III. Jeremiah, son of [Ephraim Horton and Martha Vail], born in Southold, about 1712; married.
Children:
1. Joshua, born in 1747. 2. Justus, born in 1749. 3. Joseph, born 1757. 4. John, born in 1760; married and settled in Rhode Island, and had John, Benjamin and Joseph.
VII. Simon Grover, son of [Joshua Horton and Eliza Grover] (Joshua I.), born in Southold, 30 March, 1711.
"He graduated at Yale College in 1731; was bred a Congregationalist, but he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Connecticut Farms, L. I., between Sept., 1734 and Sept., 1735. In 1746 he accepted a call to Newtown, L. I., where he labored until 1772, when he resigned and remained in retirement till his decease, 8 May, 1786, at the residence of his son-in-law, Judge Benjamin Coe. He was a man of unquestioned purity, and always sustained a good character and standing. He was of middle size and solemn deportment."—Hatfield's History of Elizabeth, N. J.
He was twice married; his first wife, Abigail Howell, died 5 May, 1752, and 7 Jan., 1762, he married Elizabeth Fish, daughter of Samuel Fish, Esq. He had but one child:
Phebe, who married the late Hon. Benjamin Coe.
He was an exile during the Revolutionary War, with his son-in-law, at Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. They returned to Newtown, L. I., in the fall of 1783, and there he died, as stated above. He was a zealous and active Whig, and early espoused the cause of the colonies against the mother country.