I. Elijah, son of [Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy] (Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb I.), born in Chester, N. J., 19 Dec., 1756; married 19 Dec., 1780, Mary ——, born in Roxbury, N. J., April, 1752; died 17 Dec., 1790, leaving two children, Anna and Betsy, who married and settled in Canada. He married 2. about 1793, Mehitabel Ruth Coleman, of Goshen, N. Y., and had:
1. [Elijah], born 15 Dec., 1794; married Sarah Oberton. 2. Ephraim Coleman, born 1796; died young.
Elijah Horton was a man of correct moral deportment, and a valuable citizen. He died 29 August, 1799; buried in Chester Cemetery.
II. Barnabas, son of [Elijah Horton and Elizabeth Sweazy], born in Chester, 27 Sept., 1759; married 1783, Elizabeth Coleman. He died 6 Dec., 1800. She died 26 Jan., 1831. Both buried in Chester Cemetery.
Children, born at Chester:
1. Elizabeth, born 1784; married Nathan Corwin; died 5 May, 1806. 2. Ruth, married Lodwick Horton, of Goshen, N. Y. 3. Patty Coleman, born 23 Sept., 1802; married John W. Thorp.
III. Silas, son of [Elijah Horton and Lydia Sweazy], born in Chester, 17 July, 1764; married 1. Susan Corwin, who died 9 July, 1790, leaving Lydia Corwin Horton, who married Isaac H. Corwin, and died in 1816, childless. He married 2. Mary Kelsey, born in Goshen, 26 Jan., 1770; died 21 Dec., 1803, without issue. He married 3. Esther Horton, daughter of Dea. Nathaniel Horton, and had
Mary, born 8 Sept., 1811; died 8 Oct., 1811.
On the tombstone of Silas, we find: "Filled the measure of his days with usefulness, and departed this life 10 Dec., 1842. He was a consistent member of the Congregational Church for 55 years, and the loss caused by his death can only be estimated by those who knew him. One of his last bequests was $3,200, secured by bond and mortgage, and the interest to be appropriated annually to the support of the elected Congregational minister of the first Congregational Church of Chester."
Esther, his 3d wife, died 5 Feb., 1852, aged 70.