VII. William, son of [Silas Horton and Mary Bull] (Dea. James, Jonathan I.), born in Goshen, 2 July, 1771; married 21 Dec., 1793, Phebe Rumsey, born 12 March, 1768.
Children, all born in Goshen, N. Y.:
1. Sarah, born 12 Oct., 1794; died 15 August, 1795. 2. Dr. [William], born 16 May, 1796; married Maria Ryneck. 3. Margaret, born 4 Oct., 1797; died 15 Jan., 1817. 4. Charlotte, born 31 Oct., 1807; married Dr. Jerome Welles. Their children all died young.
[Sixth Generation.—Jonathan I.]
II. Erastus, son of Dea. [Ezra Horton and Olive May] (Rev. Ezra, Dea. James, Jonathan I.), born in Union, Ct., 7 Oct., 1787; married in Union, 28 April, 1808, by Samuel Crawford, Esq., to Tryphena Burleigh, daughter of Jacob Burleigh and Lucy Laflin, and born in Union; 25 March, 1788.
Children:
1. [Almyra Minerva], born in Union, 1 June, 1809; married Anson Ranney. 2. [Mary Emily], born in Union, 19 July, 1811; married Henry Francisco. 3. [Alonzo Erastus], born in Union, 24 Oct., 1813; married 1. Sally Millington Wright; 2. Sarah Babe. 4. Ezra, born at Augusta, N. Y., 12 Feb., 1816; married. 5. Nelson Burleigh, born at Smithfield, N. Y., 27 March, 1818; died in Wisconsin, 1858. 6. Thomas de Lafayette, born at New Haven, N. Y., 16 Dec., 1824; died in Wisconsin, 17 Sept., 1850. 7. [Lucy Jane], born at Scriba, N. Y., 7 April, 1835; married W. W. Bowers, Esq.
Erastus Horton moved, in 1815, to Oneida, N. Y.; thence, in 1832, to Scriba, N. Y., and next, in 1841, to Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., and finally to San Diego, Cal., where he and his wife both died, the latter 5 March, 1873, the former 19 Feb., 1875.
Jacob Burleigh, son of John Burleigh, was born in Union, 5 June, 1756. John Burleigh was the first settler in Union; came there as early as 1732. The family originally came from England. Lucy Laflin was the daughter of John Laflin and Susanna Galbraith, and born 2 Feb., 1762. John Laflin came from Stowe, Mass., and bought land in Union, Ct., 9 Sept., 1740.—See Town Record of Deeds, I. Vol., page 146. John Burleigh (Burley) is said to have emigrated to this country with Gov. Belcher, of Mass., about 1740, when he was 14 years old.—See Obituary Records of Yale College, 1863. The Burleighs were connected by marriage with Gov. William Bradford, of Mass., and many of them are celebrated as writers and speakers.