·":i- \ ... ~ -/Ji, .• .,.--. • J,. i,·>!: • .. ·J:J!. 1, ,3.,. '4., I i~ .. .,_. - ' '\ . ' . II -.,.,___"\: .- , , . •.:-,: - . ,!: . ~~-~- if •,. . . . 1-·,,•.. ~- . J ~--'.fl.·;._1,'-if<.., . , .. . ;,(' -- - . , •' ,W.,M/!llt1-. : .H--' .,. :. ..~ . .,...... • • • ... ' I, ~ •• 'i ,la . - ...... ~ ... ~ .\J;Jt:.... .,,·.i:_~:...... : -,~ ... :-. ,,i-~- 1 _...... ii' i-,.· ),- ' ' COXGREGATIO~AL CHURCH, SFBLETTE, ILLIXOIS. 43 THE Sl'BI..ETTE PFBI..IC SCHOOL. And I hereby direct that these several legacies to n1y several daugh ters above mentioned shall be paid first from the overplus of the avails of the eleven acre lot after paying my debts if there should he any, next from the avails of my personal estate after the death of my wife and lastly if that should not be sufficient to pay these several legacies the balance wanting to he paid by 1\ilargaret Stevens, John Barton and Eleazar Barton above named, each an equal share of whatsoever may be wanting to be paid within one year after the death of my wife. And I hereby direct that if there should be any overplus after these several divisions and legacies have been set off and appropriated, whether of my personal or real estate, such over pius shall be equally divided between l\Iargaret Stevens, John Bar ton and Eleazar Barton, my children above named, share and share alike. 44 LIEUTENANT H'ILLL4Jl BA.RTON. And lastly I hereby appoint my two trusty sons, John Barton and Eleazar Barton, t,> he executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wiJls by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set n1y hand and seal this twenty•fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. his \VILLIAl\1 x BARTON [SEAL] mark. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named \Vil• lian1 Barton to he his last will and testament in the f resence of us, who, at his request and in his presence, have subscribed our nan1es in witness thereunto. GABRIEL GREEN, GIDEON V. BosTEDO, JOHN GRI~IES. Morris County, ss. Gabriel Green, one of the witnesses to the foregoing will,being duly sworn did depose and say that he saw \Villiam Barton the testator therem named sign and seal the same and heard him publish and declare it to he his last will and testament and at the doing thereof the said testator was of sound and disposing n1ind and memory as ~is deponent verily believes, and that Gideon V. Bostedo and John Grimes the other subscribing evidences were present at the same time and signed their names as witnesses to said will together with this deponent in the presence of the testator. Sw11m before me January 9th, 18.'30. GABRIEL GREEN, JACOB WILSON', SURlU>GATE. Morris County, ss. John Barton and Eleazar Barton the executors named in the forego ing will did depose and say that the within writing contains the true last will and testament of William Barton, the testator therein named, as they verily believe, and that they will well and truly perform the same by paying first 4ehts of the said deceased and then the lega cies in said testament specified so far as the goods, chattels and credit can thereunto extend. That they will make and render into the surrogate office of the County of Morris, a true and perfect inven tory of all and singular the go3ds, chattels, rights and credits of said deceased t_hat have or shall come to their knowledge or possession or LIEFTENANT H'/LLIAl\f BARTO.\. 45 to the possession of any other person or persons for their use and ren der a just and true statement and render a just and true account thereunto when lawfully required. Sworn before me January 9, 1830, JoHs BARTOS, JACOB WILSON, StrRROGATE. ELI-:AZAR HARTON. I, Jacob Wilson, Surrogate of the County of l\lorris. SURROGATE'S do certify the foregoing to he a true copy of the last SEAL will and testament of \Villiam Barton, late of the County of Morris, deceased, and that John Barton and Eleazer Barton the executors therein named proved the same before me and are duly authorized to take upon then1selves the Administra tion of the estate of the Testator agreeably to said will. \Vitness my hand and seal of office the ninth day of January in this year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. JACOB \VILSO:S. THE ZEEK CElIETER Y, )IARCELLA, :S. J. XoTE. Th.- two stone8 on the right art> thm:e of Ht>v .•Jacob .Bostello and wift•, The g-ra,·t:> of Lit•ut. William Barton is indicatPd b~· the ttag. 46 LIEl'TENAiVT ll"ILLIA ..\1 BARTON From Liber ~ p. 176. Inventories. :\lorris County, N. J. \VILLl.-\lJ BARTO~. lnv~ntory of ~oods a~d chattels helongin~ to \Villiam Barton dee., appraised by Gideon \. Bostedo, Ezra Hastider, Gabriel Green on the 1st day of January, 1880. l yoke of oxen $ 40 OU .J ng:., stone pots, bottles etc. 2 00 l brindlt•. white faced cow 11 00 ~arth·en ware on the dressers 1 00 1 brindh.•. white backed cow 11 00 5 pans, coffee pot and platter 1 75 1 black ht>ifer 11 00 Ho~ a oo 1 a year old heifer 'j OU Dug 1 00 1 2 do do do ti 0t I Sl.-d runners out of doors 7.i Black horse 50 00 Iron pot. kettle, tea kottle and Bay mare 35 (lj griddle 3 2:i Mow of hav 2-1 00 \\·heel barrow 75 Mow of oafs 3 UO a pails an<~ churn 1 50 Rye ~traw 1 r:io St>ive r.,o Cut.tmg box 'j5 Loom, l!l spools, warping bars, Pitch fork rakes and flails 2:'> swift's 2 pair of gears and 2 1 sta('k of hay S 00 rt:'els ti 00 1 do in the bog meadow 5 00 Large kettle 1 50 1 coal bod)· 7 00 Barrel and ~oa1> and wash tnb 2 50 2 sho,·,•ls. floating hoe. digging Large wht:>el 1 50 hoe !t.llllfork 2 barrels bran t r,o Plough. crow bar and axe 2 00 Cider barrel 'j5 Grindstone 1 00 Frving pan 25 ~led 2 00 Box of dirty buckwheat 50 \Vag;oi:i whittetre and tongut> Bedstt>ad, straw bed and bed- cnam 1r, , o ding 5 (,0 3 little wheels 1 00 Harness and saddle y 00 Cradle 50 ~trt>tcher. whiffletree and chain 1 00 Grass scythe 50 ;rrammel and hooks 4 barrels. n-e bran and dax in the Lantern cham her 1 50 Showlandtongs ,.._ Sundry in boxes,bran, half bush- Pattent head ,a el. beans and buckwheat 1 00 l'hest 1 00 1 pair ofsled runners in the cham- Slate and powder horn 25 ber 1 00 a chairs 1 00 Ho,r skin 1 00 Small looking glass and boxes 50 2 sitles of leath...r 3 00 Bed and beddmg .-:S:157.00 1 20 00 Boards in the chamber 'i5 Plow and harrow 3 00 Bin of buckwheat and peck l'ash a oo measure !J 00 Razor and hone 50 Lot of corn a oo ::lti:1 llJ Lot of old iron and sundry arti- Ox yoke and chain 2 OJ clf's a oo -3'i5 00 Lot of tools 3 f:0 3 bells 1 50 Steel trap 50 Musket .;,O Potatot>s 5 00 Cupboard 2 lK> 'l'nrnips 2 5() 3 barrels pork at 6 lS 00 Qua.. tity of rails and rail cuts 1'able !'iO Hrush scythe Drea~ers 25 \Vl"aring apparel Basket of drit>d apµlt,s 1 00 Andirons and smoothing irons 3000 GABRIEL GREE:S, GlDEO:S V. BASTIDER, his EZRA X BOSTEDO. rnark The foregoing inventory was proved before me January 9, 18:30 by oaths of Gabriel Green and Gideon Bastider, the appraisers and John Barton and Eleazar Barton the executors. JACOB \VILSON, SURROGATE. • THE OLD SWUDIISG HOLE, Rl'Rl-:Ae CREEK. CHAPTER III. EXSIGX ELEAZAR BARTOX. Eleazar Barton, third son and fifth child of Lieut. \\,,illian1 and Margaret (Henderson) Harton, was born in llorris County, N ..J ., Jan 12, 1791. He enlisted in the anny in the se<.•ond war with England as substitute for his brother Jarues. He entered l\Iay 1, 1812, for six 1nouths, and wm, enrolled in Capt. John Ht.And1- 1nan ·s cotnpan,r, CoJ. Jo:-;eph Jaekson':,, regirnent, Sept. 17, 1812, and was honon1bly dist--hargt"d Dec·. ! 7, 1812. He was stationed with his regin1eut at Bergen. X. J. His discharge was by order of Gen. John Anustroug. He sen·ed also as Ensign in the First Battalion, 3d Reb)'i.tneut, l\Iorris County. Xew Jersey l\Iilitia, con11ni sioned :\lay 5. 1Hl5, serving till the c-lose of the war.· The bearer of the flag was fortuerly·a t•ou11nissioned officer. 50 LIEUTbW.-lNT U'JLLJA2\I BARTOiV. Ou April 8, 1851 he applied for bounty land and rt-c-eived 40 aeres, Patent Xo. 48.696 N. E. Qr. S. E. Qr. Set-.. 3-1 Tp. 90 N. Range 26 \V. in Iowa. The warrant was issu~d June 17, 185-1, and patent l\farch 1,1855. .A further grant of 120 at•res No. 24.233 was issued. This he transferred to Ja1nes Barton l\'Iay 5, 1856, who lo<.--ated it Oct. 2-1, 1868, N. ½ of S. \V. Qr. and S. E. Qr. of S. \V. Qr: Se<-. 4 Tp. 17 S. of Range 26 E. Visalia Dist. California. He 111arried, No,,. 8, 1816, Rachel Bostedo Read, and made his ho1ne near that of his father. There his children were born. In 1846 he 111oved with his fa111ily to Illinois, tnakiug his hon1e at Knox Grove, near Bureau Creek, in Sublette township, where he died of apoplexy Nov. 30, 1865 . HIS SON'S REMINISCENCES.• I hc:u-e receiYed frorn rnY., father fron1 titne to tin1e letters <.'OH- taiuingren1iniscences of his father, fro1n whi<.•h I quote at length: Your Grandfather Barton was about n1y height (about 5 feet n,½ ), hut of heavier build, and a little corpulent. He had light complexion; light colored hair, and blue eyes. The sanguine temperan1ent pre dominated. He was inclined to he cheerful, sociable and somewhat mirthful; without any inclination to frivolity or obscenity. He was diffident. \Ve had many "stone frolics" in New Jersey. Probably no one owning land near us, had not, more than once, invited neigh• hors to come with oxen and sleds during an alternoon and haul stones off their land, and build stone fences.· All hands turned out on such occasmns. They drank "apple jack" during the alternoon and had a veal supper in the evening, a few ot the neighbor wmnen giv ing the wife needed assistance in feeding the crowd. Father and "the boys" usually attended these frolics. He ate supper with the crowd. He seldom ate away fron1 home on any other occasions. To digress, there was plenty of liquor, apple jack and rum. I do not recollect hearing the word whiskey used. Nearly everyhody-or quite-kept liquor in their houses. Those who used liquor moderately at home, seldom drank "too much" on these occasions. Others who were fre quently "the worse for liquor" at home, and who got still worse when they went to town, were liable to get drunk at the frolic. There was sometimes fighting at such places, though I do not recollect that any fights occurred near us. I never knew of father, or any of our family, heing in a condition approaching intoxication. ~ITE OF ELEAZAK BAN.TON'S NEW JERSEY HOlJE. ENSIGN ELEAZAR BA.RTON. 53, I spoke of htherbeing diffident. l doubt if he ever ate a meal at the table of any of his children without some embarrassment. I inherited some of his diffidence, hut have overcome it. Father was fond of company. He was far above the average in generosity at his own table. It was very common for some of otff neighbors to come in on stormy days, visit and eat dinner with us. Father was often busy, 111ean\.\:hile, tapping shoes, etc. Young rnent with no settled home, would often make prolonged stays while they were looking for employment. _ Father had no craving for cftice. He was school dir2ctor and over seer of the road constantly. Ai1d I recollect that the other directors usually left him to do about as he· pleased. He was elected Justice of the Peace against his will and held that office at the time we left New Jersey. I \veil remember hearing some of the neighbors urging him to accept the office, and he pleading his lack of education. I du not recollect his ever trying a law suit alone. He near! y always got the parties to settle. vVhen he failed in this, he usually got Stephen :Meeker, a younger man but an older justice, to sit with him. I never knew father to have but 9ne law suit. The matter was settled by ar hitration, and I am free to say tt1at father was \~ranged by the deci sion. But he acquiesced. He never had serious trouble with any other neighbor. He lived in peace and made peace between other neighbors, when he well could. I have just recollected that he. once sent a man by the name of Shanger ·to the peh.itentiary for stealing hogs. Shanger swore vengeance. Soon after Shauger got out of prison, our family awoke one stormy winter night with our house in flames. A thousand dollars worth of property, hard earned, was turned into ashes in about one hour. I, one year old, was carried out in a bed. Father's principal work in New Jersey was 1naking char coal. In winter he hired help, and made timber into cord wood. His own large timber was exhausted, but he bought timber elsewhere. Our last winter there, he cleared off a piece of ground near the old, hurned down-schoolhouse. In summer the wood was brought,_ to- gether with oxen and hon1e-macle sleds. It was stood on end, leav ·ing a small space in the center for the fire. The pit was made two tiers or eight feet high and rounded on the top. The small, or "lap-wood", was used on the outside to give a smooth surface. A man, with a floating ho~, would prepare sods. The top of the pit was made rounding to shed rain. The wood was covered with sods and then finer earth. Air holes were made at the bottom. Fire would he 54 LIEUTENANT n·JLLI.-L\I J-J •.J.RTO.Y. put in at the top, the coa:s falling to the ground. \Vhen the fire was well started, the mouth of the pit was closed, the smoke escaping through the covering of earth. \\'hen the coal pit was sufficient) y burned, father would "keel it off" with an iron rake. The larger pieces of sod would he raked out, and the entire pit co,·cred with fine earth which smothered the fire,- ordi narily. Xext came the 11 drawing" of the coal, and hauling it to the forge. I think each pit held about one thousand bushels of charcoal. Father would ordinarily he at the coal pit, as soon as he could see to work. \Vith his iron rake, he would "draw'' a load of coa I. The ox be II told where to find him. The oxen would he yoked, hitched to the wagon, the coal loaded, and hack to the house bv the time breakfast was ready.- I think that father, at one time, }>elonged to the 1\1. E. church, at least, he affiliated with it. There was some trouble in the society. I do not recollect who was in volvcd. But the preacher used arbitrary power, which father called 'popery," and he e,,er afterwards rather disliked that -- denomination. It was before LEWIS N.EA I> BARTOS. l~ft7. my recollection, hut I think that there was a society of Prokstant l\tethodists formed at that time. I am not sure if father united with them; mother did. I think there was no church organiza tion in our neighhorhcod after my recollection, hut the Protestant :\lethodist elen1ent predominated. Abram Shauger, a Protestant, and \\Yil liam Shanger his cousin, an Episcopal l\lethodist, preached to us somewhat irregularly. An elderly man, named l\lac Doodle, who had preached there heforc, preached regularly about a year. Rev. Sam- ENSIGN ELE.4Z.4 N B.4RTO.V. 55 ELE-\ZAl{ AXD H.-\XXAH L. B.\RTO:S. 18~7. uel Young, the preacher who wrote a rhyme in grandfather's Bihle, preached there two or more years. He was Congregational. Our home in New Jersey was headquarters for most of the preachers. I do not think that any other three families fed and sheltered more preachers than we did. There were hut few who were in active sym• pathy with them that had hetkr accommodations, and,I am sure, none who made them more welcome than father and mother did. l\lr. Young's family lived some distance, ten n1iles, perhaps. I presume he was at our house fully six months in all. I spoke of father going to bed early. There wouid he weeks in 56 LIBUTE4V.-lNT lVILLT.-l.\l H.4RTO.V. summer tim:! that t~1ere w.,:1ld n·>t h~ a c 1:111~ li~:1t~d in our house. l\lr. Young was not used to that. H~ inclined t'.) sit up late and sleep in the morning. Father could not sleep if there was any noise. After he had hecome well acquainted, father made a proposition,- the preacher must go to bed when father did and get up earlier. If he did not get sleep enough, he could get a noonday nap. The preacher too~< it as a joke, bat father called him next morning. Father left New Jersey with'.mt a'.'l enemy so far as I recollect, ex cepting incendiary Shanger, whom I never saw, only on the day of our auction. Somt of the parting scenes are- still vivid in my memory. I intended to say more of father's relations to church affairs. In New Jersey he nearly always attenderl meetings, unless it was neces sary for some one to stay at home. He made no public profession of Christianity, during the years of my recollection, yet his outward Ii(:! was quite as consistent with Christian character, as was the life of the good church mem_hers. He had a musical voice. Your mother said he had the best voice she had ever heard for a man of his age. He could sing very high; learned tunes readily, and usually sang in meet ings, though he could not have heen induced to n1ake himself con spicuous in doing so. Father had very little schooling. He was however~ a fair reader and speller, and had a remarkable faculty of solving mathematical problen1s m~ntally. Eleazar is the only one of the family that ap proximated him in arithmetic, and I do not think he was father's equal. After we came to Illinois father took less interest in public affairs. He made a numher of ineffectual attempts before they got the log school house. His home was not as comfortable as the New Jersey hon1e had been, still the preachers came quite often and the school teachers were often with us and were welcome. ~ T.ilE MIGRATION FROM NEW JER3BY . • As ·the family grew up, the rocky farm in New Jersey proved too small for the boys, the older ones of whom were married. Eleazar Barton set out in 1846 to the \Vest. His son Stephen preceded him, expeeting to locate in Ohio. Disappointed in his effort to secure land believed to have been due the family for military services, and finding the country well settled, he ex plored further west and thither the family followed. On May 20, ENSIGN ELEAZAR B.4RTON. 57 1896_. my father, who was a lad at the tin1e of the journey, wrote as follows: Fifty years ago today, we were on Lake l\Hchigan, op the steamer ~~iagara. She called at :Milwaukee at night and landed us in Chica go early next morning. She was then the largest steamer on the lakes, and was burned several years afterwards on Lake Michigan. She had made a trial trip from Buffalo to Detroit, I think. There was a heavy bet when we came, we learned, that she could not cross the Saint Clair flats. They were dredged out a few years later. Passengers and most ot the freight were put aboard another, smaller steamer, lashed to her side. Then the little steamer went ahead, and got almost, or quite out of sight. Passengers crowded to the side of the boat to watch for the Niagara. The boat would tip, then they would change their location, and tip the boat to the other side. At length the large steamer began to gain upon us, and soon passed us with her band in full blast. \Ve felt safer when we got hack upon the large boat. :Memory has recently gone over many of the scenes of that trip. \Ve left home early :Monday morning, l\lay 4, 1846. Two or three tearns brought us with James and family, two children, to New York City, forty miles, that night. The teams crossed from Jersey City on the ferry boat, the first steamer I ever saw. Next forenoon the steamer landed us in Albany. That afternoon we started westward, on the "H.Ja(:obs"canal boat. I think it took us eight days to go from Albany to Buffalo. In Chicago they found teams that were coming westward. We left the little city after dinner, and stayed over night at Brush Hill,sixteen miles distant. Next day the teams forded Fox River at Aurora, and the family crossed on a foot bridge. There were few, if any, bridges or culverts on the way. \Ve stayed the second night at Little Rock, and the third night, l\Iay 22, met Stephen, who had preceded us, at Knox Grove. · · THE nw BOD• 01' TRB PRAIRIES. Concerning the journey and the experiences of the family in the new home 1ny father has written me at length. I quote his reminiscences with little abbreviation, because they record events common to the life of all immigrants to the prairies in that day. 58 LIEUTENANT lVILLIAM BARTO.. V. Brother Stephen and Charles Winters started A few weeks in ad vance of us; prospected in Ohio; wrote us at Buffalo to come to Chi cago, and, on our arrh·al there, there was further word for us to come -----=-===-==---...-~------,....,....onto the goodly land at Knox . ,. Grove. Before our arrival, Chas. Winters had obtained work as a blacksmith in the Grand De Tour plow shops. Grand De Tour, though smaller, probably equalled Chicago socially. Its plow shops and large flouring mi 11 s, shipping thousands of barrels of wheat flour from Peru down the Illinois River, made it a very lively town. At Knox Grove we found Stephen at the home of Solo- mon Porter. Mr. Porter had a large house for those days; it had two rooms. The family consisted of l\1r. Porter and wife, Whittock and Henryt two sons of uncertain ages. Our family had nine m e m be rs, James, his wife and two chil dren and the men who brought us from Chicago. I do not recollect any complaint that there was not roon1 enough for JAMES AND SUSAJIJ BARTON, ABOUT 1885. all, or of any one's going back a half mile to Ward's tavern at the four comers for lodging. Most of us slept on the floor with blankets beneath us. Next morning we went on two miles towards Perkins Grove to the Koeper house, which Stephen had rented for one dollar a month. It stood some thirty rods west of where the Kapser, or Knox Grove Evangelical, church now stands. There was a log house, per• haps 12 x 16, with no chamber, puncheon ffoor, one window, I think. West of that was a frame house, ahout th~ same size. about ten feet ENSIGN ELE.4ZAR BARTON. 59 high. These houses were occupied by Horatio Erskine, his wifo, his brother William, and three sisters of l\lrs. Erskine, the younger one of which became your Aunt Ann-Daniel's wife. They had two or three hired men, making in all at least twenty. They were expecting to move as soon as Wm. A.Miller could get his iog house ready to oc cupy, and so move out of the one Erskine had bought. \Ve all lived together a few days before Erskine's family got out. We set a large b~x in one corner of the frame house, a smaller box on that, and perhafs as ill smaller box on that. Father and mother climbed those stairs at night. I was a boy and had no use for stairs: The house was enclosed with oak weather boards, one half inch thick, overlapping each other. I took hold of a stud by putting my fingers just above the upper edge of a weather board, dug my toes on ,. . , .... -. top of a lower board and so '.'k . went up and down stairs cat fashion. \Ve had no table, hut ate off a large box, until after we got under our own roof. We got a few wooden chairs, the first of the kind I ever saw, a chum and a few other things from Pe r u, soon after our arrival. Father bought two cows fer t 25, and James took one for $12. · He also bought a yoke of young oxen, but I think did not own a wagon that summer. I de) not think there were more than a dozen horses in the neighbor hood and less than a dozen wagons. Soon after our arrival, I think the next day,a :Mrs. Maxwell and several children visited us. She STEPHEN BARTO~. 1875. was a good hearted, well mean- ing "free 1\1 ethodist." Mother had never cooked. nor seen a meal cooked upon a stove. She knew how t:J m:ike rye bread, baking it in a brick or stone oven; "shmt cake" from w!1eat fl:x1:-, h3!ced in a skillet or iron 60 LIBFTENANT lVILLIA.ll BARTON. baker's pan; buckwheat cakes, mush, rice pudding, etc., but felt awk ward in her new surroundings. :\lrs. l\laxwell took in the situation. l\lrs. Erskine furnished milk. 1\lrs. ~laxwell made biscuit, baked them in Erskine's stove, and we ate our first meal of "prairie_. cooking. There was no day school at Knox Grove until next winter. Then theymudd ed up the cracks in the log house that :\Ir.Knox had vacated, when he built the more pretentious home, that, in turn, he had sold to the Porter family, in the fall of 184:5. The Porter sons were school teachers, but the people most interested ask~d Stephen to teach and he did so. Here I attended my first spelling school. They chose sides and spelled around. At length ·they "spelled down." The two scholars at the foot of the class stood up first; that was the way to do it, we were told. \Vhen one went down, the next scholar on that side came to the gap. Eleazar, for s::nne unexplainable reason, missed nearly his first word. He was a good scholar in every branch he had studied. I spelled down seven scholars on the other side, Henry Por ter among them. Jane \Villiams, sister of, and two years older than, Daniel's Ann, faced me. \Ve sto~d a long while, I am not sure which went down first. But I recollect th:it as I correctly spelled one word that Stephen had evidently thoa~!1t m1re difficult than the average, I s1w a pleased expression on his fac~, involuntary, probably, which I thought meant that he was pleased to see his slender brother mak in ! such a r~corJ, in his first spelling school. I think it was two years fater that the log schoolhouse was built on the meridian line, half on l\lr. Porter's and half on father's land. Pos sibly it was oae year sooner. The next school, after Stephen's "quarter," was in Daniel Pratt's back room. They had a log house with some loft room, and a le:in-to on the west side, about ten feet wide by perhaps sixteen feet long. Hannah Camp, Louis \Vinter's mother, was the teacher that quarter school in the lean-to. l:1. this r~::>m was held the first Sunday school (1847). Pratt had ten in their family. Levi Camp's house was oftea used for meetings and Sunday school. \Vhen the Knox 106 house was used for school, the meet ings were held in that. A :\lethodist preacher came once in two weeks, ordinarily, preached, and had class meeting. The first Sun day school was in the Pratt schoolhouse in the summer of 1847. The next summer it was in l\lr. Camp's ·house. Soon after our arrival Eleazar.and I went to meeting in the school house on the south side of Perkins Grove. A l\lethodist preacher ENSIGN ELEAZAR BARTON. 61 preached there once a fortnight. A Baptist had the alternate Sun day. There, I first heard the hymn, "The Star of Bethlehem," sung to the tune of "Bonnie Doon." Or rather, I heard the last verse of it. It was then custon1ary, as soon as there were a few people in the meeting house, for some one to start a hymn, and quite likely to sing one hymn after another until the preacher was ready. The next time I heard that hymn and tune I appropriated them, and now often sing the entire hymn on a lonely ride home after dark. ------"'!"'!"""!-.-----~~~~~~~, I wish that the old c·ustom of singing before meeting, singing the whole of a hymn, instead of --· · cutting out verses, and singing over the grave of a dead Christ ian would become customary -again. In the early days nearly all sung "the air." I like the har mony of four parts. But there was a power in the old way of singing, that I think does not exist in the music of the pres ent day. You are waiting, impatiently, perhaps, to hear of the :house huilding, while memory has led n1e over a long route~ that I would like to commemorate in story, if I had the in1agination necessary to supply the con necting links. I would rather bear stories of these olden times, on our old settler days, than listen to fine oraton•. DASIEL BARTOS. ~ Stephen bargained for the "Rose and l\1itchell" land· in Knox Grove, for $i50. Father paid the purchase money in a few days after our arrival. It was the tin1ber land, that n1ade it valuable. Only four acres of prairie sod were broken. Stephen planted corn on that l\lay I. Pine board fence was not dreamed of. The man who could not buy a small piece of tim ber, to supply him with rails and fuel, could not settle. From \Vard's LIEUTENANT 11 JLLIAM BARTON. Corners to Paw Paw, along the Chicago and Princeton road, we went nearly twelve miles without a house, shrub, fence, or mark of a plow. On the Peru and Grand De Tour road, we went some seven or eight miles south and as tar north over virgin prairie. ~Ir. Erskine re~ marked, when we lived in the same house, that the time would never come when these prairies wou~d he settled so but that the inhabitants could not nnly pasture their stock on the commons, but could also get a·: t!1e p:-airic hay he nerded br ?:is stock. Father disputed him, and added that l\lr. Erskine might see the day when these prairies would all be owned and settled and he roads, instead of follow ing ridges, .would be forced to the section lines. Father lived to see what came sooner than he expected. To return from my wandering again. \Ve brought our axes from New Jersey. They were too thin to stand Illinois oak, and soon gave place to western axes. Trees were soon cut down, and • saw logs hauled to Inlet, where there was a saw mill at each end of the dam. I thirik the one at • the north end went into disuse after l\liller Dewey, spoken of in "The Banditti of the Prai ries," went to the penitentiary Corydon Dewey sawed our logs. :\I y first trip was with Daniel, DK. J.-\COB B. B.\ R TOX. 18b7. just after the fourth of July. The two roads, ( from Porter's and \Vard's,) came together some where about where 0. E. Clark afterwards lived. Thence to Sand Grove, and connected with the Chicago and Galena road (which ran through :\Ielugin's and Paw Paw, and met the Princeton branch, a little di.~tance south-~ast of Tripp's log tavern. \Ve had a yoke of oxen and one saw log. I recollect (was very thirsty, yet I thought the prairies heautif ul, there were so many wild flowers and tl:e p1-ai1 ic ;..._ra~s ,·.-a~ ,,·;n•ing in the wind. EL\"SJGN ELEAZAR BARTON. 63 The sills and floor beams of ~>Ur house were htwn. James, a car penter, had a broad axe. A common axe ''scored" the log and the carpenter smoothed it with his broad axe. I rather think that the studs and braces were also hewn. They all were morticed into the sills and plates. A wooden pin through each end of the brace. No large nails. The shingles were oak, made by hand from trees cut for the purpose. I think the window-casing was made from oak boards, but am not sure if the window sash were hon1e made The glass were 8 x 10, the 7 x 9 glass heing somewhat out of style. Both sizes were in common use for years. Probably five years later Mr. Camp got 9 x 12 glass. The house was •sixteen feet wide, twenty feet long and perhaps twelve feet high: was 7 ½ feet clear, between the beams of the two floors, set on blocks sawed from trees. There was no brick nearer than Princeton.· The stone quarries at Lee Center had not been de veloped I am not sure whether the joists for the upper floor were hewed or sawed. I rather think they were hewn. The floor boards were rough oak, laid down without matching. \Ve did not have enough to cover up stairs. 0:1e night I dreamed ot hearing the buzz of a rattlesnake. I sat up in my bed spread on the floor, and when partly awake recol lected that the snake was not the only danger; I 1night fall to the lower floor if I moved far. \Ve moved into this house with a quilt for a door. The few cows on that side of the grove inclined to flock to gether. l\lr. Porter had a Durham buJI which they brought from i\ilichi gar.. He was old enough to be insolent. He did not like the looks of our door and we som~times felt apprehensive lest he \\alk through it in the night. In autumn, father bought a numher eight, wood cook stove. \Vestern coal had not bee.1 discovered. The winter was quite severe. \Ve had only green w<\od to burn. Accustomed to a warmer home in New Jersey, with a fire place in each of the large rooms below, and a fire place up stairs in the room where we boys slept, we fdt the cold, but probably no worse than our n(•ighhors, who felt less able to use wood freely. In those days people did not dress as they do now. Very few women had rubber shoes-probably not one pair in that neighbor hood. :Men had no overshoes whatever; though later, the wealthier men got overshoes nmde of leather soles and buffalo skin uppers. A 6-l- LIEFTEN.4NT li''/LLIA..'\l BARTON m:¼n with w.>:Jlen p1ntalo:>as, lined with cotton sheeting, was fairly dressed. Those with "canton flannel" drawers were rather extra dressed. Very few had overcoats. Sheep were scarce and woolen goods quite expensive. Eight yards of calico made a dress for a com mon woman. I have known a man to carry the calico hmne at night; the next night, the wife, caring for a number of children, would ha,·c the dress 1nade and on her at the supper tahle. Leather shoes for women, boots for the n1en. Starched shirts quite rare. In winter men often went to meeting with the same clothes they had worn through the week, excepting a clean shirt. In summer a man with a hickory sh1rt, blue jean overalls, a vest, a home n1ade straw hat, and coarse boots was dressed for church,-the shirt and overalls being recently washed. l\len often went to meeting bare foot. They drove ox teams and a lumber wagon. S01netimes chairs for seats, especially for the mother and baby. :Mostly, a board laid across the top of the wagon box. The only spring seats were two oak sticks, small studs the length of the wagon box, supported at the four ends by iron hooks. The seat hoards short enough to rest upon these supports and move up and down. An unusual amount of r rairie sod was broken -in the summer of 1846. The decomposition of so much vegetable matter helped cause much ague. Some who had lived here two or three years before we came had their first ''shake" that fall. Sometimes there were not enough well ones in a family to care for the sick. I had my first shake in "hazel nutting time." Had just fifty shakes before settled weathernext spring. A shake every day reduced me rapidly. Usually, in less than two weeks it would run its course and leave n1e. After a few weeks of respite, it w.-;uld seize me again. A life-long character istic of father was. whenever he had a little fever he became talka tive. Jason fared the worst, and was often delirious. His case took the form of dumb ague and his mind would be wild one, two or three hours. One day father got a slate and pencil and showed Jason how to cipher, but Jason saw a deer jump over our house. Father told him to wait a n1inute and we would hear l\lr. \Villiams (you will recollect him and his son Sid), shoot the deer. Then he went on with the slate. Ho would see a sliver on the floor, and think that was going to jump through him. Dr. Heath, who then lived north of the Grove, failed to help him. They sent for old Dr. Gardner of Temperance Hill, four miles north of Amboy, but to no purpose. The doctors of La :\loille, Avery and Gorha1n were both allopath, and ESSIG.\" ELE.-tZ.lR B.-lRTO.. V. 65 practiced bleeding, blistering and a goDd calomel sore mouth. Father had a severe experience with calomel about the time of tny infancy, and would not patronize them. At length Ur. Heath broke the hold of the disease with quinine. So far as I recollect quinine was a comparatively new ren1edy, and there was quite a popular prejudice against it. Ague pills were abundant, but they cost a dollar a box. A man would split rails all day, eat a cold lunch at noon, for 40 or 50 cents. Dollars were scarce. The pills usually gave only ten1porary relief. :My Ague Balsam and Cathartic Pills would have been a boon in those days. They came later, and the Balsam did good work. You will see that n1y mind inclines to linger over the inci dents of the olden time. I very often think of the conversation I heard, principally with father and 1\1 r. Erskine, with a num ber of others present. Father had been in this State less than a week,-1 think but two or three days. Father inquired if they had no timothy or clover hay. l\'lr. E. said that we had none, and would never need them; there would always be plenty of prairie grass. It was then that father told them that the time was not far distant when these prairies would all be settled, cattle and hogs kept in pastures, and roads forced to follow straight lines instead of following ridges. These thoughts seemed wholly im probable to the older settlers. There was a neighborly hos pitalitv in those days that does RACHEL BARTON PRATT. not exist now. ~early every bJdy wore common clothes, and lived cheaply · A stranger could get lodging in those little homes far easier than I now find a home 66 LIEUTENANT lVILLIA.\I R.4.RTO.\. for the night where people have an ahundance of room and sur plus beds. The leather hed would he laid upon the floor for a stranger or for neighbor's boys who happened to he caught away from home in a severe thunder storm. As I said re c~ntly at an old settlers' meet ;,.·...... · j•:t;,:..·~~: S: ing, the young men took their .,., .. - ,,~,_ swetthearts out buggy riding W:t,.;;i :~xe:.IUI~~:r ~:~; ::;; t~~ girl's wedding trousseau. I have said nothing of prairie ,. :·. -:, .. . ~.,; ., . wolves, rattlesnakes, prairie . \1 chickens, etc. I could write c)f "~ them if you wish. All were abundant. Had the "Massa Saugers" been a really vicious enemy, he would have had tnany more victims. Cnless trodden upon, he would usu ally elevate his tail, ~ive warn ing and move away. But a stone "canteen,, in the harvest field was excusable. \Vhite clover came in spon t1neously. \Vhere a track was made, the prairie sod killed, and the track abandoned, white clover succeeded the prairie grass. It now appears to he on the decline. It used to be our best plant for bees. It has had very little honey the last twenty years, and is not as abundant as it used to be. WILLI.-\::\I :SEWTO:S B.-\RTOX, Both father and mother had o. B, 7th Illinois Cavalry. Died in ~er,·ict> .\lay-t, 1865_ strong sympathies. No one suf- . fered where they could relieve the suffering. Their children came honestly by their sympathetic nature. They were both generous, and ENSIGN ELEAZAR BARTON. 67 always ready to assist those who tried to do well. The Bartons have sometimes been obstinate when unduly crowded, but would usually suffer injustice rather than quarrel. Father and mother were in accord in sustaining religious work, were interested in the schools of the neighborhood, and assisted whatever they could that was intended to make the world better. Mother was more outspoken against wrong doing than father, and received more criticism; but she no less than father had a generous appreciation of all that was good. They were industrious, respectable and honest, standing in principle and moral purpose with the better class of our neighbors. Eleazar Barton and his wife were plain, hard-working people, with no affectation or pretense. They spent their active years in rearing their children and building a home in a new comn1on wealth, and had little time for reading or ae.5thetic culture. They had a few books -Rach ael Barton's copy of "The Anxious Inquirer" covered with cloth of her own spin ning is in my possession, and several of her books, similarly co\1'ered, still exist. She was an industrious spinner, and undertook to spin a coverlet for each of her sous, but died w heu she had finished three. These were prettily woven by a Knox Grove weaver, and have her na1ne wrought into the design. These went to llARIA H.-\STIXGS BARTOS, 1899. her daughter Rachael, and her sons Daniel and Eleazar, and I think all of them are preserved. Eleazar Barton's Bible is preserved, and, with his father's sword is shown in the writer's book-plate. It was published by Edmund Cushing at Luenberg, l\Iass., iu 1832, and bears on its fly leaf, in ink made by father's n1other, an ornamental design by 08 LIEUTENANT U"JLLIA.\1 BARTON. a schoohnaster nan1ed Stnith, ··Eleazar and Rachel Barton, Dec. 2nd, A. D. 18-:l8t It contains the record of their fan1ily. I barelY re\ne1nber 1ny grandfather Barton, a full faced, rather florid old~man:sitting besidethegreat opeu fire.the onlyone of the kind I retne1uber in tny boy- hood. Such a fire he in . ' . i. ~':------. .. ,,: ' ,... -~,~--, sisted upon having while he lh·ed. He and his sons were De111ocr-dts the ti1ne /'.' until of \ the l\Iissouri Co1npron1ise. I I He was an Abolitionist all I hii-; life; but his fatniliarity I. with 8}aYery as it existed in New Jersey 1uade hin1 con servative, and he was not an1oug the 1nost rddical of the Abolitionists. He was a I pat1iot, and his heart was at / the front in the days of the Civil ,Yar. He was deeply interested in the second election of Lincoln and as it ap proached often said that he longed to lh·e to vote that day. He had not been outside his door for weeks nor up his own stairs for tuonths when he drove to l\Iendota in a stonu to ,·ote for Lincoln in 1864. The election was held in a hall upstairs in Rust's block, and refusing proffered help, he went up stairs on his knees, and so to the ballot box. It was a rdre exhibition of a fine sentin1ent in the old n1an, too sin1ple-hearted to know how beautiful a thing he was doing. He scarcely expected to survive that day, and went to the p-llls as other men were going to the battle. He was too unaffected to suppose that the act would be ren1e111bered, but in it was an exhibition of the finest spirit of de- voted and conscientious citizenship. · ENSIGN ELE.-tZER RARTO.V. 69 I re1uen1ber his funeral, and the face whieh they held me up to see, and I knew even then that a good 1nan, and one honored by his neighbors, had gone. Eleazar and Rachel Barton and de~eased n1en1bers ·of this fa1n ily were bttrie~l in the Knox Grove Cen1etery, but within recent years the bodies have been ren1oved to the better and more per n1auent cemetery at l'Iendota. Timber laud on the prairies steadily diminishes, and Knox Grove will be obliterated before n1any years. It lay along Bttrt•au Creek, near the corner of Lee, Bureau and La Salle counties. Eleazar Barton's land was at the junction of the creek and the third principal n1eridiau of the State. . Through the courtesy of llr. Charles Gardner of Sublette I an1 able to give a picture of Bureau Creek where it is cro~sed by the Illinois Cautral R:iilway. '~The old swiln1uii1g hole'' on p. 49 is the scene of what little fishing and swimu1ing I was able to do in boyhood, and is not far fron1 the place where Shabbona and his brave.;; used to ean1p on grandfather's land during his earJy ye1rs in Illinois. RACHEL BOSrEDO • READ BARTON. Rachel Bosteilo Re]d, daughter of Lgwis Rea:l and Rachel Bostedo, was born in l\Iorris County, N. J., May 9, 1799, m. Nov~ ~, 1816 Eleazar Barton, and died of typhoid fever at Knox Grove, Ill., Aug. 22, 1849. The marriage record is as follows: ••I certify_ that on the eighteenth day of ~ovember~ eighte~n hundred and fifteen, I married Eleazar Barton to Rachel Read both of the Township of Pequannack in the County of :\!orris and State of ~ew Jer:-:ey. '\V'itness my hand this eighteenth day of ~ovember in the year of onr Lord eighteen hundred and fifteen. BARNABAS KING, Minister of the Go~pel 1st Prest. Church at Rockaway.~' Liber B. p 1 J(1, llorris Co. Record. Of his mother, my father writes: Mother, like most of the Bostedo's had quite a large frame. Her complexion was hardly dark, nor was it quite light. She had dark hair and eyes. The bilious temperament predominated. We thought her a good cook. She made excellent bread and butter, and these, with mush and milk, were "the chief of our diet." While she was womanly, she had rather more "drive" than father had. She was 70 LIEUTEX.\XT U'ILLIAM BARTO.V. industrious and economical. ln New Jersey she got a system by which she cut men's clothing. and sometimes cut for our neighhors at Knox Grove. !\lost of her otherwise leisure time was employed in patching or making clothes, she, meanwhile, humming some tune. She could card wool, though that was generally done at a carding mill. She spun rolls into yam; and wove the yarn into cloth. She wove her own carpets. Eleazar learned to weave after mother got the warp into the loom. I did most of the quilling. He and I were engaged in an u pA stairs room, where Eleazar and I played our first and I presume, our last game of cards. Cousin Eleazar Hen-· derson, about Eleazar's age, standing outside, attracted our attention by whistling. He heckoned us to come down. We told him to come up. He came. Showed us a pack of cards. He appeared to know the names of some of the cards. \Ve certainly did not. The game had hardly com menced when the door opened FRED K. BASTL-\~. H$. suddenly; n1other seized some of the cards and threw them into the open fire, saying, "I'll have no card playing in my house." Father would have stopped the card playing, but probably in a milder way. Mother was equal to some doctors in sickness. She often attended mothers at the time of births, and so far as I know, without any con1- pensation. She was regarded as a skillful nurse. She made quite a number of remedies which we thought valuable. One was an excel lent healing salve, which was often needed by wood choppers. Father had little skill in caring for the sick. He would go through ENSIGN ELE.4ZAR B.4RTO.V, 71 dark and storm for a doctor; do anything that was needed, hut seemed timid about being around the sick bed. Mother was as fond of music as I am. She has a clear, strong. accurate voice. She learned tunes readily, and sang much at home, In spending an afternoon away with some neighbor, she often took a hymn book with her, and spent part of the time in singing hymns. Father regarded her as much the best female singer in the neighbor hood of Knox Grove. Mother never sought prominence for the sake of being prominent. But she would stand wherever she believed that duty called her. Preachers quite frequently called upon her to close their meetings with prayer. .. LEWIS READ. Lewis Read, father of Rachel, wife of Eleazar Barton, came to Morris County, N. J., probably from New England. There he married Rachel, daughter of Rev. Jacob Bostedo. She died in giving birth to her only child, Rachel Bostedo Read, b. May 9, 1799. The infant daughter was reared by her maternal grand parents, and the discouraged young father went to what was then the far west, ''the Lake Region" of central New York, and was lost to his wife's relatives in.. New Jersey. REV. JACOB BOSTBDO. In the history of l\Iorris C-0. p. &q(j there is reference to Jacob Bostedo as one of the noted men still remembered by old men in Morris County. He was not settled over a church, but had a farm on which was a tannery, a small iron furnace, etc., and preached at different places on Sunday. He was a Presbyterian. He and his wife are buried in the Zeek burying ground. Their tombstones read: IS llEllORY OF IN JIEJIORY OF JA~E REV. JACOB BOSTEDOE. Wll>OW OF WHO DIED REY. JACOB 80S1'EDOE, FEB. IOrH, 1832. WHO DIED SEPT. 4TH. 181(), IN THE 81TH YEAR OF ffli;l AGE. IN THE 88TH YEAR OF HER AGE LIEUTENANT lVILLI.4.\f BARTON. The children of Jacob and .Jane Bostedo were Abran1, Peter, Gideon, Rachel, Jane (111. David Losaw), Susanna (m. l\latthias Hogencan1p ). Rachel Bostedo visited her granddaughter in. January 18B!, and the son born at that time (Jan. 5) was uan1ed for her hon ored husband, then two years dead, Jacob Bostedo Barton, the father of the writer. Her husband is believed to have been of Connecticut stock; but her own ancestry was Dutch. Her 1naideu muue was Snider, which her father probablv spelled Schneider; her 1nother was a Van \Vinkle . CHILDREN OF ELEAZAR •AND RACHEL B. BARTO:k. The children of Eleazar and Rachel B. Barton were born near Green Lake, Pequannack Township, N. J. Their names are: I. LEwts READ BARTO:S, b. June 3, 1817, m. Agnes l\lasaker. They lh·e at l\lendota, Ill. He was a wagon n1aker in New Jersey and a farmer in Illinois, but sold his farm several years ago and is living in town. Their children are: I. Infant daughter b. April 9, 1813, d. April 26, 184a. 2. Sylvester Barton, b. Sept. 15, 1844, 01. Feb. 1869, Roeua Sawyer. They live at Littleton, Colorado. Their c!iildren are: Clarence Noble, and Clara ~label, twins, b. Meriden, Ill., Aug. 16, 1873. Clara died Dec. 24, 1876. 3. Rachel Jane, b. Nov. 16, 1846, d. April 9, 1848. 4. Caroline Barton,b. Aug.17, 1852, m. Nov. 28, 1872, White field S. Crawford. They live at Geneva, Neb., and have no children. 5. Emeline Barton, b. Aug. 17, 1852, m. Jan. 3, 1853, Albert Minkler. They lh"e at l\lendota, Ill. They have one daughter, Carrie Agnes, b. Aug. 29, 1885. II. JAMEi BARTOS, b. Oct. 18. 1819, m. 1813, Susan, t b. o~t. 1, 1823 J dau. of Enos and Fanny( Keepers )D.ivenport. In 18:16 he accompanied his parents to Illinois, where he lived till 1850 when he removed to Iowa, and in 1865 to California. He was Justice of the Peace in Illinois,and held the san1e office, for 3 years in Iowa. For 17 years he was a prominent mem ber of the Board of Supervisors of Tulare Co., Cal., and to ENSIGN ELEAZAR BARTON. 73 hhn is due the retention of the County seat and the building of the court house at Visalia. He lives at Three Rivers, Cal. The children of James and Susan Barton are: 1. Hudson De Camp Barton, b. March 21 ISM. He lives at Orosi, Tulare Co., Cal. He m. 1870, Sarah Harmon, dau. of Isaac· Harmon, by whom he had seven children as fol lows: 1. James De Camp, b. 1871. m. Nellie St. Clair, 1893. 1'heir children are, Sylvia, b. 189.i, daug:iter, b. tSJiJ. 2. Franklin Frederick, b. 1872, 3. George Albertus, b. 1873, m. Clara Moor, 1899, 4. Orleany, b. 1878, m. A!hert \Vraight, 1897. They have one son, b. 18g8. 5. Roy, b. 1881, 6. Hugh, b. 1883, 7. l\faud, b. 1896. 2. James Scott Barton, b. April 21, 1845, d. Dec. 2~ 1883. 3. Orlando De \Vitt Barton, b. Sept. 6, 1847. Hem., 1880· l\Iaggie Allen, b. 1864, d. 1888. He lives at Auckland, Cal. His children are: 1. Phrebe, b. 1881. 2. Cornelius Easter, b. 1882. 4. Enos Davenport Barton, b. Dec. 21, 1850,is unn1anied. He lives at Auckland, Tulare Co., Cal. 5. Florence Barton, b. 1854, d. 1880. She m. ,v. H. Eyrd, (b. 1850), date 187 4. They have one son Clarence Edgar, b. 1875. 6. Jane Barton, b. 1856, n1. Jan1es \Veathers son of Ben F. \Yeathers. They live at Visalia. Their children are: I. Carrie \Veathers, b. 1878. 2. Grover L. \Veathers, b. 1885. 7. Adelaide Barton, b. 1858, m. Jan1es Butts. They live at Hanford. Kings Co. California. They have one child: Ida :\Jay Butts, b. 1877. l\larried H. Hamilton, 1897. Ida ~fay Hamilton's children are a son b. 18Hl and a daughter h. 1900. 8. llalissa Rartou, b. 1861. She n1. 1878,Robert Hardin.son of Benj. Hardin. They live at Visalia, Tulare Co., Cal. Their ebildren are: 1. Norman, b. 1879. 2. Blanche, b. 1883. :3. Benjamin. 74- LIEUTENANT H'ILLIAM BARTON. 9. ,Ja:;;au B1rton, IJ. 18!).l, 111. llrs. Marv Griffi.;. i ··,.• : .• : t .. live.-; at Three River~, Cal. Their chiidren art·· I. Vernon, b. 1897. 2. Roht!rt, h. 1899. l'l. I\Iilton ~IoutgotneryBarton,b. Feb. Hi, 18f>7. 11,· m .. J-..,...;"'· Hat.tie DJ1n:1ster. They live at Thre3 River-5, T11l.1 r•·· Cu., Cal. Their children are: 1. Nellie, h. 1892. 2. Ralph, b. 18H8. I[[. }IA~~o:s B\RTox, b. Jan. 2B, 1822, d. June ll, 18it. IV. ,Jons BARI'O'i, b. Noi·. 5, 182:;, d. D~c. 20. 182;i. V. SrEPHEN BA~T :s, b. Xov. 2, 182H, prececleJ his father to Illi nois in 181()., in which year he taught the fir~t publie s<•hool in Sublette township. In 18;i! he 1noved to California; 111. llarch 10, 1893, ~lr5. Helen Jeanette (lletealf) Potter (b. Ashford, Conn., July 2, 1851), daughter of Joh and Helen 1\letealf and widow of H. R. Potter. HP was editor of 1'he Vi~alia D:!lta.1870-187t.i, Th·! Iron A!r~. 1876-78, and is the author of ''A Rigid Earth: or Geology as Applied to ~lin ing." He ha~ eontributed to the Delta for o,... er thirty years; has also contributed to 1nany other papers and was the au thor of a series of articles on Riparian law at the tiine of the first turning of public attention to irrigation, and has at length seen the right of the "hank owner'' to --wash his lands in tin1e of drouth" re<.•ognized as the tea(•hingg of the law of nature. so far as California is concerned. He lives at Isabella, Cal.~ being the founder of the town. He has no ehildren. V L DAXIEL BARTO~, b. Feb.27.1829, d. Jefferson. Iowa~Feb.7 ,1891. He 1n .. 1st, ~ancy Ann \Villia1ns (b. April 27, 1839,d. in Sub lette, Ill., Sept. 17, 1886) by whotn he had: 1. A lic-e Alvina, b. Apr. 6, 1856, 111., Feb. 1, 1877, Philip Burg h. Xov. 27, 1846). Their <.•hildren are: 1. Ellen ~lartha, h. Nov. 1, \818. 2. Minnie l\'larilla, h. June 29, 188::3. R ~:1ncy Anne, h. July 1, 188:i. 4. K:1thrina Julia, b. ~ov. 7, 1887. 5. Frank Daniel, h. 1889 6. :Mary Josephine, h. 18Hl, d. 18!ll. 7. De!ia. 8. Le Roy Lewis. ENSIGN ELE.42AR BARTON 2. A1nasa Lewis Barton, h. l\farch I, 1858. DA:SIEL BARTON, 1n., 2d, l\Iariuda Robinson, b. July 20, 1842, ru. O<.•t. 1, 1867. Their children were: 3. Fred Barton, b. June 1, 1868, m. Addie V. Johnson, (b. Feb. 3, 1867) April 3, 1890. They had: Claire l\1arinda, b. June 15, 18~1. 4. l\ferton Alonzo Barton, b. Nov. 16, 1870, m. Esther Alk·e Van Enunon (b. Feb. 2, 187f,) l\larc-h 10, 1897. They had: Paul Ford, b. Aug. 3, 1899. 5. Albert Guy Barton b. Oct. 12, 1873, n1. Ida Jane Lewis, .July 1, 1897. fl. Le Roy Jason Barton, b. July 10, 1875. 7. ~Iary l\Ielissa Barton, b. Sept. 12, 1885. ,·rr. ELEAZAR BARTO~, b. June 11, 1831, 1n. l\Iarch 31, 1854,Han· nab L., dau. of Xathan and Hannah B. TurnPr. For 1nany years he was located at l\Ieriden, Ill., where be engaged in the 1nanufat•ture of wagons. He was Justiee of the Peal"e. and held other public offiees, and was active in the work of {~hurch and Sunday sehool. They now Ih·e at Freedon1~ Ill. TheJ have two adopted children: Silas Edgar Barton, b. Jan. 30. 1~62. n1. l\Iarl"b 28, 1888, Alice, dau. of J ustuR 0., and Eliza R. Carter. They live at Ottawa, Ill. Tht,y have had four l"hildren, of wbon1 three are living. Jennie Clauson Barton, b. Oct I 3, IS 8, n1. llareh 24, 1892, Dauiel Collins. They liYe at Freedo1n, Ill. VIIL ,JACOB BosTEDO BARTOX, h. Jan. 5.183!, 111., 1st.June 8, 18f>O, HeJen 1'Iethven who d. April 18. 1893; 1n., 2d. lirs. Angel ina Eashnan Ellsworth, Aug. 15, 189!. The children of Jacob B. and Helen l\fethven Barton are: l. ,Yillian1 Eleazar Barton, b. J uue 28. 1861, 1n. July 28, l 88f>. Esther Treat Bushnell. 2. l\Iary Rachel Barton, b. Aug. 3, 1862, 1n. l\Iay 20, 18stl, George l\L Patterson. 3. ,John Jacob Barton, b. Sept. 20, 1865. 4. George Herbert Barton. b. Sept. 7. J 869~ d. Jan. 17, 18',H. 5. Grace Helen t arton, b. Jtttt. ~, 1874: 111. June 14, 1900, Ira Loren l\Ic Laren. tc h IC,, IX. tf..\s·:.; B ..\RTON, b. Oct. 25, 1800, d. Juue 30, 1861. 76 LIEUTb"NANT H"JLLJA ..V: BARTON. .c--..:.. e1 o 1... .a.a, , ., "7'. X. RACHEL AMA~oA BARTO~, b. Oet. 12, 1838,,in. April 2U, 1856 Rev. Edward Crandall Pratt. b. l\farch 4, i833, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Skinner) Pratt. He entered the l\lethodist ministry in 1876, and has served many of the churches of the Des Moines Conference and now lives at Sharpsburg, Iowa. Their children born at Knox Grove, Ill., are: 1. Izetta, b. April 25, 1857, cl. Taylor Co., Iowa, l\lay 7, 1875, 2. Arthur Laverne, b. Nov. 2, 1858, n1. l\Iarch 27, 1884, Nancy. dau. of Thomas Con1pton. Their children are: 1. Ernest Earl, b. Feb. 6, 1885. 2. Edward Thomas, b. June 2, 1886. 3. Jessie, h. Jan. 16, 1889. 4. Arthur, h. Aug. 28, 1890, d. Aug. 31, 1891. 5. Eunice Golda, b. Feb. 20, 18»6. 6. Helen, b. April 18, 1898. 3. Rachel Jane, b. Aug. 13, 1861, d. Feb. is, 1863. 4. Addie J ., b. l\larc h 26, 1866. 5. Frank Pratt, b. June 28, 1870, m. Feb. 17, 1892,llrs. Nancy A. (Bycroft) Conkler. They have one child, Bertha Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1893. XI. \VtLLIAM NEWTO:oi BARTO~, b. Sept. 11, 18-11, n1. Aiaria L. Hastings, (d. Oct. 1899) enlisted as a private in Co. 1 • 7th Illinois Cavalry and died at Eastport, Tenn., l\lay 4, 1865. Maria Louise Hastings was born in lforefield.Ohio, in 1837, and cau1e to llendota with her parents in 1854. Her parents were John and Jeannie (Knox) Hastings of Scotch and Irish descent. Prior to her tnarriage she had been a teacher, and when left a widow she again took up that work and contin ued it for twelve years. In 189! she was stri<·ken with par alysis. The last three year:;; of her life she spent with her daughter in Fulton, where she died Oetober 20, 1899. She was a 1nen1her of the llethodist Episcopal church of l\Iendota and up to the titne of her last great affliction, was a wotuan of superior attainrnents, genial 111anners and kiudlv disposi tion. The children of \Villiam Xewton and llaria L. Barton are: Samuel ~ewt.ou, b. 1863. Xellie Jeanette, b. :Feb. 16, 1865, m., Aug. 21 188-1. Frt·d K. Bastian Editor of the ,J,'ulton Journa,l. They live at Ful • ton, Ill. Fred Knox Bastian was born in Rochester.~. Y., iu 1856, and is the son of Yan S. and Ann (Knox) Bastian. He can1e to Illinois with his parents in 1861 and was ENSIGN ELEAZAR B.4RTON 77 brought up on a farn1 in Bureau County. Hisedueation was procured through his own efforts and he successfully en gaged in teaching school for three years. In l 8i9 he ac cepted a position as reporter on the Sterling Gazette and was connected with that paper until 1881 when he pur chased the Fulton Journal, the oldest paper in ,vhiteside County. For seventeen years he was editor of this paper. In 1898 he sold the Journal and is now employed in the Fulton bank. Mr. Bastian is well known in politics and is an active worker for his party interests io \Vhiteside County. In 1895 he received the Den1ocratic nomination for congressman from the tenth congressional district,and in 1898 his name was again placed on the party ticket for representative to the State Legislature fron1 the thirty-first senatorial district, and received the full vote of his party which is in the minority in \Vhiteside County. In 1896 he was appointed postmaster of Fulton by President Cleve land. ESTHER T. BARTOX IS THE WOODS AT FOXBOK.0. CHAPTER IV. DR. JACOB B. BARTON J·acob Bostedo Barton, eighth sou of Eleazar and Rad1el B. Barton, was born in ~forris County, New Jersey, Jan. 5, 1834, and was named by his great grandn1other, who was with his 1nother at the time, in honor of her own deceased husband, the Rev. Jacob Bostedo. Later she presented him with a little red dress with yellow spots, the glory of which he still reu1embers. In 1816 he removed with his parents to Illinois. Attending local schools and in1proving his 1neager home advantages, he fitted hin1self to teach ~whool. He studied n1edicine with Dr. Heath of Paw Paw. His active practiee as a physician was lin1ited, as he soon established hin1self in a drug store in Sub lette, though the n1ore stringent laws of later years caused hin1 to re6-.;ster as a legal physician. He built the drug store and house which he occupied on Richn1ond Street, near l\Iain, in Sublette, and here his <·hildren were born. '.fhe hewn walnut bean1s of this house were wrought by a neighbor, Mr. Can1p. in payn1ent of his fan1ily doctor bill. His activities in the little village were n1auy. He established and operated a sn1all printing office. He was poshnaster for n1any years, and also Notary Public and Village Clerk. Finan eial re,·erses and failing health dro,·e hitn fron1 his store and hon1e, and he established a new hon1e in another part of the vil lage on vacant lots owned by him. Several years of gardening and outdoor life largely restored his health, and he has occupied his reeent years in 1nanufacturing and selling remedies com pounded and used by hhn in previous years. Of his own youth and the n1eans by which he fitted hitnself for his life work he writes: I was a weakly boy, physically. l\ilother carried me into a chilly room when I was a bout six weeks old. A bad cold and pneumonia 80 LIECTENANT H,-1 LLIAAI BARTOI\. resulted. I was active. They called me "the weazel," hut I was never strong as most boys of my age. I think it was in the year o( 18.50, or possibly 1851, we had a heavy snow on the fifth day of April. Next day the no:-th west wind blew, and it was a terrible day. Father had started to go to New Jersey the first day of April. The cars came as far west as Aurora. Eleazar carried him and Esquire l\teekerthere with horses and wagon. \Ve feared that they would be on the lakes in that storm. I was out during much of that storm caring for young lambs. I took a bad cold, and from that time on was an invalid. I coughed badly, spat some blood, and was debilitated. Settled weather came, but I did not improve. Dr. Heath, of Paw Paw, came to see me a few times, and I experienced a temporary in1provement. I read small medical books, whatever I could get. I gathered roots and herbs, not merely for myself, but that I might benefit the neighbors in minor ailments. In 1852 I originated a formula of Diarrhea Drops which I have .used ever since, and as its success was marked, I made other compounds. The neighbors came to me for simple remedies and sometimes wished me to go to their houses. In the meantime, I had obtained larger and reliable works on the practice o( medicine. The Jones brothers and Dr. Avery of La l\1oille were the recog nized physicians at the time, but my practice grew, until I was doing a large share of the doctoring in that neighborhood. I had never settled in my mind whether I ought to be a doctor or a preacher. My weak lungs, my diffidence, and poor education, caused me to choose medicine. I was carrying too much responsibility in son1e critical cases. I felt that I must get out of that, or qualify myself better. I went to Paw Paw, where I studied in the office of Dr. Heath. I had little thought of ever entering a medical col lege. l\Iany of our old, and some of our most successful physicians, had no diplomas. Dr. Heath, who had almost phenomenal success, probably never saw the inside of a medical college. The confinement in the drug store and the study wore on me. I saw that a doctor's life meant travel in the worst of stonns, long nights without sleep, and no rest by day. I never would be able to endure the hardships and exposures of such a life. Besides, I had grown weak and thin, and my able-bodied stomach hardly relished the good food that :\lother Dettan1ore, (a woman that I revere,) set before her boarders. DR. JACOB B. B.4RTON. 81 As I gave up the hope of being a doctor, the impression that I ought to be a Gospel minister, grew stronger. I reasoned that if I had a drug store ot my own, I could take more liberties. l\f y health demanded that I leave Paw Paw. The same amount of study that I had given to medicine in Paw Paw, would give me some knowledge of grammar. If I could correct my grammatical errors, I could hope to attain something in other studies. Soon after coming home my health recu perated. I spoke to father about the drug store project. He promised to aid me. I located in Sublette; soon found the cares of business too exact ing to pern1it much studying, and here I am. Your Father, JACOB B. BARTON. Helen Methvt•n* Barton. Dn. JACOB BosTEDO BARTOS, n1. J uue 8, H~60, HELEX, daugh ter of REv. \V ILLL\.lI l\lETHVEX and 1\1..\RY HELEN )JETHVEN BARTON. S1:u, his wife. She ,vas born in Dundee S co t I a n d, Oct. 19,' 1827, ca1ne to An1erica with her mother in ISM, ber father having pre<.•eded tben1~ to this country six years before. Her niarried life was spent in Sublette~ where she died .April 18, 1893. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM B.4RTOJ.V. She was a wo1nan of sweet spirit, who lived a n1odest, situ ple. sin(•ere Christian life. In youth she was a pretty little girl with rosy <.1 heeks. Her uncle, Rev. Theophilus lfethveu, called her the "flower of the flock." Aunt Jaue wrote of her youth, "Ahnost everyone liked her. She was good at school~ and learned well, but father's leaving put an end to her s<.~hool iug. It was all we could do to live." She was still a child when with her 1nother and the other children she ca1ue to An1eri<.~a. The conditions of frontier life are hard, even for strong n1en. They are harder for delicate won1eu. Helen llet.hven was a sensitive soul, with a strain of poetry in her nature. She had a good rnind and was well read in the best literature. She was gentle and retiring, inheriting her n1other's sweet ten1per, and her father's lo,·e of books. In her fa.st years she suffered fro1u partial deafness, which shut her in fron1 the world, and she was known to only a lirnited circle of friends. But her children rise up and call her hles~ed. REV. WILLIAM METHVEN. Rev. \Villia1n lletln·en, father of Helen llethven Barton, was born in Scotland, Oct, 19, 179!, can1e to A1nerica 1838, and died in Sublette, Ill., Sept. 30, 1874. He was tbe son of David and l\Iary ( Ada1nson) ::\let hven I re1ne1nber Grandfather llethven well. He was a 1nan of strong character and of indon1itable will, and a constant student of the Bible, of poetry, philosophy and theology. He had a rich Scotch brogue, was fond of controversy, and always ready for theological debate. He was a Congregationalist and protested strongly ag-dinst the extretne Calvinisn1 of the Scotch kirk. \Vith others he withdrew and founded an independent church, where he preached, and for whic-h body he wrote sotne theolog ical pau1phlets. He had au alert and logical mind with a strong legal bent. At one ti1ne he beean1e involved in a. lawsuit in America, and quite enjoyed the experience, refusing to employ counsel, and pleading his own case. He greatly delighted in DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 83 the tilts with the lawyers, and won his case, nntch to his own satisfaction. \VilJiam llethven had 1ueager educ-ational advantages, yet was taught to read wide) y and t h i n k well. He spent his youth in gardening. About 1818 he 1nar r i e d 1\1 a r y S i 1n, daughter of Sergeant John ~im, then sup e r i n t e nd en t of a bleachery at Claver house, and, securing en1 p lo y m en t as a bleacher, rose in his work, till on the re tire1nen t of his fa ther-in-law be suc ceeded him as super iu tenden t, and held the position for 17 years. Shortly before the panic of 1837 he had begun uu1nufaet uriug on his own ac count, but the panic ruined hin1, and he ca 01 e t o An1erica, where for six years THE SUBLETTE DRl'G STORE. he worked trying to make a hon1e for his wife and children. These were hard years for the fan1ily. llother and her younger sister Anne had to leave school, and the burden was heavy upon their mother and brother John, who then a lad, as e,~er, proved his fidelity, and was the rnain stay of the family. 84 LIEUTENANT H'ILLIAM BARTON. lly tnother and her sisters, together with all who knew him, honored 111y Uncle John. \Villian1 llc.thveu was a 111an of unusual ability. Thoroughly consc-ieutious, and zealous for Scriptural and political truth, he was son1etimes instant out of season in pressing his views upon others. His education was not proportionate to his abilities and he was the victhu of unfortunate circumstances which hampered his life and irritated his energetic, impetuous nature. Properly trained he would have been a 1nan of mark. His sermons were strong and able. His lectures on the Bible were instructive and con1manded attention of the thoughtful. His constant reading in a n1easure 111ade up for his lack of early advantages, and his logical n1ind, ready speech and mental acuteness sharpened by constant discussion made hin1 a strong as he was ever a fear less disputant. An intense Abolitionist, he carried the discus sion of the question of slavery into unwelcome quarters, and at least once was egged for bis zeal an experience that in no wise diminished his ardor. His views on the Apocalypse n1ade his friends anxious for a brief co111mentary from hhu, and he atten1pted to dictate it to his son John; but he could not 1,ro slowly. enough for his son's writing. His active n1itld was too eager for the speed of the pen. and the task was postponed and at length abandoned. Grandfather was a great reader. \Vhile much given to Bible study. he sought a variety of reading, and disliked it that his father-in-law cared only for one book. He preached and lectured, not only on religious, but on scientific subjects, delivering a lecture at }lt. Morris Sen1inary on Optics. In Scotland he had been the friend aud neighbor of Thomas Dick, and had himself made a telescope of considerable JX>Wer. The making of another and a larger telescope was one of the unfulfilled hopes of his later years. He had imported:the lenses some time before his death. I regret to say that they ,vere not preserved; and ahnost the only article of bis which I possess is his pocket con1pass, brought to Au1erica in 1838. He publh,hed one or 111ore theological pamphlets. of which I DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 85 have been unable to secure a copy, and the only speci1ne11 of his literary work which I have is the following poen1 presen·ed in a clipping from a religious paper: FATHER. "ilt thou riot from this time cry unto me, my fathertnou art the guide of my youth. JPremiab 3:-t WHAT kind inviting·Yoice is this, Which bids me all:my fears dismiFs. 'l'he mighty God who reigns on high. Looks with a sympathetic l'ye, And bids me, to hio1, Pather, cry. But will he love, or can he bear A sinful chnd·s imperfect prayt>r~ He pleads with me to seek his face, 1'hat be may till my soul with bliss. And set me in the chihlren ·s place. And is it to ,Jehovah known 'l'he countless edls I have done Yt:-s, all my sins before him lit>, Yet he my vilt>ness J)&SE-es by• .-\nd bids me, to him. Father, cry. Why such solicitude. say why That I should to him, Pather. cry. It is that I may turn again. Xor i,:ee the abys~. nor ft>el tht:- 1>ain. Where sin and woe malignant reign . .:\nd oh, what more my heart to movt>. What J>roofs of ardent, active lovt>: For me he, gave his Son to die. That from his throne in )·ontler sk)·. lit' might say, ··.-\bba Father, cry:· ~hall not my heart with love expand, To such a Father, such a Friend, And humbly tt'll tht> debt I owt>. That all may hear, that all may know. That gratitude and praise may flow. W ..\I. Great-grandfather David l\Iethven was a shoemaker in Dairsie, Fifeshire, Scotland. Of hin1 and his ,vife l\fary Adan1son their daughter Helen (for whon1 n1y 1nother was named) said, "'They walked in all the com1nandn1en ts and ordinances of the Lord, blan1eless." "He was particularly nice in his shoe1naking. •t 86 LIEUTEN.4NT 11'/LLl.t.\f BARTON. wrote Aunt Jane, "There was no bad leather or poor work. His daughter Helen and l\Iay bound the shoes, and nothing could exceed their neatness and exactness.>' He had a very severe te1nper, but a staunch character, and was au active 1nen1ber of the Presbyterian churc-h. He was a tall spare 1nan. He died of apoplexy, being over sev enty years of age. Of his parents I know nothing. l\Iary Adan1sou, wife of David l\Iethven d i e d a t Brought y Ferry about 1~32. Of her ancestry, I only know that through her we are related to if not descended fron1 the Sel kirks. In n1y boyhood 1ny only pride of ancestry was in what Grandfather told 1ne of a relationship whid1 he was able to trace with Alexander Se l k.i r k, Robinson Crusoe. 1\1 a r .y Adatnson was a very plain, sallow-looking wotnan, bad ly 1narked with sn1all pox, but with a tnanner so pleas· KEV. WILLL\)I )IETHYE~. ant and a voice so re1nark ablv., sweet that she see1ued beautiful to her friends. She was noted for her cleanliness, her quickness at work, and her great kindness to neighbors in dis tress. Aunt Jane wrote, ··I never saw Grand1nother but once, and that was after she and .Aunt Helen and Mary 1uoved to the Ferry, where the daughters supported thetnselves by dress1uak ing. She was then very ·feeble, sitting in an easy chair. They led her out to sit in the garden. It was not long before her death, about 1832, at the age of 8-!." DR. JACOB B. B.~RTON. 87 l\Jary Shu, wife of Rev. \Villian1 }Jethven, was the daughter of John Siru and Christina Stewart. .John Sirn was a bleaeher, the only son of a widow, and a tall, fair, handson1e 1nan. A story is told of a fortune teller who insisted on telling his fortune, but he refused and turned away. "I will tell you one thing,"' said the old won1an. "You wiJl he a soldier.' There was no one thing he abhorrP DR. JACOB B. BARTON AMONG HIS GRANDCHILl?i!EN. 1896. THE CHILDREN OF JACOB B. AND HELEN M. BAR TON. 1897. CHAPTER V. THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. Jacob B. and Helen M. Barton became the parents of five children, William Eleamr, born June 28, 1861; Mary Rachel, born Aug. 3, 1862; John Jacob, born Sept. 20, 1865; George Herber.h pp[n Sept. 7, 1869, d. Jan. 17, 1873; and Grace Helen, born JA~M:1874. All these were born in the house built by their father ~s a drug store and residence oli Richmond Street, ·near Main. Almost directly across the street stood that center of village life, the town pump. 92 LIEUTENANT 11"/LLIA ..\l BARTON. SUBLETTE. The name Subl;eite is said...to have 1;,een suggested by the f re quency with which the contract for building the portion of the Illinois Central Railroad which passes through it was sublet by successive contractors. Possibly some such incident may have influenced the choice, but the original spelling within my me1n ory, Soublette, shows that it was nau1ed for the Venezuelan sol- e.lier, Carlos Soublette, b. 1790, d. 1870. · Sublette was in the region first brought to the knowledge of the world by the Black Hawk war. General Scott's army then 1narched through it. _ "J'he "army trail" through Knox and Pal estine Groves was ea_s~ly followed in my boyhood, and I doubt not is still visible in places. One incident, the hasty retreat of General Atkinson before a body of supposed Indians who turned out to be a company of militia occurred where the village now stands. The village nun1bers some three hundred souls, of who1n a very greatly increased proportiol! are now Gerinans. It is in Lee County, on the watershed between the Illinois and Rock Rivers, not quite a hundred n1iles wes~ and a little south from Chicago. It is not a picturesque village, and to many outsiders life in it might appear n1onotonous enough, but in my own youth we had 110 oppressing sense of social or intellectual isola• tiou. The public schools were fairly good. The churches were social centers of some power; and there were literary societies and singing schools quite as stimulating and useful as tnany larger comn1unities afford. }Iy teacher, l\Ir. C. L. Nettleton, organized a debating society when I was about twelve years old, and I was a charter member. A year or two after this, the Red Ribbon movement resulted in a strong temperance society with a marked literary impulse. The Amboy Journal and the Dixon Telegraph,. still flourishing and well-edited county papers, offered aspiring boys and girls a chance to see their work in print, and not a fclW of u~ availed ourselves of the privilege. There -was always a burning topic in Sublette. Political meetings were large and enthusiastic.. The l?ourth of July never lacked a celebration of some sort. John Clink's band of THE FAMILY OF DR. J.4COB B. BARTON 93 fifes and drun1s never failed to bring us out in procession, and later there was a a1ore or less illustrious brc1ss band in which I played a bass horn at first, and later tried other instruments, till rny college days, when I attained the dignity of leader of the baud. I do not think of our life as one of intellectual dearth. The preaching we heard did not seen1 to us poor; and while in n1y boyhood, daily Chicago papers were not so '-'.omtnon as now, we had then1 when there was news of importance, and we were industrious readers of the weeklies, thus we learned so1ne what pro1nptly of mo,,,emeuts in the outer world. My own earliest recollections are of the Rebellion. Popular interest registered itself at the postoffice, and it did not fail to in1press n1e. I remeruber distinctly the departure of my uncle \Villiam Newton; I remen1ber his funeral; I remember the as sassination of Lincoln and the return of the troops. After the war there were stirring rueetings. As a lad I ac con1panied a great procession to Atnboy to hear John A. Logan, and we brought back a flag awarded to the town with the larg est delegation. The boys were ready to hang it out on slight prov BIRTHPLACE OF BRl"CE F. BAR1'0~, ROBBI~~, 'l'E~~. During his six year.5 in Baston, iu addition to his pastoral labors he pursued his historical.investigations. He had already published two volmnes of fiction: "The Wind-Up of the Big Meetin' on No Business," 1887, and "Life in the Hills of Ken tuc!iy," 1889, and afterward "The Ecclesiastical History of the Western Reserve,' and "The History of the First Congrega tional Church of Wellington," both being papers prepared for the Ohio Church History Society. In Boston he published sev eral stories: "A Hero in Homespun; a Tale of the Loyal South;" Sim Galloway's Daughter-in-Law;" ~'The Truth A bout the Trouble at Roundstone," When Beston Braved the King;" a child's book "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie," illustrdted by his friend A. M. \Villard, "Old Plantation Hymns," and •'The Psaln1s and Their Story" in two volumes. He has since pub lished ·•Pine Knot," a story of the Civil \Var; "The Prairie Schooner," a story of the Black Hawk War, and the "Improve- THBFAl\f/Ll"OF DR. TACOIJ B. R.4R1"0N. 97 1nent of Perfection." He served for six years ou the board of directors of the l\lassachusetts Honie l\lissionary Society. and for eight years has been a direetor of the Congregational Edu• cational Society. His alma uiafer conferre~l upon hirn the degree of D. D. in 18&.3. He is one of the editors of the Bibli otheca Sacra, and viee pre.$ideu_t of Jb~ Congregational S. S. and Publishing Society and of~Uie A~~rican PeacP Society. He is a director of Chicago The9logical -Seminary, of the· Illinois Home Missionary Society, and of the C.)ngreg,1tion:1l Education Society. IJis suJnn1:,rs are spent at _Foxboro, Ma~s., with his family. In "the wigwa1n," a quiet study in the woods, he has done some of his literary work; and the children find enjoyment in the woods and water t~lose at hand. · Pictures of the woods · and the wigwan1 are shown herein. The children of Willia1n Eleazar, and Esther Treat (Bushnell) Barton are: Bruce Fairchild Barton born at Robbins, Tenn., Aug. 5th, 1ssn. The little white house on the hilltop wa9 built by bis part-nts, and fornwd their first home. A picture of it is shown in this volume. BIR'l'lIPLAC'E OF CHARLE~ W. A~D HEl~E~ E. BAR'l'O~, 20 SPRING S'l' •• OBERLIN, 0. THE FAMILl' OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 99 Charles William Barton born at 20 Spring Street, Oberlin, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1887. For the little cottage 20 Spring Street, the house in Robbins was exchanged usigbt unseen,,, and proved a pleasant horn., during th~ three years of theological study. A picture of it is shown in this volume. Helen Elizabeth Barton, born 20 Spring Street, Oberlin, Ohio, J1111f 2a, 1889. Frederick Bushnell Barton, born in the Congregational Par sonage Wellington, Ohio, April 30, 1891. Robert Shawmut Barton, born 28 Cumberland Street, Boston, Aug. 4, 1894. ~ ESTHER TREAT lBUSHNELL) BARTON. Esther Treat Bushnell was born in Johnsonville, Tru1n bull County, Ohio, the daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Ann (Treat) Bushnell. She attended successively the Hartford (Ohio) Academy, the Or well Normal Institute, and Allegheny College at Meadville, Pa. She taught in the district schools near her home, and then for two years each in Orwell Nor mal Institute, and in the preparatory department of Berea College. She mar ried Rev. William Eleazar Barton July 23, 1885. Her grandparents were Lewis Bushnell, b. April 12, 1787, d. June 29, 1818; rn. Dec. 27, 1808, Sallie Webb, b. Sept. 26, 1790, d. Feb. 8, 1878; and Deacon John Treat, b. On111ge, Conn., Feb. 15, 1795, d. J uue ESTHER T. BARTON. lSli!J. 100 LIEVTEN.1NT Htf LLIAM BARTON. 13, 188i, 111. llay 10. 1820, }larietta Hu1nasou, h. Hartford, Conn. }lay 20, 180t, d. June 30, 1885. As each of these lines runs ba<-k into early Connecticut history, and the fa1ni· lies with which these interrnarried are niany, her lineage will be re<.•orded under the na1ues of her several an<•estors, whose narnes in the suecessive generations will he printed in s1nall capitals. • BUSHNELL. From l'.1 rs. \Vm. H. :Maher, of Toledo, I have the following inter estJng account of the Bushnell fan1ily: About the 25th day of l\lay in the year 16H9, a sn1all ship sailed down the Than1es, and took her Cl1ursc towards America. The name of the ship is unfortunately Jost, hut we know it was very small, 350 tons, and yet almost twice as large as the l\layflower. The company which she carried was gathered from the southern part of England, chiefly frmn the counties of Kent, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex. \Ve do not know their nmnbers, but later on we find a record of "25 heads of fan1ilies." So we may safely infer that the nun1bcr could not be less than one hundred. The little ship must have h:en crowded to its utmost capacity, and those two months on the ocean were not without their discomforts. After they had been about ten days on their voyage, they drew up a covenant, agreeing to "sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation and he helpful to each other in any common work." The twenty-five heads of fami lies signed this. The third nan1e on the list of signers was Francis Bushnell. He came from Horsted, Suffolk County, England, and with him came his daughters, Sarah and Rebecca. His wife's name was also Rebecca, but we are not told whether she came with her family to America er had died in England before the emigration. On the voyage an attachment was formed between Sarah and Mr. John Hoadley, which is pleasantly told by a writer in the New Eng land Magazine: "The voyagers landed at Quinnipiac (~ew Haven) and faced the unknown wilderness. To their enquiring hosts they reported a tittle sea-sickness among their number, during the passage, and a little love-making between John Hoadley, student of divinity, and Sarah Bushnell; which report shows that ocean voyages in the seventeenth century n1ight closely resemble those of the nineteenth THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. B.4RTO,.V. 101 m all but duration. This flirtation, however, was, as Puritan flirtation should he, a more serious matter, and ended in a marriage, duly sol emnized and recorded at Guilford in July, 1642." John Hoadley and his wile returned to England in 1658, where he became chaplain in Cromwell's army. About the first of July the colony at New -.Haven began tn look anxiously for the ship to cotne in. l\tr. Davenport was especially in terested in its welfare, for among its passen- · gers was his little son, who had been left in England in the care of relatives. Sir Getnge Fenwick, with his bride, Lady Alice Boteler, who was afterwards so dearly loved by the : Saybrook colony, were also on this ship. \Vhen the New Haven people began to look for the ship that was bringing their friends, they set apart a day for public humiliation by fasting and prayer, • . a?d "shent a pitnhnish to ,· . .'. pt 1ot t en1 to e ar- bor," because that was the first ship that had ever cast anchor in those waters. But the pilot, after watching for them a fortnight, grew weary and re turned home. "And that very night after," writes :Mr. Davenport, "'the ship came in, guided by God's own ESTHER T. BARTON AND HER CHILDRES. hand to our town." ts. 7. Our company of emigrants at once proceeded to look for an abid ing place. They b:1ught the land where Guilford now stands of the sachen1-squaw who owned it, her name was Shaumpishah, and set to work with a will to build their homes. Before winter they had begun their rude lo~ huts, though probably many of them lived tem porarily in the huts the Indians had vacated, and the foundations of 102 LIBIJTENANT ll'JLLIAM BARTON. the new colony were laid. This is the story of the way our ancestor, Francis Bushnell the elder, can1e to America. He did not live many years to help huild up the new col0ny in which he had cast his lot, but he was one of its strong pillars until his death in 1646. Francis Bushnell, "ye elder," had six sons who also came to America Mr. Ira Bushnell, a des cendant of Dea. Francis ( Francis jr.) has left a "mem orandum," from which I quote below. The original document is carefully pre served in one of the Bush nell families of Saybrook. Ira Bushnell was born in 1727, so that he must have known his Uncle Francis th. 1697, d. 1791), and rrob ably his grandfather John, b. 1666, so that we can easily imagine that Dea. Francis, who died in 1681, handed these facts down to h i s grandson John, b. 1666, and therefore fifteen years old when his grandfather died. This John probably handed them down to his grandson Ira, b. 1727. Here is the LEWIS ersHNELL, 1898. memorandum, or as much of it as is of interest to us: "This was i:it by Ira Bushnell, in the year 1791, in the 64th year of his age. Let the same be continued for a memorandum to my chil dren and children's children. Note that. About the year 1662 old Deacon Francis Bushnell builded the mill that I now own. It hath been in the possession of several of his posterity ever since. . . . As for the name of the Bushnells, it might probably arise from THB FAM/LI" OF DR. JACOB B. RARTON. 103 some occupation or office; some learned n1en think the word Bush nel I from a man that preserved or pruned the young wood in copies or forists, for the change of an R for an L was common in the old English words. The old English language is now much altered from what it was 300 years ago. "There came from England six brothers of the family of Bush nells. After they had made some stay at the Mass. Bay, where they first landed, four of them came that remained. They first stopped at Long Island but not liking Long Island for a settlement, they came over to Guilford about the ye a r 1648. M r. R oh e rt Chapman prevailed with three of them to remove to Saybrook, viz: Francis and William and Richard.There was an Isaac, he was un fortunate, as it was said, in getting a bad wife. He left her and returned home t,1 England with his effects, he being a merchant and owned a considerable estate. l\ty gr e a·t grandfather's father Francis lived in Say brook about 33 years, and was deacon of the church in Saybrook. He married a sister of Robert Chapman. Deacon Francis Bushnell died Dec. 4, 1681, about 82 years of age." In some points Ira's "mem orandum" is not correct. There was c e r t a i n I y a Francis jr. in Guilford in 1639, for a home lot was given him at the first assignment of lots. It is possible that there were two Francis Bushnells ELIZABETH A. 'l'RE.\T BeSHNl-:I..L. and that the one who came to 104- LIEUTENANT »~ILLI..J.1\I Il.'1RTON. Guilford with his brothers was the cousin ot Francis jr. of Guilford. But after carefully comparing authorities I am convinced that they were the sam~ man, especially as Francis jr. disappears from Guil- ford records about the same time that he happens in Saybrook. Ira is also mistaken about the sister of Robert Chapman. She was the wife of \Villiam, instead of Francis. Putting together the accounts of Dr. Steiner and Ira Bushnell, and piecing them out with the one given in the anniversary hook of the ·First Congregational church of Saybrook, and also adding John to the brothers, on the authority of Savage, we cvol ve this sketch: Francis sr. can1e to Guilford in 1689. He had six sons, Francis, \Villiam, Richard, John, Is a a c, and one other. These can1e to America, some earlier ·than their father, pc rha ps some later. Francis came to Salem in the "Planter" in 163.=;. John came the sa1ne year in the "Hopewell." Francis, \Villiam and Richard went down to L. I. and crossed over to ...... i ' Gui If ord, about 1639 • They were carpenters by trade, and as there was great need !>f men of that craft in Saybrook, Mr. Robert Chapman urged them to come there. Will iam and Richard seem to have responded at once, ESl'HER T. B.\R1'0~ A~D HER GRE.-\T-GR.\~IJ t'A'l'IIER·s Cl.Ol'K. hut Francis ren1ained NoTg This cl BIRTHPLACE OF ESTHER T. B ..\RTON, JOH!'iSOXVILLE, OHIO. soldiers who flanked the meeting-house door. To him and his wife, Rebecca Chapman Bushnell, were born a family of boys, who sent down to posterity such men as Dr. Horace Bushnell, the theologian,. and Cornelius Scranton Bushnell, whose connection with the inven tor Ericsson made the construction of the l\lonitor possible." An article, by Dr. Bernard C. Steiner in the X. Eng. Hist. and 106 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON. Gen. Register April 1899, gives the descendants of },rancis Bush nell for three or four generations Following are the Bushnell genealogies so far as they relate to the present inquiry: FRANCIS B t' s U N ELL, 111. REBECCA, catne f ron1 Snffol k Horsted County, England. to Guil ford 1639. Died 1646. Their chil dren were: (DEA.) FR..\SCIS 2d, 1609-De(•. 4, 1681. REBECC .-\ 1n.1H46 COXGREG.-\'1'10~.-\L Clll"RCII. ROBBI~~, 'l'E~~- 1S8:\-lSS7. John Lord. LIECT. ,v1. LI..\ll d. No,·. 12. 16~R JoH~.16L-i-U,3i. SARAH. bap. 1625, 111. Rev. Joos HOADLEY 1642. R1cH.-\RD, d. 1657. lsAAc~ who -·bad a bad wife and returned to England." One other son, natne unknown. LIEt'TES.-\XT \VILLI.-\)1 BcsexELL, of Saybrook d. Nov·. 12, 168a. Ill. RE BECCA CHAPll..\:S, a sister of Robert Chaptuan of Saybrook. Their children were: THE FAMILI" OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 107 I. Joshua. h. l\rlay 6, 1644, d. }larch 1710. II. Samuel, b. middle of Sept. 1645, d. 172-. III. Rebecca, b. Oct. 5, 1646, m. John Hand. IV. \V1tLIAM, b. Feb. 51, 1648-9, d. Dec 9, 1711. V. Francis, b. Jan. 6, 164-9-50, d. young. VI. Stephen, b. Jan. 4, 1653-4, d. Aug. 1727. VII. Thomas, b. Jan. 4, 1653-4. VIII. J·udith, b. beginningof Jan.1655-6, d. Nov.17, 1740. M. Dr. Joseph Seward, of Guilford and Durha1n, on Feb. 5, 168,-2. He d. Feb. 14,.1732, aged 77. IX. Abig-dil, b. n1iddle of February 1659-60, n1. Captain John Seward. X. Lydia, b. 1661, d. Aug. 24, 1753, m. Calr.b Seward. He died Aug. 2, 1728. XI. Daniel, b. 1683, d. Feb. 1727-8. \V1tLIAM BuseNELL. of Saybrook, b. Feb. 15, 1648-9, d. Dec. ~/2 _.,, - ,:::". ~ £··--=-""" ~--~~w = ...-: FIRST <'0:XGREGA1'IOXAL cnrR('H., WELLl:XG'l'O:X. OHIO, 1890-9;-J. 108 LIEUTBN• .\NT lVILLIA ..7\:1 BARTON. 9, 1711. 111. o~t. 7, 1675,-Rebet'ea, who d. l\Iay 14, 1703; 111. 2d June 9, 1705, widow Sarah Buel by whotu he had seven children. The children of WILLIAM JR. a ud RE BECCA B U S H :s ELL were: &· ary, b. Ang. 8, 1696. Daniel, b. Nov. 8, 1699. l\Iartha, b. l\Iay 16, 1701 d. young. EPHRAIM, b. Sept. 27, 1702. Sarah, b. April 21, 1704 d. Joung. Jedidiah, b. l\Iay 5, 1706, d. young. By his second wife he had seven chil dren: Sa r a h, Jedidiah, J a n1 e s, l\I a r t h a, Anne, Thon1as, Re becca EPHRAUI Bl"sB:sELL, b. Feb. 14-, 1675-6, of Saybrook, n1. 1st, No,". 9, 1697, l\lary Lay. l\I. 2d. Oet. 16, 1712, Sarah Hill. l'y his first wife his children were: I. l\lary, b. Aug. 8, 1698. II. Daniel, b. Nov. t,l, 1699. III. Martha, b. l\Iay 16, 1701, d. young. IV. EPHRADt, b. Sept. 27, 170"2. V. • Sarah, b. April ~1, 1701, d. young. VI. Jedidiah, b. lfay 5, 1706, d. young. By his second wife his children were: VII. Sarah, b. July 26, 1713. THB FAM JLr OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 109 -... .. - ~ - ~L ~? ,,.,,,- - ,,. "'7 ... ./' _..: • 4 ~-= - ~~--:: w.~ .,. I' ..#=:!_-:-=-. ~;;:;:;:--~ "":: ·..:..-f".- ~ . - -,;..:-=- ':'" FIRST COSGREGATIOSAL CHFRCH, OAK PARK. 110 LIEUTENANT H'ILLI.4M BARTON. VIII. Jedidiah, b. llay 28, 1714. IX. James, b. March 12, 1716. X. l\fartha, b. Aug. 12, 1718. XI. Anne, b. Oct. 24, 1720, m. )loses Dudley, Dee. 22, 1743. XII. Thomas, b. Aug. 24, 17~2. XIII. Rebecca, b. June ~2, 1728. ENSIGN ALEXANDER BcsHNELL, son of EPHRAIM BusHNELL JR, was born July 2, 1739 in Connecticut, m. Feb. 12, 1761, Chloe Wait of Lyn1e, Conn., ren10,·ed to the Western Reserve in 1804, and died at Hartford~ Ohio, l\larch 18, 1818. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary \Var. His first servic-e was as sergeant in Captain Thomas Hutchins' Co., 18th Regt. Conn. l\Iilitia, Aug. 18, Sep. 25, 1776. He served later as ·Ensign in Captain Benja- 1uin }fills' Co., Col. Bezaleel Beebe's Regt. and was conunonlv called Captain Bushnell. (See Conneticut in the Revolution pp. 472, 616.) The inevitable tendency to 1nagnify n1ilitary rank finds its illustration in the fact that the Hart Genealogy speaks of him as "General Bushnell" The children of ALEXANDER BcsHNELL and CHLOE \VAIT, were Thon1as, Daniel, \Villian1, Chloe, Alexander jr., Sterling, liary, Hannah, Lucy, Phoebe. DASIEL BcsHNELL, son of Alexander Bushnell, was born in Connecticut Dec. 18, 1753 and died at Hartford, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1842. He 01. Ji86 REBECCA BAs:s1xo by whom he had ten ehil dren. She died July 9, 1809. He m. 2d, 1810, EuN1CE BnocK WAY, by whom he had seven children. She died about 1860. The eldest son of DANIEL BrsHSELL, and REBECCA BANNING, was Lewis sr., b. April 12, 1787 and died June 29, 1818. The children of LEWIS Bu~HNELL and SALLIE \VEBB, were, Linus, b. Aug. 29, 1809. d. Sept. 29, 1828; Deborah b. April 59, 1811, d. Ol--t. 3, 1812, Lorenzo, b. Jan. 29, 1813, m. llalinda B. Robbins, Sept. 6, 1836; LEWIS JR. b. l\Iarch 23, 1818, m. ELIZABETH ANN TREAT, Dec. 30, 1841. · The children of Lewis Bushnell and Elizabeth Ann Treat were: r ' _-._-_,_ ,.__,J· THE CIIILllREN OF HE\'. WlLLI,\~1 E. ,\NI> ESTHER T. HAl{TOS. 181111. THE FAM/LI' OF DR. J.4COB B. B.4RTON 113 Hubert Treat Bushnell, h. Sept. 26, 1843, m, Jennie Hobart Hollett Dt:c. 3, 1868. l\Iary E., b. Oct. 27, 1845, m. June 15, 1.876, Frank Clark Hinman. Martha Ann, b. Jan. 4, 1848, m. Sullivan Hutchins !\fay 10, 1876. Howard Lewis, b. Jan. 18, 18.:>0, m. Kittie Clark Sept. 18, 1876. Linus Sydney, b. Jan. 1, 1853, m. Emma A. Taylor Jan. 1, 1876. Esther Treat, h. Jan. 30, 1855, n1. Rev. \Vm. E. Barton July 23, 1885. Sarah Elizabeth, b. June 15, 1857, m. \Vil~iam \V. Clapp July 23, 1885. George Albert, b. April 20, 18fH, m. Gertr-.1de Keturah \Voodruff, l\lay 5, 1886. John \Villiam, b. Dec. 2, 1863, d... Jan. 5, 1864 . LAY. l\fAR \: LAY, wife of Ephraim Bushnell, n1ay have been l\lARAH, b. 1\Iarch 21, 1678, daughter of Jons LAY of Lyme, a soldier in King Philip's \Var, who was badly wounded in the Great Swan1p Fight Dec. 19, 1675. He died :Xov. 13, 1696 aged 63. His widow Sarah d. June 12, 1702. He was the son of Jons LAY, Saybrook, 1648, d. aged, Jan. 18, 1675, had wife ABIGAIL, d. 1686. See Savage I II 65 . BBLL.• LT. FRASCIS BELL, Stamford, 1642, was one of the early settlers and an important man in the colony, a firm Puritan in torms and principles. Some of his descendants have a Bible brought to N. E. in l\layflower, in which is a record of his son Jonathan b. in Sept. 1641, the first white male child born in Stamford. Favorable tnention is made of FRASCIS BELL by Cotton l\lather. He was one of the signers of the deed for a second purchase of the town of Stan1ford, Jan. 7, 1667, of Taphause & Powahay and other Indians. \Vas appointed to go(\\ ith Geo. Slauson) to Boston in search of Rev. Jou~ BISHOP to preach at Stamford, as success0r to Rev. l\lr. Denton. The journey was made on foot though Indian dangers were great. On their return the minister accompanied them with the Bible under his arm. Lt. Francis Bell was one of the committee to form a union of the two colonies in 1664. Left children at Stan1ford. First Puritan settlers of Connecticut, pp. 186. (lf541 Savage. Savage says he h"d heen early at \Yethersfield, and prior to his set tlement at Stamford, then called Rippowans. His wife Rebecca d. 1684. He died Jan. 8, 1690. From his will, l\lay 24, 1689, we learn of his family, one son Jona- 114 LIEUTENANT ll'ILLIA.:\l BARTON than, his daughter l\lAR Y, m. to JOSHUA HOYT, and four sons: of daughter Rebecca, who d. l\lay 2, 1676, wife of Jonathan Little . BOYT.• SutoN HOYT, landed in Salem in 1628 or 1629 probably in the Abi gail or the George, and in the same year settled in Charlestown where his name stands fifth on the list of settlers as given in the Charlestown records. He was made freeman of ~lass. 1631 and set tled in Dorchester 1663. Scituate April 1635. Settled in Windsor, Conn. 1639. Removed to Stamford between 1649-1657, d. Stamford 1657. l\lARY HoYT was the daughter of JosHUA HoYT, h. 1641, d. 1690 at Stamford, Conn., 111. l\IARY BELL, dau. of FRANCIS and REBECCA BELL of Staniford. (See Hoyt Fan1ily, p. aoi, History of Stan1foni, p. 28) Joshua Hoyt was the son of S1Mo~ HoYT, b. 1595-1600. .. WEBB-DAVENPORT. SALLIE \V EBB, b. Sept. 26. 1790 m. LEWIS BusH!'iELL SR. Dec . 17, 1808. d. :Feb. 8, 1878, at Johnsonville, Ohio, was daughter of David \Vebb, b. l\Iarch 19, 1758 and Sarah Davenport b. Feb. 13, 1760, d. Sept. 1852. The \Vebb fan1ily begins with RICHARD \VEBB, d. in Conn., }larch 15, 1676. His wife's name was Elizabeth, d. 1680. He was a soldier in King Philip's \Yar. Their sou JosEPH \VEBB sa. m. HANNAH ScHOFIELD, June 8. 1752. He d. 1685. Their son JOSEPH \VEBB, b. Jan. 3, 1674, d. Nov. 15, 1743, n1. Feb. 23, 1698, 11ARY HoyT, b. 1672, d. Feb. 24, 1749. An1ong the children of Joseph \Vebb and l\Iary Hoyt was SERGEANT EPE!'iETCS \VEBB, d. 1759, 1u. Deborah Ferris Dunning, who died 1805. DAvto WEBB, son of EPE!'iETUs and DEBORAH \V EBB, was b. Conn., llarch 1~, 1758, m. SARAH DAVENPORT, b. Feb. 13, 1760, d. Sept. 1852. They are buried at Johnsonville, Ohio. They owned, and probably brought with them from Connecticut, the clock now owned by their great-grand-daughter, Esther T. Barton. Their daughter, SALLIE \VEBB, wife of LEWIS BusaxELLSsR., was born Sept. 26, 1790, d. }.,eh. ~, 1878. THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. B.4RTON. 115 DA VBlf PORT. The Ocivenport family has been faithfully written up by Amzi Benedict Davenport in a history publi,;hed iu 1851, and republished with corrections and enlargements in 1876. Iu giving nun1bers here I refer to his work. The Davenport familv springs fron1 Orme de Davenport born in the 20th year of Willian1 the Conqueror, 1086. The father of the fan1ily in A111erica was Joas DAVENPORT D. D. (64) of the 17th generation. He was the founder of New Ha,~en, Conn., and his 11an1e is one of the 1nost highly honored of American found ers He was the fifth son of Henry Davenport, l\Iayor of Cov entry in England. His grandfather, Edward, also had been n1ayor. His n1other's na1ne was \Vin ifred Barnabit, and he was born in J597 and ha ptized Aptil 9. He m. Elizabeth ,v oolley, d. Boston, l\Iarch 15, 1670. He came to Boston 1687, founded New Haven, 1638, secreted the regicides Goff and \Vhal leJ in his own house. Came to Boston as pastor of the First Church 166S. He d. l\J arch L5, 1670 and is buried with his friend, Rev. Dr. John Cotton, in King's C hap el Burying Ground, Boston. His only child was Jo H .N' DA VEX PORT, (65) n1erc-hant and judge, b. England 1635, d. Boston llarch 21, 1677. He COR~f:l{ OF STl'DY, JA ll.-\IC. .\ PLAl="i, came to America 1639, n1 BOSTOS. Abigail Pierson, sister of REv. ABRAHAlf PIERso:s, first president of Yale, and daughter of Re,~. Abraha111 Pierson sr., u-ho was born Yorkshire, Eng. 1608, d. Newark, X. J. Aug.9, 1698. Came to America 1839, and is noted as the author of an ''Indian Cateehistn,'' '·The Gospel in N~w England," etc. They were the parents of REY .•ToHs D.-\VE:SPORT, (68) b. Bos- 116 LIEUTEN.4NT n·1LLIAM B.4RTON. ton Feb. 22. 1668, gn1d. Harvani, 1687, tu. April 18, 1695, l\fartha (Gould widow of John Sellet.. k, d. 1731 . GOULD.•• The founder of the Gould family in America was l\lAJOR NATHAN GOLD, of Fairfield, Conn. He came from St. Edmondsbury, or "Bury St. Edmonds," about 2., mi'es E. of Cambridge, England, and was landholder in Milford, Conn. 1647 and in Fairfield 1649. Called "Captain'' in 1670, and afterwards :Major. Died 1693-94, l\farch 4. In 1657 he m. 2 Martha, widow of Edmund Harvey, id. 1648); she died hefore him. Xathan .. , b. 1663, Dec. 8, m. I )Hannah Talcott; (2) Sarah--; d. 2 172H. Sarah , b. ab. 1660; m. 1684 April 25, John Thompson of Fairfield, d.1747 June 4. DEBORAH\ m. GEORGE CLARK of l\lilford 'l'HE P.-\RSO:X.-\GE. OAK PARK, ILL. Ahigail 7 , m. 1685, Jan. 5, Jonathan Selleck, jun. of Stamford, h. 1664 July 11. l\lartha2, n1. 1) John Selleck, d. bef. 1694, Harvard Coll. 1690 1, brother of Jonathan: 2, Hl!-ff>, April 16, Rev. John Daven port of Stamford; d. 1712, Dec. 1. THE F.4MILY OF DR.J. .\COB B BARTON 117 In 1673 the court appointed ~athan Gold major over the militia of Fairfield county. He had previously been captain of n1ilitia. See uThe Gould Family" by Benj. Apthorp Gould, p. 329. Their son was REv. Jou~ DAVEXPORT (73) h. Stamford Conn. Jan. 21, 1698, m. Sept. 6, 1722, Sarah Bishop, supposed to have been a daughter of his predecessor, Rev. John Bishop and d. Nov. 17, 1742. · Their son was DEOD..\TE D.H"EXPORT (93) b. Staniford, Conn. Jan. 5, 1730. n1. June 16, 1757, LYDIA ,·v ooDW..\RD, and died March 10, 1808. He was the brother of Hon. Abrahau1 Daveu port, the hero of ,vhittier's poen1 of ~'The Dark Day,' lJay 18, 1780. The darkness that ca1ne over the State sending the low ing cattle ho111e and the fowls to roost., struck terror to n1en's hearts with a general expectation of the day of judgtnent. The State Senate then in session entertained a motion to a~journ. "It is the Lord's great day," said the mover. Abraham Da~nport rose _and said, "That day is either at hand or it is not: if it i~Tfi\!re is no cause for adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing n1y duty. I wish therefore that candles may he brought." The lights were hrought, and Ahraham Davenport spoke on a fisheries hill. •• Hi~ awe-struck colleat?nes li1:1tening all th.- whil~ Rt->tween the pauses of his argument. 'l'o hear the thnndt•r of the wrath of God. Break from the hollow trnmpet of the cloud . .-\ncl thert• he stands in memor,· to this da,·. Erect. self-poised. a rn!!gt:'cl face, half seen, ..Against the background of unnatural dark, A ·witness to the alY..-s as tht->~· pass. 'l'hat simple duty hath no µlace for fear. ·· DEODATE DAvE~PORT and LYDI.-\ \VoonwARD were the parents of SARAH DAVE~PORT. b. Feb. 13, 1760, wife of David \Vebb, and great-grandmother of Esther T... Barton . WOODWARD. Hox. PETER \VoODWARD, of Dedham, freeman :\lay 18, 16-12, had PETER, \Vilhan°l. Rebecca, m. 1666 Thos. Fisher, and Ann d. 1666. Was representative in General Court of l\lass. 1665, 9,70 and strangely miscalled \Voodwine. He d. :May 9, 1685. His eldest son PETER, a soldier in King Philip's \Var, d. Feb. 15, 1721, had by wife l\lEHIT ABLE: \Villiam, h. Jan. l, 1669, Ann, F eh. 2, lo70, JoH:s, Sept. 10, 1671, grad. Harvard 1693; Ebenezer, Sept. 15, 1675; .Mehitable, Nov. 17, 118 LIBVTE.V.4.VT lJl/LLI.-L\I BARTON. 1677; Peter, Dec. 29, 1679: Judith, March 1683, Samuel, Dec. 26, 1685. REV. Jous \VooDWARD was graduated at Cambridge College, 1693; was ordained pastor of the church at Norwich, Dec. 6, 1699; acted as secretary of the council that compiled Saybrook Platform 1708: was dismissed from his pastoral charge, Sept. 13, 1716, and was admitted an inhabitant of New Haven, Dec. 24, of the san1e year. He married SARAH ROSEWELL. They had LYDIA 1706, who m. DEODATE DAVENPORT, 1730; Rosewell, 1708; Elizabeth, 1710; John, 1712; Sarah, 1714, who m. Samuel l\liles; Richard, 1716; \Vill ian1, Oct. 18, 1718; l\1ary, 1720, whom. Joseph Trowbridge. 2d wife, Mary Gaskill, l\1ay 5, 1731; had Gaskill. See Savage, "East Haven Register/'.. by S. Dodd, p. 159 . BISHOP. REV. JoHs BISHOP, 16(l!, believed to have heP.n grandfather of the wife .of the third John Davenport, was chosen minister at Stam ford whither he went on foot fron1 Boston, had wife, REBECCA, and , THE WIGWAll, FOXBORO, lIASS. THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 119 children Stephen, Joseph, Ebenezer, Benjamin, besides one, perhaps, named Whiting, that d. early; all mentioned in his will. For second wife he had Joanna, dau. of Capt. Thos. Willet, widow of Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford. His will made 16, Nov. 1694 pro. 12 March following, instructs us as to these wives and his children which were all by the first. As early as 1640 he had been to Taunton. H~ preached near 50 years, wrote a Latin epitaph on Richard Mather (whence a pre sumption arises that he was from Dorchester), which may be read in the Magnalia of the gr. S. Cap. 20 of III,.. or p. 131. TREAT. Esther Treat Barton is a lin eal descendant, by a double line, from Governor Robert Treat, Go,,,ernor of Connec ticut before and after the ad- rninistrd tion of Andros, the INSIDE THE wtGWA:\J. leader of the colonists in the Charter Oak episode, and commander of the Connecti <-ut forces in King Philip's \Var. The family is faithfully re corded in John Harvey Treat's Genealogy of the Treat family. The numbers, as here given refer to that volume. RtcH. .\RD TREAT was born in Pilmister, England, bap. Aug. 28, 1584, d. 1670 in ,vethersfield, Conn. l\f. April 27, 1615, ALICE GAYLARD, dau. of Hugh Gaylard who was buried in Pilmister, Oct. 21, 1614. She sunived her husband. Richard Treat was free man in ,vethersfield 1659. He was a 1nagistrate, a 1nember of Gov·. \Vinthrop's Council, and held various offices of honor in New England. For his ancestry and much of interest concern ing hin1 and his desc-endants, I refer to the Treat Genealogy. His son, Governor RoBERT TREAT, baptized Feb. 25, 1624-5~ d. Milford, Conn., July 12, 1710, m. Jane Tapp. He held offices of honor from his early youth, was Conunander-in-Chief of Connec- 120 LIEUTENANT lVILLIA ..\l B •.\RTON. ti~ut forces in King Philip's \Yar, was Lieutenant Governor of Conneetieut at the tirue of the Andros usurpation and the Char ter Oak iu(lident, and Governor for thirteen years afterward, his entire service as Gol·ernor and Deputy Governor being forty years. He had eight children, of who111 the fourth was -~. CAPT.us RoBERT TREAT, b. llilford, Conn., Aug. 14, 1654, d. Milford, liar. 20, 1720; 111. 1st, about 1678, Elizabeth ---, by whon1 he had two daughters Elizabeth and Jane; 111. 2d, about 16~7, ABIGAIL CAMP, b. liar. 28, lfl67, d. ~Jar. 20, 1742. Free tnan Oct. 8, 168!, captain Aug. 7, 1763. By his second wife, his children were Robert, SAllUEL, Jonathan and Abigail. 33. s.. u(eEL TREAT, bap. llilford, Xol'. 28, 1697, d. Apr. 28, 17o3. ~I. Anna Clark, 1709, d. Dec. 12, 1731. His children were Eu nic·e, hap. Jan. 11, 1730; San1uel, Aug. 6, 1728; Abigail, 1730; JoHx, 1731. lfi6. Jon~ TREAT, b. 1731 and hap. De~. 5, cl. l\Iilford, Oct. 19, 179!. He 1narried ..-\x:s..\ BRYA~, (218) b. Feb. 19, 1730·1, d. June 28, 1800, whose tnother was SARAH TREAT, b. ~Iilford, June 6, 1699, d. Xo,·. 12, 1748, 1n. llarch 15; 1721-2, Rit•hard Bryan jr., son uf Richard, and Sarah t Platt) Bryan. He had six chi!dren, Sarah~ Joa:s, Richard, Andrew, SybiJ, Ann. 572. Jou:s TnE. .\T, b. Xo\". 17, 1755, d. l\Iilford, Dec. 23, 1807. 1\1. 1st, Esther Hine, 1u. 2d, llay 1, 179-1, ESTHER CLARK, who was b. llilford, .Aug. 23, 1770 and d. Vienna, 0., llareh 30, 1~45. She 010,·ed to Talhnadge, 0., fron1 Conn. in 182:l, and there reared her four sons and _yotn1gest daughter. 1318. DEAco:s Joa:s THEAT, b. Orange, Conn., Feb. lfi, 1793, d. June 13, 1887. He ser,·ed as private in Capt. John Butler's Co., Col. E. Sanford's Regt., Connecticut llilitia in the ,var of 1812. He was a 1nan of sterling character, and for. n1any years an officer in the church. I saw him but once, at our wedding in 1885. Three tin1es he walked fron1 Connecticut to Ohio, averag ing forty-five miles a day and on the last trip somethnes walked sixty miles. He settled in Vienna, 0., in 1818. He m. }lay 10, 1820, lfARIETT.-\ HclfAsox, b. Hartford, Conn., llarch 20, 180!, d. June 30, 1885. THE FA.\tlLY OF DR. J.4COB. B BARTON. 121 They had fi,·echildren; the eldest, 2!15, ELIZABETH ANN TREAT, b. J nly 4, 1821, d. Feb. ~t, 1894:, n1. LEWIS BusHNELL, bet·ame the tnother infer alio, of Es rHER TREAT BcsHN ELL, 3fi31, who m. J nly 23. 1885, REV. \V1LLIAM E. BARTON. CAMP.- NICHOLAS CA:\IP, Milford, lmJn, m. July 14, 1652, as his second wife, Cat_herinc widow of Anthony Thompson, had Joseph h. Aug. 11, 1653, at New Haven, who d. young; and at Milford, Samuel, Sept. 15, 1655; Joseph, 16.)8, grad. Harvard College 1677: Mary 1660; John and Sarah 16fH; and ABIGAIL, b. March 2~. 1667, d. March 20, 1742, m. CAPT. RoBEKT TKEAT. (Savage's Diet., Vol. I, p. 3.'31.) TAPP.• E1n1u:s1> TAPP, :\ifilford, 1639, was one of "the seven pillars of the church in ~ew Haven" He died 1653. He had three daughters, one of whom JANE m. Gov. RoBERT TREAT. BRYAN.- The Hryan family in America was founded by ALEXANDER BRYAN, b. Armaugh in Ireland, came to America with his son before 1639. He, and his son after him, was the richest man in Milford, Conn .• where they made their home. He was a man of influence in the colony of ~ew Haven. and after its union with Connecticut was in official po• sitions from 1668-78. His wife Ann -- d. 20 Feb. 1661, and he m. widow of Sam'I Fitch, the schoohnaster of Hartford. He d. 1679 at a great age at M ii ford. R1cHA K D BR YAN, h. Armaugh, ,reland, 1651, m. rvIAR Y PANTRY. Their children were Mary and Hannah, 1654, Samuel, 16.)9, John, H562, d. young. Abigail, l6ti4, d. unmarried Hin8, RICHARD, 1666 FRANCIS, Hm~. Ill. JOSEPH TREAT, Sarah, 1670. RICHARD BKY..\S JH.. b. Oct. 1666, d. Jan.1734-5,m.SARAH PRATT. Their snn RICHARD BRYA!IJ, m. March 15, 1721, SARAH TREAT, b. Milford, June H, 1699, d. Nov. 12, 1748. SARAH, h. June 6, 1669,d. Nov 12, 1748, was the daughter of CAPT. JosEPH TREAT (H1 b. Sept. 17, Hifi2, d. Aug. 9, 1721, another son of Governor Robert Treat, a man of bravery and a good soldier in the Indian troubles. C,\PT IN JOSEPH TREAT, m. FRANCES BRYAX, b. Feb. 13, 1668, d. Sept. 21, 1703, daughter of RICHARD AND :\IARY . ( Pantry) RR\' AN. ANNA BR YAN, therefore, as well as her husband, JoHN TREr\T 166), was descended from GovERNOK ROBERT TREAT. 122 LIEUTENANT 11'/LLIAM BAR1"0!-l. PRATT. LIEUT. WILLIAM PRATT. an original proprietor of Hartford, m. Elizabeth, dau. of joHN CLARK, of Milford, by whon1 he had Eliza beth, b. Feb. 1, 1642, John, Feb. 20, 1645, JOSEPH, Aug. 1, 1648, Sarah, April 1, 1651, William, May 5, 165.'3, Samuel, Oct. 6, 1655, Lydia, Jan. 1, 1660, and Nathaniel. He was Lieutenant in 1661, representative 1666, and 11 years after. JOSEPH PRATT, of Saybrook, freeman 1673, had by first wife, Joseph, William, SARAH, b. Oct. 1, 1666, Experience, and Margaret. In 1680 he took second wife Sarah, dau. of Robert Chapman by whom he had other children. His daughter SARAH, became wife of RICHARD BRYAN. .. CLARK ANCBSTRY OF ESTHER CLARK TREAT. Connecticut Clarks were numerous even in the 17th century, and it is very difficult to untangle the names. which are often re- pea t e d in parallel families through several generations. F r o m several families o f Clarks Esther T. Barton is descended, the longest line, that which culminated in her great grandmother, Esther Clark, wife of John Treat, being 1nost difficult of all to separd.te. T h e father o f Esther Clark was John of Milford, who died in 1816, aged 83. The John Clarks of Milford were not few. Four separate families appear to have had Johns, and two of these perpetuated the name for four generations p.,ach. With as near an approat~h to certainty as I have been able to make, the line is as follows: DeAOON GEORGE CLARK, a carpenter of Milford, m., May 20, 1663, Hannah, daughter of William Gilbert, who died Nov. 4, THE FAM/Ll' OF DR. J.4COB B. BARTON. 123 1703, and had, San1uel, d. May 29, 1725, in 59th year; THOMAS, d. Feb. 12, 1727 -8, in his 60th year; Na than, d. Sept. 3, 1729; George who d. 1734. DEACON TuoMAS CLARKE, d. Feb. 1~, I 727-8 in fi0th year, m. Susannah, dau. of John and Mary ( Platt) Woodruff, who was born May 1707, and died Dec. 11, 1742. Their children were: Sarah, SAMOEC., Thomas, hap. Oct. 9. 1670; John, bap. Jan. 7, 1672, and d. April 10 1704:. SAMUEL CLARKE SR., had children Mary, hap. July 8, 1668; JoHN, bap. Sept. 15, 1695, and perhavs others. JouN, hap. Sept. 15, 1695, m. B1tt1:sq, dau. of TIMOTHY BALD WIN. He was admitted to Milford t~hurch April 4, 172n, she Sept. 14, L728. Their children were Billings, hap. July 10, 1726: JoaN, hap. Oct. I, 1732, l\fary. hap. Nov. 7, ] 736. This we have from the l\filford church records. JoeN married ESTHER RooERS, who survived him and died at the age of 94. These were the parents of EsTBER CLARK, b. Milford, Conn., Aug. 23, 1770, m., May 1, 1794, JOHN TREAT, who died Dec. 23, I 807. She moved to Ohio in 1824 with her four sons, the eldest of whorn, JoHN TREAT, b. Feb. 15, 1795, d. June 13, 1887, was maternal grandfather of EsTHER TREAT BARTON . • ANCESTRY OF AJIJIA CLARK TREAT. SAMUEL CLARK, SR., b. 1619 in Devonshire, Eng., came to Weathersfield, Conn., 1636, and was one of the company who for sook the colony and founded Stamford, 1640. His wife was HANNAH, dau. of Rev. RoBERT FuRDHAM. Samuel sr. died in the house of his son, SAMUEL CLARK, New Haven, 1690. His son, SAMUEL CLARK, d. :Feb. 2'2, 1729, m. Nov. 7, 1672, HAN NAH TUTTLE, b. Nov. 2, 1655, d. Dec. 21, 1708, dau. of JoHN 'l'uT TLE and CAROLINE LANE. Their children were SAMUEL, Danie], JOHN, Joseph~ Stephen, Nathan, Hannah, Phineas, Abigail, Hes ter, Timothy, Mehitable. These were b. in New Haven. The third SAMUEL CLARK was the father of ANNA, b. 1709, d. Dec. 2, 1731, m. SAMUEL TR&.\T. 124 LfBUTBNANT WILLIA AI BARTON AlfCBSTRY OF ELIZABETH CLARK 0 RATT. JonN CLARK, of Milford. tnay have been previously at ,vethers field, was at Sa ybrouk 1610, uarned in royal charter of Milford 1662, was representative several years, d. 1674. He hatl sons John, Joseph, and ~ BALDWIN. TIMOTHY H,\LD\VIN, Milford, 168H, was the eldest son of RICHARD BALDWIN of Cholesbury, England. He had right to lot of land in New Haven, 1610. By first wif~ Mary, d. July 21, 1647, he had Mary, 16!3; Hannah, 16t1; Sarah, 1645. He m. 2nd, in 1649, MARY, widow of John l\fepham of Guilford, by whom he had Abigail, h. 1650, d. at 10 years; Ann, 1655, d. young; Tn10THY, 1658. The elder Timothy died 16t>5. He had joined the church in 164:3. Sgt. TIMOTHY BALDWIN of l\1ilford b. June 12, 1658, d. Dec. 8, 1703. By wife MAR y he had Mary, hap. Nov. 2d, 16H!; BILLI.SG, hap. May 16, 1697; Tinnthy, hap. Jan. 21, 16r})-170:), and d. in February f.,llow ing. See The Baldwin Family. BILLING m. John Clark of Milford. If FORDHAM. Rev. Robert Fordham c:ime to Southampton, L. I., 1640 or earlier. Was first at Cambridge, and died at Hampstead, Sept. 1674. His wife was Elizabeth, and he had four sons, and daughter HANNAH, whom. SAMUEL CLARK. .. LANB. D \NIEL L ~E, :Sew L~ndon 1652, m. CATHARINE, widow ol Thos. Doxy. He removed 1661 to Long Island, and was at Brookhaven 1668. He is the father (almost certainly) of CATH.-\RJ.SE, w. ol the 2d SAMUEL CLARK. MARIETTA H. TREA1.',! JOHN TREA'l'. THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 127 TUTTLE. WILLIAll TUTTLE of Boston came in The Planter, 1U3.'l, with wife ELIZABETH, and children, all under 4 years, JOHN. Ann, and Thomas. He removed to New Haven where he became a man of consequence, and had other children. His eldest son JoHN, b. ab~.mt 1631, d. Sov. 1683, m. Nov. 8, 1653, Caroline Lane, by whom he had HANNAH, m. SAMUEL CLARK. See Savage; also, Hotten's Emigrants, p. 49. PLATT."' RICHARD PLATT, son of JosEPH PLATT, is supposed to have been the Richard who was baptized at Bovingdon, a vii lage near Hertford, Eng., Sept. 28, 1603. (See "The Platt Lineage,, by G. Lewis Platt, S.T. D. pp.13, seq.) He came to New Haven 16:-JS, and had 84 acres in and about New Haven. He was enrolled among the first settlers of l\til foi-d, Nov. 20, 1639, and was representative for 11 years fron1 1666. His children 1"1ary, JOHN, Isaac and Sarah were horn in England; at Milford were baptized Epenetus July 12, 1640; Hannah, Oct. 1, 1643, and Joseph, 1649. His eldest son JoHN m. June 6, 1660, HANNAH CLARK, the cere mony performed by the :Magistrate, (afterward Governor) ROBERT Treat. He settled in Norwalk soon after 1660. His children were John, b. June 1664; Josiah, b. Dec. 28, 1667; Samuel, b. Jan. 26, 1670; Joseph, b. Feb. 17, 1672; Hannah, b. Dec. 15. 1674. and SAKAH, b. l\1ay 20, 1678, m. RICHARD BR v AN.,. HUMASON. This fan1ily. whose name is variously spelled, is descended from HENRY HulIMERBTON of New Haven, who m. Aug. 28, 1651, JOAN WALKER, by whom be had Samuel, b. Aug. 7, 16h3; Nathaniel, Jan. 13, 1654; TnoMAs, Oct. 19, 1656; Ab:g11il, May 17, 1661. TeoMAs HcMERSoN, b. Oct.. 19, 1656, n1. May 31, 16Y4, ELIZA BETH SAMFORD of Wallingford. Their children were EBENEZER, b. Mar. 14, 1695-6; Thomas, b. May 3, lff99; Joseph, Nov. 14, 1705. EBENEZER HuMERSoN, b. Mar. 14, 1695, n1. Oct. 12, 1718, GRACE BLAKESLEY. Their children were Lydia, b. Aug. 1, 1720; Ebene zer, Nov. l, 1722; DANIEL, b. June 29, 1727; Nathaniel, b. May 9, 1730; Desire, Oct. 13, 1733. New Hai-en Tou:n Records. 128 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON. DANIEL HuMERSTON, n1. March 14, 1752, DESIRE DORMAN, as shown by New Haven First Church re<.~ords. Their children baptized Dec. 4, 1768. were Abel, Patien<~e, JACOB, b. O JIBRRIAM.• It is difficult to identify the parents of M RY l\1ERIAlI, wife of John Hubbard, unless he n1arried the sister of Robert Merriam, the universal belief. According to English parish records, however, Robert had no sister "Mary.,, William and Sara 1\-lerriam of Had lowe,Kent, Eng., had children Joseph, George and Rohe rt who came to Concord, Mass.) Susan, Margaret, Joan and Sara. They may have had a daughter Mary whose record of birth has evaded investiga tors. See One Thousand Years of Hubbard Family, con1pi ed by Edward Warren Day. Page 213. JI GOODRICH. Ess10N WILLIAM GooDRICH ( 2) was b. Bury St. Edmunds, Eng land, and came to A1nerica with his brother JoaN, 16!3. Hem. Oct. 4:, 1648, Sarah Marvin, b. 1702, dau. of Matthew and Eliza beth Marvin. He was the son of William Goodrich, interred at Hegeset, England, the home of the Goodrich family. William Goodrich served as ensign in King Philip's \Var. (Bodge, 468.) Their son was Col. David .1 Goodrich, 17 b. \\., eathersfield, May 4, 1666, d. June 23, I 755. l\L De<.~. 1, 1698, PacDENCE CnuRCHILL. CoL. DAVID and PRUDENCE GooonICn, had 12 children,of whom the first 2 were: Hezekiah~ b. Jan. 28, 1700. PaooENCE, b ..June 18, 1701, m. DAVID HcBB..\RD. He. m. 2d, 1674, May, dau. of NATHANIEL FoorE and widow of John Stcxldard, who d. 1664. Their children were: Et IZABETH, b. Nov. 2, 1645, m. 1664, Daniel Rose. John, b. Sept. 8, 1647. May, b. Dec. 15, 1650, m. 1677, Tbos. Read jr., of Sudburv. Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 1653, d. Oct. 11, 1688. Jonathan, b. Oct. 23, 1657, m. Abigail Crafts. Hannah, b. Feb. 3, 1659, m. 1st Zachariah Maynard of Sud burv. ~, 2d, Isaac Heath . THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 131 IIARVIN. MATTHEW MARVIS, Hartford 1638, an original proprietor, came 1635 in the Increase from Loudon, aged 35, a husbandman, with wife ELIZABETH 31, and children Elizabeth, 11; Matthew, 8; lfary, 6; SARAH, 3; and Hannah, 6 mos. He settled in Sorwalk as an original grantor, 1653, and was a representative there. His younger children were Abigail, Samuel and Rachel. His daughter SARAH, b. about 163'2, m. Oct. 4, l&RJ, ENSIGN WILLIAM GooDRioH, of Wethersfield. JoHN GoonRtcu (1) the brotherof William, b. Bury St.Edn1unds, came to Connecticut with his brother William, (2) before 1613., and held lands iu Wethersfield 1644, m 1645, ELIZABETH, dau. or sister of TuollAS EDWARDS, who died July 5, 1760. Their dau. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 2, 1645, m. DANIEL &sE. WRIGHT.• THOMAS WRIGHT, of Glastonbury, came 1639, d. April 1670. He was much engageJ in the controversies about Rev. John Russell. His children were: Samuel, 1n. Sept. 29, 1650, Mary, dau. Richard Butler, d. Feb. 13, 1690. Joseph, m. (l), 1663, Mary--; 12), 1685, liercy-~; d. Dec.17, 1714. • Thomas, 111. June 16, 1657, Elizabeth Chittenden, d. Aug. 2"2, 1683. JAMES, m. DoRcAs WEED. Lydia~ m. Joseph Smith. MARY, m the Jounger JoHN HuBBARD. ·The children of JAMES and DoacAs WRIGHT were: JAMES, b. 1661, 01. July 17, 1690, Mary, dau. of David Rose, d. Dec. 24, 1748. Jonas, m. Olive ---, d. MaJ 10, 1709. Thomas, 1n. Elizabeth --, d. I 749. l>«1niel, b. 1674, m. Eleanor Benton, d. June 8, 1674. Lydia~ m. --Crane. Hannah, m. John Coleman. JAMES WRIGHT, b. 1661, d. Dec. 24, l 79~, m. MARY RosE. 182 LIEVTBN.<\NT WILLIAM BARTON. The children of JAMES and MARY WRIGHT were: lfary, b. Nov. 14, 1691, d. 8ept. 1703. Elizabeth, h. Sept. 1. 1693. JAMES, b. )larch 21, 1695, 111. Lois LOOMIS of Bolton. Also younger children Daniel, .Jacob, Hannah, Hezekiah, Abi g'dil, Rachel, l\'Iary, J ere111iah and Sarah. JAMES WRIGHT, b. March 21, 1695, m. Lois LOOMIS of Bolton, b. Oct. 26, 1715. She was daughter of JAMES LOOMIS of Windsor. M. June 28, 1759, his second wife,Mary Chauncey. They had: James, m. 1753, Lucy Hale, and d. Feb. 1794. Joseph, Mary. Lois WRIGHT, b.1745 d. Sept. 15,1798, m. CAPTAIN ELIZER HuB BARD, and had Leonard, DAVID, Joseph and Flavel. See Chapin's History of Glastonbury, p. 180. .. WBBD . •JAMES \VRIGHTmarried his second wife Dorcas Weed,_1660. She was a daughter of JONAS \VEED, dismissed from the <.•hurd1 at Watertown to that of Wethersfield, 29th May, 163.5. Savage says ''of course he eame in the tleet of 1630, and by Bond~s reason able conjectur~, in the ship with Sir Richard Saltonstall.': He was at Stamford 1642, and died 1676, leaving four sons, John, Dani~l, Jonas and Samuel; and four daughters, Mary, wife of George Abbott; DoRcAs, wife of JAMES Wa10HT; Hannah, w. of Benjan1in Hoyt, and Sarah. His widow, Mary, d. 1690. ROSB. RoBERT RosE, Wethersfield, 1639, probably from Watertown,. came in the Francis from Ipswich .. county Suffolk, 1634, aged 40.. with wife~ l\1argery, 40, and children John, 15; Robert, 15; Elimbeth, 13; Mary, 11; Samuel, 9; Sarah, 7; Daniel, 3; Dorcas, 2. Was constable 1640, representative 1641-3, and moved be fore 1648 to Stratford~ Long Island. where he died leaving a good estate, at Brdnford, 1661-5. -:: His son DANIEL, b. 1630, freeman Wethersfield 1665, m. 1664 ELIZABETH, eldest daughter 0f the first JonN Goo»RICB and had THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 133 ELIZABETH, b. 15th April, 166.~; Daniel 20th Aug. 1667; MARY, 11th :Peb., 1669; Hannah, 12th Aug, 1673; Jonathan, 1679; Sarah, 1681; Abig-c1il, 1683; Dorothy, 1687.. and Lydia, 1689 . LOOMIS. JAMES LooM1s, of Windsor, father of Lo1s,wife of James Wright, was son of JosEPH LooM1s and MARY Ca.&uNCY. JosEPH LooMis, b. England, 17th Sept., 1&16, served in King Philip's War, Windsor troopers.. (Booge 468). He was the son JosEPB, sailed in the Susan and Ellen, arrived Boston July 17, I 6B8 Windsor, Conn., 2d Feb. 1610, had land granted, probably ca1ne with Rev. Ephiram Huet, 1639. Bis wife cl. Aug. 23, 165~. He d. Nov. 25, 1658. . His eldest son JosEPH, (1) b. England about 1616, m. lst, Sarah Hill, Sept. 17, 1646, d. Aug. 23, 1653. M. 2nd, MARY CRA'CNCEY, June 28, 1659. J:t.,reen1an 1654, d. June i6, 1687. His tenth child JAMEs,(lR) b. Oct. 31, 1669,in. MINDWELL -- ~ 1696, who d. ~larch 1, 1736, aged 65. He removed to east Wind sor 1700 and d. in Bolton Dee. 29, 1750. Numbers are fron1 Loomis Genealogy by Prof. Elias Loomis of Yale. ROSEWBLL.• William Rosewell of Branford, a merchant, removed to Charles ton 1658. M. Nov. 29. 1654 CT) CATHARINE, dau. of Hon. WM. RussELL of Guilford. Rosewell was a prou1inent man in the colony in the Andros usurpation. He d. July 19, 1694, aged 64. Bis children were: R1cBARD. Maud, William and Elizabeth. RICHARD RostwELL, m. 22d Dec., 1681, LYDIA, dau. of THOMAS TaowBRJDGE. She was then less than 16 years of age. RUSSELL.• WILLIAM RussELL of Charleston, b. Hereford. England, 1666, son of PAUL RussELL. ca1ne with his bride lfaud, joined the church in Charleston, }lay 22, 16:ll, and was 1nade freen1an June 2, 1641 His children were: .James 1641. Daniel, graduated Harvard, 1669. CATHARINE (m. W1LLIAM RosEWELL). Elizabeth b. 1644. 1H4 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON. FOOTB. N ATHANIE FOOTE, Watertown. Freeman Sept. 3, 1634 brought from England, wife ELIZABETH DEMING, and children Nathaniel,. ELIZABETH, MAY b. 1623, Robert, Frances and Sarah. He removed t.o Wethersfield 1636 and was rep resentative from 1641 till his death in 1614, where he died leaving a good estate. His widow m. Gov. Thomas '\Velles, and d. July 28, 1683. ELIZABETH m. 1638 Jos1Ae Ceua cn, LL and MARY m. 1642 John Stod· dard, who d. 1664, and in 1674 she m. JOHN GooDRJCH who d. Mareh 1680. CHURCHILL. J osIAH CnuRCHILL, of Wethers field, d. 1 an., 1686. m. 1638. GEOROE M. PA11TERSON. EtIZABET9', dau. of NATH~NIEL FooTE, had, Mary, b. 24th March~ 1639. Elizabeth, May 15, 1642. Hannah, 1st Nov., 1644. Ann, 1647. Joseph, 2d Dec., 1649. Benjamin, 16th May, 1652. Sarah, 14th Nov., 1657. His ,vidow d. 8th Sept,, 1700, ~a-ed 84. BENJAMIN CeuaceILL, son of JostaH and )lary, m. 1677 , d. 20th Oct. 1712, aged 59, had besides 2 unknown children, one daughter Prudence, b. 2d July, 167S, m. CuL. DAVID GoooR1ce, and.d. May 9, 1752 .• THE FAMILY OF DR.JACOB B BARTON 135 II. MARY BARTON PATTERSON. Mary Rachel Barton was born at Sublette, Ill. She studied in the public schools of Sublette and taught both in the public schools and as a private teacher of music. She was organist in the Congregational church in Sublette, with which she united at the age of 12. She attend- ed Berea College, teaching in vacation in the public ·schools of Berea and in the grd.ded school a t Pi n e Grove, in each of which she was principal. She 01. ~ay 20, 18~ George M. Patterson of Lancaster, Ky.,where they now reside. She is district Secretary of the W. C. T. U., and is active in church and tem perance work in that por tion of Kentucky. The children of George M. and Marv Barton Pat terson were: 1. Eva May, b. Feb. 18, 1887, d. Boyd, Ky., July 11, 1887. 2. Grace Helen, b. Jan. 18, 1894. PATTBRSOl'f. George Mason Patterson MARY .UAR'rON P •.\'l"l'ERSON. was born Patterson, Mad- ison County, Ky., July 10, 1858. He moved from Madison to Garrard County with his parents at the age of four years. Be entered Berea College at the age of seventeen and remained there as a student for five years. He· taught ,school in Garrard County two Yea,tt' during summer vacations and left school in 1883 at the solicita- 136 LIEVTEl\1ANT \t"JLLIA.i\1 BARTON. tion of the Republi(~an <·ounty conunittee to run for the office of county clerk in uarrdrd County. On account of pe<.~uliar issues which arose. the entire ticket was defeated by a small tnajorit.y. Be entered the servi(•e of L. & N. R. R. in 1885 as agent; and has ·served in that capacity ever since, one and one-half years at "ildie, three and one-half years at Boyd, three and one half years at Berea, the re- 1nainder of the time, seven years, at Lancaster. Be was 1narried May 20, 1885, to llary Rachel Barton. The earliest known ance::;tor of George M. Patterson was Patrick Patterson. a Scotch man who removed to Ireland. He was a naval officer and was killed in battle off the Strait of Gibralter. His son .I ohn Patterson c a tn e to 1\lr\RY BARTON PATTERSON AND DAUGHTER An1erica and lived successive- GRACE. 1899. ly in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Kentucky:. His son John Patterson was born in North Carolina and migrated with his fatnily to Kentucky. Be 111. Rhoda Blat•kburn, daughter of James Blackburn of au old Virginia fan1ily, by whorn he had eight daughters and four sons all of whom lived to adult years. His fifth. child, Allen Patterson, was b. Garrard Co., Ky., 1817, d. 1881; m. 185! Miriam 'Fitzpatrick. Their five children were: Mary Francis, b. 1856; GEnRGE lIAsoN, 1858; Samuel, 1859; John Allen, 1865; Elizabeth, 1861, d young. Miriatn Fitzpatrick, daughter of William Fitzpatrick and Fannie Sumner, was born in 1826. Her people were from Vir ginia. She died in Madison Uo., Ky., 1885. THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOH B. BARTON. 1:-\ Ill. JOHN JACOB BARTON. ,John Jacob Barton, h. Sublette, Ill., Sept. 20. 186:i. He at tended the public school in Sublette, and later entered Berea Col lege. He taught school in Jackson Co., Ky .• and spent a su1nmer in religious work in the Kentucky mountains. Be entered business life,and is now a merchant in Lan caster, Ky. He is unmarried . • IV. GEORGE HERBERT BARTON. George Herbert Barton was b. in Sublette, Ill., Sept. 7, 1869, and d. Jan. 17, 1873. I remember the death of my little brother George as the great sorrow of my childhood. He was a bright, fair child, and his very sudden death from congestion of the brain was a great blow to all our household. I still have a httle slip print ed by my father four days after the death of the little boy, containing a brief obitu- JOH~ JACOB BAR'l'O:S ary notice and the following lines, written by himself: Quickly passed our little darling, From this world of J>&in and sin To his heavenly Father·s mansion Where the ang~ls bore him in. Bleeding hearts he left behind him· We he loved in life so well, ' Mourn our lose, yet in our sorrow. Know that he with Hod doth dwell. He ie gone: Oh, how we mies him! Yet we ne"er shall see him mote Till we follow through Death·e valley And behold him on Life"s shore. Silken cord let down from hea\·en llay our little GeorJ.e"ie be Leading us from earth and sorrow To a blessed eternity. 138 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON. V. GRACE BARTON McLAREN. GraceHelen Barton was b. Feb. 10, 1874 She attended the public school in Sublette, studied at Berea College, and taught school in her native village. She was active in church work, and was organist in the Congrega· tional church. S h e w a s married June 14, 1900, to Ira Loren· McLaren at the parsonage at Oak Park, her brother William officiating. She and her husband now live in Chicago. Ira Loren }le Laren was born at Astoria, Illinois, Sept. 17, 1872. He entered Berea College 1893 an d remained for 5 years, and in 1898-9 completed a course in stenography at Madison, Wisconsin. He entered business at Madison, and in 1900 removed to Chicago. He married, June 14, 1900, Grace Helen ..Barton . McLAREN. 1 Robert ( ) and Mary (Gorry) McLaren were natives of GRACE BAR'rON llcLAREN. Perthshire, Scotland, emi- grating with their family to America in 1323. They settled in Gibson county, Indiana, where Robert died the following year. In 1827 the mother and sons removed to Fulton county, Illinois, settling near Astoria. Mary McLaren died Dec. 28, 1854:, at the age of 76, being buried in the Astoria cemetery. 2 Their third son John ( ) was born Nov. 20, 1818, in Methven 1'HE FAMILY OF DR J.4.COIJ B B.4RT01\i 139 parish. Perthshire, Scotland. He married Jan. 26, lfi43 Nancy, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Gillen\Vater) Klepper. llis home is in Plymouth. His wife died llay 29, 1900. 3 William ( ) Blundle McLaren. oldest son of John (2) was born July 18, 1848.- Like his fa ther, he is a farmer. He mar ried, Oct. 20, 1870~ Elizabeth ( ~-, daughter of Stephen (7) and Elizabeth lJerrill. A plt-asant little incidl•nt is related of the childhood of William McLaren and Elizabeth lterrill. When tht>y were babeA, Mrs. l\lcLaren was on•r• taken by a severe storm and. as she was near the )lt"rrill home. stopped there for shelter. The two babit->s were almost the same age and slt>pt peacefully in the same cradle durin~ the storm. they nor their motherA lit tle dreaming of the intimacy whkh won!d spring IIJ) between them later in life. Their childrt»n are, Ira Loren, born Sept. 17, 1872. Benjamin 1''ranklin. born April 15, 1877. Currie Stephen..... born Dt>c. 18, tSW . KLBPPER. 1 Henry ( ) Klepper was born Oct. 10, 1796. His family lived in Tennesee, having com e there from Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Gillen IU.\ LORE~ )le L.-\RE~. water, who was born l\Iay 10, 1798. At an early date they moved to Indiana, but were driven out of there by a peculiar disease known as "milk-sickness." They then went to Illinois, locating in Schuyler county, a few miles south of Astoria. Later in life they re moved to McDonough county, near Plymouth, where the remainder of their life was spent. Henry Klepper died l\larch 5, 1885, and his wife April 24, 1881, both being buried in the cemetery at Plymouth. Their daughter Xancy was born Jan. 6, 182ll, and married John (2) McLaren Jan. 2~, 1843. She died l\lay 29, 1900. 140 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARTON. lllBRRILL. Nathaniel I Merrill, with his brother John, 1 came to America from Salisbury, England, in 1683, landing at Ipswich, Mass., where they located. In 16:35, they removed to Newbury, ~lass., being among the original settlers and proprietors, and remained there until dedth. lie was admitted freeman at Newbury in 1640 . •John died July 14, 1682, leaving one daughter, Hannah, who married Stephen Sweet. Therefore aU of the ~Ierrill family of New England, and it is said nearly all in the U.S., are de scended from Nathaniel ~Ierrill, emigrant. The name has been spelled lierrilf, llerrell, }Ierrills, and is thought to have been originally llerle, and the family of French origin. Nathaniel I married Susanna Jordan Fie died ~Iar. 16, 1665. 1 Daniel, 2 the fifth child of lSathaniel , was born in Newbury Aug. 20, 164:2, n1arried ~lay 14, 1667 to Sarah. daughter of John and Jane Clough, of Watertown, Mass. He resided at Newbury the greater part of his life, but spent the last of his days with his son John 3 in Salisbury and Haverhill ~lass. John, 3 the second child of Daniel "', was born in Newbury, Oct. 7, 1674. married Ailary Allen, and settled in Salisbury. Abel, 4 eldest child of John, 3 was born in Salisbury Jan. 4, 170a. He and his brother John were among the early settlers of York county, ~Iaine, going first to Wells about 1725, locating permanently soon afterwards in Arundel, at Kennebunk Port. Abel married ~lary, daughter of Stephen and Abagail (Little field) Harding 8 • I I e was elected one of the proprietors of the town in 1738.t lie died young, being killed by black fish while out in a sn1all boat. 4 Gideon, :, the only child of Abel , married Dorothy Wildes (also given as Wilde and \Vilder). He was elected proprietor in 1763-t Abel, 4 the eldest son of Gideon, 5 was born Oct. 1, I 755, mar ried ~lehitable, daughter of Benjamin and ,Jane (Sewall) Bur• O b 3 nk. Abel .:\Ierrill was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, the record of his service being given by Bradbury as follows THE FAMILY OF DR. JACOB B. BARTON. 141 (page 296-: •'Abel ~lerrill was in Capt. Jesse Dorman's Com pany in Col. Scamman's Regiment, at Cambridge in 1775. In 1776, uuder the ccmmand of Capt. Eliphalet Daniels, at Ports mouth, N. H. lu 1777 in Col. Starer's Regiment at Stillwater and Saratoga." He died Apr.16, 1837, and his wife ~Iehita',le, Doo. 20 ISBi' I gt 1. 1 Stephen Sewall ( 7 , llerrill, son of Abel , ), was born June 24,. 1798. At the age of eighteen, he went on the sea, in the mer chant service, rising to the position of first mate, which position he held for some years. After fifteen years service, he was ap pointed captain~ but resigned t 1833) the position before his ves sel sailed. He then went west, going first to Rushville, Ill., and a year later to Woodland township, Fulton county, Ill., near Astoria, where he bought a quarter section of government land. This he cleared and resided there continuously unt~l hls death,. l\Iay 8, 1890 He married Nov. 11. 1885, Eliz.abeth, daughter of William and Aiargaret Lacock , MarshalJ. 8 7 Elizabeth Ann, ( ) daughter of Stephen, was born June 13, J 848, at the ~ferrill homestead, Astoria, Ill., and m. Oct 20, 1870, William Blundle )IcLaren . .. BARDING. Stephen Harding, probably son of Israel and Lydia (Gooch) Hard• ing (m. 1672}, m. Abagail Littlefield about 1702, and settled near the mouth of the Kennebunk river, on the western side. He died Dec. 5,. 1747, and his wife Oct. 1, 1747. Their daughter l\r1ary married Abel.. l\ferrill.(") WILDES. 3 Jacob ( ) Wildes (spelled also Wilde and Wilder) was born at Tops field. His father's christian name is not known, but it is thought that it was Ephraim.(.:) He was probably the son of a William Wildes, who lived at Rowley in 1643, removing later to Ipswich, where he died in 1656. Jacob, ( J J and his brothers Ephraim, Samuel, and Jonathan were in the expedition against Norridgenock in l 7i4. At this time, they t Bradbury; Hist. of Kennebunk Port, p. 128. t Do. 2.;2 t Do. 2m. t Do. 1:-lS. The above r.-cord of .\bel llerriffs service is also on record in the Pension Ofttc~, Wash ington. 142 LIEUTENANT lt'JLLIAM BARTON. visited their sister Mary, who lived in Arundel, and they all moved there soon afterward. Jacob married Ruth Foster. Their daughter Dorothy ('1 ) n1arried Gideon ( 6 ) Merrill... lSURBANK. John r 1 1 Burbank, a millman, came from Bradford with the first settlers of Arundel. He was a Lieutenant in the army which captured Louisburg in 1745. He n1arried Priscilla Major, who died Nov. 2, 1730. Their oldest son Benjamin ( 2 ) n1arried Jane Sewall Nov. 6, 1750, and settled at Brownfield. His daughter Mehitable \ 3 ) married.. Ahel ( 6 J Merrill . MARSHALL. \Villi<)m (,) :Marshall was a native of Scotland. His parents came to America when he was two years old and settled in Cumberland -county, Penn. He removed, early in life, to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he took up government land and cleared his farm where he continued to reside till death at the age of 65. He married :Margaret Lacock, who was also of Scotch birth. Their daughter Elizabeth, ( i) was born Dec. 16, 1807. She went to Fulton county, Illinois, in the spring of 1835 with her brother, and married, ~ov. 11, 18B5, Stephen (') l\1errill. She d. Dec. 20, 1893, at Astoria, Ill. INDEX. Allen, 73 Barton, Ensign Eleazar, 40-41; Arms, Coats of, l 1 ; of Barton portrait, 48; birth, 49; mili family, 11-14 tary record, 49; marrialte, Ancient Barton families, 13 seq. 50; site of home, 50; remin Baldwin, 124 iscences, 52, seq.,· emigra Banks, 89 tion to Illinois, 56-67; votes for Lincoln, 68; character• Barton, Meaning of the name, istics, 67-8; death, 69. Chap 9; Barton of Barton, 10; ter III. Arms, 11; Crest, 13; of Barton, Eleazar, Jr., and Han• Whenby, 13; of Smithells, nab, 75; portrait, 55 14; of Cawton, 14; Various Barton, Elizabeth (Finch-Oli- American families, 16; the ver-Scott 1, 39, 41 family of William, Chapter Barton, Emeline (Minkler), 72 III., seq. Barton, Enos D., 73 Barton, Adelaide (Butts), 73 Barton, Esther Treat Bushnell; Barton, Albert Guy. 75 portrait, 99; family, 95, seq. Barton, Alice A. (Burgh), 74 77 Barton, Amasa L., 75 Barton, Editha de, 10, 12 Barton, Ann, 40 Barton, Edmund Mills, 9 Barton, Blanche, 73 Barton, Florence (Byrd , 73 Barton, Benjamin, 73 Barton, Franklin F., 73 Barton, Bruce F ., 96-7 Barton, Fred, 75 Barton, Caroline ,Crawford), 72 Barton, Frederick 13., 99 Barton, Charles W., 99 Barton, George Albertns, 73 Barton, Clara, 15 Barton, George Herbert, 137 Barton, Clara Mabel, 72 Barton, Gilbert de, 10, 12 Barton, Clarence E., 73 Barton, Grace Helen (McLa- Barton, Clarence Noble, 72 ren), 138 Barton, Cecelia de, 10 Barton, Helen E., 99 Barton, Christopher, 15 Barton, Helen Methven, 81-2; Barton, Cornelius Easter, 73 portrait, 81 Barton, Daniel, 74; portrait, 61 Barton, Hudson D., 73 INDEX. Harton, Hugh, 73 Barton, Orleany, 78 Harton, Dr. Jacob B., 75; memo Barton, Phrebe, 73 ries of bis father, 50; por Barton, Rachel A. ( Pratt), 65 traits, 1887, 62; 1888, 88; Barton, Rachel (Smith), 40 1900, 78; with his grand Barton, Rachel Bostedn (Read), children, 90; his family, 69. See also Eleazar Bar 91 seq. Chapter IV. ton, Chapter I II. D,u-ton, James D., 73 Barton, Rachel Jane, 72 Ha non, James, father of Lieut. Barton, Ralph, 74 William, 25 Barton, Richard, 40 Harton, J:.imes, son of Lieut. Barton, Robert Shawmut, 9Q Wilhan1, 39, 41 Barton, Roger, 15 Barton, James and Susan, 72; Barton, Rosanna(Bowen),40,42 portrait, 58 Barton, Roy, 73 Barton, James Scott, 73 Barton, Rufus, 16 Ba non, Jane (Weathers), 73 Barton, Samuel N., 76 Ba·10n, Jason, 74 Barton, Sarah (Harmon), 73 B,Fton, Jason, 75 Barton, Silas E., 75 Ha:·ton, Jennie (Collins), 75 Barton, Stephen, 74, with por- Barton, John, 40, 41 trait Ba non, John, 74 Barton, Sylvester, 72 Ba non, John de, 10 Barton, Col. Thomas, Hi Bar•on, John Jacob, 137 Barton, Rev. Thomas, 16 Bar:on, LeRoy J., 75 Barton, William, Fifteen Revo• Barton, Lewis Read, 72; por- lutionary soldiers, 18-23 trait, 54 Barton. Lieut. William, 9-22, Ba non, :Maggie (Allen), 73 24-33; birth, 24; parentage, Barton, 1\1:alissa (Hardin), 73 25; military experience! 26 Barton, Mannon, 74 seq.; sword, 30, 34; rehcs, Barton, Margaret, 40 35; Bible, 35; marriage, 36-7; Ila rton, Margaret (Stephens- children, 39; pictures of Henderson-Smith), 40, 41 graves, 38, 45; will, 41; in Barton, Maria Hastings, 67 ventory, 46. Chapter II. Barton, Marmaduke. 16 Barton, Rev. Wm. E., 95; por B<1rton, Martha (Leary), 40; . trait, 98 called Patty, 41 Barton, William Newton, 76; Barton, Mary M., 75 portrait, 66 Uarton, Mary (Osborne), 40, 42 Barton,William Holloway 30, 39 Barton, Mary R. (Patterson), Bastian, 68, 70, 76 135-6 Beebe, 100 Barton, Maud, 73 Bell, 113 Barton, Merton A., 75 Bishop, 118, 130 Barton, Milton M., 74 Blackbum, 136 Barton, Myrtis W., 15 Blakesley, 128 Barton, Nancy A. ( Williams), 75 Bolla, 90 Barton, Nellie, 74 Bostedo, Rev. Jacob and wife, Ba •·ton, NeJlie J. (Bastian), 76 71-2 Portrait, 68. Bryan, 122 lh 1·ton, Norman, 73 Buell, 108 !- , :ton, Orlando D., 73 Bureau Creek, 49, 50 JNDE.Y. 147 Bu · nk, 142 Hoadley, 100, 100 Bu , 74 Hoyt, 114 • Ru ell, 100-113; Lewis, por~ Hubbard, 128-9 ait, 102; Elizabeth Ann, Humason or Hummerston,127-8 OH; Esther Treat, 104-5, 110 Hunting, 89 , 73 ft, 76 Kirkpatrick, 89 73 Klepper~ 139 Knox, 76 Cct , 121 Knox Grove, Ill., 49 seq. Ceme- Cha man, 104-r>-ti tery, 6i) Chu hill, 134 Lane, 124 Cla ·• 12'2-4 Lay, 108, 113 Cob , 40 Loomis, 18:i ,_on ler, 7ti Co ton. 76 McLaren, 138-142 (ra ford, 72 .Marcella, N. J., 38 Marshal, 14~ Uave nport, 72, nr, Marvin, 131 l>en1· ster, 74 Merriam, 130 bick son, 89-~0 Merrill, 140-142 Don an, 128 :Metcalf, 74 Dug ale, William, Garter King Methven, 89-90; Rev. Wm., 0 Arms, 14 82-91; portrait, 86; Mary Sim; portrait, 87; Helen, 81 orth, Angelina E. , Bar Minkler, 72 n), 75 l\loor, 73 re son, 89 Xottun family of, 10 Fin , 39 Fit trick, UlH Oliver, 39 1. , 134 ;·•or aam, 124 Patterson, Geo. M. and family, Ful Journal, 7tV; 135-6; Thomas, 89 Pequannock, 25-5 seq. ich, 130 Platt, 124, 127 , 116 Potter, 74 or Gredle, family of, IO Pratt, 124; Rachel Barton, 65, I 74 76; Rev. Edwin Crandall, 76; Sarah, 89 Hain, 90 Hard n, 73 Read, Lewis and Rachel, 50, Hard ng, 141 71; Rachel Hostedo, 50, 69, '-lar on, 74 72 .lasti gs, 7fi l{ohinson, 75 Hen