1. Nathaniel, married Coleman. 2. Nathan, married Van Doren. 3. Richard, married Smith. 4. Julia, married Caleb Horton. 5. Deborah, married Thomas Stoute. 6. Jemima, died young. 7. Esther, married 1. Daniel Horton, son of David Horton; married 2. Nathan Hughson, son of Robert Hughson.
VI. Sarah, daughter of Capt. [Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case], born in Chester, N. J., about 1761; married Daniel Sweazy.
Children, probably, all born in Chester:
1. Benjamin, married Margaret Wiley. 2. James, married Effie Swackhammer. 3. Isaac, married an English lady, name not given. 4. Sarah, married Low Sliker. 5. Mehitabel, married John Sliker. 6. Mary, never married.
VII. Zephaniah, son of Capt. [Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case], born in Chester, N. J., 13 Nov., 1760; went to North Carolina when a young man, soon returned to Chester, and 25 March, 1788, married Jane McCurry, daughter of Malcolm McCurry, Esq., of Chester, and soon afterwards moved to Wilkes Co., N. C., and thence in 1793, to Burke Co., and thence to Tennessee, where he remained only a short time, and then returned to North Carolina, and settled in Buncomb, now Yancey Co., where he lived, and where, 5 April, 1844, he died. He was a magistrate for many years, and also represented Buncomb Co. in the Legislature, in 1810–1812, and 1815.
On the day he was seventy years old he had his funeral sermon preached by Rev. Goodson McDaniel, of the Holston Conference. His wife died at her residence, 13 August, 1857. Her father was born on the Island of Ila, Highlands, Scotland. He was kidnapped when a small boy and brought to New Jersey, where he obtained a good education, became a lawyer, and practiced law at Morristown, N. J.
Children, 1. and 2. were born in Wilkes Co.; 3. born in Burke Co., and the rest in Buncomb Co., N. C.:
1. [Nathan], born 24 Jan., 1789. 2. Rachel, born 31 May, 1791; died 29 Oct., 1800. 3. [Sarah], born 30 June, 1794. 4. [Malcolm], born 8 April, 1797. 5. [Elizabeth], born 15 Nov., 1799. 6. [Zephaniah], born 26 Nov., 1802. 7. [Jane M.], born 18 March, 1806. 8. [Phebe D.], born 30 Oct., 1810.
VIII. Phineas, son of Capt. [Nathan Horton and Mehitabel Case], born in Chester, N. J., 17 Feb., 1774; married 1. 19 Oct., 1797, to Bethia Luce (Lewis), she died 20 August, 1809. He married 2. the widow Esther Horton, daughter of Daniel Horton, and widow of Silas Horton.
Children, all born in Chester, 1, 2, 3, 4, by first wife; 5 and 6 by 2d wife: