Person:Silas Houghton (1)

Silas Houghton

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m. 28 Jul 1720

Facts and Events

Name	Silas Houghton
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	7 Oct 1742	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Christening^[2]	28 Nov 1742	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
p. 29.

Silas Houghton ye son of Benj and Zeruiah Houghton was born October ye 7 1742.
↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
p. 290.

[Nov'r: 1742] 28. Baptized in ye meeting House at Woonksechaukset [also called Chocksett, now Sterling] the first Sabbath of ye meeting in it, as follows: Silas, Son of Benjamin Houghton
Note: neither Houghton Genealogy (published 1912), nor the article on the Descendants of John Houghton in NEHGR, Vol. 79 (1925), p. 399-400, put a son Silas in either the family of Benjamin Sr. (m. Zerviah Moore) or Benjamin Jr. (m. Ruth Wheelock), as they were called in the records. Both birth and baptism records indicate him as a son of Benjamin, and the birth record explicitly places him in this family. This appears to be an oversight.