Capt. Selah Noble Norton, Rev. War Vet.

NORTON, SELAH Ancestor #: A084877 Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: CAPTAIN Birth: 2-25-1745 HARTFORD HARTFORD CO CONNECTICUT Death: 10-20-1822 ASHFIELD FRANKLIN CO MASSACHUSETTS Pension Number: S*W17409 Service Source: S*W17409; JOHNSTON, CT MEN IN THE REV, PG 13,59,442, 444 Service Description: 1) COL SILLIMAN, REGT LIGHT HORSE, CT MILITIA; ALSO ENSIGN, LEXINGTON ALARM; ALSO SGT, CAPT GEORGE PITKIN, COL HINMAN; CL

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Capt Selah Noble Norton BIRTH 25 Feb 1745 East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA DEATH 20 Oct 1821 (aged 76) Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Hill Cemetery Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map MEMORIAL ID 66321109 · View Source

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Selah Noble Norton m. 1) Chloe Butler, d. 1776, age 28; m. 2) Anne Porter, b. 1756, daughter of Judge Eleazor and Anna Pitkin Porter of Hadley. Anne Porter Norton died in E. Hartford 20 Feb. 1850, age 93, and was buried there, Selah appears to have been the son of Job Norton, b. Feb. 1719/20 in Conn., descended from John Norton of Branford, Conn. Selah came to Ashfield in 1793 with his second wife and their surviving children. Job Norton, was b. 1776. He married Pamelia/Permelia ____, b.1780, d. 1839, age 59, at Grand Haven, Mich. She was living with their daughter, Caroline, who m. 1836 at Ashfield Thomas Wait White, son of Ashfield's Thomas and Hannah (Harwood) White. Thomas and Caroline moved to Michigan.Another was Anne Norton, who m. Cotton Mather of Ashfield. They had a daughter, Anne Mather, who m. William Smith, son of Daniel and Irinda Goodwin Smith of Ashfield. Another daughter of Selah and Anne was Elizabeth Norton. She m. Dr. Ephraim Little of Cummington. They moved to St. Albans, Vt. Their daughter, Mary Ann Little, m. Rev. Worthington Smith of Hadley. They moved to St. Albans. This info came from their son, Edward Smith from St. Paul, Minn. in 1877 to H.S. Ranney. Note: Selah was the owner of "Beautiful Bay", the sire of "Figure", the horse from which Selah's friend, Justin Morgan, founded his famous horse breed in Vermont.

From files at AHS and from "Searching for Selah," by Sue Brander in Morgan Horse, July 2003. Also additional info from Sue Brander in correspondence with AHS in 1990 and with Nancy G.in 2002-2003.

Children Chloe Butler Norton Pitkin, 1771–1837 Anne Porter Norton Mather, 1782–1855 Susan Norton Smith, 1786–1878 Emily Norton Pitkin, 1795–1874 Julia Porter Norton Partridge, 1799–1869

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"His flesh shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet joyfully sound. Then in the chains will sweet surprise, And in my Saviors image rise."

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