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From: "Roy Leggitt" <>
Subject: RE: [BARTON] Rufus Barton's French Ancestry
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:38:18 -0700
In-Reply-To: <LAEMICGGMBKIADLLMIJECEOEEEAA.terry@bartonsite.org>


Terry,

Thanks for the lookup. I had my doubts. From further research it is obvious
that Pierre Berthon didn't arrive in Rhode Island until well after our Rufus
was dead.

The Trail of the Huguenots by G. Elmore Reaman, says The Berton Family
originated at Chatelerault, in the Province of Poitou, France. Pierre
Berthon de Marigny and his wife Marguerite came to Narranganset colony,
Rhode Island, between 1681 and 1685. There were forty-five families in this
colony among them was Ezechiel Carre, a minister, and Pierre Ayrault, a
physician, with Pierre Berthon de Mariguy, as head of the expedition.
This colony had been well equipped and for five years did very well, but
owing to disputes over ownerships, they disbanded some going to Boston, some
to New Rochelle, some to South Carolina, and the largest number to New York,
Pierre Berthon, among the latter. Here Peter Berton was born in 1729. He
became a New York merchant, was interested in shipping and master of a ship
from 1756 to 1770. Declaring himself a Loyalist he was persecuted and sought
refuge on Long Island. In 1683 as Captain of a company of thirty-one men,
fifty-one women, twenty children, and thirty servants, he sailed in the
'Summer Fleet' of fifteen vessels carrying two thousand exiles for St. John,
N.B. Landing at Parr Town, Peter Berton went up the St. John River to 'Oak
Point', where he gave land for a church, built in 1792. From there he
removed to St. John. Thirteen children had been born to him and his wife,
Ann Duncan, one of these being George (1774-1828), of whom the following
notation was made in the family Bible--still extant--"He appears a fine
straight Lad well maid a Good Complection Square Shouldered--for further
Particulars Inquire of the Nurses". His son, George Frederick Street Berton,
was born in Fredericton in 1808, married Delia Hooke.

Roy and Darlene Leggitt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Barton [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:15 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [BARTON] Rufus Barton's French Ancestry
>
> Roy, I did a search at y-search for possible matches to the Rufus dna.
> (Rufus belongs to the R1b haplogroup, which is believed to hav esheltered
> in
> Iberia during the ice age and then migrated through France into the
> British
> Isles. It is the dominant haplogroup in Europe)
> Here is what I found, which doesn't look "French"
>
> http://www.ysearch.org/search_search.asp?uid=EUV9E&submit=Search (click
> the
> search button)
>
> If that doesn't work, or if you want to try other searches, Rufus id is
> EUV9E and the site is at http://www.ysearch.org
>
> However, the way our ancestors moved around, it is entirely possible that
> Rufus was French. We just can't substantiate it from the dna result.
>
> Terry

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