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On 15 October 1650 at a General Court held at Georgianna Edward Barton sued Phillip Gorrell in an action for a seven pound debt. The action was withdrawn. He served in 1650 at Portsmouth as a trial juryman and in 1651 was brought to court for beating his wife. He received additional grants of land at Portsmouth in 1652 and 1653 and served as a grand juryman in 1656 and as a coroner's juryman in 1657, the same year in which he took the oath of fidelity at Exeter, NH to the Massachussetts Bay government. At the town meeting of March 20, 1656 James Johnson, William Seavey and Anthony Bracket were directed to settle a land dispute between Edward and Nicholas Row. In June of 1656, at Portsmouth, Susannah Trimmings, wife of Oliver Trimmings of Little Harbor, complained that she had been bewitched by Jane Walford, wife of Thomas Walford, formerly the first settler of Charlestown and among the witnesses was Eliza Barton, Edward's wife, who testified to Susannah's unusual physical appearance. The Walfords earlier had sued Nicholas and Elizabeth Roe for slander in calling Jane a witch and they won in court. At the town meetings between 1658 and 1666 he was among those who subscribed to the minister's salary in the amount of 15 shillings.
In July of 1661 Edward presented at Court in a section referring to the Isles of Shoals for swearing commonly by Jesus Christ. The witnesses were William Scadlocke and Morgan Howell. Barton was fined 10 shillings and 5 shillings for officers fees.
On 18 July 1665 in court at Wells, Edward sued Stephen Batson for "not performing his bond according to his award to the value of 40 pounds." The court found for Edward and Batson forfitted the bond. He was one of the appraisers of the estate of Morgan Howell at Cape Porpoise in June of 1666 and swore to its accuracy 1 April 1667. On 18 July 1665 in court at Wells, Edward sued Stephen Batson for "not performing his bond according to his award to the value of 40 pounds." The court found for Edward and Batson forfitted the bond. He was one of the appraisers of the estate of Morgan Howell at Cape Porpoise in June of 1666 and swore to its accuracy 1 April 1667.
Probably about 1666 Edward moved from Portsmouth to Cape Porpoise, ME and settled on a farm of about 300 acres which he bought from Anthony Littlefield. The move may have been occasioned by Edward being a loyalist to MA. The Maine farm was situated on Montague's Neck bounded by the sea, Cape Porpoise River and Montegue River. Indian troubles forced Edward, his wife and family to abandon the Cape Porpoise farm for safe haven at Salem where he purchased a house and land which later were exchanged for a house and lands at Marblehead. His estate with the house, lands and marsh at Cape Porpoise and other property was valued at £81 in an oath sworn by the widow 16 June 1671. The inventory was done by Griffin Montegue and John Davies
In 1671 Elizabeth the widow of Edward, along with Griffin Montegue, gave bonds for £200 as security for Edward's estate which was valued at £81 with the house, lands and marsh valued at £40. Edward had his will probated 4 Jul 1671 in York, York, ME. Edward is the founder of our branch of the Barton family in America. His origins are unknown at this writing but he was established at Portsmouth, NH by 1646 when in August of that year Reynold Fernald was granted four acres of marsh at the great house at Little Harbor, on the Piscataqua and his grant mentions that he was bounded on the east by goodman Barton. On January 13th 1673 widow Barton was among the commoners at Marblehead who met and appointed men to protect the town commons from cattle over grazing. -http://home.comcast.net/~pwbarton1/barton/i0000097.htm#i97

Edward married Elizabeth in 1639 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1617; died after 1673 in Cape Porpoise, York, Maine. [Group Sheet]

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Matthew, son of Edward. He returned to his father's farm at Cape Porpus, Maine, with his son Samuel. Samuel was born about 1664. Matthew was a sailor, shipbuilder and farmer. His children are: Samuel, above mentioned. By wife Sarah had Susana, b. May 10, 1680. Matthew, b. Sept 6, 1682. Sarah, b. April 1, 1685. Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1687. The following is from the Essex Antiquarian: "'June 1679. Thomas Clarke deposed that one night being upon the watch in company with Matthew Barton when the privateer lay within Baker's Island, as they were walking the rounds they heard a loud noise at or near the door of John Williams, the cooper, and it was John Chaplin drunk, Jonathan Barton testified that he saw the man but being a stranger did not know his name until Clarke told him it was Chaplin. The further said that Chaplin swore and said, 'now is the time to get money, the privateer wants horses,' etc. Sworn 7:11:1678
- Barton, Edward S., Genealogy of the Barton Family: of the town of Marshall, Oneida County, New York. Waterville, NY: unknown. 1920.
"Matthew Barton, of Salem, Portsmouth, N.H., and Cape Porpoise, Me., shipwright, mariner, born about 1640, was living in 1729. He married first Martha -----, who was living in 1675; secondly Sarah -----; and thirdly, at Salem, 20 Dec 1694, Elizabeth (Tapley) Dickinson, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pride) Tapley. For many years he probably divided his time between Salem and Cape Porpoise. In 1668 Matthew Barton and Martha, his wife, of Salem, sold to William Dicer of the same their dwelling house and one-fourth acre of land, by the South Harbor, Salem. In the same year he was one of the Salem petitioner against imposts. There are indications that his family lived at Cape Porpoise for some years. On 29 April 1671 Matthew Barton of Salem, mariner, deposed, aged about thirty-two years, his deposition being recorded 30 June 1671. In 1675 Martha Barton is mentioned as a temporary resident of Salem on account of the Indian troubles. In 1683 Matthew Barton bought from Hannah Simmons, administratrix of the estate of Richard Simmons, all of Salem, a house and one-sixth acre of land at Salem, for L35. In 1686 he bought from Edmond Woolland, Sr., a small piece of land adjoining, for L 6.5s. Evidently he possessed other property in Salem. In 1721 he sold to Ezekial Goltwigth a common wright in Salem, in the southeast division of common lands, granted by the last meeting of the proprietors. In 1729, being then of Salem, he sold the farm of three hundred acres, of Cape Porpoise, which was formerly the home of his father. " - Barton Family of Oxford, Mass, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1930, Vol 84, pp. 400-421.p 403-4
Matthew Barton was born to Edward Barton and his wife, Elizabeth, about 1640, most likely in Salem, Massachusetts. He moved with his family to Marblehead and then to a farm near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Matthew grew up on the farm near the Piscataqua River. Around 1662, Matthew married a girl named Martha, whose last name is unknown. Matthew and Martha must have moved to Salem and had several children. Their oldest was a son, Samuel, born in 1663. Around 1666, Matthew's father's family moved again, up the coast to Cape Porpoise, Maine, near the present site of Kennebunkport. He purchased a farm on Montague's Neck, between the Montague and Cape Porpoise Rivers. In 1668, Matthew was living in Salem, and he took part in a protest against taxes. During this time, Matthew was a shipbuilder and sailor. later in 1668 Matthew and wife Martha sold their dwelling house and one-fourth acre of land by the south harbor in Salem to William Dicer. they must have moved to Cape Porpoise at that time. When his father died in 1671, Matthew was named as executor of his estate, and inherited the farm at Cape Porpoise. In July of 1673 in Portsmouth, Matthew had a brush with the law, when he was accused of travelling on Sunday, a serious charge in Puritan New England. Matthew and Martha lived on the farm in Cape Porpoise for the next twelve years, but were given temporary residence in Salem in 1675, apparently driven from their home by hostile Indians. Martha died, and in 1679, Matthew married again, to Sarah, a woman whose last name is unknown. Matthew and Sarah had four children. In 1683 Matthew purchased a house and one sixth acre of land in Salem for £35, his hopes of moving back to Cape Porpoise dashed by the continuing Indian troubles. He purchased adjoining land several years later. Sarah died, and Matthew married again, in 1694, widow Elizabeth Dickenson, daughter of John Tapley and Elizabeth Pride, with whom he had six more children. In 1729, he finally sold the farm on Cape Porpoise, which had lain abandoned for over forty years. Matthew died sometime after 1729. - Smith, Ken, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=112224336&ref=ac om

Mathew married Martha in 1662 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Martha was born in 1641 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1680 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Mathew married Elizabeth Tapley on 20 Dec 1694 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 20 Jan 1664 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1708 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Mathew married Sarah in 1680. Sarah was born in 1640; died about 1687. [Group Sheet]

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He married Hannah BRIDGES circa 1690. Hannah was born June 9, 1669 in Salem, Essex, MA. Hannah was the daughter of Edmond BRIDGES and Sarah TOWNE. Hannah died March 13, 1727/1728 in Oxford, Worcester, MA, at 57 years of age. Samuel was employed at as a husbandman. He made a will 13 June 1732. Samuel had his will probated 23 September 1732 in Worcester, Worcester, MA.(20) Samuel Barton is the founder of the Bartons of Oxford. He and his wife, Hannah are buried in the burying gound west of the common in Oxford. He first appears public records in 1683 when he witnessed a deed in Wells, Maine. In 1687 Capt. John Gerrish of Dover, N. H. mentions Samuel as one who assisted in work on a bridge in Madbury, N. H. In 1692 Samuel Barton aged about 28 was a witness for Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor in the witchcraft troubles in Salem. In the spring of 1693 members of the Towne, Bridges, Barton, Cloyes and Elliot families from Salem Village started to settle in the plantation of Framingham which in 1700 was incorporated as the town of Framingham in Middlesex County. Samuel's second child, Mercy (called Mary in his will), was born there in 1694.
In 1709 Samuel was appointed a grave digger in Framingham with authority to receive 3 shillings a grave for grown persons. By 1716 he had decided to move to Oxford and in June of that year he sold his lands in Framingham bought another consisting of one thirtieth of the English settlement in Oxford consisting of the home lot of forty acres, ten acres adjoining to the south, fifty acres on long hill, two acres of meadow on the brook below the sawmill and thirty rods of meadow on the river. This made Samuel one of the landed proprietors and part owner of Elliott Mills. In 1720 John Towne (son of Jacob and first cousin to Hannah (Bridges) Barton), Samuel Barton, Abiel Lamb and Joseph Wiley met to found a church of Christ in Oxford. His will leaves everything to son Caleb as the other sons had received their shares prior to his death.
- Paul Barton, http://www.edwardbarton.org/i0000053.htm#i53
Samuel Barton (I), the immigrant ancestor of Charles Albion Barton, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was also the progenitor of all the old families of Worcester county of this name, many of whom have been prominent. Very little is known of his life before he came to Framingham. He settled in Salem and was a witness in one of the famous witchcraft cases. It is not even known that he was an immigrant. Marmaduke Barton was in Salem in 1638 and Samuel, who was probably not born before 1650, may have been a native of Salem. He was in Watertown for a short time and received the usual "warning" that new-comers got when moving into a Puritan colony, under date of June 16, 1693. He was in Framingham in 1699 and perhaps earlier. His children are all recorded in Framingham, although the two eldest were born elsewhere. He bought what was known as the Elliott grist mill at Oxford. He bought a fourth part of the "corn mill," one home lot of forty acres and ten acres adjoining, also fifty acres in the second division on Long Hill and various other lots of land in Oxford together with the right of common October 19, 1716, for eighty-five pounds, of Jonathan Provender. He was then of Framingham, but his daughter was called of Oxford when she married, December 17, 1716, so he must have moved in the fall of 1716. He was formally dismissed by the Framingham church to the Oxford church January 15, 1721, and he was one of the original members of the church at Oxford. Before he died he gave one-half his homestead to his son Joshua. He died September 12, 1732. His will is dated June 13, 1732, and was proved September 23, 1732. He bequeathed to all his children, leaving the 'lands not previously disposed of to Caleb, his third son. He married Hannah Bridges, daughter of Edmund Bridges, of Salem, probably, and Edmund Bridges, Jr., also settled in Framingham. The children of Samuel and Hannah Barton were: 1. Samuel, Jr., born October 8, 1691, married, May 23, 1715, Elizabeth Bellows, of Marlboro, one of the thirty original settlers of the town of Sutton; blacksmith by trade; was selectman and town treasurer; removed 1748 to Dudley; his son Bezaleel was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill; he was the ancestor of the Barton family at Coryden, New Hampshire. 2. Mercy, born May 22, 1694, married (intentions December 17, 1716) David Town. 3. Joshua, born December 24, 1697, settled in Leicester. 4. Elisha, born April 22, 1701, resided at Sutton, South Hadley and Granby, Massachusetts. 5. Caleb, born February 9, 1705, resided at Framingham and Charlton. 6. Jedediah, born September 18, 1707, settled in North Oxford. 7. Mehitable, born August 22, 1710, married, November 12, 1730, Samuel Duncan, of Worcester, where she died 1742. 8. Edmund, born August 5, 1714 - Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts

Samuel married Hannah Bridges in 1691 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Hannah (daughter of Edmund Bridges, Jr. and Sarah Towne) was born in 1669 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Mar 1727 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Edmund was listed as the head of a family on the 1790 Census in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He settled in Sutton before his mariage and owned lands there and in Oxford. He was at Fort Edward in 1755 and served in the French and Indian War. He and his wife are buried in the burying ground near their home, on the road from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. Sons, Elijah and Gideon drowned the same day. - unknown
Edmund Barton, son of Samuel Barton (i), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, August 5, 1714. He removed to Oxford with the family when he was only two years old. He made his home in the second parish of Sutton, now the first parish of Millbury, and was prominent in town and church affairs. He was often named on important committees of the church and he had one notable difference with the minister over a religious service he held at his own house without asking permission of the minister. He was appointed on many of the important church committees and was evidently a leading man in his day. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. Mr. B. B. Vassell, late of Worcester, author and compiler of the family genealogy, states that Edmund was "bound out" at the age of thirteen, shortly before his father's death. He married, April 9, 1739, Ann Flynt, of Salem. She was born June 9, 1718, and died at Sutton, now Millbury, March 20, 1795. Edmund Barton died there December 13, 1799, and is buried with his wife in the old burying ground at Millbury. The children of Edmund and Anna Barton were: 1. Dr. Stephen, born June 10, 1740, at Sutton; studied medicine under Dr. Green, of Leicester; was trader at Oxford 1764-6; landlord 1766-9; removed to Vassaloboro, Maine; returned to Oxford, 1790, but went again to Maine and died there October 21, 1804; grandfather of the late Judge Ira M. Barton, father of Edmund M. Barton, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester; grandfather of Clara Barton (Clarissa H., born December 25, 1821, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Sarah Stone was the daughter of Captain David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. Clara Barton is the famous Red Cross leader.) 2. Mary, born June 10, 1742, married Obadiah Brown, of Sutton. 3. Hannah, born September 22, 1744, married Samuel Boutelle and had three children. 4. Jedediah, born May 6, 1747, settled in Sutton; married Lydia Pierce. 5. Flynt, born December 3, 1749 (or April 3, according to records of Pliny Barton), mentioned below. 6. Elijah, born April 22, 1752, died June 5, 1756, by drowning. 7. Gideon, born April 22, 1754, died June, 1756. 8. Ann, born August I, 1756, married, April 29, 1778, David Gibson. 9. Luke, born February I, 1759. - Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Edmund was listed as the head of a family on the 1790 Census in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He settled in Sutton before his mariage and owned lands there and in Oxford. He was at Fort Edward in 1755 and served in the French and Indian War. He and his wife are buried in the burying ground near their home, on the road from Auburn to Millbury Old Common. Sons, Elijah and Gideon drowned the same day.Edmund Barton, son of Samuel Barton (i), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, August 5, 1714. He removed to Oxford with the family when he was only two years old. He made his home in the second parish of Sutton, now the first parish of Millbury, and was prominent in town and church affairs. He was often named on important committees of the church and he had one notable difference with the minister over a religious service he held at his own house without asking permission of the minister. He was appointed on many of the important church committees and was evidently a leading man in his day. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. Mr. B. B. Vassell, late of Worcester, author and compiler of the family genealogy, states that Edmund was "bound out" at the age of thirteen, shortly before his father's death. He married, April 9, 1739, Ann Flynt, of Salem. She was born June 9, 1718, and died at Sutton, now Millbury, March 20, 1795. Edmund Barton died there December 13, 1799, and is buried with his wife in the old burying ground at Millbury. The children of Edmund and Anna Barton were: 1. Dr. Stephen, born June 10, 1740, at Sutton; studied medicine under Dr. Green, of Leicester; was trader at Oxford 1764-6; landlord 1766-9; removed to Vassaloboro, Maine; returned to Oxford, 1790, but went again to Maine and died there October 21, 1804; grandfather of the late Judge Ira M. Barton, father of Edmund M. Barton, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester; grandfather of Clara Barton (Clarissa H., born December 25, 1821, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Sarah Stone was the daughter of Captain David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone. Clara Barton is the famous Red Cross leader.) 2. Mary, born June 10, 1742, married Obadiah Brown, of Sutton. 3. Hannah, born September 22, 1744, married Samuel Boutelle and had three children. 4. Jedediah, born May 6, 1747, settled in Sutton; married Lydia Pierce. 5. Flynt, born December 3, 1749 (or April 3, according to records of Pliny Barton), mentioned below. 6. Elijah, born April 22, 1752, died June 5, 1756, by drowning. 7. Gideon, born April 22, 1754, died June, 1756. 8. Ann, born August I, 1756, married, April 29, 1778, David Gibson. 9. Luke, born February I, 1759.

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Edmund married Anna Flint on 9 Apr 1739 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Stephen Flint and Hannah Moulton, daughter of Stephen Flint and Hannah Holton) was born on 9 Jun 1718 in Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Mar 1795 in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Mary married Abraham Pratt on 6 Dec 1760 in Oxford, Worchester, Massachusetts. Abraham (son of Micah Pratt and Mary Gale) was born on 26 Feb 1739 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts; died in 1801 in Cambridge, Washington, New York; was buried in Cambridge, Washington County, New York. [Group Sheet]

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