AN ACCOUNT OF THE

Descendants of Thomas Orton

OF

WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, 1641

(PRINCIPALLY IN THE MALE LINE)

EDWARD ORTON, LL. D.

Professor of Geology in Ohio State University

AND

State Geologist of Ohio

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COLUMBUS, OHIO

Press Of Nitschke Brothers

1896

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graduated there. In 1866 he removed to Princeton, Missouri where he has since resided. He is a lawyer of large practice, has held the office of probate judge of his county, and in 1894 was a candidate on the Republican ticket for Congress in his district, but was defeated, although he reduced a majority of over three thousand in 1892 to about three hundred in 1894. Judge Orton is a man of positive views, and has the courage of his convictions. He is a recognized leader in the section of the State to which he belongs. He has three children living, Helen D. (1869), Ira D. (1871), Eldon (1875). All are college bred and the oldest son is now practicing law in San Francisco, having already become a partner in one of the leading law firms of that city.

Sarah A., youngest daughter of Treat Orton, was born November 1, 1840, at Shelby, Ohio. In 1866 she was married to Dr. Albert Wilber, of West Unity, which is their present residence. They have three daughters and one son, as follows: Laura (1867), Orton (1869), Inez (1870), Edith (1871).

Of the remaining sons of Dennis and Sarah T. Orton, viz., Alfred, Ira, Azariah, I can give but fragmentary account. Alfred seems to have been born with a roving disposition. He spent a number of years in the employ of the Hudson Bay Fur Company, in the wilds of Oregon, Washington, etc. His brother, Ira, has also lived on the frontier for many years. Both are now supposed to be on the western coast, if alive. Azariah removed to Gentry County, Missouri, many years ago.

Benjamin, the youngest son of Dennis and Sarah T. Orton, was born in Oneida County, New York, in 1808. He came with his father to Richland County, Ohio, in 1822, and remained there for the rest of his life, dying in Shelby in

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1893. In his early life he was engaged in mercantile business and had more or less to do with that line of work all his days. He was also a land surveyor and attended to various kinds of public business for his friends and neighbors. He was known among them as Judge Orton, but I am not sure as to how the title came. He was a bright, quick-witted man, full of anecdote and ready in repartee, and was counted the best of company wherever he appeared. He had unusual mathematical ability, which was inherited by his children, and in one case a son "bettered his instructions" in a remarkable way. He married Sarah Hooker, the daughter of a successful merchant of Frederickstown, Ohio. Three children were born to them while residing in Ganges, a small village of the county:

Albina, August 1, 1841. Mrs. D. M. Garrett, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Hoy D., April 19, 1843 - 1877. Baltimore, Maryland

Sabinus, December 27, 1845.

The elder son, Hoy D., was a born genius. His gifts in the field of arithmetic were phenomenal, and he had talent, also, in other divisions of mathematics. He had a fine memory and unusual command of language. He was a natural orator, but in the science of numbers his most marked talent seemed to lie. All the subjects and problems that came to him in this line throughout his school days were equally simple and transparent to him. As he grew to manhood ne developed a mastery of numbers that was marvelous and beyond comprehension. He became what is known as a "lightning calculator". He could apply the fundamental processes of arithmetic, viz., addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, to long columns and series of figures written down as fast as the figures could be made and would

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give the correct results instantly. He was the author of an arithmetic, and sold the book at exhibitions, where his almost miraculous gifts could be publicly demonstrated and tested. His great talent did not, however, serve him well. The highest position he ever held was a professorship in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Baltimore. Though in receipt of a large income for several years, he failed to accumulate any property, and died in 1877, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was only thirty-four years old when he died. He left two children, a son and a daughter. The son, Forest H., born in 1865, is a dentist, taking his degree with the highest honors of his class in San Francisco, in 1892, and is now in successful practice in St. Paul, Minnesota. The daughter, Nellie, born in 1867, has educated herself and is now in business as a stenographer in West Superior, Wisconsin. She is also publishing a real estate record.

The second son, Sabinus, was in his early years counted a young man of great promise, but the expectations of his friends have not been realized in his case. He has dropped out of all connection with his family. If alive, he is probably in California.

Albina (August 1, 1841) was brought up in Shelby, Richland County. She was a bright and wakeful-minded student, turning to the best account all of her opportunities. She was married to Daniel M. Garrett, November 23, 1865. Mr. Garrett was, on his father's side, of Welsh descent, belonging to the same family to which the Garrett family of Baltimore belong. He had a marked capacity for business and his talent proved to have a recognized money value. He was for many years in the employ of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company, of Syracuse, New York and Akron, Ohio. He rose from a humble position in their great business to an interest in the firm, together with a

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large salary, but he was cut down in the height of his powers and in the full tide of business successes. He was sent to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1879, to superintend the interests of his company in New England. His untimely death occurred March 17, 1889.

To Mr. and Mrs. Garrett three children were born, viz., Orton (1870), Fred. Carleton (1873), and Miriam (1883). But one of these survives, viz., Fred C., who is at present living with his mother at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

(2c) SHERMAN.

Sherman Orton (1783-1881), second son of Azariah (1757), of Hezekiah (1727), was born and reared in New York, married Dolly Gifford, of Booneville, New York, and at an early day moved to central Illinois, where he died at an advanced age. He had eight children, named below:

Adaline. Mrs. Ward.

Azariah. Deceased.

Augustus L. R. Alta Vista, Kansas.

Mary A. C. Mrs. Wilkeson. Deceased.

Clara T. Mrs. Munshaw, South Omaha, Nebraska.

Dennis L. Farmington, Illinois.

Sylvester. Bedford, Iowa.

Matthew S. Bedford, Iowa.

(3c) AZARIAH.

Azariah, fourth son of Azariah of Hezekiah, was born in Florence, New York, November 25, 1792. He had three sons and two daughters. One of the sons is named Dennis L. and resides at or near Farmington, Illinois. He has a cousin of the same name residing in the same town (son of Sherman Orton). Dennis L. of Azariah has a son, William B., who is engaged in business in Farmington.

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(4c) BRAINERD.

Brainerd Orton (1804-86) was the youngest son of Azariah (1757). He was born in Oswego County, New York, July 21, 1804, and died in Sterling, Illinois, in October, 1886. He lived for a time in Rome, New York, and while a resident of that town married, in 1832, Hannah Smith (September 11, 1807-December 31, 1884. Ten children were born to them, several of whom died in infancy. The names of the sons are as follows: Brainerd E., Henry, Albert, LaRue P., Matthew C. Mr. Orton removed to Sterling, Illinois, where he was engaged in a large and successful milling business.

Brainerd E. was born in Rome, New York, in 1834, and died in Denver, Colorado, April 27, 1877. In 1855 he married Julia Maine and five children were born to them, viz., LaRue, April, 1860; Ralph, May 13, 1862; Miles, December, 1865; Grace, October, 1868.

LaRue and Robert, sons of Brainerd E., reside in Lawrence, Kansas. In October, 1892, Robert married May Bond. Grace married Thomas Cornly and has two children. She resides in Sterling, Illinois.

Matthew C., youngest son of Brainerd (1804) was born in Rome, New York, August 10, 1844, and was brought up in Sterling, Illinois. In December, 1867, he married Alice D. Clifford, by whom he has three daughters, viz., Maine Alice, September 17, 1868; Genevra C., April 25, 1874; Beatrice H., September 17, 1879. Mr. M. C. Orton now resides in Webster Groves, St. Louis County, Missouri. He is in active business in connection with large enterprises.

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(d) DESCENDANTS OF DARIUS (1760)

Of the descendants of Darius (1760) in the sixth and later generations, the following account can be given:

Darius, as will be remembered, was a Revolutionary pensioner, duly reported in the Congressional List of Pensioners of 1834, Vol. II., page 387. He settled in Williamstown, Oswego County, New York, and reared there a family of five sons and two daughters. Their names are as follows: Truman, Baruch, Darius, Luna, Ruth, Bronson, Hiram.

(1d) Truman married and removed to Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, where he died. He left two sons, Ashbel and William. Ashbel had a son, William, who is now living at Sargent's Bluff, Iowa. From Baruch, Darius, and Hiram, long lists of Ortons can be traced.

(2d) Baruch remained in Williamstown, and to him seven sons and two daughters were born. The names of the family are given below:

Joseph, 1809. Williamstown, New York.

Martha. Married. Removed to Racine, Wisconsin.

Ashbel. Williamstown, New York.

Lent. Williamstown, New York. Died young.

Betsey. Mrs. Henry Hamlin, Hanna, Indiana.

Erastus, born 1820. Venango, Pennsylvania.

William, born 1820. Venango, Pennsylvania.

Baruch, 1824-1894. Venango, Pennsylvania.

Of the succeeding descendants of this family in the eighth generation, the following record has been furnished to me:

Joseph left eight children, viz., Joseph, Jr., Henry, Lydia A., Jacob, Jireh, William, Ethel, Millison.

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Ashbel left three sons and three daughters, named as follows: Baruch, Bronson, Ellen, Zipporah, William, Martha.

Darius, born 1816, third son of Baruch 1^st , left four sons and four daughters, viz., Ashbel, Mercy, Eliza, Falinda, Minima, Lester, Frank, Lent.

Erastus and William, twin sons of Baruch, left Oswego County early and settled in the hill country of northeastern Pennsylvania, twenty to thirty miles south of Lake Erie. Venango Township, Erie County, has been the home of most of this household. The children of Erastus are as follows: Chauncey, Mary F., Truman, Zipporah, Sarah, Baruch, Almerion, Lydia. William's children are Alma, Nancy, Dennis, Martha D., Henry, Lydia D.

Of the family of Baruch (2^nd) (1824-1894), no record has been obtained. He also lived in the same region with his brothers, Erastus and William.

(3d) Hiram, fourth son of Darius (1760), was born in 1811, and twice married. The name of his second wife was Sarah E. Merwin. She bore him five children, viz., Miles (1838), Dennis (1840), Hattie (1842) (Mrs. Mann), Lester (1846), R. Z. (1855), Irene, Sylvester.

Hiram emigrated early from New York and his children were reared mainly in Iowa. He took up a considerable tract of land in Dallas County, in the central portion of the State; and when later a railroad came through, the station hear him and the village built up around it were named Ortonville. Several of the family reside at Adell, in the same vicinity.

Miles, his oldest son, was born in Paw, Michigan. He attained considerable notoriety as the organizer of a successful circus, which furnished recreation to a great number of people in the Western and Southern States, and as far

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east, at least, as Ohio. He has one son, Clyde, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Orville D. and Frank, sons of Dennis, and Criley, Lawrence, and Miles, sons of Lester, continue Hiram's line in the eighth generations. Mrs. Hattie Mann resides in Ortonville.

(4d) Darius, Jr., third son of Darius (1760), was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1790. How long the family resided there and how they came to reside there at all, I do not know. But during the first quarter of the century Darius moved to Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, nine miles east of the city of Erie. One of his brothers, at least, was already established there. Harbor Creek is a beautiful township, included within the vineyard and garden tract that stretches along the south shore of Lake Erie from Cleveland to Buffalo. In 1819 Darius married Mercy Dustin, of Coos County, New Hampshire, who belonged to the same family with Hannah Dustin, famous in the early history of New England. There were born to them three sons and four daughters. The sons were, Charles H., William L., and George D. The daughters were Louisa J., Lucy A., Nancy, Cordelia. In 1826 Darius removed from Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, to Angola, Indiana, and his family still retain possession of the land which he first occupied. Of his children, the following account can be given:

Charles H. is a physician, residing in Chicago. He has been twice married. By his first wife he had one daughter, Lula, who married James Smith, of Chicago, and now resides in that city. She has four children. By a second marriage Dr. Charles also has one daughter.

William L., the second son, married Helen Hicks, and three sons and two daughters were born to them. The daughters died in infancy or childhood. The sons are named Charles L., Lester D., and Frederick W. Charles L. married

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Ida Johnson, and removed to Nebraska, where his first wife died several years since. She bore him one son, who died in infancy, and two daughters, viz., Andra and Winnifred. Andra was brought up in the home of her great-aunt Louisa. Charles L. married again, and has another daughter, Esther H. He now resides in Angola, Indiana.

Lester B., second son of William L., resides in Denver, Colorado. He is married and has one son, Lazelle.

Frederick W. resides in Kansas. He is married and has two sons and one daughter.

George D., third son of Darius, Jr., was born in Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and was taken, when four years old, to Angola, Indiana. He married Mary Ann Sowle and they have one daughter, Mrs. Eugene Carver. George D. resides in Angola, Indiana, as does also his daughter's family.

Of the daughters of Darius, Jr., but one, viz., the oldest, Louisa J., is now living. She resides in Angola, and to her I am principally indebted for the record of this branch of the family. Of the three other sisters, one died early. Nancy married a lawyer named May, and died in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving no children. Cordelia, the youngest, married William Carkhuff and left two daughters, Mary and Olive, both of whom are living. Mary married Dr. Thomas B. Williams, of Angola, and has one son, William. Olive married Fleming Bodley, who died in 1895, leaving a son daughter. This family also resides in Angola.

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SECTION V.

DESCENDANTS OF AZARIAH (1729) IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS

Of Azariah, third son of Samuel of Litchfield, who was born in 1729, who married Mary Davis and removed to Tyringham, Massachusetts, settling in that part of the town now called Monterey, I have already given account. I am now to follow the line of his descendants to the present time. As will be remembered from the record on a previous page, Azariah died in the prime of life at the age of forty-five, leaving a family of four children, viz., Azariah (1767-1844), Reuben (1768), Darius (1770-1831), Jemima (1773).

To Azariah and Abigail Jackson Orton, five sons and as many daughters were born, viz.:

Azariah Giles, 1789-1864.

Charles, 1791-1850.

Thomas Porter, 1794-1847.

Abigail, 1796-1879. Mrs. Henry P. Clark.

Anna, 1798-1864.

Beulah, 1800-1851. Mrs. Captain William Churchill.

' Sophronia, 1803-1833. Mrs. Stephen B. Fairchild.

Caleb Jackson, 1805-1850.

Mary A., 1807-1882. Mrs. Darwin Dean.

John, 1811-1882.

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(a) Azariah G., the oldest son, grew up on the ancestral farm in Monterey, but early evinced such an aptitude for acquiring knowledge, and such intellectual and moral force that college training was provided for him without a question, with the ministry in view. He prepared for college at Lenox Academy, and in 1811 entered Williams College, then but recently established, in the northern extension of the Berkshire Hills, and graduated there with the highest honors of his class, of which William Cullen Bryant was a member, in 1815. In 1817, Mr. Orton began his professional studies in Princeton Theological Seminary. During his course of study it would appear that he had imbibed a measure of missionary zeal, and when he left the seminary he offered himself to the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church for service in the home field. He was sent by the Board "to preach in destitute places in Georgia," and passed a year in this service. He then returned to the north, and after a year of missionary work in western New York, was ordained, in 1822, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Seneca Falls, New York. He remained here for thirteen years and then spent three years as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lisle, Broome County, New York, and afterward fourteen years in Greene, Chenango County, New York, after which he returned again to the church at Lisle for eight years, which finished his public service.

In 1822 he married Minerva Squire, of Lisle. The fact that this was his wife's home was what brought him once and again to this town. He had a pleasant residence here, with a small farm attached, on the banks of the Chenango River, and in it he spent his last years, dying there December 28, 1864. The place is still in the hands of his descendants.

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REV. AZARIAH G. ORTON, D. D.

Dr. Orton was distinguished for the breadth and the accuracy of his knowledge in all the fields which he entered. He was a wide and eager reader, keeping fully abreast of his time, not only in questions pertaining to theology and philosophy, but in literature and science, as well. He was a thorough student of the chemistry and physics of his day. As a preacher, he was distinguished for being always equal to great occasions, while in his ordinary ministrations his sermons were not specially interesting to the rank and file of his hearers, though always replete with thought and sound learning. Whenever a great and urgent subject was to be considered by his Presbytery or Synod, Dr. Orton was likely to be selected to discuss it; and many of his utterances on these occasions were eloquent, influential, and long remembered. He was widely known and as widely respected in his denomination for his scholarship and ability. In 1829

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he was invited to a professorship in Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1847 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of the City of New York, and in 1850 he received the same degree from Union College. He was called to a pastorate in Washington D. C., but preferred a less conspicuous field. He was always counted by those who knew him best as adequate to the authorship of some great work, but he never published any extended treatise to justify or disprove this estimate. He left, however, a large amount of manuscript to testify to his mental activity and industry. He furnished numerous articles to the periodicals of his time. Among them a reply to Professor Moses Stuart on "The Constitution of the United States as Related to Slavery," was counted especially able. In 1842 he wrote a memorial addressed to the Senate of New York, in behalf of citizens of Chenango County, protesting against the abolition of capital punishment, which was then under discussion in the Legislature. This paper is supposed to have had great weight in shaping the action of the State at that time.

He did not confine himself entirely to the grave studies and serious topics of his profession, but he possessed, also, an imaginative vein, and occasionally turned off poems that were counted admirable by the few that had a chance to see them. Taken all in all, Dr. Orton makes a remarkable figure in our family records. He can be well set down as one of the most highly endowed members of the family, for the generations that I have undertaken to record. His modesty was equal to his merit. Four sons were born to him, viz.:

Charles, 1824-1884. Lisle, New York.

John G., M. D., 1827. Binghamton, New York.

James, Rev. Prof., 1830-1877. Poughkeepsie, New York.

William J., M. D., 1838-1875. Lisle, New York.

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Charles, the eldest son, was possessed of an excellent mine, but was singularly diffident and self-distrustful, and through his life he avoided publicity of all kinds as far as possible. He was never married, and he died of a fever in 1884, at his home in Lisle.

John G., M. D., the second son, was born in Seneca Falls, December 5, 1827. He took an academic course of study and then entered the University of the City of New York as a student in the medical department, obtaining his degree there in 1853. He entered at once on the practice of his profession in Binghamton, New York, where he still resides. In 1856 he married Helen M., daughter of Dr. Ammi Doubleday, of Binghamton, and to them three daughters have been born, named as follows: Helen D., Alice (Mrs. Dunsmore), May (Mrs. F. E. Barnes). All reside in Binghamton.

Dr. Orton stands high in his profession and in the community and has been in every way successful. He has been honored with the presidency of the State Medical Society of New York, of which he was one of the founders. A suburb of Binghamton has been laid out in town lots from lands owned by him, in which the family name will be perpetuated. He has always taken great interest in philanthropic enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Binghamton Orphan Asylum, and also of the City Hospital. He has also served the State Blind Asylum as trustee, secretary, and treasurer. In the establishment of the State Board of Health he took an active part. His contributions to the literature of his profession have been numerous. He has been United States examining surgeon for more than a quarter of a century. In a word, he has filled a conspicuous and honorable place through a long and useful life.

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James, third son of Rev. Dr. Orton, was born in Seneca Falls, April 1, 1830. He was fitted for college mainly at home and in 1851 entered Williams College, from which his father had graduated before him. He took his baccalaureate degree there in 1855. He selected the ministry as his profession, and in 1858 completed a course of theological instruction in Andover Seminary. During his collegiate course he won a good deal of reputation as a writer, and even at this early date, entered the world of letters as a successful author, supporting himself, at least in part, in college and seminary, by his pen. After his graduation from the seminary, he spent two years in travel and study in Europe. On July 11, 1860, he was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Greene, New York, of which his father had been pastor a quarter of a century earlier. He remained here but a year, when he accepted a call to Thomaston, Maine, where he remained two years.

A strong interest in natural history was native to his mind and was developed during his college course, though there was little in the traditions or training of Williams college to arouse or sustain such an interest. He devised and carried forward successfully a students' expedition to Labrador, during one of his vacations. This is the first instance, so far as I can learn, of that mode of wakening interest in and enriching museums which is so common at the present time. By travel and by close observation he was constantly extending his knowledge of natural history, and particularly of geology and zoology. In 1866 he was appointed instructor in natural history in the University of Rochester, but he was obliged to continue his clerical duties at the same time. In 1867 he organized a scientific expedition to South America, under the auspices of Williams College. He crossed the continent by way of Quito and made

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observations and collections of extreme value and interest to science. He brought back the first fossils ever reported from the stratified rocks of the Amazon Valley.

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PROF. JAMES ORTON, VASSAR COLLEGE.

In 1879 he was appointed professor of natural history in Vassar College and entered on his duties forthwith. This was the great opportunity of his life. He could now devote himself to the sciences which he loved so well with undivided mind. Hitherto he had been obliged to give a large share of his time and strength to the ministerial profession, upon which he depended for support, but from this time forward he was able to serve science with a single eye. He achieved marked success as a teacher and lecturer., and his memory was long and gratefully cherished by his associates and students in Vassar.

In 1873 he planned and accomplished a still more ambitious journey of exploration in South America. In this

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expedition, he crossed the continent from Para to Lima, by Lake Titicaca. His notes and observations covered the whole field of natural history. Probably no South American traveler since Humboldt had been so well prepared for such an exploration, and Professor Orton came henceforth to be counted as one of the highest living authorities on the central region of this wonderful continent. This work undoubtedly constitutes his best claim to be remembered beyond his brief day.

Not long after his return his health began to fail. Pulmonary trouble manifested itself in unmistakable form. He fought manfully against the dread disease, and in 1876, as a last resort, he determined to return to the high plateau regions of Peru and Bolivia, in hope that change of air and station would arrest the progress of the disease. He spent the winter months of 1876-77 in the region already named; but early in 1877 he undertook another task, to which, as the event proved, his strength was unequal. He proposed, as his special line of inquiry on this journey, the exploration of the basin of the Beni River, an important tributary of the Madiera, which itself belongs to the great Amazon system. He had in view a preliminary survey for a railroad to connect the navigable waters of the Amazons with the railroad that had been already built from the Pacific Coast to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. The river basin which he proposed to explore, embracing at least fifteen thousand square miles of territory, was almost entirely unknown, and he was full of ambition to determine its character and resources.

Dr. Heath, an American physician, who had for several years resided in Peru, joined him in La Paz in March, 1877, to aid in this exploration. Professor Orton's strength was being steadily depleted by his disease, but his hope and

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courage never gave way, and with his companion, he set out on a journey down one of the branches of the Madiera which was, even where it was first struck, at the foot of the mountains, a great river, three-quarters of a mile wide, eighty or ninety feet in depth, and flowing with a current of several miles an hour. The natives that he was obliged to employ proved treacherous and refractory, and after advancing for two weeks into a world unknown to them, they deserted him in a body, and obliged him to change his entire plan. He turned back to the westward, striking across the mountains to Lake Titicaca. He had over-rated and was constantly overtaxing his strength; and in the excitement caused by the mutiny and desertion of his native helpers, he had brought on a hemorrhage, by which he was greatly prostrated. The crossing of the mountains, which he had now to undertake, was made by him with the greatest difficulty and suffering. He kept on horseback until he was too weak to sit in the saddle, and then struggled along on foot through the thin, cold air of the snowy passes, making sometimes but three miles a day. At last his strength failed, so that he could advance only by being carried on the backs of natives from station to station. On the 24^th of September he reached the eastern shore of the lake and took passage in a little sailing vessel of twenty tons, the Aurora, for Puno, on the Peruvian or western shore of the lake. Puno is also on the line of the railroad already referred to. When he was carried to the deck of the little vessel, he felt that his toils and sufferings were now at an end. "Now," he said, "I have nothing to do but to lie still and ride into New York harbor." The journey across the lake required but twenty-four hours. It was begun at three o'clock in the afternoon, but before it was completed Professor Orton had reached another harbor. He died before noon, September 25, 1877.

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At Puno unexpected difficulties confronted Dr. Heath in providing interment for his friend. The only cemeteries in that part of the world were under the control of the Catholic Church, and the priests absolutely refused to allow heretic to be buried in consecrated ground. Finally, an intelligent, wealthy, and influential citizen, Signor Esteves, indignant at the bigotry of the church authorities, although a Catholic himself, gladly gave permission to bury the remains of the great naturalist on a little island of six or eight acres which he owned in Lake Titicaca. A mound of stone was piled upon the grave, which is within easy sight of the shore, and its location was otherwise definitely marked. On this quiet island, in the sacred lake of the ill-fated Aztecs, James Orton sleeps well, surrounded by as grand scenery as the sun looks down upon in its daily course. Through the marvelously clear air of the plateau a half dozen snow-clad mountains, some of them twenty thousand feet above the sea, can be counted from his grave.

Cut off in his prime, just as the work of his life was opening before him, he still has left a record of achievement which would be counted honorable even to one who should fill out the normal number of years.

He began his career as an author, even before he entered college, publishing in 1849, a little book called the Miner's Guide and Metallurgist's Directory. The publication of such a work by one entirely untrained in the subject treated of, was, of course, audacious, but it marked the taste and ambition of the lad. In 1852, while in his senior year in college, he published a work of an entirely different character, entitled, "Proverbialist and Poet". It was issued as a gift book and brought the author remuneration enough to help complete his course of study. In 1870 he published "The Andes and the Amazons," which, though made up

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mainly of hurried sketches of travel, was recognized by the discerning as a valuable contribution to geographical and geological knowledge. Successive editions of it were published by the Harpers, and it has been translated into the German language in a series of books of travel. In 1872 he published a little work that has had a wide circulation, and every copy of it has been kept in use until worn out. It was entitled "Underground Treasures and How to Find Them". In 1873 he brought out a vigorous defense of the scheme of education represented in Vassar. It was entitled, "The Liberal Education of Women". Finally, in 1875, he published a text-book on Comparative Zoology, which has enjoyed for many years a wide popularity. In fact, it has not been replaced to this day by any better book covering the same ground.

Professor Orton was married in 1859 to Ellen E. Foote, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. Four children were born to them, three of whom are living, viz., Anne, June 23, 1862; Susan, January 27, 1865, and Albert L., August 4, 1872. A third daughter, Mary B., born November 4, 1866, died at the age of seventeen. The daughters have a successful school at Riverside, California. Albert graduated, in 1895, from Cornell University, with the degree of Electrical Engineer, and is now engaged in professional work in New York City. He is counted a young man of fine promise.

William J., youngest son of Rev. Dr. Orton, was born in Greene, in 1838. He studied medicine and began practice in his old home, Lisle, where, in 1866, he married Helen E. McCall. One son was born to them, viz., John J., 1867. Dr. William died of consumption in 1875. His widow and son remain in Lisle in the old home that came down to them from Rev. Dr. Orton. (This house was consumed by fire in February of the present year, 1896).

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Charles Orton (1791-1851), second son of Azariah, 1761, took up his residence in New York and married, in 1816, Melinda Richards. The following children were born to them there:

Charles Henry, 1817-1819.

Abigail M., 1819-1853. Mrs. Edward Crolins, Brooklyn.

Elizabeth B., 1821-1866. Mrs. William Foster, Hillsdale, New York.

Sophia J., 1825. Mrs. Dr. Reuben S. Chapin, New York.

Julia P., 1827. New York.

Charles, 1831-1848. New York.

George, 1834-1851. New York.

Mrs. Crolins, second of this list, was married in 1844 and had five children. She died in 1853.

Mrs. Chapin, fourth of the list, has had three children, but only one is now living, viz., Julia A., 1850 (Mrs. Edward Ingersoll), Kent, Connecticut.

Thomas Porter Orton, third son of Azariah, 17671, was born in 1794 and died in 1847. In 1831 he married Mary Heath and established himself in New York. The following children were born to them there:

Mary L., 1826. Mrs. Lewis VanDeusen, Hillsdale, New York.

Thomas Porter, 1829. Caribou, California.

Frances, 1831-1865. Mrs. George Bushnell, Hillsdale, New York.

Alice, 1835-1880. Mrs. Edward Crolins, Rahway, New Jersey.

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Abigail, oldest daughter of Azariah (1761), was born in 1796 and died in 1879. In 1825 she married Rev. Henry porter Clark, of Washington D. C. Their children are as follows:

Henry James, 1826-1873.

Thomas Edward, 1828.

William C., 1830-1865.

Henry James Clark was one of the best zoologists that this country has yet produced. He took his baccalaureate degree in the University of the City of New York in 1848. For two years he taught in an academy at White Plains, New York. In 1850 he began the study of botany with Professor Asa Gray, at Harvard, but soon transferred his interest to zoology, under the elder Agassiz, receiving the degree of B. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, in 1854. For several years he served as assistant to Professor Agassiz, and especially during the preparation of the monumental work of the latter, "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States." In 1860 he was made adjunct professor of natural history at Harvard, a position which he held for five years. In 1864 he delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston, which were afterwards published under the title, "Mind in Nature". The volume showed talent of a high order and commanded marked attention and consideration in the reading world. In 1845 he resigned his professorship on the ground that there was not sufficient recognition of the service which he was rendering in the publications of Professor Agassiz. In 1866 he was appointed professor of natural history in the State Agricultural College of Pennsylvania; and in 1869 he accepted a like position in the University of Kentucky, at Lexington. In February, 1872, he was called

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to the chair of comparative anatomy in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. He died in Amherst, July 1, 1873. He was recognized as one of the leading zoologists of this country. An account of his life and work was presented to the National Academy of Science by Professor A. S. Packard, Jr. In 1854 he married Mary Y. Holbrook, of Amherst, and four sons and four daughters were born to them.

Dr. Thomas E. Clark, the second of Abigail Orton Clark's children, graduated at New York University in 1849. He then went to Harvard University to study natural history under Agassiz and Gray. In 1853 he was appointed assistant to Agassiz. In 1854 he received the degree of B. S. from Harvard. In 1855 his eyes failed him to such an extent that he was no longer able to continue the microscopical work required in his zoological investigations. He therefore turned to chemistry and to prepare himself properly for teaching this subject, he spent several years in special study, first under Liebig, at Munich, and afterwards at Goettingen, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from the latter university in 1858. In 1859 he was appointed professor of chemistry in Williams College, and held this position for six years. He was then attracted to the study of medicine, and in 1866 he received the degree of M. D. from Columbia College, New York. He began practice in this last-named city, but soon abandoned the profession as a business, and, for the last few years, has been a resident of California. In 1872 Dr. Clark married Mary E. Niles, in Munich, Germany.

William Churchill Clark, 1830-1865, married and left a family in New York.

Beulah, third daughter of Azariah, married, in 1830, Captain William Churchill, a sea captain and the owner of two vessels that plied between New York and Europe. The name of Tyringham was given to one of these vessels in

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honor of the birthplace of his wife, who crossed the Atlantic with him twenty two times.

Caleb J., fourth son of Azariah (1761), was born in 1805 and died in 1850. In 1833 he married Sarah A. Fairchild (1808-1872) and settled in New York City. Five children were born to them there, viz.:

Helen S., 1834-1835.

Harriet M., 1839-1880. Mrs. Alexander Howard, New York.

Beulah, 1838-1839.

Josephine A., 1840. Boston, Massachusetts.

Azariah J., 1842. Brooklyn, New York.

Josephine A. developed, at an early age, decided talent for the stage and adopted the theatrical profession while yet a girl. She rose rapidly to distinction, and was for many years known as a highly gifted and versatile actress, being equally successful in comedy and tragedy. After a career of unusual success in the leading cities of the country, she left the stage in 1872. In 1864 she married Benjamin E. Woolf, who was born in London, England. Mr. Woolf is a musician by profession, but for some years has devoted himself to journalism. He is recognized as one of the leading dramatic and musical critics of the country, but in addition to this he is also the author of a large number of plays and operas. Among the plays, it is enough to mention "The Almighty Dollar", which was made so popular by the Florences. Some of his operas have been equally successful. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf have resided in Boston for many years.

Azariah J., youngest son of Caleb J., married, in 1878, Sarah A. Shattel. His residence is in Brooklyn, New York.

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He was a soldier in the civil war, entering the army during his last year in college. He has six children, viz.:

Joseph A., 1879.

Adelaide M., 1881.

Milton J., 1883.

Edith, 1885.

Benjamin J., 1887.

Henry C., 1889.

John Orton, youngest son of Azariah (l761), was born in 1811 and died in 1882. In 1838 he married Louisa M. Bidwell, of Monterey, Massachusetts. His whole life was passed on the farm which he inherited from his father, and which before that had been the homestead of his grandfather, Colonel Giles Jackson. It may be of interest to note that he had decided talent for music, and that while still a youth under twenty years of age he constructed a piano with his own hands, the first ever introduced into his native town. He was also a musical composer in a small way. He had six children, viz.:

Josephine L., 1840-1866. M. in 1865, James R. Hicks, Denver, Colorado.

John Jackson, M. D., 1842.

Thomas B., 1844-1867. Died in the army in War of Rebellion.

Beulah C., 18467. M., 1868, James R. Hicks, Denver, Colorado.

Charles A., 1849.

Alice S., 1853. Boston, Massachusetts.

Mrs. Beulah C. Hicks, who now resides in Denver, has had three children, none of whom are living.

Miss Alice C. Orton, the youngest daughter of John Orton, 1811, is a refined and cultivated lady, and at the same

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time has the courage and independence of the stock from which she comes.

John Jackson Orton, M. D., obtained an academic education in the schools of Salisbury, Connecticut; New Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Winchester Center, Connecticut. In 1860 he began the study of medicine under the tutorship of his great-uncle, Dr. Benjamin Welch, of Lakeville, Connecticut. He studied further with Dr. William R. Welch, of Norfolk, Connecticut. He attended one course of medical lectures at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and two courses at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, from which he graduated in 1866. He began the practice of medicine in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1866, in connection with Dr. William B. Welch. In 1868 he became associated in practice with Dr. Benjamin Welch, of Lakeville, Connecticut, where he has since resided. He has excellent business judgment and is accumulating a handsome competence, and in fact is already independent. Dr. Orton has never married. He is greatly interested in the genealogy of the families from which he is descended, and particularly in that of the Jacksons. In 1895 he took a prominent part in placing a suitable monument to the memory of Colonel Giles Jackson, in the old graveyard at Monterey. The monument is a massive sarcophagus, of Quinch granite. It was set in place on June 12, 1895, with appropriate exercises, in which the entire community took part, even the schools of the town being dismissed for this purpose.

(b) DARIUS, OF AZARIAH.

Of Darius, youngest son of Azariah, 1729, I am not able to give an extended account. He was born May 26, 1770, and died December 23, 1838. He was brought up in Tyringham and married there, in 1791, Vashti, youngest daughter of

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Colonel Jackson. Her older sister, Abigail, had previously married Azariah, older brother of Darius.

To Darius and his wife, Vashti, four children were born, as follows: Aurilla, August 23, 1792-1874 (Mrs. Thomas Alford); Mary (Polly), October 20, 1794; Darius, July 4, 1797-July 30, 1801; Vashti, December 9, 1799 (Mrs. Charles Brookins).

Mrs. Vashti Orton died prematurely, in Tyringham, in 1803. In the same year her husband removed to Broome County, in southern New York, purchasing a farm and settling at Center Lisle. In 1805 he married a second wife, Catharine Burghardt (1770-1847), and by her he had seven other children, viz.:

Darius B. June 23, 1806 - June 19, 1833.

Azariah, May 30, 1807.

Lambert, December 26, 1808.

Albert, January 25, 1810.

Catherine, September 3, 1812.

Ann, September 14, 1815.

Frederick.

Aurilla, the oldest daughter, married Thomas Alford, of Center Lisle, and about 1830 removed with him to central Ohio. They finally settled in Alvada, Seneca County, and bought a fine farm, which is still in the hands of their lineal descendants. Several children were born to them, four of whom are still living, viz., William C., Mary, Hannah, and Allen. The three first named reside at Alvada. Allen is a resident of California.

Mrs. Aurilla Alford was, I judge, a superior woman, full of vivacity and courage and a natural leader in the quiet community in which her mature years were spent. Her children seem to have inherited, in good degree, her characteristics.

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Though counted old, as years go, they bear their burdens lightly and display unusual energy and spirit in their every-day life.

William C., the oldest son of Aurilla still holds and manages a large farm and finds time and strength every year for a month's camping and hunting in the forests of Michigan or Wisconsin. Though numbering four-score years, he is always the recognized leader of his camp. He has four children, all happily settled in life. One of his sons is college-bred and is now in successful practice as a lawyer in Duluth, Minnesota. (E. F. Alford.)

Mary, second daughter of Darius, married David Stephens, of Broome County, New York, and left two children, David, Jr., and Aurilla (Mrs. Bennett), both of whom reside at Harpersville, New York.

Vashti, third daughter of Darius, married, in 1819, Charles Brookins, of Center Lisle, and bore to him eight children, viz.:

George W.

Mary A.

Sarah.

Susan.

Janette.

Albert B., M. D.

Charles F.

Frederick O.

The four elder children reside in Richford, New York. Janette became by her first marriage, Mrs. Rood, and has one son, Dr. George Rood, Etna, New York. By her second marriage she became Mrs. Elliott, and resides at Mentor, Minnesota. Albert B. is a physician, and resides in Florida

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for the winters, his home being at Burton, in that State. During the rest of the year he resides at Bluefield, West Virginia. Charles F. is a resident of Greenwich, Ohio. He is a bright, intelligent man, but within the last few years he has lost his eyesight, and is thus withdrawn from active life to some extent. Frederick O. was killed in the Civil War, at Red River, Louisiana.

Azariah (3^rd), 1807, remained in Center Lisle all his life, and left two children, Frederick and Frances (Mrs. Pulver). Both reside at Tunnel, Broome County, New York.

Lambert, 1808, left two sons, Porter and Darius, who occupy the original home of their grandfather at Center Lisle.

Albert, 1810, resided at the same place and his widow is still living there. He left two sons, viz., Dr. George, who is practicing medicine in Elmira, New York, and Cyrus A., who lives at Jamestown, New York.

Catharine married a Baptist minister.

Frederick, youngest son of Darius, 1770, lived at Cape Vincent, New York, and died there in 1862. His wife's name was Sarah Bennett. He left no children.

At least six of the descendants of Darius were engaged in the Civil War. There are three physicians and one lawyer in his line.

SECTION VI.

DESCENDANTS OF LEMUEL, 1731, IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS.

a. Of the family of Lemuel, 1731, and of his four sons, Lemuel, Jr., Gideon, John, and William, I have given as full a record as I have been able to obtain. I take up here the sixth and later generations, beginning with the line of Lemuel, Jr. (1761). I will repeat here the list of his children:

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Charlotte, July 10, 1785.

John Jamison, March 14, 1787.

Lemuel (3^rd), June 27, 1789.

Clarissa, December 15, 1790.

Harriet, January 5, 1793.

Polly, March 3, 1794.

Burr, February 5, 1797.

Birdseye (E. B.), June 16, 1799.

Lydia, May 25, 1801.

Charlotte, the oldest child, grew up in Kent, and was married there to Lewis Mills, by whom she had two children, viz., Lewis M. and Charlotte. Lewis M. married Anna Smith, and had two children, viz., Charles and Louisa. Charlotte married James M. Pratt, of Kent, and had four children, viz., Charlotte (Mrs. John D. Pratt), Mary (Mrs. Seth. Hopson), Jane (Mrs. Sheldon Wheaton), Peter M., who married Julia Stowe, and Sophia (Mrs. Walter Camp). All were born and reared in Kent and most of them still reside there.

The descendants of John and William have been given on a preceding page, out of their true order.

John J. was brought up in Kent. He married Beulah Caldwell, of Canaan. He learned the carpenter's trade and was all his life recognized as a first-class workman. In the autumn of 1827 he left the old home for the Western Reserve, or New Connecticut, in northern Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. He came through with his own team. By the time he reached western New York the weather had become so bad that he stopped over for a few weeks at Eden with his great-uncle, Gideon, who was living there. Starting forward again, toward the end of December, he drove up the beach of Lake Erie, the only road in those days, to Painesville, which he reached about January 1, 1828. He bought a

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house and lot in the village forthwith, and went diligently to work at his trade, for which there was an urgent demand at the time. His workmanship was so good that he was kept steadily and profitably employed, and in the course of a few years he got ahead enough, financially, to pay for a good farm three or four miles south of the village, and on this farm he spent the remainder of his days, dying there in 1870. His children, except the two younger ones, were born in Connecticut. There names are:

Wayne, April 12, 1816.

Irwin, January 6, 1819 - February, 1888.

Frederick, May 12, 1822.

Charlotte, November 29, 1824.

Milo, 1828-1834.

Mary, September 17, 1830.

Wayne, the oldest son, was eleven years old when he was brought to Ohio. Many of the incidents of the long journey remain to this day firmly fixed in his memory. He grew up in Painesville on his father's farm, but having a natural taste for mechanical work, he became a good carpenter and learned the blacksmith's trade, as well. He worked at this last-named trade for a dozen years and accumulated enough to buy for himself a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in Perry Township, in the Valley of Grand River, six miles south of Painesville. He built his own house and farm buildings, and here he is passing a serene old age, enjoying the esteem and good will of all who know him. About 1840 he married Alvira Wright, who bore him one son, William Alcott, who now resides in Delmage, Lake County, South Dakota. William A. is married to Doretta Kretch, who has born him three children.

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Wayne's first wife, Alvira, died soon after the birth of William, and in 1846 he married Nancy M. Ryder, by whom he has two sons and one daughter, viz., Horace Elwood (1847), Miriam (1850), John J. (1858). Mrs. Orton is still living, as are also the children of this marriage.

Horace married Georgia, daughter of Judson B. Whipple, who bore him one son, William Judson. He removed to Virginia a number of years since, and resides at Reams Station, Dinwiddie County. Here his wife died, and he has since married Minnie Perkins, of Virginia, by whom he has tow daughters.

Miriam E. married Judson b. Whipple, of LeRoy, a town adjoining Perry, and has one son and two daughters.

John J. was brought up on his father's farm, and expected to remain on it and take care of his aged parents, but being incapacitated, for a time, for farm work by a temporary lameness, he fitted himself for teaching, and was thus occupied for a few years. But presently he felt drawn to the study of medicine. He pursued his professional studies in the medical department of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and is now established in successful practice in Randolph, Portage County, Ohio. He married, several years since, Rose Glossner, of Canton, Ohio.

Irwin Orton (1819-1888), passed his life as a farmer in Perry Township. He lived unmarried, and his farm fell to his brothers and sisters, in whose hands it still remains.

Frederick (1822), third son of John J., lives in Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, where he has accumulated considerable property, sufficient, at least, to insure his independence in his old age.

Mary, the youngest of John J.'s family, married Joel Crofoot, of Perry, and has one son, John M., born December 1, 1853.

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Returning now to the family of Lemuel, Jr., we find next in order the name of Lemuel 3^rd, who was born June 7, 1789. He left Connecticut in early life and the family lost all track of him from the date of his departure.

Clarissa (1790) was twice married. The name of her first husband was James Judd, who came with his father-in-law to Delaware County, Ohio, where he died soon afterwards. She married a second husband, _____ Cowgill, of the same neighborhood.

Hariett, born 1793, married Alba Peet, of Kent, Connecticut, and emigrated with her father to Delaware County, Ohio. She left two children, William and Orpha. Orpha married _____ Crinkhelton, and her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Welsh is now living in Delaware, Ohio.

Polly (1794) came with her father to Ohio and was married there, becoming Mrs. Gale. She died August 4, 1847.

Burr (1798) remained behind, in Kent, when the rest of the family emigrated to Ohio. He married Ruby Church (1792-1884), and had six children, viz., Phoebe (1818-1879) married Homer Edwards, of Kent, and left four sons and one daughter. Lucy married Isaac Wedge (1820-1877). She is still living, with a good measure of health and vigor, at Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. She had five children, viz., Anna, 1849 (Mrs. Merrit Slade, Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut); Flora L., 1846, Cornwall Bridge; Mark, married Linnie Rupert, and had one daughter; Alice, 1852-1870; Arthur E., who married Grace P. Logan.

Miss Flora L. Wedge is an esteemed correspondent of mine, to whom I owe the entire list of Burr Orton's descendants. Mark and Arthur Wedge reside in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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John, oldest son of Burr, married Mary Bassett, and had two sons and four daughters, viz., John C., Abby (Mrs. Linus Wing), Helen (Mrs. Cook Darling, Harriet (Mrs. Mott Darling), Andrew, and Clarissa (Mrs. George Durfee).

John C. married Anna Birch, and has four sons and two daughters, viz., Wildman, Inez, Charles, John, Edith, Frank.

Charles, second son of Burr, married Jane Gregory, and had eight children, viz., Elizabeth (Mrs. Luther Bennett); Polly (Mrs. Samuel Luke, afterwards Mrs. Henry Kelly); Helen (Mrs. Frederick Gibson); Henry (married Helen Browning and had two daughters); Amasa (married first, Cornelia Jones; second, Madeline Huffman); Ida (Mrs. John Cramer); Mary (Mrs. Charles Walker); Charlotte (Mrs. James Wedge).

Lewis, youngest son of Burr Orton, married Sarah Jane Norton, and has two sons, viz., Horace and Darius. Horace married Anna Washburn, and has four children, viz., Sarah E., George L., Minnie S., and Herbert W.

SECTION VII.

DESCENDANTS OF LIEUTENANT JOHN (1744-1785)

IN THE SIXTH AND LATER GENERATIONS.

As will be seen by reference to preceding pages, Lieutenant John left two sons, Joseph and Luther. Of the latter, I have recently found a trace, which I have already incorporated. Joseph left three sons, viz., Milton Pardee, Chauncey, and Alanson; but of the last two, I have no further data, though I have found reason to believe that Alanson married and removed to Wisconsin.

Milton P. Orton, as previously noted, grew up in Sharon, Connecticut. He was a bright and handsome lad

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and early attracted the attention of General John Sedgwick, of the same town, who encouraged him to seek a collegiate education. The lad and his parents both responded to the suggestion. He was fitted for Yale in the neighboring schools and entered on his college course in 1820, graduating in 1824. As was often the case with the college graduates of those days as well as of these, Milton Orton was obliged to teach for a time to earn means for carrying his studies further. He seems to have commanded the confidence and good will of the Yale faculty; for when an application presently came to this body for a competent scholar to take charge of an academy in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, he was selected for the post. He taught here with success for three years and then entered on the study of medicine in the office of a well-known physician of that town. He returned to New Haven to complete his medical studies and took his medical degree there in due time. Returning to Wilkesbarre, he took up the practice of his profession, and soon afterwards married Maria Lindsley Ford, of Lawrenceville, who belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent families of that region. Mrs. Orton having large landed interests near Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, Dr. Orton presently took up his residence in the beautiful valley of the Tioga, at this point, and here he spent most of the remainder of his life. In the War of the Rebellion, Dr. Orton was early appointed a regimental surgeon, and was stationed, for a time, at Hatteras Inlet, on the North Carolina coast. His constitution was not adequate to the strain imposed and he died there after a brief illness, in 1864. He was a leader in the community in every respect, adding to his professional duties, at times, those of instructor of Latin and Greek at home, and thus giving a higher tone to the young people that were growing up around him.

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To Dr. Orton and his wife, children were born as follows:

James Ford, 1832.

Maria Lindsley, 1835.

Stella S., 1837.

Charles Ford, 1839.

Benjamin Ford, 1843-1895.

Ellen B., 1848.

James F. Orton is a resident of Philadelphia, where he has resided for many years, engaged in insurance agencies. He has been twice married, but has no children living. He is a man of wide range of reading and has a tenacious memory, so that he is able to apply to everything that arises some apt sentiment in poetry or in prose, and more likely in the former.

Maria L. is the accomplished wife of Colonel E. F. Beaumont of the United States Army. Colonel Beaumont is now on the retired list and resides in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Beaumont is so loyal to her honored father's memory that she extends her interest to the entire Orton line.

Stella S. married, in her early life, Mr. J. S. Rusling, who has been for forty years a prominent figure in many large business transactions in Washington, New York, and Philadelphia. Mr. Rusling has a vein of mechanical ingenuity, which has served him in good stead in a number of inventions of considerable merit. He now occupies the old family home in Lawrenceville. Mr. and Mrs. Rusling have six children, four sons and two daughters. The sons are young men of unusual energy and sagacity in business. Charles S., the oldest, completed a college course in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating there in 1882. Ford, the second son, is a manager of electric street car lines, with a high reputation for skill and efficiency. He is now located in Rochester, New York. The younger sons

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are also connected with the same branch of business. Of the two daughters, the older, Mrs. Brundage, resides in Wilkesbarre. The younger, Stella, is still at home at Lawrenceville.

Charles F., the second son and fourth child of Dr. M. P. Orton, resides in Duluth, Minnesota, where he is engaged in the lumber trade. Of his two children, one is a son, viz., Charles, Jr.

Benjamin F. was a man of unusually attractive character. His social gifts and his genial nature made him a favorite in every circle which he entered. He was happily married, his wife being a daughter of General Adair Pleasants, of Rock Island, Illinois, and life seemed full of promise to him, when, almost without warning, he was struck down with Bright's disease, in the autumn of 1895. He passed away after a brief Illness, leaving one child, a daughter, Ellen Adair. General Pleasants traces his family to some of the best blood of Virginia.

Ellen B., youngest member of Dr. Orton's household, was married twenty-five years ago to the late James H. Sherrerd, a representative of one of the old families of Philadelphia. Mrs. Sherrerd has a delightful home at Germantown. The family consists of three children, one son and two daughters. The son has already entered on an independent business career. To the genealogical interest of Sara, the older daughter, I am under great obligations for valuable facts pertaining to the Orton family.

Luther, 1774, settled in Vermont. The Christian name of his wife was Naomi. They had at least one son, Orrin, who married Margaret Fuller and removed to Orleans County, New York. He had four children, viz., Alphonso, Delinda (Mrs. Kingman), Delphina (Mrs. Burch), and James Volney, who died in 1895, in Moline, Michigan.

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CHAPTER VI.

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THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS OF THE ORTONS.

In the preceding pages I have given account of all the military service in the Revolutionary War that I have found duly accredited to various members of the Orton family. I have also indicated certain claims of service rendered, for which documentary proof has not been found, but which can still be accepted, at least by the family, with full confidence, because of the character of the persons through whom the several traditions come.

For convenience, I will gather up the facts above given and will restate them here in compact and consecutive order.

1. Of the descendants of Thomas of Farmington we have two lines, one viz., through Thomas of Tyringham (1709) and one through John of Tyringham (1717).

In the first line, Thomas 3^rd (1709) gives us two soldiers, duly accredited in the records of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, viz., David and Roger. Roger was a non-commissioned officer, with the rank of corporal. There was but one other Orton in this family that could have taken part in the war, and he was more than forty years old when the struggle began.

The second family (John, 1717) gives us one duly accredited soldier, viz., John, 1742. John Orton's name is

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found in the records (pay-rolls) of the Adjutant General of Vermont. I have put this statement stronger than the facts warrant. No record of residence or age occurs in the Vermont pay-rolls, above alluded to, but as we know of two John Ortons in residence in that State at the date of the war, one of whom, John 1717, was too old for service, and the other, John 1742, of suitable age, I have inferred with considerable confidence, that the latter is the person named in the record. He served seven months and twenty-nine days, from May 4, 1780.

Judge H. S. Orton, of Wisconsin, declares that his grandfather, Rev. Ichabod Orton, was a chaplain in the army. Another tradition, that is less direct and less authoritative, makes Thomas, Gideon, and Oliver, other sons of John, 1717, Revolutionary soldiers. I credit this report to this extent, that they were very likely volunteers, enlisted for a short time of service in the capture of Burgoyne, at Saratoga. The able-bodied young men of Western New England were mainly present on this occasion.

2. Of the descendants of John of Woodbury, 1692, none are reported as having taken part in the war. There were, in fact, but two living at the time, viz., John (2^nd), 1729, who consequently, was very near the limit of exemption on account of his age, and Dr. Samuel, 1741. The latter was the principal and perhaps the only physician of his town, Woodbury, Connecticut, at the time, and it is easy to see why he was held at home.

3. Of the descendants of Samuel of Litchfield (1694), a larger number were of suitable age for military service, viz., between sixteen and fifty. There were eight in the fifth generation from Thomas of Windsor that were at least sixteen years old, and seven of them were in the army. Of the five sons of Samuel, 1724, Gideon, 1754, and Samuel, 1759, were

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the only ones old enough for service. Both were in the army in the summer of 1777, under Captain Amos Barns, in the defense of the Hudson Valley. Gideon died in 1778, but Samuel was again in Service in 1778, under Captain Joel Gillett, in the same field.

Of the five sons of Hezekiah living at the time of the war, four were of suitable age for military service. Three of them were in the army and all of them long enough to make them entitled to pensions from Congress. Eliada, 1748, received a pension by the Act of 1818. The name of Azariah, 1757, appears on the Congressional List of Pensioners of 1834-5, Vol. II., page 365. He served with the Connecticut Continental troops. Darius (1760) served in the years 1776-1777-1778 and 1780. His name is also to be found in the congressional List of 1834-5.

Of the three sons of Azariah, 1727, the oldest, Azariah 2^nd, was born in 1761. He was in the army to which Burgoyne surrendered in 1777. His name is found in the records of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts.

Of the four sons of Lemuel, 1731, but one, Lemuel, Jr., 1761, was old enough to enter the army. He enlisted in 1778, when seventeen years old, and fought through the war. He received a pension by the Act of 1818.

The list of duly accredited Revolutionary soldiers in the family, is therefore, as follows:

Soldier: Authority:

David, 1737. Adjutant General of Massachusetts.

Roger, 1740. Adjutant General of Massachusetts.

John, 1742 (?). Adjutant General of Vermont.

Gideon, 1754. Adjutant General of Connecticut.

Samuel, 1759. Adjutant General of Connecticut.

Eliada, 1748. Adjutant General of Connecticut.

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Azariah, 1757. Congressional List of 1834-5.

Darius, 1760. Adjutant General of Massachusetts.

Lemuel, 1761. Adjutant General of Connecticut.

Tradition adds the names of Thomas, 1746; Gideon, 1759; Oliver, 1764; and Rev. Ichabod, 1754.

It seems probably to me, further, that John, 1744-1785, who held the rank of lieutenant, as is shown by the inscription on his tombstone, attained his title in the Revolutionary War, but for this supposition I have not been able to find documentary support.

GENERAL INDEX

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Aberdeen, S.D........................163

Alford, Aurilla (Mrs.)............139

Alford E. F............................199

Alford, Thomas......................139

Alford, W. C.........................199

Allen, George P.....................121

Anderson, Mary P.................158

Andros, Sir Edmond................14

Angola, Ind.....................179-180

Antioch College.....................157

Armstrong,Matthew(Mrs.).........61

Athletic records........................78

Atwood, Jonathan (Lieut.).......48

Atwood, Sarah.........................48

Augurn, O..............................161

Avon, Ct..................................13

Bantam, Ct...............................34

Bantam Lake............................34

Bartlett, E.A...........................152

Beaumont, E.F. (Col.)............207

Beaumonet ,Maria L.(Mrs.)....207

Bedford, Ia..............................175

Bell, Florence..........................158

Bidwell, Louisa M..................196

Binghamton, N.Y.............184,185

Blackington, Mass.....................83

Boylan, Elizabeth K...............118

Brace, J. (Rev.)......................121

Briggs, Cecilia........................166

Brookfield, N.Y........................92

Brookins, Charles....................199

Brooklyn, N.Y.........................195

Brown, Mary A........................94

Buckingham, Anna...............28,29

Bucyrus, O...........................63,92

Budd, Etta1...............................58

Burghardt, Catherine...............138

Caldwell, Beulah.....................201

Cambria, N.Y............................86

Camden, N.Y..........................136

Camp, Wallace H...................159

Carpenter, Betsey E...............112

Caribou, Cal............................192

Carson, Sarah..........................147

Casnovia, Mich.......................164

Cheney, Elizabeth.....................91

Chicago...................................180

Churchill, William (Capt.).....194

Clark, Henry J........................193

Clark Thomas E.....................193

Cleveland O..............................81

Cleveland, Marilla D.............163

Cleveland, Sybil...............136,169

Cole-Orton, England.................18

Colton, Frank B. (Mrs.).........118

Connell, Fanny........................162

Copenhagen, N.Y....................162

Cornwall, Ct.............................43

Cottam, Ont............................164

Cowles, Ruth (Mrs.)..............125

Cuba, N.Y.......................147-151

Cumberland, Ont.....................81

Curtis, Patty M.....................113

Darlington, Wis.......................66

Davis, Mary...........................125

DeForest, Abigail...................115

Dix, Ann..................................48

Derr, Fanny............................163

Doubleday, Helen M.............185

Douglas, Hester M................116

Douglas, Marcus B...............116

Douglas, Nathaniel................116

Dustin, Mercy........................179

Eaton, N.Y...............................65

East Windsor, Ct.....................28

Eden, N.Y..............................143

Ellsworth Mountain...............127

Essex Co., Ont......................164

Farmington, Ct.........................12

Farmington, Ill.......................175

Finch, Ebenezer.....................121

Florence, N.Y........................170

Foote, Ellen E.......................191

Ford, Maria Lindsley.............206

Fort Erie, N.Y.........................72

Fredonia N.Y...........................57

Fuller, Margaret.....................208

Fullerton, Neb........................161

Gamble, Lucy........................170

Garrett, Daniel M...........173,174

Gaylord, John..........................15

Geneseo, N.Y....................49,113

Gibbs, Eliakim.......................132

Gifford, Dolly........................175

Gifford, Orton..........................68

Gillett, Ruby H.....................166

Goshen, Ct.............................130

Gregory, Clarissa...................154

Gregory, David D. (Rev.).....156

Gregory,Edgar M.(Maj.Gen.).156

Hamilton, N.Y.........................65

Hamilton College............153,157

Harbor Creek, Pa............177-179

Harvard University.................196

Hawley, Joseph (Lieut.).....23,30

Hazen, Estella........................163

Heath, Dr...............................188

Hicks, Helen..........................169

Hills, Mary E........................102

Hillsdale, Mich........................90

Hooker, Samuel (Rev.)............13

Hooker, Sarah........................173

Hotchkiss, Sophronia...............68

Hoyt, Thomas C....................169

Hudson, John H.(Hon.)...156,157

Hull, Sarah.............................166

Hungerford, Lucia..................161

Indianapolis............................104

Jackson, Abigail.....................181

Jackson, Giles (Col.)................

.......................48,181,196,197

Jackson, Vashti......................197

Jennings, Mary M.................157

Johnson, Ida..........................180

Johnstown, N.Y.......................49

Judson, Hollister....................109

Judson, Jane...........................115

Judson, John.............................25

Judson, Nathan.......................108

Judson, Ruth...........................111

Juneau City, Alaska...............165

Keith, Lucinda.........................96

Kent, Ct...........................143,201

Kirkwood, Mo........................157

Laporte, Ind.............................92

Lakeville, Ct..........................196

Landers, Joseph (Dea.).....39,127

Lawrenceville, Pa..................209

Lewis Elizabeth.......................15

Lewis, Robert..........................14

Lewis, Samuel.........................14

Lewis, William........................14

"Lightning Calculator"...........173

Limington, Me.......................104

Lisle, N.Y.................182,184,191

Litchfield, Ct............................34

Little Falls, N.Y......................61

Lockport, Mich......................163

Loweree, Mary A..................114

Lowry, A. J.............................71

Lurvey, Mary.........................126

Luzerne, N.Y.......................82,83

Madison, Wis...........................93

McCall, Helen E....................191

McNeil, Archibald (Capt.).....129

Marsh, Eunice........................166

Marsh, Nathaniel (Rev.)..........62

Martin, Frederick...................113

Martin, Mary O.........................7

Martin, John O......................113

Mead, H. A...........................151

Millbury, Mass.......................157

Miller, Frances A. (Mrs.)..........7

Mobile, Ala.....................147,150

Moline, Mich.........................208

Monterey, Cal..........................66

Monterey, Mass.181,182,196,197

Monticello, Ind.......................102

Nash, Mary.............................119

Newark, N.J............................117

Newell, Samuel (Ensign).........30

New Haven, Ct.......................179

New York...............................192

North East, Pa........................146

Northampton, N.Y....................81

North Walden, Vt..................104

Norton, John.............................15

Norton, Ruth....................130,147

Oberlin College.......................171

Olinda, Ont.............................164

Orris, Hannah...........................22

Orton arms................................16

Orton, England..........................18

Orton family in England..........17

Orton, surname........................5-6

Orton, Thomas of Windsor......10

Deed of gift........................18

List of descendants of,

See sub-index

Orton Hill...............................123

Ortonville, Ia...........................178

Ortonville, Mich......................106

Ortonville, Minn.........................6

Orvis, Hannah...........................22

Painesville, O..........................201

Pardee family..........................144

Parish, N.Y.......................135,161

Pattou, Emily (Mrs.)...............121

Peck, Sylvia............................142

Pekin, N.Y................................86

Petoskey, Mich.......................107

Platt, Caroline O....................159

Platt, Irving G........................159

Platt, William S....................159

Pleasants, Adair (Gen.).........208

Princeton, Minn.......................81

Princeton, Mo........................172

Puritans, English......................20

Randolph, O...........................203

Reynolds, Matilda..................102

Reresby, England.....................18

Reresby, rectors of..................19

Ripley, N.Y...........................132

Riverside, Cal........................191

Root, Mary..............................14

Root, Thomas..........................89

Rusling, Charles....................207

Rusling, Ford.........................207

Rusling, J.S............................207

Rutgers College.....................207

Ryder, Nancy M...................202

Sandusky, O.............................81

Saratoga, N.Y.................181,182

Sedgwick, Anna.....................125

Sedgwick, John (Gen.).....59,125

Seneca Falls....................182,184

Sessions, Frank....................____

Sharon, Ct.......................126,205

Sharon, O........................104,162

Shelby, O........................172,174

Shattell, Sarah A...................195

Sherman family......................110

Shields, E. F.1.........................50

Smedley, Abigail.....................38

Somerset, O.............................92

Squire, Dorcas.......................103

Squire, Minerva.....................182

St. Joseph, Mich...................162

Stanley, Nathaniel....................30

Stewart, Angie C...................171

Symonds, Amanda (Mrs.)........61

Talcott Mountain.....................12

Three Rivers, Mich................163

Tompkins, Willard.................160

Torrey, Anna Davenport........157

Tracy, Frank E......................152

Treat, Sarah............................170

Tucker, Sarah.........................135

Tudor, Mary........................23,24

Tudor, Owen............................25

Tyringham, Mass........44,137,197

Twycross, England...................19

Vance, Samuel.......................113

Van Petten, Amelia...............168

Wadsworth family.................113

Wager, Eva............................163

Waterbury, Ct........................160

Webster Groves.....................176

Wedge, Isaac.........................204

Wedge, Flora L.....................204

West. Union Telegraph Co...155

West Superior, Minn.............174

West Unity, O.......................171

Wilber, Albert (Dr.)..............172

Wilkesbarre, Pa......................206

Williams, Joseph......................52

Williams College.............182,194

Williamstown, N.Y...134,162,177

Windsor, Ct..................52,81,191

Woodbury, Ct...................7,10,11

Worthington, O......................126

Wright, Alvira.......................202

SUPPLEMENTARY INDEX -- LIST OF ORTON NAMES

Aaron H....................................103

Abiram (Hon.)............................57

Adelbert (Dr.)...........................163

Adna...........................................81

Alanson.....................................205

Albert........................................139

Albert (1810)............................198

Albert L. (1872).......................191

Albert W..................................162

Albert W., Jr............................168

Alfred R...................................102

Alfred W....................................73

Alpheus.......................................81

Alphonso............................145,208

Alvin (1809)........................81,164

Alvin (1842).............................164

Amos (1768)..............................52

Amos (1809 (Rev.).............74,106

Araunah.........................24,131,152

Arthur G. (1867)........................81

Ashbel (1850)...........................162

Ashbel.......................................177

Azariah (1729)...........................39

Azariah (1757)...................125,136

Azariah (1761)..........................137

Azariah (1793)...................170,175

Azariah (1807)............139,172,200

Azariah Giles (Rev.).........138,181

Azariah (1842)..........................195

Augustus, L. R.........................175

Aurilla.......................................198

Aurora G............................131,147

Baruch.......................................137

Baruch (1824)...........................177

Benjamin (1808).......................170

Benjamin D..............................119

Benjamin F...............................208

Benjamin J...............................196

Brainerd (1804)........................176

Caleb Jackson...........................138

Carroll.......................................168

Celsus........................................165

Charles (1791)..........................192

Charles......................................204

Charles (1824)..........................184

Charles (1831)..........................192

Charles........................................81

Charles A. (1849)....................196

Charles A. (1858)....................114

Charles Ford.............................207

Charles H.................................179

Charles H. (1817)....................192

Charles Jackson (1815)..............69

Charles Jackson 2^nd (1845)........67

Charles Jennings (1856)...........157

Charles N. (1865)....................162

Charles L. (1869)...........7,104,179

Chauncey....................................71

Chauncey (1864)......................164

Chauncey..................................205

Chauncey M...............................84

Chauncey S................................85

Clark...........................................73

Clarence T................................114

Clayton R.................................104

Clyde.........................................179

Collins K....................................66

Criley........................................179

Daniel.......................................135

Darius (1760).......125,136,177,211

Darius (1770)...........................126

Darius (1816).....................137,178

Darius B...................................139

Darius S. (Dr.)...........................84

David......................................49,71

David H....................................163

David J..............................111,114

Dennis (1766)...........................125

Dennis (1781)....................136,170

Dennis L...................................175

Ebenezer C...............................171

E. Birdseye...............................142

Edgar...........................................83

Edmond.....................................135

Edmund..............................130,145

Edward (1829) (Prof.)..............157

Edward, Jr. (1862) (Prof.).......158

Edward M.................................166

Edward S. (1809).....................134

Elah...........................................146

Eldon.........................................172

Eliada (1748)........125,134,161,211

Eliada (1775)............................161

Eliada (1861)............................162

Elias............................................74

Elias............................................74

Ellsworth C................................74

Emory D...................................163

Erastus.......................................177

Esther M..................................7,74

Forest H....................................174

Frank.........................................179

Frank M.....................................67

Frank C......................................91

Frederick...................................200

Frederick...................................202

Frederick C...............................113

Frederick W..............................179

Fred.............................................66

Fred. L.......................................73

Gardner.......................................77

Gardner.......................................81

Gardner L. (1872)....................104

George........................................74

George........................................81

George (1834)..........................192

George B..................................162

George D..................................179

George W...................................77

George W...................................78

Gideon (1754).............124,130,210

Gideon (1759).................52,63,103

Gideon (1768)....................126,143

Glenn G....................................105

Grosvenor..................................150

Harlow N. (1785) (Dr.)........62,91

Harlow N. (1858) (Dr.)...........101

Harlow S. (1817) (Hon.)....92,210

Harlow S....................................89

Harmon.....................................135

Heber..........................................78

Heman (1780)....................135,168

Heman Hoit................................89

Heman Hull..............................166

Henry..........................................74

Henry B......................................78

Henry B (1885)..........................81

Henry C. (1889).......................196

Henry J.....................................114

Henry T. (1782)................111,115

Herbert........................................81

Herbert........................................85

Herbert......................................165

Hezekiah (1727).....41,124,134,161

Hezekiah (1741).....41,134,160,210

Hezekiah (1768)..................41,134

Hiram (1811).....................137,178

Hobert B. (Hon.)...................7,171

Horace E..................................203

Horatio L....................................73

Horatio W..........................131,147

Hosmer (1773)..........................135

Howard.......................................81

Hoy D.......................................173

Ichabod (Rev.)...........50,62,87,210

Ira D.........................................172

Irvin............................................81

Irwin (1819).............................202

James (1787)......................111,116

James (Hon.)..........................49,53

James (1842)............................147

James (1830) (Prof.)..........184,186

James (1860)............................150

James A. (1833).......................143

James Douglas.......................7,116

James Douglas, Jr....................118

James Ford...............................207

James Christopher......................73

James Morris (1802).........131,152

James Morris (1802)................166

James Milton..............................74

James Pierpont...........................61

James S....................................113

James Volney.....................145,208

Jason R. (1839)..........................67

Jedediah....................................162

Jesse Francis...............................89

Joel..............................................77

John (1648)..................11,15,21,26

John (1675)................................19

John (1692).....................26,30,108

John (1717).....................29,45,103

John (1729)...............................108

John (1782)...............................109

John (1774) (Dr.)..............111,115

John (1742).....................76,79,212

John (1770)........................126,143

John (1744) (Lieut.)...126,205,212

John (1808)...............................162

John (1811)........................181,196

John.............................................81

John A......................................162

John B. (1790)....................63,102

John Benjamin..........................104

John B. (1822)...........................89

John B. (1867)...........................89

John G. (1827) (Dr.).............7,185

John Jackson (1858) (Dr.)....7,197

John Jamison (1787)................203

John J. (1812).......................92,94

John N........................................81

Joseph (1768)..............127,144,204

Joseph (1809)...........................177

Julius T. (1830)........................102

Julius T. (1869) (Rev.)............102

Julius W. (1869)........................89

Lambert..............................139,200

Lawrence...................................179

Lee Van......................................73

Leman.......................................135

Leman Gibbs............................131

Lemuel (1735)...................126,139

Lemuel (1761)...................126,200

Lemuel (1789)............139,142,204

Lester........................................179

Lewis........................................204

Levi.............................................77

Louisa J....................................180

Luther (1774)..............127,145,208

Luther M. (1819).......................83

Lyman.........................................75

Lyman Osgood (1819) (Dr.)......70

Lyman Osgood (1839)..........66,70

Lyman S.....................................64

Marquis..................................78,81

Marvin.......................................162

Matthew C................................176

Matthew S................................175

Miles (1774)......................124,132

Miles (1802).............................170

Miles.........................................179

Miles M....................................133

Milton J....................................196

Milton Pardee (Dr.)..................205

Morgan...............................134,161

Morris C...................................165

Myron (1784) (Dr.)...............62,86

Myron (1831).............................91

Myron H. (1810).......................92

Nathan.........................................81

Nathan Greene (1800)................78

Nathan S.....................................81

Newell W.................................162

Oliver (1764).......................52,103

Oliver (1794)..............................77

Oliver H.....................................78

Omer E.....................................104

Ora O.......................................166

Orlando B...................................81

Orrin..........................................208

Orrin A. (1806)........................132

Orville D..................................179

Oscar...........................................75

Oscar O......................................73

Otho H......................................101

Palmer.........................................75

Philander.....................................83

Philo (1778) (Hon.)...................57

Philo Atwood (1804).................65

Philo Atwood (1837) (Hon.).....66

Philo Atwood (1873).................67

Phineas G...................................78

Pierpont.......................................76

Porter........................................200

Pradieux....................................164

Ranold.........................................78

Ransom (1805).........................162

Ransom H.................................162

Ransom J..................................162

Raymond...................................119

Reuben......................................126

Reuel N......................................83

Richard H.................................166

Robert (1832)...........................151

Robert.......................................150

Robert Eugene............................66

Roger....................................49,211

Roger..........................................74

Roger..........................................76

Roswell E.................................162

Sabinus......................................173

Samuel (1694)..................23,34,41

Samuel (1724)...................123,129

Samuel (1744) (Dr.)..........111,115

Samuel (1759).............124,130,211

Samuel (1776) (Dr.).................115

Samuel (1763).......................50,77

Samuel (1807)............................81

Samuel Henry(1829)(Dr.)....19,119

Samuel G. (1797) (Rev.).........152

Samuel........................................77

Samuel (1835)..........................145

Samuel Gregory (1837)............157

Samuel Torrey (1879)..............158

Sarah.........................................121

Sedgwick (1750)................125,135

Sherman (1783)...........136,170,175

Solomon (1764)................50,76,82

Solomon (1768)........................134

Solomon (1796)..........................82

Stephen (1857).........................163

Stephen W. (Hon.).....................84

Sylvester....................................175

Thomas of Windsor,

Connecticut (1613)............7,10

Thomas of Charlestown,Mass....11

Thomas of Farmington,

Connecticut (1768).....15,23,28

Thomas of Tyringham,

Massachusetts (1709)(Dea.)

..........................29,43,47,53

Thomas of Tyringham, 2^nd

(1734)(Dr.)...................44,47,55

Thomas (1744) (Esq.)................54

Thomas (1828)...................147,151

Thomas (1803)...........................61

Thomas (1873)...........................76

Thomas A...................................75

Thomas E...................................67

Thomas Henry............................64

Thomas (1774) (Esq.)................54

Thomas Porter (1794).......138,181

Thomas Porter (1829)..............192

Thomas S...................................69

Timothy......................................72

Treat..........................................170

Truman (1784)...................109,112

Truman (1800)..........................103

Truman......................................137

Truman......................................177

Vandeleur....................................74

Wallace (1838)...........................83

Walter E.....................................83

Walter J....................................113

Walter S.....................................74

Wayne.......................................202

Wellington................................162

William (1772)..................126,144

William (1803).........................162

William (1820).........................177

William (1826) (Pres. West.

Union Tel. Co.)..................148

William (1858).........................150

William (1887).........................151

William (1838)...........................82

William A................................202

William B.................................162

William C...................................73

William J..................................191

William L.................................104

William Osgood.........................66

William S.................................104

Zenas (1777)...............135,161,164

Zenas 2^nd...................................164

Zenas (1830)............................164

Descendants of Thomas Orton, Pages 63-122

Descendants of Thomas Orton, Pages 123-171

Descendants of Thomas Orton, Pages 172-end

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