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- Thomas Horton1641 - Abt 1715/16
Facts and Events
| Name |
Thomas Horton |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[1] |
13 Feb 1641 |
Alveston, Warwickshire, England |
| Immigration[3] |
Abt 1662/63 |
New England |
| Marriage |
Abt 1668 |
to Sarah Harmon |
| Marriage |
25 Dec 1693 |
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USAto Susannah _____ |
| Marriage |
6 Jun 1700 |
Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USAto Katherine _____ |
| Death[2] |
Abt Mar 1715/16 |
Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA |
References
- ↑ Jenks, Margaret R, and Frank C. (Frank Conklin) Seymour. Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Kirkland, Washington: M.R. Jenks, c1984-c1987)
1:208 .
'He may be that child called "their son" whom Thomas Horton and wife baptised at Alveston, Warwickshire, on 13 Feb. 1641 [citing Alveston, Warwickshire parish records].
Col. Thomas Horton can be placed in the Alveston vicinity by a combination of three established facts: ...' These facts point to the likelihood that Col. Thomas Horton fought in a battle at Edgehill, 10 miles southeast of Alveston, on 23 Oct 1642.
Jenks goes on to speculate (on page 210) that Thomas reached his majority (age 21) about 1662, which fits well with this baptism.
- ↑ Jenks, Margaret R, and Frank C. (Frank Conklin) Seymour. Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Kirkland, Washington: M.R. Jenks, c1984-c1987)
1:2.
'On 12 March 1712, Thomas, now living in Rehoboth, ...
No record of Thomas's death has been found. We know that he died before 8 March 1715/16, when an inventory of his estate was ordered by the court.'
- ↑ Jenks, Margaret R, and Frank C. (Frank Conklin) Seymour. Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Kirkland, Washington: M.R. Jenks, c1984-c1987)
1:210.
'In 1662/3, a Thomas Horton shipped out to "foreign plantations' from Bristol port. ... In this way, I believe, the only son of Col. Thomas Horton left England for a new life in New England.'
Col. Thomas Horton fought against the Royalists in the civil war, and was one of fifty-nine commissioners who signed the warrant for the execution of King Charles I in January 1649. As a result, the property of his heirs was confiscated in 1660. Jenks believes that this prompted the decision of Thomas Horton (his proposed son) to leave England in 1662, when he had reached his majority, probably on the advice of his guardians.
- Jenks, Margaret R, and Frank C. (Frank Conklin) Seymour. Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Kirkland, Washington: M.R. Jenks, c1984-c1987)
1:1 .
'Appendix A presents a possible English-Welsh ancestry researched and written by Ruth Horton Metzler. She is the first to state that there is no positive proof that this is the correct ancestry for Thomas of Milton. ...'
Note that the ancestry presented in appendix A is an English ancestry on his father's side, with his mother unknown. The Thomas described in the appendix was probably left in the care of a Welsh family (one of his 5 guardians) when his father died in 1649. His mother, apparently dead by 1649, may have been Welsh, related to one of his guardians.
- Jenks, Margaret R, and Frank C. (Frank Conklin) Seymour. Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. (Kirkland, Washington: M.R. Jenks, c1984-c1987)
Volume 1: Appendix A, by Ruth Horton Metzler, particularly pages 193-196, 208-211.
This appendix presents the research of Ruth Horton Metzler, along with a reasonable reconstruction of how the immigrant Thomas Horton ended up in Milton, Massachusetts in 1662. There is no proof that Thomas Horton of Milton was the same person as the minor described in the will of Col. Thomas Horton as "my only Sonne Thomas Horton", but the story presented here is compelling and has no obvious contradictions.
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