Ralph Houghton Jr.1,2,3,4,5

M, #1021, b. 1648, d. 26 August 1699

Family: Mary Blackburn b. 29 Mar 1663, d. 9 Apr 1767

Biography

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Birth1648Charlestown or Woburn, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, Ralph Houghton, Jr: Not in Lancaster VRs with children of Ralph and Jane Houghton; Savage: aged 28 at death (bd 1664); F. W. Houghton: England and about 1663-5; Nourse: England
Ralph Horton: Edelman gives 16486,7,3,8,9,10
Research1648Prob. Ralph Horton of Dorchester, not Ralph's son
Marriagebefore 1692Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, Torrey: b 1692; Dorchester
1664 from source11,2,12,13,14,15,10
EstateAug 17, 169915
DeathAug 26, 1699Dorchester, MA, USA7
BiographyNourse, Early Records of Lancaster, 1884: p. 251, "His children (Ralph's) were Ralph; James...All but Ralph and James were born in Lancaster."

J. W. Houghton, Houghton Genealogy, (quoting from FWH in Columbus Smith, 1869), p. 90: "This Ralph is rather aprocryphal. I find no record of his birth, and yet his name appears in the town records of Dorchester, Mass, in connection with those of other known members of the family. The genealogical collections of his time state that he was probably '"a son of the first Ralph". He was a mariner, and went with the Acadian expedition, and lost his life during the great earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica, June 30, 1692."

The tradition has always been that Ralph and James were the two oldest children of Ralph and brought with him from England. The first part of this tradition is most likely true and he and brother James were probably born in Charlestown or Woburn, where their father made his home on arrival in America previous to the purchase and incorporation of Lancaster to which they subsequently removed. This would account for the names of Ralph and James not appearing in the birth register of Lancaster.

Charles E. Houghton of Baltimore, who gave much time to genealogical research wrote me in recent years that he had consulted the records and found the settlement of this Ralph's estate. Henry S. Nourse, in his Annals of Lancaster, says, with reference to this family, "All but Ralph and James were born in Lancaster." If they brought the two older children with them from England they could not have come earlier than 1650-51 as James was born in one of those years. Another tradition says that they came in 1647-8 and this appears more likely to be correct, and that these two children were born in one of the above named towns where the parents made their home for a short time after their arrival in this country. It is not claimed that the evidence for this theory is conclusive, but taking all the circumstances and traditions into account seems very probable."

Dorchester records give his two daughters.

Savage: "Ralph, Dorchester, perhaps s. of the first John, was lost at Port Royal, when the town was sunk by the great eartq. of Jamaica, 7 June 1692, then aged 28 yrs. leav. wid. Mary."

VanNoy: "A feature story about the HOUGHTON family of Milton, Ma. titled "Tales of the Hills", says: Early Houghtons found time from farming to make lengthy ocean voyages. The busy Port of Boston offered easy access to trading ships which toured the world. One such voyage nearly came to grief. In 1692, Mary Houghton had come with her husband Ralph Houghton Jr. to Jamica [sic]. On June 7th, around noon, a severe earthquake rocked the area causing an enormous tidal wave which washed them both out to sea. Mary clung to a pile of flotsam until she was picked up by a passing vessel. Eventually, she reached her home port. Presuming her husband to be dead, she proceeded to Dorchester, Ma. which then included parts of Milton, Ma. where some of her relatives ran a tavern. They took her in and she helped by waiting on travelers. One day, a stranger came in for a nights lodging. He looked at Mary in disbelief (and then fainted, so the story goes). It was Ralph Houghton Jr. He had returned home after giving up the long search in Jamica for his wife. After the happy reunion, they returned to the family homestead at Houghton Pond. Mary lived to be 105 years old but died in poverty." [CJV: see wife's biography, Canton Hx]

Michelle A. Boyd: Possibly Ralph Houghton, said to have settled his estate by James Houghton (which, if true, implies a probable relationship between the two men bearing the same last name), married Mary — (maiden name is said to be Blackburn, according to grandson’s obituary, but this has not been confirmed; also said by this source to have been born about 1603 and died in 1708, though she was more likely born Mar 1664), said to have been a mariner. Ralph is traditionally claimed to have been a son of Ralph and Jane but this has not been confirmed in primary records. If so, he would most likely have been, along with James, one of the older children, born before the Houghtons came to Lancaster. Ralph and/or Mary were said to have present in Port Royal, Kingston, Jamaica at the time of the 1692 Jamaica earthquake. The earthquake, along with the tsunami it kicked off, destroyed the town and buried it underwater. According to her grandson’s obituary, Mary survived by clinging to the doorsill, which broke away from the house, and was rescued by passing vessel three days later. The story goes that she then lived and worked at a tavern in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, believing that Ralph had been lost at sea. Sometime later, Ralph, believing that Mary had perished in the earthquake, arrived at the tavern and it is said that they both fainted upon seeing each other. The reliability of this account is called into question by the fact that it claims that Mary died in 1708 at the age of 105, which would have made her 89 at the time of the quake. She would have then had to have traveled to Massachusetts, then waited upon customers for a few years, possible but not likely. This also would have made her considerably older than her alleged parents-in-law, Ralph and Jane Houghton. It also conflicts with a manuscript reported in the History of Dorchester, which states, “In 1692, Mrs. Mary Horton, widow of Mr. Ralph Horton, huo was sunke in ye earthquake at Jemeco the seventh day of June, betwen a Eleven and twelve a clock at nune in 1692. Ye above named person was then 28 years of age from March ye last past.” It’s not clear whether the person who was sunk was Ralph or Mary, although Mary was most likely the 28-year-old referred to in the second sentence. It could have been that this record refers to Ralph as the quake victim and was made not long after the disaster and before Ralph and Mary were reunited, but this is only a theory. The Houghton Genealogy states that Ralph was part of the Acadian expedition. However, another secondary source states, “The second son [of James Houghton, son of Ralph and Jane], Ralph, was a soldier in the Acadian expedition to Canada and died in 1710, in the service. His brother James was his administrator.” (Crane, Ellery Bicknell (ed.), Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, vol. 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907, p. 264);

See “Thompson.—Houghton.—Earthquake at Port Royal, 1692,” New England Historic Genealogical Register, vol. 19, Apr 1865, p. 122:

THOMPSON.—HOUGHTON.—EARTHQUAKE AT PORT ROYAL, 1692.
Died in Easton [Mass.], Mr. David Thompson, a pensioner of the longest standing of any in the Union; and it is believed the last surviving soldier of the ill-fated garrison that defended Fort William Henry, under the command of Col. Munroe, when, eighty years ago, while these States were yet British colonies, it was surrendered to the French, under the command of Mons. Montcalm, who, with an army of eleven thousand regulars and two thousand Indians, laid siege to the fort, while the defence was maintained with an inconsiderable force of two thousand three hundred men. Mr. Thompson, during his long life, was much respected. He was a large athletic man, with a soldier-like appearance, and unusually erect in his carriage, which posture, when walking, he retained to the very last. His age is not accurately known, as there is no record of his birth among his descendants. They fix it from 98 to 102 years. He belonged to the Congregational Church and Society at the time of his death, having been a communicant 44 years. He left, at his death, six children, 38 grand children, 100 great grand children, and several grand children's grand children. Mr. T., at the age of 16, enlisted in the old French war, and lost his left arm by a bomb in the storming of Fort Henry by the French in 1757. He has received a pension ever since, and was the last surviving pensioner who took part in that war.* His grandmother, Mrs. Mary Houghton (her maiden name was Blackburn), was one of the three whose lives were saved at the sinking of Port Royal,† in Jamaica, by an earthquake. She heard and felt the earthquake, and rushed to the door, and as the place sunk in the water she clung to the sill of the house, which separated from the building. She remained in the water three days and three nights when a vessel passed by and she was taken on board. Her trunk of clothing floated within her reach and was saved. She afterwards lived at a tavern at Dorchester and waited upon passengers. Several years had elapsed when her husband entered the tavern to put up for the night. They immediately recognized each other, and the effect was such that they both fainted; he having expected she was lost at the time of the earthquake, and she expected he was lost at sea, being gone a voyage at the time of the disaster. She died in 1708, at the advanced age of 105 years.—(From the Franklin Mercury, printed at Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 25, 1836.)

* We well remember Mr. Thompson. In our youthful days he used to make occasional visits at the home of one of his descendants in Dorchester. He was said, then, to be about 90 years of age. He had a form erect and commanding, and a firm and majestic step. His countenance was bright and expressive, and according to our impressions he was one of the best specimens of an old soldier we ever saw. He was uniformly dressed, we think, in blue. We used to look upon him with veneration, almost with awe, as a rare sight in those days—a live soldier of the French war. Editor.
† On the 7th of June [1692] a tremendous earthquake shook Port Royal, in Jamaica, to Its foundations; buried nine tenths of the city under water, and made awful devastations over the whole island. Northward of the town, above 1000 acres were sunk. Two thousand souls perished. In the space of three minutes, this beautiful town was shattered to pieces, and sunk. The earthquake took place almost half an hour after 11, A.M.—(Holmes's Annals, i. 445; Univ. Hist., xli. 318, 384-386; Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., iv. 223-230).
“One of our Dorchester people, Ralph Houghton, Jr., was buried in the ruins, as we learn from the following memoranda found pinned to the cover of an old manuscript; viz.: ‘In 1692, Mrs. Mary Horton, widow of Mr. Ralph Horton, huo was sunke in ye earthquake at Jemeco the seventh day of June, betwen a Eleven and twelve a clock at nune in 1692. Ye above named person was then 28 years of age from March ye last past.’”—Hist. of Dorchester, p. 259.
There is a discrepancy here. According to the first statement above, Mrs. Mary Houghton was the person who was saved at the sinking of Port Royal, at the time of the earthquake.
The quotation from the old manuscript, as printed in the Hist. of Dorchester, may be made to read either way, as referring to Mr. Houghton, or to his widow. We wish information on this subject. We are inclined to the opinion, however, that the first account is correct. Editor.

Source: “Thompson.—Houghton.—Earthquake at Port Royal, 1692,” New England Historic Genealogical Register, vol. 19, Apr 1865, p. 122.16,6,17,18,19,20,21
AFNG421-R222
ResearchEdelman: "The fact is that Ralph Horton, late of Dorchester, mariner, died by 26 August 1699, when Mary Horten [sic] was appointed administratrix of his estate [Suffolk Co., Mass., Probate File 2529]. As a mariner, Ralph Houghton probably was in Jamaica and may have met his wife, Mary, at the time of the earthquake in 1692, but the rest of the story became garbled in the retelling.
Ralph Horton, whose ancestry is as yet unproven, was born probably in Massachusetts about 1648 and died by 26 August 1699 at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married by 1692 Mary, possibly Blackburn, who was born possibly in Jamaica, West Indies, about 1662, and died at Canton, Massachusetts, where her daughter Mary Blackman was living, 8 April 1767, aged 105 years.

Children, born at Dorchester, Massachusetts:
i.     Martha Houghton, b. 3 Feb. 1692/3; bp. at First Church, Dorchester 13 Feb. 1692/3; d. unknown; m. at Dorchester, 25 Dec.
1711, John Lee.
ii. Mary Houghton, b. 30 June 1695; d. after 8 April 1767; m. at Dorchester by Rev. Jno. Danforth, 26 March 1713, Thomas
     Blakeman/Blackman."

1865 NEHGR: "...Mrs. Mary Houghton (maiden name Blackman) was one of three whose lives saved at sinking of Port Royal in Jamaica by earthquake -- remained in water three days and three nights [house sank], when vessel passed--later lived at a tavern in Dorchester, "Several years had elapsed when her husband entered the tavern to put up for the night. They immediately recognized each other, and the effect was such that they both fainted." She died in 1708, at advanced age of 105 yrs (from Franklin Mercury, printed at Greenfield, MA, Oct. 25, 1836.

Hist. of Dorchester, p. 145: both Ralph Houghton and Ralph Houghton Jr are mentioned "among those who lived in town and who reached age of 21 - up to year 1700."
p. 259: "The community were much distressed on account of the earthquake at Jamaica, news of which was brought to Boston by some who marrowly escaped. One of our Dorchester people, Ralph Houghton, Jr., was buried in the ruins, as we learn by the follwoing memoranda found pinned to the cover of an old manuscript: viz., "In 1692, Mrs. Mary Horton, widow of Mr. Ralph Horton, huo was sunke in ye earthquake at Jemeco the seventh day of June, betwen a eleven and twelve a clock at nune in 1692. Ye above named person was then 28 years of age from March ye last past." [unclear if reference is to Mr. Houghton or widow.] [see memo for Ralph's wife Mary, for Canton Hx]

Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica occurred June 7, 1692. It buried 9/10ths of the city under water. 2000 died.

Tolman, 1853: "Ralph Houghton Jr. - He was the son of Ralph what became of him is made to appear in the following which I found on the cover of an old manuscript which came from the house of Aaron Nixon in Dorchester. In 1692 Mrs. Mary Horton, widow to Mr. Ralph Horton He was sank in the Earthquake at N. Jamaica the seventh day of June between eleven and twelve o'clock at noon in 1692. The above name person was then 28 years of age the last past.23,7,15 "
ResearchFrancis W. Houghton erroneously gives two sons of Ralph Jr: Joshua and Eleazer Houghton [ CJV: the latter is actually the son of Robert Houghton, son of John the emigrant]; FWH: later he correctly gives Joshua as son of Robert24
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 90 #118.
  2. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 391.
  3. [S149] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, I, p. 469.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4 #1.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #16 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 251.
  7. [S96] NEHGR, "Who Was Martha Horton?", A. F. Edelman, Vol. 15, No. 599, July 1996, p. 349.
  8. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 18, 50 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  9. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4-5.
  10. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 336.
  11. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 90.
  12. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 469.
  13. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  14. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  15. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  16. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 90-91.
  17. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 378.
  18. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 3-4.
  19. [S318] Daniel T.V. Huntoon, Canton MA HX, p. 302.
  20. [S1407] Committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Dorchester MA History, p. 145, 259.
  21. [S96] NEHGR, Thompson.—Houghton.—Earthquake at Port Royal, 1692,” New England Historic Genealogical Register, vol. 19, Apr 1865, p. 122.
  22. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  23. [S96] NEHGR, "Thompson -- Houghton -- Earthquake at Port Royal, 1692.", 19, 1865, p. 122-123.
  24. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 18, 20 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).

James Houghton Sr.1,2,3,4

M, #1022, b. circa 1650/51, d. 17 July 1711

Family 1: Mary (?) d. 13 May 1738

Family 2: Mary Willard

  • Marr ???*: It is unclear whether James Houghton Sr. married Mary Willard; only in MLM.38

Biography

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Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1650/51Charlestown or Woburn, Suffolk/Middlesex Co., MA, USA, in the Massachusetts Bay colony, probably in Watertown; JWH: 1661; CJV: not in either VRs; Weis, MLM: Watertown; Nourse, F. W. Houghton: England7,8,9,10,6,11
Milit-BegJun 24, 1675NEHGR: a James Haughton, a soldier in King Philip's War; Bodge: Capt. Nathaniel Davenport and Capt. Ting, Feb. 29, 1675-76; and Aug. 24, 1676, at Dedham12,13,14
CourtApr 7, 1683Lancaster, MA, USA, Nourse: One of the few places he is mentioned is in relation to a 7 April 1683 inquest over the body of John Whitcomb, who drowned attempting to ferry hay across the Nashaway River in a canoe; James is named as one of the jurors.15,8
NoteApr 7, 1683Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, jury of inquest regarding drowning death of John Whitcomb16
Marriagecirca 168517,9,18,19,20,14,21,11,22
Research1689
OccupationDec 1, 1697Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, directed by the General court as the "Constable or Collector of the town of Lancaster" -- to collect the tax levied on the town: L10.10.0023
WillJul 17, 1711Lancaster, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Will, Mass. Archives: "In the Name of God Amen. This Seventeenth Day of July in ye yeare of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & eleven: I James Houghton Senr of ye Towne of Lancaster in ye County of Middlesex in ye Province of ye Massachusets Bay in New England Yeoman -- Being sencible of my owne fraility & weakness of Body though otherwise in some good Measure of competent Memory & understanding Praised be God for it: do her make this my Last Will & Testament In Maner & forme following (that is to say) first & principally I comitt my Soule to almighty God My Creatour hoping to Receive free & full Pardon of all my Sins through ye alone Mirritt & Mediation of Jesus Christ my Blessed Lord & Glorious Redeemer: & My Body to ye Earth to be Decently Buried with Christian Burial & as to my outward or worldly estate that God of his Goodness hath pleassed to bestow upon me: My Will is that it be Bestowed ordered Bequeathed & Improved as is hereafter experessed in this My Will.

Impr After all Just Debts funeral Charges & other Necessary expenses are fully paid & Discharged out of my estate: My will is & I do herby Give & bequeath unto Mary My Beloved Wife the third part of all my Personall Estate to be to her Proper use benifit & Disposall & also her thirds or Dower in all My Real Estate both Housing Land & Medows During ye time of her Natural Life.

To My son James Houghton upon Consideration of his being Likely to be settled on that Living which was formerly his Brother Ralph Houghtons: I do hereby give unto him ye said James Houghton twenty poujnds of money or equivalent that is due to me from ye estate of my son ye said Ralph Houghton Deceassed: & all My second division Lott of Intervale Land Lying at ye plumtrees which was somtime ye Lott of Gamaliel Beaman.

To John Houghton my second son now surviving I Give all that My Upland Swamp & Medow Lying on ye west side of ye Highway on ye west side of my Dwelling House between said way & ye Hemp Swamp & all that my Intervale Lott in ye second Divission Lying at ye plumtrees which was ye proper Lott of my Late Honred father Ralph Houghton Deceassed: ye said John Houghton paying to his brother James Houghton the sum of four pounds in money or equivalent thereto: & also Reserving My said wives Dower in said Land as above said.

To my three Youndes Sons Namely Thomas Edward & Ephraim Houghton I give all that my Housing & Lands adjoining Lying on ye east side of said Highway & all my Medows both at ye Plumtrees & pond Medows to be all equally Divided considered both as to quantity & quallity to each of ye said three brethern when & as they shal come to ye age of twenty one yeares still Reserving my said Wives Dower therin as abovesaid they paying to theire brother James Houghton three pounds apiece each in money or other speicia equivalent: & to each of my five sons abovenamed I give twenty pound Towne Right apiece, the whole of that here given to my saide three youngest sons to be for ye use and benifitt of my said wife & my children that shall be with her till such time as it shall be Liable to Divission as abovesaid.

To my two Daughters Namely Hannah Houghton & Experience Houghton I give to each of them twenty pounds apiece to be paid by my Executors out of my final estate in case there be so much free after Debts & my said Wives thirds therin are Discharged & set out & if in case it should fale short then what is wanting shall be paid and made up by theire five brothers aforenamed to be paid by them in equall Proportion, the said Hannah Houghton to have her twenty pounds paid within twelve months after ye decease of me ye said James Houghton Senr & Experience to have hers paid when shee shall come to ye age of twenty yeares or at time of marriage. I Do also hereby Make & Constitute My said Loving Wife Mary Houghton & my son James Houghton Joint Executors to thiss My Wiill & Constitute My said Loving Wife Mary Houghton & my son James Houghton Joint Executors to this My Will & that this is my Last Will & Testament I Declare by my hand & Seale ye Day & yeare abovewritten." (witnesses were Thomas Wilder, Samuel Willard and John Houghton. James signed his will with his mark, the letter "J".)

Probate #11926 Will

J.W. Houghton: gives 9, 11, 171124,25,3,26,27,28,11
DeathJul 17, 1711Lancaster (later Harvard), Worcester Co., MA, USA, VanNoy: 11 Sept. 1711 in Harvard, MA; Torrey: 171929,9,30,31,11
EstateAug 29, 1711Lancaster, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Inventory: "Impr about one Hundred acres of upland being the Homestead together with ye Housing fencing &c upon & belonging to said Land & a piece of Medow about 4 acres adjoining together with one Hundred pound Towne Right all apprised at Ninety pounds, about elven acres of medow at plumtrees & four acres at ponds, about fifty acres at Second Divission Intervale at plumtrees, seven Cowes, two Heiffers, a paire of Young Oxen, twelve sheep, three Calves, one Horss Sadle & bridle, one Young Mare, elven smale Swinee, Utensills for Husbandy, Arms & amunition, wearing Cloathes & some books, ye best Bed Bedstead two Coverletts & beding belonging, two other bed & beding belonging about 30 pounds of flax & some wooll & yarne, one Iron pot: hooks tramell peel tongs fryingpan & Box Iron, some Brass & Peuter, two chests 3 wheels one box table cooperware & other Lumbr." (The appraisers were Thomas Wilder, Jeremiah Wilson, and John Houghton.) The estate value was L194.17.00.32,28
NoteHarvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Ancestor of Houghtons of Harvard; James lived in the section of Lancaster which later became Harvard in 1732.
Probate1Sep 19, 1711Lancaster, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Mary and James Houghton, Exors (Middlesex Co. Probate #11926, 12:401); Weis: Sep. 11, 171125,33,28,11
ResearchNone of children cited in Lancaster VR
BiographyRichard Houghton:

"Bio of James-2 Houghton (d. 1711) of MA Posted by Rich Houghton on June 23, 1999 at 13:12:22:
James Houghton (Ralph-1) was born around 1650 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably in Watertown. He was the second son of Ralph Houghton and Jane Stowe. He grew up in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, where his father was one of the founding settlers. Town records appear fairly silent about him. One of the few places he is mentioned is in relation to a 7 April 1683 inquest over the body of John Whitcomb, who drowned attempting to ferry hay across the Nashaway River in a canoe; James is named as one of the jurors. James married MARY ------ (No. 10:5:257) around 1685; her background is presently unclear, although she was probably a Willard or a Sawyer [for a lengthy discussion on her identity, see my posting earlier in the forum]. The couple had nine children:
i Ralph b. 1686 d. 1710
ii Hannah b. 1688 m. James Willard
iii James b. 1690 m. Sarah Sawyer
iv John b. 1691 d.y. 1696
v Thomas b. 9 February 1696 m. Maria Moore
vi John b. 1697/8 m. (1) Mehitable Wilson
m. (2) Susanna Solendine
vii Ephriam b.c. 1700 m. Hannah Sawyer
viii Experience b.c. 1702 m. (1) William Houghton
m. (2) Timothy Sabin
ix Edward b. 1705 m. Abigail McCoye
In 1692, James began construction of a garrison house on land in a part of Lancaster now called Harvard given to him by his father near the Still River. He moved there in 1697, next to his brother-in-law Caleb Sawyer. Finished in 1704, it was described by a 19th Century Lancaster historian:
" No pioneer home now standing in the town offers more of interest to the antiquary than the James Houghton garrison, which has been handed down from father to son through five generations with only those alterations and addidtions which the comfort and accomodation of successive families made imperative. No homestead in Harvard has remained thus permanently in the same family.
The first chimney was of stone, the huge foundation of which yet fills half the cellar. This was very early replaced by the persent many-flued brick pile, with its eight fire-places, oven, cupboard niches, and a smoke closet in which there is room enough to hang for curing the hams and shoulders of a score of swine. Many of the little windows, though the sash are modern, remain at nearly double the height from the floor which is now thought convenient, and the walls below and around them are filled in solidly with brick and stone so as to be completely bullet-proof. The huge oaken beams and plates, from twelve to fourteen inches square, show for a third of their thickness below the lath and plaster of the ceiling. It became necessary to remove the paneled wainscot during some renovations. It was unpainted of the softest pine in which neither knot nor shake nor sap could be found, fastened with wooden pins and faultless in workmanship. It was doubtless the handiwork of the owner and builder of the house, who was a carpenter, and portions of it preserved afford evidence of his practiced skill. Wherever iron was used in any part of the construction, even in fastening the rived clapboards, it was the wrought work of the blacksmith." The house is still standing and still in the family, and was on the market in 1989 for $350,000.
On 1 December 1697, James was directed by the General Court -- as the "Constable or Collector of the town of Lancaster" -- to collect the tax levied on the town: œ10.10.00. James died sometime between 17 July 1711, when he wrote his will, and August 29 of that same year, when his estate was inventoried. The text of the will, proved on September 19, provided:
" In the Name of God Amen. This Seventeenth Day of July in ye yeare of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred & eleven: I James Houghton Senr of ye Towne of Lancaster in ye County of Middlesex in ye Province of ye Massachusets Bay in New England Yeoman -- Being sencible of my owne fraility & weakness of Body though otherwise in some good Measure of competent Memory & understanding Praised be God for it: do here make this my Last Will & Testament In Maner & forme following (that is to say) first & principally I comitt my Soule to almighty God My Creatour hoping to Receive free & full Pardon of all my Sins through ye alone Mirritt & Mediation of Jesus Christ my Blessed Lord & Glorious Redeemer: & My Body to ye Earth to be Decently Buried with Christian Buriall & as to my outward or worldly estate that God of his Goodness hath pleassed to bestow upon me: My Will is that it be Bestowed ordered Bequeathed & Improved as is hereafter expressed in this My Will.
Impr After all my Just Debts funerall Charges & other Necessary expenses are fully paid & Discharged out of my estate: My will is & I do herby Give & bequeath unto Mary My Beloved Wife the third part of all my Personall Estate to be to her Proper use benifit & Disposall & also her thirds or Dower in all My Real Estate both Housing Land & Medows During ye time of her Natural Life.
To My son James Houghton upon Consideration of his being Likely to be settled on that Living which was formerly his Brother Ralph Houghtons: I do hereby give unto him ye said James Houghton twenty pounds of money or equivalent that is due to me from ye estate of my son ye said Ralph Houghton Deceassed: & all My second division Lott of Intervale Land Lying at ye plumtrees which was somtime ye Lott of Gamaliel Beaman.
To John Houghton my second son now surviving I Give all that My Upland Swamp & Medow Lying on ye west side of ye Highway on ye west side of my Dwelling House between said way & ye Hemp Swamp & all that my Intervale Lott in ye second Divission Lying at ye plumtrees which was ye proper Lott of my Late Honred father Ralph Houghton Deceassed: ye said John Houghton paying to his brother James Houghton the sum of four pounds in money or equivalent thereto: & also Reserving My said wives Dower in said Land as abovesaid.
To my three Youngest Sons Namely Thomas Edward & Ephraim Houghton I give all that my Housing & Lands adjoining Lying on ye east side of said Highway & all my Medows both at ye Plumtrees & pond Medows to be all equally Divided considered both as to quantity & quallity to each of ye said three brethren when & as they shal come to ye age of twenty one yeares still Reserving my said Wives Dower therein as abovesaid they paying to theire brother James Houghton three pounds apiece each in money or other speicia equivalent: & to each of my five sons abovenamed I give twenty pound Towne Right apiece, the whole of that here given to my said three youngest sons to be for ye use and benifitt of my said wife & my children that shall be with her till such time as it shall be Liable to Divission as abovesaid.
To my two Daughters Namely Hannah Houghton & Experience Houghton I give to each of them twenty pounds apiece to be paid by my Executors out of my final estate in case there be so much free after Debts & my said Wives thirds therin are Discharged & set out & if in case it should fale short then what is wanting shall be paid and made up by theire five brothers aforenamed to be paid by them in equall Proportion, the said Hannah Houghton to have her twenty pounds paid within twelve months after ye decease of me ye said James Houghton Senr & Experience to have hers paid when shee shall come to ye age of twenty yeares or at time of marriage.

I Do also hereby Make & Constitute My said Loving Wife Mary Houghton & my son James Houghton Joint Executors to this My Will & that this is my Last Will & Testament I Declare by my hand & Seale ye Day & yeare abovewritten."
The August inventory of the estate listed the following items:
" Impr about one Hundred acres of upland being the Homestead together with ye Housing fencing &c upon & belonging to said Land & a piece of Medow about 4 acres adjoining together with one Hundred pound Towne Right all apprised at Ninety pounds, about eleven acres of medow at plumtrees & four acres at ponds, about fifty acres at Second Divission Intervale at plumtrees, seven Cowes, two Heiffers, a paire of Young Oxen, twelve sheep, three Calves, one Horss Sadle & bridle, one Young Mare, eleven smale Swine, Utensills for Husbandry, Arms & amunition, wearing Cloathes & some books, ye best Bed Bedstead two Coverletts & beding belonging, two other bed & beding belonging, about 30 pounds of flax & some wooll & yarne, one Iron pot: hooks tramell peel tongs fryingpan & Box Iron, some Brass & Peuter, two chests 3 wheels one box table cooperware & other Lumbr."
The total value was œ194.17.00. It is interesting to note that his belongings included some books. Since James signed his will with his mark, he was presumably illiterate. It is unclear, therefore, what use he would have for books. It may be that they were his father's, or belonged to his wife.
Mary died in Lancaster several years later, on 13 May 1738. I have so far failed to uncover any probate documents for her. "

Nourse, p. 251: "James...All but Ralph and James were born in Lancaster."

Nourse, p. 122: (1683 committee of inquest of a drowning); 143 (1704 "census", 3 persons); 229 (list of men who'd killed 10 Indians apiece, incl. James Houghton), 332 (received 5 barrels of cider).

Suppl., p. 23: 1692, garrison

JWH: "It may be further said with reference to the date of the birth of James that the Lancaster record written by his father Ralph, gives the date of his daughter Mary's birth as 11,4,1653 [Jan 4, 1653] and as the dates of the birth of the other children follow in regular succession until 1667, and as no entry was made of the birth of James, the inference is that he was born before the founding of Lancaster and the beginning of the keeping of such records. Mention is made of his having settled the estate of Ralph Houghton, who lost his life at Port Royal, in 1692.
In 1697 he moved to that part of Lancaster now called Harvard with his brother-in-law, Caleb Sawyer, and built a homestead or garrison house on land given him by his father near Still River, which house is still in the possession of his descendants. A historian of Lancaster[CJV: H. Nourse], says of it: "No pioneer home now standing in the town offers more of interest to the antiquary than the James Houghton garrison, which has been handed down form father to son through five generations with only those alterations and additions which the comfort and accommodation of successive families made imperative. No homestead in Harvard has remained thus permanently in the same family. The capacious farm house lovingly cared for by the present owner, Edward Warren Houghton, is obviously the sum of at least three structures, all ancient, the western end being the original garrison house, built between 1692 and 1704... The successive occupants of this interesting homestead have been: First, the builder of the garrison, James Houghton, the son of Ralph and Jane. His will was proved 9, 11, 1711. Second, Thomas Houghton, the third son of James, who married Mariah Moore, 12,2,1725, had one son, Elijah, and died at the age of 68 years, 4,10,1764. His widow survived him over 26 years. Third, Elijah, married Mercy Whitney and had eleven children, the oldest, Thomas coming into possession of the house. Fourth, Thomas, by his wife, Betsey White, had thirteen children of whom, fifth, Cephas retained the homestead and his son, Edward Warren, is the present owner [1911].".

VanNoy: "A much more detailed description and apprisal was done in 1989 when the home came on the real estate market for sale at price of $395,000."

Nourse, Harvard: 8 children listed

[Children's birthorders are listed differently (Ralph is removed) from J.W. Houghton Listing.]

https://hhcommission.wordpress.com/historic-places/highlight-our-historic-places/historic-place-of-the-month/ralph-houghton-house/

Our ‘Historic Place of the Month‘ is the Ralph Houghton Garrison house presently located at 204 West Bare Hill Road. The house is listed in our Local Register of Historic Places (HRV-771) as well as the Masschusetts Historical Commission’s MACRIS. We begin with Nourse’s description of the house and its evolution from his “History of Harvard” written in 1894.
Ralph Houghton house in May 1993; photo from HHC Local Register

Ralph Houghton house in May 1993; photo from HHC Local Register of Historic Places.

“No pioneer’s home now standing in the town offers more of interest to the antiquary than the James Houghton garrison house, which has been handed down from father to son through five generations, with only those alterations and additions which the comfort and accommodation of successive families made imperative. No homestead in Harvard has remained thus permanently in the same family.

The capacious farm-house, lovingly cared for by the present owner, Edward Warren Houghton, is obviously the sum of at least three structures, all ancient; the western end being the original garrison house, built between 1682 and 1704. The first chimney was of stone, the huge foundation of which yet fills half the cellar. This was very early replaced by the present many-flued brick pile, with its eight fire-places, oven, cupboard niches, and a smoke closet in which there is room enough to hang for curing the hams and shoulders of a score of swine. Many of the little windows. though the sash are modern, remain at nearly double the height from the floor which is now thought convenient, and the walls below arid around them are filled in solidly with brick and stone, so as to be completely bullet-proof.

The huge oaken beams and plates, from twelve to fourteen inches square, show for a third of their thickness below the lath and plaster of the ceiling. It became necessary to remove the paneled wainscot during some renovations. It was unpainted of the softest pine in which neither knot nor shake nor sap could be found, fastened with wooden pins and faultless in workmanship. It was doubtless the handiwork of the owner and builder of the house, who was a carpenter. and the portions of it preserved afford evidence of his practiced skill. Wherever iron was used in any part of the construction. even in fastening the rived clapboards. it was the wrought work of the blacksmith.

The successive occupants of this interesting homestead have been:

1, the builder of the garrison, James Houghton, the son of Ralph and Jane. His will was proved September 11, 1711.
2, Thomas Houghton, the third son of James, who married Mariah Moore, December 2, 1725, had one son, Elijah, and died at the age of sixty-eight, April 10, 1764. His widow survived him over twenty-six years.
3, Elijah, married Mercy Whitney and had eleven children, the oldest, Thomas, coming into possession of the house.
4, Thomas, by his wife Betsy White, had thirteen children, of whom
5, Cephas [Cyrus] retained the homestead. and his son is the present owner.”

At the time, garrisons were used as defense outposts against the local native Americans. It is believed that after the war, Ralph and his son, James moved the garrison on the Houghton property to its present location. In its earlier location by the river, the garrison was apparently within the flood plain. James remodeled the garrison house as his residence around 1682 when present-day Harvard was still part of Lancaster and Ralph Houghton, at 29 years old, was the Clerk of Lancaster. This garrison may be the oldest existing house in the town of Harvard. When his grandson (James’ son) got married, the Houghton’s added the second half of house. The house would continue in the Houghton family for 227 years. The present-day Still River area of Harvard was one of the town’s earliest areas of English settlement along with the Old Mill area in present-day northern Harvard where John Prescott built a mill for his son, Jonas in 1668.

The house is an example of a first period house that has been expanded over the years, and retains a significant surrounding of farm acreage, occupied by the same family for generations. The farm’s 4.35 acres are adjacent to Still River Road where West Bare Hill Road cuts through the property to Still River Road. The farmhouse is located on the north side of West Bare Hill, while the barn and various out buildings once stood on the opposite side of this road. The two-story clapboarded house fronts onto a broad lawn, the side and rear agricultural fields currently lie fallow. This center chimney house represents a transitional phase between Post-Medieval and Georgian architectural forms.
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Ralph Houghton house prior to restoration.

As is characteristic of late-17th century frame structures, the hall and parlor plan was augmented by an integrated lean-to which housed a rear kitchen, buttery, and small chamber. The building measures five bays in width and two piles in depth. While exhibiting greater symmetry than an early residence, this fenestration does not yet adhere to the standard proportions of Georgian architecture. The chimney and entry are slightly off-center. Later additions include a single-story shed roofed ell (which extends from the left lateral wall) and a pedimented entry porch. Window treatment consists of six over six sash in the main house, and eight over twelve sash in the ell. The farm’s two-story New England barn has clapboard siding on its gable front and vertical siding along its lateral wall. A single-story gabled ell with carriage bays projects from the barn’s left lateral wall. A cinder block garage stands to the west of the barn, its overhead door is located in a canted corner. The garage also takes a gable block form and is lit with industrial sash windows. This east/west progression of outbuildings culminates with a late 19th century shingle-sided carriage house with large sliding doors.

It is the understanding of the Morrill G. Sprague family (present owners around 1990) that the house was passed from the Houghton family on to Mrs. John F. Sprague (Mabel Goding) the mother of the present owner.

The following information is based on two articles written by Nicholas Kouros in the Harvard Press, the first on September 18, 2009:

Today, the house is owned by Karla Perlstein,a professional restoration consultant and is being restored by Robert Adam Preservation Services. Adam is also a special advisor to the Preservation Carpentry program at the North Bennet School of Preservation Carpentry. Adam, in his work has studied the structure and components of the house and believes that the first part of the farmhouse structure was a former garrison house that had been built at another site closer to the Nashua River. After the King Phillip War, Adam believes, the Houghtons moved the garrison to their land, and over time expanded it into a multi-generational family house with sleeping quarters for farmhands.

As Adam continues to work on the historic farm house, he has restored its well which had been condemned. He and his client are researching the components of the building to determine where the original doorways and windows were located. Architecturally, Adam thinks that style of the garrison is taken from the late Elizabethan period and the remaining part includes some “high-style Georgian features” such as the pedimented windows , the early riven clapboards that were fastened with rose-head nails. The front façade is really a “federal, interpretational transition.”

Pearlstein mentions that Pat Sprague told her that her grandmother gave some of the old diamond pane coral glass windows to the Concord Museum. Some fragments of coral glass was found embedded in the walls which hinted at the locations for the windows. As to the other rooms in the house, Adam noted that the lower room in the garrison section is likely to look as it originally did, with wide board
sheathing on the walls, while the upper story is done in a Georgian period, and has paneled walls. He said that one room may have a Federal 19th-century look to it, while the kitchen is likely to be early 20th century. Each side of the house had its own kitchen, so they know this was a duplex, housing an extended family over a couple of generations.

Nicholas Kouros reports that according to Adam “The interesting thing about the house is that it is a very early house; it’s what’s considered a first period house. The section of the house that was the garrison was probably used as a community meeting house in addition to providing protection from Indians when this land was originally part of Lancaster.”

Kouros continues “A tour of the house reveals some interesting features, such as a fireplace arch in the basement that supports the mass of the chimney, while providing within the arch (really a small brick tunnel) a space for cold storage. There are smoke chambers off the fireplace that, when opened, still smell of the smoking. “Set kettles”—large covered kettles—are suspended over a brick oven that would warm them for doing laundry and other chores. These and other elements of the house have been written about by William Nourse in his 1890 publication, A History of the Town of Harvard. That book also tells about the paneling in the house, which Adam found stored in the rafters. He has already figured out where the panels were originally placed.” Adam believes that this garrison was not originally a dwelling, because it had no chimney mass. “It was probably a meeting house,” he said.

In a subsequent Harvard Press article published May 4, 2012, Kouros writes:

“Adam believes that when the two main sections of the house came together, “a new chimney mass was built,” he said. One side had an oven and the other side was a mirror image of it. “It was a dual household,” he said, “[most likely] with a widow and the eldest son and his wife.” There were four fireplaces, with two on the first floor and two on the second floor. About 20 years later, four more fireplaces were added on the back (around 1800). As a new generation arrived in the 1830s, there was additional remodeling, and the process continued in that manner, creating a jigsaw puzzle of a house that Adam has gradually been putting together.”

Adam pointed out the plaster on the original walls that are now exposed. “Plaster in the 18th century was very dear stuff,” he said. “This was a very fancy room, and it became even more fancy in the mid-18th century, in the Georgian period, when they put in all of this paneling, and all the wainscoting you see in the other room.” Adam said he sees evidence that casement windows were later changed to the mid-18th century Georgian openings, with pediments over the windows.

“This was a very, very fancy building. It was nothing like what it was married up to, which was very vernacular,” he said. “…Stylistically, we are looking at the late Elizabethan period for the garrison, then there are some high-style Georgian features, and the early riven [split] clapboards were fastened with rose-head nails; yet the front façade is really a federal, interpretational transition.” Standing in the earliest room in the composite house, Adam shifted to what the interior restoration will look like. “This dates from 1717, and we’re restoring to its second Georgian period,” he said. “The kitchen will reflect more of the turn of the last century [about 1900] whereas the parlor is more of a room from the early 19th century, and so they came together when the two buildings were combined.” Where the parlor would be “sort of a Federal period room,” the dining room would reflect a period around 1835 to 1845. “We’re looking at the majority of evidence from each of the rooms, and restoring it according to the evidence,” he said.

Pearlstein says that she has been in touch with the Historical Commission, and wants to share the house with the community and use it for educational purposes. She says that she is working with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties to ensure that anything that isn’t historical (such as rigid insulation or storm windows on the inside) is done in a reversible manner.

“We are currently planning the kitchen/bathroom spaces,” Pearlstein said in a recent email. “They will not be interpreted as contemporary, but will hold hidden contemporary elements. I am hoping they can be used to illustrate how accurate period revival kitchens and bathrooms can be just as functional as any contemporary kitchen or bath, while retaining the historic flavor of the building.”

To do this work, Pearlstein hired Walter Parker, the “old school plumber” from Dudley, Mass., to create the period baths. Parker said in an email, “When viewed after finish there should be no signs that the bathrooms were put in in 2012 rather than 1912. Plans are in place for radiant heat to be installed throughout the house. “Because of the dampness problem in the cellar, we took out the brick floor and we’ll put down radiant heat there,” Adam said. He’s using the historic brick from the cellar floor for the hearths in the living space and putting a new brick floor over the radiant heat in the cellar to accomplish a couple of things. “It will take the dampness out of the building, but also give the house some thermal mass, Adam said. “The walls are only three inches thick, and we’re insulating with rigid foam, but still it’s not going to be to 21st century standards, so we’re hedging our bets by adding some thermal mass in the basement, drying it out and adding some residual heat to the rest of the building.”

Wanting to restore the exterior to its original color, Pearlstein attended seminars to learn how to develop the historic paint colors to be used on the house. “We analyzed the past colors that the house had been and decided to go with the early red color,” she said. “We used paint recipes from an 1812 book called ‘Every Man His Own Painter’ and ground our own pigments. It was very insightful and did influence my approach to the paint on the Houghton House, but we did not make the paint for the house.”17,8,34,35,36
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Marr ???only in MLM38
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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 91 #119.
  2. [S96] NEHGR, 105 [1951]: 64.
  3. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 7c.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4 #2, 5.
  5. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 250-1.
  6. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 18 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 91 #119, 305.
  8. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 251.
  9. [S96] NEHGR, 105 [1951]: 65.
  10. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4-5.
  11. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  12. [S96] NEHGR, 39 [1885]: 258.
  13. [S728] George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 170, 368.
  14. [S932] Virkus, Abridged Compend. of Amer. Gen. III, p. 207.
  15. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  16. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 121.
  17. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 91.
  18. [S156] Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts.
  19. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 4, 6.
  20. [S670] Nora E. Snow Snow-Estes Ancestry, p. 361n.
  21. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 391.
  22. [S46] Boston Transcript, 4468, Jul 29, 1937.
  23. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  24. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 91, 92.
  25. [S30] Massachusetts Archives, File No. 11926, Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct. Archives, Boston, MA (Jul. 17, 1711).
  26. [S670] Nora E. Snow Snow-Estes Ancestry, p. 362-363 (will).
  27. [S852] Samuel H. Folsom and William E. Rogers, Middlesex MA Probate Index, p. 249.
  28. [S409] Probate Records , Middlesex Co., MA, Case 11926, FHC #397099.
  29. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 91, 305.
  30. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 4.
  31. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 816.
  32. [S30] Massachusetts Archives, File No. 11926, Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct. Archives, Boston, MA (Jul. 19, 1711).
  33. [S955] Middlesex Probate Records 2l, p. 376.
  34. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 6.
  35. [S224] Henry S. Nourse, Harvard Hx - Nourse.
  36. [S415] E-mail Richard Houghton [son of Richard Hamilton Houghton], June 23, 1999.
  37. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  38. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 3-4.
  39. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 94, 305.
  40. [S459] Marita Houghton Savage, Dinsmore Genealogy, p. 124.

Margaret Reding1,2,3,4

F, #1023, d. April 1737

Family: Joseph Houghton b. 1 May 1657, d. 22 Mar 1736/37

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Residencecirca 1708Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA5,6
MarriageDec 8, 1708Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA1,7,8,3,9,10,6,11,12
DeathApr, 1737Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, not in Milton VR13,3,9
Probate1May 5, 1737Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA3
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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 105 #8.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, P. 21.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #8 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 135.
  6. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  7. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 135, 162.
  8. [S96] NEHGR, 36 [1882]: 304.
  9. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50, 62.
  10. [S458] A.K. Teele, Hx of Milton MA, p. 566.
  11. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  12. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 338.
  13. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 105.
  14. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Experience Houghton1,2,3,4,5,6,7

F, #1024, b. 1 August 1659, d. 17 December 1717

Family: Ezra Clapp b. 22 May 1640, d. 23 Jan 1718

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthAug 1, 1659Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VRs: 1=8m 1659; NEGHR, MLM & JWH: 8,1,16599,10,2,11,12,13,14,15,16
MarriageMay 22, 1684Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, w/2; JWH: 5,12,1684; FWH, JWH, Savage, Torrey: w/2; Dorchester VR: by Govnr. Simon Brodstreet9,11,4,5,15,17,18,19,16
DeathDec 17, 1717Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, not in Milton VR; Gen. Dict.: Dorchester11,20,19
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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #123.
  2. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 251, 314.
  3. [S46] Boston Transcript, Aug. 13, 1928 - 7505.
  4. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 100.
  5. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 469.
  6. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4 #6.
  7. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #9 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  8. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 9.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  10. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 9.
  11. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 153.
  12. [S80] Chandler, Houghton Genealogy, #11106.
  13. [S96] NEHGR, 14 [1860] 352.
  14. [S149] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, I, p. 469.
  15. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50, 62.
  16. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  17. [S407] William Montgomery Clemens, Amer. Mar. Records < 1600, p. 120.
  18. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4.
  19. [S820] James Savage, Gen. Dict. of NE Settlers, I, p. 391.
  20. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 4.
  21. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Ezra Clapp1,2,3,4

M, #1025, b. 22 May 1640, d. 23 January 1718

Family: Experience Houghton b. 1 Aug 1659, d. 17 Dec 1717

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMay 22, 1640Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA5,3,6,7
Children+He had three children by his first wife, Abigail Pond5
MarriageMay 22, 1684Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, w/2; JWH: 5,12,1684; FWH, JWH, Savage, Torrey: w/2; Dorchester VR: by Govnr. Simon Brodstreet5,8,2,3,9,10,11,12,13
DeathJan 23, 1718Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Torrey: 1717/1814,8,15,12
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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #123s.
  2. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 100.
  3. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 469.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #10 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  6. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  7. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 1.
  8. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 153.
  9. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50, 62.
  10. [S407] William Montgomery Clemens, Amer. Mar. Records < 1600, p. 120.
  11. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4.
  12. [S820] James Savage, Gen. Dict. of NE Settlers, I, p. 391.
  13. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  14. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 212.
  15. [S184] VanNoy, A Houghton Family, p. 4.

Sarah Houghton1,2,3,4

F, #1026, b. 17 December 1661, d. 15 November 1751

Family: Caleb Sawyer b. 20 Apr 1659, d. 12 Feb 1755

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
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BirthDec 17, 1661Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, NEGHR, MLM & JWH: 12,17,1661; Lancaster VRs: 17.12.1661; AFN: 17 Dec 1661; Nourse: (Middlesex County Records); FWH: Feb. 17, 1662; MLM: Dec. 16; Weis: Feb. 17, 16626,5,7,8,9,2,10,11,12,13,14,15
MarriageDec 28, 1687Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Torrey: 21 Dec also; MLM: Dec. 20 and Jan. 21, 1687, Marlboro6,16,8,17,11,18,12,13,19,20,15
DeathNov 15, 1751Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Harvard VR and Pilgrims: 16 Nov 1751, 15th per GS, ae: 89; Sawyer, Uran: 15 Nov 1757 (per Orville Cox)21,22,23,24,13,14
BurialHarvard Center Burial Ground Cem, Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 90y widow of Caleb23
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #124.
  2. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 469.
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4 #7, 6.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #11 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 11.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  7. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 251, 315.
  8. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 654.
  9. [S96] NEHGR, 14 [1860]: 354.
  10. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119.
  11. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50.
  12. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4, 6.
  13. [S520] Mary E. Mayo (Ed.), Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims, Lineage Book III, p. 507.
  14. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 189a.
  15. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  16. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 451.
  17. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 195.
  18. [S407] William Montgomery Clemens, Amer. Mar. Records < 1600, p. 121.
  19. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 189a, 190.
  20. [S933] Virkus, Abridged Compend. of Amer. Gen. III, p. 220.
  21. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 105 #11, 554.
  22. [S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs.
  23. [S75] Whitcomb, Nashaway Burial Grounds, p. 51.
  24. [S224] Henry S. Nourse, Harvard Hx - Nourse, p. 517.
  25. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 157.
  26. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 164.
  27. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 192.

Caleb Sawyer1,2,3,4

M, #1027, b. 20 April 1659, d. 12 February 1755

Family: Sarah Houghton b. 17 Dec 1661, d. 15 Nov 1751

Biography

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BirthApr 20, 1659Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VR: 20 2m 1659; Sawyer, p. 119, AFN: 20 May 1659; Harvard death age= 10 Apr 1656; MLM: also Apr. 17,8,9,10,11,3,12,4
MarriageDec 28, 1687Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Torrey: 21 Dec also; MLM: Dec. 20 and Jan. 21, 1687, Marlboro13,14,9,11,15,16,17,12,4,6,18
DeathFeb 12, 1755Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Harvard: 98y10m.2d; Sawyer, AFN: 13 Feb 1755; Uran: 2/13/1755 at Lancaster per Orville Cox; MLM: Feb. 1319,10,20,21,22,12,23
BurialHarvard Center Burial Ground Cemetery, Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, ae 98y 10m 2d20
BiographyNourse: (1704 "census", 2 adults), 173 (Frontier garrison, 1711: Caleb Sawyer, 2 families, 3 inhabitants, 1 soldier, 11 souls), 209 (committee), 248 (had 30 acre lotts granted after settlement of the town), 290 (Father Thomas Sawyer and mother Mary Prescott. "Caleb, 1659"), 306 (descrip. of his lot, land laid out Jan 14, 1716/17, had fifty six acres and a half on the esterly side of Bare hill; 26 acres and half was part of his 30 acre allotment om first division; "Caleb Sawyer was the fifth son of Thomas Sawyer and grandson of John Prescott, born 1659."), 314 (bd: "1659 2m 20 Caleb Sawyer. Thomas and Marie.)

Son of Thomas Sawyer and Mary Prescott; owned 30 acres of land on the east side of Bear Hill, now Harvard; he divided his farm between his sons Seth and Jonathan.

Ancesteral File gives second wife (Sarah Houghton, AFN: LSWP-l2, but same date)

Son of Thomas Sawyer, son of John Prescott the Pilgrim

MLM: built a garrison house at Still River near Lancaster; James, his wife's brother, built one close by. The Sawyer garrison house burned in 1929. He had a special grant of 30 acres on the east side of Barre Hill, where he built his house after the massacre of 1697.24,22,25
AFNAFN: FVZV-T4
Researchbaptisms at Lancaster MA of children26
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #124s.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #12 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4.
  4. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 189a, 190.
  5. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 195.
  6. [S933] Virkus, Abridged Compend. of Amer. Gen. III, p. 220.
  7. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 10.
  8. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 314.
  9. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 654.
  10. [S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 302.
  11. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 195.
  12. [S520] Mary E. Mayo (Ed.), Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims, Lineage Book III, p. 507.
  13. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  14. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 451.
  15. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50.
  16. [S407] William Montgomery Clemens, Amer. Mar. Records < 1600, p. 121.
  17. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 4, 6.
  18. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  19. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 554.
  20. [S75] Whitcomb, Nashaway Burial Grounds, p. 51.
  21. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119.
  22. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  23. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 189a.
  24. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 143.
  25. [S224] Henry S. Nourse, Harvard Hx - Nourse, p. 517.
  26. [S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, p. 91.
  27. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 157.
  28. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 164.
  29. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 273.
  30. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 192.

John Hudson1,2

M, #1028, b. 10 March 1662, d. 19 November 1695

Family: Abigail Houghton b. 15 May 1664

Biography

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BirthMar 10, 1662Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA3,4
MarriageMay 14, 1688Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, J.W. Houghton: 5,14, 1688; Not in Milton VR5,6,7,8,9
DeathNov 19, 1695Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, a. 3310
Biographyson of Daniel and Joanna Hudson, who were killed by the French and Indians in their home Sept. 11, 1697, at Lancaster and their two adult daughters were carried into captivity and later slain.7
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #125s.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #14 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 2.
  4. [S96] NEHGR, 22: 443.
  5. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  6. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 399.
  7. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  8. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  9. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  10. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 230.

Abigail Houghton1,2,3,4

F, #1029, b. 15 May 1664

Family: John Hudson b. 10 Mar 1662, d. 19 Nov 1695

Biography

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BirthMay 15, 1664Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, VR and Nourse, Early Rec.: 15, 5m, 1664; NEGHR, MLM, Houghton: 5,15,16646,5,7,8,9,2,10,11,12
MarriageMay 14, 1688Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, J.W. Houghton: 5,14, 1688; Not in Milton VR6,8,11,10,12
CovenantApr 27, 1690Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, "John, son to Abigail Hudson (who is a daughter to Ralph Houghton) was bp. She owning her father's covenant and giving up herself unto ye watch and discipline of ye church."13,14
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #125.
  2. [S150] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, II, p. 469.
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5 #8.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #13 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 10.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  7. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, P. 251, 315.
  8. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 399.
  9. [S96] NEHGR, Vol. 14, 1860, p. 354.
  10. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  11. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  12. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  13. [S96] NEHGR, 22 [1868]: 443.
  14. [S581] Milton Church Records, p. 49.

Beulah Sawyer1,2

F, #1030, b. 3 September 1699

Biography

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BaptismSep 3, 1699Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, JWH: 9,3,1699; not in Milton VR1,3
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #35 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).

William Bentley Jr1,2

M, #1031, b. circa 1676, d. 18 December 1751

Family: Mary Elliot b. 22 May 1687

Biography

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Birthcirca 1676CT, USA3
MarriageApr 21, 1703Stonington, CT, USA4,3
DeathDec 18, 17514
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #18 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S415] E-mail from William Charles, June 26, 2005.
  4. [S415] E-mail from Bryce W. Williams, 11/12/1999.
  5. [S415] E-mail from Sue Richardson, Mar 16, 2003.
  6. [S415] E-mail from Sue Richardson, Feb. 28, 2003.

John Hudson1,2

M, #1032, b. 27 April 1690

Biography

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BaptismApr 27, 1690Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Not in Milton VR, but NEGHR and Milton Church records give Milton record1,3,4,5
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #36 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S96] NEHGR, 22 [1868]: 443.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  5. [S581] Milton Church Records, no pages.

Thomas Blackman1,2,3,4,5

M, #1033, b. circa 1690, d. circa 1751

Family: Mary Houghton b. 30 Jun 1695, d. a 8 Apr 1767

Biography

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Birthcirca 1690North Yarmouth, ME, USA6
MarriageMar 26, 1713Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, by Rev. Jno. Danforth; JWH: 23 Mar 1712/13;Canton Hx: Mar. 23, 17147,8,9,4,10,11,12
Deathcirca 1751Stoughton, MA, USA, Suffolk Co., Probate #97226
ParentsSPeter Blackman of North Yarmouth ME6
ResearchSee. Walter Kendall Watkins, "Blackman Genealogy [:] Descendants of John of Dorchester, Mass. (manuscript, Wakefield, Mass., " 1928, at the Society), n.p., children of Thomas and Mary Blackman.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 39.
  2. [S96] NEHGR, "Who Was Martha Horton?", A. F. Edelman, Vol. 15, No. 599, July 1996, p. 349.
  3. [S318] Daniel T.V. Huntoon, Canton MA HX, p. 301.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #40 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S415] E-mail from Julie Otto, Mar 25, 2002.
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 94.
  8. [S96] NEHGR, "Who Was Martha Horton?", Vol. 15, No. 599, July 1996, p. 349.
  9. [S318] Daniel T.V. Huntoon, Canton MA HX, p. 302.
  10. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  11. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  12. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 106.
  13. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 60.
  14. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 62.
  15. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 65.
  16. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 69.
  17. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 72.
  18. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 75.
  19. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 78.
  20. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 82.
  21. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, 1: 84.
  22. [S315] Stoughton/Canton MA VRs, p. 43.

Hannah Houghton1,2,3

F, #1034, b. 16 October 1667, d. 8 October 1679

Biography

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BirthOct 16, 1667Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, NEGHR , Vol. 14: Oct. 16, 1666 [later corrected to 1667, Vol. 17]5,4,6,7,8,9,10
DeathOct 8, 1679Charlestown, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VRs, Nourse, Early Rec.: ae: 12, dp; Dorchester VR, Tolman, FWH: Dorchester, a. 12; two days before brother John; Dorchester VR: Charlestown5,11,12,13,14,9,15,16,10
ResearchOct, 1679Charlestown, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Both died at Charlestown MA, two days apart
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93 #126.
  2. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5 #9.
  3. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #15 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  4. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 12.
  5. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  6. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, P. 251, 316.
  7. [S96] NEHGR, 17 [1863]: 74.
  8. [S96] NEHGR, 14 [1860]: 356.
  9. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  10. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 337.
  11. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 20.
  12. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 251, 325.
  13. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 30.
  14. [S96] NEHGR, 14 [1860]: 152.
  15. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  16. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.

Sarah Houghton1,2,3,4

F, #1035, b. 24 May 1723

Family: Lieut. Jonathan Houghton b. 28 Mar 1719, d. 1808?

Biography

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BirthMay 24, 1723Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH, p. 96: 12,4, 1723; p. 308, 5,2, 1723; p. 311, 5,23, 1723; White: 6/24/17237,6,8,9,10,11,12
MarriageFeb 4, 1746/47JWH:p. 308, Feb 22, 1741/2; p. 311, 3,4,1742; A.L. White: marriage Feb 4, 1739/0; MLM: Feb. 4, 1745/4613,14,10,15,12
ResidenceBolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA
DeedAug 22, 1759Leominster, MA, USA, sold to Gardner Wilder "land in Leominster whereon I now dwell."16
ResearchJWH erroneously gives a Sarah as a daughter, b. 23 May 1723, but she is dau. of James and Sarah Houghton, not this James.17
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 96 #145; 308 #75s.
  2. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 31; 280.
  3. [S117] Burr & Gage, "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass." , pp. 392-400, p. 396.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 8 #101.
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 50, 280.
  6. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 50.
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 96, 308, 311.
  8. [S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, p. 78 #175s.
  9. [S249] White, Geneal. Abstr. of Revol. War II, p. 1718.
  10. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 8.
  11. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 292.
  12. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 339.
  13. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 308, 311.
  14. [S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, p. 44, 78.
  15. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 13, 26.
  16. [S1321] Worcester Co. MA Deeds: 42:193.
  17. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 310 #111.
  18. [S160] Leominster MA VRs, p. 78.
  19. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 324.
  20. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 31.
  21. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 26.

Martha Horton1

F, #1036, b. 3 February 1692/93

Family: John Lee

Biography

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BirthFeb 3, 1692/93Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA3,1,4,5,6
MarriageDec 25, 1711Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, by the Rev. John Danforth3,7,8,5,6,9
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 36.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  3. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 94.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50, 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  5. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 5.
  6. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  7. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 105.
  8. [S96] NEHGR, "Who Was Martha Horton?", Vol. 15, No. 599, July 1996, p. 349.
  9. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).

Henry Bentley1,2

M, #1037, b. 2 April 1691

Biography

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BaptismApr 2, 1691Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, not in Milton VR1,3
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #19 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).

Hannah Bentley1,2

F, #1038, b. 2 April 1691

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BaptismApr 2, 1691Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Houghton, Uran: 4,2,1691; not in Milton VR1,3
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 93.
  2. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 #20 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  3. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 50 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).

Deacon Nathaniel Houghton1,2,3,4,5,6,7

M, #1039, b. 1696, d. 13 March 1772

Family: Deborah Belcher b. 11 Feb 1694/95, d. 27 Feb 1772

Biography

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Birth1696Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Vose: b. in Milton, circa 1696 [CJV: died 1772, aged 76]; not in Milton VRs; Jason W. Houghton: unknown9,8,4,10,11,12,13
Taxationbetween 1718 and 1736Milton, MA, USA14,15
Residencecirca 1721Milton, MA, USA16
MarriageJul 20, 1721Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, JWH: 6,3,1721; MLM: Sep. 3, 1721, int. Jul. 20, 17219,17,3,16,4,11
Taxationfrom 1737 to 1771Milton, MA, USA15
Officebetween 1743 and 1766Milton, MA, USA, selectman5
ChurchAug 21, 1743made deacon18
NoteMar 27, 1754Milton, MA, USA, Both signed a petition to annex their land to Milton from Braintree, MA.19
NoteMar 13, 1767Stoughton, MA, USA, Report of the General Court Committee appointed to consider Nathaniel Houghton's Petition (See page 401). The committee recommends that Joseph Billings pay Houghton the full amount owed for the care of Betty Pumham and her son Thomas. (See also pages 401-405.)

BILLINGS, JOSEPH, BROWN, WOODBRIDGE     Autograph, HOLDEN, WILLIAM, HOUGHTON, NATHANIEL, PUMHAM, BETTY, PUMHAM, THOMAS20     
DeathMar 13, 1772Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Tolman: May 13, 1772 per gravestone; Vose: 13 Mar; Vose: aged 76; Teele: May 13, 1732 [sic], age 76; Boston Obit: Mar. 13, 1772, a. 75 y; MLM: Mar. 13, 17739,4,10,21,22,15
BurialMilton Cemetery, Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Stones mark their graves in Milton Cemetery; His grave epitaph: 1672-1772 "Hrer Lyse interred ye mortal parts of Deacon Nathaniel Houghton, who died March Ye 13th, 1775, aged 76 years, " "Cease tears, ye body of a friend ye to ye grave do only lend a common lot, Here Christ has been triumphant over death and sin, he has awoke, so shall the just and gather up their crombs (sic) of dust. Comfort, I friend, the Gospel cries, seed that is quickened always dies."; Hers: "Here lies ye body of Mrs. Deborah Houghton, ye wife of Deacon nathaniel Houghton, who departed this life February ye 27th, 1772, in the 70th year of her age."4,21,15
AFNHQVM-B223
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #138.
  2. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 106 #23.
  3. [S45] Bates, Records of Braintree MA, p. 746.
  4. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, P. 21.
  5. [S458] A.K. Teele, Hx of Milton MA, p. 567.
  6. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #42, 10.
  7. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #23 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  8. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 453.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  10. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  11. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 10.
  12. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, no page, 1853, letter of Jason W. Houghton.
  13. [S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 338.
  14. [S703] Milton Town Records, pp. 283.
  15. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  16. [S96] NEHGR, 60 [1906]: "The Belcher Family", 135.
  17. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 106.
  18. [S96] NEHGR, Vol. 23, 1869, p. 47.
  19. [S458] A.K. Teele, Hx of Milton MA, p. 45, 63.
  20. [S30] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 33, p. 406.
  21. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 10.
  22. [S626] Unknown compiler, Boston Obituaries Index, Vol. II, p. 540.
  23. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  24. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 36.
  25. [S581] Milton Church Records, no pages.

Deborah Belcher1,2,3,4

F, #1040, b. 11 February 1694/95, d. 27 February 1772

Family: Deacon Nathaniel Houghton b. 1696, d. 13 Mar 1772

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthFeb 11, 1694/95Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, FWH, JWH: 16945,2,6,7
MarriageJul 20, 1721Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, JWH: 6,3,1721; MLM: Sep. 3, 1721, int. Jul. 20, 17215,8,9,2,6,10
DeathFeb 27, 1772Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, a. 765,6,7,3,11
BurialMilton Cemetery, Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, Stones mark their graves in Milton Cemetery; His grave epitaph: 1672-1772 "Hrer Lyse interred ye mortal parts of Deacon Nathaniel Houghton, who died March Ye 13th, 1775, aged 76 years, " "Cease tears, ye body of a friend ye to ye grave do only lend a common lot, Here Christ has been triumphant over death and sin, he has awoke, so shall the just and gather up their crombs (sic) of dust. Comfort, I friend, the Gospel cries, seed that is quickened always dies."; Hers: "Here lies ye body of Mrs. Deborah Houghton, ye wife of Deacon nathaniel Houghton, who departed this life February ye 27th, 1772, in the 70th year of her age."6,11,12
ParentsDSamuel and Comfort Belcher6,2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 106 #24.
  2. [S96] NEHGR, 60 [1906]: "The Belcher Family", 135.
  3. [S458] A.K. Teele, Hx of Milton MA, p. 486.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #24 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  6. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, P. 21.
  7. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  8. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 106.
  9. [S45] Bates, Records of Braintree MA, p. 746.
  10. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 10.
  11. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 10.
  12. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  13. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 36.

Deborah Houghton1,2,3,4

F, #1041, b. 5 April 1722, d. 4 November 1752

Family: David Sumner b. 6 Jan 1716/17

  • Marriage Bann*: Deborah Houghton and David Sumner declared their intentions of marriage on May 9, 1747 Milton, MA, USA.9,8
  • Marriage: Deborah Houghton married David Sumner JWH, MLM: 1742 given, but error: see marr bann date.6,7

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr 5, 1722Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, MLM: Apr. 46,5,2,7,8
Marriage BannMay 9, 1747Milton, MA, USA9,8
DeathNov 4, 1752Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA10,4
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 101 #182.
  2. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, P. 21.
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 10 #182.
  4. [S1381] William Sumner Appleton, Desc. of William Sumner of Dorchester, MA, #44.
  5. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 36.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 101.
  7. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 10.
  8. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 52 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  9. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  10. [S32] Milton VRs.

Abigail Houghton1,2,3,4,5

F, #1042, b. 1 January 1698/99, d. 5 June 1755

Family: Benjamin Crane b. 17 Dec 1692, d. 24 Jun 1771

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJan 1, 1698/99Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, 5 Jan 1699 given; MLM: Jan. 38,9,7,3,10
MarriageDec 27, 1722Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, both of Milton8,11,12,13,14,3,15,10,16
DeathJun 5, 1755Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, wife of Benjamin Crane17,3,10
BurialMilton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA3
AFNHQVL-4V18
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #139.
  2. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 40.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, P. 21.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #43, 10.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #25 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S581] Milton Church Records, no pages.
  7. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 35.
  8. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  9. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #25.
  10. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 10.
  11. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 106, 135.
  12. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 304.
  13. [S96] NEHGR, 38 [1884]: 28.
  14. [S96] NEHGR, 46 [1892]: "Henry Crane of Dorchester, Mass., and some of his descendants" by Emily Wilder Leavitt, 217, 218.
  15. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  16. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  17. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 214.
  18. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Jane Houghton1,2,3,4,5

F, #1043, b. 9 March 1699/0, d. before 23 October 1754

Family: Jonathan Capen b. 17 Mar 1690/91, d. Dec 1740

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMar 9, 1699/0Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA8,9,7,3,10,11
ResidenceDorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA
Origincirca 1721Dorchester, MA, USA2,12
MarriageFeb 22, 1721/22Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, See Gen. of Capen Family, p. 2478,2,13,3,10,11,12,14
Deathbefore Oct 23, 1754Stoughton, MA, USA15
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ResearchNEGHR: gives Jane Houghton, dau. of Deacon Ebenezer of Milton marrying Jonathen Capen13,14
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #140.
  2. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 110.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 21.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #44.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #27 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S581] Milton Church Records, no pages.
  7. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 35.
  8. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  9. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #27.
  10. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  11. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  12. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  13. [S96] NEHGR, 20 [1866]: 247.
  14. [S933] Virkus, Abridged Compend. of Amer. Gen. III, p. 635.
  15. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  16. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  17. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.

Martha Houghton1,2,3,4,5

F, #1044, b. 24 April 1701, d. 4 December 1766

Family: Capt. Joseph Bent b. 26 Sep 1701, d. 7 Dec 1755

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthApr 24, 1701Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA7,8,6,3,9,10
MarriageFeb 13, 1723/24Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA7,11,2,12,3,9,13,14
DeathDec 4, 1766Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, age 6515,12,3,16
AFNHQVM-DD17
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #141.
  2. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 302.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  4. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #45, 11.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #29 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 35.
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  8. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #29.
  9. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  10. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 45.
  11. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 91, 135.
  12. [S96] NEHGR, 48 [1894]: 295.
  13. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 11.
  14. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  15. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 207.
  16. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  17. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Mary Houghton1,2,3,4,5,6

F, #1045, b. 14 April 1703, d. 23 April 1784

Family 1: Ebenezer Holmes Jr. b. 16 Nov 1701, d. 8 Feb 1752

Family 2: Deacon Abijah White b. 23 Jan 1716, d. 6 Oct 1804

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthApr 14, 1703Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, FWH: Apr. 17; MLM: Apr. 138,9,7,10,4,11,12,13
Residencecirca 1725Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA2,14
MarriageJan 13, 1724/25Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA8,2,3,10,4,11,12,13,14
DeedMar 28, 1727Suffolk Co. Deeds, Vol. 57, p. 20: "March 28 1727 Ebenezer Holmes and wife, Mary (which Mary is granddaughter to Nathaniel Wales, late of Boston, dec'd, and heir to part of his estate) in consideration of 7 L paid by Joseph Wald of Roxbury..."; [CJV: not her grandparent]10,15
MarriageFeb 2, 1748Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, h/24,13
DeathApr 23, 1784Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, MLM: Feb 8, 17524,12,13
AFNG1F2-DC16
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #142.
  2. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 111.
  3. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 312.
  4. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  5. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #46, 11.
  6. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #31 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  7. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 35.
  8. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  9. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #31.
  10. [S96] NEHGR, 58 [1904]: 146.
  11. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  12. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 11.
  13. [S692] George Arthur Gray, Holmes Genealogy, p. 35.
  14. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  15. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  16. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Joseph Houghton1,2,3,4

M, #1046, b. 22 October 1704, d. 19 November 1715

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthOct 22, 1704Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA6,7,5,2,8,9
DeathNov 19, 1715Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA10,2,8,9
AFNHQVM-GQ11
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #145.
  2. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #47.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #33 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 35.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  7. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #35.
  8. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  9. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  10. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 229.
  11. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Benjamin Houghton1,2,3,4

M, #1047, b. 6 April 1706, d. 20 April 1706

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthApr 6, 1706Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA6,7,5,2,8,9
DeathApr 20, 1706Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, 14 days10,2,9
AFNHQVM-HW11
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #144.
  2. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  3. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7 #48.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 36.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  7. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #34.
  8. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  9. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  10. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 228.
  11. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Jonathan Capen1,2,3,4

M, #1048, b. 17 March 1690/91, d. December 1740

Family: Jane Houghton b. 9 Mar 1699/0, d. b 23 Oct 1754

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMar 17, 1690/91Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA5,6,3,7,8
Origincirca 1721Dorchester, MA, USA2,9
MarriageFeb 22, 1721/22Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, See Gen. of Capen Family, p. 24710,2,11,3,7,8,9,12
ResidenceDorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA
DeathDec, 17403,7,8
ParentsSSamuel and Susannah (Payson) Capen of Dorchester MA13,8,12
AFNHR1J-SJ14
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #140s.
  2. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 110.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 21.
  4. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #28 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  5. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #28.
  6. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 35.
  7. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  8. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  9. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Eben Tolman, Town Clerk, Dorchester, MA, 1853.
  10. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  11. [S96] NEHGR, 20 [1866]: 247.
  12. [S933] Virkus, Abridged Compend. of Amer. Gen. III, p. 635.
  13. [S96] NEHGR, 20 [1866]: 247 (Genealogy of the Capen Family).
  14. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  15. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  16. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.

Capt. Joseph Bent1,2,3,4,5,6

M, #1049, b. 26 September 1701, d. 7 December 1755

Family: Martha Houghton b. 24 Apr 1701, d. 4 Dec 1766

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthSep 26, 1701Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA7,5,8
MarriageFeb 13, 1723/24Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, USA9,10,3,11,5,12,13,14
Milit-Beg1755Crown Point, NY, USA, a captain in the expedition11,7
DeathDec 7, 1755Albany, Albany Co., NY, USA, of dropsy; age 5415,11,5,7
ParentsSJoseph and Rachel (Fuller) Bent of Milton MA11,8
AFNHR1J-TP16
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #141s.
  2. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #30.
  3. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 302.
  4. [S96] NEHGR, 48 [1894]: "The Bent Family", 295.
  5. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  6. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #30 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  7. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 7.
  8. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  10. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 91, 135.
  11. [S96] NEHGR, 48 [1894]: 295.
  12. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
  13. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 11.
  14. [S904] Houghton Family Records;, Letter to Francis W. Houghton from Town Clerk, Milton, MA, 1855.
  15. [S32] Milton VRs, p. 207.
  16. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.

Ebenezer Holmes Jr.1,2,3,4,5

M, #1050, b. 16 November 1701, d. 8 February 1752

Family: Mary Houghton b. 14 Apr 1703, d. 23 Apr 1784

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthNov 16, 1701Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA6,7,3,8
MarriageJan 13, 1724/25Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, USA9,10,2,7,3,11,8,4,12
Immigration1726Roxbury, MA, USA13
DeedMar 28, 1727Suffolk Co. Deeds, Vol. 57, p. 20: "March 28 1727 Ebenezer Holmes and wife, Mary (which Mary is granddaughter to Nathaniel Wales, late of Boston, dec'd, and heir to part of his estate) in consideration of 7 L paid by Joseph Wald of Roxbury..."; [CJV: not her grandparent]7,14
Office1737Roxbury, MA, USA, grand jury13
DeathFeb 8, 1752Roxbury, MA, USA7,13
ParentsSEbenezer Holmes (Nathaniel2, George1)14
AFNG1F3-B1 & P4C6-CT15
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95 #142s.
  2. [S61] Boston Marriages, p. 312.
  3. [S182] Vose, Robert Vose, p. 22.
  4. [S692] George Arthur Gray, Holmes Genealogy, p. 35.
  5. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 #32 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
  6. [S3] Vivian Imogene Uran, Houghton Genealogy - V.I. Uran, p. 107 #32.
  7. [S96] NEHGR, 58 [1904]: 146.
  8. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 7, 11.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 95.
  10. [S52] Dorchester Births, Marriages, p. 111.
  11. [S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 51 (Genealogy of Francis Walter Houghton).
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