Under date of 8 February, 1874, Webb Horton writes, "My mother is living and in good health. She resides at Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y. She is in the eighty-seventh year of her age. Her father died aged eighty-eight, and her grandmother, Prudence Schofield, aged ninety-four. She has now living ten children, thirty-seven grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren."
This is a very remarkable family—so large and yet so few deaths. It is a rare occurrence to find a family of children, ten in number, the youngest forty-six years old, all living. And then so many grandchildren and great-grandchildren living. I have no record of any family equal to it, and doubtless, the number is now (1875), somewhat augmented.
IV. Esther, daughter of [Rachel Horton and Daniel Wright] (Daniel, David, Joseph I.), born at Yorktown, N. Y., in September, 1761; married Enoch Knapp, about 1786. Children all born at Yorktown.
1. Prudence, born 20 January, 1787; married Isaac Horton. 2. Esther; married Charles Bliven. 3. Allen. 4. James. 5. Charles; married Sylvia Radaker.
I. Joseph, son of [Stephen Horton and Sarah Owens] (Daniel, David, Joseph I.), born at Sommers, formerly Stephentown, N. Y., 24 August, 1759; married, in 1784, Mary Beedle, born about 1760. He died in June, 1813.
Children all born at Sommers, N. Y.:
1. [Benjamin], born 19 February, 1785; married Hannah Strang. 2. Jesse. 3. Philena. 4. Joel. 5. Phebe.
VIII. Wright, son of [Stephen Horton and Elizabeth Frost], second wife, born at Yorktown, N. Y., 22 May, 1776; married 28 November, 1798, Anna Quereau, daughter of Dr. Quereau, and born 10 March, 1780. Died 4 January, 1852. He died 27 June, 1861. Children, probably, all born at Yorktown:
1. [Elias Quereau], born 22 December, 1800; married Mary Lyons. He died 23 September, 1831.
2. Betsey Ann, born 4 November, 1802; married 10 January, 1827.