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From: "Brassell" <>
Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] Bartons in NY and MA
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:50:44 -0600


Have any of you researched the 17th Century Bartns of MD and VA? No link?
Barbara B.
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From: Leo K. Barton <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] Bartons in NY and MA


>
>Dear Sheila
>You have some very good info,so don't give up. We just need to connect the
dots.
>Here is a link to the passenger list of the ship " Fortune " that landed in
>Plymouth in 1621. The Master of the ship is named Thomas Barton. Click
here or
>go to: http://istg.rootsweb.com/v2/1600v2/fortune16211109.html
>So far it is unknown whether or not this Thomas Barton has any link to our
Edward
>of 1620,but it would be nice to find what line of Barton' he is linked to.
We
>hope someone out their can help the rest of us. Thank you very much for
>responding .......................Leo
>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you to all those who responded, even third-hand--I really seem to
have
>> triggered something. But I think I am still left with more questions
that I
>> started with.
>>
>> Betsey (Perra?) has the original Barton settler coming from Holland to
New
>> Amsterdam, with four brothers, three of whom stayed. One of these was
Roger?
>> Then Leo Barton cites the Alvin Barton text that suggests the Bartons
>> originated in Wales (at least there are still four brothers). We won't
even
>> get into the discussion whether Barton is an Irish name. My family
thought
>> it was English.
>>
>> Someone else suggested my Daniel was descended from Roger. Does anyone
have
>> any detail on that line? I have access to the IGI, but I'm still not
sure
>> which Daniel I'm supposed to be following--and did he have a brother
William?
>> Dorothy Muirhead suggested that my Daniel was the son of Peter Barton.
But
>> that line leads back to Edward (Edward1, Matthew2, Benjamin3, Joseph4,
>> Caleb5, Peter6, Peter Jr.7, then Daniel and William?)
>>
>> And, to go back to my original question, are there any descendants of
Mary
>> Anne, Robert Loveland, William F., Charles B, Willard Allen, Henry Byron,
or
>> Daniel Moody Barton lurking out there? I did check all the middle names
>> against the Barton Index and found none of them.
>>
>> My family did pass on a number of stories, but I have a sneaking feeling
they
>> tended to get mixed up over time. The reference to the slightly murky
>> background of the Barton side of the family was attached to an early
ship's
>> captain who was reputed to have a wife in England and in the colonies
>> (presumably the English one came first)--but the name my family
associated
>> with that little myth turns out to have been a military captain (no
ship),
>> and have a clean record. So was it a Barton story?
>>
>> All suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Sheila Connolly
>>
>> P.S. I have a lovely photo of Silas Abbott Barton, in case anyone wants
to
>> compare features.
>>
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