Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond


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picture Betsey H Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 12 Oct 1816 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
        Baptism: 
          Death: Dec 1842 - South Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabas Horton (1779-1867)
         Mother: Betsey Holbrook (1777-1834)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Joseph Pierce (6 Jun 1813 - 26 Feb 1877) 3 
       Marriage: 1837 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Mary Ann Pierce (1840-      ) 4



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Carroll Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1887 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1949
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Robert Ripley Horton (1856-      )
         Mother: Jennie Atwood Landerkin (1861-      )



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Cassandra C Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1828 - Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabas Horton (1807-1877) 1
         Mother: Sarah Ann Lucas (1811-1869)



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Catherine Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1815 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 
          Death: 19 Jun 1836 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Horton (1787-1850) 7
         Mother: Zerviah Hickman (1788-1876) 7 8



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Charles Burley Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 13 Apr 1851 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Isaiah Holbrook Horton (1814-1874) 1
         Mother: Rebecca Higgins (1814-1855) 10



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Chloe M Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 9 Apr 1850 - Tisbury, Massachusetts 11
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Perez Chipman Horton (1809-1865) 1
         Mother: Chloe Gill (1810-1891)



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Chloe Newcomb Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 7 Jul 1839 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 12
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Cushing Horton (1812-After 1850)
         Mother: Mehetable Knowles (1814-1897) 13



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Chrystalina E Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 10 Jun 1836 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 11
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Perez Chipman Horton (1809-1865) 1
         Mother: Chloe Gill (1810-1891)



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Cushing Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 3 Jan 1812 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: After 1850
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabas Horton (1779-1867)
         Mother: Betsey Holbrook (1777-1834)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Mehetable Knowles (19 May 1814 - 6 Jan 1897) 13 
       Marriage: 1835 - (Wellfleet, Massachusetts)
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Chloe Newcomb Horton (1839-      ) 12
                2. Winslow T Horton (1844-      ) 12 14
Notes
General:
1844 mariner, Wellfleet

1848 death in Provincetown was another man, since this one was alive for the 1850 Wellfleet census, with the right wife and children.
Marriage Notes (Mehetable Knowles)
1850 US census, Wellfleet
house 13, household 13
Cushing Horton 39 mariner $350
Mahitabel Horton 37
Chloe K Horton 11
Winslow G Horton 6
all b Mass., Chloe in school

picture Cushing Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 7 Sep 1819 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 
          Death: 12 Oct 1848 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death: consumption

Parents 
         Father: Captain Cushing Horton (1780-1846) 15
         Mother: Rachel Higgins (1787-1859) 15
Spouses and Children 
1. *Mary Jane Higgins (5 Oct 1824 -       )
       Marriage: 25 Jul 1844 - Eastham, Massachusetts 16
         Status: 



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Captain Cushing Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 30 Aug 1780 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 8 Feb 1846 - Eastham, Massachusetts 17
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death: consumption

Parents 
         Father: Cushing Horton (1757-      )
         Mother: Abigail Snow (1757-1821)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Rachel Higgins (24 Sep 1787 - 6 May 1859) 15 
       Marriage: 6 Mar 1805 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 18
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Abram Mayo Horton (1808-1884) 15
                2. Almira Horton (1812-1886)
                3. Henry Horton (1814-      )
                4. Rachel Horton (1817-      )
                5. Cushing Horton (1819-1848)
                6. Mary Porter Horton (1823-1881) 6
                7. Eliza Ann Horton (1825-1895) 19
                8. Nathan Payne Horton (1828-      )
Notes
General:
Postmaster North Eastham, MA
Medical:
Eastham:
age not specified
married
trader
b Eastham, parents not listed 20
Marriage Notes (Rachel Higgins)
Children
Abraham Mayo HORTON b: 18 JUL 1808
Almira HORTON b: 27 MAR 1812 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Henry HORTON b: 10 MAY 1814
Rachel HORTON b: 30 JAN 1817
Cushing HORTON b: 7 SEP 1819
Mary Porter HORTON b: 23 OCT 1823
Eliza Ann HORTON b: 15 AUG 1825
Nathan Payne HORTON b: 22 MAY 1828

picture Cushing Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 5 Sep 1757 - Eastham, Massachusetts 21
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Horton (1729-1799)
         Mother: Mary Cushing (1733-1767)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Abigail Snow (1757 - 19 Dec 1821)
       Marriage: 19 Mar 1778
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Barnabas Horton (1779-1867)
                2. Captain Cushing Horton (1780-1846) 15
                3. Samuel Horton (1783-1786)
                4. Freeman Horton (1785-1852) 6
                5. Samuel Horton (1787-1850) 7
                6. Abigail Horton (1790-1848) 15
                7. Sparrow Horton (1792-      )
                8. Reuben Horton (1794-      )
                9. John Horton (1800-      )



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Darius W Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1912 - Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Lester Garfield Horton (1883-1965) 6
         Mother: Mabel Gertrude Weeks (1885-1918) 6



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Doritha Horton 
      Sex: F
AKA: Dorothy Horton
Individual Information 
          Birth: Abt 1680 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: Bef 1738 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain John Horton (1653-Cir 1705)
         Mother: Hannah Long (Cir 1650-1690)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Doctor David Doane (Abt 1674 - 18 Nov 1748)
       Marriage: 30 Sep 1701 - Eastham, Massachusetts 22
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Jonathan Doane Esq (1702-1780)
                2. Hannah Doane (1704-1776)
                3. Keziah Doane (1706-      )
                4. John Doane (1708-1788)
                5. Nathan Doane (1710-      )
                6. Eleazar Doane (1712-1787)
                7. Rachel Doane (Abt 1714-      )
                8. Enoch Doane (1718-Abt 1740)
                9. David Doane (Est 1722-      )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Doctor David Doane)
Eleazer's birth is not in Eastham records.

picture Edward K Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1835 - Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabas Horton (1807-1877) 1
         Mother: Sarah Ann Lucas (1811-1869)



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Edwin W Horton 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 4 Feb 1889 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: Oct 1962
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 014-16-2778 in Massachusetts

Parents 
         Father: Robert Ripley Horton (1856-      )
         Mother: Jennie Atwood Landerkin (1861-      )
Spouses and Children 
1. *Beatrice H (5 Feb 1899 - Jul 1978) 6 
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Elaine Horton (1922-1929) 6



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Elaine Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1922 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1929 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
         Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Edwin W Horton (1889-1962) 5 6
         Mother: Beatrice H (1899-1978) 6



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Eleanor Washburn Horton 
      Sex: F
AKA: Elenah Washburn Horton 23
Individual Information 
          Birth: 9 Oct 1833 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Barnabas Horton (1807-1877) 1
         Mother: Sarah Ann Lucas (1811-1869)



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Eliza Ann Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 15 Aug 1825 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 15 Feb 1895 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Cushing Horton (1780-1846) 15
         Mother: Rachel Higgins (1787-1859) 15
Spouses and Children 
1. *Captain Prince I Freeman (7 Nov 1822 - 20 Sep 1909) 24 25 
       Marriage: 19 Nov 1844
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Angelia Freeman (1854-1943)
                2. William L Freeman (1860-1864)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Captain Prince I Freeman)
Children
Eliza Freeman b: 27 AUG 1847 in Provincetown Barnstable Ma
Prence Freeman b: 27 JUL 1851 in Provincetown Barnstable Ma
William Freeman b: 1852 in Provincetown Barnstable Ma
Laura Freeman b: 1854 in Provincetown Barnstable Ma
Angelia Freeman b: 1855 in Provincetown Barnstable Ma
Mary Eliza Freeman b: 1856

picture Eliza F Horton 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 28 Jan 1811 - Eastham, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 3 Mar 1882 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
         Burial: in South Wellfleet cemetery
 Cause of Death: erysipelas 26

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Horton (1787-1850) 7
         Mother: Zerviah Hickman (1788-1876) 7 27
Spouses and Children 
1. *Jonathan Doane (2 Apr 1811 - 16 Apr 1894) 28 
       Marriage: 1834 - Eastham, Massachusetts
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Martha Harding Doane (1834-      ) 29
                2. Willard C Doane (1837-1838)
                3. Eusebia Sawyer Doane (1841-1916) 30
                4. Captain Willard Crowell Doane (1849-1894) 31
Notes
Medical:
age 71-1-3
married
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Sources

1 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:111. Barnabus and Betsey Horton family.

2 Yarmouth Register (Yarmouth, Massachusetts), 15 Dec 1842.

3 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 6, lot 2. Joseph & Olive Peirce family.

4 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:178. The daughter of Joseph Pierce & Betsey his wife.

5 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 22. Eastham (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 741.

6 Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).

7 Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society), 17.

8 Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204). numerous transcription errors

9 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 30.

10 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:110 Isaac & Mehetable Higgins family.

11 Richard L. Pease, "Enumerator's copy of 1850 Census of Tisbury, Massachusetts" (1850. Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
http://history.vineyard.net/tiscen50.htm), Tisbury 253.

12 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:178. The children of Cushing Horton & Mehitable his wife.

13 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:107. Edward and Alice Knowles family.

14 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 6.

15 Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society), 13.

16 Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204), 123. Rev Enoch Pratt of Brewster.

17 Yarmouth Register (Yarmouth, Massachusetts), 19 Feb 1846.

18 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:556. Marriages.

19 Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized

20 Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (2004. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives), 20:5 (Eastham).

21 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 69 (MD16:26). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.

22 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 30 (MD7:17).

23 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:160. The children of Barnabus Horton and Wife.

24 Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm).

25 Middleboro Gazette (Middleboro, Mass. indexed at Middleoborough Public Library, http://www.midlib.org/dlib/main.htm), 10/01/1909:5.

26 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 26.

27 Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204).

28 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:113. The children of Jonathan & Rebecca Doane.

29 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:165. The daughter of Jonathan and Elisa Doane.

30 Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 473. This is a major source, which seems accurate.

31 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 39.

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