Houghton Surname Project

Ephraim Houghton^1,2,3

M, #7201, b. 1742, d. 12 April 1777

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

1742

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, This Ephraim is listed in Lancaster VRs after long list of children of Benjamin and Ruth Houghton, with no identification except name; MLM: 1752^4,5,2,6,7

Death

Apr 12, 1777

⁸

Research

MLM identifies these two Ephraims, and gives marriage to Prudence House (no date) and 4 children (Prudence, Elizabeth, Charles L., and Elizabeth; the latter 2 only in MLM). Given Sterling VRs marriage date of 1786, it is clear this is an incorrect attribution.⁹

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 314 #139.
[S166] Cutter, New England Families II, p. 963.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #394, 51.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 314.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 47.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 31 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 51.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 51.

Abraham Houghton^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}

M, #7202, b. 27 November 1725, d. 7 March 1813

Family 1: Caroline Houghton

Marriage*: Abraham Houghton married Caroline Houghton, daughter of Jonathan Houghton Jr and Mary Houghton, on Nov 21, 1754 at Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: 11, 21, 1759.^{17,18,19,20,16,21}

Family 2: Sarah Divol

Marriage*: Abraham Houghton married Sarah Divol on Oct 8, 1764 at Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VR: Aug 11, 1750, no mp; Houghton: Bolton, 8,11,1750.^{9,22,12,18,6,23,7,24}

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Nov 27, 1725

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VRs, p. 55: 27-11-1725, p. 125, [Henry Houghton's erroneous data: 11-27-1735]; DAR Lineage: 11-27-1925; JWH, Love: 11-27-1726^{9,10,11,12,5,7,13,14,15,16}

Research

between 1748 and 1776

Marriage

Nov 21, 1754

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: 11, 21, 1759^{17,18,19,20,16,21}

Marriage

Oct 8, 1764

Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VR: Aug 11, 1750, no mp; Houghton: Bolton, 8,11,1750^{9,22,12,18,6,23,7,24}

Warnings

Jun, 1779

Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Houghton, Abraham w/ Sarah, children Abraham, Sarah, Eunice, William, Betsey, Rachel from Bolton. Warning to remove from Harvard section of Bolton, MA. He removed to Lyndon, VT.^25,24

Warnings

1783

Putney, Windham Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer v. pt. 2, 226^26,27

Death

Mar 7, 1813

Putney, Windham Co., VT, USA, of fever, age 87 ; DAR: 3-7-1813, VT; Hoghton, Love: 3-7-1815; Marvin: 1815, Leyden, VT; Houghton: Linden, VT; MLM: Mar. 7, 1815, Bolton^{9,12,5,28,7,13,24,29,16}

Problem

mds; mother of children; Warning Out gives different children: Abraham, Sarah, Eunice, William, Betsey, Rachel; different birth locations per warnings

Biography

JWH: "He was soldier in Revolutionary War and present at Braddock's defeat."

DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1494: "Abram: b 11-27-1725 MA d 3-7-1813 VT m Sarah Divol Pvt MA VT"

DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 42, p. 138: "Abram Houghton, (1726-1813), served in the Revolution from Putney, Vt., where he died."

DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 46, p. 244: ditto

DAR Lineage Book Vol. 109, p. 278: "Abraham Houghton (1725-1813) served as private in the Revolution from Putney, Vt., where he died. He was born in
Bolton, Mass."

Bolton VR, p. 207: death, March 6, 1813, a. 88, Houghton Pocket Book, Lancaster Library

Townsend, p. 94: "Abram Houghton, from Bolton, MA to Putney, VT m Sarah Devall Had Henry, p. 178"^9,30

Research

Only MLM gives Abraham as Judah's father. Not in MA VRs²⁴

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315 #141.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 125, 278.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 42, p. 138.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 46, p. 244.
[S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 7.
[S148] C.D. Townsend, Index of Gazetter of Windham Co., Vermont, p. 94.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1494.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #378, 23, 46.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 55, 125.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, 109: 278.
[S35] DAR Patriot Index I, p. 345.
[S595] Rev. Abijah P. Marvin, Lancaster Hx - Marvin, p. 740.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 46.
[S1086] Joseph Willard, Simon Willard Memory, p. 407.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 302.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315, 317.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 139, 144.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 23, 46.
[S278] Frederic W. Bailey, Early Mass. Marriages, p. 41.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 306.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 125.
[S160] Leominster MA VRs, p. 216.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 46.
[S596] Blake, Worcester Co. Warnings, p. 23.
[S71] Putney VT VRs, p. 366.
[S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 466.
[S71] Putney VT VRs, p. 299.
[S1074] Town Records: Putney, Windham Co., VT, Book 1, p. 107: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT, , F-30270.
[S66] Townsend, Gazetteer of Windham VT, p. 94.

Capt. Timothy Houghton^1,2,3,4,5

M, #7203, b. 21 August 1727, d. 10 May 1780

Family: Eunice Whitcomb

Marriage*: Capt. Timothy Houghton married Eunice Whitcomb on Jan 13, 1751 JWH: 10 Dec 1738, clearly an error.^6,13,10

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Aug 21, 1727

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: 8,27,1727; Smith: 27 Oct 1727; MLM: Bolton^{6,7,2,8,9,10,11,12}

Marriage

Jan 13, 1751

JWH: 10 Dec 1738, clearly an error^6,13,10

Author

1756

At Newberry Library, Chicago -- Author: Houghton, Timothy. Title: Bills [manuscript], 1756 June 11-Sept. 18. Physical Description: 2 items (1 folder) ; 16 cm. or smaller. Summary: Two bills, June 11 and Sept. 18, 1756, submitted by Capt. Timothy Houghton to the province of Massachusetts and its agent or paymaster, Samuel Livermore, both for military transportation in the region north of Albany, N.Y. The first, certifying that Albert Vanderwerken carried four wagon loads of provisions from Halfmoon to Stillwater, contains Vanderwerken’s June 26 note that he had been paid in full. The second bill is for wages to "men hereafter named for Battowing from Albany to Halfmoon." Its payment is confirmed by Houghton in Boston on Feb. 3, 1757.
See images. Apparently Donated by Dr. Harris Ayers Houghton (#5807)

Milit-Beg

between 1756 and 1758

Nova Scotia, Canada, Between April and Nov. 1754, he was in the eastern frontier in Capt. Osgood and Marion's Companies, Col. John Winslow's Reg. In the English and French campaign, in the Crown Point, Lake Champlain, expedition of 800 men, on Aug. 9, 1755, he was adjuctant in Col. Samuel Willard's Reg. (his uncle). He had captain's rank in 1756 in Col. Bagley's Reg.^2,4,14,15

Immigration

Aug 4, 1759

Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, Keizer: Capt. Timothy, his wife and 3 children left Boston, MA 30 Jul 1759 and arrived at Chester, Lunenburg Co., NS Aug. 4 1759; NEHGR: wife and 3 children; Houghton: 1758; Smith: gives David as having come to Chester in 1760^6,2,16,17,18

Deed

Apr 27, 1762

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, a witness; NS deeds Vol. 3, p. 75¹⁹

Note

1777

"The Sedition Trial of Timothy Houghton: Repression in a Marginal New England Planter Township during the Revolutionary Years". XXIV, 1 (Autumn 1994), pp. 35-58:

Captain Timothy Houghton, JP, the public magistrate of Chester township, Nova Scotia, was publicly prosecuted for slandering the King in 1777. It was the most important of sanctioned disloyalty in the New England Planter townships along Nova Scotia's South Shore. Houghton, who was the chief agent and expediter of the "Shoreham" township of 1759, deserved to be regarded as the founder of Chester and was a former Massachusetts provincial officer of wide military experience. "The proprietors choice of him as moderator of the inaugural town meeting in August 1761 was implicitly approved by the government seven months later, when Houghton was commissioned justice of the peace, which he remained until 1764. Houghton acted as surveyor and proprietor's clerk, was captain of the militia and officer commanding the militia within the township. Only one magistrate of the South Shore -Timothy Houghton - was actually tried for "high misdemeanour", and while he was found guilty, fined, imprisoned, and decommissioned, official forgiveness for breaking allegiance was granted upon his retaking the oath." His trial in the Supreme Court in Feb. 1777 on charges of calumny against the king. The government was compelled to prosecute him in order to legitimize dismissing him. His case was only 1 of 2 prosecutions for sedition by the government of Nova Scotia during the entire Revolutionary War. He was a Congregationalist and a republican. He was a partner of a sawmill with Phillip Knaut, his closest business partner and creditor. Houghton refused to take a new oath of allegiance to the King in 1775. He was indicted, arraigned, and tried in Feb. 1777 in Halifax in R. v. Houghton. He was accused of "constant opposition" to the government was animated by whig-patriot, "constitutional republican attitudes toward the Quebec Act. Four of his loyalist Anglo-American Chester neighbors testified against him in Dec 1776-Jan 1777. The government wanted to punish him as a deviant magistrate. He pleaded not guilty but was convicted. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison and fined 50 pounds. After 2 months he petitioned for release, took the oath to the King, and pledged good behavior for a year. With his conviction, he was decommissioned as justice of the peace. He returned to Chester and worked at this sawmill until his death 3 years later. He remained moderator of the town meeting. His militia captaincy was removed. He had served during the French and Indian War. His trial was an example of the criminalization of political dissent. Houghton was dissent portrayed as sedition.

Death

May 10, 1780

Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, of small pox^6,20,15

Burial

Old Burial Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Research

a John Houghton of Bolton also set sail from Boston on July 30, 1759 for Chester, NS

Contributn

in his 1896 History and Genealogy of the Houghton Family. John Wesley Houghton, Almira White, and Marshall McClanahan, in their genealogies, used Keizer's data.²¹

Descendant

Biography

Keizer: "Captain Timothy Houghton began soldiering young and had seen much service. We find him in April to November 1754 on the Eastern Frontier in Captains Osgood and Marwin's Company's in Col. John Winslow's Regiment. In the Crown Point expedition August 9th, 1755, he was adjutant in Col. Samuel Willar's, Regt., (his uncle). His rank of Captain he got in 1756 in Col. Bagley's Regt. In 1755 the Crown Point, Lake Champlain expedition was inaugurated and a regiment of 800 men raised under the Coloneley of Samuel Willard, jr., whose Lieut. Col. was John Whitcomb, who after the demise of Col. Willard, jr., took command of this regiment of which Timothy Houghton was adjutant. In 1756 Captain Timothy Houghton of Col. Jonathan Bagley's command led a company largely recruited by his Lieut. from Waltham and Newton, Mass. While in the East Captain Houghton saw N.S. for the first time and subsequently obtained 100,000 acres of land for himself and fifty-two others, settled at Chester, where many of his descendants are now and whence many migrated to all parts of the world...Captain Timothy Houghton was also acquainted with that section of Lunenburg Co., had fought on the banks of Lake Champlain..., saw Port Royal..."²²

JWH, White, and MLM use Keizer's data

J.W.Houghton (using Keizer) : "He went to Chester, Nova Scotia, in 1758... He d. in Halifax of small pox, 5,10,1780. The writer of the Halifax record of Timothy says he came of a race who had been soldiers in the old and new worlds; his mother was Mary, daughter of Henry and great granddaughter of Major Simon Willard, in whose hands the early legislature of Massachusetts placed the command of various expeditions against the marauding savages. Captain Timothy began soldiering young and had seen much service. We find him from April to November, 1754, on the eastern frontier in Col. John Winslow's regiment. In the Crown Point expedition, Aug. 9, 1755, he was adjutant in Col. Samuel Willard's regiment. In 1756 he led a company largely recruited by his lieutenant from Walton, Mass. While in the east he saw Nova Scotia for the first time, and subsequently obtained 100,000 acres of land for himself and fifty-two others, settled at Chester, where many of his descendants are now, and whence many migrated to all parts of the world. He had fought on the banks of Lake Champlain, saw Port Royal once, and many other points were traversed by him." ²³

A.L. White: "Capt. Timothy Houghton with his wife and three children left Boston, Mass., Thursday, July 30, 1759, and arrived in Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Aug. 4. Captain Houghton began soldiering young and had seen much service. We find him in April to November, 1754, on the eastern frontier in Captins Osgood and Marwin's companies in Col. John Winslow's regiment. In the Crown Point Expedition Aug. 9, 1755, he was adjutant in Col. Samuel Willar's regiment. In 1756, Captain Houghton of Col. Jonathan Bagley's commnand led a company largely recruited by his lieutenant from Waltham and Newton, Mass. While in the east Captain Houghton saw Nova Scotia for the first time and subsequently obtained one hundred thousand acres of land for himself and fifty-two others. He settled in Chester, where many of his descendants are now living, and many have migrated to all parts of the world. Captain Houghton d. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 10, 1780, of small-pox. Eunice, his widow, d. in Chester, Nova Scotia, Oct. 8, 1815." ²⁴

L.H. Smith: Houghton, --- Capt; Loyalist; drew boards Bolsford grant.

Houghton, Timothy, s. of Jacob/Mary (Willard) b. Bolton MA 27 Oct 1727 Boston MA 30 July 1759 to Shoreham (Chester).

MLM: From his obit, in the Halifax Record: "...from a race of soldiers in the old world and the new. His mother, Mary, Dau. of Henry and Gr. Dau. of Maj. Simeon Willard, in whose hands the early legislature of Massachusetts placed command of various expeditions against the maurading savages. He began soldering when quite young, and saw much service. From April to November he was on the eastern frontier in Col. John Winslow's Reg't. in the Crown Point expedition of August, 1755. In '56 he led a company largely recruited from Walton, Massachusetts...He died of small-pox in Halifax May 5, 1780."

Linda Scott: Capt. Timothy Houghton emigrated to Nova Scotia in the 1750s at the time that the "Foreign Protestants" were being recruited to colonize the area, enduring great hardships (apparently it was a difficult sell, as emmigrants tended to favor the New England colonies where conditions were not quite so harsh.) I note that there is an article on the "Timothy Houghton Sedition Trial" in Acadiensis, 1971

John Cardinal: Timothy Houghton was born on 21 August 1727 at Bolton, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Jacob Houghton Jr. and Mary Willard. Timothy, age 26 married Eunice Whitcomb, age 20, daughter of Deacon David Whitcomb and Betty White, on 10 December 1753 (Eunice's birthday) at Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.² Timothy Houghton was one of the founders of Chester, Nova Scotia; he obtained one hundred thousand acres of land for himself and fifty-two others.^3,4 He and Eunice Whitcomb left Boston, Massachusetts, on 30 July 1759 and arrived in Chester, Nova Scotia, on 4 August.³ Timothy Houghton was sentenced to six months in jail for seditious statements about the King. He "said the King had broke his Coronation Oath by establishing the Roman Catholic Religion at Quebec and that he could not in conscience serve his Majesty, etc. etc." He served two months of his sentence and was released on 10 February 1777.⁵ He died on 10 May 1780 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, at age 52 of small-pox.^3,4,6
From Houghton Family: The writer of the Halifax record of Timothy says he came of a race who had been soldiers in the old and new worlds; his mother was Mary, daughter of Henry and great grandaughter of Major Simon Willard, in whose hands the early legislature of Massachusetts placed the command of various expeditions against the marauding savages. Captain Timothy began soldiering young and had seen much service. We find him from April to November, 1754, on the eastern frontier in Col. John Winslow's regiment. In the Crown Point expedition, Aug. 9, 1755, he was adjutant in Col. Samuel Willard's regiment. In 1756 he led a company largely recruited by his lieutenant from Walton, Mass. While in the east he saw Nova Scotia for the first time, and subsequently obtained 100,000 acres of land for himself and fifty-two others, settled at Chester, where mani fo his descendants are now, and whence many migrated to all parts of the world. He had fought on the banks of Lake Champlain, saw Port Royal once, and many other points were traversed by him.⁴
The following article may be of interest: Cahill, Barry, "The Sedition Trial of Timothy Houghton: Repression in a Marginal New England Planter Township during the Revolutionary Years". XXIV, 1 (Autumn 1994), pp. 35-58.

[S655] Peter Landry, History of Nova Scotia, Book #2, citing John Bartlet Brebner, The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia (1937) (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970).
[S208] Lunenburg County GenWeb Project, "Chester Township Book - Deaths", June 20, 1999.

Captain Timothy Houghton was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Aug 21, 1727 to parents Jacob and Mary (Whitcomb) Houghton. [1] [2]. [3]

He began soldiering young, and served from April to November, 1754, on the eastern frontier in Captains Osgood and Marwin's companies in Col. John Winslow's regiment. In the Crown Point Expedition Aug. 9, 1755, he was adjutant in Col. Samuel Willard's regiment. In 1756, Captain Houghton of Col. Jonathan Bagley's command led a company largely recruited by his lietenant from Waltham and Newton, Mass. While in the east Captain Hougton saw Nova Scotia for the first time, and subsequently obtained one hundred thousand acres for himself and fifty-two others.
Captain Houghton married Eunice Whitcomb before 1753. They left Boston, Massachusetts July 30, 1759, and arrived in Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia on Aug. 4.

A sailing journal kept by passenger Rev. John Seccombe recorded daily events showing that the party set sail Thursday 30 July 1759 and arrived at Chester the following Tuesday. He did not name the vessel but he did record the passengers names in addition to captain and mate. The reverend also provides a daily brief account of activities including an event where "Mr. Houghton's calf jumped overboard but was saved..."

Captain Houghton died of small pox in Halifax, May 10, 1780.^{6,8,25,26,27,15,28}

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315 #142.
[S46] Boston Transcript, 11/5/1925 - 3959.
[S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 645 #672.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 2.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 # 379, 46.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 55.
[S64] Smith, Nova Scotia Immigrants, p. 115.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 3, 6.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 46.
[S1086] Joseph Willard, Simon Willard Memory, p. 407.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 303, 316.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 6.
[S466] Esther Kimmens Whitcomb, About Bolton, p. 72.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 46.
[S96] NEHGR, 54 [1900]: 45.
[S267] Smith, Nova Scotia Immigrants, p. 115.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 3.
[S96] NEHGR, 108 [1954]: 26.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 7.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 1-100.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, 315.
[S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, 635.
[S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 645.
[S178] Nourse, Military Annals of Lancaster, p. 33, 55.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 2-4.
[S415] E-mail from Linda Howard Scott, Apr 10, 2005.

Jacob Houghton^1,2

M, #7204, b. 1729, d. 1790

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

1729

Bolton or Lunnenburg section of, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: also 1720^3,4

Milit-Beg

1757

in a Leominster Company, Thomas Wilder's Foot company⁵

Research

1757

Death

1790

about 67 years⁶

Duplicate

Research

MLM: "probably the one who md. Sarah Divol of Leominster, 1764."; CJV: clearly an error⁶

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #143.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 # 380, 55.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 55.
[S178] Nourse, Military Annals of Lancaster, p. 61.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 55.

Mary Houghton^1,2

F, #7205, b. 1 October 1732, d. 30 August 1736

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Oct 1, 1732

JWH: 1730; Lancaster VRs: ae 3.10.29 at death^3,4,5

Death

Aug 30, 1736

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^4,6,5

Burial

Old Common BG Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 'Here lies buried body of Mary Houghton Daughter of Ensign Jacob & Mrs Mary Houghton who died August 3oth 1736 age 3 years 10m & 29 D.^4,7'

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #144.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 # 381.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 412.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 303.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S75] Whitcomb, Nashaway Burial Grounds, p. 8.

Simon Houghton^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}

M, #7206, b. 16 October 1737, d. 25 March 1814

Family: Martha Stearns

Marriage*: Simon Houghton married Martha Stearns on Dec 6, 1770 at Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: Martha (Stearns), wife of Simon W. Houghton, v. pt. 2, 67.^{9,5,4,11,18,7,19,15,20}

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Oct 16, 1737

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, DAR: 5-16-1737; Rowena Houghton: Oct. 5, 1737, Lancaster MA (not in VR); MLM: 14 Oct 1737; Bolton Town Records: Oct 16, 1737^{9,10,11,12,13,14,7,15,16,17}

Marriage

Dec 6, 1770

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: Martha (Stearns), wife of Simon W. Houghton, v. pt. 2, 67^{9,5,4,11,18,7,19,15,20}

Research

1775

Milit-Beg

between 1775 and 1776

MA, USA, Rev. War; Nourse: 1781; DAR: Pvt MA; Whitecomb: Lexington Alarm, Bennington Alarm 1777; Capt Hezekiah Whitney's Co 1778; MA Soldiers, p. 309: private, Capt. Hezekiah Whitney's Comp. of Bolton, Colonel Job Cushing's Regiment. Service 36 days. Company marched on the alarm at Bennington, Jul. 30, 1777; also return for equipment made by Sergt. John Townshend; p. 310: private, Bolton, MA; Capt. Benj. Hasting's Co., Col John Whitcomb's Reg. which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775 to Cambridge MA. Service, 7 days.

DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1495: Pvt MA

DAR Lineage Book Vol. 146, p. 236; Vol. 161, p. 96: "Simon Houghton (1737-1814) served as private in Col. Job Cushing's regiment, Massachusetts troops. He was born and died in Bolton, Mass."

DAR Lineage Books, Vol. 63, p. 114 and Vol. 65, p. 303 and Vol. 72, p. 66 and Vol. 76, p. 55 and 56 and Vol. 80, p. 187: "Simon Houghton (1737-1814) responded to the Lexington Alarm in Capt. Benjamin Hasting's company, Col. John Whitcomb's regiment. He was born and died in Bolton."

DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 164, p. 203: ditto for Vol. 161^{10,11,13,21,22,7,23,24}

1790 Census

1790

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 3 males 16+, 4 males under 16, 5 females (listed next to Lt. John and James Houghton)²⁵

1800 Census

1800

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 11 Total: 12111-11201; 1 male 1-9, 2 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 26-44, 1 male 45+; 1 female 1-9, 1 female 10-15, 2 femalex 16-25, 1 female 45+²⁶

1810 Census

1810

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 9 Total: 1 male 10-15, 2 male 16-25, 1 male 45+//1 female <10, 3 female 16-25, 1 female 45+²⁷

Death

Mar 25, 1814

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, a. 76y 5m 10d; disease, paralytic and appeplictic sickness, 5 days^{9,13,11,28,7,29,30}

Burial

Old Common Burial Ground Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, a 76y 5m 10d; DAR marker;

Nourse, Gravestone: "Sacred to the memory of Mr. Simon Houghton of Bolton, who departed this life March 25, A D: 1814, in 77th year of his age.
The dust and ruins, that remain, Are precious in our eyes:
These ruins shall be built again, And all this dust shall rise."

Only GS with Houghton Coat of Arms^31,32

Administr

1814

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, W.P. Case #31182³³

Biography

He was among the charter receivers of Lunenburg MA. A member of MA Legislature for many years^29,34,35

PensionInx

Aug 19, 1826

Gen. Pension Records list a Simon Houghton in Rev. War, p. 1033, #45393, wife Polly, aged 59 in Aug 19, 1826.³⁶

Research

1927

Houghton family. Title:      Papers, 1804-1843; 1927.
Description:      1 box.
Notes:      Simon Houghton (1737-1814) and Martha Stearns Houghton (1750-1823) resided in Bolton, Mass. Their children included: Timothy (1771-1837), studied law but became a farmer; Simon (1773-1814); Asa (1775-1829), an almanac maker; Jacob (1777-1861), a lawyer and judge; Dinah (1778-1786); Martha (1781-1818); Mary (1784-1818); Samuel S. (1786-1865), a teacher; Daniel E. Stearns (1788-1825), a lawyer; Josiah (1790-1833), a lawyer; and Abigail (1792-1847).
This collection consists mostly of letters from the children to their parents and to each other. The letters concern family matters, particularly finances, and contain information about marriages, births, deaths, and occupations. Several letters concern the division of Simon's estate after his death. Also included are miscellaneous letters from acquaintances of the family, land deeds, and a few other miscellaneous legal papers.
At the end of this collection is included a genealogical chart, compiled by J. C. L. Clark (1871-1936), and two Clark letters, dated 1927, concerning the Houghton family.
Contents list available in library.
Subject(s):      Clark, John Calvin Lawrence, 1871-1936.
Houghton, Abigail, 1792-1847.
Houghton, Asa, 1775-1829.
Houghton, Daniel E. Stearns, 1788-1825.
Houghton, Dinah, 1778-1786.
Houghton, Jacob, 1777-1861.
Houghton, Josiah, 1790-1833.
Houghton, Martha, 1781-1818.
Houghton, Martha Stearns, 1750-1823.
Houghton, Mary, 1784-1818.
Houghton, Samuel S., 1786-1865.
Houghton, Simon, 1737-1814.
Houghton, Simon, 1773-1814.
Houghton, Timothy, 1771-1837.
Houghton family.
Lawyers.
Bolton (Mass.)
Massachusetts.
New England--Social life and customs.
Genre(s):      Correspondence--19th century.
Correspondence--20th century.
Genealogies.
Former Owner/Donor(s):      Clark, John C. L., donor.³⁷

Residence

Thetford, Orange Co., VT, USA, only MLM; Weis states they removed to Weare, NH^29,20

Pedigree

Citations

[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 65, p. 303.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 76, p. 55, 56.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 72, p. 66.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 164, p. 202.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 161, p. 90.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 44.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1495.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 # 382, 47.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S27] DAR Application, Rowena Houghton Barney.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 63, p. 114.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 161, p. 96.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 65.
[S35] DAR Patriot Index I, p. 345.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 47.
[S1074] Town Records: Bolton MA, p. 195.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 303.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 142.
[S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 317.
[S39] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, Vol. 8, p. 309 & 310.
[S178] Nourse, Military Annals of Lancaster, p. 215.
[S449] Esther K. Whitcomb and Dorothy O. Mayo, Bolton Soldiers and Sailors in the American Revolution, p. 37.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 80, p. 187.
[S1220] 1790 U.S. Federal Census , Bolton, Worcester, MA, p. 214.
[S1221] 1800 U.S. Federal Census , Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, p. 207.
[S1222] 1810 U.S. Federal Census , Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: 22; Page: 808, sheet 174.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 209.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 47.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 413.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 208.
[S409] Probate Records , Worcester, MA.
[S1116] Lois Barris, Fredonia NY Censor Death Notices 1819-1899, p. 282.
[S1119] Andrew W. Young, Chautauqua Co. NY Hx 2, p. 486.
[S31] General Pension Index, Box 1335; p. 1033.
[S654] Electronic Web Site, , American Antiquarian Society Online Catalog: http://catalog.mwa.org/

Sarah Divol¹

F, #7207, b. 22 March 1733/34, d. 11 December 1824

Family: Abraham Houghton

Marriage*: Sarah Divol married Abraham Houghton, son of Ensign Jacob Houghton Jr and Mary Willard, on Oct 8, 1764 at Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VR: Aug 11, 1750, no mp; Houghton: Bolton, 8,11,1750.^{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Mar 22, 1733/34

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA¹

Residence

before 1764

Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA

Marriage

Oct 8, 1764

Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Lancaster VR: Aug 11, 1750, no mp; Houghton: Bolton, 8,11,1750^{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

Warnings

Jun, 1779

Death

Dec 11, 1824

Putney, Windham Co., VT, USA, age 80 [CJV: may be 1828, age 90]^11,12

Burial

Lyndon Town Cemetery (Lyndon Center), Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA^11,13

Research

MLM: "probably the one who md. Sarah Divol of Leominster, 1764."; CJV: clearly an error¹⁴

ParentsD

Lancaster VRs: John and Sarah Divol; MLM: William and Sarah Divoll^1,9

Problem

md and 2 sons bds before

Pedigree

Citations

[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 63.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 125.
[S35] DAR Patriot Index I, p. 345.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 139, 144.
[S148] C.D. Townsend, Index of Gazetter of Windham Co., Vermont, p. 94.
[S160] Leominster MA VRs, p. 216.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1494.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 46.
[S596] Blake, Worcester Co. Warnings, p. 23.
[S1074] Town Records: Cemetery Records, Lyndon Town Cemetery, Lyndon, Caledonia Co., Vermont, Book 24, p. 4.
[S1074] Town Records: Lyndon, VT; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30270, VT VRs 1770-1870.
[S1074] Town Records: Cemetery Records of the town of Lyndon, Caledonia Co., Vermont, p. 24.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 55.

Caroline Houghton^1,2

F, #7208, b. 21 September 1735

Family: Abraham Houghton

Marriage*: Caroline Houghton married Abraham Houghton, son of Ensign Jacob Houghton Jr and Mary Willard, on Nov 21, 1754 at Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: 11, 21, 1759.^5,6,7,8,9,4

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Sep 21, 1735

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^3,4

Marriage

Nov 21, 1754

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: 11, 21, 1759^5,6,7,8,9,4

Duplicate

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315 #141s, 317 #168.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #415.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 317.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 306.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315, 317.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 139, 144.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 23, 46.
[S278] Frederic W. Bailey, Early Mass. Marriages, p. 41.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 302.

Eunice Whitcomb^1,2,3

F, #7209, b. 10 December 1733, d. 8 October 1815

Family: Capt. Timothy Houghton

Marriage*: Eunice Whitcomb married Capt. Timothy Houghton, son of Ensign Jacob Houghton Jr and Mary Willard, on Jan 13, 1751 JWH: 10 Dec 1738, clearly an error.^6,7,8

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Dec 10, 1733

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Smith: 10 Dec 1732^3,4,5

Marriage

Jan 13, 1751

JWH: 10 Dec 1738, clearly an error^6,7,8

Death

Oct 8, 1815

Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, JWH: 18 Oct^6,4

ParentsD

David Whitcomb and Betty White; to Shoreham (Chester) about 1760; Betty White, dau. of Capt. John White, the Indian fighter, and Eunice Wilder^3,4

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315 #142s.
[S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 645 #672.
[S64] Smith, Nova Scotia Immigrants, p. 115.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 7.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 46.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 315.
[S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 6.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 46.

Martha Stearns^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

F, #7210, b. 12 June 1750, d. 3 April 1823

Family: Simon Houghton

Marriage*: Martha Stearns married Simon Houghton, son of Ensign Jacob Houghton Jr and Mary Willard, on Dec 6, 1770 at Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: Martha (Stearns), wife of Simon W. Houghton, v. pt. 2, 67.^{10,8,2,13,14,9,15,16,17}

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Jun 12, 1750

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^10,11,12

Marriage

Dec 6, 1770

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: Martha (Stearns), wife of Simon W. Houghton, v. pt. 2, 67^{10,8,2,13,14,9,15,16,17}

Will

1823

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Martha Houghton, W.P. Case #31093¹⁸

Death

Apr 3, 1823

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA, widow, sick 18 years of Catarrhal Consumption^{10,19,12,20,21}

Burial

Old Burial Field Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 73 y^22,23

PensionInx

Aug 19, 1826

Gen. Pension Records list a Simon Houghton in Rev. War, p. 1033, #45393, wife Polly, aged 59 in Aug 19, 1826.²⁴

ParentsD

Benjamin and Dinah (Wheeler) Stearns of Lancaster, MA;
Ancestor: Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker of Watertown, MA; and William White of Mayflower^19,10

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #144s.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 164, p. 202.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 63, p. 113.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 65, p. 303.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 72, p. 66.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 76, p. 55, 56.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 80, p. 187.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 161, p. 90.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1495.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 44.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 47.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 63, p. 114.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 142.
[S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 47.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 317.
[S409] Probate Records , Worcester, MA.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 208.
[S700] Willard E. Stearns, Stearns Family, p. 58.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 316.
[S75] Whitcomb, Nashaway Burial Grounds, p. 8.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 415.
[S31] General Pension Index, Box 1335; p. 1033.

Simeon Houghton^1,2,3,4

M, #7211, b. circa 1715, d. 11 September 1791

Family: Jerusha Taylor

Marriage Bann*: Simeon Houghton and Jerusha Taylor declared their intentions of marriage on Feb 4, 1737/38 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^6,7,8,9,5,10

Biography

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Birth

circa 1715

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, dd calc, G.S.⁵

Marriage Bann

Feb 4, 1737/38

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^6,7,8,9,5,10

Residence

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, "dwelt in Petersham (Worcester Deeds)."³

Covenant

Nov 3, 1741

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, listed as Conventators, "Simeon Houghton and Jerusha his wife owned the Covenant."¹¹

Church

Oct 9, 1743

First Congr. Church, Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, first church organized in 1738¹²

Note

Dec 14, 1750

LIST OF ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS AND SETTLERS ON THOSE RIGHTS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF NICHEWAGG (PETERSHAM) SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL COURT BY THE PROPRIETORS' CLERK PURSUANT TO GENERAL COURT ORDER. (SEE PAGE 755. SEE RESOLVES 1750-1751, C 35 AND C 176.): HOUGHTON, DANIEL, HOUGHTON, EDWARD, HOUGHTON, EPHRAIM, HOUGHTON, HENRY, HOUGHTON, JAMES, HOUGHTON, JONAS, HOUGHTON, SIMEON, OUGHTON, STEPHEN, et al.¹³

Deed

Jun 2, 1762

Worcester County (Mass.) deeds (1722-1866) and index to deeds (1731-1889) -- Deeds, v. 49-50 1763-1765. "I Daniel Houghton of Bolton....in consideration of the good will and affection I bare to my son Simeon Houghton of Petersham" Dated 7 May 1762.
MLM: "for love and affection."^14,15

1790 Census

1790

Petersham, MA, USA, 2 males 16+, 1 male under 16, 6 females¹⁶

Death

Sep 11, 1791

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, a. 76^17,14

Burial

Petersham Cemetery, Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA

Research

JWH gives Deacon Israel Houghton and Martha Wheelock as parents. Baptism before their marriage by 5 years. Lists only 4 children of Simeon and Jerusha. Lancaster VRs give Daniel Houghton as father.^18,19

Research

Petersam, MA, USA, Original petitioners for Petersham included many Houghtons: Jonathan, Jonas, James, Ephraim, Steven, Daniel, Edward, and Henry. Jonathan Jr. was excluded by the General Court. One of the original Settlers was Simeon Houghton, in Dec. 1750.²⁰

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #146.
[S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 28, 276.
[S117] Burr & Gage, "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass." , pp. 392-400, p. 399.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 18 #280, 41.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 18, 41.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 28.
[S46] Boston Transcript, 2/29/1934 - 7927.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 43.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 314.
[S415] E-mail from Robert J. Taylor, Dec. 1996.
[S415] E-mail from Robert J. Taylor, Dec. 1996; Petersham, MA, First Congr. Ch. Records.
[S30] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 115, p. 753.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 41.
[S1387] Www.familysearch.org, online www.familysearch.org, [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZH-VF8R Vol 49 Page 508].
[S1220] 1790 U.S. Federal Census , Petersham, Worcester, MA, p. 232.
[S70] Vital Records of Petersham MA, p. 180.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316, 336.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 276.
[S489] D. Hamilton Hurd, Worcester Co. MA Hx I, p. 466.

Jotham Houghton^1,2,3,4,5

M, #7212, b. 19 December 1740, d. 1806

Family 1: Esther Taylor

Marriage Bann: Jotham Houghton and Esther Taylor declared their intentions of marriage on Nov 12, 1759 Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA; DAR correction: 1.12.1750.^10,11,23
Marriage*: Jotham Houghton married Esther Taylor on Dec 19, 1759 at Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Dec. 17.^2,10,7,8

Family 2: Eunice Wilder

Marriage*: Jotham Houghton married Eunice Wilder on Oct 6, 1762 at Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^10,3,11

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Dec 19, 1740

Nichawog (Petersham), Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Jan. 31, 1742/3 (erroneously citing Harvard VRs)^6,7,8

Mil. Serv.

1758

Weis: He served under Capt. Asa Whitcomb, in the conquest of Canada⁹

Marriage

Dec 19, 1759

Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Dec. 17^2,10,7,8

Marriage

Oct 6, 1762

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA^10,3,11

Newspaper

Nov 28, 1774

Boston Evening Post, Boston, MA, USA, We hear from Petersham, that on the Evening of the 13th Infsant, between 8 and 9 o'clock, the House of Mr. Jotham Houghton took fire by some accident and was consumed together with three of his Children, under nine Years of age. The Parents were gone from Home a little Distance and the Children, four in number, went to Bed in the Chamber; the eldest of whom about 10 Years old escaped.— It is hoped this will be a Warning to Housholders and Parents not to leave their Houses and Children under such Circumstanccs.

Milit-Beg

circa 1776

Rev. War; Capt. under Col. Samuel Denny;
Worcester Co. Hx: Capt. Fletcher's company^12,13,14

Mil. Enls

circa 1776

Research

JWH gives Deacon Israel Houghton and Martha Wheelock as parents¹⁵

Note

Nov 28

Petersham, MA, USA, Three children of a Jotham Houghton died when his house burned down.⁴

Immigration

circa 1793

Chaseville, Otsego Co., NY, USA, and settled on the south side of Schenevus creek. They built a sawmill near Chaseville. They dammed up Schenevus Creek (Chaseville) but since it flooded the flats, they tore it down and built one closer to Spencer's Grist Mill. Jotham and his sons Jerahmeel and Daniel were the first settlers near where Chaseville is now located.
MLM: In 1793 New Fane School District #3, Dummerston. Res. Dummerston, VT, Chaseville, Oswego Co. NY. In 1793, he was at Claverack, NY; at Rutland, MA, on guard duty (see Gregory Stone Genealogy, by J. Gardner Bartlett); Rev. War service^{15,16,17,12,18,11}

1800 Census

1800

Worcester, Otsego, NY, USA, 10101-11101: 1 male <10, male 16-26, male 45+; 1 female <10, female 10-16, female 16-26, female 45+^19,20

Death

1806

Otsego Co., NY, USA²¹

Administr

Sep 4, 1806

Otsego Co., NY, USA, He died intestate²¹

Office

Maryland, Otsego, NY, USA, a J. Houghton and Heman Chamberlin were the first commissioners of highways. The first highway work of the commissioners was the road which in 1893 was the main street of Schenevus, NY²²

Relative

Chaseville, Otsego Co., NY, USA

Duplicate

VT, USA

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #147.
[S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 182.
[S173] Wilder, E.Booker of Wilders II, p. 594.
[S802] Kenneth Scott and Rosanne Conway, New Haven CT Newspapers, p. 458.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 42 #962, 76.
[S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 63.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 42, 76.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 314.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 314: handwritten note.
[S70] Vital Records of Petersham MA, p. 111.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 76.
[S415] E-mail from Robert J. Taylor, Dec. 1996.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 15, p. 168.
[S489] D. Hamilton Hurd, Worcester Co. MA Hx I, p. 470.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S255] Duane Hamilton Hurd, Otsego Co., NY Hx, p. 175.
[S415] E-mail Hotchins History, pub. 1876, from Rebecca Stacknow, Nov. 13, 1999.
[S872] A. Hotchkin, Concise History of Maryland NY, p. 10-11.
[S1221] 1800 U.S. Federal Census , Worcester, Otsego Co, NY, p. 47/44.
[S867] Phillip McMullin, NY in 1800, p. 118.
[S1260] New England Ancestors Website, online http://www.newenglandancestors.org,
Abstracts of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787 - 1835, p. 119.
[S872] A. Hotchkin, Concise History of Maryland NY, p. 17.
[S1481] Mrs. M. E. Woodward, DAR Library version of 1912 Houghton Gen. by JWH, p. 332.

Thaddeus Houghton^1,2

M, #7213, b. 31 January 1742/43, d. 1778

Family: Prudence Wilder

Marriage*: Thaddeus Houghton married Prudence Wilder on May, 1765 at Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^6,4

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Jan 31, 1742/43

Nichawog (Petersham), Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Apr. 13, 1745^3,4,5

Marriage

May, 1765

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA^6,4

Milit-Beg

1775

Petersham, MA, USA, "Houghton, Thaddeus, Petersham. Corporal, Capt. John Wheeler's co. of Minutemen, Col. Ephraim Doolittle's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 8 days; also, Capt. jonathan Holman's co., Col. Ephraim Doolittle's regt; order for advance pay, signed by said Houghton and others, dated Cambridge, June 10, 1775; alsso, Corporal, same co. and regt; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 27, 1775; service, 3 mos. 13 days; also, company return dated Camp at Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775."^7,8

Research

1775

Death

1778

Petersham, MA, USA

Administr

1778

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, W.P. Case #31190⁹

Research

CJV: JWH, p. 336 gives Thaddeus Houghton and Prudence Wilder as parents of Israel, Olive, Plutarch, and Ceries; Petersham VRs give Israel and MaryAnn^10,11

Research

JWH gives Deacon Israel Houghton and Martha Wheelock as parents; gives 1st 4 children of Israel and Mary Ann Houghton.¹²

Research

Possible parentage

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #148.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 42 #963, 76.
[S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 65.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 42, 76.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 314.
[S70] Vital Records of Petersham MA, p. 111.
[S39] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, 8: 309.
[S489] D. Hamilton Hurd, Worcester Co. MA Hx I, p. 469.
[S409] Probate Records , Worcester, MA.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 336.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 119.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.

Israel Houghton^1,2

M, #7214, b. 13 December 1723

Family: Mary Vaughn

Marr ???*: It is unclear whether Israel Houghton married Mary Vaughn; Only in JWH and MLM: not in Lancaster VR.^3,9

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Dec 13, 1723

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^3,4,5,6,7,8

Death

CJV: prob. died young, given brother of same name born in 1741; Weis: d.y.⁸

Alert

JWH gives questionable marriage; and there is a later brother named Israel born in 1742. This Israel probably died before 1742. Will of father gives later brother Phinehas as eldest son in 1769 (first 3 sons dead)

Marr ???

Only in JWH and MLM: not in Lancaster VR^3,9

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #149.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #297 (397).
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 53.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1495.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 304.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23.

Joseph Houghton^1,2

M, #7215, b. 3 December 1724, d. 17 November 1726

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Dec 3, 1724

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, twin^3,4,5,6,7

Death

Nov 17, 1726

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^8,6,7

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #150.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #398.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 53.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 304.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 157.

Benjamin Houghton^1,2

M, #7216, b. 3 December 1724, d. 27 October 1737

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Dec 3, 1724

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, twin of Joseph^3,4,5,6

Death

Oct 27, 1737

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^7,5,6

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #151.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #399.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 53.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 304.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 158.

Phinehas Houghton^1,2

M, #7217, b. 22 September 1726, d. 10 November 1797

Family: Ruth Osgood

Marriage*: Phinehas Houghton married Ruth Osgood on Jun 6, 1753 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^{10,11,12,13,8}

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Sep 22, 1726

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^3,4,5,6,7,8

Taxation

1751

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA⁹

Marriage

Jun 6, 1753

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^{10,11,12,13,8}

Communion

Apr 18, 1756

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, in the First Church¹⁴

Milit-Beg

1771

Ensign in Captain Samuel Ward's company in the colonial war. See American Ancestry by Hughes.¹⁵

1790 Census

1790

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 1 male 16+, 4 females¹⁶

Residence

Still River (Harvard) Section of Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA¹⁵

Death

Nov 10, 1797

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, age 71; Lancaster VRs, p. 352: died Nov 6, 1797, dropsy;MLM, p. 9: Nov. 26, 1764, Bolton; age 71^{17,18,19,20,8}

Administr

Nov 21, 1797

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, W.P. Case #31131; signed by Ebenezer Houghton, Benjamin Houghton; Ebenezer Houghton appointed administrator of the estate
The division of his real estate names widow Ruth Houghton, eldest daughter Prudence Houghton, second daughter Sarah Sawyer, wife of Ephraim Sawyer, third daughter Ruth Haven, wife of Ebenzer Haven, fourth daughter Anna Houhgton^21,15

Relative

CJV: same cemetery plot

Research

CJV: Bolton Probate proves that this Phineas was son of John Houghton and brother of John Houghton 3d, of Ralph line; JWH: p. 97, Phineas gives same list of children for Ralph Houghton line's Phineas Houghton on p. 104 as for John Houghton line's Phineas Houghton on p. 337; same dd in Lancaster, MA; MLM: gives Phineas who married Ruth Osgood as in Ralph line^10,12

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #152.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22 #400, 52a.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 53.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 52.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 304.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 320.
[S595] Rev. Abijah P. Marvin, Lancaster Hx - Marvin, p. 235.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 97, 337.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 86.
[S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 9, 13.
[S930] George Norbury Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the USA, Vol. 6.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 320.
[S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 13.
[S235] U.S. Census, Lancaster, Worcester, MA, p. 224.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 97.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 182, 352.
[S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 9 , 13.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 52a.
[S409] Probate Records , of Phineas Houghton, 1797, case 31131.

Lois Houghton^1,2,3,4,5

F, #7218, b. 1731

Family: Paul Sawyer

Marriage Bann: Lois Houghton and Paul Sawyer declared their intentions of marriage on Dec 16, 1757 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA.¹¹
Marriage*: Lois Houghton married Paul Sawyer on Mar 7, 1758 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Mar. 17.^7,8,9,10

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

1731

⁶

Marriage

Mar 7, 1758

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Mar. 17^7,8,9,10

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #155.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 84, 87, 281.
[S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, p. 80 #189s.
[S80] Chandler, Houghton Genealogy, #11349.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #405.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 87.
[S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 118, 184.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 84.

Joseph Houghton^1,2,3,4

M, #7219, b. 21 May 1733, d. before 1769

Family: Mary Wilson

Marriage*: Joseph Houghton married Mary Wilson on Jan 31, 1758 at Lunenburg, Worcester Co., MA, USA, by Edward Hartwell; Leominster VR: Marcy, p. 76, no md; p. 217, md, gives Lunenburg as mp.^3,10,11

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

May 21, 1733

Lancaster/Sterling, Worcester Co., MA, USA^5,6,7,8,9

Origin

circa 1758

Leominster, Worcester Co., MA, USA³

Marriage

Jan 31, 1758

Lunenburg, Worcester Co., MA, USA, by Edward Hartwell; Leominster VR: Marcy, p. 76, no md; p. 217, md, gives Lunenburg as mp^3,10,11

Warnings

Jan 6, 1767

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, all from Leominster; Feb. 1, 1766 also given¹²

Death

before 1769

Leominister, Worcester Co., MA, USA, per 1769 will of father Israel; Leominster VRs: 10 Nov 1771,"Martha, d. wid. Mercy, child b husband Joseph, deceased"; daug. Martha bapt. in 1771, father Joseph deceased; MLM: ca. 1771^13,14,8

Problem

John, husband of Nancy Williams: JWH gives this John as only son of Joseph "and wife" (Mary Wilson), b. 5,31,1772; (Israel Houghton & Martha Wheelock), Jacob, John, John); but Joseph's father Israel’s will implies Joseph (of John line) is deceased before 1769;

Milton VRs gives parents of John b. 1773 as Joseph Houghton Jr and Anne (Williams) (of Ralph line)¹⁵

Duplicate

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #156.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 36, 98.
[S160] Leominster MA VRs, p. 76, 217.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #403, 53 #403, 52 #398.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 61.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 52, 53.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S340] Early Records of Lunenburg, MA, p. 252.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 52, 53.
[S596] Blake, Worcester Co. Warnings, p. 30.
[S160] Leominster MA VRs, p. 77.
[S681] Will: of Israel Houghton, his father.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 337, 370.

Eunice Houghton^1,2,3

F, #7220, b. 31 January 1736/37

Family: Aquilla Jewett

Marriage Bann: Eunice Houghton and Aquilla Jewett declared their intentions of marriage on Feb 19, 1764 Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA.^11,12
Marriage*: Eunice Houghton married Aquilla Jewett, son of William Jewett and Hanna Pickard, on Mar 22, 1764 at Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA.^{4,6,2,7,10,8,9}

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Jan 31, 1736/37

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Sterling, MA^4,5,6,7,8,9

Marriage

Mar 22, 1764

Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA^{4,6,2,7,10,8,9}

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #158.
[S46] Boston Transcript, Dec. 26, 1934 - 9617.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #406, 53 #405.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 64, 66.
[S46] Boston Transcript, Sep. 31, 1934 - 9617.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 53.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 89, 446.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 269, 446.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 53.

Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert.^1,2,3,4

M, #7221, b. 5 September 1739, d. 31 July 1802

Family: Achsah Whitcomb

Marriage Bann: Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert. and Achsah Whitcomb declared their intentions of marriage on Sep 21, 1763 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA; Benjamin, Tert. and Axey Whetcomb.³²
Marriage*: Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert. married Achsah Whitcomb, daughter of Simon Whitcomb and Thankful Houghton, on Oct 14, 1763 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, DAR Patriot Index, p.345: Benjamin: b 9-5-1739 d 7-31-1802 m Zervia Moore Capt MA; DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1494 corrects: m Achsah Whitcomb and MA for bd and dd; Princeton Hx: for diff. Benjamin, in Princeton, Oct. 14 in Princeton.^{13,14,3,15,9,16,12}

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Corresponded with author

Birth

Sep 5, 1739

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Sterling; FWH: Sep. 25; JWH: Sep 15^{5,6,7,8,3,9,10,11,12}

Marriage

Oct 14, 1763

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, DAR Patriot Index, p.345: Benjamin: b 9-5-1739 d 7-31-1802 m Zervia Moore Capt MA; DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1494 corrects: m Achsah Whitcomb and MA for bd and dd; Princeton Hx: for diff. Benjamin, in Princeton, Oct. 14 in Princeton^{13,14,3,15,9,16,12}

Church

Feb 12, 1764

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, First Church^17,18

Research

Milit-Beg

between 1775 and 1783

MA, USA, Capt. MA; Revol. War; 1783; Capt. Benjamin Houghton's ( of Lancaster ) company in Col. John Wetcomb's Regiment at the 19 Apr 1775 Lexington Alarm; Willard, Marvin: "The company of minute men, under Capt. Benjamin Houghton marched without delay, to Lexington...regiment of Col. John Whitcomb...."^{7,19,20,3,21,22,23,24,25,12}

Research

Princeton Hx: gives bd for one, mar for second¹⁵

Note

between 1780 and 1781

He served on the Committee of Inspection and Safety, 1778, and on the Committee to Hire Soldier

Office

between 1788 and 1789

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, selectman²⁶

1790 Census

1790

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, one male 16+; 2 females²⁷

Death

Jul 31, 1802

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, age 63; MLM: of dropsy in the head^{5,28,7,3,10,29,12,30}

Biography

Lancaster VR: p. 36: Benj. Houghton Tert; p. 92: Benj., Jr; p. 182: Deacon Benjamin; p. 373: Deacon, Capt. Benjamin

Research

A. White, Desc. of John White: #172, #735-21913A³¹

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #159, 324 #202s.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 37, 182, 288.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1494.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #407, 51 #393.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 66.
[S35] DAR Patriot Index I, p. 345.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 26, 51.
[S928] SAR, SAR Register - Calif., p. 80.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 321.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316, 324.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 99.
[S303] Francis Everett ??? Blake History of the Town of Princeton Vol. II Genealogies, p. 153.
[S303] Francis Everett ??? Blake History of the Town of Princeton Vol. II Genealogies.
[S36] Letter, from Clifford C. Fifield, Jr., Aug. 1998: Rev. Weis Chart.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 320.
[S39] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, 12: 14.
[S183] Virkus, Abr. Comp. of Amer. Gen., p. 138.
[S595] Rev. Abijah P. Marvin, Lancaster Hx - Marvin, p. 290-1.
[S718] Frank E. Walker, Walker Manuscript, p. 36.
[S178] Nourse, Military Annals of Lancaster, p. 112, 173.
[S448] Rev. William A. Houghton, Berlin MA Hx - W. A. Houghton, p. 25.
[S1085] Joseph Willard, Lancaster MA Hx - Willard, p. 52.
[S36] Letter, to Charles J. Vella from Clifford C. Fifield, Jr., Aug. 1998: Rev. Weis Chart.
[S1220] 1790 U.S. Federal Census , Lancaster, Worcester, MA, p. 224.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 182, 373.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 51.
[S1494] American Antiquarian Society, ndex of Deaths in Mass. Centinel & Columbian Cent.
[S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, Vol. ??
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 37.

Israel Houghton^1,2,3,4

M, #7222, b. 26 February 1741/42, d. 21 April 1801

Family: Alice Campbell

Marriage Bann*: Israel Houghton and Alice Campbell declared their intentions of marriage on Apr 8, 1769 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA; Keene VT VR: Israel and Alice Houghton; MLM, Weis: md April 10, 1769.^{11,12,13,3,14,7,8}

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Feb 26, 1741/42

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, MLM: Sterling; also Feb. 28, 1741-2^5,6,7,8

Education

1767

Yale College, New Haven, New Haven Co., CT, USA, From Worcester Co. Magazine & History by Lincoln & Baldwin, p. 340: Probably the Israel Houghton who graduated from Yale College about 10 years before the Revolution.^9,10

Marriage Bann

Apr 8, 1769

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Keene VT VR: Israel and Alice Houghton; MLM, Weis: md April 10, 1769^{11,12,13,3,14,7,8}

Census

1776

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA¹⁵

Research

1776

Milit-Beg

between 1776 and 1783

Pvt NH; a minute man from Keene in Capt. David Howlet's company, raised out of Col. Ashley's Reg. of militia, that marched from Keen NH at the Ticonderoga Alarm, 1777. Pay included travel home: twenty miles for one day's travel. Engaged July 3, Discharged July 11, nine days service, rate of 4-18 per month. Amount of wages, 1-7; travel 2 D. per mile: 1-6-4. Total: 2-13-4. See Revol. Rolls of NH, V. 15, p. 67^13,12

Note

Apr, 1776

Keene, NH, USA, He took the Association Test.

1790 Census

1790

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA, 1 male 16+, 1 male under 16, 3 females^16,17

Death

Apr 21, 1801

Keene, NH, USA, see Keene VT VR: his son Israel has this dd^13,18,9,19

Duplicate

²⁰

Research

The Keene Charter of 1753

The charter, dated April 11, 1753, issued by Benning Wentworth, Governor of His Majesty's
Royal Province of New Hampshire, with consent of the Council, may be regarded as the "birth
certificate" of the City of Keene, New Hampshire. By this document the representative of
England's King George II, granted authority to inhabitants of Upper Ashuelot to institute a
governmental structure and carry on town business under the dominion of New Hampshire.

Pioneers had ventured into this place 17 years earlier and had established homes and created a
settlement under the authority of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of which most were natives. In
1740, however, the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was drawn by
royal decree, leaving Upper Ashuelot outside Massachusetts jurisdiction. Together with
neighboring settlements, the people here had to petition royal authorities in Portsmouth, the seat
of New Hampshire's provincial government, for formal incorporation in order to operate as a
New Hampshire township, to establish municipal institutions, and to protect title to their lands.

Gov. Wentworth's document recognizes the earlier settlement, but imposes upon it a new name,
Keene. It contains a detailed geographic description on the order of a deed. The town at this
time contained 39.45 square miles, or 25,248 acres. A number of requirements under New
Hampshire royal authority are outlined, among these lands reserved for a church and a school,
support of the first settled minister, as well as land reserved for the benefit of the Church of
England and its missionary organization. Sixty-two named grantees are required to occupy and
improve the Town Lots divided among them, and are given permission to keep a public market
one or more days a week when fifty or more families are settled. All white pine trees are
reserved for the royal navy. Benjamin Bellows is named moderator of the first town meeting
which was held May 2, 1753 in the fort located on lower Main Street. Keene's history as a
Granite State community begins with the charter of 1753.

The charter is on parchment, lettered with some care and bears the province's royal wax seal as
well as Wentworth's signature and that of Theodore Atkinson, Secretary. On the back is a plan
of the territory. The text is recorded in the "Book of Charters" at the New Hampshire State
Archives, pp. 149-152, and is published in the "New Hampshire State Papers" series in
Griffin's 1904 History of the Town of Keene, pp. 104-108. The proprietors' copy, in the
custody of a succession of Town and City Clerks over a period of 245 years, appears to be in
good condition, long kept, folded, in the original record book of the New Hampshire
proprietors. At some later date, probably under Frank Whitcomb, the proprietors' book was
preserved by placing its pages between fine silk in a new binding. The charter was removed,
and perhaps framed; a photograph of the document has been on display. It was finally laid in the
bottom of a desk or table drawer within the vault where it remained unnoticed for some years.
It was not recognized, as far as I can determine, in 1953 when Keene celebrated its
bicentennial. Discovered, probably when Mrs. Knight was Clerk, it was taken by authority of
the mayor and council by David Proper to the Boston museum of Fine Arts early in March 1973
for professional conservation which included cleaning, deacidification, and laminating with a
fine quality Japanese paper.

David R. Proper
April 14, 1998

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Text of the Charter

Province of New Hampr
George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the
faith &ca
To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall come Greeting
Whereas Sundry of our Loveing Subjects before the Settlement of the Dividing Line of our
Province of New Hampshire aforesaid and our Other Government of the Massachusetts Bay had
by Permission of our Said Government of the Massachusetts Bay begun A Settlement of A Tract
of Land on Ashuelot River so Called and made Sundry Divisions of & Improvements upon the
Said Tract of Land And there remain'd till the Indian Warr forced them off and our Said
Subjects being Desireous to make an Immediate Settlement on the Premisses & haveing
Petitioned our Governour in Council for his Majestys Grant of the Premisses to be so made as
might not subvert & Distroy their former Surveys & Laying out in severalty made thereon as
aforesaid Now Know Ye that we of our Especial Grace Certain Knowledge & mere motion for
answering the Ends above said and for the Due Encouragement of Settling the Said Plantation by
& with the Advice of our Trusty & wellbeloved BENNING WENTWORTH Esq our
Governour & Commander in Chieff in & over our Said Province of New Hampshire in America
and of our Council of our sd Province Have upon the Conditions & Reservations herein after
made Given & Granted and by these Presents for us our heirs & Successors Do give & Grant
unto our Loveing Subjects Inhabitants of our Said Province of New Hampshire and our Other
Governments in New England And to their heirs and Assignes for ever whose names are
Entered on this Grant to be Divided to & amoungst them into So many & Such Shares &
Proportions as they now hold or Claim the same by Purchas Contract Vote or Agrement made
amoungst themselves All that Tract or Parcel of Land Scituate Lying & being within our Said
Province of New Hampshire Containing by admeasurement Twenty three thousend & forty
Acres which Tracts is to Contain Six Miles Square & no more out of which an allowance is to
be made for highways and unimprovable Land by Rocks Mountains Ponds & Rivers One
thousend & forty Acres free According to a Plan thereof made & Presented by our Said
Governours orders And hereunto Annexed Butted & bounded as follows -- Viz -- Beginning at a
Beach Tree the North West Corner & Runs South Six Degrees an an half East four miles &
Seventy rods to A Beach Tree marked Thence runs East Ten Degrees & a half South Six miles
& one hundred & Eighty Rods to A heap of Stones thence runs North Seventeen degrees East Six
Miles & Eighty Rods to A Tree marked being the South East Corner of Boyle thence runs West
five Degrees and an half South Eight Miles & Two hundred & fifty rods to the Bounds first
mentioned And that the Same be and hereby is Incorporated into A Township by the name of
Keene and that the Inhabitants that Do or Shall hereafter Inhabit the Said Township Are hereby
Declared to be Enfranchized with and Intituled to all & every the Previliedges and Immunities
that Other Towns within our Said Province by Law Exercize & Enjoy and further that the Said
Town as Soon as there Shall be fifty families Shall have the Liberty to open & keep A Market
one or more Days in Each week as may be thot most Advantagious to the Inhabitants also that the
first Meeting for the Choice of Town officers & other affairs Agreable to the Laws of our Said
Province Shall be held on the first Wenesday in May next which Meeting Shall be Notifyed by
Mr Benjamin Bellows who is hereby Also Appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting
which he is to Notify & Govern Agreable to the Law & Custom of our Said Province And that
the Annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of Such officers for the Said Town Shall
be on the first Tuesday in March annually -- To HAVE & TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as
above Expressed togeather with all Previledges and Appurtenances to them or their respective
heirs and assigns forever upon the following Conditions (Viz) that every Grantee his heirs &
assignes Shall Plant or Cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five years for every fifty
Acres Contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in the Said Township & Continue to
Improve & Settle the same by Aditional Cultivations on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant or
Share in the said Township and its reverting to his Majesty his heirs and Successors to be by
him or them regranted to Such of his Subjects as shall Effectually Settle & Cultivate the Same --
That all white & other Pine Trees within the Said Township fit for masting our Royal Navy be
Carefully Preserved for that use & none to be Cutt or fell'd without his Majesties Especial
Lycence for so Doing first had & obtained upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of the right of Such
Grantee his heirs or assigns to us our heirs and Successors as well as being Subject to the
Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are or hereafter Shall be Enacted.
That before any further Division of the Said Land be made to and amoungst the grantees A Tract
of Land in the most Comodious Place the Land will admit of Shall be reserved & marked out for
Town Lotts one of which shall be allotted to Each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre Yeilding
& Paying therefor to us our heirs & Successors for the Space of Ten years to be Computed from
the Date hereof the rent of One Ear of Indian Corn only on the first day of January next Ensueing
the Date hereof -- And every Proprietor Settler or Inhabitant Shall Yield & Pay unto us our heirs
& Successors Yearly & Every Year for ever from & after the Expiration of the Ten years from
the Date hereof Namely on the first Day of Janry which will be in the Year of our Lord Christ
One thousend seven hundred & Sixty three One Shilling Proclamation money for every hundred
Acres he so owns Settles or Possesses and so in Proportion for a Greater or Lesser Tract of the
Said Land which money shall be paid by the Respective Persons abovesaid their heirs or
assignes in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such officer or officers as Shall be
appointed to receive the Same and this to be in Lieu of all other rents & services whatsoever In
Wittness whereof We have Caused the Seal of Our said Province to be hereunto affixed
Wittness BENNING WENTWORTH Esq our Governour & Com'ander in Chieff of our Said
Province the 11th Day of April in the year of our Lord Christ 1753 & in the 26th year of our
reighn --
B Wentworth
By his Excellencys Com'and with Advice of Council
Theodore Atkinson Sery
Entred & recorded According to the Original under the Province Seal the 11th Day of
April 1753 --
Theodore Atkinson Secry
The Names of the Grantees of Keene -- Viz --
John Adams,
Jacob Bacon,
Thomas Bacon,
Stephen Blake,
Nathan Blake,
Obediah Blake,
Elijah Blake,
Sam Brigham,
Nathan Bucknam,
John Ballard's heirs,
Isaac Clark,
Ebenezer Daniels,
Edward Dale,
Ephm Dorman,
Sam Ellis,
Joseph Ellis,
Gideon Ellis,
Titus Belden,
Eleazer Sanger,
Benja Bellows,
Joseph Fisher,
Samuel Fisher,
Benja Gile,
Ebenezer Forces's
heirs,
Jacob Gibbs,
Sarah Green,
Joseph Gile's heirs,
Jeremiah Hall,
Benjamin Halls'
heirs,
Daniel Hawse,
Nathaniel Heaton,
Seth Heaton,
Jabez Hill,
Daniel Kingsbury,
Richard Man,
Henry Messenger's
heirs,
John Fairbanks,
Michael Medcalf
junr,
Ebenezer Nims,
Joseph Peabodys
heirs,
David Nims,
Samuel Read,
Israel Houghton,
Timothy Puffer,
John Richardson,
Josiah Willard,
Moses Richardson,
Asa Richardson,
John Rogers,
Willm Smeed,
Samuel Smith,
Benja Twitchell,
Jona Underwood,
Andrew Wilder,
Joseph Whitcome,
John Whiteing,
Amos Foster,
David Foster,
Jeremiah Hall junr,
Jonah French,
John French,
Philemon Chandler
junr,
His Excellency

Benning Wentworth Esq one Tract of Land of the Contents of five hundred Acres One Sixty forth
Parte of the Said Tract for the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign
Parts, One Sixty forth Parte of the Said Tract for the first Settled Minister of the Gospel in Sd
Town One Sixty forth Parte of the said Tract for A Glebe for the Chuch of England as by Law
Established Philemon Chandler, Ebenezer Day, --
Recorded from the Back of the Charter for Keene the 11th Day of April 1753 --
Theodore Atkinson Sery

Taken from the Plan on the Back of the Charter of Keene & record the 11th April 1753
Theodore Atkinson Secry
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Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #160.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 42, 103, 290.
[S412] Keene NH Vital Records, p. 37.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #408, 53.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 68.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 53.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 53.
[S489] D. Hamilton Hurd, Worcester Co. MA Hx I, p. 45 (Lancaster section by Henry S. Nourse).
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 42.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 14.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1495.
[S718] Frank E. Walker, Walker Manuscript, p. 39.
[S751] NH 1776 Census, p. 76.
[S1220] 1790 U.S. Federal Census , Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, p. 18.
[S749] NH 1790 Census, p. 18.
[S412] Keene NH Vital Records, p. 194.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 33.
[S718] Frank E. Walker, Walker Manuscript, p. 44.

Major Jonathan Houghton^1,2,3,4,5

M, #7223, b. 24 December 1743, d. 11 January 1840

Family 1: Rachel Hale

Marr ???*: It is unclear whether Major Jonathan Houghton married Rachel Hale.^{6,3,11,12,4,10}

Family 2: Mrs. Mary Bryant

Marr ???*: It is unclear whether Major Jonathan Houghton married Mrs. Mary Bryant; w/2.^6,4,10

Biography

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Birth

Dec 24, 1743

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, DAR: 2-28-1761^6,7,8,9,10

Marr ???

Jun 26, 1783

Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA^{6,3,11,12,4,10}

Marr ???

w/2^6,4,10

Death

Jan 11, 1840

Waterford, Oxford, ME, USA, DAR: dd only⁸

Biography

JWH (for son of Israel): "Jonathan served in the Revolutionary War, campaign against Burgoyne. Removed to Waterford, Me., in 1795. Petitioner for incorporation of that town in 1795. Taxpayer on its first road, 1797. Leading man in town. Select man, 1805-1807."; CJV: wrong Jonathan

DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1494: Jonathan: b 2-28-1761 MA d 1-11-1840 ME m (1) Rachael Hale (2) Mary Bryant Pvt MA^4,6

Problem

Which Jonathan? for dd, 1790 census; same dds; same 2 marriages; likely Major Jonathan, son of John and Esther;
DAR correction: "Jonathan [CJV: son of Israel] did not marry Rachel Hale & Mary Bryant or have service given. See p. 338"; cites as authorities for corrections for line of Jonathan (JWH, #448, p. 342; VR of Harvard MA; Hx of Waterford, ME pp. 61, 63, 183; Maine Genealogy, Vol. 2, p. 903; & records of family & Bible records of Mrs. Frances Henderson Cross, DAR)¹³

Research

Children data given by JWH is probably wrong; Maj. Jonathan Houghton of Harvard who settled in Waterford ME is son of Lt. John Houghton; all children listed for Jonathan, son of John, are given by JWH (p. 338) for Jonathan, son of Israel; Waterford ME Hx gives Jonathan as coming from Harvard; note same dds^14,15

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #161.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 292.
[S28] DAR Lineage Book, 162: 303.
[S164] Little, Gen. and Family History of Maine, p. 903.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #409.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 70.
[S35] DAR Patriot Index I, p. 345.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 182.
[S46] Boston Transcript, 11/5/1925 - 3959-3600.
[S1481] Mrs. M. E. Woodward, DAR Library version of 1912 Houghton Gen. by JWH, p. 316.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316, 338, 342.
[S787] William Warren and Samuel Warren, Waterford, Oxford Co., ME Hx, p. 258.

Capt. John Houghton^1,2,3,4

M, #7224, b. 14 October 1745, d. 15 August 1818

Family: Relief Sawyer

Marriage*: Capt. John Houghton married Relief Sawyer, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Sawyer Jr. and Mary Houghton, Both JWH and MLM give Capt John Houghton as son of Benjamin and Ruth Wheelock Houghton; but John Houghton who married Relief Sawyer was son of Israel Houghton, and lived in Keene, NH.^10,11

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Note

REFN 7224: John Houghton b.14 Oct 1745, Lancaster MA, d.1818 Keene NH — father Israel Houghton REFN 1721, spouse Relief, 11 children including Wheelock and Seth — this is the confirmed Vol 1/Vol 2 line
REFN 119745: John Houghton b.~1744, no birthplace, no father recorded, spouse Mary (Allen per note), 12 children including Cyrus, Richard Haughton, Benjamin — the note itself says JWH incorrectly listed him as Israel's son; "the first 3 children listed were not Israel's" — this is a genuinely independent line

Birth

Oct 14, 1745

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^5,6,7,8

Residence

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA⁹

Marriage

Both JWH and MLM give Capt John Houghton as son of Benjamin and Ruth Wheelock Houghton; but John Houghton who married Relief Sawyer was son of Israel Houghton, and lived in Keene, NH^10,11

Mil. Enls

1776

In consequence of the above Resolution, bf the Hon. Continental CONGRESS, and to show our Detennination in joining our American Brethren, in defending the Lives, Liberties and Properties of the Inhabitants of the UNITED COLONIES: We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with ARMS oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American COLONIES....John Houghton listed. Capt. John Houghton, of Keene, commanded the 6th company in that regiment, and the enlisted men from Keene were... The regiment was mustered out early in December.

Census

1776

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA¹²

Note

1776

Early in 1776, Mr. Ebenezer Day. who lived at the north part of the town, died, at the age of 66, and was the first. to be buried in the north burying-ground, the land for which had been given by Capt. John Houghton-who lived on the west side of the river from off his farm, deeded to him by his father, Israel Houghton.¹³

Research

1776

Hx of Keene NH gives John Houghton, son of Israel as Capt. John Houghton of Revol. War; JHW gives John, son of Benjamin¹³

Research

1776

Milit-Beg

Sep, 1776

NH, USA, Potter: Col. Nahum Baldwin; MLM: Capt. in Col. Baldwin's reg; fought at White Plains, NY, Oct. 28, 1776; marched from Keene May, 1777 to reinforce the continental army at White Plains; brothers Ezra, Nahum, Lemuel suspected of being Royalists; Army Officers: Captain, NH Militia, 1776;( see Gregory Stone Genealogy by J. Gardner Bartlett, 1917, p. 56)^{14,15,16,17,18,19,20}

Office

1779

Keene, NH, USA, selectman²¹

1790 Census

1790

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA, 1 male 16+, 7 males under 16, 1 female²²

1800 Census

1800

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA, 8 Total: 12201-10001; 1 male 1-9, 2 male 10-15, 2 male 16-25, 1 male 45+, 1 female 1-9, 1 female 45+^23,24

1810 Census

1810

Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, USA, 6 Total: 1 male <10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 45+//1 female 16-25, 1 female 45+²⁵

Death

Aug 15, 1818

Keene, NH, USA, age 72; in C.C., Aug 26, 1818^4,26

Burial

North Cemetery, Keene, NH, USA, also Court St. Cemetery²⁷

Research

Claude analysis: Capt John Houghton (7224) son of Israel vs Capt John Houghton (119745) husband of Mary Allen, with son Sampson: definitively not the same person
The wife conflict is the fatal problem.
John 7224 (Israel's confirmed son) died 15 August 1818 in Keene, NH, and his probate record names Relief Sawyer as his widow — she survived him. Relief's children with John span 1774 to 1796 in Keene, NH vital records: Wheelock (1774), Jonathan (1776), Wheelock again (1779), John (1780), Bethuel (1782), Luther (1785), Calvin (1787), George (1789), Relief (1791), Seth (1796) — eleven children, all in Keene.
John 119770's wife is Mary Allen. His children by Mary Allen include Henry (b. 6 Jul 1780, Montgomery Co., NY) and Richard (b. 30 Sep 1794, New London, CT). These two overlap exactly with Relief Sawyer's children in Keene NH. One man cannot simultaneously father children in Montgomery County, NY and Keene, NH by two different women in the same years. Henry in 1780 and John Houghton of Keene's son John in 1780 — same year, different states, different mothers.
The geographic conflict is the second fatal problem.
The three children of 119770 with known birthplaces are all in New York or Connecticut: Sampson (1772) in Sand Lake, Rensselaer Co., NY; Henry (1780) in Montgomery Co., NY; Richard (1794) in New London, CT. John 7224's entire confirmed family is in Keene, Cheshire Co., NH from 1774 onward, never in New York.
The source conflict is the third problem.
John 7224 is documented in the History of Keene NH across fourteen separate references — he commanded the 6th company in Baldwin's regiment at White Plains in 1776, served on the committee of safety in 1777, the committee on war claims in 1786, and the meeting house seating committee in 1788. He is a thoroughly documented Keene resident from at least 1769 (when Israel deeded him land there) through his death in 1818. John 119770 has no documentation at all beyond JWH's genealogy — no vital records, no land records, no place names for any child except the three NY/CT ones.

What the Evidence Actually Suggests
JWH in 1912 appears to have conflated two different John Houghtons — Israel's confirmed son (TMG 7224) and an unidentified John (TMG 119770) who married Mary Allen and lived in New York/Connecticut. JWH assigned the Mary Allen family to Israel's line because he knew Israel had a son John, but he either did not have the Keene NH records or did not reconcile the conflict. Cole's 2023 research made the correct determination: the land deed and probate settle that Israel's John is the Keene man with Relief Sawyer.
John 119770 is a genuinely separate, unidentified person. His connection to Israel — and thus to the John Lancaster line — is unproven. He may be a Houghton of the John Lancaster line through some other branch, or he may be from an entirely different line. The DNA haplogroup of Sampson's descendants (R-M269) is consistent with John Lancaster but is not individually probative — R-M269 is a large haplogroup shared by many Houghton lines.

Problem: Capt. John who married Mary Allen; only given in JWH. Note that there are almost no place names for this family, given by JWH. Israel's son Capt. John Houghton (Houghton-3784) is married to Relief Sawyer and ended up in Keene, NH. The parents of the above John Houghton are unknown.
Some additional discrepancies in this list of children:
The information provided for the last four children Lucy, Sally, Joel, and Ezra, matches closely with children of Benjamin Houghton (1771-1819) and Dinah (Houghton) Houghton (1727-abt.1793).
Children Sampson, Henry, and Richard were settlers in New York. Census and other records list their births most frequently as Connecticut (sometimes Rhode Island, or New York). They more often used the spelling Haughton.

Descendant Bryant Haughton believes that a large Haughton family originates from this line, particularly for Sampson, Henry, and Richard.

M. Cole: The Houghton Genealogy, provides a different narrative for Captain John Houghton, but this conflicts with the records in Lancaster, MA and Keene, NH. It's clear from the land records that John Houghton of Keene, was the son of Israel Houghton. (Israel deeded land in Keene to him as his son in 1769), and the probate record names Relief as his widow. The birth records for Keene show births for John and Relief from 1774 to 1796. The marriage to Mary Allen and the various children attributed to John in the Houghton Genealogy need additional research to correctly place them. Cole-12288 18:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

According to the Houghton Genealogy: He was married to Mary Allen

Research

Only in MLM: children born Leamingham?, MA and Windsor VT²⁸

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #162.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 293.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23 #410, 53.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 374.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 71.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 53.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S412] Keene NH Vital Records, p. 194.
[S758] Frank Burnside Kingsbury, Surry NH Hx, p. 696.
[S412] Keene NH Vital Records, p. 37.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.
[S751] NH 1776 Census, p. 76.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 213.
[S741] Chandler E. Potter NH Military Hx I - Potter, p. 292.
[S782] Patricia Law Hatcher Rev. Patriots Graves II, p. 54.
[S811] Unknown author Am. Biog. Libr.: Amer. Women, II, p. 302.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 52.
[S927] Francis B. Heitman, Register of Officers of the Cont. Army, p. 302.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 205.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 210.
[S1410] M. A. S. G. Griffin, History of Keene NH, p. 672.
[S1220] 1790 U.S. Federal Census , Keene, Cheshire Co., NH, p. 18.
[S748] NH 1800 Census, p. 26.
[S235] U.S. Census, Keene, Cheshire Co., VT.
[S1222] 1810 U.S. Federal Census , Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire; Roll: 23; Page: 61.
[S1494] American Antiquarian Society, ndex of Deaths in Mass. Centinel & Columbian Cent.
[S782] Patricia Law Hatcher Rev. Patriots Graves II, p. 170.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 53.

Jerusha Taylor^1,2

F, #7225, b. 4 October 1714, d. 1758

Family: Simeon Houghton

Marriage Bann*: Jerusha Taylor and Simeon Houghton declared their intentions of marriage on Feb 4, 1737/38 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^6,7,1,8,9,5

Biography

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Birth

Oct 4, 1714

Stow, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, BT: The Stow records show that Jerusha, dau. of John and Esther Taylor, was born Oct. 4, 1714.^3,1,4,5

Marriage Bann

Feb 4, 1737/38

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^6,7,1,8,9,5

Covenant

Nov 3, 1741

Petersham, Worcester Co., MA, USA, listed as Conventators, "Simeon Houghton and Jerusha his wife owned the Covenant."¹⁰

Death

1758

MA, USA, Windsor: after 1767, Lancaster MA^4,11,12

Note

1797

Grandmother Jerusha Taylor gave a bible to Jerusha Houghton, d. of Ebenezer and Hadassah, into which Ebenezer inscribed the birthdates of their children and his marriage dates.¹⁰

ParentsD

Lt. John Taylor and Esther Green; the family of Jerusha Taylor and traced her back to Richard "the Rock" Taylor of the
2nd Mayflower colony. He came from London, and his family was very wealthy in England.^13,14,15

Pedigree

Citations

[S46] Boston Transcript, 2/29/1934 - 7927.
[S693] Daby-Dorby Data, p. 236.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 27.
[S415] E-mail from Howard Arthur Packard, Jr., 1995.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 314.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 28.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 43.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 18, 41.
[S415] E-mail from Robert J. Taylor, Dec. 1996.
[S415] E-mail from Roger Peterson, Oct. 17, 1999.
[S415] E-mail from Alfred A. Windsor, Oct. 26, 2002.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 41.
[S415] E-mail from Gary L. Heinmiller, Apr. 15, 2000.
[S415] E-mail from Marilyn McKibbin Sigler, Jun 25, 2003.

Mary Vaughn¹

F, #7226

Family: Israel Houghton

Marr ???*: It is unclear whether Mary Vaughn married Israel Houghton; Only in JWH and MLM: not in Lancaster VR.^1,2

Biography

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Marr ???

Only in JWH and MLM: not in Lancaster VR^1,2

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23.

Martha Snow¹

F, #7227, b. 9 February 1731/32

Family: Joseph Houghton

Marriage Bann: Martha Snow and Joseph Houghton declared their intentions of marriage on Jan 21, 1762 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA; Joseph of Bolton, Martha of Lancaster.^1,6
Marriage*: Martha Snow married Joseph Houghton on Mar 11, 1762 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA.^5,6,3

Biography

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Birth

Feb 9, 1731/32

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Weis: June 6, 1742^2,3

Church

Jun 6, 1742

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Covenant?⁴

Marriage

Mar 11, 1762

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA^5,6,3

Duplicate

between 1800 and 1810

⁷

Research

Woodward: Familysearch (contributor Donald Snow) says that the Martha Snow who was born in 1731/2, died in 1740, and the same parents (John Snow and Hannah Sawyer) christened another Martha in 1762.
I have confirmed the death of Martha Snow Feb 14 1740, same day as Abigail Snow, dau of John and Hannah Sawyer; brother John Snow died 28th of same month. (p158, Nourse). Then Martha Snow (dau of John) is christened, p 290, ibid. That would explain how Martha Snow could give birth to Benjamin in 1784 + or -.⁸

Problem

Marriage to which Joseph?

Pedigree

Citations

[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 36.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 63.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 307.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 290.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 98.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 25.
[S415] E-mail to Charles Vella from Margaret Jenks, 9/1998.
[S415] E-mail from Jane Woodward, Dec. 9, 2000.

Aquilla Jewett^1,2,3,4,5

M, #7228, b. 26 December 1729, d. 10 June 1829

Family: Eunice Houghton

Marriage Bann: Aquilla Jewett and Eunice Houghton declared their intentions of marriage on Feb 19, 1764 Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA.^13,14
Marriage*: Aquilla Jewett married Eunice Houghton, daughter of Deacon Israel Houghton and Martha Wheelock, on Mar 22, 1764 at Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA.^{7,3,2,8,9,10,11}

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Dec 26, 1729

Charlestown, Suffolk Co., MA, USA⁵

Residence

circa 1764

Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA⁶

Marriage

Mar 22, 1764

Littleton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA^{7,3,2,8,9,10,11}

Death

Jun 10, 1829

Littleton, MA, USA

ParentsS

William Jewett and Hannah Pickard¹²

Research

Many more descendants in Littleton, MA

Contributn

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #158s.
[S46] Boston Transcript, Dec. 26, 1934 - 9617.
[S46] Boston Transcript, Sep. 31, 1934 - 9617.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 79, 446.
[S413] Unknown compiler, "Jewett Genealogy", Ancestral File.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 89.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S200] Smith, Report to Houghton Association, p. 34 (Francis Walter Houghton's Genealogy).
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 89, 446.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 53.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 305.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 446.
[S416] Littleton MA VRs, p. 269, 446.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 53.

Achsah Whitcomb^1,2,3,4,5,6

F, #7229, b. 7 April 1743, d. 5 July 1815

Family: Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert.

Marriage Bann: Achsah Whitcomb and Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert. declared their intentions of marriage on Sep 21, 1763 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA; Benjamin, Tert. and Axey Whetcomb.⁵
Marriage*: Achsah Whitcomb married Capt. Benjamin Houghton Tert., son of Deacon Israel Houghton and Martha Wheelock, on Oct 14, 1763 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, DAR Patriot Index, p.345: Benjamin: b 9-5-1739 d 7-31-1802 m Zervia Moore Capt MA; DAR Patriot Index, Cent. pt 2, p. 1494 corrects: m Achsah Whitcomb and MA for bd and dd; Princeton Hx: for diff. Benjamin, in Princeton, Oct. 14 in Princeton.^{7,12,6,13,14,15,10}

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Birth

Apr 7, 1743

Bolton, Worcester Co., MA, USA^7,8,9,10

Origin

circa 1763

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA¹¹

Marriage

Oct 14, 1763

Church

Feb 12, 1764

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, First Church¹⁶

Death

Jul 5, 1815

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, of dropsy, age 72, relict of lst Deac. Benjamin; MLM: 1825, and above^7,17,9,10

Research

MLM erroneously gives this marriage¹⁸

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #159s, 324 #202.
[S77] White, Genealogy of John White, I, p. 77 #735.
[S76] Whitcomb, Whitcomb Family in America, p. 405 #104.
[S79] White, Genealogy of John White III, p. 233.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 37.
[S213] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Admin., DAR Patriot Cent. 2, p. 1494.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316, 324.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 92.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 26, 51.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 321.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 37, 99.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 99.
[S303] Francis Everett ??? Blake History of the Town of Princeton Vol. II Genealogies, p. 153.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 23, 26, 51.
[S303] Francis Everett ??? Blake History of the Town of Princeton Vol. II Genealogies.
[S67] Vital Records of Bolton, p. 321.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 182, 359.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.

Elizabeth Wilder^1,2

F, #7230

Family: Deacon Israel Houghton

Marriage Bann: Elizabeth Wilder and Deacon Israel Houghton declared their intentions of marriage on Feb 18, 1766 Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA; Den. Israel Houghton & Widw. Elizabeth Wilder, both of Lancaster; 1766 date is given in list of 1769 intentions [typo? for 1769].^7,8
Marriage*: Elizabeth Wilder married Deacon Israel Houghton, son of Jacob Houghton and Rebecca Whitcomb, on Mar 14, 1769 at Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: gives marriage of Israel, son of Israel and Martha Houghton, to Elizabeth Wilder, 2,18, 1766.^3,4,5,6

Biography

Corresponded with author

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project

Origin

1766

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA²

Marriage

Mar 14, 1769

Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, JWH: gives marriage of Israel, son of Israel and Martha Houghton, to Elizabeth Wilder, 2,18, 1766^3,4,5,6

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316 #160s, 324 #202s.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 42, 104.
[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 316.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 104.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22, 23.
[S747] Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis Lancaster MA Early Families II- Weis, p. 304.
[S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 42.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 22.