George Firman Horton Horton Genealogy, or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Barnabas Horton was a man of deep-toned piety, and a warm adyo cate of civil and religious freedom. He was one of the most promi nent and influential men of Southold. He was for many years a magistrate, and several times a member of the General Court at New Haven and Harford. He built the first framed dwelling-house ever' erected on the east of Long Island, and that house is still (1875) standing and occupied. It is a shingle-house, that is, shingles are used for weather-boards, and the sides have never been reshingled, and the roof but once, according to the statement of Jonathan Gold'