Norton City

Norton City

iu the distribution of Abbot's estate in Brauford records, next following John, while Savage says Joseph is omitted. I cannot tell what the name is, but feL'l certain it is neither John nor Felix.

The church records of Farmington show that John Norton's children were baptized October, 16(31, said to be Hannah, aged about 12 years; Dorothy, about 10; John, about 8; and Thomas, about 13 months. These ages were no doubt a careless guess of the clergyman.

5. ^oijU," John,Mjorn in Branford, May 24, 1G50; lived in Farmington, Connecticut, where he died, April 25, 1725. lie married Ruth Moore, born January 5, 1()57, daughter of Deacon Isaac and Kuth (Stanley) Moore.

Deacon Isaac Moore, first of Farmington, was one of the first settlers of Xorwalk. He married at Hartford, December 5, 1045, liuth, daughter of John Stanley. John Stanley died on his passage to Xew England in 1034, leaving three children, one of whom died before March 3, 1035. Tlie other two, John and Ruth, were committed to their uncles, Thomas and Timothy. The son John was a Captain in King Philip's War. The uncles, Thomas and Timothy Stanley, both afterwards settled in Hartford. Timothy came in May, 1034 ; Thomas sailed from London in 1035.

he was a Deacon, and maiTied, late in life, Dorothy, a danghter of Rev. Henry Smith, of Charlestown, who had heeo widow of three husbands. He was living in 1705. He had daughters Ruth, Sarah, Mary and Phebe, but no sons. He was Sergeant in 1619, and may be the Isaac Moore wbo came in the ship "Increase," in 1635, from London to Boston.

10. Isaac, married, May 6, 1707, Elizabeth Galpin, of Stratford. He Avas a merchant in Berlin, Connecticut, ( Worthington Parish.) and died January 10, 1763, aged 83.

13. Mary, baptized Xovember 21, 1686; married l^ti John Pantry, Jr., of Hartford, Connecticut; and 2n(^ Solomon Boltwood, of Hadlej' and Amherst, Massachusetts, and there died, May 24, 1763. They had, among others; a son. Lieutenant "William Boltwood, of Amherst, born February 4, 1725, who was the father of William Boltwood. of the same place, born May 4, 1766, who was father of Lucius Boltwood, born March 16, 1792, (graduated at "Williams College in 1814.) an attorney in Amherst, who was father of Hon. Lucius Manlius Boltwood, now of Xew Haven, to whom I am much indebted in the matter of the Norton genealogy.

There is an early Genealogical Chart of the ^S'ortons, of which a description appears in the " Xew England Historical and Genealogical Register," Yolnme 18, pages 225-230. That able genealogist, W. II. AVhitmore, furnished it for publication, and says it is almost the only case where he Las found a carefully-drawn pedigree brought by a settler.

1. The Sigur de Xoruile came into England with William the Conqueror, and was his Constable. He married into the name of Valois. (Arms of Valois; Semee de France or fleur de lys.)

8. Sir John Norton, alias Xoruile, Avho married the daughter of the Lord Grey de Kuthyn, (Arms: Barr\' of six, argent and azure, in ehief three torteaux. Burke,) by whom he had:

III. Joane, who married 1^^ "William Walker, and had a daughter Agnes, who married John Winger, and had Mcbolas, George and Elizabeth. Other descendants appear in the Register.

IT. Thomas, who married, l^t, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Craumer, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died without issue ; and 2"<^ Alice, daughter of Edmond C'ranmer, brother of Tliomas, (Arms : Argent, a chevron azure, between three pelicans vulning themselves ppr.) and had issue: i. Anne, married Sir George Coppin, and had Robert and Thomas, ii. Elizabeth, married fst- Miles Raynesford, and had Robert and Garrett; and 2^*^' Symon Basell, by whom she had Symon. iii. Thomas, died at Cambridge, iv. Henry, probably died without issue, v. Robert, married Anne, daughter of Robert Heare, and had Thomas, Robert, Thomas, Richard and Anne. vi. William, married Ruth Harding. in. Joan, married 1st, a Spicer, and 2"^' a Barrett.

IV. Luke, who married Lettice, daughter of George Gravely, and had: i. Gravely, ii. Benjamin, iii. Thomas, iv. Anne. v. Elizabeth, vi. & vii. (illegible. ) viii. Susanna, ix. ]Martha.

12. Richard Norton married Margery, daughter of Wingar, (Arms: Gules, two helmets argent, over a garb of the last, impaling the arms of Hare,) of Sharpenhow, and had :

I. William, who married Alice, daughter of .John Browest, b}' whom he had: i. Jonx. ii. William, iii. Richard, iv. Thomas, who married Katharine, daughter of Gabriel Clincard, and had issue: Gabriel, Tliomas and Anne. v. ]\[artha. vi. 3[ary.

He marriocl, 2"*^ Dennis Cholmley, ueice to Sir Nicholas Hare, ]Master of the Rolls, (Arms Hare : Gules, two bars or, a chief indented of the last. Burke,) and had:

IX. Richard, who married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Rowley, of Wallden, in Essex, (Arms: Gules on a chevron cotised argent, as many lions rampant of the tield. Given by Burke to the Howlet's,) and had Luke, Richard, John, Ellen and Dorothy.

Here ends the original pedigree. John, the son of William ^^' and Alice (Browest) Norton, was the Rev. John," born, it is said, May 6, 1606, in Starford (Bishop's Stortford), in Hertfordshire. He came to New England in 1634; settled in Ipswich in 1636; and in 1655, succeeded Rev. John Cotton as minister of the First Church in Boston, where he died April 5, 1663. He left no children. His will mentions his brother William, of Ipswich, and child ; brother Thomas, of London ; mother, sister Elizabeth, and wife Mary. His widow's will, August 20, 1677, mentions cousin John X.; sister, Mrs. Lucy N.; cousin Edmund Fernely, of Westoreling Hall, in County Suffolk; his brother Thomas and sisters Elizabeth and Mary; and brother William Xorton.

whom the pedigree descended to Professor Andrews Norton, of Harvard College, and in 1859 was in possession of his son, Charles Eliot Norton, Esq., the well known author, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The pamphlet of Mr. Albert B. Norton makes Thomas son of 13 William and uncle of Rev. John, to be Thomas Norton the first settler of the name in Guilford; Francis Norton, brother of Thomas, to be the Francis Norton, one of Mason's stewards to New Hampshire about 1630, and father of Francis, of Branford; and John Norton, cousin of the first Eev. John, and son of Richard, who married Ellen Rowley, to be John, of Branford, literal cousin to Francis, of the same place.

So far as I know, there is nothing improbable in any of this; in fact, the not common name Francis, of such relation to John, lends a probability to their being of this line; and Rev. John may have been most likely to enter up all the settlers of that line in New England. Still I know of no proof whatever.

I am considerably indebted to that learned gentleman, Alvan Talcott, M.D., of Guilford, for information, and for a copy of the very scarce Norton pamphlet.

1. lUtllam yijUCljOtt, or P^^ncheon. Mr. Savage gives the following account of him. He was associated with the patentees of Massachusetts in 1628, who purchased from the Plymouth Company that year, and was named to office hy the Royal Charter of March 4, 1629. He came in the fleet with Winthrop in 1630. He is the first named in Roxhury Church.^ He brought a wife,

* Since my sketch is written, the record referred to, and made by the famous Rev. John Eliot, the "Indian Apostle," has been transcribed by William B. Trask, Esq., and published in the " New England Historical and Genealo<fical Register," for January, 1881. The first is :

"company, 103). He was " yearelj- so long as he lived among vs. his wife dyed "one of the first fottnda- "soon after he landed at N. Eng. he brought 4 children " tion at Itocksborough." "toN. E.: Ann, Mary, John, Margret. After some jears,

1 "he married Mris. Francis Samford, a grave matron of the " church at Dorchester. When so many removed from these parts to Plant Conecicot " rivr, he also, wth othr company, went thith"" & planted at a place called Agawam, & " was recomended to the church at Windsor, on Conecticott, vntill such time as it should "please God to p'vide yt they might enter into church estate among themselves, his "daughter Ann was married to mr. Smith, sone to mr. Samford bj' a former husband. " He was a Godly^ wise j'oung man, & removed to Agawam wth his parents. His daughter "mary was marri^cf Hulioke, the sone of mr. Holioke, of Linn, mr. Pinchon's " ancient freind.^, Afterwards he wrote a Dialogue concerning Justification wch was Printed "anno 1650, stiled '