Children, born in Wallkill:
1. [Joseph], married Mary Cox. 2. Polly. 3. [Benjamin], married Phebe Vail. 4. Levi Decker. 5. [Anna], born 1789; married Isaac M. Gillett. 6. Hannah. 7. Phebe. 8. John.
"In the year 1824 or 1825, Dea. Joseph Horton, with his horse and buggy, left home in the morning and went to work in a field about two miles from his house alone. Not returning, his family made search for him, and going to the field they found him dead, lying upon his face on the ground, and the bridle in his hand, indicating plainly that his horse had been turned into the pasture-field in the morning, and that he had finished his day's work, and started to get his horse to return home when he fell dead."—Letter of L. D. Horton, August, 1874.
His residence was in Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y. He was about sixty-three years old at the time of his death, and living with his 2d wife, who was the widow Sally Cox.
[Seventh Generation.—Joshua I.]
I. Joseph, son of Dea. [Joseph Horton and Sally Decker] (Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim, Joshua I.), born in Wallkill, in 1776; married in Wallkill, N. Y., about 1806, Mary Cox, born in Orange Co., N. Y., in 1779. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and he was one of the Deacons. They settled in Newfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1813, and there they died, he in 1823, and she in 1862.
Children, 1. and 2. born in Wallkill, the rest in Newfield:
1. Solomon. 2. Lewis. 3. [Harry]. 4. Stephen. 5. Joseph. 6. Mehitabel. 7. Sally. 8. Fanny. 9. Elizabeth. 10. [James Madison].
III. Benjamin, son of Dea. [Joseph Horton and Sally Decker], born in Wallkill, Orange Co., N. Y., 7 July, 1787; married Phebe Vail, daughter of Daniel Vail and Elizabeth Smith, and born in Ulster Co., N. Y., 27 July, 1786.