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Baker-Rouse Genealogy
Josiah Learned [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 1 Dec 1707 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died . He married 3 Catherine Rice on 31 Jan 1731/1732 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mass Vital Records to 1850
1733 LEARNED Catherine, d. Josiah and Catherine, Feb. 18, 1733. Birth Oxford
1733 LEARNED Josiah, s Josiah and Catherine [Kartharin in dup ], Sept. 12, Kartharim, d. Josiah and Kartharin, Feb. 18, 1733. Birth Oxford
1731 RICE Catherine and Josiah Learned, Jan. 31, 1731-32.* Marriage Oxford
Catherine Rice 1 died . She married 2 Josiah Learned on 31 Jan 1731/1732 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
F i Catherine Learned M ii Josiah Learned 1 was born 2 on 12 Sep 1733 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . M iii Samuel Learned was born 1 on 18 May 1738 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . M iv Moses Learned was born 1 on 29 Aug 1740 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . M v Nehemiah Learned was born 1 on 28 Mar 1743 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . M vi William Learned was born 1 on 26 Sep 1746 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . M vii Ezekiel Learned was born 1 on 18 Mar 1749 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died . F viii Sarah Learned was born 1 on 5 Apr 1753 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died .
Joshua Barton [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3, 4 on 24 Dec 1697 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died . He married Anne.
Other marriages:Holman, Hannah
Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 408
Joshua Barton, of Oxford, Leicester, and Spencer, was born at Framingham 24 Dec 1697. He married first Anne ---, born 27 Feb 1699, died 24 June 1757; and secondly, at Sutton, 27 Dec 1757, Hannah Holman. From his father he received half of the Samuel Barton homestead farm in Oxford Village, a part of the Elliott Mills, and a tract of land on Prospect Hill; and from David Towne he bought a tract of land on Towne's Plain. He lived also in Leicester and Spencer, and was a landowner in both places.
Anne 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 27 Feb 1699. She died 5, 6 on 24 Jun 1757. She married Joshua Barton.
They had the following children:
F i Anne Barton was born 1, 2 on 17 Mar 1721 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died . F ii Sarah Barton was born 1, 2 on 13 Oct 1724 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died . M iii Joshua Barton F iv Mary Barton was born 1, 2 on 10 May 1730 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She died . M v Timothy Barton M vi Nathan Barton M vii Reuben Barton
Joshua Barton [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3, 4 on 24 Dec 1697 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died . He married 5, 6 Hannah Holman on 27 Dec 1757 in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:, Anne
Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 408
Joshua Barton, of Oxford, Leicester, and Spencer, was born at Framingham 24 Dec 1697. He married first Anne ---, born 27 Feb 1699, died 24 June 1757; and secondly, at Sutton, 27 Dec 1757, Hannah Holman. From his father he received half of the Samuel Barton homestead farm in Oxford Village, a part of the Elliott Mills, and a tract of land on Prospect Hill; and from David Towne he bought a tract of land on Towne's Plain. He lived also in Leicester and Spencer, and was a landowner in both places.
Hannah Holman 1, 2 died . She married 3, 4 Joshua Barton on 27 Dec 1757 in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Samuel Barton [Parents] was born 1, 2, 3 about 1664 in Probably Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. He died 4, 5, 6 on 12 Sep 1732 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He was buried 7 in Oxford Common Cemetery, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. He married 8, 9 Hannah Bridges about 1690 in Probably Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
Mass Vital Records to 1850
1697 BARTON Joshua, s. of Samuell and Han[n]ah, Dec. 24, 1697. Birth Framingham
1694 BARTON Mercy, d. of Samuell and Han[n]ah, May 22, 1694. Birth Framingham
1697 BARTON Joshua, s. of Samuell and Han[n]ah, Dec. 24, 1697. Birth Framingham
1707 BARTON Jedediah, s. of Samuell and Hannah, Sept. 18, 1707. Birth Framingham
1710 BARTON Mehetabell, d. of Samuell and Hannah, Aug. 22, 1710. Birth Framingham
1714 BARTON Edmund, s. of Samuell and Hannah, Aug. 5, 1714. Birth FraminghamBarton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 404-408
Samuel Barton, of Salem, Framingham, and Oxford, born, probably at Salem, about 1664, died at Oxford 12 Sept. 1732. He married, probably at Salem, about 1690, Hannah Bridges, who died at Oxford 13 Mar 1727, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Towne) Bridges.
[Footnote: Sarah (Towne) Bridges was a daughter of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, who were married in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England, 25 Mar 1620, and came to New england about 1636. They lived in Salem for several years, but about 1652 moved to Topsfield, where William Towne died about 1672. Of their eight children, six were born at Yarmouth, England, and two -- Sarah and Joseph -- at Salem, Mass. Their eldest child, Rebecca Towne, born in 1621, married Francis Nurse of Salem Village (Danvers); and a younger daughter, Mary Towne, born in 1634, married Isaac Esty of Salem Village. Their youngest daughter, Sarah Towne, born about 1638, married first, in 1659, Edmund Bridges, Jr. of Topsfield and Salem, who was born about 1637 an died in 1682; and secondly, in 1682, Peter Cloyes of Salem Village. Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was hanged as a witch in Salem 29 Junly 1692; and her sister, Mary (Towne) Esty, suffered the same fate 22 Sept 1693. The youngest sister, Sarah (Towne) (Bridges) Cloyes was condemned to death as a witch; but the sentence was not carried out, and she was either set at liberty or allowed to escape from the Ipswich jail. She died at Framingham in 1703. Edmund Jr. and Sarah (Towne) Bridges had five children. Edmund, Benjamin, Mary, Hannah, and Caleb, of whom Hannah was married about 1690 to Samuel Barton.]
Samuel Barton and his wife were buried in the burying ground west of the Common in Oxford.
Samuel Barton appears first in public records in 1683, when he was about nineteen years old and witnessed a deed from Gilbert Endicott of Wells, Me., to James Ross of the same town. In 1687 Capt. John Gerrish of Dover N.H., mentions in a small book of business details, connected with his sawmill at Bellamy Bank, that among those who assisted in work on a bridge at Madbury, N.H., was Samuel Barton. In 1692 Samuel Barton, then aged about twenty-eight years, was a witness for Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor, in the witchcraft troubles at Salem.
In the spring of 1693 members of the Towne, Bridges, Barton, Cloyes, and Elliott families, from Salem Village, started to settle in the plantation of Framingham, which in 1700 was incorporated as the town of Framingham, in Middlesex County. Among them was Samuel Barton, whose second child, Mercy, was born at Framingham 22 May 1694. In the Middlesex (Mass.) Deeds, vol 21, p. 471, is entered a deed, dated 11 Feb 1706/7 but not recorded until 26 Jan 1721/2, from Joseph Buckminster of Framingham to Samuel Barton of the same town, husbandman, conveying, in consideration of L13, current money of New England, a tenement consisting of upland, swampland, and meadow, situated in the township of Framingham and in the actual possession of said Barton, to wit, fifty acres of upland and swampland, three and a half acres of meadow, two acres lying in the Great Meadow, adjoining a meadow commonly called Provender's Point, and one and a half acres lying near Stony Brook, adjoining Daniel Elliott's land, with buildings, etc. Some of the lands were on a brook, since called Barton's Brook, a tributary of Hopkinton River. In 1709 Samuel Barton sold to Caleb Bridges (his brother-in-law) a meadow commonly called Mellon's Meadow, adjoining lands of Caleb Barton and Daniel Elliott.
By 1716 Samuel Barton had fully decided to move from Framingham to Oxford, then in Suffolk County but in 1731 included in the newly formed Worcester County. In the Middlesex Deeds, vol 21, p. 472, is recorded a deed, dated 19 June 1716 but not recorded until 26 Jan 1721/2, from Samuel Barton, Sr., of Framingham, husbandman, conveying to Edward Goddard, also of Framingham, in consideration of L180, fifty acres, ... with two dwelling houses and a smith's shop. On the day on which he sold his Framingham homestead Samuel Barton bought another at Oxford, comprising one-thitieth of the English settlement at Oxford, the site of the earlier Hugenot settlement; and thus he became one of the thirty landed settlers or proprieters, of Oxford Village. The transaction is embodied in a deed, dated 19 June 1716, acknowledged 19 Oct 1716, and recorded 6 Nov 1719, from Jonathan Provender of Oxford, husbandman, conveying to Samuel Barton, Sr., of Framingham, in consideration of L85, current money of New England, one home lot, containing by estimation forty acres, and also ten acres adjoining on the south, fifty acres on Long Hill, two acres of meadow on the brook, below the sawmill, two and a half acres and thirty rods of meadow on the river, all rights of common and undivided lands for said home lot and other lands and meadows, all of said lands being a part (about one-thitieth) of the village of Oxfford, together with one-fourth of a cornmill and one-fourth of a sawmill, standing on the home lot aforesaid, and one-fourth part of all millstones, irons, and other appurtenances, together with all woods, waters, etc. belonging thereto (Suffolk Deeds, vol. 34, p. 101). This was an extremely wise purchase, for it made Samuel Barton one of the landed proprietors of the English settlement at Oxford and part owner of the Elliott Mills. Provender had recently bought the home lot and other lands and part of the mills from Daniel Elliott, who had built the mills. Provender had built the house, on the lot granted to him, adjacent to the home lot.
In 1720 John Towne (son of Jacob Towne and first cousin to Mrs. Hannah (Bridges) Barton), Samuel Barton, Abiel Lamb, and Joseph Wiley, all members of other churches, met together and declared they would do all that they could to found and build a church of Christ in Oxford. Finally, on 3 Jan. 1720/1, the church was formally organized, with the assistance of Rev. Josiah Dwight of Woodstock, Rev. Joseph Dorr of Mendon and others.
[Footnote: Woodstock and Mendon, then in Suffolk County, Mass., were included in Worcester County in 1731. Woodstock was set off to Connecticut in 1752.]
Samuel Barton and his wife were among those who signed the covenant. Samuel barton was dismissed from the church in Framingham on 15 Jan 1720/1.
By a deed dated 15 Aug 1721 and acknowledged 28 Mar 1722 Samuel Barton of Oxford, husbandman, conveyed to Ebenezer Learned of Oxford, for L16, a meadow of two and one half acres and thirty rods, on the east side of the river, in Oxford Village (Suffolk Deeds, vol 36, p 156); and by a deed dated 4 Apr 1722and acknowledged 29 Oct 1722 Samuel Barton of Oxford, yeoman, conveyed to Daniel Hovey of Ipswich fifty acres on Long Hill, in Oxford Village (ib, vol 36, p 204).
On 18 May 1726 Samuel Barton conveyed to his son Elisha Barton of Oxford, 'in consideration of love good-will, and affection, which I have, and do bear, towards my well beloved son,' thirty acres on Prospect Hill, Oxford Village, but this conveyance was not to take place until after the death of the grantor (Worcester Deeds, vol 4, p 226).
On 7 Oct 1727 Samuel Barton conveyed to his son Joshua Barton of Oxford, in consideration of love, etc., half of sixty acres on Prospect Hill, Oxford Village, being the south end of Lot No 15, in the Second Range, but this conveyance also was not to take effect until after the death of the grantor (ib, vol 2, p 301).
Also, by a deed dated 3 Jan 1730/1 and acknowledged 9 Dec 1731, Samuel Barton conveyed to David Towne of Oxford (his son-in-law), for a money consideration, fifty acres of upland and swampland, being Lot No 5, on the Eight-Rod Highway, in Oxford Village (ib, vol 2, p. 302).
Finally, by a deed dated 25 Jan 1730/1 and acknowledged 9 Dec 1731, Samuel Barton conveyed to his son Joshua Barton of Oxford, in consideration of love, etc., half of his farm and meadow, where he (the grantor) then dwelt -- the west side -- in Oxford Village (ib, vol 2, p. 303).
In his will, dated 31 June 1732 an proved before the Judge of Probate for Worcester County, Mass., 23 Sept. 1732, Samuel Barton of Oxford, in the County of Worcester, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman, 'being sickly and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory,' bequeathed to his son Samuel Barton, 'having given him already his greater part and portion of all my estate,' 40s. of the Province aforesaid, to be paid one year after the testator's decease; to his son Joshua Barton 5s., to his son Jedidiah Barton 5s., and to his son Elisha Barton 40s. in money of the Province aforesaid (to be paid him one year after the testator's decease), these three sons having already received their 'full part and portion of all my estate;' to his daughter Mehetebel Dunkin [Dunacan] L10, to be paid to her, in good, lawful money of the Province aforesaid, before the expiration of one year's after the testator's decease, ' she already having received some considerable part of my estate;' to the heirs of his daughter Mercy Towne 10s., to be paid immediately after the testator's decease; to his son Edmund Barton L10 in money of the Province aforesaid, to be paid to him immediately after he is of full age, 'he having received a considerable part of his portion already;' and finally to his son Caleb Barton, whom he made 'constable and ... sole executor of this my last Will and Testament,' all his lands, messuages, tenements, moveable estate, and utensils whatsoever, the said Caleb Barton being required to pay all the testator's just debts and legacies. The will was signed and sealed by the testator, and was witnessed by Richard Gleeson and Campbell acknowledged their signatures under oath before the Judge of Probate for Worcester County. 20 Spet 1732. (Worcester County Registry of Probate, Series A., No 4136; recorded in Liber A, p 66)"Barton, Edward S. Genealogy of the Barton Family: of the town of Marshall, Oneida County, New York. Waterville, NY: unknown. 1920.
Part II, About Our Early Ancestors
"(1)Edward Barton was perhaps the son of Marmaduke Barton, who came to New England about 1632; and settled in Essex County, Massachusetts. Edward may have come to Essex County at the same time as Marmaduke, for they are first heard of at about the same time. By 1640 Edward had settled in the coast town of Salem. A little later he was at Exeter and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was made a freeman at Exeter, N.H., 14 Jully 1657. In 1671 he had a 300-acre farm at Cape Porpus, Maine. In that year, owing to Indian outbreaks, he was forced to flee with his family to Salem, where he died in 1673. His son Edward is in the list of Freemen that took the oath of fidelity at the Court in Pemaquid, July 22, 1674.
There is very little known about Edward Barton or of his sons Edward and Matthew, except from fragmentary notes that I have taken from the 'Essex Antiquarian.' They are as follows:
'Att a Towne meetinge hild the :20 of March 1656.
'It is ordered that Jams Johnson, William Seuvey and Anthony Brakit, shall end the difference between Edward Barton & Nicholis Row; concerning their land of difference.'
Att a meetinge the 3th. of Jamuary 1652.
1. 'It is granted that each Inhabitant is to have out Lottes of ---- according unto the order under wrighten.' Edward Barton had 20 acres.
Att a Towne meetinge hild at Strabery Bank the last of January 1648.
4. 'It is likewise granted Edward Barton that no man shall sit downe between him and John Crouder: Raylls.'
(2) Matthew, son of Edward (1). He returned to his father's farm at Cape Porpus, Maine, with his son Samuel. Samuel was born about 1664. Matthew was a sailor, shipbuilder and farmer. His children are:
Samuel, above mentioned. By wife Sarah had Susana, b. May 10, 1680. Matthew, b. Sept 6, 1682. Sarah, b. April 1, 1685. Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1687.
The following is from the 'Essex Antiquarian':
'June 1679. Thomas Clarke deposed that one night being upon the watch in company with Matthew Barton when the privateer lay within Baker's Island, as they were walking the rounds they heard a loud noise at or near the door of John Williams, the cooper, and it was John Chaplin drunk, Jonathan Barton testified that he saw the man but being a stranger did not know his name until Clarke told him it was Chaplin. The further said that Chaplin swore and said, 'now is the time to get money, the privateer wants horses,' etc.
Sworn 7:11:1678'
(3) Samuel Barton, son of Matthew (2), born about 1664. He as well as his father and grandfather lived in the era of Salem witchcrafft. His grandmother, drawn into one of the trials, hotly discredited the craze as 'a fantasy.' Samuel Barton is on record as a witness in the trial of Elizabeth Proctor, for witchcraft, in Salem, March 20th, 1691-2, at which time he was twenty-eight years of age of thereabouts. He defended at his own peril witches brought under accusation by the fanatic Mercy Lewis.
In 1690 he married Hannah, daughter of Edmund Bridges, Jr. of Salem and Sarah Towne, who was a sister of Rebecca Nurse, hanged on Salem Hill for witchcraft in 1692. The year following that event Samuel with his family and the Townes moved to Watertown, where they received the usual 'warning' that newcomers got when moving into a Puritan colony, under date of June 16th, 1693. They did not stay but a short time in Watertown, going to Framingham, where they lived for twenty-three years. Samuel barton was a member of the Framingham church. In 1716, selling a farm in 'upland, swampland, and meadow' at Framingham, they moved to Oxford, Mass. In June 1716 he bought the Eliott grist mill in Oxford, and Oct. 19, 1716, bought in Oxford, home-lot, lands, meadows, etc., amounting to a thirteenth part of the village, also one-fourth part of a corn-mill and one-fourth part of a saw-mill, standing on the home-lot. The home-lot and mill were probably near the foot of the Mary Turner Hill, at the place since owned by the late Ashbel M. Howes. In September, 1720, he was one fo the founders of the Oxford Congregational Church, 'moved by obligation to promote the Kingdom of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (after social prayer and conference together) they declared each one to the other that they were desirous to lye in the foundation and build up a Church of Christ in Oxford.' Samuel Barton & wife signed the covenant January 18th, 1720-1. He was dismissed from Framingham Church to Oxford January 15th, 1724 [See Daniels' 'History fo the Town of Oxford, Mass.']
Samuel Barton died September 12, 1732. His wife dies March 13, 1727. His will was proved Sept. 23, 1732. He gave in his will all his lands and movable estate to his son Caleb. His youngest son, Edmund Barton, a soldier in the French wars, married Anna Flint of Salem. Among his children was Stephen Barton, born June10, 1740 and this Stephen Barton had a son Stephen, born Aug. 18, 1774 who was 'Clara Barton's father.'
Children --
[1] Samuel, b. 8 Oct 1691, m. 23 May 1715, Elizabeth Bellows of Marlboro; one of the 30 settlers of Sutton, blacksmith, selectman, and treasurer, removed 1748 to Dudley; had Amariah, b. 1716, d. 1730; Mary, 1718; Bezaleel, b. 1722, killed in battle of Bunker Hill. The Bartons of Croyden, N.H. are his descendants; Samuel, 1724; Ebenezer, 1726, m. hannah, his cousin, dau. of Caleb, residence Tolland and Suffield, Conn., went into the Revolutionary army and not heard from afterwards; Betty, 1728; Amariah, 1731.
[2] Mercy, b. 22 May, 1694, m. intentions 17 Dec 1716, david Town.
[3] Joshua, b. 24 dec, 1697
[4] Elisha, b 22 April, 1701
[5] Caleb, b 9 Feb, 1705, at Framingham
[6] Jedidiah, b. 18 Sept, 1707
[7] Methetable, b. 22 Aug, 1710, m. 12 Nov, 1730, Samuel Duncan of Worcester, where she d. 1742
[8] Edmund, b. 5 Aug 1714Hook, James William. Lieut. Samuel Smith: His Children and One Line of Descendants and Related Families. New Haven, CT: Unknown. 1953. p. 131
Barton Family
Intermarried with Smith family XV, page 88 herein.
Sources- Genealogy of Barton Family of the Town of Marshall, NY by Edward S. Barton, 1920.; NEHGS Register, Vol. 84, pp. 400-421; Town Records in Salem, Watertown, Framingham, Oxford, Sutton, South Hadley, Springfield, Granby, and Belchertown, Massachusetts; Genealogies of Watertown, Massachusetts by Bond; West and North Cemeteries in Granby, Mass; Other sources as noted in the text
Family III
Samuel Barton [son of Matthew] was b., probably at Salem, about 1664; d. at Oxford, Mass., Sept 12, 1732 and m. about 1690, Hannah Bridges, prob. at Salem, who was b. June 9, 1669 and d., at Oxford, Mar 13, 1727. Both Samuel and Hannah Barton lie buried in the Oxford cemetery which is west of the Commons. Hannah Bridges was a daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Towne) Bridges. Edmund Bridges, b. 1637: d. 1682, first lived at Topsfield, removing to Salem in 1668. His wife, Sarah Towne, b. about 1638; d. in Framingham in 1703, was a daughter and seventh child of William Towne b. in Yarmouth, Norfolk Co., England and his wife, Joanna Blessing, whom he m. Mar. 25, 1620, in England and brought to America in 1639 settling in Salem, Mass. It was William Towne's family that figured so tragically in the Salem Withcraft trials and execurtions. His daughter, Rebecca, who married m. Francis Nurse, (Nourse) and his daughter, Mary, who m. Isaac Esty were both executed as witches in Sept. 1692. His daughter, Sarah (towne) Bridges who m. Peter Clayes afte the death of Edmund Bridges, her first husband, was accused of practicing witchcraft, was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be executed, but managed to escape from the jail at Ipswich, Mass. and was not retaken. She lived an additional nine years, dying in Framingham in 1703.
Samuel and Hannah (Bridges) Barton, in company with members of the Towne, Bridges, and one or two other families took up land in Framingham, Mass. early in 1693. Here his second child, Mercy barton was b. May 22, 1694. Here he and his family lived until 1716, when he purchased one-thirtieth of the English settlement at Oxford. At the same time he sold his farm in Framingham. The Oxford deed conveyed to him for 85 pounds, current money of New England, one home lot, more than one hundred acres of land in several different parcels and in addition, one-fourth ownership in a cornmill, and one-fourth interest in a saw mill located on some of these lands (Suffolk Deeds, vol 34, p 101.). Samuel Barton helped promote, organize, and finace the first church in Oxford. It was formally organized on Jan. 3, 1721 (new style) with Samuel Barton and his wife Hannah signing the covenent with others. He was released from the church in Framingham Jan. 15, 1721 (new style). His will was dated June 13, 1732, and accepted for probate Sept. 23, 1732. In it he named all of his eight children.
Children of Samuel Barton and his wife Hannah Bridges:
1. Samuel Barton, Jr., b. Oct. 8, 1691: was living in 1748; m. May 23, 1715, Elizabeth Bellows of Marlboro, b. Mar. 17, 1695. She was a duaghter of isaac and Elizabeth Bellows od Marlborouch, Mass. He was one of the thirty original grantees of town of Sutton, Mass where he served as Selectman and town treasurer. In 1748, he removed to Dudley, mass. Children, Sutton, Mass. records were:
i. Amariah Barton, b. Aug. 30, 1716; d. Dec 8, 1730.
ii. Mary Barton, b. Sept 14, 1718.
iii. Bezeleel Barton, b. July 26, 1722; d. at battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He m., April 30, 1747, at Sutton, Mass., Phebe Carlton. He removed in late life to Royalston, Mass. He had a family of three sons, Bezeleel, Benjamin, and Peter, who removed to Croydon, NH, and four daughters.
iv. Samuel Barton, b. Aug 12, 1724; m. 1st at Sutton, Mass, Mar. 11, 1744/5, Mary Stockwell who d. Mar. 1, 1747; m. 2nd at Sutton, May 5, 1748 Hannah Lilly. A daughter Mary was born to his first marriage and daughters Hannah, Susannah, Sarah, and Betty and sons Ezra and Samuel IV to his second marriage. he removed to Royalston, Mass. about 1765.
v. Ebenezer Barton, b. Dec. 10, 1726; d. during Rev. War in which he served; m. 1st at Oxford, Jan. 24, 1748/9, his cousin Hannah Barton, daughter of Caleb. By her he is said to have had five shildren, four of whom, together with their mother, died in an epidemic about 1757. he then married Mary Hart by whom he is said to have had a son, Elkanah Barton, b. at Tolland, Conn., Oct. 10, 1758.
2. Mercy Barton, b. at Framingham, Mass. May 22, 1694; d. Oct. 3, 1730; m. at Woodstock, Mass. (now Conn.) Dec. 31, 1716 her second cousin, David Towne, sone of John Towne of Oxford. He married 2nd, Sarah; m. 3rd Pricilla Hovey; m. 4th Margaret Manning (children, 1 son and 2 daughters).
3. Joshua Barton, b. at Framingham, Mass., Dec. 24, 1697; m. 1st nne b. Feb. 27, 1699; d. June 24, 1757; m. 2nd at Sutton Mass. Dec. 27, 1757, Hannah Holman. Family lived in Oxford, Leicester, and Spencer, Mass. Children all by first wife Anne, the first four born at Oxford, the others at Licester, Mass.
i. Anne Barton, b. Mar. 17, 1721
ii. Sarah Barton, b. Oct 13, 1724
iii. Joshua Barton, Jr., b. Oct. 2, 1727; m. Mar. 28, 1750, Abagail Pratt of Framingham, Mass. and had a family of 5 sons and 3 daughters.
iv. Mary Barton, b. May 10, 1730
v. Timothy Barton, b. Apr. 13, 1732; m. 1st, Hephzibah Stowe; m. 2nd Anna Allen, and had seven children by first wife and two by second.
vi. Nathan Barton, b. July 23, 1734; m. 1st his cousin Tamar Barton, daughter of Jedidiah and m. 2nd Lydia Rice. He lived at Spencer, Oxford, Charlton, and Belchertown, Mass. and had children;
a. Jedidiah Barton, b. Jan. 14, 1762
b. Nathan Barton, Jr., b. 1764; d. young
c. David Barton, b. Mar. 2, 1768
d. Nathan Barton, again, b. Feb. 8, 1770
e. Joshua Barton, probably by 2nd wife, b. about 1772
f. Tamar Barton, b. about 1774
vii. Reuben Barton, b. at Leicester, Mass., Mar. 28, 1738; m. June 28, 1761 Catherine Learned and lived at Spencer, Oxford, and Belchertown, Mass. His will was dated, at Belchertown, Mass. Jan. 4, 1820. Children:
a. William Barton, b. Aug. 26, 1762; d. Sept. 18, 1790. Probably did not marry. Not mentioned in father's will.
b. Sarah Barton, b. Mar. 22, 1764; m. Mr. Rice
c. Josiah Barton, b. Apr. 2, 1766
d. Daniel Barton, b. July 21, 1768; d. Apr. 11, 1831, age 62; intentions filed May 3, 1788 to marry Lois White. had children (Granby, Mass. records), (1) Josephia, b. June 13, 1789; (2) Electa, b. in Belchertown, Nov. 25, 1790; d. Dec. 2, 1793; (3) Eli, b. Jan. 8, 1793; (4) Eldad, b. Feb. 3, 1796; (5) Parma, b. Apr. 7, 1797; m. March 12, 1817, Lyman Fuller; (6) a son, twin of Parma, b. Apr. 7, 1797; d. immediately; (7) Electa, again, b. Apr. 25, 1799; d. Aug. 9, 1804; (8) Mary, b. May 10, 1801; (9) Henry, b. Aug. 25, 1804
e. Lucy Barton, b. Mar. 9, 1770; m. a Mr. Hampton
f. Reuben Barton, Jr., b. Jan. 17, 1772; m. Oct. 2, 1794, at Belchertown, Candy Darling and had children (Belchertown Town Records), (1) Augustus, b. July 15, 1795; (2) Nancy, b. Apr. 9, 1797; (3) William, b. July 6, 1800; (4) Theodore, b. Feb. 3, 1805; m. Rachel; (5) Orene (Orvin), b. July 11, 1807; m. Sept. 1, 1827, Esther Marsh and had a daughter Lucina Minerva, b. Apr. 1, 1828; (6) Horace, b. Apr. 17, 1810; (7) Marcus, b. Jan. 3, 1812.
4. Elisha Barton, b. Framingham, Mass., Apr. 22, 1701; d. at Granby, Mass., Oct. 15, 1776; m. Feb. 3, 1731/2 Betty Wait (see Barton Family iv below)
5. Caleb Barton, b. at Framingham, Mass., Feb. 9, 1704/5; m. 1st at Oxford, Mass., Dec. 6, 1725, Mary Shumway, b. May 9, 1708; d. at Oxford, Aug. 29, 1747. She was a daughter of Peter Shumway of Oxford and Topsfield, Mass. he m. 2nd Jan 13, 1747/8 (sic.) Susannah Marsh of Sutton, Mass. Family lived in Oxford and Charlton, Mass. Children by first wife, Mary Shumway all born at Oxford, Massachusetts:
i. John Barton, b. Oct. 12, 1726; m. July 23, 1746, Abagail Dana, b. Oct. 29, 173. She was a daughter of Phinehas and Hannah (Twitchell) Dana of Oxford. They had a family of fourteen children, nine sons and five daughters, all born at Oxford, Mass.
ii. Hannah Barton, b. Oct. 29, 1728; m. Jan. 24, 1748/9 her cousin Ebenezer Barton, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bellows) Barton and had a family of 5 children four of whom died in youth. He m. 2nd Mary Hart and had a son Elkanah Barton, b. at Tolland, Conn., Oct. 10, 1758.
iii. Reuben Barton, b. May 20, 1731; d. young
iv. Azubah Barton, b. Dec. 25, 1733; d. young
v. Caleb Barton, Jr. b. Aug. 11, 1736; d. 1756, while serving in French and Indian War
Children by second wife, Susannah March, all born at Oxford, Mass.:
vi. Reuben Barton, b. Aug. 22, 1748; m. June 1, 1770 Olive Jennison of Sutton, Mass. and had a family of 4 sons and 6 daughters all born at Sutton, Mass.
vii. March Barton, b. Jan. 1, 1749 (sic)
viii. Abraham Barton, b. Oct. 16, 1750
ix. Jacob Barton, b. Nov. 2, 1752
x. Bathsheba Barton, b. Oct. 15, 1754
xi. Sibley Barton, b. Aug. 18, 1760; d. at Charlton, Mass. March 31, 1813; m. 1st late in 1784, Rachel Needham who died in 1786; m. 2nd June 30, 1788 Lucretia Twiss. By 2nd wife had a family of 5 sons and two daughters, all born at Charlton, Mass.
xii. Olive Barton, b. Oct. 14, 1763
6. Jedidiah Barton, Lieut., b. at Framingham, Mass. Sept., 18, 1707; m. 1st Mar. 23, 1730/1, Lydia Pratt who died at Oxford, Mass Aug. 13, 1765; m. 2nd Oct. 7, 1778 Sarah Miller. He served in the Militia in the French and Indian War. Family lived at Oxford, Mass. Children all by 1st wife Lydia Pratt, Oxford, Mass Records:
i. Abraham Barton, b. May 11, 1732; d. young
ii. Lydia Barton, b. Jan. 17, 1733/4; d. May 20, 1743
iii. Jedidiah Barton, Jr., b. Mar. 28, 1736; d. June 4, 1743
iv. Mercy Barton, b. Apr. 14, 1738; d. May 8, 1743
v. Isaac Barton, b. Sept. 21, 1740; d. Oct. 9, 1769; m. July 29, 1761, Sarah Covel and had sons, Abraham and isaac, both born at Oxford, Mass.
vi. Tamar Barton, b. Feb. 12, 1742/3; m. Apr. 4, 1759 her cousin Nathan Barton, son of Joshua, which see for children
7. Mehitabel Barton, b. at Framingham, Mass., Aug 22, 1710; d. Nov. 7, 1742; m. Nov. 12, 1730 Samuel Duncan of Worcester, Mass., and had one son, Samuel Duncan.
8. Edmund Barton, b. at Framingham, Mass., Aug. 5, 1714; d. Dec. 13, 1799; m. at Salem, Mass., Sept. 9, 1739 Anna Flint, b. June 9, 1718; d. March 20, 1795. Family lived at oxford and Sutton, Mass. Children, Sutton Mass. Records:
i. Stephen Barton, Capt., b. June 10, 1740; d. Oct. 21, 1804; m. may 28, 1765, Dorthy Moore, daughter of Elijah and Dorthy (Learned) Moore. She was b. at Oxford, Mass. Apr. 12, 1747; d. Nov. 11, 1838. He was a doctor and lived first in Oxford and then in Maine and in late life in Oxford again but is buried on what was his farm near Windsor, Maine. His family consisted of thirteen children one of whom was Capt. Stephen Barton, Jr., b. at Oxford, mass., Apr. 18, 1774; d. Mar. 21, 1862 who m. at Oxford, Mass., Apr. 22, 1804 Sarah Stone, b. at Oxford, Nov. 13, 1783. She was a daughter of David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. Capt. Stepehen Barton and his wife Sarah had a family of 2 sons and 3 daughters the youngest of whom was the justly famous Clarissa Harlowe Barton, known better as Clara Barton the renowned Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross. She was b. at Oxford, Mass., Dec. 21, 1821 and d. unmarried at Glen Echo, Md. Apr. 12, 1912 in her 91st year.
ii. Mary Barton, b. July 11, 1742; m. Obadiah Brown of Oxbridge.
iii. Hannah Barton, b. Sept. 22, 1744; m. Samuel Boutell, Jr. of Sutton
iv. Jedadiah Barton, b. may 6, 1747; d. 1808
Hannah Bridges [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 on 9 Jun 1669 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She died 4, 5, 6 on 13 Mar 1727 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She was buried 7 in Oxford Common Cemetery, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. She married 8, 9 Samuel Barton about 1690 in Probably Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
M i Samuel Barton F ii Mercy Barton M iii Joshua Barton M iv Elisha Barton M v Caleb Barton M vi Lieutenant Jedidiah Barton F vii Mehitable Barton M viii Edmund Barton
Edmund Bridges [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 about 1637 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. He died 7, 8, 9 in 1682 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. He married 10, 11, 12 Sarah Towne on 11 Jan 1659 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
Sarah Towne [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 about 1638 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She was christened 5 on 3 Sep 1648. She died 6, 7 in 1703 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She married 8, 9, 10 Edmund Bridges on 11 Jan 1659 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Cloyes, Peter
Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 404-408
[Footnote: Sarah (Towne) Bridges was a daughter of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, who were married in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England, 25 Mar 1620, and came to New England about 1636. They lived in Salem for several years, but about 1652 moved to Topsfield, where William Towne died about 1672. Of their eight children, six were born at Yarmouth, England, and two -- Sarah and Joseph -- at Salem, Mass. Their eldest child, Rebecca Towne, born in 1621, married Francis Nurse of Salem Village (Danvers); and a younger daughter, Mary Towne, born in 1634, married Isaac Esty of Salem Village. Their youngest daughter, Sarah Towne, born about 1638, married first, in 1659, Edmund Bridges, Jr. of Topsfield and Salem, who was born about 1637 an died in 1682; and secondly, in 1682, Peter Cloyes of Salem Village. Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was hanged as a witch in Salem 29 Junly 1692; and her sister, Mary (Towne) Esty, suffered the same fate 22 Sept 1693. The youngest sister, Sarah (Towne) (Bridges) Cloyes was condemned to death as a witch; but the sentence was not carried out, and she was either set at liberty or allowed to escape from the Ipswich jail. She died at Framingham in 1703. Edmund Jr. and Sarah (Towne) Bridges had five children. Edmund, Benjamin, Mary, Hannah, and Caleb, of whom Hannah was married about 1690 to Samuel Barton.]
They had the following children:
M i Edmund Bridges 1 was born on 4 Oct 1661. He died . M ii Benjamin Bridges 1 was born on 2 Jan 1665. He died . F iii Mary Bridges F iv Hannah Bridges M v Caleb Bridges 1 was born on 3 Jun 1677. He died .
William Towne 1, 2 was born 3 on 21 May 1603 in Lincolnshire, England. He died 4, 5 about 1672 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. He married 6, 7, 8 Joanna Blessing on 25 Mar 1620 in Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England.
Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 404-408
[Footnote: Sarah (Towne) Bridges was a daughter of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, who were married in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England, 25 Mar 1620, and came to New england about 1636. They lived in Salem for several years, but about 1652 moved to Topsfield, where William Towne died about 1672. Of their eight children, six were born at Yarmouth, England, and two -- Sarah and Joseph -- at Salem, Mass. Their eldest child, Rebecca Towne, born in 1621, married Francis Nurse of Salem Village (Danvers); and a younger daughter, Mary Towne, born in 1634, married Isaac Esty of Salem Village. Their youngest daughter, Sarah Towne, born about 1638, married first, in 1659, Edmund Bridges, Jr. of Topsfield and Salem, who was born about 1637 an died in 1682; and secondly, in 1682, Peter Cloyes of Salem Village. Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was hanged as a witch in Salem 29 Junly 1692; and her sister, Mary (Towne) Esty, suffered the same fate 22 Sept 1693. The youngest sister, Sarah (Towne) (Bridges) Cloyes was condemned to death as a witch; but the sentence was not carried out, and she was either set at liberty or allowed to escape from the Ipswich jail. She died at Framingham in 1703. Edmund Jr. and Sarah (Towne) Bridges had five children. Edmund, Benjamin, Mary, Hannah, and Caleb, of whom Hannah was married about 1690 to Samuel Barton.]New England Historical & Genealogical Register. 1867, Vol. 21 pp 12-16+
Notes and Memoranda Relating to Persons of the Name of Towne
"In this church [Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, Norfolk, England], founded in A.D. 1123, dedicated to St. Nicholas in 1251, and still retaining the name, were married, March 25, 1620, William Towne and Joanna Blessing, and here their six first children were baptized. The next we hear of this family is at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, where in the book of early grants appears the following: '11. 8 mo., 1640. Granted to Wm. Towne, a little neck of Land right over against his house on the other side of the river/' He is also referred to in the Court Records of the same year thus: '17th Qt., last of 4th mo. and 1. 5th mo. 1640. Wm. Towne pl. agt. Jno Cook def. in act of debt, Jury find for pl. sume to be deputed to measure John Cook's land and what is remaining to make up Goodman Town's land and if it be ffyve acres to pay Towne ffyve marks and wt is wanting of ffyve acres to abate 13s. 4d. p. acre: And costs 4s. 0.' Wm. Towne's residence was in that part of Salem known as the 'Northfields,' and he remained at this place till 1651, the year following the incorporation of the town of Topsfield, when he purchased a tract of land in the latter place of Wm. Paine, of Ipswich, 'containing forty acres of ground or thereabouts, whereof six acres is by the sellar which Wm. Howard of Topsfield built, and about thirty-two acres joining up to the sayd six acres eastward of it, part of which is plow ground, another part is meaddow, another part is upland unplowed, all lying together having the meadow and the plow ground of the said Wm. Howard towards the east and the ground of Walter Roper towards the North and a Sertaine River towards the South of South West. Also a little piece of meddow of about two acres lying on the South side of the river directly against the plains of the said Wm. Howard, having ye grounds of the said Wm. Howard towards ye East and the said River towards ye North and upland towards the South.'
In 1652, he sold his property in Salem to Harry Bullock, in 1656 purchased additional land in Topsfield, and in 1663, 'in consideration of natural affection and the contemplated marriage of their sonn Joseph Towne, with Phebe Perkins, the dau. of Thomas Perkins,' he and his wife conveyed to their said son Joseph, two-thirds 'of the home wherein they then did dwell, with Barne, out houses, yard, gardens, orchards, lying situate and being in Topsfield, together with a parcel of broken upland by the meddow side, only a cartway reserved between the said land and the meadow towards the South, and the land of Jacob Towne towards the East, and the land of Jacob Towne and Edmind Towne towards the North, and the lands of Isaac Estie towards the West --also another parcell of land broke up and unbroken, containing by estimation thirty acres, bounded by the way towards the South-East and North-East, and a way also towards the South-West; the land of Zacheus Gould and Edmund Towne towards the North-West, and the land of Edmund Towne and Isaac Estie towards the North. Also, a parcell of meddow lying on the North side of the river, having the river for the bounds towards the South, a highway towards the West, and a way towards the North, and meddow of Jacob Towne towards the East, containing by estimation fourteen acres.'
All these conveyances being made with the desire that their said son Joseph should have the first refusal of the remaining third when the same should be for sale. He died about 1672, and from the final settlement of the estate of his widow, she seems to have survived him about ten years. Their children, baptized at Yarmouth, were:
1. Rebecca*, Feb 21, 1621; m. Francis Nurse
2. John, Feb 16, 1623
3. Susanna, Oct. 20, 1625
4. Edmund, June 28, 1628
5. Jacob, March 11, 1632
6. Mary*, Aug 24, 1634; m. Isaac Esty
And baptized at Salem:
7. Sarah*, m. 1st Jan 11, 1660, Edward Bridges; 2d, Peter Cloyes
8. Joseph, b. about 1639**
* These sisters suffered terribly during the Witchcraft delusion at Salem in 1692 -- Rebecca and Mary being executed and Sarah barely escaping with her life.
** At a County Court held at Salem in 1660, in the case of Henry Bartholomew plaintiff, Jacob Towne defendant: William, Edmund and Joseph Towne were witnesses, and in their evidence William stated that he was three score years old. Edmund that he was thirty-one years of age, and Joseph that he was about one and twenty; and in the case of Norman vs. Orne, at Ipswich, in 1685, Jacob Towne, Sen., aged about 54 years testifieth and saith that he livevd in Salem in the North fields that he was there an inhabitant near twelve years, and that he had been absent from there this four and thirrty years."Hubbard, Edwin. "The Towne Family Memorial: Compiled from the New England Historical and Geneological Register, Towne Manuscripts, public and family records, for A.N. Towne, Esq." Chicago: Fergus Print Co. 1880. pp.18-21.
"The Towne Family
Part Two
Geneolgical memoranda comprising the first five generations of the descendents of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, of Yarmouth, County of Norfolk, England, and Salem, Mass. Complied, largely, from manuscripts of the late Wm. B. Towne, Esq of Milford, N.H. See, also, N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., vols. xx and xxi.
"
Joanna Blessing 1, 2, 3 died . She married 4, 5, 6 William Towne on 25 Mar 1620 in Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England.
They had the following children:
F i Rebecca Towne M ii John Towne was christened 1 on 16 Feb 1623 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He died 2 before 1672. F iii Susanna Towne 1 was christened on 20 Oct 1625 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She died 2 before 1672. M iv Edmund Towne M v Jacob Towne F vi Mary Towne F vii Sarah Towne M viii Joseph Towne
Francis Nurse 1 was born about 1718. He died 2 on 22 Nov 1795 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. He married Rebecca Towne.
Rebecca Towne [Parents] was born 1 in 1621 in Yarmouth, England. She was christened 2 on 21 Feb 1621 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She died 3 on 19 Jul 1692 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. The cause of death was Hanged as a witch. She married Francis Nurse.
Isaac Esty 1 died . He married Mary Towne.
Mary Towne [Parents] was born 1 in 1634 in Yarmouth, England. She was christened 2 on 24 Aug 1634 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She died 3 on 22 Sep 1692 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. The cause of death was Hanged as a witch. She married Isaac Esty.
Peter Cloyes 1 died . He married 2 Sarah Towne in 1682.
Sarah Towne [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 about 1638 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She was christened 5 on 3 Sep 1648. She died 6, 7 in 1703 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She married 8 Peter Cloyes in 1682.
Other marriages:Bridges, Edmund
Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.
p. 404-408
[Footnote: Sarah (Towne) Bridges was a daughter of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, who were married in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, England, 25 Mar 1620, and came to New England about 1636. They lived in Salem for several years, but about 1652 moved to Topsfield, where William Towne died about 1672. Of their eight children, six were born at Yarmouth, England, and two -- Sarah and Joseph -- at Salem, Mass. Their eldest child, Rebecca Towne, born in 1621, married Francis Nurse of Salem Village (Danvers); and a younger daughter, Mary Towne, born in 1634, married Isaac Esty of Salem Village. Their youngest daughter, Sarah Towne, born about 1638, married first, in 1659, Edmund Bridges, Jr. of Topsfield and Salem, who was born about 1637 an died in 1682; and secondly, in 1682, Peter Cloyes of Salem Village. Rebecca (Towne) Nurse was hanged as a witch in Salem 29 Junly 1692; and her sister, Mary (Towne) Esty, suffered the same fate 22 Sept 1693. The youngest sister, Sarah (Towne) (Bridges) Cloyes was condemned to death as a witch; but the sentence was not carried out, and she was either set at liberty or allowed to escape from the Ipswich jail. She died at Framingham in 1703. Edmund Jr. and Sarah (Towne) Bridges had five children. Edmund, Benjamin, Mary, Hannah, and Caleb, of whom Hannah was married about 1690 to Samuel Barton.]
David Towne [Parents] 1, 2, 3 died . He married 4, 5 Mercy Barton on 31 Dec 1716 in Woodstock, Massachusetts/Connecticut.
Other marriages:, Sarah
Hovey, Priscilla
Manning, Margaret
Mercy Barton [Parents] was born 1, 2, 3 on 22 May 1694 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She died 4 on 3 Oct 1730. She married 5, 6 David Towne on 31 Dec 1716 in Woodstock, Massachusetts/Connecticut.
They had the following children:
M i Francis Towne was born 1 in 1719. He died 2 in 1729. F ii Hannah Towne was born 1 in 1720. She died 2 in 1743. F iii Deliverance Towne was born 1 in 1726. She died .
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